On 29 September, the Sindelair National Naval Fleet completed the blockade of the port of Tarens. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The port of Tarence is the largest port city in the Duchy of Florence, and it is also the largest port in the southern part of the entire Orodicque continent, responsible for more than eighty percent of the maritime trade import and export of the entire Duchy, and is less than a day's away from the capital city of the Duchy of Florence, the City of Purple Flowers.

The city was the economic lifeblood of the Duchy of Florence, and the Duchy of Florence did not know how much money it would lose when the port of Tarense was blocked; If the lockdown is kept for longer, it is estimated that the economy of the whole country will collapse.

And it's not just about blocking ports.

On the national fleet, the flying green dragon also came to an air raid on the port of Tarens on the night of the 30th.

Green corrosive flames illuminated the night sky of Tarence in the second half of the night. After daybreak, it was discovered that the military port of Tarens, the city hall, the tax office, and the barracks of the port guard had been severely damaged. At least 500 people were killed in the nightly raids.

However, most of those who died were soldiers and soldiers, as well as a small number of government officials, civilians and businessmen, who did not suffer many casualties. The national fleet still exercised some restraint in this regard and did not carry out indiscriminate strikes.

But this alone made the Duchy of Florence a little unbearable.

Standing on top of the towers of the City of Purple Flowers, you can even faintly see the firelight of Port Talence in the distance.

The threat of the dragon was so close that how could it not panic the magnates of the principality?

Thus, in the next two days, several requests from Bull City in the hope of continuing to mobilize the elite defenders of the capital to prepare for war were all rejected by the Council of Nobles.

The nobles needed an army to ensure their sense of security, so they would not continue to mobilize their legions to the front. What's more, more than seventy thousand warriors had gathered in Bull City, as well as on the surrounding defensive lines, and in the eyes of the nobles, this number was sufficient.

The army did not arrive, and Thad also received an order: it must defend the defense line of Bull City, at least until the peace talks are completed and the war is over, Bull City must not allow any loss.

The Earl of Sade was helpless.

It is said that the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces was so angry that he smashed his glass in Bull City and claimed that if he was in Bull City, he would make those shameful scum pay.

He's talking about the people of the Florence Noble Council, but apparently he doesn't have that right now. Because, on the first day of October, Pandorf's Fourth Army Corps had already arrived on the battlefield and was placed under the command of Admiral Pehins. In the early days, the army of Pehince had already begun to gather its forces, and a large number of troops scattered in the Count of Bulls, responsible for plundering grain, were regrouped.

At this time, the army in Pehins' hands had exceeded 80,000 people, nearly 90,000 people.

After a day's rest, the Perkins Army began to press forward, and on October 2, officially launched an attack on the Bull City line.

On the same day, diplomats from Florence, Pudri, Holy Victoria, and the New Four Kingdoms of Holy Prometry simultaneously launched a diplomatic protest against the Kingdom of Sindelare.

They claimed that the kingdom of Sindelare had agreed to the peace talks and had set a date for them. Under these circumstances, the kingdom of Sindelare should have ceased all military operations and waited for the start of peace talks. However, instead of stopping, the Sindelaretes intensified their efforts, not only blockading and attacking the port of Tarrens, but also increasing their army and launching a war of aggression against the lands of the Duchy of Florence. This is something that must be condemned.

At the port of Shawan Bay, Prime Minister Verina personally met with diplomats from the four countries.

In the face of the questioning of the imposing diplomats, the female prime minister gave a rather tough answer: "Now, the war has not ended, and the Kingdom of Sindelair has not signed any written armistice or peace agreement with any of the powers, so the Kingdom of Sindelare, the Duchy of Florence, the Kingdom of Pudri and the Kingdom of Holy Victoria are still in a state of war." All military operations in the country are authorized by His Majesty Dane personally, and are lawful and reasonable. If you have the ability, hold Bull City, or agree to our terms for peace talks now, otherwise, we will definitely not stop our counterattack against the invaders! ”

This is certainly not acceptable. The reason for the negotiation is that there is naturally a huge gap in the conditions between the parties. What was Schindlaire's original armistice? It demanded a total of 150,000,000,000 gold coins from the Duchy of Florence, the Kingdom of Pudri and the Kingdom of Victoria, and demanded that Florence cede the county of Bull to Hindlaire. At the same time, all port cities in the Kingdom of Pudri and the Duchy of Florence must be opened to Sindelare's merchants free of charge, and the customs and taxes of Sindelare's merchants are determined by Schindlaire's Ministry of Commerce.

How could such conditions be agreed?

Don't say anything else, the war reparations of 150 million gold coins are enough to kill people. If you pack up the Grand Duke of Florence and sell Queen Susan Bella together, you probably won't be able to sell it for the money.

The Schindlaire lion opened his mouth, and the next armistice negotiations are expected to be a painstaking process.

And according to the strategy that Dane and Verena discussed earlier, before Pehin conquered Bull City and defeated the main force of the coalition army, there would definitely be no result negotiated with those four countries - without a military victory, where would there be a diplomatic victory?

Now, of course, Schindlaire has already achieved a brilliant military victory at sea. Even with the current military achievements, in fact, it is possible to win a lot of benefits. However, if the situation can be further opened up on land, the benefits of diplomacy will become even greater.

Shikoku's diplomatic protest was blocked by Verina. And on the front lines of the war, the Hindlaires were still pressing step by step.

On October 8, two days before the start of the peace talks, the Pexins Group had already made a lot of progress.

The Bulls City defense line, under her onslaught, was beaten to a thousand holes.

The loss of two satellite cities and the uprooting of seven military outposts have made the situation in Bull City precarious. In the high-intensity war in these few days, the coalition army lost nearly 10,000 soldiers, and Count Sade had no choice but to further retreat his army and defend Bull City and the two satellite cities in the east and west.

As the coalition forces became more concentrated and the defensive area was greatly reduced, it was difficult for Pehins's offensive to achieve much better results at once.