When the NATO forces, the Iraqi Government troops, the Kurdish Militia, and even the volunteer soldiers from Iran all formed a joint force...
Qiao, the man responsible for twisting everyone's arms into one rope, provided the most critical air support.
At this point, even if ISIS could summon Allah himself, the situation was irreversible.
The Art of War says to besiege an enemy force ten times its size!
Now, ISIS was barely clinging to life with just a few thousand men, while nearly a hundred thousand troops had gathered around Mosul.
Of course, among this hundred thousand, many were there just to make up the numbers, such as the nearly 20,000 logistics personnel recruited on the spot by P·B to maintain humanitarian corridors and provide services to other troops, also counted among them.
But this was terrifying nonetheless!