Next, the reactions of the Yan State and Cheng State armies were all within the Wild King's predictions.
However, this smoothness left the Wild King unsettled—it was all too smooth.
Although he was embarking on a risky strategy, he instinctively felt that the Southern Marquis of the Yan people shouldn't be so incompetent. With Yan State's elite troops all crossing the river, surely there should have been some preparations in their rear.
Fortunately, when scouts reported an impending large-scale cavalry attack from the Yan people, the Wild King finally breathed a sigh of relief.
This was more like it. The Southern Marquis couldn't possibly have done nothing all this time. He had to have shored up his defenses and put on a show for outsiders.
For instance, this time, the various Yan State armies and the Cheng State forces had reacted with much greater alacrity to his own army crossing the river than the Yan State's Left Army had at the Wang River last time.
