Hadjar stared at the map, trying to formulate some kind of plan, however insane, to give them even the slightest advantage.
In the case of the Emerald City, for the conquest of which Helmer also deserved credit, they’d largely gotten lucky. Had it not been for an unplanned sewer outflow, they would not have been able to take the city. And in the field, their two hundred-thousand-strong army would have been completely overwhelmed and defeated by an enemy force twice their size. And there, neither maneuvers nor the use of terrain would have helped them. They would not even have had the initiative.
But the Emerald City, for all its strengths, had had a very serious disadvantage — its location. It was situated between a lowland surrounded by hills and a river with a swift current and rocky b
