The Kingdom of Delong was originally a large country with a large population, and the land of this country was fertile, with a total population of about 50 million more than ten years ago.

In recent years, successive defeats have led to the division of large swaths of territory and the fall of the population into the hands of neighboring countries.

Before the outbreak of the civil war, the population of the Delong Kingdom was no longer comparable to that of the Haaland Kingdom, only about 26 million, which was equivalent to the loss of half of the population. Now another 4 million have been lost due to the war, and when the war is over, there will not be enough population, and the development potential will be seriously insufficient.

Because of this civil war, even if the Andong Kingdom immediately quelled the civil strife, the strategy of the Haaland Kingdom has been realized for the most part.

In the last year, the outbreak of civil war in the kingdom of Delong has led to an influx of war refugees from nearby countries. These war refugees, with the exception of a small number of nobles, were largely relegated to slavery.

The influx of slaves directly led to a sharp drop in the price of slaves, and the Kingdom of Harland immediately seized the opportunity and began to buy serfs from the Maya and Grant Kingdoms with supplies and arms.

Under Richard's rule, the Kingdom of Harland was already very wealthy, and because of the development of industry, even if the Kingdom of Harland formulated a light tax policy, its tax collection capacity was about three times that of the Kingdom of Grant.

The Kingdom of Haaland not only has outstanding financial capabilities, but also can engage in industrial scissors through arms sales, as long as it sells some magic hot air balloons, it can exchange a large number of people.

King Anton also personally went to war, with an elite onslaught on the gap, and the Sierra Leone castle that had been held out for eleven months was finally unable to hold on.

Facing the threat of the Demon Lord and the Undead Lord, the two sides must also join hands to fight the enemy. Internal rivalry can never develop to the point of fighting a religious war.

Zooming in on the entire Crystal Wall universe, the Goddess of Dawn and the God of Radiance are both gods of the good camp, and despite the internal competition, they are on the same front after all.

Due to the lack of anti-aircraft firepower outside the city, it is impossible to pose a threat to the magic hot air balloon, and the success rate of the airdrop is unusually high.

Under the training of the Kingdom of Haaland, from April 3283 of the Dawn calendar, a magical hot air balloon appeared on the front line.

Most crucially, the magic hot air balloon will be sold in large quantities.

However, in the current situation, the political, diplomatic, and economic support behind it is no longer sustainable, and if we want to break the balance, we must provide military support to improve the situation.

According to the national policy formulated by the Divine Radiance Empire, try to hide behind when interfering in the situation in the eastern countries, and try not to use it if you can.

From the training of soldiers, to the assembly and maintenance of the internal equipment of the magic hot air balloon, and even the know-how of observing the wind direction and climate, we have passed on to customers.

However, the army of the Haaland Kingdom is equipped with a large number of magic crystal cannons and alchemy bombs, and if it has twice the strength advantage, it is enough to compete with a legion of the Divine Radiance Empire.

Aside from being limited by the weather, the magic balloon has few drawbacks, and the kingdom of Harland will be equipped with a lot of magic balloons unless it has developed a better magic airship.

Although the Divine Radiance Empire does not have many troops in the eastern part of the continent, it still has the strength to intervene in the civil war of the Delong Kingdom.

Rosen originally planned to let the kingdom of Delong recuperate, but he did not expect King Anton to strongly promote the change, triggering a civil war in the kingdom of Delong.

As for the more powerful dragon knights, the Divine Radiance Empire certainly has them, but they add up to less than five fingers.

Since the appearance of the Magic Hot Air Balloon on the battlefield, it has been popular with almost all nearby kingdoms as a low-end flying class. Compared with the Lion Knight, the magic hot air balloon can not only attack behind enemy lines, but also perform reconnaissance and airdrop missions, and the power of air combat is also more prominent.

Although the ancestor of the Delong Kingdom is a duke of the Divine Radiance Empire. The ancestor of the Sith Kingdom is the second son of Charles VI of the Divine Radiance Empire, and it stands to reason that he has a closer relationship with the Divine Radiance Empire.

Seeing that the situation was not in his favor, the Anton Kingdom once again showed an excellent view of the overall situation, he used his skill, decisively left the front line, and personally went to the Ryan Kingdom to meet with Rosen, the plenipotentiary envoy of the Divine Radiance Empire, hoping to get the help and support of the Divine Radiance Empire Rosen.

Now that he has raised the stake, Rosen also took out a resource to recruit magicians from the territory of the Divine Radiance Empire, and soon formed a group of more than 200 mages. Then, through the ultra-long-distance teleportation array, this mage regiment was transferred to assist King Anton in the battle together with the Pegasus cavalry.

In recent decades, the Divine Radiance Empire's envoy residence has been in the Kingdom of Lane.

