No matter how unwilling, no matter how surprised, a war of unprecedented scale, an unprecedented war, has broken out in the Bourbon Sea, involving all the twelve countries of the Bourbon Sea.

Some of the soldiers had sad faces, such as the little Selekos in Sutra, who was worried that after the outbreak of the war, the trade of Cornigta, the main income of the young Selekos family, would be cut off, and that the family would be in dire straits.

Is my family about to dissolve in this age? If my family's income from the Cornigta trade is deducted, it will certainly not be able to sustain such a population.

And some soldiers showed excited looks, such as Armada's little Selekos, who was so excited that he couldn't help himself, thinking that the time had come to clear his father's humiliation, and he would use his exploits to wash away the humiliation of the "Battle of Teassi" and let himself glorify his ancestors!

Machina, the national consciousness of the Potloo camp, knew that now was not the best time to provoke a war, and the Heroic Spirits were only 16 years old at this time, so they could not directly influence the country's decision-making, and it would definitely take a lot of action points to command it out of thin air. But there is no way, Portlou's social problems are getting more and more serious, and if he doesn't fight a foreign war, Portlou will usher in a full-scale riot!

History of Bourbon's Naval Wars, Chapter 9, The Two-Front Plan at the Beginning of the War

[Translator's guide: From Chapter 9 onwards, the book by Shudros officially enters the "Final Battle of the Bourbon Sea" and begins to tell the process of this grand war. In this chapter, Shudros describes the first eight years of the war, which he believes to be a stalemate, and the two camps are still tentative, and have not made much progress. 】

[In the many complicated battles in the early days of the war, Hudros keenly grasped Boris's "two-front plan" and used the two-line plan as the main body to narrate this war, so that the whole text would not be too fragmented. 】

[The Bourbon Naval War broke out in the year 2056 of the Great Calendar, which was the 640th year of the founding of Boris, the 469th year of the founding of Portloux, the 625th year of the founding of Poly, the founding of Bourbon in 1924, the founding of Bourbon in 652, the founding of Edonan in 1096, the founding of Southern Boutu in 469, the founding of Inandi in 634, the founding of Maischka in 1291, the founding of Urchi in 1252, the founding of Braazon in 1372, and the founding of Bhutoxsi in 182. 】

[When the war first broke out, the tactics of the nations were like this. 】

[First of all, for Boris, Boris believes that the most important task of his navy is to prevent the landing of Portloo, and secondly, to destroy the coast of Portloo, and it is necessary to ensure that when Boris and Polly are at war, Portloo cannot be given time to accumulate strength in peace. 】

[For the distant Edonan Peninsula, Boris maintains a more pessimistic attitude, due to the geographical location, Polly is naturally close to the Edonan Peninsula, so Boris is not sure if he can win Polly, and can only hope that his two vassal states there, Edonan and South Poutu, can block Polly's invasion. 】

[The mission of the Boris Army is to directly attack Polly's mainland through the territory of the vassal states (Bourbon and Pokang), and compete with Polly on Bourbon Island. And the armies of Pokang and Bourbon must also be mobilized to try to solve Poli as soon as possible. 】

[Secondly, for Portelu, since there is no ally of Boris on the Tenglong Continent, the most powerful army in the Bourbon Sea of Portlu is useless at this time. So Potloo went on a construction spree, building more ships and hoping that his navy would defeat or repel the Boris navy (if Boris was pinned down by Polly) to protect his long coastline. 】

In my time, there were many Portloons who took Portlou's actions as a reason why Portloo did not deliberately provoke war, but I say that it was because the rulers of Portlou were so short-sighted and fantasized about dragging on one day at a time. 】

In addition to building his own navy, Potloo also recruited a large number of troops from his vassal states and called on them to defend Portlou's ports. 】

[For the protected ports, they are limited to the ports of the territory of Portlou, and the ports of Inandi and Urchi are too remote for Portlou to allocate military forces to protect, so Portlou ordered Ulch and Inandi to destroy all their ports and relocate their personnel inland. 】

[In order to ensure that the vassal states can seriously implement their strategies (this is very likely to be the case), Portlou also sent troops to "help" the vassal states to implement them (to put it another way, Portlou's army finally came into play). 】

[So in the cries of the Ulchi and Indo, the ports that the two countries had built for hundreds of years were destroyed, and the inhabitants who had been on the coast for dozens of generations were forced to move inward, and Potlu completed his coastal strategy. 】

[As for Blayason, as arranged in the previous alliance treaty, Blaazon and Butoxi only need to provide economic support for the alliance on the other side, open ports and official roads, and do not need to send troops to participate in the war - this is also considering the situation of Potland, even Pothole's army is useless, so there is no need to consume favors and force Bullazon to enter the war. 】

