Chapter 1133: The Next Patrol - Part 4

"We will have to play dangerously," Karstly said. "A thousand men will be all that we can spare to hold this mountain. Two thousand men will pressure, and a thousand men will continually run the distance between the two, gathering supplies, and reinforcing wherever they are needed. It will be a brutal affair, but is a way of extending our numbers to more than they otherwise would be. It is a time for the strongest to take the lead. Men that can do much, with very little. As it happens, Captain Patrick, I do hear that a good portion of your victories have come when you are outnumbered."

"Some of them, General," Oliver said.

"Then, when the time comes, you might be one of the few that I have to rely on," General Karstly said. "Better to be able to use him as insurance, than to put whip lashes across his back, and drag him out of action, eh Gordry?"