While Sui Xiong was concentrating on studying the small underworld, the preparations for the war on both sides of the main plane were gradually coming to an end.
Humanity has assembled an army of more than one million, all of them are young and strong men, each of them is fully armed, and they have also carried out high-intensity training according to the methods of the new army. These people have good foundation and good equipment. As long as they train for a period of time, they can become excellent and powerful troops.
This million-strong army is not the ordinary kind of parallel imports that mainly rely on militiamen to make up the numbers. They are actually soldiers. In order to serve them and provide logistical support, all human countries in the main plane have launched full mobilization, and all kinds of supplies have been exhausted. Save as much as possible, turn it into various things that are useful in the war, and send them to the front line in a steady stream.
To fully deploy an army of one million people, an extremely large battlefield is naturally needed. There are not many such battlefields. The only suitable one is located in the northeast of the main plane, on the border between the Orc Empire and the Kingdom of Glory.
The border between the Orc Empire and the Kingdom of Glory is a vast wilderness. There are no famous mountains or rivers in this land, and it is almost completely undefended. But since humans established their country here, they have continued to build fortresses and outposts on the border, building strong city walls. Outposts, fortresses, and city walls are stacked on top of each other, eventually forming a huge defense system. .
Compared with the Great Wall on Earth, this defense line built entirely on plains and hills is much more complex and has many more soldiers stationed there. In order to provide it with support and supplies, countless villages are dotted on the east side of the defense line, home to at least more than two million people. The continuous support from various human countries has made this defense line impregnable, so that even if the orcs usually want to attack humans, they would rather attack the Eagle Kingdom, which has a more dangerous terrain.
For the orcs, the dangerous terrain can be conquered with courage and force, but the huge line of defense formed by united people is a real chasm that is more difficult to break through than any natural danger.
The principle that the country is not in danger but the people is well proved here.
Also similar to the Great Wall, the areas controlled by humans and orcs are not demarcated by this line of defense. In fact, the area about two to three hundred miles west of the defense line is a human-controlled area. Humanity has established many outposts and towns here. In peacetime, these outposts and towns serve as trading ports for both sides, and in wartime, they serve as frontiers for testing and small-scale battles.
Humanity's millions of troops are now living in these forward positions.
The orc army has not yet been assembled.
This is not to say that the mobilization ability of the Orc Empire is not good, but that they have insufficient supplies and cannot imitate humans who station millions of troops in the battlefield and eat free food every day except for training.
Although the orc gods can provide a lot of food for the orcs, it is really impossible to supply an army of millions for full-time training.
The Lord of Order does not allow the gods to interfere too much in the human world. They directly seek food from other worlds to supply millions of troops... This has exceeded the limit allowed by Him.
Therefore, the orc army can only be scattered in the eastern part of the prairie, grazing and farming while waiting for the war to come.
The gap in national power and civilization is reflected from this.
If no accident occurred, no one believed that the orcs could win.
On one side are millions of soldiers who are carefully selected, well-armed, and well-trained; on the other side are a million-strong "army" that is half-farmer, half-trained, self-raised and equipped, good and bad. More than one scholar who studies the history of war has judged this: Once the two sides start a head-on battle, there is a high possibility that the orc army will be completely defeated in the first wave of confrontation.
Of course, these scholars have one thing in common—they are human beings.
The orcs naturally don't see it that way. They firmly believe that they are powerful and despise those weak humans. The long-term record of winning more than losing against humans has given them full confidence. This time the Orc Empire's true full-scale mobilization has given them a good chance of winning.
Even in the battle of "The Day the Sun Dies", the Orc Empire did not actually mobilize so many soldiers. But this time, they gathered almost all the troops that could fight.
Not only that, there are also soldiers from other races in their military camps, such as reinforcements from dwarves and elves, reinforcements from the Great Swamp, and some troops from small tribes such as dwarfs.
And...their reinforcements are far more than that.
Humans are trying to completely defeat the orcs and become the absolute overlord of the main plane. This incident harms not only the interests of the orcs, but also the orcs are not the only ones who are willing to stand up and become enemies of humans.
If Mencius had come here and seen the orcs' military camp, he might have sighed, "If you have good moral principles, you will get a lot of help, but if you don't have good moral principles, you will get very little help."
... Although even "multi-assist" cannot change the balance of power between the two sides.
The top leaders of the orcs and human armies have not been idle during this period. They all understand that what can really determine the outcome of the war is not the millions of troops under their command, but the groups of experts on both sides.
Legendary strong men from all races have gathered on the prairie. There are more than a hundred of them. Under the supervision of the orc demigod strong men, they are training and improving every day, striving to be more powerful when the real battle begins. Go to the next level, or at least make yourself better.
The legendary strong men on the human side have also gathered together, and they are also seizing the last peaceful time and training hard.
As for the higher-level figures, both sides have not mobilized on a large scale yet, but everyone understands that when the two armies confront each other and the sound of killing is loud, those demigods who transcend time will definitely end up. This war is doomed. It will be extremely intense and cruel.
Time passes day by day, and the New Year slowly arrives.
This New Year was not a happy one for everyone.
Both humans and orcs are making final preparations for the upcoming war, wishing that one day could be used as two days. Even the neutral Northwest Republic had a gloomy atmosphere due to the war, and even the number of participants in the New Year celebrations was much reduced.
At this moment, the streets of Void City even have a somewhat deserted feeling.
But this situation did not last long. On the tenth day of the New Year, the armies of both sides finally moved.
From the sky, it looked like two huge shadows, slowly approaching.
At the same time, two groups of extremely violent auras burst out from a valley deep in the prairie and from the highest peak of the Duanyun Mountain Range.
Those were the powerful demigods from both camps who had been hiding for many years.
At the moment when the war began, they came out of the mountain in unison.