Chapter 02-War at the border

It was king Lian this time, starting riots around the southwest border of the empire.That border was under the surveillance of general Huang Song.He has an army of 5000 guarding the border.But news from the spies confirmed that king Lian had 25 000 in his army.Although his troops are less than king Lian's about 1/4th,general Huang was confident that he would defeat king Lian,after estimating all his strengths and considering all the information he got from his spies.

Therefore with much confidence,general Huang started leading his troops next day.He was able to break through king Lian's front defense lines and break into the middle and finally reaching to the back line of the troops,breaking the king's initial formation.

It seemed,king's army was bewildered by the fierce attacks of general's army.The fighting spirit of general's army was at a very high level due to initial success.They carried on fighting victoriously.

At the same time, king's army's confidence seemed to be decreasing.They were falling ten by hundreds by on the battlefield.Instead of rearranging their formation to fight back,they seemed fighting desperately to escape.Although orders for retreat are not issued,they seemed trying to escape by dividing into the groups and scattering far around the battlefield.

Although their enemies didn't retreat yet,the army of general Huang was feeling victorious .With that ,they started chasing the scattering enemies,scattering their own formations.

That was the chance king was looking for.He knew that although his armies are more than general Huang's army in numbers,general would still come to battle with him.Until general's original tactics are ongoing,they wouldn't have a chance to win.That's why he planned to break the unity of general's army,because they were less in number,unity of their troops were important for them to win.Now after scattering their squads and dividing their entity of power,king issued orders to his army to rearrange their formations surrounding the scattered small squads of general's army.It was easy and successful because of their high man power.

When general discovered the king's intention,it was a little bit late.Now it was their chance to be surprised .The scattered squads had to fight individually with the high man power of king.They were at disadvantage but they fought fiercely like wounded beasts.Now they were started to fall down in battle field by hundreds and thousands .

Now general's army was at the brink of losing.General had no other option but to retreat.He issued orders for retreating.

Around 2000 lives were lost in general's side.About 1000 were severely wounded,dissabled.Around 2000-1800 were suitable to go to war again.Because they had enough supplies,treatments for wounded soldiers started immediately.

In his place,general Huang was feeling humiliated ,because after all he failed because of such a simple tactic.When thinking about other party's loss,they might have loss around 6000 but because of their high man power,they had the upper hand now.General Huang sighed.He had no other option but to ask for reinforcement from other generals from nearest borders.Capital was far away and he was sure that he could not hang on until reinforcement from capital to come.

He sent messages for reinforcement to general of western border,general Jiang Ling and general of southeast border general Feng Tang.The nearest border was western border and it would take one and a half day to receive reinforcement.Southwest border was atleast two days faraway .Although he didn't want to ask General Jiang 's help due to some personal grudges,he could not help.And he hoped he would be able to hold on until reinforcement comes.

Even though it would be advantageous for king Lian to attack his enemies before reinforcement come,they didn't seem to attack directly except for creating some small commotions.

As the dusk was coming,he received a message saying reinforcement forces are within ten miles.

After receiving General Huang 's message,General Jiang had left 10 000 of his troops at western border to ensure western border's safety and headed towards southwest border himself with his remaining 20 000 troops.They came in their maximum speed.General Huang didn't think that reinforcement would be received that soon.With this favourable news,he received an unfavourable news too.King's army also had received reinforcement of 10 000.

After general Jiang reached to the southwest camp,he was welcomed by general Huang.After resting for sometime, they held discussion regarding war tactics to be follwed tomorrow.After deciding their strategies they went their own places for resting.

Next day,early in the morning from the other side,the sound of war drums, to signal the starting of war could be heard.As planned,two generals from this side headed from two fronts and led the troops.

The war carried on according to the plan until orderes for retreat from king's side were issued.General Jiang had managed to capture the king himself alive.There was a short discussion among them and finally king came into a negotiation with General Jiang.Then he retreated totally, withdrawing all his remaining troops and left for his own land.

After finishing today's battle without severe harm,remaining troops were resting,treating wounds...etc.Both Generals were resting too while discussing.

Although battle was finished successfully ,General Huang was not satisfied.It was not him but General Jiang who captured the king.And why did he left the king Lian unharmed?Without even discussing with him,why did he agree to negotiate with king Lian ?What are the negotiation conditions anyway?And finally,following the discussed strategies exactly without violating any step,why did it have to be him who captured the enemy king as always happened ?

General Huang's mind was not in peace.His past grudges with General Jiang was renewed.He was burning with jealousy inside himself unbearably.