Chapter 567: Chapter 332, Titan is completely done_3
This was a catastrophic loss.
Eleven Knight Titans, more than nine hundred Sentry Mechas, five hundred thousand troops either scattered, annihilated, or capturedâŠ
The kingdomâs army had gathered, the troops executing this all-out assault, could now be described as utterly destroyed!
For the Kingâs Council at the rear, it was as if the sky had fallen.
Had they ever anticipated a defeat?
Of course, they had.
In war, one always considers the possibility of losing and the problems of remedying the situation afterward.
But none of their preconceived scenarios of loss were as tragic as this.
At worst, they figured they might bite off more than they could chew against the Allianceâs defense line, to no avail;
The most dire outcome would have been a disgraced retreat under a counterattack by the Allianceâs armored forces and the Interstellar Warriors.
There could have been losses of some Knight Titans, there might have been significant damage.
But now? It was far beyond significant damage, this was a total collapse.
In the recent four months of the war, they had lost a whole million troops and almost all their Knight Titans.
Whatâs worse, they had lost their confidence in overcoming the Alliance.
They knew that this war would be difficult to wage.
But now, their mindset had changed.
Most of them now believed that this war could not be won.
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Crouched in a prisoner of war camp, Eureka Pambos still vividly remembered the state of the battle from just a few days ago.
He was the youngest son of the current King of Panbos, heralded as a âgeniusâ Knight, and the youngest Knight Titan pilot in the kingdom for nearly a century. In the royal succession prescribed by the King of Panbos, he was sixth in line.
But now, he could only squat here, just like all the othersâincluding the most ordinary soldiers he wouldnât have bothered to glance at beforeâgnawing on a hard-to-swallow block of synthetic starch with cold water, yet firmly forcing himself to swallow it lest he truly starve to death.
He felt the lump of the substance sticking in his throat.
He was no stranger to hardship, nor was he a pampered prince. From a young age, he knew that he would not inherit the throne under normal circumstances, so he aspired to join the military and gained his fatherâs approval. He endured hardship and toiled through the strictest training within the armed forces, leading to his current achievements.
But hunger was something he had indeed never experienced in his life.
He had always enjoyed ample nutrition for his training from an early age. No matter how exhausting the training, a lavish meal always followed.
However, within the Allianceâs POW camp, he experienced hunger.
It wasnât that the Alliance was deliberately mistreating prisoners, but that they had suddenly taken in too many prisoners, and there were problems with the food supply.
And to this, the Allianceâs response was even somewhat surprising to him.
âPolitical Officersâ from the Alliance would actually come to the POW camp and engage in ideological work with the prisoners, assuring them that the current difficulties were temporary and that the problems would soon be resolved. They asked everyone not to panic and even executed a few of the campâs management officers who were unfairly distributing food and skimming off the prisonersâ rationsâusually, these were officers from the Luman Kingdomâs or Kingdom of Stefanoâs auxiliary forces.
These actions elevated the Allianceâs political officers significantly in the eyes of the captives.
The prisoners listened as the political officers described life on the distant Rage Owl Star, talked about the Allianceâs policies, and discussed some of the changes that had occurred in the Luman Kingdom in the past yearâŠ
Prince Eureka discovered that the once restless and panicked prisoners, despite the food shortages, were miraculously settling down.
In the past, he would never have believed such a thing possible. But now, after seeing it happen right before his eyes, he became contemplative.
After the defeat and his capture, he always wondered why the seemingly powerful kingdomâs army still ended up losing.
Up to now, although he hadnât fully understood why, he had at least realized a part of it.
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