Chapter 793: The Danna Civil War is underway
In October of the 14th year of the reign of Qiansheng, Lin Ziran once again convened a conference on the development of emerging industries, at which Lin Ziran once again emphasized the importance of the development of emerging industries, and asked all departments of the cabinet and the local yamen of all prefectures and counties to attach great importance to the development of emerging industries.
Focus on the development of electric power applications, internal combustion engine applications and other fields.
Continue to increase investment in basic materials, processing and other fields.
In order to provide impetus for the development of the empire as a whole.
With Lin Ziran already officially speaking, the institutions of the Daheng Empire are naturally more concerned about the development of emerging high-tech industries.
Affected by the attention of high-level officials, large enterprises under the major national capital management commissions have successively increased their investment in research and development, and some large private enterprises have also followed up in a timely manner and increased investment in emerging fields.
And just when the Daheng Empire continued to bury its head in development and climb the tree of technology, the civil war in the Kingdom of Dynaudio was becoming more and more intense.
In April of the 14th year of the reign of Qiansheng, a large-scale riot broke out in the Kingdom of Tanna, and after entering a state of civil war in May, the two sides of the civil war between June and July were already at war.
However, the battles during this period were mainly small-scale battles, because the army led by Prince Zhou Yaping was still too small, and the backbone at the beginning was only a few thousand people, plus about 10,000 troops who took refuge in one after another, and the total strength was only more than 10,000 people.
At that time, the army under the command of King Zhou Qi reached more than 100,000 people, occupying an absolute advantage in terms of strength.
Therefore, in the first two months, under the advice of military advisers, Prince Zhou Yaping adopted the use of the northern mountains and rainforest areas for defensive operations, avoiding large-scale battles and focusing on small-scale attacks.
Therefore, before July, most of the battles between the two sides revolved around attacks and counter-attacks, and although the royal army in the south had a large number of troops and successfully moved north to control several major cities in the north, it was not able to eliminate the main force of the prince's army in the north.
On the contrary, taking advantage of this period of time, the strength of the prince's army continued to swell, and they recruited a large number of militias and rebelled against many royal army troops.
In August alone, more than 5,000 people in the royal army rebelled and joined the battle sequence of the prince's army.
This directly led to a considerable number of troops in the royal army, which had become unreliable for Zhou Qi.
Therefore, don't look at Zhou Qi's more than 100,000 troops, but what really reassures him is that there are only 30,000 or 50,000 troops, and the remaining more than 100,000 people have to worry about their rebellion.
In response to this situation, King Zhou Qi was also a ruthless man, he directly recruited new immigrants from the Orissa Empire to form a new army, and in just a few months, two brand new divisions were formed.
It was not until September that the military forces of the two sides were almost integrated, and the first battle of more than 10,000 people officially broke out.
The two sides fought a brutal offensive and defensive battle around Kalia, a major coastal town in the northern part of the Kingdom of Tannar.
Kalia is located on the coast of the Endless Sea, and the Kalia Plain, where the city is located, is also the only small plain suitable for cultivation in the northern region of the Kingdom of Tanna, with complex terrain to the west, and Ningyu Prefecture of the Great Heng Empire about eighty kilometers to the north.
And a considerable part of the assistance of the Great Heng Empire to the Northern Army was transported directly from the port of the Great Heng Empire to the port of Kalia by sea.
This is also the reason why the Southern Army gathered a large number of troops to capture the port of Kalia.
Although the capture of the port of Kalia did not completely cut off the military aid and supply channels of the Great Heng Empire to the northern army, it was also able to force their material transportation channels from cheap and convenient sea to land.
At the same time, although the population of Kalia itself is not large, only about 100,000 people, but the narrow coastal area around and north of Kalia, all the way to Ningyu Prefecture, which is about 100 kilometers long and only about 20 kilometers wide, is a very small number of suitable places to live in the terrain of dense forests and mountains in the north and south of the Kingdom of Tanna, and the total population in this area has reached more than 800,000.
And the people in this place are basically inclined to the Daheng Empire, and they also support the prince's army.
Because this place is close to Ningyu Prefecture of the Great Heng Empire, the continuity with the Great Heng Empire is traditionally very frequent, and the local Danna people are actually the Daheng people with relatively pure blood, unlike the southern coastal areas, the contemporary Danna people are very typical mixed descendants of the Daheng and Olissa.
Whether it is by blood or culture, the northern regions of the Kingdom of Dynaudio are closer to the Great Heng Empire, and they are more emotionally inclined to the Great Heng people.
Well, in fact, even the economy is more dependent on Daheng, especially in the past ten years, the Daheng Empire has developed rapidly, and the Kalia region of the Danna Kingdom, which is located on the edge of Ningyu Prefecture of the Daheng Empire, has also gained a lot of benefits and driven the local economic development.
In terms of feelings and interests, it is closely related to Daheng, and this place has naturally become a natural supporter of the prince's army.
When Prince Zhou Yaping stood up and led thousands of soldiers back to the Kingdom of Denah, the local defenders of Kalia did not hesitate to declare their allegiance to Prince Zhou Yaping.
With such a heavy place, it is naturally impossible for the Zhou Qi royal army in the south not to see it, and they began to plan an attack on the Kalia region a few months ago.
In September, about 20,000 people from the south entered the area, and the composition of the 20,000 southern army was also relatively special, not the army of the Kingdom of Tannar in the traditional sense, but the descendants of Zhou Qi.
In the past few months, the Royal Army has continued to mutiniate in formations, and even defected directly on the battlefield, which made Zhou Qi wary of the Kingdom's standing army, so in the past few months, in fact, many Royal Army has been disarmed in the name of training, moving defense, etc., and arranged to go to inconsequential places.
At the same time, Zhou Qi vigorously armed a number of his own descendant troops, and built a new army with new Olisa immigrants as the main body, when the integration was completed and the problem of rear stability was solved, Zhou Qi couldn't wait to send the descendant troops north to kill the Kalia area.
When the 20,000 Southern Army came over, the Northern Army also completed the integration at this time, reorganizing six brigade units, with a total strength of more than 30,000 people, all of which were equipped with the same Daheng standard.
Two of the brigades of more than 10,000 men were stationed in Kalia!
Large-scale battles broke out between the two sides, in which both sides used a lot of field artillery, rapid guns, machine guns and other weapons.
The fighting, which began in September and lasted more than two months, was marked by several troop build-ups and supplies from both sides.
In November of the 14th year of Qiansheng, the Southern Army took the initiative to retreat and announced the end of the Battle of Kalia.
The Northern Army won the battle, securing the Kalia region and consolidating its control.