Today's first update: Chapter 2793! 1/4!
(The previous text was mistaken. Qiongqi should be E-Lao; Taowu was Fierce Elder~)
Xu Kun did not fuss over it, so the first clash of this head-on confrontation naturally continued.
Yanran, whom A Li had spared, had no time to grieve over her defeat. She hurriedly gathered the routed troops, and after taking stock of them, the pain was enough to leave her unable to breathe.
"This defeat is entirely my fault. Once this battle ends, I, Yanran, will naturally apologize to the Cat Clan elders and kin!"
But was this defeat really due to Yanran's command?
Although the Cat Clan army hung their heads in dejection, one of their experts immediately consoled her. "Miss Yanran, there is no need to blame yourself. There was absolutely nothing wrong with your command this time. This defeat was not a failure of battle—it was simply... the enemy was too cunning. They lured us into their trap, which was why we suffered such a defeat!"
Cunning?
The Huang Clan had merely gone with the flow. They had set no traps and used no schemes. Faced with encirclement, their outnumbered front force had torn through all three layers of the Cat Clan's siege.
Hearing her subordinates still trying to comfort her, Yanran shook her head. "A defeat is a defeat. There are no excuses to make. This deployment was indeed sound, but I overlooked one most crucial issue."
Every member of the Cat Clan pricked up their ears.
"Though the enemy is few, every one of them is exceptionally fierce and brave. Looking across our Cat Clan, we could not find more than a handful capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with any one of them."
That was the objective truth behind this crushing defeat!
Yanran was