Third update today: Chapter 3147! 3/4!
The scales of war could not be judged solely by one's own casualties; the enemy's losses also had to be weighed.
The tally showed that in these three months of brutal fighting, the Huang Army had likewise paid the heaviest price since its founding!
On the front battlefield, as the Undead Legion had borne the brunt of the offensive while the two divisions led by Lin Jin and Lin Tu served as reserves, their casualties had been negligible.
However, the Huang Army on the left and right flanks, tasked with the main assault, had adopted costly frontal assault tactics in order to complete the strategic encirclement. Their losses were staggering: each flank had suffered over fifty million casualties, for a combined total exceeding one hundred million troops!
By this point, of the three hundred million Huang troops that had set out at the start of the war, more than a third had been lost in the successive fierce battles. Their strength had been gravely damaged.
Yet proportionally speaking, the allied forces had been reduced from their original three billion troops to only 1.2 billion, a casualty rate as high as sixty percent!
This was still a disproportionate, humiliating rout!
The Eight Wise Kings suppressed the pain tearing through their hearts and sent their divine sense toward the Mongoose Race battlefield command center, convening an emergency high-level military conference.
There was only one item on the agenda: after the Huang Race's sudden halt, how could they organize an effective defense against the inevitable next wave of attacks?
But this conference, upon which their survival depended, was perhaps destined never to reach a mature conclusion.
Before the allied commanders could determine why the Huang Race's three armies had chosen to retreat after joining forces with