The most terrifying thing for people is, in truth, the absence of hope.
Initially, Lord Jingnan and the Earl of North Border commanded their elite forces into Jin State. They fought for ten days across a thousand miles, crushing the main forces of the Wenren and Helian families. However, in reality, to assume that these ten days had eradicated all the foundations of two large families, whose resources rivaled those of nations, would be nearly impossible.
But that battle shattered the pride of the knights of the Three Jin and the spirit of the local populace. In the past, when faced with the claim that Yan's iron cavalry was the best in the world, the people of the Three Jin would often dismiss it, believing their own cavalry was not much inferior to that of the Yan people.
