Chapter Eighty-Three: The Situation Is Critical

A month later, the Balun Kingdom did not develop in the direction that Duke Dozan feared, as Cheng Lei expected. Balon's elite troops of tens of thousands of men launched a fierce attack on Cité Soleil and several of its surrounding city-states.

Sun City and several city-states under its control joined forces to wage a war against aggression, and called on all the city-states in the Burning Sun Federation to send troops to support. However, it had little effect, because the previous behavior of the federal government only caring about Sun City and several surrounding city-states, and ignoring the other city-states, had already chilled everyone's hearts, and it was useless to say anything now.

Sun City's original thoughts were actually the same as Duke Dozan's original thoughts, thinking that Baron'o would definitely invade the weaker city-states first. When the time comes, Valeno's forces will be dispersed, and Sun City will have no problem holding on or anything.

It is precisely because of this idea that Sun City has fallen into the current situation of internal and external difficulties, with no reinforcements inside and a strong enemy outside, although it is very well prepared, it is impossible to defeat the invading army of Baron'ou. Baron'ou's current thoughts are the same as Cheng Lei expected, fight the snake and hit the seven inches, and knock down your capital first, and this war of aggression will be half won.

The countries in the south have also made a big move recently, and the Itos country called on the eastern countries to jointly send a message to Balono, asking it to immediately stop its aggression against the Scorching Sun Federation, otherwise the Eastern countries will form an Eastern United Army to help the Scorching Sun Federation fight against Balono's aggression. Moreover, the Western overlord of the Itos country also issued a warning to Balen'o to stop playing with fire and immolating itself.

The unification of the Eastern states was a better excuse for Balen'ou to go to war, but the warnings of the Western Empire had terrified the hawks in Balen'ou. They know the military strength of the Western Empire, and if the Western Empire starts to help the Scorching Sun Federation counter the invasion, Baron'ou may be in vain this time, and it is very likely to be defeated.

If defeated, the hawks in the Balonos will be in a situation from which they will never recover. At that time, the conservatives will take the opportunity to take the position, and it will be even more difficult for the hawks to reach the top in the future.

While the war against Sun City has not been relented, divisions have arisen within the Balono hawks. One of them felt that now that the hawks had come to power, it was better to have a good relationship with them and listen to them stop the war than to let the Western empires intervene.

On the other hand, there are the radicals among the hawks, who are in vogue for the continuation of the war. If the Western overlord of Itos really intervenes, then then Baronou can stop invading, and instead rule the city-states of the Scorching Sun Federation, which has already been obtained. Later, if there is a better opportunity, you can use these occupied city-states as a springboard to directly occupy all the Scorching Sun Federation.

After many consultations and mediations, as well as the intervention of more countries, Balunou finally stopped his aggression against the Scorching Sun Federation. However, the five city-states it had already occupied would not be returned to the Burning Sun Federation, and after an agreement, the Burning Sun Federal Government reluctantly agreed.

This incident caused an uproar in the Scorching Sun Federation, and all the city-states thought that the Scorching Sun Federation Government was too weak, and these city-states said that if they gave it to others, they would give it to others, which was irresponsible to the people of the Scorching Sun Federation!

Waves of protests erupted, many city-states formed their own coalitions, and Cité Soleil was completely isolated. The alliance of the six cities called for by Daheng City was also formally established, with Mo Goda as the leader of the alliance and the city lords of the other city-states as the deputy leaders.

Even the second city lord with a temporary name like Cheng Lei was installed by the Six Cities Alliance, the commander of the fifth unit of the alliance army, and Xi Ling was the deputy commander. It took Cheng Lei a lot of effort to figure out which unit the fifth unit of the Alliance Army was referring to, and it turned out to be all the troops in Yinta City, including the Yinta City Guards and Cheng Lei's Lion King Squadron.

This Mo Goda really has some funny talent, and it's not the same as before! Whose army is in charge of whom, it's just a name for An, and Cheng Lei was amused by him.

In the early hours of one day, half a month later, Balun suddenly launched an even more fierce attack on Sun City. Tens of thousands of troops surrounded the city of Sun, and mountain artillery, field artillery and howitzers bombarded the city of Sun as if they didn't want money. As the day passed, at least a fifth of the buildings in Cité Soleil had been heavily shelled, and all the people of Cité Soleil had been affected by the war.

Vallenou's onslaught on Sun City went on for a week, and over the course of a week, both sides paid a heavy price. Nearly 10,000 soldiers of Cité Soleil were killed and countless were wounded. Nearly half of Balen'ou's tens of thousands of elite soldiers were also killed.

In comparison, the situation of Sun City is much worse, and if it continues to fight like this, Barron will definitely send reinforcements in the country. And the armies of Sun City and the major city-states under its control have all been concentrated on the battlefield of Sun City, and by that time Sun City is afraid that it will be more than lucky.

At this critical moment, reinforcements from the country of Itos arrived, and Itos sent a total of 20,000 troops, including infantry and cavalry, as well as various ordnance.

