The English actions of inflicting a thousand casualties on the enemy while suffering eight hundred of their own were indeed causing considerable trouble for the Shun army. The enemy had abandoned all human decency, and the Shun army could no longer afford to hold back either. Were both sides really going to use heavy artillery to bombard their own infantry positions?
To counter this, the Military Director and commander-in-chief quickly made a decision. He dispatched troops to bypass the massive city of London and make a forced march straight for Notting Hill, where the English artillery positions were located.
The English certainly could not allow the Shun army to thrust straight through, but turning their cannons around would take a great deal of effort, and targeting a moving cluster of infantry required recalculating coordinates. Moreover, dispersing the artillery firepower at this moment would be tantamount to granting the enemy’s wish, allowing the forces of the Shun Dynasty inside London to flood in and engage their compatriots in an even more grueling war of attrition through urban combat.
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