This caused turmoil in the dozens of encampments of the Northern Army. Not only did thousands of grassroots soldiers desert, fleeing under the banner of Changsun Ruolan, but even some high-ranking officers led their subordinates to defect in entire battalions.
Out of the two hundred and ninety thousand troops of the Northern Army, nearly thirty percent had already fallen under the control of Changsun Ruolan, and this trend was intensifying.
This filled Zhangsun Ruoli's chest with limitless anger and endless sorrow, with nowhere to vent it.
Since Right Minister Gui Haoyuan petitioned for the Grand Festival of Ice City, the situation had worsened day by day.
First, changes occurred in the Sea Suppressing Temple. Her mother did not faint as she had expected, and Emperor Jianyuan unexpectedly appeared inside the Sea Suppressing Temple, seemingly as one of the masterminds behind the conspiracy.
