At this moment of reunion, the eyes of these old veterans all turned red. They clasped one another's arms, yet could barely say a few words before their throats choked up. Pang Shuiyun wiped at the corner of his eyes and said, "Looking like this—if people saw us, wouldn't they laugh at us?"
"All of you, up, up."
Yuan Shitong and Xue Tianxing said, "How did you get here?"
Pang Shuiyun said, "The Lord has been campaigning against Ying Country for more than ten days now, and three days before the Lord set out, we received the military order. It was just a few of us, galloping all the way to the grasslands. General Ashina was garrisoned there, then we crossed the grasslands and came here."
"The Lord ordered us to await Mr. Wen Qingyu. If the situation changed, we were to advance according to Mr. Wen Qingyu's strategy."
Only then did Yuan Shitong and Xue Tianxing understand.
