As the eldest grandson of the previous king of the Kingdom of Tanna, Prince Zhou Yaping was forced to leave the Kingdom of Tanna at a young age and went into exile in the Daheng Empire.

But Prince Zhou Yaping, who was forced to go into exile as a teenager, has no less love for the Kingdom of Dana in his heart, and over the years, he has watched the Kingdom of Tanna arm more than 100,000 troops with the national strength of the country of projectiles with the support and coercion of the Olissa.

With such an army, it seems that an army equipped with advanced rear-loading guns is extremely large, but the huge cost of such an army is not at all what the Kingdom of Dynaudio can support.

The Kingdom of Dynaudio does not have any abundant mineral resources, and even arable land is only in the northern East Coast Plain and part of the coastal zone in the south.

The population of the entire Kingdom of Tannar is only six or seven million, and the economy is very backward, not to mention industrialization, even if you want to eat enough, it is not easy.

How is it possible for such a country to maintain an army of more than 100,000 people with advanced weapons?

If it is to be maintained, then it is to exploit more of the hard-earned money of the people of Tannar, and even the rations of the people.

Before the coup d'état of the Kingdom of Dynaudio more than ten years ago, although the Kingdom of Dynaudio was also poor, it could barely get by, but since Zhou Yaping's uncle Zhou Qi came to power through a military coup, he vigorously expanded his armaments, and even had to unite with the Olisa people against the Daheng Empire.

Every year, countless military expenditures are spent, and the lives of the people are worse day by day.

This situation made Prince Zhou Yaping, a person far away from his hometown, feel extremely heartbroken when he looks at it.

That's his country, his people!

As a teenager, Zhou Yaping was determined to one day return to the Kingdom of Dynaudio and lead the people of Dynaudio to live a prosperous life again.

To this end, he actively moved closer to the Daheng people and won the support of the Daheng people, and at the same time contacted the Dana people in the northern region who favored the Daheng blood, and obtained the support of the local people.

Using these forces, as well as the old ministry, he gathered a huge supporter and officially launched a war to seize the throne that belonged to him, his country.

Everything went well, and his army swelled rapidly from a few thousand to tens of thousands, and now to more than 100,000.

From the north all the way to the middle, and then to the current Endless Sea Strait, his army has even surrounded Andan, the capital of the Kingdom of Tanna, which is also the last stronghold of Zhou Qi.

However, Andan is the capital of the Kingdom of Dynaudio, and it is also the political, economic and cultural center, with a population of more than 200,000 people in the entire city of Andan, and it is also the largest port in the Kingdom of Dynaudio, and it is also one of the main ports for many merchant ships to supply or transit when passing through the endless strait.

The importance of this place is undeniable, and he must take it.

The assault on the city of Andan went smoothly at first, and his army conquered several of the king's strongholds on the outskirts and occupied several of the main heights outside the city.

But when his soldiers began to advance into the city, the entire infantry division of the Olisa garrison in the military lease on the outskirts of Andan City, the 37th Infantry Division of the Olisa Imperial Army, collectively withdrew from the Olisa nationality and directly joined the Dina nationality, and then these people officially joined the Royal Army of Dinah and formed the 19th Division of the Royal Army, that is, the King's Army.

At the beginning, Zhou Yaping thought that there were more than 80,000 people besieging Andan City, and it had already captured the main commanding heights outside the city, and the field artillery deployed had been able to directly bombard the city and even the port, and at the same time, it had continuously defeated the main force of the kingdom army faction, and the remnants of the king's army in the city were less than 10,000 people.

In this case, even if the Orissa sent a division to strengthen the defense of Andan City, it should not be able to change the overall situation.

But the battle situation in the next few days allowed Zhou Yaping to see the combat effectiveness of the army of a great country for the first time!

The 19th Division of the King's Army, the 37th Infantry Division of the Orissa, used its powerful firepower to directly cover several of the commanding heights of the Prince's army on the first day of the battle.

The Olisa used at least thirty or more long-range heavy guns, at least more than 120 mm field guns, including 150 mm field guns, which fired directly at the port area, leveling the hills in the north of the city!

The Olisa then joined the defense, and their infantry did not rush back and relied on the many buildings in the city to defend themselves.

The troops of the prince's army, which directly attacked the city, suffered heavy casualties, and were finally forced to stop the attack.

There are many reasons for the huge casualties of the prince's army, such as the heavy firepower of the opponent, such as the overall quality of the officers and soldiers of the Olisa Imperial Army, and even the infantry firepower of the Olisa people far exceeds that of the prince's army.

The infantry firepower was an 8-millimeter small-caliber repeating rifle with a magazine, an 8-millimeter water-cooled air-guided heavy machine gun, a 60-millimeter and 80-millimeter mortar with smokeless charge, and a 75-millimeter light howitzer.

However, the infantry of the prince's army still used 11 mm caliber rifles with tube magazines, and black powder heavy machine guns and mortars of the same caliber were also used with black powder, which were far inferior to the other side in terms of rate of fire and range.

It's a very hard fight.

The equipment of Zhou Yaping's prince's army was either decommissioned and old weapons and ammunition aided by the Daheng Empire, or weapons and ammunition captured from the king's army (these weapons and ammunition were basically rear-loading guns from the black powder era that the Orissa retired and aided the king's army).

In fact, these weapons and ammunition are still at the average level of the Blue Star countries 12 years ago, and the caliber of the bullets is still 11 millimeters, and the black powder propellant is still used.

However, this and the regular army of the Olisa people on the other side are already equipped with a new generation of smokeless small-caliber firearms and smokeless gunpowder artillery that have been successively assigned to various countries after the twelfth year of the Dry Saint.

Since the unification war of the Daheng Empire, the army and navy military innovation has been directly set off on the Blue Star, mainly in the early stage of the rear-loading guns, with countries equipped with single-shot rear-loading rifles, rear-loading guns, and low-freeboard exposed batteries as obvious signs.

The mature stage is embodied in the 11 mm caliber single-shot rear-loading rifle or barrel magazine repeating rifle, 11 mm caliber hand-cranked machine gun or gas guide heavy machine gun.

Twelve years after the Qiansheng Incident, that is, after the Lieji Incident, the countries of the world followed closely behind the Great Heng Empire and set off a military innovation, and this innovation once again greatly changed the way of warfare.