Three days later, Kyle led the Thousand Forts Army, the Blackrock Army, and the Badako Army, which was being used as the "vanguard," toward the remaining cities of the Badako Plains.
Velin led twenty thousand expeditionary troops from the Fifteenth Army, fifteen thousand Holy Crusaders, and over seven thousand men from the Thirty-First Army of the Holy War Army, for a total force of forty thousand. They followed behind at an unhurried pace.
Inside the camp, Velin received Kyle's report, placed it on the low table, and shook his head helplessly.
Using the enemy against itself was a clever tactic, but it could easily be exploited by the Church of the Beast God.
Still, since his Guardian Knight wanted to do it this way, then so be it. He would be there to cover for him anyway.
On the Badako Plains, every time Kyle captured a city, he arrested the local professionals and incorporated them into the Badako Army as cannon fodder for attacking the next city.
With the Thousand Forts Army and the Blackrock Army holding the line, along with his own strength, Kyle was not afraid that these people would rebel.
In less than half a month, one-third of the Badako Plains had fallen into the hands of the Fifteenth Army. Eight cities had been captured, thirty-seven towns had been destroyed, and fifty-eight fortresses had been razed to the ground.
Since most of the Germans in the villages and towns of the Badako Plains had been relocated, Velin was spared the trouble of governing them.
At the border between the Badako Plains and the Houston Hills, Dobic, commander of the Eighth Legion of the German Kingdom's Western Expeditionary Army, borrowed five thousand men from the Ninth Legion. He also gathered the Noble Army from the Badako Plains and