Blade Servant in Troubled Times

In the early summer of the first year of Liang Chengsheng, the turbulent Yangtze River surged with muddy waves, the fierce wind whipping the water and shattering the twilight on both banks. Hou Jing, the rebel leader who had ravaged Jiangnan for five years, slaughtered Jiankang, and toppled half of the Southern Dynasties, was finally defeated. In the Battle of Baimao Bay, the allied forces of Wang Sengbian and Chen Baxian broke through his ranks like thunder, annihilating his hundred-thousand-strong rebel army. The once arrogant usurper who had proclaimed himself emperor, ridden his horse along the river, and treated the Southern Dynasties as nothing, now stripped of all glory, fled with only a few dozen remaining cavalry and several broken boats, scrambling on the island of Hudouzhou at the junction of river and sea.