"Seventh Crown Prince, do you like this gift of first meeting?"
Looking at the large characters laid out in corpses and blood, Legion Commander Yuedai clenched his fists until they crackled, his knuckles turning bluish white.
"My lord, the casualties have been counted! Of the Left Wing Legion, fewer than one in ten survived—less than ten thousand men! And every one of those ten thousand is wounded, with the severely wounded making up the majority.
This subordinate estimates that fewer than half of those ten thousand will survive!"
The report made Legion Commander Yuedai's knuckles explode with a sharp crack. Bursts of force detonated around his fists, showing just how foul his mood had become.
"Tell me—when the Left Wing Legion was attacked, why didn't the central army and the Right Wing Legion follow the plan and reinforce them? Why?"
Legion Commander Yuedai's spittle nearly sprayed onto the faces of the central army's deputy commander and the Right Wing Legion's marshal, who had just arrived.
The two were embarrassed beyond measure.
In the end, it was the Right Wing Legion's marshal who answered.
"My lord, the vanguard and the Left Wing Legion were attacked one after another. Most of the Dao Realm experts and elites in the army had departed. This subordinate feared that enemies might also attack our right army, so I strengthened our defenses and did not dare move out rashly!"
"My lord, the enemy's numbers are unknown. If the central army suffered such an attack, with so much military equipment and supplies..." The central army's deputy commander meant much the same as the Right Wing Legion's marshal.
Legion Commander Yuedai was so stifled he practically wanted to vomit blood, yet the judgments made by his two subordinates were, in a sense, correct.
After all, amid that kind