The sound of dense war drums rang out, and the 16,000 Han soldiers who had retreated to the outer perimeter began to converge on the center.

Sun Sheng, who was watching from the rear, widened his eyes upon seeing this. He never imagined that Huangfu Gui would try to surround his 30,000 men with 20,000 men.

Soon, the wheel formation arranged by Huangfu Gui was officially completed. The wheel, composed of 160 smaller formations, began to slowly rotate and started to contract inward.

The Han soldiers in each formation cooperated with each other and began to surround and kill the rebel soldiers in the middle.

Although there weren't many Han soldiers in the encirclement, these soldiers from the Chang'an Camp were all from Hejian, and each of them was exceptionally fierce, making them an absolute elite force, enough to ensure the stability of the encirclement.

Some rebel soldiers had barely raised their weapons when they were suddenly stabbed to death by spears; others narrowly escaped, only to find themselves unable to locate their enemies, for they were everywhere...

In an instant, the rebel soldiers surrounded in the formation were as if they had been caught in a huge vortex, allowing the Han army to slowly erode their strength.

"It's over...!"

Seeing the Han army's encirclement shrinking and their soldiers dwindling, Sun Sheng, looking utterly dejected, collapsed to the ground.

He realized he had misjudged them; the Han army he had dismissed as a rabble had turned out to be a rare elite force.

"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened!"

Just then, a messenger suddenly rushed over.

"Great Han, a Han army has suddenly appeared in our rear and breached our camp!"

"What?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Sheng was greatly surprised and hurriedly turned his head to look. He saw thick smoke billowing from the direction of his own camp.