Shadow made her way back to her group with the father and son, she stood before them and spoke proudly. "I captured their leader and their son, this is our best chance to weaken the enemy forces as they have split into smaller groups and began their attack."
The group nodded their heads as they felt very excited towards the upcoming battle.
"I will lead one group and Korah will lead the other, since they have split into groups and spread out our best chances of a successful attack is using our numbers and a well balanced two teams to strike at their individual teams one by one. During this time the tiger clan will be on the defensive so we can use this to attack them from behind as the wolves are focussed on their enemy in front of them." Shadow nodded towards Korah as she placed the burden of leader on his shoulders. "Korah this will be a test for you too, if you can lead a team well and get them to follow your commands you should be successful. Make use of your individual strengths, the environment and situation of the battlefield."
Korah's red eyes glowed with excitement and determination as he nodded his head. "I will do my best to be successful."
"Good, the better leadership and teamwork within a group leads to less deaths, if you don't follow his orders I will take it as you ignoring my orders too." Shadow snorted as she reminded the others of the importance of this mission. 'If they cannot follow orders and get themselves and others killed I don't need them.'
Having loyalty was a good thing, but if individuals had their own thoughts and ruined her plans then they would just be a waste of her efforts helping them grow stronger.
In the end, if they make a stupid mistake all their time spent nurturing would be for nothing.
Although it had not been long, they had all been given beast cores and experienced harsh training, in the future they could be given a cultivation manual to suit them if they worked hard.
As a group their strength had grown a lot but if they constantly make fatal mistakes the consequences could lead to many deaths, she needed to trust that they would not be reckless and focus on strengthening the group without increasing the rate of death.
Fortunately this was a perfect situation to test out her group, the circumstances made it so her group could not suffer many casualties.
One was that the enemy did not know of their existence so never thought of the idea of being attacked by another enemy.
The enemy being attacked from the front then has their escape route cut off from the back leading them to panic during the battle.
The element of surprise worked well in removing their leader earlier, now Korah and Shadow could also make use of that again.
While the wolves are fast and have sharp attacks, Shadow and Korahs groups had more variety to make use of.
The smaller beasts had an easier time avoiding attacks and make use of their small bodies to attack the enemy when they show openings.
The faster and stronger beasts could make use of their traits to deal deadly blows while the tougher beasts could battle at the front because they are harder to injure and can hold off their enemies attacks while the others provide support.
"Alright everyone, someone from each group take one of these wolves with you for extra leverage. Simply mentioning that their leader and future leader are captured they will have their morale weakened but some may be doubtful towards your claims." Shadow walked over towards the cowering little wolf who had a look of fear and unwillingness in his eyes. "I do not care if they live or die as a result, think carefully on how to use them to influence the battle to our victory!"
After raising her voice she sent four kicks towards the small wolf and four snapping sounds followed with a shriek of pain.
After trying to endure the pain of his broken legs the little wolfs eyes dimmed as he passed out.
"Let's go!" She ordered as she left with her group and Korah lead his group in a different direction, each group dragging a heavily injured white wolf.