Yu Youyao drafted the letter and handed the Empress Dowager a memorial. She sent someone to send it to the capital as soon as possible.
After that, she ordered someone to go to the county office to borrow a map of Liancheng. She prepared a sand table and fiddled with it according to the mountain terrain on the map.
When Yin Huaixi entered the courtyard, he saw her studying the map and fiddling with the sand table. He couldn't help but stop in his tracks. His eyes were filled with shock.
Even generals who had been through hundreds of battles in the army might not be proficient in maps.
