"A backup plan?" Princess Qingyang asked, confused. "How would we do that?"
Ye Chutang replied thoughtfully, "If a conflict really breaks out, mobilizing soldiers to fight them isn't necessarily impossible."
Princess Qingyang almost thought she had misheard. "What!?"
'Mobilize troops?'
'How is that possible!'
"But all of Long City has already fallen! Long City is just a small border town. It has a garrison, but not many soldiers. How can they possibly contend with the five thousand Southern Hu Soldiers lying in ambush? They even took out my father's personal guards—they must be an elite force!"
"Five hundred against five thousand is already a huge disparity. Furthermore, King Yan Nan was tricked and suffered a major setback, which is how he ended up in this predicament." Ye Chutang didn't find the five thousand enemy soldiers particularly terrifying. "I doubt the two sides ever even clashed directly. Otherwise, the people of the city couldn't have been so easily deceived."
