Victory Is the Only Option

"Yes!" The communications officer accepted the order and left.

"My lord, you should make a decision soon." The waiting generals urged him.

Wu Qunlie raised a hand to stop them, pacing back and forth in silence.

The situation truly made it difficult for him to decide. Meng Shanming had actually launched an attack at such a time, and a large number of Yan troops had appeared inside the Song Kingdom's defensive lines? That should have been impossible! If a large force had crossed the river, there was no way they would not have noticed. They had kept their eyes on the main force of the Yan army all this time—it was still on the opposite bank.

The situation was somewhat complicated for him.

Although the Hukou Defense Zone's main force numbered only three hundred thousand men, Zhang Hu's forces, together with the Yan Kingdom Imperial Court's troops, totaled around six hundred thousand. By the numbers, the Hukou Defense Zone was at a disadvantage. But this was not a battle on land—it was land against water. The Hukou Defense Zone held the favorable ground.

And it held far more than one advantage. For Zhang Hu's side to break through the defensive line of three hundred thousand Hukou defenders in the dead of night using crude rafts to cross the river should have been impossible. For one thing, rafts were nowhere near as maneuverable as ships on the river.

Yet a large Yan force had appeared behind the Hukou Defense Zone. That was what worried him.

What he urgently needed to know now was the movement of Xu Jingyue's forces and the others on the opposite bank. Damn it, what if the commotion at Hukou was a trick to lure the tiger from the mountain?

Xu Jingyue's forces, having received Meng