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Entering the fray rashly at this time would only raise the alertness of both Wei and Liang countries, drawing their attention and dragging Chu State into the vortex of war.
If that happened, it would be a disaster.
Hasn't a hegemon like Zhou Country that dominated Yong State also perished within a mere twenty years due to continuous warfare?
This was the second hegemon in the Nine Provinces to fall after Ning Country.
The brutality and heavy casualties of warfare in the north naturally made Lu Yuan dread an early engagement, unwilling to throw his precious forces into a meaningless early stage conflict.
The newly unified Yangzhou needed rest and recuperation, a recovery of its civilian strength.
Not to send troops to the battlefield, not to send grain to the front line, and not to exhaust the last bit of resources Yangzhou had left after surviving the chaos by having its people scurry back and forth in hunger and fatigue.
