Faced with the trump card Zhuge Liang had suddenly produced, both Qin Tian and Liu Ye were somewhat surprised.
But they were only surprised, without any particularly strong emotions.
After all, they belonged to the same army. In battle, each man displayed his own abilities; whichever plan was more effective was the one they would use.
In any case, they were all working to seize Jiangdong as quickly as possible. Whoever offered the plan made no difference.
On the contrary, this move Zhuge Liang had prepared in advance fully demonstrated his strategic vision.
Not only did it bring them no harm, it could also catch Sun Ce off guard once more.
After considering it for a moment, Qin Tian nodded and smiled.
"If General Taishi truly has a force stationed within Yuzhang Commandery, then our army can advance north at ease!"
"We may as well proceed according to Ziyang's original plan of advancing along four routes and divide our forces into four."
"Sun Ce currently has troops arrayed at Wanling, and we cannot disregard that. We should assign one force there to confront him!"
"Among our current commanders, only General Zhang can fight Sun Ce!"
"General Taishi is familiar with Jiangdong's terrain. He can lead our warships from Spring Valley and attack Stone City!"
"Meanwhile, our main force will continue westward, threatening Liyang and drawing the enemy's attention entirely to the western front."
"Once the three armies move together and the enemy believes the eastern front unguarded, we can send the Yuzhang troops east by water to launch a surprise attack on Kuaiji!"
"With such a tight net cast, Sun Ce will surely find himself unable to attend to both ends, with no way out!"
As he laid out the overall strategy anew, everyone nodded again.
Seeing that no one