In the wide-open wilderness stood a fortress that was easy to defend and hard to attack.
A total of 15.7 kilometers of tunnels connected concrete bunkers and trenches. It had hemispherical rotating armored turrets, anti-aircraft gun positions, anti-tank gun positions, and heavy machine-gun emplacements.
This was the Legion's largest military base in Oasis No. 2, called Fort Horn. It had been built by General Klaas, the previous Legion commander-in-chief stationed in the Sunset Province.
It was said to accommodate an army of a million!
To meet the enormous material demands of the fortress, General Klaas had not only arranged for a canal to be built from the nearby river embankment to the fortress, but had also constructed broad six-lane highways on all four sides.
Supplies bound for Fort Horn could arrive by waterway, road, airplane, or airship.
And if Oasis No. 2 ever faced the threat of invasion, the troops stationed in the fortress and the supplies stockpiled there could be transported to the front line by road in the shortest possible time.
Yet now—
This well-connected fortress had been sealed tight.
The Alliance's Skeleton Corps had not stormed the fortress. Instead, they watched the defenders retreat inside before cutting off the canal leading to it.
Logically, a fortress of this scale should have stockpiled enough supplies to sustain an army of a million for more than three years. However, in Griffin's original plans, he had never imagined that this military base would one day be used as a defensive fortress.
With the fighting at the front so intense, most supplies had been sent there. Meanwhile, the Falcon Kingdom's domestic production surplus was insufficient to complete the fortress's supply reserves.
As a result, the fifty thousand troops who had retreated into the fortress had less than two months' worth of