Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation While Laurist led his family's caravan across the Mitrobro River to the Northern Lands and plundered the territory of the Grand Dukes, defeating the allied forces led by Duke Lujins, and transporting countless resources, rations, and people back to the family's territory like busy ants, the Andinac Kingdom was in turmoil again.
On the 25th day of the fourth month, 1768, the king of the Redelis Kingdom, the former eldest prince of the Christen Empire, Christen Redelis, announced that the second prince of the Andinac Kingdom, Ogseiro, had committed the crime of imprisoning his father and brother. He had committed treason by inciting violence and bullying the neighboring countries. Therefore, he would mobilize an army of 70,000 to suppress the second prince in order to protect the reputation of the former Christen Empire.
When the eldest prince's announcement was made, everyone who saw it burst into laughter. For some reason, the announcement was so familiar. Some people looked it up and realized that it was an announcement made by the regent of the Andinac Kingdom, who was also the Christen Empire during the time of the empire's civil war. This time, the eldest prince only changed a few words before returning it to the Andinac Kingdom.
Although the announcement was a joke, the 70,000 soldiers under the eldest prince were not to be trifled with. In less than ten days, the seven fortresses that the Andinac Kingdom had set up at the border between the two kingdoms had all fallen. The Gale Legion suffered heavy casualties and could only retreat step by step, relying on the manors and castles of the nobles in the kingdom to resist.
On the thirty-second day of the fourth month of the Galinthea General Calendar, the Grand Duke of Madras, at the cost of nearly five thousand casualties of the Seamount Legion under his command, took down Sith Castle, which was guarded by two battalions of the Andinac Kingdom's Royal Guards, and opened up the passage to the outside world in the province of Sidergrad. The reinforcements of the Iberian Kingdom, led by the second prince, were victorious in the city of Vanades.
At that time, the two battalions of the Andinac Kingdom's Royal Guards that were defending Sith Castle only suffered slightly more than 1,000 casualties before retreating to the city of Vanades. In addition to the city's garrison, there were a total of fifteen thousand soldiers. At that time, everyone thought that the second prince would use the fortifications of Vanades City to launch a fierce offensive and defensive battle against the Madras Grand Duke's Seamount Legion and the second prince's Iberian Kingdom's reinforcement army.
To everyone's surprise, the Andinac Kingdom's garrison quietly abandoned the city and retreated to the newly built mountain fortress over 10 miles away, just a few nights before the Sea Mountain Legion and the 2nd Prince's army finished building their siege weapons and prepared to attack the city the next day, no one expected the Andinac Kingdom's garrison to silently abandon the city and retreat to the newly-built mountain fortress over 10 miles away.
When the Grand Duke of Madras and the second prince discovered that the gates of the city of Vanades were wide open without a single guard, the armies of the two kingdoms engaged in several skirmishes in order to seize this strategic location. In the end, the Seamount Legion seized two-thirds of the city, while the Iberian Kingdom's reinforcements controlled a third of the city.
After that, the Duchy of Madras and the Kingdom of Iberia fell into endless wrangling. Both sides regarded the Andinac Kingdom's garrison in the fortress more than ten miles away as if they were nothing, and quarreled endlessly over the control of Vanades City.
Under the mediation of some people, the Grand Duke of Madras and the second prince finally reached an agreement. After paying a large ransom, the Iberian Kingdom's reinforcements withdrew from Vanades City, leaving behind a third of the city that they had almost trampled into a barren land.
Then, the Grand Duke of Madras and the second prince led their respective armies towards the mountain fortress built by the second prince and prepared to continue attacking and recovering the Yungesandra province. After the Grand Duke of Madras had launched two unsuccessful attacks on the Mountain Path Fortress, a letter written by the Second Prince was delivered to the Grand Duke of Madras from the fortress.
The general meaning of the letter was to remind the Grand Duke of Madras that when he resolutely fought against the second prince, he should not forget the existence of the second prince, the hungry wolf, behind him. If the second prince insisted on doing things his own way, the second prince could withdraw from the mountain fortress and even give up the Lejidana Fortress Castle. However, he did not know if the second prince would forcefully occupy the mountain pass fortress after the Grand Duke Madras led the Seamount Legion into the Yungesandra Province and seal the Grand Duke Madras and the Seamount Legion in the province …
After reading the letter, the Grand Duke of Madras broke out in a cold sweat. He then understood the reason why the second prince wanted to build a mountain fortress more than 10 miles away from Vanades City. This was to annex the Yungesandra province, and in the future, the mountain fortress and Vanades City would become the new border between the two countries …
The Grand Duke of Madras hesitated. Among the three provinces of the Duchy, the Yungesandra province was the most barren province. There was not much arable land, and it was full of hills, swamps, forests, and small mountains. If this province was given to the Andinac Kingdom as compensation, he believed that the second prince would definitely be satisfied with a truce and stop the war. For the Grand Duke of Madras, it would be like losing a package. Otherwise, if he stationed a legion to defend the border between two countries, he would still have to rely on the two provinces behind him to continuously provide supplies and replenish blood. This was not a small expense for the Grand Duke.
