How unbearable this is.
Emperor Liang discovered that he now harbored such hatred for the Chu people and such regret that he hadn't eradicated them at all costs when Chu State was first rising.
"Your Majesty, the Chu army is formidable, and their sharp edge is unstoppable,"
from among the crowd below, one of Liang's veteran generals, Lord Changyi Yang Chen, stepped forward and said, "In my opinion, our army should, just like last year, hold out in the great city of Liang, and wait for the enemy to retreat on their own.
The Chu people, moving from west to east, have provoked numerous enemies—the Western region foreign tribes, Wei people, Zhao people, our Liang people, Zheng people—the front stretches for tens of thousands of miles, all of them adversaries of Chu.
To oppose so many enemies at the same time requires millions upon millions of soldiers.
