The war between the Merchant Alliance and Desik, in the second half of the first five years, marked the complete defeat of the Merchant Alliance with the fall of Manning City.

In the second half of the first five years, the Desik have been wantonly expanding their results, with Manning City as the central area, Desik once again increased his troops by hundreds of thousands, expanding the scope of the attack to several countries such as Carlin, Kosok, and White Harbor, and in just six months, the allies who lacked troops and major generals were unable to resist, and fell under the iron hooves of Desik one after another.

White Harbor, the capital of the White Harbor Kingdom, Gunther City, the capital of Carlin, Newton Bay, the capital of Kosok, and Jerkes, the capital of Carthage, all fell. Among them, except for White Harbor, the rest of the capitals were completely defeated after the failure to defend the city, and White Harbor was abandoned on his own initiative after packing all the supplies and evacuating under the advice of King Lucius.

With the harvest of such a huge land area, the Desik people had to stop their expansion, and the dozens of cities and millions of people in these lands, even the Desik Empire, needed time to digest.

The leaders of the countries fled in panic: some chose to take refuge in San Jose, some chose to hide in the sunset mountains and live in fear, and some nobles followed in the footsteps of the kings of Southern Madur and Manning.

The nobles, with their blood, warn the common people of the merchant alliance how brutal the Desiks are.

Within the Desik Empire, the plan for the entire war of aggression was personally organized and formulated by King Edward VI, and the base camp, that is, the Supreme Military Joint, was responsible for refining and executing it. To the front line of the Shang Alliance, General Hans, the former chief of staff, was the supreme leader of the front, and Florian, the former general of the West, was the supreme commander of the front.

According to the requirements of the base camp, shortly after the "Double Day Festival" of the previous five years, that is, in late October, the attack of the Desiks had basically reached the logistical limit and had to slow down the pace of the attack. Generals Hans and Florian began to reorganize the Desik army in the territory of the Shang League.

After several battles, including several tragic offensive and defensive battles, more than half of the Desik troops who entered the territory of the Shang Alliance were damaged, but Desik quickly replenished the front line:

Now, the entire Desik Dispatch Army (according to the latest order of the Desik base camp, Desik's army in the territory of the Merchant Alliance is formed as the Desik Merchant Alliance Dispatch Army, referred to as the Dispatch Army) has a total of more than 150,000 people, including 120,000 infantry corps, 20,000 cavalry, and 10,000 Steppenwolf cavalry, a total of nine battalion generals, that is, eight silver wolf heads and one golden wolf head commander.

Among them, Jim Guderian will continue to command his Steppenwolf cavalry, two silver wolf heads, each with 10,000 rangers, and the remaining 120,000 infantry, will be led by six battalion generals led by General Alvin. They were stationed in the Grand Canyon advance base "Death Knell City", Manning City, White Harbor, and the "Dark Plains" of the Kingdom of Carlin.

In addition, a part of the Desik army was stationed in the north of Kosok's "Whispering Forest", which was used to monitor the new three armies of the merchant alliance in the former Southern Madur Kingdom.

Two legions of rangers were deployed near Manning, providing mobile support, while Jim's Steppenwolf Riders, after replenishing their men and joining the Steppenwolf Riders who had come out of the Sunset Mountains and conquered Carthage, formed an independent combat force, directly under the orders of Emperor Desik and in coordination with the Dispatch.

No one knows where the elusive wolf rider is now.

Compared with the strong Desik Army, the original Shang Alliance is much more miserable. Among the nine countries of the Shang Alliance, after more than half a year of war, only the Duchy of Kaman, the Duchy of Tra, and the Duchy of Mossart, which had just recovered from the war and were still extremely weak, were still intact.

In addition, some of the fortresses of the Kalin Kingdom and the White Harbor Kingdom were still in the hands of the Shang Alliance. In the northwesternmost corner of the continent, the New Third Army of the Shang League still firmly guarded the territory of Southern Madur, although the feudal lord of this country was no longer heir (Note 1).

And thanks to King Lucius, the young and wise leader, after saying goodbye to King Manning, he used the dozens of days that the Mannings had bought to evacuate almost the entire kingdom of White Harbor and the Kingdom of Kalin, and transported the personnel, materials, wealth and food of these two countries to the principality of Tra and the principality of Carman.

In terms of military affairs, because of the timely retreat of the White Harbor Kingdom, the armies that can still be completely controlled by the Shang Alliance include the New Sixth Army of Kaman, the New Army and the New Eleventh Army that were evacuated intact from Manning, the security army of the White Harbor Kingdom, the Royal Palace Guards, and the New Ninth Army of Mozart, which is still being rebuilt, with a total of more than 40,000 people, and about 10,000 complete soldiers of the New Third Army in the northwest corner obey the orders of the Shang Alliance.

By the end of the previous five years, a considerable number of routs had escaped the pursuit of the Desik Wolves and Rangers, and successfully entered the territory of Kaman and Tra. The largest of them was Captain Christopher and his more than 2,000 men who escaped from the Battle of Sedan.

