Three months after the Shence Guard set out, Luo Chong finally received word from them. It had taken them more than a month just to travel there by boat, followed by another ten-odd days to restore their training. After completing their reconnaissance, devising a strategy, and launching their formal attack, three months had already passed by the time their reply arrived.
The letter was first delivered to Luo Chong's home in Hanyang City, then forwarded by his Personal Guard to the research institute in Xingang Commandery. Luo Chong had already spent more than two months shuttling between the Comprehensive Research Institutes in Xingang Commandery and Lake Heart Island, constantly traveling back and forth and serving as the guiding light for the Engineering Machinery project.
That afternoon, he received the northern battle report forwarded by his Personal Guard. After reading it, he let out a long breath of relief. Qu Bing had indeed lived up to his expectations. Luo Chong read through his battle plans and reasoning, as well as his analysis of the war's situation and its various stages, and praised them highly.
The war itself was not large in scale. It could only be waged through drawn-out warfare and guerrilla tactics. Laying ambushes and taking a few hundred men at a time counted as a victory; capturing more than a thousand would be considered a major battle. Luo Chong was not particularly concerned about that.
If they maintained a scale like the Bamboo Island campaign, deploying nearly twenty thousand men at a time along with several thousand cavalry and a massive Boat Fleet, then fighting for several years would certainly drag the Han Tribe into collapse. But the northern theater was different.
To deal with the Cannibal Tribe, Luo Chong had deployed only one garrison, totaling just over two