The argument ended on an unhappy note.
The two brothers both held fast to their own convictions, and neither was the sort to be easily persuaded. Naturally, neither of them was happy with the outcome.
However, Xiang An had been demoted. Zi Juan was now a deputy general, while Xiang An was an assistant general.
Xiang An had no desire to pay Xiang Yu much mind. He felt that there was genuinely something wrong with his elder brother's head.
If peace throughout the realm required Xiang An to compromise with the enemy who had killed his uncle, wasn't that utterly ridiculous?
Xiang An did not believe that peace could only be achieved through Zhang Han. Zhang Han himself was the spiritual pillar of the Qin army; only by bringing down Qin could the realm be healed. That was what Xiang An believed.
Xiang Yu, however, had other thoughts.
And after this incident, he absolutely would not share those thoughts with Xiang An.
After the Qin army lost the Battle of Julu, Wang Li and Jin Qixiu led them back north of the Zhang River, where they waited for a chance to recover their strength.
Julu had been a crushing defeat—the Qin army's only crushing defeat since Zhang Han had marched east out of Hangu Pass.
And with that single crushing defeat, they had lost Zhang Han, their pillar.
Silence filled the Qin army's command tent.
Wang Li was reorganizing his own troops, while the generals who had once served under Zhang Han were all steeped in a deathly atmosphere.
Jin Qixiu sat in the second seat, his head slightly tilted as he stared blankly at the commander's seat.
Quite a few Qin generals had died beneath the walls of Julu and during the subsequent pursuit by the Chu army. Most