The return trip to the garrison was spent in silence, save for a few random orders shouted by commanding officers, and the moans and groans of the injured. Upon returning to the garrison, the injured were tended. In the General’s office, Sun Xin and the key officers convened to discuss the battle that had taken place. No had expected the arrival of enemy reinforcements. Not only did this reveal an unexpected increase in their numbers but a new discovery of their combative capabilities. No one was aware of weapons that fired explosive projectiles that spewed from blue flames.
“It may seem that the empire’s problem with pirates is slowly turning into a full-scale war. These turn of events, I admit, are very surprising,” said General He Jin as he rubbed his forehead. “I have never seen such