Pegasus is a third-order demonic beast cultivated by the Divine Radiance Empire, and it is also the lowest-end flying class of the Divine Radiance Empire. Although Pegasus's combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Lion, its weight-bearing capacity is much higher than that of the Lion, and it is easier to breed.

Even the prestigious regular legion of the Haland Kingdom generally has a Warcraft cavalry brigade inside, with a number of between three hundred and a thousand, and an average of about six hundred. In addition, it has a magic crystal cannon brigade, a magic airship brigade, a reconnaissance demon hunter squadron, and a mage regiment of more than eighty people. The number of professionals within the legion is more than 3,000.

Although the Kingdom of Haaland did not directly tear up the treaty, it took advantage of the loopholes of the four-nation treaty and sold a large number of magic hot air balloons through commercial means, which directly changed the situation of the civil war in the kingdom of Delong.

In recent years, the Divine Radiance Empire has adopted a strategy of shrinkage, reducing its garrison by 60,000 troops and three legions in the Red Moon plane.

Even the Kingdom of Haaland was banning sales a few years ago.

And the legions of eastern powerhouses such as Grant and Ryan generally only have a few hundred Warcraft cavalry, an elite semi-professional heavy infantry brigade, and a magic support group of more than a dozen people, and the total number of professionals in the entire legion is only two thousand.

In recent years, the Kingdom of Harland has only sold magic hot air balloons to Stanic, Grant and other allies every year, but this time in order to buy population and weaken the potential of the opponent, it has expanded the scope of arms sales and began to sell to the Delon Kingdom and the Mayan Kingdom.

Compared with the Lion Knight, the Pegasus Knight can wear armor and heavy enchanted armor, and his defensive ability is superior, and he can even impact the infantry formation at critical times, making the army's tactics more abundant.

The aristocratic coalition took advantage of the reconnaissance advantage of the flying class and the fast speed, and successfully attacked the grain route of King Anton many times in a row, leaving the besieging army of the Kingdom of Anton weak.

Although the Divine Radiance Empire has enough power to destroy the Kingdom of Haaland, the situation does not allow it.

Richard is the goddess of the Dawn, and the Kingdom of Haaland also has the Church of Dawn as the state religion.

Rosen thought about it and weighed the pros and cons and decided to support King Anton. He personally intervened to coordinate a loan for King Anton, and then transferred the Pegasus Knights from the Legion of the Holy Radiance Empire, so that the Pegasus Knights could help King Anton fight in the name of mercenaries.

In the case of the Divine Radiance Empire, there are three types of flying troops, the lowest is the Pegasus Knight, the middle is the Lion, and the high end is the Bipedal Wyvern.

Back then, King Thomas of the Lane Kingdom tried his best to participate in the Great War of the Five Kingdoms, partly to expand his territory, and partly to actually implement the strategy of regional balance in the Divine Radiance Empire.

The Haaland family before independence from Grant. The Kingdom of Grant is already a powerful country with a land area of three million square kilometers and a population of eighty million. After the independence of the Harland family, the potential of the Grant Kingdom is even weaker than that of the Ryan Kingdom, and it no longer has the power to unify the east, and there is no threat to the Divine Radiance Empire.

After the war between the Kingdom of Grant and the Kingdom of Lane, they relied on a large number of magical hot air balloons to restrain the Lion.

The flying class was hit hard, and the mage group hired by Anton also took it by surprise, and dozens of middle and high-level magicians used fossils as mud spells to directly open a gap in a section of the strong city wall.

There are not many flying troops in the Delong Kingdom, and there are only two flying tigers and more than a dozen lions in the court.

But Ron's envoy never expected that the Haaland family would be so fierce and help the Grant royal family withstand the pressure, defeat the Triple Alliance in one fell swoop, and eat the East Coast.

In short, as long as you are willing to sell people, Haaland has everything you need.

Two of the three legions were transferred back to headquarters, and one was stationed in the Kingdom of Lane.

Even the regular legions of the Haaland Kingdom cannot compete with the regular legions of the Holy Radiance Empire in terms of special troops.

The Divine Radiance Empire also has a strong force in the eastern region of the continent, with more than 100,000 troops on the Red Moon Plane alone, and there is also a guard of more than 1,000 people under the command of Rosen himself, which is very capable.

Relying on a small number of flying magical beasts, high-level mages, and occasionally only ambushing the paralyzing magical hot air balloon team, there is no fundamental change in the development of the situation.

This time the Allied Arms Sale to the nobles of the Delong Kingdom, the Haaland Kingdom provided a lot of logistics services.

