Up until now, facing the reported losses, Marshal Xi Rui no longer feels heartache—he has become numb.
The total losses over eighteen days are estimated to be over ten million. On the ground, the main force fighting is no longer the remnants of the North Line, but has been replaced by the Alliance Army.
This isn't because Xi Rui is deliberately preserving forces, but because the remnants of the North Line have been hit even harder. On the sixth day of the ground war reaching a fever pitch, the North Line's million ground troops had already lost over forty percent. Without the large-scale intervention of the Alliance Army, let alone maintaining the offensive, they would likely have been completely annihilated.
