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Unaware that they had narrowly escaped death, Colonel Han Li and Tu Yuan were having a meeting with other members at the Base 5 war zone, with Ji Xinghe, located in the western war zone, also online.
The conflict in the western war zone had begun, but it was still at the stage of artillery exchanges, so Ji Xinghe didn't need to join the battle.
Since Yi Nan's order was issued, it had taken only three and a half hours for the Empire's three major army groups in the western war zone to advance over a hundred and eighty kilometers, nearing the 1844 outpost defensive line.
The low gravity environment on the Alien Planet enabled the physically stronger Apes to achieve higher marching speeds. Sixty kilometers per hour was not the limit for their infantry.
In comparison, the Federation's infantry could only reach a maximum speed of thirty kilometers per hour on the Alien Planet, three times their speed on Azure Star.