"Reciprocation, you mean... counterattack the Qin Army," Shangguan Jian asked.
"Wang Li dispatched twenty thousand elites to attack two camps with less than three thousand troops. It's clearly using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Why do this? He wants to give us a show of force. He knows full well that our smooth progress north is simply because Nanyang's forces numbering in the tens of thousands can't hold against our army of over a hundred thousand. However, he also knows we don't have a real leader yet. Though nominally the master commands, in reality, she only directs from behind, while the generals at the front operate independently."
"Therefore, this time it seems the master officially appointed you as the commander."
"It appears so." Ye Shikai nodded, "At least now all the troops' Commander's Seals are under my control, and I have the power to act first and report later."
