Chapter 60: The Bleak and Severe Winter
Another month later, Shitou's second letter arrived.
Because of his effective combat against the Ma tribe, beheading several enemy soldiers, he was promoted to Platoon Commander.
A Rank 8a military officer, leading fifty soldiers.
The Marquis of Anping successfully found the main force of the Ma tribe before the rations and fodder were exhausted.
But he failed to annihilate them in one fell swoop, and the remaining few thousand remnant soldiers fled in all directions.
Considering the logistics of rations and fodder, plus the Ministry of War issuing several military orders in succession to withdraw troops quickly, they had no choice but to withdraw the army and return to the court.
The large army rested and reorganized along the way, marching slowly, and it might still take some days before they could return.
At the very latest, he would definitely arrive home around the autumn harvest.
This letter made Qiaohua so happy that she cried.