Rudra laughed when he saw the four tier 4 generals approach the lane that he was holding down in the eastern battlefield as he well understood their motives.
The lane he was holding was the highway ticket to reaching the walls of the inner city and the best shot that the merchants had at winning this war.
Ontop of that , killing Rudra would also restore morale within the army and while the four of them could not take Rudra on at his full strength the four of them beleived that in his significantly injured state they could gang-up and kill him.
Internally Rudra had long expected such a situation to arise , however it was something he wished to happen and not something that he wanted to avoid.
For him , the only tangible way to end this war was to completely defeat two fronts of the attack before redirecting the forces from these fronts to the others to route the enemy forces completely.