But once the gamble paid off, the Left Army would be able to accumulate an extra share of Military Merit, and Yuwen Dao's position would be correspondingly a little more secure.
If all of that was his motive for agreeing to cooperate with Hou Bing, then what truly pushed him to make up his mind was the meticulous plan Lu Yin laid out afterward—
The plan for seizing Guangning Mountain by catching the enemy completely off guard.
"Cai Qiu is utterly convinced that our Great Xia will no longer advance north. That is their greatest flaw.
Lord Hou has already led ten thousand troops toward Guangning Mountain, and with Su Xing'er's coordination, gathered forty thousand rebels along the way. We've made almost no effort to conceal our movements, so right now Cai Yunzhou's attention is entirely fixed on us.