Since the kingdom of Haaland cannot be destroyed by violence, the Divine Radiant Empire can only use other means. In order to prevent the Haaland Kingdom from breathing a sigh of relief and swallowing the Delong Kingdom, Rosen, the special envoy of the Holy Radiance Empire, contacted the two major churches of royal power and justice, and forced the Haaland Kingdom to sign a peace treaty through diplomatic means.

The appearance of the flying class immediately seriously affected the battle on the front line.

In recent years, a considerable part of the situation in the eastern countries has been operated by Rosen.

At the same time, a large number of magical hot air balloons carried supplies, and used airdrop tactics to airdrop food, cloth, medicine and other supplies that were lacking in the city to the interior of the castle.

Before Richard was promoted to duke, he was just a chess piece on the chessboard, and it was not until he wore the crown that he was promoted to a chess player, and his influence gradually rivaled that of Rosen.

The strength of the Dawn Church in the eastern part of the continent far exceeds that of the Radiance Church.

This is especially important because the Kingdom of Lane only sells a small number of griffins every year, which is not enough to meet the needs of nearby countries to build flying troops.

The armies of DeLong and the East Coast are a cut worse than those of Grant, Lane and other powerful countries.

Today's Ryan Kingdom actually acts as the gripper of the Divine Radiance Empire to control the situation in the eastern part of the continent.

Moreover, recently, Catherine, the demigod of the Dawn Church, descended to the mortal world and took control of the Red Moon Plane, while the Radiant Church fell to the incarnation of gods, and the situation became even worse.

After listening to the situation reported by King Anton, Rosen was also a little dilemma in his heart.

Compared with the conservative kingdom of Lane, the kingdom of Harland also provides a variety of after-sales services, such as training soldiers, repairing equipment and other miscellaneous requirements.

Although the Holy Radiant Empire invested 700 soldiers in the name of mercenaries, the effect was immediate, once again changing the situation on the front line.

If the two sides fought, the Divine Radiant Empire Legion could be able to defeat five with one, or even ten with one.

The Legion of the Holy Radiance Empire is far better at fighting than the armies of the local kingdoms, with three thousand Demon Beast cavalry within one legion, a five-hundred-strong Pegasus Knights, and a three-hundred-man mage regiment within the legion. The total number of professionals within a legion of the Divine Radiance Empire is nearly 10,000.

These lions are also male lions purchased from the same kingdom as Lane and cannot breed in a breeding colony. Relying on a small number of flying demonic beasts to fight alone, it was impossible to stop the more than a hundred magic hot air balloons that formed a scale.

In desperation, King Anton could only concentrate a small number of flying demonic beasts and high-level magicians to attack the magic hot air balloon.

In order to prevent the Grant Kingdom from becoming a monopoly and the two families of Harland and Grant merged into one, the Rosen envoy reported to Emperor Edward VII, using the method of division and provocation to divide the relationship between the two families of Grant and Harland, and finally succeeded in splitting the powerful Grant Kingdom with a crown.

Compared to a few years ago, the power of the Divine Radiance Empire in the eastern region of the continent has actually weakened a bit. Even if it's not as strong as it was a few years ago, it's still a very impressive force.

But with the passage of time, more than a hundred years ago, the Kingdom of Lane abandoned the God of the Earth and converted to the God of Radiance, which was supported by the Divine Radiance Empire, and now the national power is very high among the eastern countries.

The advantages of the flying class are so prominent, and the forces such as the Divine Radiance Empire and the Ryan Kingdom that have mastered the cultivation ability of flying demonic beasts must of course be banned.

After the fall of the Citadel of Sierra Leone, despite his own heavy casualties, King Anton did not let his soldiers kill on a large scale, and only killed die-hard nobles after the war, but he showed his generosity to his followers.

The wealth of the two countries is not comparable, the freedmen of the Haaland Kingdom can live a fairly good life, while the serfs under the command of the Grant nobles, many of them do not even have pants to cover their bodies.

When the Pegasus Knights appeared on the battlefield, they directly suppressed the magic hot air balloon troops of the noble alliance of the Delong Kingdom, and the two sides fought several fierce air battles, and finally most of the magic hot air balloons were shot down, and the Pegasus cavalry also suffered more than 20 casualties.

Now the most popular is the Harland Kingdom, because Richard has formulated a new order, vigorously developing magical civilization and industry, the development of the Harland Kingdom is changing with each passing day, and even the Divine Radiance Empire feels threatened.

In the hapless Sierra Leonean family, the vast majority of adult males were killed in battle, and women were reduced to slavery and became sex slaves to officers.

After breaking through the Citadel of Sierra Leone, King Anton greatly increased his power and directly forced down more than 30 hereditary nobles. The front advanced directly one hundred and fifty kilometers, and it was not until under the castle of Marcel that it suffered again.

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