When the Kalade, that is, the historians of Rhodok and Swadia, later talked about the battle of Garmic, they all spoke highly of the battle, perhaps overdoing it, and mythologizing the battle of intrigue greater than courage.

Although judging from the course of the campaign, it was nothing more than the Rhodoks coming into contact with the rebel forces within Salander, and then marching on the border in the name of helping the just cause of Swadia, and finally taking the opportunity to betray the alliance and regain the lost territory when Salander was mired in civil strife. But on the other hand, since Great Swadia split more than twenty years ago, the successors of the Karad Empire have been at a disadvantage in their wars with foreign tribes over the years. There have even been instances of the Rhodoks and Swadians helping each other's enemies. This battle was arguably the first successful counterattack by the Kalladians against the Aliens.

Once upon a time, many areas that had never been accessible to foreigners were conquered by fratricidal rivalry between the Swadians and the Rhodoks. It was not until many years later, when Svadia had expended a great deal of manpower and material resources, that those areas were difficult to recover, and by that time, the population composition of the areas occupied by Svadia had become impure, and a series of ethnic problems made Svadia difficult and costly to govern. It was then that Svadia realized that she was no longer able to completely remove the aliens from her land, which set the stage for centuries of long-term upheaval.

When the Rhodoks recaptured the fortress of Kamici, they did not realize the significance of their reconquest: the descendants of the Karad Empire had awakened and become angry, and the years of shame had fueled the Kalad's enthusiasm and vow to punish all the aliens who did evil. This enthusiasm was further fueled by the recapture of a fortress by Rhodok.

The mild winds of public opinion in the past have become radicalized: the farmers of Suno sit on the fields and talk with relish about how the soldiers killed the Kujits; Aaron's workers rest with a faint smile telling the story of the Duchy's soldiers and Salander's widow; Students at Uxhall School were taught offensive military songs.

Calad became angry.

And as news of Rhodok's recapture of the fortress of Garmici spread through the front lines and reports of civil unrest in Salander, the situation of the Kugits deteriorated even further.

Salander's expeditionary force was divided into several parts and received different missions from different sultans. At that time, the eldest prince of Salander fled to the border, and with the help of some great nobles, the eldest prince accepted most of the army, and these troops were constantly replenished by the civilians of Salander on the way back to the division. The commoners, for the most part, had been favored by the Sultan, and when the Great Age demanded a choice, they chose the legitimate heir of the old Sultan over the strongest one.

A small part of the Salander Expeditionary Force also accepted the orders of the second prince and began to withdraw from the battlefield and return home. The two forces within Salander spent a few months peacefully in a delicate balance, during which time there was no head-on friction between the two camps. They sent diplomats to various countries non-stop, demanding that they be recognized and expelled from the other side. This situation made some of the countries that were already terrified of Salander secretly happy, knowing that it was better to support either than both--- and that the Sultanate would never be able to pose a substantial threat to the other as long as the Salander people were mired in prolonged internal attrition.

The most popular thing for the continents is that Salander is divided into two, at war with each other, desolate fertile land, deplete dense populations, and burn down prosperous towns. In that case, the states would be free to manipulate the two small states that Salander had split into, controlling them economically, then annexing them politically, and finally, if necessary, sending soldiers to occupy them.

It was because of this attitude of the countries that Salander's civil war lasted for three years. Whenever there is an imbalance of strength, countries will help the weaker side to tide over the difficulties, with only one goal: to perpetuate the war.

At the beginning, the eldest prince, who controlled the Salander expeditionary force, managed to recruit more than 13,000 new militia from the border fortress, and then cooperated with the garrisons in various places to form a huge army of 30,000 people. The eldest prince knew that his strength would not be able to sustain the 30,000-strong battle for a long time, and if there was no breakthrough, the barren western provinces would only be able to supply the army for more than a year, at which point the army would collapse on its own. The Prince's supporters were well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of their army, so they quickly launched a counteroffensive after convincing the Prince.

The counteroffensive was effective, and at its most glorious time, a forward force of 3,000 men kept the second prince of Dukuba under martial law for more than a year. The policy of feeding the war with war has allowed the Prince's army to be maintained, but this practice is gradually consuming the Prince's political capital --- the support and hope of the people.

