The day after Aunt Zhao persuaded Princess Gao Mi bitterly for Rong Qingli, the Western Frontier.

The houses near the west and north gates, where Ru Ru's attacks were the most violent, had been torn down cleanly, and the materials were taken from the ground and made into defending instruments.

All the grease in the city was collected and brought to a boil in a makeshift cauldron set up at the top of the city.

Flying locust-like arrows, pouring tubs of rolling oil and ...