Victory!
However, with support from outside forces, the Rakhine Armed Forces, KQ Armed Forces, and QM Armed Forces now had excellent equipment and formidable firepower. They quickly drove back the Delin Armed Forces' vanguard.
Fortunately, when the Rakhine Armed Forces and KQ Armed Forces seized the opportunity to counterattack, they were cautious for fear of an ambush. Even so, they still fell under the watch of the Delin Armed Forces' artificial intelligence.
As a result, the coalition's counteroffensive went badly. They were ambushed repeatedly along the way whenever they let their guard down, suffering heavy losses and losing the ability to attack.
By then, the forces the Delin Armed Forces had sent to the front had also suffered heavy losses and had nearly lost their ability to attack. Fortunately, the fortifications built behind them were finally ready for use.
Thanks to their many armored vehicles, the coalition's reinforcements arrived very quickly. But when they got there, they ran into a large number of fortifications, making their advance extremely difficult. The fighting once again bogged down in the stalemate Wang Yue had planned for.
The two sides traded fire along that long mountain front for more than three months. The combined RK Armed Forces, KQ Armed Forces, and QM Armed Forces lost tens of thousands of men, yet still couldn't break through the defenses of Delin Region.
By then, the Delin Armed Forces under Wang Yue's command had lost twenty to thirty thousand troops as well. Most of those losses, however, came from the trusted forces of the armed-group leaders who had defected to Wang Yue.
At the start of the war, while those surrendered commanders were away on the island, Wang Yue had held back more than half of their trusted troops and assigned them to defensive sectors. Inevitably, their