@Nicromatic From how they are talking about it and the weakness with it. You can assume them to be the supply carts which follows together with the main army instead of being a separate unit.
I only hope this series doesn't get too bogged down by her conscience later, like "omg I made war even more cruel and effective in this era and killed more people and brought more misery".
Yea, I mean we used to have line of musketeer shot each other by blatantly standing in plain sight but then the revolutionary came and people begun to adapt survivability by doing guerilla warfare and abandoned concept of "Honor" in warfare.
Of course some of them took too far like ya know ...
Anyway I predict probably in near future that she will met someone from her own era that similarly smart at and begun to fight her without knowing that on the other side there is another fellow modern era.
@kazuraki I really hope so, naval warfare, administrative challenges, ethics of imperialism, eventually fighting wars with the European powers as well. Taking China would increase the resources at her disposal to basically being unlimited