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Fate had smiled upon the Emperor and his forces that day, in many ways his plans had accomplished their objectives. The farms and villages of the burning and their harvests stolen. However, Emperor Si Fu quickly became aware that not all that had been between the border and the imposign walls of the enemy settlements had been taken. Some farmhouses had been spared, no doubt because the peasants had bribed his soldiers, others had been looted but were found empty whilst others still had held off his forces for so long that the commanders who were supposed to have seized the farms had called off the attack in order to rally his troops with the rest of the army outside the walls of the enemy settlements. Despite the best efforts of his Aznavorian weapon handlers it seemed that some of his men had experienced doubt when it came to assaulting walled compounds manned by musket armed peasants. More discipline would be necessary as this indecision allowed several dozen Arbassi to escape the clutches of his men some no doubt had fled back to the safety of a city whilst others had taken their belongings with them and hidden themselves away wisely choosing to avoid being found in static structures when the rest of Khans forces made their way over from the southern cities. These roaming bands of settlers armed with weapons varying from farm implements to hunting muskets and blunderbusses were presumably joined by the border guards that the Khans mounted Samurai had not been able to find and eliminate in the early hours of the invasion. Nevertheless they were a small force of undisciplined and poorly equipped men and women who without supplies could not hope to last long in the scorched lands between the Khans army and the Emperor's borders. They would have to attack the massive army camped outside the walls of their cities or starve. The choice was theirs.

Outside the walls of Wardenfall and New Stendsmark
The army was exhausted, having been force marched continuously from the borders of the Empire to the walls of the enemy settlement without rest and then being told to dig defensive positions. Many boots had become warn as they are wont to do during a spring campaign, and few had looted any replacements in the farm houses. The cavalry had returned from their night hunting and had little to show for it except horses whose shoes needed replacing and tales of abandoned farmsteads with large numbers of footprints leading away. When the Samurai followed these tracks they were led to a river after which it became impossible to keep tracking the survivors. This undoubtedly meant that some men among those who had survived the initial chevauchee had military discipline or more realistically had been hunters. Nevertheless the Imperial army now knew that enemy elements existed behind their siege lines. The next day the orders from Marshall Yat were made very clear,after the soldiers had been given the opportunity to rest for a day a second trench was to be built five hundred paces behind the original one to keep these survivors from surprising them at night. Once this was complete small but thick wooden palisades were to be erected behind each trench line so that the Imperial army could enjoy a degree of relative safety from the enemy should they choose to sally forth and take the fight to them.Adventurers trackers were then sent out to map the wrecked lands in which the enemy roamed free.
His orders issued,Yat wrote to the Emperor informing him of the situation.

TLDR.
The Invasion was not as successful as initially believed . Men were bought or ignored orders , and some were were held off from certain enemy houses.
Bands of armed Arbassi men and women are presumed to be existing behind seige lines.
The Imperial army was given forced rest for a day before being given the order to expand fortifications to protect them from both the men of Wardensfall and New Stendsmark and the threat of the militias behind them. The army is camped between twin lines of defenses that look somewhat like this

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