While the battle at Mayi Imperial City raged, massive, brutal battles of siege and defense also erupted at Jinyang, Wuzhong, Lingdai, and Guangyang, the four imperial cities in the northern Great Huan Celestial Dynasty.
Like Mayi Imperial City, each of the four imperial cities sent more than a million elite cavalry out on surprise raids to shatter the main formations of the Great Wei Allied Forces and crush their morale and fighting spirit. Unlike Mayi, however, none had a War God as formidable as the Spring-and-Autumn War King, Lü Fengxian. Naturally, they could not kill the commanders of the various enemy armies, so the impact was limited.
Across the five imperial-city battlefields, casualties on both sides already numbered in the tens of millions during the opening clashes alone. The Great Huan Celestial Dynasty enjoyed the advantages of terrain and fortified defenses, however, and its casualty rate was much lower. Each of the five armies of the Great Wei Allied Forces suffered more than a hundred million casualties, leaving mountains of corpses and blood-soaked earth in the aftermath.
Still, tens of millions of casualties had a considerable impact on the five imperial cities, accounting for a substantial proportion of their forces. For the five armies of the Great Wei Allied Forces, losses exceeding a hundred million had far less impact and remained affordable. This was the greatest disparity between the two sides, making victory or defeat truly difficult to predict!
What puzzled and astonished the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty and countless other powers was that, although the various national regions and alliances had launched a massive surprise invasion, only the Guangxi Region battle and the battles of the five cities had erupted. Their scale was unprecedented, yet no further battles of extraordinary magnitude followed. The Indian Demon Army encamped a thousand