"An emperor like this isn't worth our loyalty!" said a young Qin Country officer angrily in the trench.
His troops endured hunger, fighting the powerful Tang People for such a long time, sustaining heavy casualties, without timely reinforcements.
Retreating all the way to Shahun, they had transformed from a respectable mechanized unit into a pitiful light infantry.
Their weapons had devolved from tanks and armored vehicles to armored vehicles and cars, then to cars and motorcycles, and finally into a mixed jumble of various things.
During the time at Wangdu, they lost all their tanks. The replacement soldiers hadn't even operated a tank, and their equipment consisted of bicycles and civilian cars.
Those cars, without any off-road capability, were abandoned once they got stuck in the mud, and those discarded civilian cars carried all sorts of their ammunition and supplies.
