Chapter 244: Yuan Shao's Defeat Came Crashing Down Like a Mountain
The Tiger Warriors Army camp.
It was late at night, but Zhang He, Gao Lan, and Cui Yan were still awake. They stood on the watchtower, gazing at Qinghe County, which lay quietly in the darkness in the distance.
"Jigui, is your younger brother really confident he can persuade the powerful gentry clans in Qinghe County? Could something go wrong?"
Zhang He drew his gaze away from Qinghe County's walls, looking somewhat worried.
Before they arrived at Qinghe County, Cui Lin had entered the town ahead of them. Both sides had agreed to act three days later, at midnight tonight.
Cui Lin would join forces with the Great Aristocratic Families to kill the prefect, then open the gates to welcome the Royal Army into the town.
Yet Zhang He could not help feeling that the plan was unreliable.
He had never fought such an easy battle before.
Send someone into town, let him wag his tongue, and he could turn those great aristocratic clans against their side and take a town?
He did not quite believe it.
Dressed in brocade and fine furs, with his handsome face, Cui Yan looked less like a man marching to war than a wealthy young gentleman out on an excursion.
Hearing Zhang He's words, Cui Yan smiled. "Do not worry, Commandant. Our Qinghe Cui Clan still has some prestige and influence in Qinghe."
"Besides, the Royal Army has arrived. If Qinghe's great clans do not turn their weapons against the other side, would they really live and die with Qinghe? You think too highly of them, Commandant. They would not be so foolish."
Born into a distinguished clan himself, Cui Yan understood these great clans better than anyone. Every one of them put