Today's fourth update: Chapter 3096! 4/4!
The greatest advantage of the vanguard personally led by Xu Kun was not its troop numbers, but Xu Kun himself—the mysterious Huang Lord who rarely intervened directly in ordinary racial wars, yet could turn the tide the moment he made a move.
Where he stood was where the army's morale converged and victory pointed.
The central army, meanwhile, was commanded by A Li, the "Power Commander" whom Xu Kun regarded as his heir and who was peerless among the troops. Under him was gathered the Huang Army's strongest main force, with the most abundant troops and the most complete array of units.
By all reason, such an enormous strategic reserve force should have been deployed to the front battlefield for a head-on clash with the enemy.
Yet Xu Kun had always been unconventional in his use of troops. He deliberately stationed the central army on the flank, and his intentions ran deep: Didn't you want to test the Huang Army's ability to break through head-on?
Fine. Then A Li would give them a proper "demonstration" from the flank!
Even though the allied commander She Tu Renekton was a seasoned veteran of countless battlefields, and even after he joined forces with his many experienced generals to rack their brains for ways to counter A Li's central army—a force that was upright and imposing yet endlessly unpredictable—they still found themselves helpless and repeatedly beaten back.
That sense of powerlessness did not stem from the enemy using some earth-shattering divine art or secret technique. It came from being comprehensively outclassed in pure tactics, corps command, and coordinated operations—a despair of knowing they were outmatched yet having no solution.
Across the entire left flank battlefield, the allied forces had deployed a staggering seven to eight hundred million