Luo Youlun strictly carried out Wang Yan's orders, taking the wounded back to the western front to pick up the troops.
Because Wang Yan had stretched the entire Myanmar battlefield so thin, the return journey was relatively safe. The Japanese had contracted their lines and retreated a considerable distance.
The troops transferred from China this time were not new recruits. They were forces pulled directly from the rear and transported over, which took much less time. Thus, when Luo Youlun drew troops from the western front, there was only a brief gap.
During that gap, Wang Yan carried out targeted operations to draw attention away, eliminating the vulnerability caused by the western front's shortage of troops.
Luo Youlun had finally gotten his hands on military authority, but he did not try to be clever and stir up more trouble. He had seen Wang Yan's capabilities firsthand while following him. From training men to leading troops, from fighting battles to shaping ideology, from grand tactics and strategy to conflicts between two individual soldiers, Wang Yan handled everything in perfect order.
He had watched more than four thousand recruits go from being unfamiliar with Wang Yan, to admiring him, to becoming utterly loyal to him.
When Wang Yan spoke to the brothers, he never told them not to fear death. Instead, he told them not to be reckless and to preserve their lives. He constantly emphasized that death had to have value. His classic line was: if a brother died without killing three Japanese soldiers, it was a loss. More importantly, he had truly led the brothers to live up to those words.
He had accomplished it with a force of over eight thousand men, more than four thousand of whom were recruits. The casualty ratio was simply outrageous.
So Luo Youlun