The combined force's daily experience over the next six days was the experience of an army that was large enough to be militarily decisive and was finding itself unable to exercise the decisiveness that its size entitled it to because the army it was trying to exercise decisiveness against kept being somewhere else or coming from a direction that the decisiveness had not been pointed at.
Aldrath's strategic adjustments were professional and logical and each one produced the result that Khao'khen had calculated it would produce: the adjustment addressed the specific action that had prompted it by allocating more resources to the specific problem, which reduced the resources available for the strategic actions that were not being adjusted for.
The supply convoy escorts grew from one hundred cavalry to one hundred and fifty. The signal relay stations were rebuilt with standing guard posts of thirty soldiers.
