Chapter 123: The Counterattack of the Two Great Empires
After the defeat of the two Magisters from Metro City, the situation in Metro City became a little weird.
After that, for half a month, the Candela Empire did not take any action.
There were no troops to attack Metro City to try to retake it, and the Candela Empire did not send any more reinforcements, and even the elite mage legion sent by the Candela Empire's military headquarters before retreated silently one morning.
Only the 50,000 reinforcements sent by the Governor's Office of the Southwest Province were still conscientiously guarding the camp five kilometers outside the city of Melo, but they did not have the slightest intention of attacking the city.
If you ignore these 50,000 people, the current Metro City is almost as if it has been forgotten by the Candela Empire, and it seems extremely calm and peaceful.
However, outside Metro City, the situation on the entire continent is not calm at all, and even tends to become more and more intense.
On October 13, when the first cold wind of winter was blowing from the north, the Maro Empire formed an alliance with the Frankish army exiled to the Maro Empire to attack the territory of the former Falk Kingdom, which was now occupied by the Duchy of Draco.
Before this battle, the three Magisters of the Maro Empire directly announced their participation in the war.
As for their participation in the war, the reason given by the three magisters is that the Duchy of Drak is the aggressor, and they are only helping the Falk Kingdom to regain its own territory and rebuild its own country, which belongs to the "just war".
Because of the direct participation of the three Magisters, even if the Candela Empire was equipped with a large number of military magic machines, it could not withstand the extremely powerful attacks from the Magisters, and they were defeated as soon as the war began.
At the same time, an army of the Marlo Empire from the east simultaneously attacked the territory of the Frankish kingdom, which was now part of the Lampari kingdom.
This army was even more powerful than the one attacking the Duchy of Drac, and the total number of troops invested was as high as 200,000. It is equipped with a total of more than 500 high-level magicians and 28 great magicians, and there are also four magicians directly participating in the battle.
Although the military strength of the Lampari Kingdom was undoubtedly much stronger than that of the Duchy of Draco, it was still difficult to resist under such a terrifying offensive of the Marlo Empire, and in just three days, it had already been defeated and retreated a full hundred kilometers away, giving up a large part of the territory again.
October 15th. Two days after the combined forces of the Maro Empire and the Frankish Kingdom attacked the Lampari Kingdom and the Principality of Drake at the same time, the Candela Empire suddenly dispatched a large army, divided into three routes, and the 150,000 troops went west to attack the area that was originally part of the Frankish Kingdom and is now controlled by the Lampari Kingdom.
With the combined forces of the Maro Empire and the Frankish Kingdom attacking from the north, the total number of enemy troops entering this area has reached 350,000, including a large number of mages from the Maro Empire and the Candela Empire, and even a total of six magisters.
Seeing that there was too much difference in the strength of the two sides, the Lampari Kingdom did not put up much resistance, and had already retreated 300 kilometers again in just five days.
Plus the territory that was previously lost under the attack of the Marfa coalition forces. Less than ten days after the war began, the Lampari Kingdom had ceded nearly half of the territory it had seized from the Frankish Kingdom.
The other two Candela armies went all the way south to invade the kingdom of Luxon again.
This time, the army of the Candela Empire did not put on a posture of a big battle and advance steadily like the previous two invasions of the Ruerson Kingdom, but the entire 50,000 troops were all composed of elite light cavalry, and they entered the Ruerson Kingdom not for the purpose of capturing land and cities, but went straight to the mines in the Ruerson Kingdom.
Because these hussars come and go like the wind. The movement is extremely flexible, and the Ruerson Kingdom is short on the side. The precautions were not strict enough, so that the 50,000 light cavalry army only took less than a week to destroy the thirteen mines of the Ruerson Kingdom, making these thirteen mines completely paralyzed.
Among these thirteen mines, five mines belong to the name of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and six of the remaining eight mines are mines jointly developed by the Ruerson Kingdom and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
In the end, all the way to the army of the Candela Empire, it was from the southeast corner of the Candela Empire. Directly invade the kingdom of the Dro tribe, which is already controlled by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
Along with this wave of troops, riots led by the Dro broke out in all parts of the kingdom.
Almost all the facilities set up by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of the Dro Nation have been extremely damaged, except for an area under the protection of the base of the Escort Team of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce near the royal capital of the Dro Tribe, the rest of the Kingdom of the Delo Nation has soon been completely plunged into chaos and out of the control of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
However, along the way, the army of the Candela Empire did not go straight to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce escort brigade stationed near the royal capital of the Dro clan to engage as many people expected. Instead, it turned south and invaded the territory of the Duchy of Wales.
Although the Duchy of Wales has also received a large amount of military magic machinery support from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, it is only a weak principality itself after all, with weak troops and weak foundations, and there is no way to resist the army of the Candela Empire.