The second prince went on the defensive after a surprise attack on the capital. There were only more than 5,000 soldiers under the direct control of the second prince, and for a long time after the start of the war, the southern army, which was not attached to the people, could not obtain the source of troops as easily as the northern army. The second prince had to order the soldiers to hold the castle along the way, burn the fields, and not put up frontal resistance. The army of the eldest prince won almost all the victories in the frontal battle, but they could not uproot the second prince. The power of the second prince could not shrink in the various castle fortresses, and it consumed the soldiers of the eldest prince for a long time.

The long war has finally diluted the sense of loyalty and justice among the common people, and after a few years, the farmers and townspeople, who are exhausted by the war, no longer care who is right and who is wrong, they just want to defect to a strong man and end the war quickly. At this time, the army of the eldest prince reached its peak in the military, but it was also at this time that the second prince finally breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that victory was not far off.

In the most difficult time, the second prince stayed in the capital with a thin army and promulgated a new policy. The property of all the nobles who followed the eldest prince was confiscated, and the second prince stripped these people of everything, declared their official positions illegal, and used the wealth and status of these people to quickly entrap a large number of lower nobles. After Dukuba stabilized, conscription began to become easier and easier, and for a few years, the Salanders stopped blaming the usurper, they only wanted to live in peace, and in order to be able to end the war, they no longer thought about expensive things such as honor and law.

When the eldest prince finally besieged the capital of Dukuba for a year, it seemed that victory was imminent. The second prince began to counterattack.

For many years, although the southern provinces, the base of the second prince, have been repeatedly invaded by the Rhodoks, they have not touched the roots. Even at the height of the front, the second prince did not agree to levy manpower from the southern provinces. The second prince was overstretched, with the capital capital Kuba as the core, and bit the eldest prince to the death. More than once, the second prince's subordinates persuaded him to leave the capital and return to the south to try to go north again, and the second prince shook his head: "I can only enter the capital once, either stay here until I die, or leave and never come back." There are no second chances. The father's favor and prestige were all inherited by the puppet sultan, who had an advantage beyond our reach from the beginning, and we must not let him return to the capital, and we must keep him out. Once he returns to the capital, then everything is over. ”

The eldest prince looked extremely powerful at this time, but in fact he was on the verge of collapse. The northwestern provinces under his control have been tossed by huge military spending, their populations have plummeted, and the organizational and mobilization capabilities of governments at all levels have weakened to almost primitive levels. The eldest prince became more and more impatient, looking forward to a decisive battle with the second prince. After a series of strategic blunders, the Grand Prince lost some of his most elite soldiers. This caused a reversal of power on both sides.

The eldest prince switched from offensive to defensive, and at this time, the second prince threw out his trump card. Overnight, the southern provinces were dotted with recruiting points from towns to villages, and hundreds of soldiers were concentrated in Sharitz, where the abundance of wheat and weaponry turned these new forces into the straw that broke the great prince's camel.

Two and a half years after the start of the war, the war ended at an accelerated pace. With the second prince's 15,000 fresh troops replenished into the battlefield, the eldest prince has lost all opportunities.

At that time, most of the Swadia lands occupied by the Kugits had been recovered by the Swadian cavalry, and at the critical moment of the Salander Civil War, the Swadias regained the Lundia Fort. Fort Reindi, which was once given to Salander by Kugit as a gift to join the war, became a hot potato in the hands of the eldest prince, and in the face of the swadians who sharpened their knives, the eldest prince had to express his desire to keep the peace again and again.

At the beginning of the Salander coup, the Grand Prince, having just mastered the expeditionary force, set out to reconcile with the Svadians and withdrew from the battlefield. King Kugit struggled for more than two years after the departure of the Salanders, and in the middle of the war, the Vicchians and Nords sent troops to assist the Kugit in defending the city, but in the final year of the war, these volunteers also withdrew. As soon as it became clear that the defeat of Kugit was inevitable, the countries stopped as soon as possible. But in order to keep Swadia in a state of war for as long as possible, the two countries continued to respond to Kugit's hopes of assistance after the official suspension of aid to Kugit.

