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The beast race was heading south!
In the winter of the 96th century, the million strong beastmen army approached Holy Dragon City and launched a century-long war between the Holy Dragon Empire and the Holy Union.
The war had begun!
The beast race had first launched an attack on the satellite cities surrounding Holy Dragon City. The ones involved in this kind of battle were all members of the saint rank or lower — the two sides had a tacit understanding not to let experts of saint rank or above participate in this small scale confrontation.
Although it was a small scale, it was still relatively small. There were at least 50 to 60 cities within the boundaries of Holy Dragon City. There were only a few thousands of beastmen army attacking these cities, but most of them were only a few tens of thousands of people. This kind of battle did not require the participation of a Saint level expert. This kind of battle tested the combat strength of the army and the commanding ability of the commanders.
In this war, the Holy Dragon Empire had produced countless outstanding generals. Many low-level officers and even soldiers had been promoted because of their outstanding performance in the battle, but many generals of the Holy Dragon Empire had also fallen. After more than a month of fighting, the Beastmen army had taken over more than 90% of the cities surrounding Holy Dragon City due to the overwhelming air strength of the Beastmen army.
After a month of intense fighting, the Beastmen had destroyed over three hundred thousand soldiers of the Holy Dragon Empire, and the losses of the Beastmen were close to a hundred thousand.
This was a huge battle of attrition!
After stabilizing the surroundings of Holy Dragon City, the million strong beastmen began to surround Holy Dragon City — almost a million beastmen had surrounded the armies of the human Holy Union and the Holy Dragon Empire in Holy Dragon City, with over 1.2 million soldiers. The human army was larger than the beastmen army, but everyone knew that if there were Saint level experts on both sides, then if they were to go out of the city to fight, then the army of over 1.2 million would definitely not be a match for the 900,000 beastmen army! This was because among the 900,000 strong army, the Beastmen Tribes occupied the vast majority of the army, and the number of upper echelons and powerful races together exceeded a hundred thousand!
The only hope humans had was to rely on the perfect defense system of Holy Dragon City. In fact, humans had done the same thing.
After a month of battle in Holy Dragon City, which also meant that after the beastmen army had completed their encirclement, the seven hundred thousand soldiers of the empire and the six hundred thousand soldiers of the Eighteen Northern Duchies all entered the borders of the Holy Dragon Empire at the same time. It would take at most twenty days for one million and three hundred thousand soldiers to reach the Holy Dragon City!
This was undoubtedly good news for the Holy Dragon Empire, but for the Beast Race, it was an ultimatum: If the Beast Race could not take down Holy Dragon City within twenty days, they would be surrounded by over two million humans. At that time, even the strongest Beast Race could only face destruction.
However, if the Beastmen race managed to take over Holy Dragon City before the reinforcements from the Pyrrhus Empire and the Eighteen Northern Duchies arrived, then the Beastmen race could gain the initiative to fight this war. At that time, the Beastmen army could rely on the defense system of the Holy Dragon City to defend the allied armies of the Empire and the Eighteen Northern Duchies and wait for the arrival of the Beastmen reinforcements from the north.