(Bonus chapter thanks to the tip from "Watching Myself Automatically Reincarnate in 40K.")
North of Iron Shield Star lay a vast icefield. At its coldest, temperatures here could reach minus eighty degrees Celsius, instantly freezing a person into an ice sculpture.
The people of Iron Shield Star generally lived in warmer regions and would not venture onto the Arctic ice cap without reason. For thousands of years, the entire Arctic icefield had remained uninhabited.
But after the White Shield Council and the Flower Shield Council went to war, both sides mobilized hundreds of millions of troops onto the battlefield. Their front lines grew increasingly entrenched, and neither side could defeat the other.
The noble officers began searching for a breakthrough, and the great Arctic icefield became a war zone.
One noble officer proposed that the Arctic icefield was frozen year-round, with normal temperatures remaining below minus forty degrees Celsius and extreme temperatures dropping below minus eighty.
For thousands of years, the Arctic region had been uninhabited. If they organized an elite force to bypass the frontal battlefield through the Arctic icefield, they could strike into the enemy's heartland from the north and inflict severe damage.
But other nobles objected. The Arctic icefield was too cold; large formations simply could not cross it. They would freeze to death!
And the coldest winter was about to arrive. The terrifying minus-eighty-degree temperatures would intermittently unleash Death Storms, freezing even tank gears together!
The noble who had proposed the Icefield Raid Plan told them that it was precisely because the Death Storms were coming and the Arctic icefield was entering its coldest period that the enemy would never expect their forces to cross the icefield for a surprise attack!
This noble needed every family to provide elite noble soldiers. Only an army composed of