Yang Xiyi's fleet, of course, couldn't receive real-time updates from every front at any moment the way the forces back home could.
They also had no idea that the long-prepared Ring of Miracles land campaign was about to begin.
At that moment, Yang's fleet was still being forced to play hide-and-seek. They could hold out for quite a while yet. The defenders at Yaochi were still holding their ground, Yu Lian's fleet back in the Milky Way was still facing off against the Imperial main fleet in the Far Shore Nebula, Bonaparte's fleet had returned to the Southern Heavenly Gate, and the delegation led by President Nishita had just reached the midpoint of the Grand Ocean Route. They were planning to rest for a day and a night in Sunny City, where spring lasted all year.
All they knew was that the Empire was concentrating several times their numbers under the command of the renowned General Orosa, preparing to launch an all-out assault on the Ring of Miracles.
What they didn't know was that, by November 20, the Empire had already deployed twenty-six divisions across several continental plates of the Ring of Miracles. Its total force was now six times that of the Commonwealth defenders.
To keep these troops combat-ready, Marshal Farrell, who had replaced Queen Brunhilde as commander of the New Continent Theater, had mobilized large numbers of auxiliary troops and even the Empire's main fleet to keep the supply routes open.
Yang's fleet had played hide-and-seek while fighting its way through a New Continent version of "Ten Sweeps, Ten Victories," destroying or capturing more than a tenth of the Imperial military supplies. More than twenty thousand Imperial marines had also turned to interstellar dust along with the troop transports destroyed beneath them.
Even so, six hundred thousand troops