If not for the vast difference in military might between the opposing forces, Sun Pu's entire army might have faced annihilation.
Yet, caught off guard by the suddenness of the attack amidst the veil of night, Sun Pu's military encampment lay entrenched in deep slumber. Ill-prepared, they suffered staggering losses from the onset.
Though night patrols and sentries were in place, veterans like Zheng Sangge and Wu Guan, despite their decade-long absence from the battlefield, boasted a wealth of experience from countless skirmishes in the northwest.
Their adversaries, the formidable Beihu people and the nomadic tribes of the grasslands, possessed a ferocity Sun Pu could hardly match.
Despite numerical and martial imbalances, dispatching Sun Pu proved as effortless as slicing through ripe melons.
