Liu Jiye ultimately surrendered.
It was not because of anything else; he was not a man who feared death, nor had he forgotten the ambition in his heart.
It was simply because he witnessed the current plight of Northern Han.
The Song Army's five divisions marched on Taiyuan.
This blocked many of his channels for acquiring information, though he already knew about the civil unrest within Northern Han, seeing it with his own eyes was different.
Indeed, the Song Army had already traversed Taiyuan, formally becoming involved in Northern Han's internal conflict.
Although the civil unrest was not long.
The current situation of Northern Han's citizens was still extremely difficult.
Beyond a hundred miles of Taiyuan City, no smoke rose from chimneys.
The scorched earth was scattered with broken spears, blood-stained rags, and unburied corpses, gnawed beyond recognition by wild dogs.
A peculiar smell hung in the air—