[In the first year of the war, there was nothing worth recounting, but the general situation was that the navies of Boris and Portlou fought several battles in the waters between Bourbon Island and the continent of Tenron, and each won and lost, but Boris won more often. 】

[On the island of Bourbon, Poli's navy also had a comparable battle with Boris's navy, and because Boris's navy was largely pinned down by Portoux, Boris was unable to land his army as quickly as in previous wars. 】

[In terms of land warfare, because Polly's navy successfully defended the sea area and did not encounter the danger of invasion of the sea area, so in the land war, only Polly and Boris and his servants fought on the border between Pokang and Polly, and there were still mutual victories and defeats, and no one could win the decisive battle. 】

[On the Edonan Peninsula, since Polly focused his main force on the mainland, the defenders of the Lower Edonan Peninsula under his control took a defensive position, cleared the towns and villages, and transferred the inhabitants to the Upper Edonan Peninsula. 】

[In the second year of the war, that is, in 2057, Boris decided to plan a military operation to better win, and for the planned goal, Boris chose Polly. 】

[In Ferma Square, King Cardoch III explained the reason for his action to the nobles and townspeople:]

["O glorious nobles, industrious citizens, I am your sea king, and here I will explain to you our measures, please put aside the doubts in your hearts in this war-torn era, and do your best to cooperate with our decision-making, so as to win this just war. ”】

["I've heard some short-sighted people say that our biggest opponent isn't Potlou, why don't we do everything we can to attack Potlou?"]

["As I said, this is what only short-sighted people will say, you know, Potloo is located in the Tenglong Continent, he occupies more than half of the land on the west coast of the Tenglong Continent, even if our navy destroys the opponent's navy and gains the possibility of landing at will, but even so, it will still take a long time to occupy all his territory. ”】

["Imagine what a terrible situation it would be if we had drawn our army into a war with the vast territory of Portlu during this long period of time?

["What would be the situation if we had taken a different approach, and had attacked Polly instead of Portolu? Under the leadership of our wise nobles, and under your bloody battles, it would be impossible for that contemptible nation, which occupies only one shipping lane, to resist our attack. ”】

["Of course, I can't deny the concerns of some people, they say that Polly is a big country no matter how weak he is, and we still need a lot of time to capture him, and eliminating Polly will not help much to make Potelo surrender, we still have to repeat the previous moves, break through Potloo's navy, land on the Tenglong Continent, and get stuck in the quagmire of the Tenglong Continent. ”】

["Yes, these people see the trouble of attacking Portlou, so they want to do it in one step. But what does it mean when we destroy Poli? Fifty years ago Selekos pointed out that it will mean that we will have a solid rear! Bourbon Island and the Edonan Peninsula are all concentrated in our hands! We don't need to worry about cold arrows in the rear!"]

["However, Portlu is different, the territory of the Tenglong Continent where he is located is vast, and the relationship between neighboring countries is complicated, when Portlu is caught in a situation where he can only be beaten and cannot fight back, those neighboring countries will become our allies!, because we can help them relieve the threat of Portolu!"]

["In Portelw's previous speech, it was ridiculous to say that we have no allies in the Tenglong Continent, this is a self-deceptive statement, we are not without allies in the Tenglong Continent, because we will become liberators, and all the countries in the Tenglong Continent that are threatened by Portlu will become our allies!"]

["Then what is the use to win the trust of the oppressed allies? of course, with the death of Polly! Only when Polly, the only alliance on the other side of Bourbon, is destroyed, and we can attack Portlou without distraction, will they rise up in response to us!"]

"So here I am explaining to you what I am doing, explaining what I am going to do next, and asking for your permission. We're going to drain the fleet that's at war with the Potloo Navy to make sure our fleet can suppress the Polly Navy. ”】

["Don't worry that taking away this navy will lead to the defeat of our naval battle with Portlou! In fact, Portlou's army may be very strong, and the territory may be large, but his navy is like that, in fact, many of our navies are still vacated, and these vacant navies are just being transferred, which is a very appropriate move. ”】

"In this way, we will be able to transport troops from the west side of Bourbon Island to land in his western lands, as we have fought with Polly in the past. And unlike in the past, now Bourbon and Pokang are our vassals, so when we land on his western land, we will be attacked from both sides. ”】

["In the past, we were unable to capture because the west, either Pokon or Bourbon, always stood on the opposite side of us; now Pokon and Bourbon are our vassals, which is an unprecedented advantage! Therefore, this time we will be able to reap unprecedented results in a two-sided attack! This time we have a great advantage!"]

[Cadorch III's speech at Fermar Square worked, and after his speech, the people agreed with his plan (which was named the "Two-Front Plan" three months later), so in 2057 A.D., Boris removed part of the navy fighting against Potru, which was used to suppress Poli's navy in preparation for Boris's landing in Polly. 】