The End

Boom!

The war began before dawn, and this time, the East Country People struck first.

"According to intelligence from the prisoners, they've been out of food for a day. Yesterday, each adult only received half a compressed biscuit."

"Under cover of darkness, some of them started fleeing on their own. Rumor has it that there was even a minister among them, but we stopped them."

Was the intelligence real? Or was it merely a Smokescreen?

But once the air cavalry and hidden scouts confirmed the news, and exchanged fire with the "deserters" in the outer zones, everything was already set in stone.

This was a signal, an answer, the moment everyone had been waiting for.

That was how war worked. The moment everyone sensed the outcome, there was no turning back.

The advantaged fought for glory and victory; the disadvantaged fought to live.

Boom!

This time, the East Country People left their fortresses and trenches. The Automatic Cannons from the fortresses were carried out and turned into machine gun weapons for the assault formation. More lethal still were the shoulder-fired mortars.

They were hastily made "handcrafted products," yet they were the flagship product of the Rebirth Merchant Guild. Even Lu PingAn had not expected his guild's first big seller to be the mass-produced Spin Force Stone Cannons made by Fang Wen.

The cannons were powerful enough, cheap, and easy to use. Naturally, they sold extremely well.

Shell after shell blossomed across the positions from above, dealing a devastating blow to the Aus who had tried to retreat under cover of night.

But those awakened by the artillery were mostly ordinary soldiers still asleep. Clearly, not everyone had been qualified to join this retreat.

The soldiers who had fought bitterly on the front lines during the day had barely awakened when