Campaign Journal (A small flag is tucked inside as a bookmark. The owner cherishes this journal, reading it of…
Campaign Journal
(A small flag is tucked inside as a bookmark. The owner cherishes this journal, reading it often. The handwriting shifts between a vigorous formal script and wild cursive.)
Our supply lines are heavily burdened. We must win this battle. Gao Jinda has handed down the order: the men must stay awake and rotate watches through the night.
Light cavalry is agile, ideally suited for this terrain. The Mo Blade squads strike with overwhelming force, best kept to hold the line or for a brutal frontal assault. When supplies run thin, we must fight with the resolve of those who have burned their boats.
Yan Yingda has already led three hundred light riders to raid Guazhou and sever Mutun's grain route. We only wait for daybreak.
To strike at their heart to save our own, this is the very essence of that strategy.
Liangzhou is the hinge of the western frontier, the shield guarding the eastern approach. There is no reconnecting the Central Plains to Tang soil without it.
...What use was the Lingwu Governor at such a distance? Giving him charge of Liangzhou was abandoning it in all but name. And once Ganzhou and Suzhou were stripped away and handed to the Guiyi Army, the losses came one by one...
My uncle shed his blood to bring Hexi back. I cannot sit still while it is lost again. I will return.