At the same moment Edge Paddler boarded the plane, a massive battle erupted in the Ravenca Industrial Zone northwest of Evernight Harbor!
This industrial zone lay on the southeastern bank of the Ravenca River. With two railways and a deepwater port, it connected four processing centers, five mining bases, and a heavy shipyard.
In addition, three hundred thousand survivors lived there, a quarter of whom were industrial workers and engineers employed by the Avent Heavy Industries Group.
The goods produced in this region supplied not only the front lines of the Boro Province theater, but also military factories of every size along the two railway lines.
Even the armor steel used on the production line for the Conqueror No. 10 tank came from the steel mills in this region!
Nearly a third of the Southern Legion's total industrial output was produced in this industrial zone or indirectly affected by it!
It was no exaggeration to say that losing the Ravenca Industrial Zone would be an even heavier blow to the Southern Legion than losing a third of its territory.
Precisely because of its critical strategic importance, both sides regarded this industrial zone as territory that had to be fought over.
The defense of the region was commanded by the Southern Legion's renowned "Desert Lion," Ten-Thousand Commander Lubis.
Born in Triumph City to a military aristocratic family, he had received a military education from an early age. At only thirty-five, he became a Ten-Thousand Commander and led the 111th Ten-Thousand-Man Unit in battles against mutants and raider tribes in the Great Desert.
His most brilliant achievement came when he was still a Thousand Commander. Leading a thousand-man youth unit, he had crushed a mutant tribe several times larger than his own force with almost no casualties.
Because of that almost miraculous