I like that the action in this volume is all about the greater tactics of the war and how units move, with our point of view coming from characters within the army struggling to survive. You see their desperation, the losses, the bloodshed... how desperate they are. This volume has a lot of action but rather than having an exciting fight with complex sword movements, it's this bigger picture of masses of people moving and killing and dying. Shin is exceptional and does main character things, but despite turning the tides of several battles it doesn't feel like he's winning this on his own- the strategists moving everyone, the sheer numbers of soldiers required to follow through, Shin does a lot (almost unbelievably so) but rather than focusing purely on his heroics the mangaka wants you to see how Shin's actions affect the overall battle strategy of the entire army.