A short while later, a squad of seven returned and reported the scouted intelligence to Lu Ye, who was waiting there.
It was about as he had expected. The foundation of Thousand Streams City was indeed much stronger than Ding'an's. The Black Scarf Army had already launched three assaults in succession, yet had never managed to achieve a decisive result; on the contrary, their own losses had been considerable.
It was precisely because of this that a Black Scarf squad had gone to Ding'an earlier to gather provisions and pay, only to be wiped out by Lu Ye, which in turn drew over a vanguard army of a thousand—and they too suffered over half casualties.
Exactly because the fighting here was so deadlocked, the Black Scarves had no spare strength to go looking for trouble with Ding'an.