If Yungesandra province was ceded to the Andinac Kingdom, the Grand Duke of Madras would lose face, but gain peace. To the Duchy, the most important provinces were the grain producing Delemke province and the commercial center of Vanades City. Now that Vanades City had been recovered, most of Delemke province was in the hands of the second prince. Although there were people who guaranteed that the second prince would not forcibly occupy Delemke province, the Grand Duke of Madras who knew the second prince's character was not very trusting. Moreover, there were nobles in Delemke province complaining about the second prince's army every day, and yet the second prince did not restrain himself. It was obvious that he did not respect the Grand Duke of Madras.
The Grand Duke of Madras, who was holding the second prince's handwritten letter, believed in the judgment in the letter. If he were to recover Yungesandra by himself, the second prince would withdraw his troops from the mountain path fortress, and he would follow them all the way to the Lejidana Fortress. The second prince would then occupy the mountain path fortress from behind, and everything would be over by then. The Madras Principality would no longer exist.
Hence, the next day, the Grand Duke of Madras met with the second prince. The Grand Duke requested the second prince to help him recover Yungesandra province. The reason was that the second prince had led his army to support the Duchy of Madras, but did not even engage in a battle with the Andinac Kingdom's army. Instead, he had been following behind the Andinac Kingdom's army.
The second prince was not a fool. He came to support the Grand Duke of Madras because he wanted to take advantage of the situation. Firstly, he wanted to cancel the debt between the two countries. Secondly, he wanted to obtain gratitude from the Grand Duke. Thirdly, he wanted to see if he could take advantage of the chaos to occupy Delemke province. Now, he resented the second prince for not defending Sith Castle and locking the Grand Duke of Madras in Sydhelgrad province. Hence, he only managed to occupy half of Delemke province.
If Delemke province and Vanades city fell into the second prince's hands, then the Grand Duke of Madras' power would be lost. He could not afford the ransom for Delemke province and Vanades city. This province and this commercial city would become the second prince's source of wealth …
Hence, the second prince was very unhappy. When he heard the Grand Duke of Madras request him to attack the Mountain Path Fortress and recover Yungesandra province, his mood became even worse. He rejected the Grand Duke's suggestion and emphasized that he was leading the Iberian Kingdom's reinforcement army. They were here to provide support, not to be the vanguard. Only after the Grand Duke of Madras' Seamount Legion was defeated would it be their turn to go up.
The Grand Duke of Madras really wanted to pull out his sword and hack this shameless and thick-skinned second prince. He was taking advantage of the situation and yet he spoke so eloquently. However, when he remembered that he was in the second prince's army camp, he swallowed his anger and left. The second prince even said to his generals cheerfully, "You want us to die? No way …"
Then, the second prince really couldn't find the door. No one would have thought that in the middle of the night, the Grand Duke of Madras would lead his army to attack the second prince's army camp and utterly defeat the thirty thousand men that the second prince brought. Other than a few nobles like the second prince and a few knights who escaped, the rest of the second prince's thirty thousand men were completely annihilated.
This was known in history as the "Dawn Raid". The Madras army suddenly launched a sneak attack on the allied army camp of the Iberian Kingdom's reinforcement army in the early morning of the seventh of May. The thirty thousand men of the Iberian Kingdom's reinforcement army were completely annihilated. The second prince, who led this army, broke a hole in the camp's fence and escaped under the cover of a few guards.
This sudden turn of events left everyone who had been paying attention to the war scratching their heads. They couldn't understand why the Grand Duke of Madras and the second prince had turned against each other. The Grand Duke of Madras publicly accused the second prince of harboring evil intentions and wanting to secretly frame him to annex the Madras Duchy.
The second prince, who had escaped back to the Delemke province, was even more furious. When had he ever suffered such a huge loss? Not only were the twenty thousand private soldiers of the nobles who had followed him to support wiped out, even the border guards that his father-in-law, Fisablun, had lent him were completely annihilated. And before he could even cry out his grievances, the Grand Duke of Madras had already slandered him, accusing him of a series of crimes that left the second prince unable to defend himself …
If he had to blame someone, he could only blame the second prince's usual character. No one believed him and believed the Grand Duke's side of the story. They all accused the second prince of supporting them in name but secretly framing them.
