Chapter 120: The Flames of the Plains
In the early morning of 7 July, the garrison of Moldor received a call for help from the direction of Longchuan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Lord Trensu, the deputy commander of the garrison, who had hurriedly washed his face, thought that he was still in a dream, but he smiled dumbly.
"Defeated, my 20,000 imperial soldiers also failed to deal with the rebels, haha, impossible."
"What time is it, is this an April Fool's joke?"
The herald trembled and explained the situation in detail. But the more he talked about the details of the battle, the more bewildered the look on the face of the garrison commander became.
Weird!
The process of this battle is almost like a fantasy: the sudden appearance of magical warships in the eastern seas, powerful firepower beyond the level of cognition; the Hex mines of the Pithers; Sudden heavy rains in July.
These strange things are all incredible.
In the face of the repeated doubts of the adults, in the end, the herald did not hesitate to use the glory of the soldier and the head of the item to vouch for it, and Telunsu was only skeptical.
Immediately, several more heralds arrived, and the battle reports in the direction of Longchuan were transmitted one after another, and all of them were exactly as described.
The Deputy Commander finally believed it, and then faced a thorny problem - where to ask for help?
Throughout the Battle of Ionia to this day, the Imperial Army has dispatched nearly 200,000 troops. However, 30,000 men were stationed in the two provinces of Gellin and Songzan across the sea, and 40,000 men were stationed to defend Neville as a mobile force.
The three coastal ports are strategic targets, and these 100,000 troops cannot be recklessly mobilized.
In addition to the battle damage of more than half a year, the Ionian garrison still has 80,000 or 90,000 troops left, 50,000 on the Presdian line, and 20,000 in the city of Mordo.
Now that these 20,000 men have been engaged in the battle of Longchuan, there is no large-scale troop build-up in the entire southeastern region.
As a result, the Commander had no choice but to ask for help from the Grand General Darius in the direction of Presidium.
Darius was furious when he received the news, and did not question the cause of the defeat at the Battle of Longchuan, nor did he consider a rescue plan. He began by issuing a stern rebuke to the Imperial Navy on behalf of the War Department.
Since the start of the war, the Admiralty has been proud of its achievements, claiming to have not only completely annihilated the Ionian Navy, but also shocked the Blue Flame Island and controlled the entire Defender's Sea.
As a result, a magic energy warship suddenly appeared in the eastern seas, causing a major defeat of the army in the Battle of Longchuan, and the Admiralty could not escape the blame.
The Admiralty didn't argue too much about this, first confirming that the battleship should be the Glory from the direction of Blue Flame Island.
As for how the Glory appeared in the east through the Sea of Death, the Imperial Navy also said that it was incomprehensible.
In the face of pressure from the War Department and the High Command, the new commander of the Navy, Malik. Ying Yue simply admitted all the guilt. But he said that these were the consequences of the previous war, when the commander in chief of the navy was still Mike. General Aaron.
During the takeover ceremony of Songtsan Province, Mike was hit by shelling and was dying. Where could Aaron have thought that his misfortune not only made this brother-in-law successful, but now he has to carry another black pot for him.
Sitting up in shock in his dying illness, His Excellency the General scolded, "Shameless man, Ann dares to bully me." Then he died with hatred.
This is the end of the matter.
Regarding the critical situation in the Longchuan area and even the entire southeast theater, the Supreme Command only issued an order.
The deputy commander of the garrison of Moldo, Trensu, was promoted to the commander of the Southeast Theater on the same day, weighing all the battles.
To put it bluntly, it is to leave them to fend for themselves.
The commander was helpless, so he had to gather all the troops in the southeast region and gather 10,000 horses and horses to rush to the direction of Longchuan.
Unexpectedly, the army had just reached the halfway point when a series of astonishing events occurred one after another.
First of all, the origin of the Glory has always been unknown, and although Blue Flame Island has a strong sea force, it is subject to the technological blockade of Picheng like the Empire, and it is impossible to obtain cutting-edge equipment such as magic energy warships.
On July 8, a guy named Lin Feng on the Glory made a public statement: On behalf of the Navy of the Federation of Demacia, the Glory officially declared war on Noxus.
