History of Bourbon's Naval Wars, Chapter 12: The Age of Exhaustion

[After some thought, Hades (the commander of the Bourbon front) decided to march on Baboutis, and in a document to the Cadoch Palace, Hades said: "Today our army has entered Compo, and it is only a few steps away from Baboutis but it is not moving, and it is difficult to stop the crowd. ”】

[After Hades's documents were delivered to the Cadoch Palace, the Cadoch Palace thought that what Hades said was very reasonable, so they allowed Hades to march into Babutis in an attempt to quell the Pokon rebellion. Hades immediately marched into Babtis, where he installed a new Pokon king as a puppet of Boris. 】

[After the reconquest of Baboutis, Hades scheduled the date of the expedition after ensuring the sea control of the Bay of Baboutis, and the military rations needed for the expedition had to be transported from the rear, because the Pokang rebels led by Surifer continued to harass Barbtis, especially in the suburbs, and Boris was basically unable to organize production locally. 】

[Hades is in a disadvantageous position in the struggle for sea power, Poly uses Dolomi as a naval base, and constantly fights and engages with Boris, while the harbor of Babtis is located in a satellite city, which is naturally slower than Dolomi. 】

[Since he did not gain sea supremacy, Hades did not send out the whole army, but sent elite troops to march to some dangerous fortresses around Babtis to monitor and prevent the Pokon rebels, so before the sea power of Baboutis Bay was vested, the battle between the two sides took place in the field around Baboutis. 】

[When the two sides fought in the field on the outskirts of Baboutis, Suriver V did not fight Baboutis on the Eastern Front, but as an atonement for voluntarily giving up Baboutis, he accepted Poli's dispatch and led his world-famous cavalry regiment to cross the interior of Bourbon Island and reach the western front of Bourbon Island in the spring of 2089 to participate in the battle on the Western Front. 】

[After the autumn harvest of 2089, Suriver V, commanding all the cavalry regiments of the combined Poli and Pokon rebels on the Western Front, launched a stormy attack on the territory occupied by Boris, quickly cutting off Elm from Batis, and isolating the two cities. 】

[While Polly cut off Elm from Bartis on land, he also began to interfere with Boris at sea, recruited a new group of navy from the mainland, and sent them to the Western Front to compete with Boris for sea supremacy. 】

[By 2090, Elm, who was often cut off from supplies, began to be unable to hold on, and there was even a mutiny among the local residents in the city, which caused very tense local relations, and Elm was forced to send a document to Boris, requesting a retreat from Elm, even to Bartis. 】

[In order to avoid the total annihilation of Elm's Boris army, although he was very unwilling, Lotas IV agreed to the request to withdraw his troops from Elm, and in order to prevent Elm's army from retreating, Boris launched a fierce attack on other fronts to prevent the Polly and Pokang rebels from taking advantage of Elm's army to attack and kill when Elm's army retreated. 】

[The army of the Strategy, one was the defenders of Battis, from whom they marched to the towns controlled by Poli inland, and the Eastern Front controlled by Hades, who marched from Babtis to Dolomi, and made a posture to besiege Dolomi. Relying on the strategy of the other two routes, Elm's army finally managed to retreat into the city of Battis. 】

[When the news of Elm's successful withdrawal reached the Eastern Front, Hades also lifted the siege of Dolomy and withdrew his troops from Dolomi back to Babutis. After ending his commitment to Poli, Suriver led his army back to the Eastern Front and officially reached Dolomy in late winter of the same year. 】

[In the late summer of 2091, Polly, unable to afford to continue to lose power in the Gulf of Barboutis, finally retreated from Dolomi, declaring that Boris was in control of the sea. It stands to reason that Hades should continue to start his plan to recover Pokang, but Hades, who has been fighting on the Eastern Front for more than six years, is no longer the youthful and vigorous when he first arrived, trying to establish his own merits. 】

[This is very clear in Hades's letter to a friend: we are waging a futile war in Pokonwe, the territory is full of natives who hate us, we are struggling, we are relying on the support of the rear, I don't know what will happen if we continue to march, I think there is some truth in what Polika said. 】

[Hades's stagnation caused great displeasure in Lotas IV, so he issued a letter of reproach to Hades and urged him to march as soon as possible:]

["Did General Hades listen to the rumors of Napolika? Did you forget the promise you swore to us before you set out for the battle, General Hades? Do you know how much military rations and supplies we have to transport to you in the rear every moment you are on the front line? If you don't march as soon as possible, first, you will fail my expectations of you, second, you will fail the promise you made before the expedition, and third, you will fail the trust of the soldiers in you, in this case, will you not become a great villain in the drama of the future?"]

[In addition to urging, Lotas IV also began to make promises: "The state is difficult, we are hoping to end this long war as soon as possible, as long as we win, we will become the sole master of the Bourbon Sea, and you, who led Boris to victory, will also erect a statue in the Palace of Cardoch, immortal like Cardophe I!"]

