Chapter 107: Changing Clouds
When more than forty other countries on the combined continent of the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire, and more than sixty well-known organizations jointly declared war on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, no one was optimistic about the prospects of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, because no one thought that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce would be able to resist such a terrifying force.
Although many countries such as the Kingdom of Lampari, the Kingdom of Ruerson, and the Duchy of Delar have expressed their support for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, this still cannot change everyone's opinion.
Because compared to behemoths like the Candela Empire and the Maro Empire, the Lampari Kingdom and others are just some small countries, and their overall strength is far inferior.
Of course, because the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and these countries have some military magic machinery with the support of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, some people speculate that the progress of the two empires may not be too smooth after the war, and they should be counterattacked by these countries.
But no one will think that they can resist in the end, because after all, the difference in national strength is too far, and even if it is consumed in competition, it will definitely be consumed by the two empires little by little.
But when the war between the two sides really started, everyone found that the progress was different from anyone's expectations.
Whether it is the Candela Empire or the Maro Empire, they have suffered heavy losses in the invasion of the Luxon Kingdom in the south and the invasion of the Duchy of Drar in the north.
The Maro Empire was fine, but it fought with the combined forces of the Duchy of Drake and the Kingdom of Lampari at the border of the Duchy of Draco and the Duchy of Franks, and was forced to retreat after paying some costs.
However, in the invasion of the Ruerson Kingdom in the south, the Candela Empire suffered extremely heavy and even unimaginably huge losses.
Just the first step of the invasion of the Ruerson Kingdom, the Candela Empire lost more than 40,000 elites, and then the logistics warehouse of the expeditionary force was actually attacked by the escort of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, resulting in the destruction of all the materials in the later stage.
After this. Due to the temporary loss of logistical supplies, the Candela Empire Expeditionary Force, which was unable to stalemate with the Ruerson Kingdom, was forced to launch a decisive battle with the combined forces of the Ruerson Kingdom and the escort of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce on the Indra steppe in the north of the Ruerson Kingdom, under the leadership of the commander Duke Macarus.
This battle was arguably the largest and largest battle on the continent of Sainz in recent decades.
The Candela Empire has invested more than 140,000 troops, while the combined forces of the Ruerson Kingdom and the New Flying Chamber of Commerce have invested less than 50,000 troops.
Normally, since there is such a disparity in the number of troops. The Ruerson Kingdom and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce also chose to fight a decisive battle on the Great Plains, which was a self-defeating approach.
But when the decisive battle really began, the final result shocked the entire continent.
It took less than a day for the battle to be decided.
In the end, the Candela Empire expeditionary force was completely defeated, with a staggering more than 100,000 casualties, and less than 40,000 people were left to escape.
Perhaps such a result is still within the acceptable range, after all, in the history of the Sainz Continent, there are many examples of winning more with less.
But when it came to knowing the losses of the Luxon Kingdom and the allied forces of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, no one dared to believe such a result.
According to the data that was published after the fact. The losses suffered by the allied forces of the Ruerson Kingdom and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in this battle were only less than three thousand!
With less than 50,000 pairs, the more than 140,000 expeditionary forces known as the elite of the Candela Empire annihilated 100,000 opponents, but they only lost less than 3,000?
Even in those exaggerated war novels that are popular among many civilians on the Sainz continent, it is impossible to have such an exaggerated comparison of the battle losses of the two sides.
Because everyone thinks that this is simply impossible!
But the truth was in front of everyone, and they couldn't believe it.
What's more, the Candela Empire simply withdrew its troops from the Ruerson Kingdom, and did not raise any objections to the results announced by the Ruerson Kingdom.
It was still aggressive before. The military of the Candela Empire, which claimed to disintegrate all resistance from the Ruerson Kingdom within a month, fell into a dead silence after that. No sound came out.
Shortly thereafter, in early July, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce convoy landed from the southern seaport of the Principality of Wales, and in less than a week, it wiped out the combined invasion of the Duchy of Wales by the Derot Kingdom and the Candela Empire, and then moved north. Attack all the way to the city of Dudro, the king of the Dro kingdom, and conquer the city and the royal palace again.
Half a month later, the Dero Kingdom had fully fallen under the control of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
The Candela Imperial Army, which had originally sent a legion into the Dro Kingdom after the declaration of war, was easily routed after the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort launched a counterattack, and the remnants of the army withdrew to the Candela Empire.
Regarding the subsequent actions of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce escort within the Dro Kingdom, the Candela Empire did not say anything.