Under the attack of the Candela Empire, the army of the Principality of Wales was routed all the way, and soon most of the territory was occupied by the Candela Empire's army, leaving only a piece of territory ambushed by the southern seaport that had not yet fallen.
When the western and middle lanes of the Sainz continent were in full swing, the eastern part of the continent was not idle.
On October 27, when the eastern army of the Candela Empire invaded the Duchy of Wales, a total of 13 countries led by the Magic Kingdom of Mana that had previously signed cooperation agreements with the two empires formed a huge army with a total strength of more than 300,000 under the slogan of "restoring order on the continent" and in the name of "regaining territory for the invaded countries", and invaded the southwestern region of the continent controlled by the United Kingdom of Nozdorm and several surrounding cooperative countries.
In this coalition, not only three Magisters from the Magic Kingdom of Mana directly participated in the war, but also two Magisters who had always been reclusive also announced their participation in the war.
With the participation of five magisters, hundreds of great mages and a large number of high-level mages, and with 300,000 terrifying troops, the army of the Nozdorm Commercial United Kingdom, which has a total of less than 130,000, is extremely weak.
Even if the Nozdorm Commercial United Kingdom has vigorously introduced military magic machinery from the New Flying Chamber of Commerce in recent years, only less than one-third of the army has completed the redress, and the overall strength is still not enough to compete with the other party.
So after the battle began, the Nozdorm commercial United Kingdom side was also defeated.
It wasn't until he finally retreated to the home of the United Kingdom of Commerce in Nozdorm that he temporarily stabilized his position with the help of the magic defense system created with the help of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce and stopped the trend of retreat.
However, judging from the comparison of the strength of the two sides, it is clear that the Nozdorm Commercial United Kingdom has no chance of any counteroffensive.
Once the enemy's Magister truly tears his face and blatantly breaks the unwritten rule of the Candela Empire that "the Magister shall not participate in wars invading other countries", then the fate of the Notzdorm Commercial United Kingdom will inevitably be in jeopardy.
Two months ago, the entire continent was shocked by the crushing defeat of the Candela Empire and the Marlo Empire in their invasion of the Kingdom of Luxon and the Duchy of Draco, respectively.
A month and a half ago, the entire continent suffered a crushing defeat because of the sharp counterattack of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce camp, and even several countries of the two empire camps such as the Frankish Kingdom and the Droz Kingdom were directly destroyed and frightened, and were completely shocked by the powerful power embodied by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce camp, so that many people thought that this continent would undergo great changes because of this, and it would fall into the control of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
However, now that the major countries represented by the two empires are working at the same time, they have immediately achieved such brilliant results, on the contrary, the camp of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is losing one after another, and it has not shown much strength at all.
As a result, the trend of public opinion on the Sainz continent immediately reversed.
Almost everyone is singing the praises of the two empires, saying that they represent the traditions of the continent.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has just achieved some partial advantages with a little novelty, but because it cannot be compared with the two empires in terms of heritage, it naturally cannot fundamentally shake the status of the two empires.
It is believed that the new forces represented by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will inevitably be crushed by the two empires soon, and the entire Sainz continent will return to the traditional order.
"Hey, these guys are really making themselves stupid. Xu Yi put down the large stack of newspapers in his hand and shook his head with a smile.
Some of these newspapers are from the Candela Empire, some are from the Marlo Empire, and some are from the other countries of the two empire camps, all of which have a unified point of view, that is, the two generations of empires are the orthodoxy representing this continent, and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is just a clown who can't affect the overall situation, and will be crushed by the two empires sooner or later.
Of course, Xu Yi was dismissive of this opinion, but he also knew very well that the vast majority of people on this continent would think this way now, even many people in the many countries that belonged to the camp of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The reason is that the two imperial camps have launched a fierce counterattack in the past two months, which has led to a large-scale setback on the part of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which naturally shakes people's confidence.
If you want to change people's opinions, there is only one way, and that is to speak with facts and strength.
As long as the counterattack of the two empires can be crushed, then the wind direction of the entire continent will inevitably be reversed again.
"Boy, what are you going to do?" asked Magister Camilla, glancing at the stack of newspapers that Xu Yi had thrown on the table.
Hearing this question, Xu Yi sighed softly.
"I wanted to tell people that the world has changed in as gentle a way as possible, but obviously I was wrong. Grandpa, you and Steele are right, I've been too idealistic and even a little naïve a lot of the time. In this world, the most useful thing to speak is always the fist. ’
Xu Yi paused, slapped the stack of newspapers, and the expression on his face and eyes turned firm.
"If they want war, then I will give them war. (To be continued......)