Chapter 669: One Wild Lolita_1

The next plan, of course, was to press on vigorously, to see it through. The Death Desert was a natural military barrier that isolated the two sides, easy to defend but difficult to attack. With Takla's sweeping victory, the Empire was bound to send reinforcements. There was no way they could abandon the Death Desert. Once they increased their forces, it implied that the Empire's foundation would be further strained, coupled with the ongoing surprise attacks from the Sky Shadow on the central front, the Empire's soldiers probably couldn't hold out much longer. However, this was the situation without any support.

The Mardis defenders were mostly cannon fodder. During the initial dominance of the FCA Alliance, Saudi probably had already sensed that the Federation's likely strategic lure was not to launch a full attack, but to bait a bigger fish into a trapped fight. Therefore, he might have abandoned this semi-colonial planet from the very beginning.