The Mulan infantry that escaped in the aftermath of the battle caused great suffering for the over hundred thousand elderly, weak, and infirm who hadn't managed to retreat to Witherspoon's main city in the Northeast Province; the defeated soldiers had no supplies and couldn't rely solely on hunting to survive long in the wasteland, so they became unusually brutal.
Including the hundred thousand camel cavalry that had been routed early on, more than eighty thousand Mulan defeated troops roamed the Northeast Wasteland. To muster the effort to annihilate these scattered remnants wasn't easy and required a sizable amount of time; it was something inevitable, as war is without humanity. From the very start, all the Beamon leadership had understood that those who hadn't retreated to the main city were bound to suffer the enemy's frenzied retaliation. Now, all that could be done was to try to save as many as possible.