For Lin Feng, it was a shame for the entire empire. The former imperial spy of the Empire, who later turned out to be a double agent of Debang, is extremely credible because of his outstanding military exploits in the War of Frost and the fact that he must have served in the Union Navy.
At the same time, Lin Feng also claimed that he had been authorized by King Gavin III to establish an alliance with Ionia on behalf of Debang.
Immediately afterward, the existence of Soraka, the son of the stars, was revealed among the rebels.
The news was simply explosive.
Throughout the southern part of Ionia, the people who were suffering under the rule of the empire seemed to be bathed in the protection of the gods in an instant.
At this time, when the Battle of Longchuan was won and the imperial garrison in the southeast region was empty, the long-suppressed fire of resistance was finally completely ignited.
In the northern province of Sasa Province, Master Yi led a group of wandering swordsmen to hunt down the remaining Imperial garrisons.
In the central province of Pyras, Varus, the Arrow of Punishment, recaptures the temple of Pyras and leads the Guardians in a quest for revenge against the Empire in the name of punishing evil.
The fire is a lifetime, and the flame burns the prairie fire.
Trensu's army could not keep up with the fall of the occupied areas in the rear, and when the news of the emergency situation in Moldor came, they had to turn around and rescue the lair.
The offensive and defensive battles in Moldowa were extremely fierce, and it was not only a strategic location, but also a symbol of the Empire's maintenance of rule over the southeast. The 10,000 Imperial Army desperately held out, and the offensive of the Ionian militia, lacking heavy equipment, was thwarted, but a large number of people poured in from all over the country every day, and the entire Moldor region soon became a sea of people's war.
The fall of this imperial army is only a matter of time.
At the same time, the battle in the Yongcheon direction first had a result.
On July 20, the trapped Imperial Army held out for half a month. Food ran out, rain continued, large numbers of corpses could not be disposed of, and the epidemic spread and raged.
A large number of people died of starvation and disease, and finally the remaining 5,000 people chose to surrender.
When they walked out of the valley, they were all in shape, and there was no trace of life in their gray eyes, let alone the glory of soldiers.
When the news came, the wave of revolt throughout the southeast reached its peak.
On the 22nd, under the command of Kalmar, the rebels launched their last assault on the city of Moldo.
The tide is over, and the Imperial defenders are still stubbornly resisting, and in the end, only some logistics personnel are left to surrender in the City Lord's Mansion.
The southeastern region returned to Ionia, and Soraka appointed Kalmar as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces on behalf of the temple.
Three days later, at the behest of the High Priest of the Temple, the Kingdom officially came forward to confer the title of Duke of Kalmar, becoming the first female duchess in history.
The coalition trumpeted the news of Ionia's alliance with Debon as they wiped out the remnants of the Imperial Army and intensified their military build-up in preparation for the recovery of the entire southern region.
As we entered August, the war in Ionia spread throughout Valoran.
Demacia did not give an official response to the alliance, except for a temporary plenary session of the Senate led by the royal family.
At the meeting, the dispute between the royal family and the military department, and even the entire noble group, was unknown.
The inside story can only be guessed through two major events that happened later.
August 11, on the day of the Federal Army Day. King Gawain III decreed that the Royal Navy was brought under the substantive jurisdiction of the Ministry of War and renamed the Federal Navy.
The next day, the ten elite legions of the Federal Army assembled near the Shield King City in advance marched eastward, and the official explanation was that the military parade at the founding ceremony of the Combined Army initiated by the War College was for the purpose of demonstrating peace, and was not aimed at any third party.
Soon after, Noxus also responded, saying that he accepted the initiative of the War College and sent ten elite legions west on the same day.
A series of events became an important signal to change the situation in the entire Valoran.
And all this started with the turning point of the Battle of Ionia.
The turning point of Ionia began with the miraculous reversal of the Battle of Longchuan.
The miracle of the Battle of Yongcheon originated from a Glory.
Only a very small number of people knew that the Glory at this time did not represent the Federal Navy, it only represented one person - Lin Feng.