It was still dark outside. There were long nights and the temperature's dropping daily for winter was at hand. Then the guards wakened General Lofey Lethmo in the coldest hour because of the thievery. The general hated the thought after delaying this war for unselfish reasons, would be an early attack instead, just because of the supply.
His reasons for the delay were: First, winter was fast approaching, and he deduced that the city's stored food would not last for a month. That's why he insisted to store up food that would last for months. So when Fengfu was in starvation, he would offer food to Fengfu's governor for the city's surrender.
However, while traveling all the way here, he received another message advising him to send the newly promoted younger general with half of the army, including the food supplies, to attack Ninpu City. Their purpose was to prevent the famous general Wu Qian from coming to Fengfu.
