Having eliminated the traitor and mastermind Zhao Yuan, Lou Lin immediately led his men in pursuit toward Qingyang City, where Feng Yan's troops were stationed. According to their latest intelligence, Feng Yan's subordinates had not launched many attacks recently; instead, they had become uncharacteristically quiet, as if plotting something in secret.
In this situation, naturally, some people had proposed launching a surprise attack right away, suggesting it might yield unexpected gains.
However, those proposals had been rejected by Zhao Yuan time and again. After all, Zhao Yuan's plan all along had been to wait for Emperor Qian to arrive, figuring that whatever the other side was scheming, there would be no need for them to keep fighting. By this point, both sides had pushed each other to the limit—they were spent forces. If they really drove the remaining enemy into a desperate corner, the foe might launch a desperate final struggle, trading their lives for theirs, and the ultimate victor would be anyone's guess.
Chapter 344