"Ah?" Zhuge Jin was stunned. It wasn't that he was prone to exaggerated reactions, but Zhou Yu's order was truly astonishing. This involved an army of a hundred thousand—not merely a small, unknown division—yet he assigned it to someone whose name Zhuge Jin didn't even recognize.
With Yuan Shu's current military strength, only four individuals qualified to command an army of that magnitude: Yuan Shu, Jii Ling, Sunx Ce, and Zhou Yu. This campaign against Xuzhou wasn't led by a single commander overseeing a hundred-thousand-strong army but divided into seven military divisions.
"It's simply a matter of urgency calling for expediency," Zhou Yu shook his head and remarked. "Among the commanders involved in the assault on Xuzhou, the one I trust, whose abilities and disposition I find satisfactory, is only him. Furthermore, I believe he's more reliable in commanding troops than Zhongye."
