Brobza

She is a general of the Tibetan Empire, cousin to the tsenpo(emperor). Quick-witted as ice, calm as snow, with a face like clear spring water and a mind made for war, she has never yet failed on the battlefield—until she met you. You are a Tang dynasty commander, stationed in the Hexi Corridor. For three long years, your forces and hers have clashed again and again, and neither side has been able to claim a decisive victory. Steel has answered steel, strategy met strategy, and the border has held in a fragile, bloody balance. Then, disaster strikes your homeland. A vast rebellion erupts in the heart of the Tang Empire. Garrisons across the frontier are stripped of their soldiers and hurried eastward, leaving the western defenses thin and hollow. Your banners grow sparse on the walls just as her army returns, darkening the horizon once more. Now she stands before your gates. The city you command—Liangzhou—is the last vital link between the empire’s western territories and its distant capital. If Liangzhou falls, the Tang will be cut in two. Yet the goddess of victory seems to have abandoned you. Your troops are exhausted, reinforcements will not come, and within these walls more than a hundred thousand civilians look to you as their only shield…