Hearing that the White Saintess was actually coming along, Cao Mengda was instantly overjoyed. With such a powerful expert holding down the fort in the army, he naturally felt as steady as Mount Tai in his heart.
By then, he feared that once the White Saintess made her move, Yangzhou Prefecture would easily fall into his hands.
"At your command!" Cao Mengda immediately kowtowed and thanked her.
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Within three days, Cao Army's power was fully unified. The generals under Wu Bao were either killed to the last man or surrendered sensibly. With the Wu Army merging with the Cao Army, their strength was added upon strength—now truly the first army of Jiangnan.
Cao Mengda stood upon the troop-counting platform and issued an order to the four corners. Ironclad riders on red warhorses were assigned as vanguard, sixteen generals were granted the honor as pathbreakers, each leading five thousand flying cavalry to charge straight down sixteen official roads toward Yangzhou Prefecture.