The second prince was furious. Since that was the case, he might as well go all out and declare that he was absolutely irreconcilable with the Grand Duke of Madras. On one hand, he gathered troops from the kingdom, and on the other, he allowed the two border guards stationed in the Delemke province to start burning, killing, and looting.
On the other hand, the Grand Duke of Madras prepared the defenses and armaments of Vanades City and Sith Castle. On the other hand, he gathered troops and called on the nobles of the duchy to work together to form a defensive army. He was determined to drive the hungry second prince and the Iberian bandits out of the Madras Duchy's borders. Just like that, the two sides forgot about the Andinac Kingdom's garrison troops at the mountain road fortress and fought fiercely in the Delemke province.
Just as the situation in the Madras Duchy was changing, the Pulimao Fortress in the south of the Andinac Kingdom was finally captured by the Redelis Kingdom's army led by the eldest prince. The Andinac Kingdom's Gale Legion's Commander, Gold Knight Nederrum, and five thousand Gale Legion soldiers died in battle. They made the eldest prince pay the price of nearly twenty thousand casualties in order to capture the fortress.
But after capturing the Pulimao Fortress, the road to the former imperial capital was smooth and unimpeded. Satisfied, the First Prince led his thirty thousand men and horses straight towards the Imperial Capital without stopping.
In Liushui River, a hundred miles away from the imperial capital, the First Prince and more than thirty thousand men and horses fell into the trap of the Second Prince, who had been lying in ambush for many days. Nearly seventy thousand soldiers of the Royal Guard Corps surrounded the First Prince. They did not attack the besieged eldest prince and his army. Instead, they occupied a favorable terrain to defend. They planned to trap the eldest prince and more than thirty thousand troops in the encirclement and starve them to death …
After the great victory at the Liushui River, the second prince used the newly expanded seventy thousand soldiers of the Royal Guards to make use of the favorable terrain to defend. It took them more than a month to eliminate the thirty thousand elite soldiers who had followed the eldest prince to establish the Redelis Kingdom with only twenty thousand casualties. The eldest prince threw away his helmet and armor, changed into a tattered peasant's clothes, and escaped with his two bodyguards.
On the third day of the seventh month, the seventy thousand troops of the Redelis Kingdom led by the eldest prince had been wiped out. The second prince led forty thousand soldiers of the Royal Guards to counterattack and enter the Redelis Kingdom. The nobles of the Redelis Territory defected and joined the second prince. With great momentum, the vanguard of the army headed straight for the capital of the Redelis Kingdom, Felix City.
On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the Redelis Kingdom and the Andenac Kingdom signed a truce agreement. The eldest prince ceded two provinces in the southwest to the Andenac Kingdom as compensation for the provocation. Both sides agreed to a truce, and the second prince led the army back to the kingdom in triumph.
On the 21st of August, the Battle of Kebo came to an end. The battle took place at the city of Kebo in the Delemke province of the Madras Principality. It was a battle between the coalition army of fifty thousand lords led by the Madras Minister and the forty thousand troops of the Second Prince who invaded the Madras Principality. Both sides suffered heavy losses. The Second Prince was forced to retreat from the Madras Principality with his remaining troops.
After the Grand Duke of Madras recovered the province of Delemke, he insisted on signing a peace agreement with the Andenac Kingdom despite the opposition of his lords and knights. He ceded the province of Yungesandra to the Andenac Kingdom in exchange for an understanding between both sides and a five-year alliance agreement.
After that, the Grand Duke of Madras built defensive facilities on a large scale in the two provinces of the duchy. Not only did he build several fortresses and castles on the border of the two countries that bordered the Iberian Kingdom, but he also built a row of defensive facilities on the bank of the Midburo River, which was originally the territory of Baron Shuras. It prohibited people from crossing the river, and completely separated the North from the Madras Duchy.
In the records of the continental war, the Andenac Kingdom's Royal Guards and White Lion Legion attacked the Madras Duchy's Lejidana Fortress in October 1767, and the signing of a peace agreement in August 1768. The war that lasted for nearly a year was collectively known as "Ognesero's Counterattack".
In this series of battles, the Second Prince of the Andenac Kingdom, Ognesero's outstanding strategic ability and military command skills were fully displayed. Not only did he integrate the turbulent kingdom's internal affairs, but he also schemed to cause internal strife between the Madras Duchy and the second prince. He also defeated the eldest prince, and forced the Redelis Kingdom and the Madras Duchy to cede land for peace. This doubled the size of the Andenac Kingdom, and made it a regional power.
As a result, the Second Prince's reputation rose, and he was known as the most outstanding military master of the new generation.
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