Upon receiving their orders, the Reserve Force's three legions immediately set out for Stone Mountain City.
The Reserve Force, which had originally held eight legions, now had only its last two remaining.
By then, the East Sea Alliance had sent virtually every combat-ready mobile unit it could muster to Stone Mountain City and the rest of the defensive line. If that line fell, the alliance would have almost no troops left capable of fighting.
After all, the entire East Sea Alliance had only a dozen or so newly formed Second-Line Legions left. These legions had practically no fighting strength to speak of, much less the ability to withstand the Allied Army's offensive.
Expecting these newly formed legions to hold off the enemy was giving them far too much credit. Their soldiers had been serfs just a few months earlier and did not even have a full complement of weapons.
The arrival of the three reinforcing legions briefly improved the situation along Stone Mountain City's defenses. But as more and more Vela legions joined the offensive, the defenders began running short of manpower again.
During one fierce assault, a Vela legion even broke through and captured a small fortress at a crucial point in Stone Mountain City's outer defensive line.
Taking advantage of the captured fortress's proximity to Stone Mountain City, the Vela legion set up several catapults there and hurled stone projectiles and flowering shells into the city.
The fortress was tiny and could accommodate very few catapults, so the handful of projectiles they launched posed little threat to Stone Mountain City as a whole.
Nevertheless, the fact that enemy attacks could reach inside Stone Mountain City dealt a considerable blow to the defenders' morale.
During the first Battle of Stone Mountain City, even when the Raine Kingdom's army had