The Formidable Card Master! (Bonus Chapter for Spring Autumn Cicada Sequence Alliance Leader)

Perhaps because England lay in the heartland of Britain.

Most of both sides' attention had been focused on Kim Bradley's Fourth Heavy Combined Brigade.

However.

Lieutenant Colonel Konev's 1st Heavy Combined Arms Brigade was also sweeping through Scotland like a tidal wave, battering the British forces there into retreat after retreat.

They clearly had only five thousand men.

Yet with the help of Star Initiation Tanks, Star Bear Tanks, Star Lion armored vehicles, Blaze Armed Helicopters, lightning fighters, and Blizzard bombers, they easily crushed tens of thousands of British troops and captured Glasgow all the way through.

Now, their eyes had turned toward Edinburgh.

That night.

Lieutenant Colonel Konev had originally intended to let the troops rest properly for the night.

Who would have thought that he would suddenly receive reports of a large-scale night raid launched from Edinburgh?

This greatly surprised Lieutenant Colonel Konev.

Hadn't the enemy's morale nearly collapsed?

And it was nighttime, too.

One had to know that most British soldiers did not have tactical goggles with night vision.

Those things were mainly issued to special forces.

So fighting a night battle against the Astral Legion, where everyone had a pair of tactical goggles, was practically suicide.

But Lieutenant Colonel Konev quickly learned the reason.

Yuri told him that two battalions stationed in Cumbernauld and Bellshill had been attacked by Vampire soldiers mixed in with the British troops.

He then said that Kim Bradley's Fourth Heavy Combined Brigade had encountered the same situation.

He suggested that Konev also use transport planes and drone swarms to deliver silver bullets to the battlefield as quickly as possible.

Lieutenant Colonel Konev did not hesitate after hearing this and immediately gave the order.

As a Soviet marshal known in "original history" as the "King of Offense."

He would not be too