"We aim for a quick victory," but the battles on the Alliance's Western Front still dragged on for half a year.
By the time nearly a month had elapsed, the following seven hundred thousand Star Realm Army troops had already arrived at the frontline.
In total, the Alliance Army's one million three hundred thousand troops could be described as advancing irresistibly in the five months that followed, yet they were briefly suppressed by the Mechanical Legion of Blackbird Heavy Industries in some engagements.
This side fact highlighted how absurd Cai Minjin's original plan of achieving results in three weeks, wrapping up the fight in six weeks, and heading back to the Fatches Star System for the New Year was.
If you asked Yan Fangxu about the root cause, he believed it was the combat effectiveness of the Dragonhawk Third Legion's Star Realm Army not meeting expectations.