The Allied Forces soldiers used as a smokescreen knew nothing of their civilization leaders' secret scheme. Thus, when Hua Zhen and Kesha piloted the Heavenly Blade Battleship back to the battlefield outside the Western Territory, the fighting between the two sides was still at its fiercest.
The battle could not have been more intense. Warships and cannons, stray shots and fiery rain nearly covered the entire airspace. Both sides suffered casualties, but anyone with eyes could see that the defenders had lost far fewer people. Most of those casualties were soldiers and officers from the Fourth Army whose Gene Engines had been disrupted.
Now that the Harvesting Plan had ended and that treacherous schemer He Xuan had received his due punishment, Hua Zhen naturally had no interest in fooling around with these minor troops any longer. He activated the "Tiangong" cloud cluster to crack the Isaac Civilization's Dark Energy Blocking Device, then personally led his forces into this final battlefield.
With their leaders gone, the Allied Forces had lost all effective command and coordination. An elite army turned into a disorganized rabble in an instant. Coupled with the Heavenly Blade Battleship's repeated bombardments, their formation collapsed far faster than anyone could have imagined. Victory came without suspense. They seized countless military supplies and slew enemies beyond count.
From beginning to end, the most bewildered people in the entire battle had to be the old-timer soldiers of the Fourth Army. One moment, they had been locked in a white-hot stalemate; the next, it had ended like this. They wanted to understand why, but the Sixth Army paid them no attention at all.
And so, a major campaign that many believed concerned "the very survival of the Heavenly Palace" ended with three of the four great advanced civilization army leaders dead and