From Tirsilis, Zhang Tie finally learned what had happened over the past few days. To sum it all up in one sentence: the entire Human defense line in Selnes had completely collapsed. The first clash between the Blakerson Human Corridor Allied Forces and the Devil Race legions—the Selnes Battle—had ended in the Human Allied Forces' total defeat.
The Human legions that had broken out from Moge City and Sladic City suffered a devastating blow from the Devil Race legion. Corpses lay everywhere, and the Human troops assigned to cover the rear were almost completely scattered. At the critical moment, the Human airship forces arrived to provide support, covering the ground troops' retreat. Although this spared the nearly one million Human troops who had broken out from being annihilated by the Devil Race legion, the remaining airship forces were ambushed by Winged Devils and suffered terrible losses. In the end, they had no choice but to flee south alongside the ground forces.
After this battle, the Human Allied Forces' air and ground troops in the Selnes War Zone had completely fallen apart. The Devil Race legions and nearly ten million demonized puppet troops swept south with unstoppable momentum, advancing a hundred li a day. They had already entered the northern Saipan Republic and, within days, had swept through two provinces in its north, breaching more than ten cities. The fall of the entire Saipan Republic was only a matter of time. At least, in Zhang Tie's eyes, among all the nations north of the Kare Mountains, he could no longer see a single one capable of resisting an army composed of nearly ten million demonized puppet troops and that Devil Race super legion.
This was what it meant when defeat came crashing down like a mountain.
Even if Zhang Tie were