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Chapter 843: Chapter 461, it’s time to urge a bit. Chapter 843: Chapter 461, it’s time to urge a bit. Two years passed in a flash.

Everyone assumed that after the Fury Flame Battle Group had launched its near-total offensive, the war situation in the Dragonhawk Star Domain would undergo a comprehensive turnaround.

Even if the threat of the Iron-Tooth Clan could not be rapidly quelled, at the very least, the human military forces should have been able to launch a full-scale counterattack under the leadership of the Interstellar Warriors.

But reality was not as expected.

Certainly, the situation changed, from being overwhelmingly pushed back by the Green Skins, and at least managing to hold the line now.

However, the strength of the Iron-Tooth Clan still exceeded many people’s imaginations. When the Fury Flame Battle Group first arrived, they launched a few stunning offensive strikes that set the Green Skins back, but without killing Titus, the victories couldn’t be considered truly successful.

Hundreds of worlds in the entire Star Domain thus fell into a protracted war that lasted two years. The battlefront stretched long, with Interstellar Warriors, the reinvigorated Mingyang Sect, and the Star Domain Government constantly drafting new troops to fill their ranks… Everyone was fully committed to this war, yet the stalemate persisted unchanged.

Their greatest victory was nothing more than driving the Green Skins out of the Steel Fire Dragon Star Sector and winning the battle for Jindi Star.

However, to say it was a victory seemed less accurate than acknowledging that the Green Skins’ Chieftain had realized that, under the current circumstances, maintaining a heavy offensive was cost-ineffective, so he had proactively withdrawn.

Human forces, pursuing their retreating enemy, reclaimed several worlds along the way, their morale high, only to suffer a significant defeat at Eagle Cry Star in the Snow Eagle Star Sector. Even the Fury Flame Battle Group lost an entire squadron.

Eagle Cry Star thus became a focal battlefield again, but this time, it was the humans who took the offensive. The Green Skin Orcs on Eagle Cry Star were already equipped with numerous Anti-Orbit Cannons and did not fear being besieged by the fleet; the Green Skins’ war moons had also withdrawn early to Eagle Cry Star.

Whether in space combat or deploying ground troops, the struggle for Eagle Cry Star became fraught with difficulty.

On other fronts, from the Dragon Biter Sector to Thunder Dragon, then to Snow Eagle, and onto Curse Bone Star District, spanning four Star Sectors, the Beastmen stopped retreating, began to hold their ground, and attempted counterattacks.

Even with Interstellar Warriors as their core, the human military forces could not advance the frontline.

Kazimir Ersu, the Battle Group Leader of the Fury Flame Battle Group, was not in the best mood for a long time.

In his lengthy career, he and his Battle Group had faced enemies like the Green Skins before. But even he had to admit that the Iron-Tooth Clan was the most powerful Orc Clan he had ever encountered in his life.

He never admitted to being careless; when he decided to accept the call for help from the Dragonhawk Star Domain and came here to fight, he was fully prepared, bringing with him an entire Battle Group.

Although this was not the full force of the Fury Flame Battle Group, under normal circumstances, they would never deploy more than a thousand warriors at a single battlefield – that would be unreasonable.

This was not the Princess Star Domain, where they and the Iron Armor Battle Group could cover the sky with one hand in their old lair. They had to act with some discretion.

But as it turned out, the forces he committed were still insufficient.

After two years of war, the Fury Flame Battle Group had already lost more than three hundred combat brothers here.

For a typical Battle Group, losing 30% of its forces in just one war would be considered a heavy blow. Even if they were victorious immediately, replenishing the losses of more than 30% of their personnel would take a long Battle Group a long time.

Moreover, given the Empire’s current leaky state, with Interstellar Warrior Battle Groups serving as critical mobile forces, acting as the Empire’s most important stopgap craftsmen, how could ordinary Battle Groups have the luxury of taking their time to rest, replenish and equip, and then meet their next challenge at full strength?

Normally, before they even finish one battle, new requests for aid and new orders from the Imperial side fall on them like snowflakes. Sometimes they need to dispatch at least half a company, or even multiple companies, with a variety of ships to several different battlefields; other times, the entire Battle Group gets no respite, having to divide into several companies to face multiple fronts, or simply to launch a full-scale assault.

The Furyflame Battle Group isn’t in such a dire situation. If Erso wants, he could immediately transfer over three hundred men and replenish the Battle Group’s losses.

Mixing with the Iron Armor Battle Group, they, Furyflame, are also an overbirth Battle Group. Although they are not as large in scale as Iron Armor, their numbers have long exceeded the Empire’s stipulated one thousand. The only limit on their deployment of too much force at one time is the Empire’s regulations.

Now the problem is awkwardly looming.

Erso wants to end the war as soon as possible; he does not want the main force of the Battle Group to be dragged here for too long.

It’s been two years!

They carry the burden of expanding the influence of the triumvirate of Iron Armor, Furyflame, and Bedrock Shield in the Eastern Cosmos Domain. Their core strategy is to gain immense prestige through battle after battle and then, through the special political status as Interstellar Warriors, rally supporters in the region.

However, they have been mired in the Dragonhawk Star Domain for too long.

Although the prestige left behind after winning a difficult war is certainly greater, and it also facilitates the subsequent annexation of the entire Star Domain, they cannot truly empty their strength or spend too much time; otherwise, it would be a loss.

Erso is urgently wishing to end this war.

On one hand, using his own prestige, he has been able to directly call upon more fleets and Defense Armies from other Star Domains, even from the headquarters of the three Battle Groups under the Princess Star Domain of the Spiderweb Domain to the north of the Eastern Cosmos Domain, and he will be transferring two hundred ‘rookies’ to supplement the losses within the Battle Group.

But on the other hand, he himself is not sure whether such an escalation is enough to annihilate the Iron-Tooth Clan.

Thus, opening a second front, creating a significant breakthrough elsewhere to alter the current stalemate, which has been like a meat grinder on the frontlines for two years, has become a seriously considered option.

And within the Dragonhawk Star Domain, a suitable battlefield naturally exists—the Seven Horse Territory in the Eastern Star Domain.

If the ongoing Temir campaign can achieve a breakthrough, human forces could attack from the eastern front straight into the Green Skins’ lair, obliging Titus to rush back in defense.

It would at least greatly undermine the war potential of the Iron-Tooth Clan.

In the past, Erso also believed that the so-called Alliance, along with the remnants of the Phoenix mixed within, was simply too weak to make an impact.

But in these two years, as he understood more about the Alliance’s history of rise to power, as well as the recent mentions that the numbers of the Phoenix had even recovered to over five hundred, he realized he had been wrong.

They definitely have the strength to breach the Green Skins’ eastern defenses.

They were just not serious enough.

It looks like it’s time to urge them on.

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There’s another chapter tonight, but it will be late, striving to finish before dawn, suggested to read tomorrow!