The Penguin Merchant Guild had now established its power. Even though any discerning person could see that it favored Beiyang, no one had yet concentrated their main firepower on it.
Even Guangying the Great, who hated the guild to the bone, temporarily chose to ignore it, intending to first use the regular armies of the two great powers to deal with Beiyang before slowly handling it.
And during this period, Beiyang's situation had indeed been extremely difficult. Even with Dragon Soul's assistance, they had been beaten back again and again.
Their early advantages had almost been entirely lost. In the span of a single month, they had suffered grievous losses in multiple Mission Spaces. Added together, the difference in battle losses was nearly enough to offset all the losses from the previous Sino-Japanese Alliance.
Caught between the regular armies of Mao Xiong and Japan, while dealing with all sorts of internal sabotage, Beiyang's decline had become apparent.
Especially after Beiyang suffered another crushing defeat yesterday, when Feng Guozhang—who had long been cultivating and accumulating strength in secret, preparing to break through to Elite—was successfully intercepted by the enemy and beaten into resurrection weakness.
That dealt Beiyang an unprecedented blow.
Without the Commander taking action, Feng Guozhang was absolutely among the Legion's strongest combatants, infinitely close to the level of an Elite Intruder!
It had been a close collaboration between several enemy Legions, who had set aside all their grudges and differences. Although Feng Guozhang had inflicted immense damage and losses upon them as well, once those losses were shared out, every side could bear them.
Beiyang's foundation had already been much weaker to begin with. They could not win a battle of pure attrition, and this time could absolutely be called a disastrous defeat.
In particular, the Japanese Kanto Legion