"We haven't even reached Yong'an yet, and the Liangzhou Army is already on the verge of collapse," Gu Shanhai remarked with a sigh.
Today marked the twelfth day since they set off, and of the original thirty thousand Daoist Soldiers that the provincial governor had, only twelve thousand remained, with substantial losses among the other soldiers and Daoist Soldiers as well.
The sight made everyone in the Liangzhou Army jittery, as they watched their forces close to crumbling.
As for the idea of marching at double speed, it indeed could speed up their arrival, but the issue was how to coordinate a million-strong army with such haste. Not all therein were Daoist Soldiers directly under the same commander's control, capable of swift mobilization. The Daoist Soldiers were already a mixed bunch, to say nothing of the majority of the army comprised of ordinary soldiers who simply couldn't keep up with the Daoist Soldiers' pace.
With numbers came chaos.
