Eight thousand down.
Eighteen thousand to go.
Close to zero casualties.
Let me pause here for a moment and try to help you guys process the absurdity of the number.
The first thing you need to understand is that these mechas are god damn freaking huge bodies of high tech metallium.
Eight thousand mechas is a HUGE number. Eight thousand ducklings, not so much.
Eight thousand mechas, even practice mechas, if marched into any third tier country, would be strong enough to occupy that country, overthrow their government and set up a new regime.
It wasn't a cute spelling bee Sheera Lin just aced.
She just took down a MASSIVE military force!
The next thing which I must emphasize is that she did it with a much more inferior force.
Inferior in number, obviously, she did it with only four thousand.
But also very markedly inferior quality.
As much as we were the generation of dragons and phoenixes, we were still very young then. We were still cute little lizards and chicken.