No matter how badly he was defeated, he could never lose his morale. Even his soldiers would be won over by his tenacious spirit and their momentum would soar. That was precisely why, even if you threw him into the harshest environment, he would never let the enemy completely devour his pieces!
Just as expected, although the army at the front scattered at the first charge, it quickly regrouped somewhere else and began gnawing at another weak point in the enemy lines. News from the battlefield did not come quickly, since it had to be relayed by all kinds of flying beasts and hunters. But I understood Zhao Yu too well. I could practically guess what he would do next with my eyes closed.
Naturally, while he gnawed at the enemy's weak point, the enemy also turned their cannons toward him again. Another round of concentrated fire followed, and Zhao Yu's army retreated in defeat once more. But after his second attempt to gnaw through the enemy failed, the Jiu Fangtao army, personally directed by me, finally took over from this troublesome enemy and staunched the bleeding caused by Zhao Yu's rout. Zhao Yu himself probably could not make sense of it, and Jiu Fangtao certainly had not expected this outcome either!
"How is that possible?! My army... No, how can you control Jiu Fangtao's army and make it fight alongside this guy!?" Jiu Fangtao's voice rang beside my ear. By then, her probing army on the left had already been blocked solidly at the pass by me, bombarded until it could no longer tell up from down. I knew, of course, that it was only a scouting force, but I still hammered it ruthlessly. This was meant to intimidate them and deliberately show off my artillery towers, so I