"No, wait. Let me think first." When You Ye heard what Qu Bing said, he hurriedly cut him off, then stared at the map and began thinking on his own.
Because the fighting at the Hunting Ground had gone so smoothly and they had wiped out quite a few Hunting Teams, food had now become extremely scarce inside the Cannibal Tribe's villages. As a result, most of the old, weak, women, and children had fled and begun foraging outside on their own. The areas where these old, weak, women, and children were active happened to be the River Bend Area guarded by the Third Battalion.
This was a cause-and-effect relationship. One could say that the Third Battalion was now facing the same problem as the First Battalion: too many enemies and too few troops of their own. Killing all the enemies would of course be no problem, but capturing them alive would be difficult.
At a time like this, they had to make a choice. Either they concentrated their forces to swallow one target while giving up the other, or they could not swallow either of them. You Ye quickly understood Qu Bing's strategic objective.
Still, he asked, "What about the Second Battalion? You said we should give that up too?"
"Yes. The Second Battalion is currently guarding the Salt Pond Area, but after the enemy gathered heavy forces and counterattacked twice, both attempts ended with their entire army wiped out. They no longer dare send people to attack us. They can only use some giant apes to harass us, but they can't inflict any effective damage. So leaving the Second Battalion there would be a pure waste of manpower. We can give up the Salt Pond for now and gather all the forces from the Second and Third Battalions,