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With Bei Gu City's fall, Central State was now unified.
For Lu Yuan, the excitement and elation over this groundbreaking achievement lasted only a few days.
Soon after, he was overwhelmed by a slew of tedious affairs, such as receiving the surrender of a million troops from Xu State and taking charge of the ten prefectures of Yuzhou, which diluted his passion.
There were simply too many things to deal with.
The Northern Expedition had been won too quickly, with such abundant spoils that even Chu State found it hard to digest.
What was even more troublesome was that in addition to handling these matters, Lu Yuan also had to prepare for a new campaign.
Despite the surrender of the million-strong Xu Army at Bei Gu City, their core generals and Inborn Grandmasters had escaped back to Xu State with Emperor Xu.
Though Xu State had lost three prefectures in Yuzhou and suffered a significant loss of territory and population, it was severely weakened.
