Inside Jianye.
Guanqiu Jian stood inside the Imperial Palace, looking at the many ministers of the Wu Kingdom kneeling before him, and formally accepted their surrender.
Then Guanqiu Jian ordered Sun Hao to issue an edict commanding the defending generals throughout the land to surrender and submit.
Once even the emperor had been captured and surrendered, the others had no heart left to resist.
At last, Guanqiu Jian had an opportunity to rest and regroup in Jianye.
In truth, after their thousand-li forced march, Guanqiu Jian's army had lost much of its fighting strength. Had they encountered just one more army coming to intercept them, the outcome would have been hard to say.
Guanqiu Jian had led his army on such a headlong advance that, however high their morale, there would naturally come a point when their strength gave out.
As it happened, Fan Shen became the last general to try to stop Guanqiu Jian. With Sun Hao captured, no one else dared come to attack him.
Guanqiu Jian's army began resting and regrouping inside Jianye. Only Guanqiu Jian himself had yet to rest.
Although capturing Sun Hao had proclaimed the fall of the Wu Kingdom, its problems had not been fully resolved.
At the front, Shi Ji and Ding Feng still had an army nearly a hundred thousand strong, while in Danyang, Lu Kang was approaching with his troops.
From what Guanqiu Jian knew of them, these men would probably be unwilling to surrender easily.
Among them, Lu Kang worried Guanqiu Jian the most.
His army truly was exhausted to the limit. If Lu Kang attacked swiftly now, Guanqiu Jian could only live or die with Jianye.
This was also why Guanqiu Ji was so anxious to have the army rest and regroup.
As Sun Hao's edict spread throughout