"What happened to Princess Huang Er's force?" Amon asked.
"The ploy to utilize the secret passage into Cinder Ash Town had backfired. The enemies somehow knew of this secret passage," Jiang Tong answered.
"They were ambushed," Liu Xun added. "They suffered massive casualties to the infiltration team, which consisted of soldiers with high cultivation. Luckily, Princess Huang Er decided not to join this infiltration team, so she was fine. Anyway, this happened a few days ago. Since then, Huang Er was forced to return to standard siege procedure with little result."
"To make matters worse, Farghous had sent reinforcement," Jiang Tong informed. "The army inside Cinder Ash Town joined this reinforcement and clashed with Huang Er's army yesterday. Their numbers were equally matched. The clash yesterday ended in a stalemate. It doesn't seem the war in the East will end anytime soon. So, you can understand the urgency for the king to send me there to aid the battle."
