Looking at the grief-stricken Sun Ce before him, Zhou Yu finally spoke his mind.
Surrender. While they still had the chance to surrender, while Liu Bei's troops had yet to attack the city.
From beginning to end, Zhou Yu had never thought of betraying Sun Ce, but that did not mean he had no thoughts of his own.
True, there were still several thousand troops in the city, and over ten thousand troops in Wu County!
If Sun Ce truly insisted on holding out, they could retreat to Wu County and defend it. With his and Sun Ce's abilities, holding it for several months would not be a problem.
They could even repeat Lu Kang's defense of Lujiang, starving more than half the people of an entire city to death.
Until Wu County became, whole and entire, a city of the dead, before handing it over to Liu Bei.
That was certainly possible. Even to the very end, he could guarantee his absolute loyalty to Sun Ce.
But as the living figures around him fell one after another, Zhou Yu felt unbearable pain!
He realized that, without his noticing, the goal he had once striven for had become utterly meaningless.
Or rather, from the moment Liu Bei defeated Sun Ce, their struggle had lost its meaning. What was the point of continuing to hold out to the bitter end?
For Sun Ce's grand ambition alone? Cheng Pu and the others likely thought the same way.
Yet the result was that those men had all died first in the war against Liu Bei.
Now Liu Bei held every advantage. Even if they held Wu County, they would have no chance of turning the tables.
Likewise, the reason Qin Tian, Liu Ye, and the other strategists had sealed off Kuaiji so early