When Zhang Tie returned to Moge City, he immediately felt the tense, bleak atmosphere hanging over it. Outside the city, the Human Allied Forces' defensive lines and fortifications were crammed with battered remnants of troops and human soldiers in filthy uniforms. Many armored vehicles and tanks that had broken down had simply been abandoned in the wilderness. Those whose turrets and boilers could still operate had been buried in large pits, with only their turrets left exposed, turned into small fixed gun emplacements.
Only now did Zhang Tie learn that of the three cities under human control in the Selnes War Zone, Wolf City had fallen two months ago. The Human Allied Forces now controlled only Moge City and Sladic, and even the ground route between those two cities had been cut off by the demonized puppet legions.
Over the past two months, the Human Allied Forces had been trying to reopen the connection between Moge City and Sladic. At this point, the remaining Allied armored units had become the main force against the demonized puppet corps. The Iron Plow Legion's 107th Heavy Armored Regiment had run out of fuel and supplies during its latest operation, leaving the entire regiment stranded. Their commander had no choice but to lead all the regiment's soldiers out of their armored vehicles and retreat toward Moge City on foot. Unexpectedly, they had been caught halfway by a group of demonized puppets and nearly wiped out. When armored units found themselves in such a situation, they could either stay sealed inside their vehicles and wait for rescue, or flee on foot. But Selnes was becoming increasingly perilous, with more and more demonized puppets roaming outside the cities. For an armored regiment trapped in the wilderness, that so-called rescue might never come. And even if it