Morale was fracturing as soldiers realized they were more likely to be killed by their own commanders' tactics than by enemy action.
"Reform lines!" "Tighten formation!" "Don't fire unless you have a clear shot!".
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Despite devastating initial losses and fractured morale that had seemed to announce their imminent collapse, the enemy army demonstrated adaptation capacity that Arturo recognized with reluctant appreciation.
5,000 tamers were said easily in terms of abstract numbers. But the reality of defeating them when they began operating with appropriate tactics was considerably more complex than early victories had suggested.
The scale was staggering when you actually thought about it rather than treating it as an abstract number.
