It was expected for a battalion commander to be hesitant when facing up against a death sorcerer. There was no excuse for a twenty-thousand strong army to retreat after they had managed to advance within ten miles of the city though. The commander had also lost three-thousand of his knights. There was no way he would be able to justify it to his superiors.
The Qin army from the south was mainly comprised of the armies of noble families from the House of Commons and House of Lords. There were no royal swordsmen battalion nor the station troops from the four towns in Holy Rock City. As such, the army that the battalion commander was leading was gathered together rather hastily.
The noble families would have no complaints if they had lost all their armies in battles with the Tanggulasis. The problem was that this was a secret order so they would have to bear responsibility for the outcome.
