"Incompetent!!"
"How utterly incompetent can you be?!"
Huang Hao was truly furious to the extreme. He stared at Yan Yu before him, his spit almost spraying onto the other man's face.
He had supported this campaign and specifically ordered Yan Yu to march precisely so he could promote one of his own men.
Who could have imagined that this fellow would be defeated by the Cao Thief's army before even reaching Jingzhou, flee back to Yongan in disgrace, and now be summoned to Chengdu by the emperor to answer for it?
After arriving in Chengdu, Yan Yu had gone to Huang Hao first.
Huang Hao gritted his teeth. "You had twenty thousand men in Yongan, and the rebels broke you so easily?!"
"Jiang Wei can take twenty thousand men out and fight for a year or half a year. How did you finish so quickly?! It hasn't even been a month!"
Huang Hao continued venting his displeasure.
Yan Yu was speechless at this.
He took twenty thousand men on campaign. I only had twenty thousand men guarding the city. Would I dare empty Yongan and take all twenty thousand out on campaign?!
If the enemy had circled around to attack, it wouldn't be me coming to see you in Chengdu now. It would be the damned Wei army!
Besides, this wasn't a good time to attack at all. Nearly a hundred thousand Cao troops had gathered in Jingzhou. Although the Wu forces were also numerous, their domestic troubles had left them with no fighting strength whatsoever. At a time like this, the court hadn't given me a single soldier, yet expected me to take my existing troops to attack the Cao army.
How was I supposed to turn the tide of battle?
But Yan Yu offered little explanation.
He merely