A massive encounter battle erupted across the wilderness south of Akale County.
On one side was the Southern Legion's 37th Ten Thousand Man Unit led by Baldwin. On the other was Golden Gallon Port's 1st Mechanized Infantry Division, along with two armored regiments from the Tiger Army and Panther Army respectively.
The latter aimed to advance to the bend of the Eternal Flow River and cut off the retreat of the Southern Legion's 36th Ten Thousand Man Unit. The former naturally sought to stop them from launching a raid into their allies' rear.
The instant the two sides made contact, fierce gunfire erupted.
Two Chimera armored vehicles fired Dove missiles first, blowing up a Conqueror V light tank and a Beast wheeled infantry fighting vehicle in quick succession.
The Southern Legion's 37th Ten Thousand Man Unit did not back down either. Two light armored companies quickly moved forward and destroyed three Chimera armored vehicles from Golden Gallon Port's mechanized infantry division in rapid succession.
Just as the 37th Ten Thousand Man Unit's armored forces were about to swallow up the vanguard of Golden Gallon Port's 1st Mechanized Infantry Division, a steel torrent of over a hundred Conqueror X tanks suddenly burst into the Southern Legion's positions!
Before the two light armored companies could react, howling tank shells punched through their side armor and blew them into heaps of burning scrap in the mud.
"Advance!!!" The commander of the Tiger Army's armored regiment roared over the communications channel, leading his men into the 37th Ten Thousand Man Unit's flank positions.
Watching tanks from their own side charge at them, the Velander soldiers of the 37th Ten Thousand Man Unit were dumbfounded.
The Conqueror was clearly their tank.
It would have been one thing if The Alliance had gotten hold of one