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Who can discipline an army if it is the army itself which abandons discipline? In warfare, the salvation of the defeated is often contingent on the victors pausing to gather in the stores of the routed force, which delay commonly purchases the time necessary for an expeditious withdrawal. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 9, Sentence #45)

* * * I supposed that after the months of the siege, the inactivity, the waiting, the watching, the routine patrols, the endless drills, and such, the eagerness, the unruliness, the excitement, the greed of hundreds of the men of General Yamada, rushing as they could up the steep trail from the wharves to the holding, was understandable. At the edges of the encampment below officers sought to control their men, to marshal the platoons and companies as they could, but their success was not notable. At the height of the trail lay the holding with its wealth of gold, silver, silk, sake, vessels, jewels, screens, hangings, perfumes, weapons, robes, instruments, ointments, oils, and such, the treasure and loot of generations amassed by the house of Temmu. Who can discipline an army if it is the army itself which abandons discipline? In warfare, the salvation of the defeated is often contingent on the victors pausing to gather in the stores of the routed force, which delay commonly purchases the time necessary for an expeditious withdrawal. In theory one presses on against a fleeing enemy, denying him rest, precluding a regrouping and stand. In the field manuals the common lesson is to pursue an advantage to the end, to follow up on the victory, never to stop with an incomplete victory, but the field manuals are written with the care and leisure which might accompany kaissa. They are composed in tents by lamplight, after a day's march or skirmishing, even in winter quarters, or even in exile, or retirement, as is thought to have been the case with the Field Diaries commonly attributed to Carl Commenius of Argentum. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 9)