The next morning as Chaoyang rose, the army was already fully prepared. The Envoy from Parthia looked at the Han Army, lined up and ready to march, and felt an inexplicable excitement, because the Han Army's reliability had already exceeded imagination: they were actually dispatching forty thousand men, and all forty thousand were veteran Elite Troops.
Although the commander had been changed from Li Jue, Marquis of Chiyang, to another younger man, Zhuge Liang, Marquis of Yangdu Pavilion, this was not an issue. It was obvious Li Jue and this Pavilion Marquis were of the same faction, because someone like Li Jue never bothered to conceal his relationships with others.
