An Uneasy Stalemate (Part-2)

"My lord, Lord Nyantim reports that his losses are too great. So he is pulling back his forces." Finally unable to bear the losses, the commander of the slingers decided to pull his men back and sent a herald to Faruq to relay that.

A key point of notice here would be how Lord Nyantim had not asked for permission from Faruq before doing this, which was in much contrast to Alexander's command structure where his word reigned supreme.

But that was natural as Faruq's army had a much looser hierarchy than Alexander's.

And it was here the coalition's drawbacks started to show itself.

"Dammit!" Faruq gritted his teeth and cursed hearing this, but limited himself to only that.

Because he did not have jurisdiction over those forces, and so could only accept their withdrawal, even if he thought it was unreasonable.

Though in fairness, the slingers had truly suffered badly, losing close to 300 of their men, or about 7% of their total force being dead or wounded.