The Kingdom Army had won a great victory in the center. Now, if it could find a way to drive back the enemy armies on the other three fronts, final victory would be within reach.
Marquis Stanley, however, felt there was no need to keep fighting. They could no longer afford to waste time here.
The reason Marquis Stanley had kept his troops blocking this valley was that it lay at the very forefront of the Raine Kingdom's occupied territory.
With the Kingdom Army holding this position, the Raine Kingdom's armies on the other three fronts faced far less pressure in their key defensive areas, while the Central City-State Coalition's forces dared not launch an all-out assault.
Now that the Kingdom Army had defeated the enemy on this front, the Central City-State Coalition's armies on the other three fronts would no longer dare attack without restraint, even if they did not withdraw. They would certainly pull back into tighter formations, fearing that the Raine Kingdom's army in the center might cut off their retreat and supply lines.
For an army numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the importance of its supply lines could hardly be overstated.
This response also gave the kingdom an opportunity to negotiate an armistice with the Central City-State Coalition. Moreover, Victor and Marquis Stanley held an undeniable trump card: the Grand Duke of Berlay's own uncle. The Berlay State would surely accept an armistice.
The Berlay State favored controlling the Central City-State Coalition through marriage alliances. Every member of its direct lineage was immensely important, and none could be lost.
The reason the Berlay State had been able to annex so many countries in the southern part of the Central City-State Coalition, expanding its territory to five hundred thousand square kilometers, was simple.
The bloodlines of