The newly appointed commander of Yongan, Yan Yu, stood on the city wall, watching the Wei troops building siege engines in the distance without a word.
The generals beside him were deeply apprehensive.
Unlike the troops in Hanzhong, the Shu Kingdom's forces here in Yongan had not fought a battle in a very long time.
Whether in numbers or in the quality of their soldiers, they seemed considerably inferior.
These Wei troops practically treated them as though they were not even human, felling trees and building siege engines right before their eyes, apparently without the slightest thought of taking precautions.
"General! The Cao Thief has gone too far!"
"Please allow me to lead the cavalry against their main camp!"
One of the generals spoke up.
Yan Yu did not even glance at him.
I would have to be mad to take the initiative and attack.
Yongan's garrison numbered only around twenty thousand. Wang Ji's army had originally numbered nearly fifty thousand, and with the addition of large numbers of surrendered Wu Kingdom soldiers and reinforcements from Wen Qin, its strength had reached almost sixty or seventy thousand.
Besides, the two sides' morale and fighting strength were on entirely different levels.
Yongan also occupied a strategically critical position.
If it were breached, all of Badong would fall. Beyond Yongan, the Shu Kingdom hardly had any decent passes capable of stopping the enemy, who could even fight their way straight to Chengdu and destroy the kingdom outright.
Already at a disadvantage in numbers, how could Yan Yu dare send troops out to engage the enemy?
Under the present circumstances, merely holding Yongan, stopping the enemy here, and buying time for reinforcements to arrive sooner would be far from easy.
When Yan Yu did not answer, the general grew somewhat embarrassed.
Only then