Meanwhile. The United Kingdom of Nozdorm in the southeastern corner of the continent suddenly exerted its strength, and within a month, it successively routed all the armies of the three surrounding countries, bringing them under its control.
Several countries in the southeastern corner of the continent that had originally issued statements against the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce at the same time as the Candela Empire lost their voices in an instant, and the Nozdorm Commercial United Kingdom easily controlled the situation in this area.
Then the time entered the end of July.
The Lampari Kingdom, which had defeated the resistance of the Kingdom of Sark, after taking control of the internal situation of the Kingdom of Sark, launched an attack on the Kingdom of Franks on July 30 with the Duchy of Drac.
The army of the Frankish Kingdom cooperated with the 100,000 troops sent by the Maro Empire to jointly counterattack, but they were repeatedly defeated and finally crushed.
In the end, the army of the Frankish Kingdom was close to total annihilation, and less than 40,000 of the 100,000 troops of the Maro Empire retreated to the Maro Empire.
On August 23, the combined forces of the Kingdom of Lampari and the Duchy of Draco invaded the royal capital of the Frankish Kingdom, and the King of the Frankish Kingdom was destroyed in the battle along with the royal palace, and the Frankish Kingdom was declared extinct.
On 10 September, the current king of the Kingdom of Sark issued a statement of full surrender to the Kingdom of Lampari.
At this point, the Kingdom of Sark was incorporated into the territory of the Kingdom of Lampari, and the Kingdom of Sark perished.
On 27 September, the Duchy of Draco and the Kingdom of Lampari signed an agreement to divide the original territory of the Kingdom of Franks into two, with about 170,000 square kilometers of land bordering the Duchy of Draco to the west and about 230,000 square kilometers of land bordering the Maro Empire to the east.
When this agreement was announced, it was a little strange to those who knew about it.
There is no problem with the half of the Frankish kingdom's land allocated by the Duchy of Drac, because it happens to border the Duchy of Drak, which can effectively expand the territory of the Duchy of Drak.
However, the other half of the land of the Frankish Kingdom allocated by the Lampari Kingdom is very problematic.
As you can see from the map, this half of the land is bordered by the Maro Empire to the north, the Candela Empire to the east, the west and southwest half of the land that was assigned to the Duchy of Drake, and the southern half to the other two minor principalities.
In summary, there is not even the slightest border with the kingdom of Lampari.
In this case, why does the Lampari Kingdom want this half of the land? If there is no border connection, it will obviously be extremely inconvenient to control.
But it didn't take long for the questions in people's minds to be answered.
On 17 October, the two minor principalities adjacent to the south of the land simultaneously issued a statement to the outside world and incorporated them into the name of the Kingdom of Lampari.
In this way, if you look at the map again, you will find that the Lampari Kingdom borders one of the small principalities to the northeast, thus connecting this land to the Lampari Kingdom.
For this result, most people can only say that it is unexpected, but it is also reasonable.
Anyone who is the Grand Duke of those two small principalities has only one choice.
If you don't take the initiative to surrender, will you wait for the army of the Lampari Kingdom to come?
Previously, these two minor principalities were under the protection of the Candela Empire, and they did not have to worry about the Lampari Kingdom and the Frankish Kingdom next to them.
But now, after a great war that no one could understand, the Lampari Kingdom has become extremely powerful, but the Candela Empire has fallen into silence.
In this situation, these two small principalities do not know how to choose.
So far, the situation in the southwest corner of the Sainz continent has undergone earth-shaking changes in less than half a year.
Leaving aside a few small principalities, it is really surprising that two kingdoms such as the Kingdom of Sark and the Kingdom of the Franks, which were considered powerful among the countries in the southwest corner of the continent, actually fell out.
Correspondingly, the kingdom of Lampari has emerged as the biggest winner.
After several months of fierce fighting, the Lampari Kingdom has now completely annexed the Sark Kingdom, and with the 240,000 square kilometers of land allocated from the Frankish Kingdom, the current total territory of the Lampari Kingdom has reached an astonishing close to 1.5 million square kilometers.
Such an area, placed on the entire Sainz Continent, can be said to be in the largest tier except for the two empires.
The next biggest beneficiary was the Duchy of Drake.
This small principality, which was originally only sandwiched between the three kingdoms of Lampari, Sark and Franks, with a total area of less than 10,000 square kilometers and a total population of only about 100,000, has now swallowed up the huge land of 170,000 square kilometers that originally belonged to the Frankish Kingdom, and the total population of this land is close to one million.
This is suspicious.
Does the Duchy of Drake really have such an appetite to eat these things? (To be continued......