The Battle That Shocked Lynn, Louis, Leon, Yuffie, and Every Other Clever Person in the World
It could be said that this was a battle that would go down in the history of this world.
It had shocked everyone.
Even the defenders who had inflicted those casualties couldn't believe it. They thought the other side was slandering them.
They assumed it was an attempt to spread fear and keep pushing the narrative that the free nations were a threat.
Yes, that really was what the people of Olesian thought.
Lynn, sitting on a train bound for the Imperial battlefield, thought so too.
His military knowledge had been challenged.
If they'd said sixty thousand or eighty thousand had been lost, he, Lynn, would have accepted it.
It wasn't as if they'd gone to fight African natives.
Come on, this is a feudal, end-of-the-world society with magic and Battle Qi!
It wasn't the Middle Ages!
It was the end of the world!
A single arrow could pin a man to a wall.
Anyone above the sixth rank could basically dodge bullets and cut them out of the air. They just couldn't handle crossfire—or bullets coming from every direction.
They could throw up trenches and bunkers in no time.
They could even build skyscrapers from the ground up.
The only thing Lynn could take comfort in was this:
In Blue Star's history, you had to dig trenches to advance on a star fort.
And in the East back then, whether under the Qing or the Ming, all they could do was lay siege to cities.
His opponent hadn't dug trenches. His opponent hadn't dug trenches.
That was how he convinced himself.
But then he remembered how quickly the Imperial Army had evolved.
And back when he'd fought with his old man, his father's troops had adapted quickly too!
The Kingdom of Ivrea might have been more incompetent and slower