The Tatars at the rear.
The Marshal personally led the Think Tank and the troops on campaign, shifting away almost two-thirds of the military strength in the Oasis region. This was because he considered that, as the most ferocious unit of the Daxuan Army, the Iron Cavalry Army possessed astonishing combat power; even with two or three times their number, they still feared they might not be able to annihilate them in one stroke. For absolute certainty, the Marshal dispatched a force of one hundred thousand, solely to encircle and wipe out those 5,000 Iron Cavalry!
In this way they had pursued for several days.
The Marshal had just ordered the army to rest when he received word from the couriers that the main forces of the Daxuan Kingdom had already approached the Oasis and would arrive there at the latest by tomorrow. Now the military strength at the Oasis was weak; once the Daxuan Army launched an attack, they would surely be routed and shattered.
