Front line.
The so-called front line is where opposing sides confront each other, but between the Sanitation Worker and the main forces of the Solar System, there's at least a 50-kilometer gap, a distance beyond the maximum range of both sides' artillery.
Scattered small forward observation posts or reconnaissance team locations are interspersed like interlocking teeth. Both sides not only need to determine the location of the other's main forces but also prevent infiltration by the other's reconnaissance teams. Without military camps or fixed outposts to rely on, the frequency of skirmishes has once again become extremely high.
The position Gao Yuan and his group reached was still over twenty kilometers from Malakal City, to the direct east of the city, while the Sanitation Worker's main forces were roughly thirty kilometers to the south of Malakal, their exact position unknown.
