The straight-line distance through the air from Anvil Pass to Mountain Pass on the northern front of the Far Eastern Lands was three thousand li.
The Far East Army's 1056th Mixed Legion had finished assembling ten days earlier and boarded a colossal transport ferry capable of carrying a million people.
Naturally, these enormous transport ferries, manufactured locally in the Far Eastern Lands, were not particularly fast.
Even covering a distance of three thousand li took two days.
For short-range transport along the front, however, that speed was just right.
Huang Cheng sat inside the ferry's deckhouse.
His room was entirely private.
Aside from a desk in the middle and official documents piled into a small mountain, there was nothing else inside.
Huang Cheng's expression was deeply grave.
The thick booklet he held was a battle report addressed to Dao-Suppressing Pass, written during the withdrawal by the Marshal Headquarters of the Far East Army's 794th Mixed Legion, which had just pulled back from the front.
Dao-Suppressing Pass had made a copy of the report and sent it to Huang Cheng.
The situation was dire.
Unlike the 1056th Legion under Huang Cheng, which was divided into six field armies totaling forty-eight battalions, the 794th Legion was organized differently.
Over the past twenty years, the 794th Legion had gone to the front three times and undergone several rounds of restructuring and reorganization during large-scale operations.
At its peak, the legion had numbered over 2.1 million troops, with eleven field armies divided into eighty-three battalions.
It had been the size of two mixed legions.
Yet according to the battle report-
When the 794th Legion withdrew, only 670,000 troops remained in the entire legion.
It had also undergone several rounds of restructuring and reorganization during this deployment.
Otherwise, with casualties like these, its morale should