"We must counterattack! We absolutely must counterattack!" Zhang Xuan stressed emphatically to Sun Guang and Ying Xu, who had hurried over for the meeting, pounding the table.
"Assembling our large corps for a powerful counterattack on the Tang Army is the key to whether we can hold the Shu Territory!" he asserted with righteousness and conviction: "If we continue to passively defend like this, we'll be completely unable to turn the situation around."
In fact, both Sun Guang and Ying Xu believed that Zhang Xuan was right. They too thought that continuing this passive defense wasn't a good strategy.
Their troops seemed numerous, but they were spread out to fend off the Tang Army's attacks. The so-called defense everywhere essentially meant no defense at all. The Tang Army came and went freely, choosing the battlegrounds at will, leaving the Qin Army in a passive state.
