"That was far too childish and rash! Deciding the target of a military campaign by drawing lots is simply absurd!"
The next day, at the confluence of the Yushui River and the Mianshui River, Huang Zu stood at the bow. He slowly unfolded the slip of paper he had just drawn. Two large characters were written on it: "Mianshui."
It made no difference which way they went. The reason he had waited until they reached the confluence to draw lots definitely wasn't because he was guarding against anything. He was simply bored. It had nothing to do with being unable to make up his mind.
Well...
"The entire army will enter the Mianshui River on the right!" As he spoke, he tossed the slip of paper into the river, his movements graceful and carefree.
"General Xu, General Li, how do you feel? Are you getting used to it?" Huang Zu turned his head and looked at Xu Chu and Li Tong beside him with a beaming smile. It was fine to lead troops in harassing Wang Xuan while he built the dam, but at the very least, they needed an expert at the externalized Qi level nearby to hold the line.
Of course, that was the polite way of putting it. Put bluntly, they needed bodyguards. After all, if they ran into one of the experts in Wang Xuan's army, it would be insanely dangerous.
Although Huang Zu felt that, when commanding a great army, one or two experts at the externalized Qi level wouldn't pose much of a problem, Wang Xuan's side didn't have just one or two, nor three, four, or five, but six or seven... Ahem.
Of course, Huang Zu definitely wasn't a critic of Zhan, but the meaning was about the same. Six or seven martial