Five days later, the beastn’s army regrouped. This ti, compared to their high spirits when advancing, the returning beastn looked sowhat disheveled, like a defeated army.
After the Bloodfire Clan was attacked, other military groups besides Balu’s main force also suffered varying degrees of attacks, each incurring losses of two to five thousand. This casualty ratio could be described as quite devastating.
After regrouping, they held another eting in the central military tent.
“We truly didn’t expect this heavy rain...” Balu said, lowering his head. “As the battlefield commander, I failed to understand the climate here beforehand. I truly didn’t do my job properly. The bla for this poor start should be borne by .”
“Hmph.” On the other side, Swin of the Bloodfire Clan showed Balu no respect whatsoever. He had already exchanged ssages with the other chieftains. Their forces had all suffered so losses, only Balu’s troops had no combat losses, except for a dozen or so lost due to illness caused by the heavy rain.
“How can we bla Chieftain Balu? Your troops perfectly executed the ‘retreat’ mission and suffered no losses whatsoever.”
“...” Balu looked at Swin, his expression calm, then he said, “Apologies, regarding your losses, I will replenish the soldiers in your military groups.”
“Heh, Chieftain Balu, are you pitying us?” Another chieftain, Tak of the Graybone Clan, said with displeasure.
In this battle, besides Swin, Tak of the Graybone Clan suffered the most losses.
“Then I don’t know what would make you satisfied,” Balu said, frowning.
“Shouldn’t that question be addressed to you, Balu!” Saying this, Tak slamd his hand on the table, stood up, and directly pointed at Balu himself.
“You said you had human informants, and we fell for your trick. Think about it, our ancestors never attacked humans at this ti. But you specifically convened a beastn assembly early, making us attack at this ti, which resulted in us losing tens of thousands of our brethren for nothing here!”
Yes, the reason this war broke out was also because Balu said at the eting of the united beastn tribes that he had human informants. The mastermind behind the informants seed to be of considerable status. It was because of this that the beastn chieftains pinned the future hope of their tribes on this attack.
Balu was now completely unable to defend himself.
He also didn’t know that the climate here was so strange at this ti of year, with heavy rain so severe that it could directly cause mountains to collapse.
Moreover, before this, according to the human informant’s information, the beastn’s advance had been very smooth, and everyone had praised Balu’s ability.
But now, simply because of one failure, these chieftains were all dissatisfied with him and wanted to pull him down from his chieftain position.
Balu naturally knew what these people were thinking. It was nothing more than wanting to gain the most benefits for their own tribes in this war, and accumulate enough capital for the next attack twenty years later. He just hadn’t explicitly said it out loud for the sake of the bigger picture.
“Then, you tell , in that situation, what other options did we have besides retreating?”
Balu said this, looking at Tak, his gaze intense.
“Or do you think our strategy of burning the mountains and forests earlier, and exploiting the internal disunity of the human race to break through at one point, was wrong?”
“Climate is sothing that the heavens decide. We have no control over it. Who could have predicted this outco?”
Tak had nothing to say now. He could only sit down resentfully.
“Then, Chieftain Balu, tell us, what should we do now? Our food reserves are only enough for less than three or four days. It seems we can only retreat now, right?” Swin asked from the side.
“But if we retreat now, the gains we’ve made so far won’t last us long. And if we want to fight our way back, by then the human race should be prepared, and it won’t be as simple as before.”
“By the way.” At this mont, on the other side, Ony, the chieftain of the Helm Clan, raised his hand.
“I want to know, who was the commander on the opposite side in this battle? To have such courage and boldness, and to plan so thoroughly based on the timing, they are a very formidable opponent.”
“Wasn’t it Lucius, the one who killed my father eighteen years ago?” Swin asked with confusion.
“No, Lucius has been off the front lines for a long ti due to being attacked,” Tak shook his head.
“It’s Orson,” Balu stated.
“Orson?” Ony looked at Balu, showing a confused expression. “Who is this Orson? We didn’t hear of any human general by that na when we were preparing before.”
“He is Lucius’s son.” As Balu’s words fell, everyone present suddenly understood.
In the war more than ten years ago, so of these people were still young at the ti and hadn’t gone to the battlefield. As for the chieftains who had been on the battlefield back then, the na Lucius was known to everyone.
Although the beastn plundered a lot of spoils from that war and brought them back to the desert, the price they paid was also huge.
And the person who made them pay that huge price was Lucius.
Before this attack, the beastn had been waiting for news from their informant. Upon learning that Lucius had been attacked and couldn’t co to the battlefield, the beastn’s morale soared.
But they hadn’t expected that while Lucius couldn’t co, his son would deliver them a heavy blow.
At this mont, a scout suddenly ran into the military tent from outside.
“Chieftain, sothing terrible has happened!”
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