However, the Sect Leader of Itos did not issue a warning to Balunou again, and when everyone was wondering, Xing Chenghui told the truth. It turned out that Barono had also found support in the Western Empire, and this country was one of the most powerful empires in the Western West.

The suzerainty of Itos is also ranked fourth or fifth among the Western countries, and the two sides have decided through various mediations that neither of them should interfere in this war, and the affairs of the eastern countries will be handled by themselves. That's why Baron'ou launched another attack on Sun City, and the Itos sent reinforcements to help.

Now that Baleno has obtained the license to invade, he will not have any scruples at all. After it occupies Sun City and other city-states, the next step will definitely be to completely occupy the entire Scorching Sun Federation. At that time, I am afraid that all the city-states in the Scorching Sun Federation will not be able to escape its clutches, but the reinforcements of Itos have relieved all the city-states in the Scorching Sun Federation, this is really timely rain!

A month and a half has passed, and the training of the newly recruited soldiers is on track. Moreover, Bailey and the three of them have been working hard in various city-states, and a steady stream of refugees have come to Silver Tower City to join the recruit training camp of the Lion King Squadron.

Some of the recruits brought their families with them, and Cheng Lei arranged for them to go to the residential area of the base. Yin Kaicheng led the armored company to the Lion King base, because there was a large field there for all kinds of complex tactical training.

Those tanks and armored vehicles were covered with cloth and dragged by horses, Cheng Lei didn't want to expose them, and let them out when the time was right, they would definitely become secret weapons at that time. The second batch of trucks that Xing Chenghui bought for them, a total of more than 30 units, had already returned from the West a month ago, and they would be able to see them in a while.

Xing Chenghui was very strange about what Cheng Lei was doing when he bought these trucks, but he knew that Cheng Lei would definitely not be untargeted, and it must be of great use. Moreover, every time Xingjiamen's caravan went to the West, in addition to bringing back a truck to Cheng Lei, the rest of the time it was transporting gasoline back to him.

According to Xing Chenghui's statistics, the gasoline in Cheng Lei's hands has reached a terrifying amount. If it weren't very useful, what would Cheng Lei do when he bought so much gasoline and came back! Xing Chenghui felt that it was useless to guess too much, the most important thing was to have a good relationship with Cheng Lei, in that case, the stronger Cheng Lei's strength, the greater the help Xing's family would have.

More than 1,500 recruits are now being trained in the camp, and new recruits are coming to report every day. Cheng Lei calculated everything in his heart, and when the number of recruits reached 2,000, he began to stop recruiting recruits, and instead devoted himself to large-scale training.

Now the military zone of the base has begun to take shape, and it will be completely completed in a few months. However, Cheng Lei felt that he was afraid that the situation would change drastically if he didn't wait for that time, so he ordered Li Changcheng to send the more than 700 recruits who had been trained to a certain extent to the base first.

In the Lion King's base, Pan Jin continued to train them, and Li Changcheng and the others now had to focus on dealing with the new refugees. Li Changcheng is now Cheng Lei's most important subordinate, and his road will be very long in the future, because the current recruits under the entire Lion King Squadron are trained by him. His prestige in the eyes of those recruits is probably higher than that of everyone, including Cheng Lei.

The General Military Headquarters of the Six-City Alliance suddenly asked the troops of each city to come up with a specific list of army establishments and a list of soldiers to report, saying that it was to count the strength of each city, and if Balunou invaded the Six-City Alliance, the General Military Department could issue tasks to each city according to the strength of the troops.

Although this reason is high-sounding, of course Cheng Lei will not believe it, Mo Geda must want to use this excuse to find out the bottom of the city-states. At that time, if any city-state is disobedient, he will put pressure or sanction according to the situation, and may directly send troops to seize the power of the city lord.

Another possibility is that if a certain city-state has a large number of troops, Mogoda will ask the city-state to send troops somewhere else to help with the defense. At that time, whether this order will be executed or not, if it is executed, of course, it will be unwilling, and if it is not executed, Mo Goda does not know what excuse to use to make trouble.

Duke Dozan sent Xilin to ask for help, and Cheng Lei talked about the possibility of these two aspects. Then let Duke Duozan report as little as possible, now there are more than 1,500 guards in Yinta City, and it is enough to report 500 people at most.

Cheng Lei's army plus those recruits totaled at least two thousand people, and Cheng Lei asked Xilin to tell Duke Duozan that he only needed to report three hundred people to the mercenary guards! In this way, the number of troops reported by the entire Silver Tower City was only eight hundred, and even if Mo Goda knew that they were lying to him, he would only add a few hundred more people to the Silver Tower City at most.

The army of more than 1,000 people would not be placed in Mo Geda's eyes at all now, because after this period of expansion, the total strength of Daheng City had reached more than 10,000 people. Now, if Mogoda is provoked, he will dare to fight with Balon'o's elite troops!

Cheng Lei is now only waiting for Xing Chenghui to transport back the more than 30 trucks, plus the existing dozen tanks and armored vehicles. With a total of nearly fifty combat vehicles and half a regiment-level armored unit, with these, Cheng Lei can say that they have completely gained a foothold in this world.