There was a radical change within Svadia, and a large number of moderate forces were purged in the name of fear of war, and the discerning people found that most of them were princely ministers who supported Prince Frederick. Moreover, the Swadia army, having achieved successive victories, did not seem to be in a hurry to clean up the Kujits. With the military on the sidelines, Prince Haraus did not seem to want the war to end soon. In those days, Harlaus cleanly turned the entire royal court into a club for his supporters.

In the third year of the Salander Civil War, the eldest prince was uprooted from the last stronghold in Salander, and the eldest prince was expelled from the Salander Sultanate and became a lost dog, thus ending the Salander Civil War.

What is touching is that the last place where the eldest prince landed was the Fort Rendi, which was besieged for four days four years ago and lost.

The Kugits did not ask him to return the castle to this worthless ally, because by this time the Kugits had no time to take care of anything else, and were just waiting for the Swadias to agree to peace talks in the stormy situation of war.

When King Kugit went to war a few years ago, he did not expect that the impact of this war would be so widespread.

During these years, the population of eastern Svadia fell to the lowest point in hundreds of years, and the standard of living deteriorated to the level of Vecchia;

The Rhodoks regained the fortress of Garmici and crossed the Garmici Mountains to occupy much of the traditional territory of Salander;

The Nords established a series of ice-free ports, and when the southern countries were at loggerheads, the Nords quietly became a maritime power;

Vecchia took advantage of the war to attract a large number of immigrants--- especially Swadia immigrants, which greatly increased her national strength;

As for Salander, after a long civil war, he had lost the ability to invade Middle-earth within ten years;

The Kugit people lost the most, and although they did not lose an inch of their country, for the steppe people, more important than the land was the population. The demographic losses of the Kugit halted the process of Middle-earth. But King Kugit was not so disappointed, he had quietly eliminated the last few stubborn tribal leaders during the war, and when the war was over, the country was impoverished and weakened, but it was incomparably united.

All this was achieved within a few years of the reconquest of the fortress of Garmic.

But at this time, my father didn't know anything, and as a junior officer, although he had performed well in the siege and had saved countless Swadians before, no one seemed to be particularly grateful to him.

Although the Swadia refugees were rescued by him, people attributed more to the Swadia squad;

Although the Rhodoks won a surprise victory under his leadership and reduced casualties, the Rhodok soldiers knew privately that the general had never regarded himself only as a Swadiaan;

The battle of Garmic was soon over, and news came from Cesara that clashes broke out with Salander on the sea. The Salander navy suffered a crushing defeat with a tenfold advantage. In this battle, the advanced sailing ships and oil skills of the Rhodok people made the Salanders suffer terribly. But while the Rhodoks were in pursuit, a loud firing weapon from the Salanders forced the Rhodoks to stop. People speculated that it was some kind of alchemist's wonderful recipe to knock a stone the size of a watermelon out hundreds of meters at an angle almost parallel to the sea. Although the Rhodoks suffered a temporary setback due to the appearance of Salander's new weapon, it was a huge victory after all. It's a pity that when the Navy was at the top of its glory, my father was not there.

As the Big Time begins to take irresistible steps forward, my father is leading a group of soldiers trying to extinguish the fire in the city of Garmic. After the city was broken, General Adil set fire to all the food and other supplies, executed the envoy of the second prince, but he himself led his soldiers to break through to the north while taking advantage of the chaos.

Some say that Adil found the Grand Prince at the front and swore allegiance to him. This news was confirmed much later, when the Grand Prince of Salander, in a devastating defeat, fled to Svadia with Fort Reindi, praying for protection. At that time, the last remaining general beside the eldest prince of Salander was General Adile.

Calard began to get angry, and the reconquest of Fort Garmage made her anger even stronger.

His father commanded the firefighting in Garmic, and was slowly left behind by the big time.

I've been wondering if my father's fate would have been happier if he hadn't made some of the decisions he made at the time.

The big times are coming, but the little people are not ready.

It's really hard to sigh.