[After reading this letter, Hades was ashamed and anxious, sighed and said, "I can't risk the world's condemnation", and then began to prepare for an expedition after the autumn harvest in 2092, but it was really about to come after the autumn harvest, the plan had been finalized, and the grain and grass had been in place, and a document from Lotas IV came from the Cardoch Palace, urgently stopping Hades's expedition. 】

[Lotas IV claims in this document that he has removed the cowardly commander in the Anrola Passage, and the new commander Raines also has the same great ambition and extraordinary courage as Hades, but the newly arrived Raines will be able to go on an expedition at least after the autumn harvest next year, so Lotas IV ordered Hades to stop this year's expedition plan in the name of the Cardoch Palace, and launch an expedition against Poli at the same time as Raines next year, which caught Polly off guard. 】

[It is a pity that this plan did not catch Poli off guard, because when Suriver V heard that Hades was preparing to go on an expedition but stopped it urgently, he immediately became alert, knowing that the call for the aborted expedition was to waste a lot of grain and grass, and Hades could not have done this without greater interests and higher commanders. 】

[So Suriver V guessed Boris's general plan and informed Polly of his guess. Although Focodo VIII was very disgusted with Surifer V, he trusted Surifer V's strategic vision very much, so he began to prepare for a counterattack against Boris on the battlefield of the Edonan Peninsula in advance, which was one of the reasons for the later defeat of Lanes. 】

[After the autumn harvest in 2093, Lines set out in Gravenjiu, Hades set out in Babtis, and a large number of expeditionary forces were also sent to the Tenglong Continent, which can be said to be the largest military operation in Boris in the era of exhaustion. 】

[Lines's deeds have been mentioned in full, and only in 2094 he was almost wiped out in Tanedin, and Hades's results were only slightly better than Lines's. 】

[With the help of the control of the sea control in the Bay of Babtis, Hades's army was divided into two routes, one was used as a suspect to lead the way, and marched southwest to the iron mines, the task was not to go deep into the interior but only to occupy the iron mines, which was also the lesson brought by the last "Iron Mine Campaign"; the other way was to go all the way north, until the remnants of the reservoir were considered to end the strategic goal. 】

[Objectively speaking, Hades's command is quite effective, and there is nothing to blame, I think the reason why Hades was defeated was mainly because he was dragged down by the defeat of Lines. 】

[Before Lanes's complete defeat, Hades's progress was relatively smooth, in the early spring as a suspect army had already captured the iron mines, and set up a defense in the area, in late summer the other army captured Dolomi, drove the Pokang rebels further north to Kadara, and then prepared to correct for a period before continuing the march. 】

[As a result, when Dolomi was repairing, the news of Lanes' defeat and flight reached Dolomi, causing confusion among the soldiers, and Hades had to indulge the soldiers to plunder the city to boost morale, and then repaired for a while until the beginning of spring 2095. 】

[However, at this time, Poli, who had no opponents in the Edonan Peninsula, transferred most of his navy to the Eastern Front, and as a result, Boris lost his naval dominance over the Gulf of Barboutis very quickly, and at this time Boris could not muster more navy to support the Eastern Front. 】

[It was at this time that the order of the new sea king Napolika VII to order Hades to withdraw his troops reached Dolomi, but when Hades sent scouts to explore the way, he found that Poli followed the wisdom of Boris and used his sea control over the Gulf of Barbtias to build a fortress on the sea route between Dolomy and Barbtis to block Hades' withdrawal. 】

[Immediately afterwards, after many years, Polly personally sent an army to the Pokang Guard again, and his intention was self-evident, to use this opportunity to eat Hades's army. 】

[When they heard that the Polly army had arrived at the Pokang Guard, the other generals were uneasy, but only Hades remained calm, and he said to the other generals: "I had the foresight to send troops to the iron mines to secure the back route, and with the wisdom of Napolika VII, I will definitely not order the troops stationed in the iron mines to retreat, so that we still have a way back. ”】

[Napolika VII did not order the Iron Mine Army to retreat, because he knew that the Iron Mine Army was a guarantee to ensure that Hades' expeditionary force would not be completely annihilated, and Suriver V also saw this, so he led a large army to surround the Iron Mine and prepare to cut off Hades's rear route. 】

[Survier V sent his men to use sound magic to make noise during the siege, saying that Napolika VII ordered Hades to retreat but did not let the iron mine defenders retreat, so that these defenders could be sacrificed, so that the noble Hades could retreat, and if the defenders could retreat automatically, Survier V promised the sea god not to pursue. 】

[Surifer V's nonsense greatly shook the morale of the iron mine defenders, although the generals strongly encouraged the defenders, but the soldiers who broke and fled one after another, which made Suriver V capture the iron mine in only half a month. 】

[After capturing the iron mines, Suriver V only allowed the army to repair slightly, and then attacked Babtis and surrounded it, ensuring that the Babtius army could not go out to threaten the fortress that hindered Hades's withdrawal, so that the road for Hades's withdrawal was completely cut off. 】

[When he learned of the fall of the Iron Mine, Hades was so desperate that he reportedly scolded the defenders of the Iron Mine in his battalion, and then, out of fear, made a mistaken decision, ordering the army to abandon Dolomi immediately and retreat to Babutis. 】

[As a result, this hasty retreat was blocked by pursuit and fortresses, and unsurprisingly turned from retreat to rout, and finally turned into a massacre, in which Boris's army was strewn with corpses and heavy casualties, and Hades fled back to Babtis with only more than thirty of his own soldiers. 】

[After this crushing defeat, until the armistice day arrived, Boris's army always cowered in Babtis and did not dare to attack, which is the battlefield experience of the Eastern Front during the exhaustion period. 】