After the Xia Kingdom's Nation-Protecting Array was activated, the war entered an entirely new stage of stalemate.
What followed would inevitably be clashes between Qi and Xia over every support point of the Nation-Protecting Array—a full-scale war destined to spread across Great Xia's vast lands.
Yet across the entire Qi-Xia Battlefield, probably few could foresee this in advance.
Chongxuan Sheng was one of them.
The "opportunity" he spoke of lay right here!
As soon as the flag officer relaying the commander-in-chief's orders left, he chose a direction and led Victory Camp straight for Linwu Prefecture—securing a place among the ten-thousand-man units of the Autumn Killing Army that were splitting off to strike various prefectures was no difficulty at all for Chongxuan Sheng.
If Chongxuan Chuliang would not even agree to that, then he was not letting Chongxuan Sheng and Chongxuan Zun compete fairly—he was helping Chongxuan Zun press him down.
The commanding general of the Autumn Killing Army's ten-thousand-man unit assigned to strike Linwu Prefecture ended up receiving only seven thousand men, but he had no real complaints. If Chongxuan Chuliang had not refused, even these seven thousand men would have belonged to that fat Chongxuan fellow!
In short, flying the gaudy "Victory Is in Sight" banner high, Chongxuan Sheng marched without pausing for a single moment.
From Linzi's western outskirts to Tongyang City, not a single place had been his stage. He had held himself back for too long, waited for too long.
In this all-out war of invasion, Chongxuan Zun's vanguard camp naturally had ample freedom as well. This was precisely the time for his army to gallop across the battlefield. In martial prowess, Chongxuan Zun stood foremost among the three armies; in military strategy, he was certainly no weakling either.
But Chongxuan Sheng had already decided—
This