"Your Majesty is wise! In that case, this plan is indeed feasible!"
Grand Commandant Han Xin immediately followed with repeated praise. After a pause, his tone shifted as he cautioned, "However, we would need to build walls and dams as well as dig channels. That is an enormous undertaking, and it would take considerable time. Surely the Great Chu Imperial Dynasty would not simply stand by? If they withdrew early or broke through our encirclement, would all that effort not be wasted?"
Hojo Soun froze. Even Heaven-Questioning Marquis Zhang Liang, who had proposed the plan, was taken aback, momentarily unsure what to say.
Zhang Liang had merely felt that Hikone Royal City was well suited to a water attack; he had not thought it through so thoroughly. After all, the Immortal-God Calamity could descend at any moment. It remained concealed and un unleashed only because it was waiting for the Huan Emperor's army to reach Kyoto Prefecture. The Great Chu Imperial Dynasty was not a collection of corpses. Would they really let the Great Huan Dynasty drown them? Would they not resist, counterattack, or flee?
Xiao Ying shook his head and asked casually, "Why would we need to dig channels? We need only build walls and dams, establish the formation, and surround them, striving to annihilate every enemy soldier in Hikone Royal City right here. How enormous an undertaking would that be? How long would it take?"
"Huh? Then how would we bring in the water to flood the city?" Everyone froze, and Han Xin, as Grand Commandant, voiced his confusion. He had to coordinate the entire operation. How could he allocate forces without understanding the deployment?!
Xiao Ying smiled and reminded them, "Have you not all studied the Yingzhou described by the Otherworlders? Did you only pay attention to