The entire Selnes Plains region along the border between the northern Saipan Republic and the Titanic Duchy still had three cities under human control: Mog, Wolf, and Sladic. Arranged in a concave line from west to east, these three cities formed a defensive line over five hundred kilometers long on the southern edge of the Selnes Plains, holding back the Devil Race.
At this moment, the human forces gathered in and around those three cities had surpassed ten corps, totaling more than five million men. The logistics corps serving those five million troops numbered twice as many. And beyond that, vast numbers of troops arrived from the rear every day to join the war.
To the north of the Selnes Plains, the powerful Devil Race legions and forces made up of demonized puppets had also surpassed three million. The Devil Race's strength continued to accumulate.
At this moment, the eyes of the entire Blakerson Human Corridor were fixed on the Selnes Plains. Three years after the Holy War began, this was the first large-scale pitched battle between the human armies and the Devil Race.
By the time Zhang Tie and the others reached Mog City, it had already become a city of soldiers. The war airships crisscrossing the skies were as numerous as carp crossing a river, while from the city outskirts onward, every person Zhang Tie saw wore only one kind of clothing—military uniforms. Other than the men who had remained to fight, all the city's women and children had been evacuated four months earlier.
All kinds of military supplies were piled high as mountains on Mog's railway platforms. To meet the needs of war, every building around the entire station had been razed flat.
Armored vehicles and tanks, their engines restarted, slowly drove down from the train carriages