"There were bombers filling the sky. Their army hadn't entered the city at all—they had surrounded us."
"Then the bombers bombed the city where we were hiding indiscriminately, and after that came the incendiary bombs..."
There was fear in the soldier's eyes. Even though he had once been a fervent army man, when he recalled that day, he was no different from an ordinary person.
"I don't know how many bombs they dropped, nor how many incendiary bombs they used. The entire city turned into ruins, and they even set the ruins on fire."
"Breathing was difficult because the white smoke was so choking. From my nose to my lungs, it felt as though knives were scraping through me."
"We tried to break out, but we failed."
"They never cared whether we occupied the city, because they had never intended to fight us in a street battle from the very beginning."
"While we risked our lives to clear the buildings one by one, they simply destroyed the entire city!"
The officer still remembered those words. Because of them, he had felt the Federation's wealth—and the fear that wealth brought him.
When you thought your enemy would fight you according to your expectations, they simply flipped the table over.
Greater firepower, more advanced military equipment, and a more terrifying ability to learn.
They learned in battle.
From being beaten into the ground at the beginning, to beginning to defend and counterattack, and finally launching a full-scale counteroffensive—the Federation people learned far too quickly! He later lost contact with that soldier, but everything the soldier had said remained deeply etched in his mind.
It took him a long while to recover. Then he answered in an uncertain tone, "We'll win."
Perhaps he felt that wasn't convincing enough for the soldiers. He immediately