Chen Qun left as quietly as he had come, waving his sleeves and taking a bellyful of indignation with him...
Ten days after Chen Qun left, the Cao Army began fully mobilizing. Countless soldiers and civilians surged toward the border between Han and Wei.
It was no exaggeration to call them countless. Even after at least half a month, Wang Xuan's side still hadn't managed to calculate exactly how many people Boss Cao had mobilized this time.
From the Jing-Yu route to the Yellow River and then to the Xuzhou route, every important point was filled with Cao Army troops surging in like an endless tide. There were simply too many people to pay attention to uniforms anymore, so no one could tell which were soldiers and which were laborers. In any case, there were people everywhere.
It had to be admitted that centuries of accumulation by the great aristocratic clans were truly formidable. After Chen Qun sent back the intelligence from the north, everyone understood that the two sides were irreconcilable. This full-scale mobilization genuinely shocked even Wang Xuan.
"Boss Cao has gone mad, hasn't he?" Wang Xuan put down the intelligence in his hand and stared at the people in the conference room in disbelief. "Are you sure there wasn't a mistake in the count? The figures here alone add up to more than three million, right?"
"How many people does Cao Cao even have under his rule? Does he not intend to live through this?"
Jia Xu, Guo Jia, and Xi Zhicai exchanged bitter smiles. To deal with Boss Cao's all-out counterattack, they had all set aside their own work and devoted their attention to this matter.
"There are still more than twenty million people, but I don't know whether Cao Cao has gone mad. Those aristocratic