Misunderstanding

On August 1, the day Army Group A broke through at Brandenburg, Army Group B was still waiting in the rear and reorganizing its lines.

Reinforcements were joining Army Group B one after another by train. Its strength, originally 300,000, had somehow grown by about 50,000.

Some officers in Army Group B had begun to question the situation.

"Isn't Army Group A—the one pushing forward along the front—the one that needs more troops right now? Why do they keep sending troops to our unit..."

That was only natural, because the monsters north of the defensive line were currently quite docile.

Everyone knew about the subdued state of the northern monsters, even without help from the Intelligence Department. For the past several years, the North had been touting the silence of the northern monsters as its own achievement.

From their standpoint, it was only natural to find it strange.

No matter how docile the monsters had become, they would surely rampage again if the defensive line grew weak. That much was certain... but did preventing that really require an army of 350,000?

In truth, if this had been a democracy, this might have become a problem.

At first glance, setting aside more troops as reserves than made up the main army looked like a foolish choice...