Martial Gall Warriors could absorb Heaven and Earth Qi to replenish some of the energy their bodies needed, allowing them to achieve an effect similar to Grain Avoidance in the short term. But if they kept it up too long, problems were bound to arise. Ordinary soldiers could only get energy from food. If the army's provisions ran out, they would be the first to collapse. So here was the question: would Martial Gall Warriors willingly share their meager rations to make the most of them?
Not only would they not, they would restrict the food supply as much as possible.
Chu Jie had spent decades marching and fighting. How could he not understand that?
Rather than turning these ordinary soldiers into provisions, he had simply let them starve to death. That could already be considered merciful.
"Then they..."
Being trapped inside Stone Fort was a dead end.
Concentrating their forces and breaking through offered a sliver of hope.
When Chu Jie returned, he had observed the battlefield. Judging by the traces left behind, Stone Fort's last breakout attempt had been three or four days ago. Surely these people hadn't given up on survival?
Shen Tang said, "They attacked pretty fiercely at first, but we're no pushovers either. We stopped several breakouts without letting a single person escape. The Central States fight differently from us, so it's a rare chance to get familiar with their methods."
The words seemed offhand, but beneath them lay utter coldness.
War wasn't child's play. Every additional battle meant another batch of people dead. The Kang forces were using the lives of Stone Fort's defenders to gain experience.
Chu Jie didn't have a problem with that.
Back then, the elite troops at Yonggu Pass had used the Ten Crows' soldiers to gain experience, too. Without