A Thousand and One Hands
"I hear Llewellyn invited you to her bed?" General Redbull chortled.
I coughed in response. "I think she was just joking around…"
My eyes darted nervously toward Aura who was riding Starlight just off to my right. Thankfully, she didn't seem to hear Redbull's comment.
"Um, about the strategy tonight, General," I said, desperate to change topics in order to avoid further embarrassment. "Any special plans for the left army?"
By the time the second night of battle rolled along, Shärleden's reinforcements arrived at the desert, and it was a nice surprise that we received fifty thousand troops instead of the forty thousand that was originally promised. So now we were a hundred-and-seventy-thousand strong with a clear advantage on the battlefield since we'd secured the oases located in the center region.
Great General Garm divided the army into a fifty-thousand-man central army, a sixty-thousand-man left army, and a sixty-thousand-man right army.