These soldiers who survived a hundred battles, their friends and comrades all died under the scimitar of Desik, and they were the best soldiers in the words of King Lucius, and they were the best soldiers in the words of King Lucius. These people, under the leadership of Christopher, will become a new integrated army.

Although the number of soldiers is small, firstly, the Desik people are also digesting their newly acquired land, and secondly, the terrain of the three southwestern kingdoms is much more dangerous than that of the eastern three kingdoms, relying on the wealthy Kaman and Tra, the dilapidated merchant alliance has actually regained a foothold at the foot of Sunset Mountain.

Speaking of the Merchant Alliance's Lord~Meeting, when he was in Manning City, King Lucius had already realized that the Lord~Chair Society, a corrupt bureaucratic institution, had caused great trouble to the Merchant Alliance's response. When the monarchs and nobles fled the war to the three small countries in the southwest corner of the continent, Lucius gathered the surviving monarchs and convened a meeting on the occasion of the "Double Day Festival".

The meeting was held in the city of Myster, the capital of the Duchy of Tra, and the participants included the three archdukes of the three southwestern kingdoms, King Lucius, a grand duke representing Carlin, Lori Manning, the youngest son of the former king of Manning, and the former ambassador Rodlin representing Southern Madur, while Kosok, Carthage and other countries, almost no nobles escaped successfully, and even if there were, they should be hiding in Sunset Mountain now.

This meeting is of great significance to the survival of the business alliance under the current circumstances. The "Mister Conference" represented the reunification of thinking and understanding of the nobles of the Shang League, and the gradual recovery of the elites of the Shang League from the panic of defeat in the war. The meeting summarized the various slow measures of the business alliance leader ~ Xi Hui since the outbreak of the war, and it can be said that it is these slow measures that make the business alliance army extremely passive on the battlefield, and also indirectly lead to the disadvantage of the war.

According to King Lucius's suggestion, the Shang Alliance, that is, the nobles at all levels in the remaining territories, should form a new ruling group that integrates military and politics, and should no longer use such a bloated and huge body as the Lord~Chair, but should form a decision-making body of a few top elites.

After several days of discussions, a three-member military council headed by King Lucius, General Calvin and General Christopher, a logistical production recovery committee headed by Duke Carman, and a diplomatic committee headed by Duke Terra were formed.

Among them, the Military Council was responsible for formulating the battle plans of all the remaining armies of the Shang League, the Production Committee was responsible for using all the productive forces of the remaining three countries to restore production, and the Foreign Affairs Committee was a newly established body. The most important of the three is this Foreign Affairs Committee.

The war has brought great trauma to the Merchant Alliance, the Merchant Alliance has lost a large area of land and major output, and the population, economy, and food have been seriously damaged, if they want to continue to hold on in this war, then, the Merchant Alliance, need a new ally, and in addition to Desik, this ally can only be the natural enemy of the Desiks, San Jose.

Therefore, the task of the Foreign Affairs Committee is to establish contact with the San Jose Empire as soon as possible, no matter what the cost, to win the assistance of this eastern power, otherwise, the merchant alliance alone will not be able to resist the Desiks for much longer.

Naturally, the San Jose Empire also needs the existence of the Shang Alliance, and a De Sik Empire that completely annexes the Shang Alliance is not something San Jose wants to see.

So, in this case, Princess Lolita of San José, who lived in the capital of the Kaman Kingdom, naturally entered the Foreign Affairs Council and became a member of it. They will cooperate with the Grand Duke of Terra and send an envoy to San José as soon as possible to seek assistance.

Xiao Mu is in charge of the logistics and dispatch of the countries of the Business Alliance, Lolita is about to send an envoy to San Jose, and Koster and Feida, they are actively preparing for war in the Kaman New Sixth Army, and the Kaman New Sixth Army, which has not suffered losses and has experienced actual combat, is now the absolute main force in the Shang Alliance, and they will of course fight to defend the Shang Alliance in the future.

Therefore, a large number of armor weapons produced from the Mosattara Basin were piled up in the camp of the New Sixth Army as if they did not need money, and looking at the hill of refined steel knives, spears and crossbows in front of him, Rickon grinned and laughed stupidly, which caused Ixter to laugh out loud.

As he was leaving, Kerstra passed by Ricken, "Haven't you heard from your father yet?" Ricken's father was the ambassador of the Kaman Merchant Alliance~, and he never returned to Carman after Manning was lost. Everyone speculated that the Earl of Munch should have died.

Unsurprisingly, Rickon shook his head, "No news. But don't worry, Commander, I'll try to kill the enemy, and I'll honor my father with the blood of the Desiks. ”

Rickon's expression was so focused that Kerst was a little distracted, and just above their heads, the little beast with its wings spread slowly crossed the sky, and a small shadow was projected on the heads of the soldiers of the New Sixth Army who were training.

The earth-shattering shouts of killing echoed over the valley and could not be dispersed for a long time. And just outside the valley, a large river flowed slowly.

War or not, the Morro River will always be so magnificent.