Aside from the formidable warriors in the eastern district, the Liuning base had the western district hiding its strength, while the southern and northern districts were left to develop on their own.
Thus, while Liuning's warriors looked fairly strong overall, they would easily be exploited by their opponents if they truly had to fight independently on the battlefield.
Basia had not diligently trained the troops at all these past years, resulting in the warriors' overall strength being far too low.
Moreover, their awareness of teamwork was insufficient. Qing Zhixun had paid a great price to train them, barely raising the team's strength somewhat.
Yet Liuning's warriors still lacked the polish needed to deal with Qin Hongjun's army of Mechs.
Many Alliance bases and fortresses suffered from this same problem. Qin Hongjun had likely begun preparing for it many years ago.
The families that had pledged themselves to him cared only about their own influence and strength. The Alliance's safety was not within the scope of their concern.
The Dashi Family was one example, as was Basia's Xiwen Family, along with the Wang Family. At critical moments, they left the Alliance with no one to call upon.
Over the years, many families had secretly developed their own forces while caring nothing at all about the strength of the Alliance's warriors.
These competing families all wanted the largest share of the spoils from Qin Hongjun, so they spent all their time training their own people.
Xi Xiu had seen this information in the materials Qing Wenxu and Chu Xuliang had provided, and she also knew that the Alliance was currently desperately short of talent.
From the overall standard of military academy students in the past, as well as the initial talent values of newborns in Jingsu over the last two hundred years,