@Ey_man Reading it again, I THINK it's supposed to be a second battle, with the first one being an intentional loss to make the Empire overconfident and repeat their attack in the second battle. But it's so poorly paced and written that it's confusing as fuck.
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Cmon dont dare ignore his legendary wireless features!
His perfected wiring technique saving us mere mortals from the dangers of his mortal enemy
The decapitating headphone!
The fuck kinda ambush are they talking about ? So they were just waiting in the wheat fields ? Are the enemies that stupid ? This really doesn't make any sense.
I haven't read ahead but this seems like a very stereotypical war tactic they are using. They are allowing the enemy to push into their territory for the purpose of causing them to overextend, where they will then start a heavy spearhead and shatter the line, presumably for an encirclement. The commanders at the front are left in the dark on purpose to prevent mutiny. Or they are just dumb, or the author doesn't know any military tactics.