No time to delay.
Zhou Ping'an personally led 45,000 troops, setting out at dawn. Midway, they found a plain near water to camp and rest for the night. The next day after cooking their meals, they marched for another shichen and saw towering city walls approximately one hundred feet high of the enormous city.
Looking across the vast plain surrounding the huge city, not a trace of crops could be seen, and the air, carried by the breeze, held the faint fragrance of grains.
Presumably, the officials and civilians inside had already issued orders to harvest the rice crops before the outbreak of the war.
At the same time, they also ordered civilians from neighboring villages and towns who could move to relocate into the city or to defend near the city, or to temporarily take refuge within the city walls to collectively defend it.
All these measures proved that.
The Prefectural Governor Han Guang of Chitong County was originally prepared for a protracted battle with our forces.
