Under the Red Dragon

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Loud sirens, the whirring of machines, and the massive, synchronized footsteps of iron warriors and golems echoed through the wide streets of Dorabi City.

The unusual calm that had settled over Dorabi City in the past two days allowed the ordinary residents of this city to recognize the difference between the territories once ruled by nobles and the Golden Empire.

If the gap between commoners and nobles in the world of Aikania was like heaven and earth, then the gap between most other nobles and the Golden Empire was like an insurmountable chasm.

The difference was in resources, military power, vision, and almost every other aspect.

Even the vast civilian labor camps of the Golden Empire, transporting supplies, displayed a vitality unlike any other civilized nation in the world of Aikania.

After training, the laborers drove massive steel transport machines, happily shuttling back and forth in and out of Dorabi City, transporting supplies.

These large, steel-built transport machines, mass-produced, were about sixteen meters long, eight meters wide, and eight meters high, with an empty weight of two hundred tons and a rated load of three hundred and sixty tons.

Originally, these large loaders were developed by the Golden Empire's research department as giant mining vehicles for high-quality mining, possessing extremely high load capacity and powerful power systems.

The combination of a magic engine and a fierce oil engine allowed such behemoths to transport more cargo in one trip than an entire horse-drawn caravan.

Although the maximum speed was only sixty-four kilometers per hour, the eight rubber tires could easily carry it through the Godforsaken Mountains.

Rubber was not uncommon in the territories of the Golden Empire, which had abundant rubber raw material production.

The application of rubber technology required precise control of temperature and pressure to ensure product quality and performance, but this could not stump the Golden Empire's magic research department and the auxiliary intelligent mainframes configured on the production lines.

Although land transport was dominated by steel trains, the Golden Empire did not yet have the strength to lay railways to the newly occupied cities.

Therefore, the Golden Empire's steel machines became the busiest entities, and these steel machines were called 'crawlers' by the citizens of the Golden Empire because of their slow speed.

Initially, these steel machines were designed not only as high-quality mining vehicles for the Golden Empire but also as a reserve for converting these steel machines into chariot-like existences to rampage across the battlefield.

However, after demonstration by the Imperial Research Department, the development of golem legion technology was far more efficient and powerful than using such steel creations to create war machines, so the Empire regarded this batch of 'crawler' transport machines as logistical reserve machines for transporting imperial heavy artillery, ordnance, and food supplies.

"Haha, driving such a machine is truly majestic, second only to the feeling of soaring through the sky riding a dragon or dragon beast," a young militiaman recruit sitting in the main driver's seat of a 'crawler' loading and transport machine laughed heartily at his co-driver, watching the curious, surprised, and envious eyes of the original residents of Dorabi City who were beginning to become active.

"This is nothing," another equally young co-driver said, though he proudly puffed out his chest, he said to his companion: "I know the attendant under the logistics officer in charge of the civilian labor camp."

"I once heard him say at a celebration banquet that the Empire is still developing super-giant machines specifically for developing large-scale mineral deposits, those are the real big guys."

"It is said that that guy is called 'Worm' by the people in the logistics department, like a big iron box, forty meters long, thirty meters wide, and seven meters high, with a weight of nearly three thousand tons!"

"Wow, if I could drive such a big guy, I would be willing to do it even if I had to subdue another dragon!"

"Tsk, what are you thinking about!"

As the Golden Empire and the Kings' Alliance completely controlled the entire Dorabi City and the Marino Defense Line, such things happened in every transportation channel of the Marino Defense Line.

The established goal of the Eight Kings Alliance was to wipe out the entire Southern Noble Alliance, so it would not slow down its pace of advancement.

The supplies and ordnance seized after the defeat of those noble alliance legions needed to be collected, counted, and transported to the next camp of the Kings' Allied Forces by a huge logistics transport army.

This was actually equivalent to sustaining the war with war, providing on-the-spot supplies.

However, even though the industrialization of the Golden Empire had already spread in full swing, it would take a long time to manufacture such giant industrial machines, after all, countless industries in the Empire needed a large number of manpower and productivity to supply.

Although all productivity was given priority to the war after the war began, there were only fifteen such giant 'crawler' loading and transport machines in the Golden Empire.

The remaining means of transportation were still quite primitive, using large species such as magic horn rhinoceroses, dragon beasts, and wild dragons to tow horse-drawn carriages, so in recent days, Dorabi City had been countless times more lively than its most prosperous days.

In such lively busyness, there was no lack of the deterrence of blood.

The nobles had once launched small-scale rebellions in the city, attempting to hold back the Golden Empire and the Kings for some time through street fighting.

However, such small disturbances did not require the Empire's main battle legions to dispatch, those goblin and kobold riflemen dispatched and stationed from the Golden Empire, cooperating with the alchemical creature legions, easily suppressed some of the ripples.

Those captured noble warriors were driven by these fierce goblin and kobold riflemen to the central street of Dorabi City, and then these warriors were lined up and executed by firing squad for several minutes.

The corpses of these resisters who attempted to resist the rule of the Empire and the Kings were also hung on erected wooden fences, the pervasive smoke and blood, and the corpses of these losers became an insurmountable cordon and landscape in Dorabi City.

Without the need for the Golden Empire's dragons and the Kings to make any propaganda, the remaining 200,000 residents of Dorabi already knew that the rule of the nobles was over.

Ordinary people in any world can only accept the changes of the times, the power of the masses is great, but the wisdom of the masses is not necessarily correct, so their choices are the results they must face.

So these residents began to try to accept the decrees issued by the temporary stationed officials of the Golden Empire in silence, and the influence of the Golden Empire began to spread in the south in the form of rooting.

This was just a starting point, not an end point.

The allied forces of the Golden Empire and the Kings had already withdrawn their troops from Dorabi City on the second day of rest, and set up a large camp in the plains behind Dorabi City, waiting for the replenishment and distribution of supplies, and then continued to advance.

The legion commander of the Death Knight Legion, the Dragonblood Centaur Chiron, had already led eight thousand heavy armored knight regiments and the Flying Dragon Legion of the Kings' Alliance to spread out in front, and thousands of rangers scattered into the southern front, making sufficient preparations for the next battle.

In the large camp outside the city, various metal armors and ordnance reflected dazzling cold light beside the roaring king flag, and the busy warriors around were as numerous as cattle hair.

Among them were not only those who were carrying various magic-guided machines, heavy artillery, and alchemical weapons dismantled from the walls of Dorabi City and the Marino Defense Line, but also the stockpiled materials from other noble countries of the Southern Noble Alliance that supported the Marino Duchy, which were piled up in Dorabi City.

Compared to these things, the accumulated wealth was still uniformly sealed in the treasury of the municipal department in Dorabi City, which was not the primary goal of the Golden Empire and the Kings.

Karon Goggamora stood in front of the huge mountain and geographical magic map, quietly watching the undulating mountains and the rolling vast hilly plain area behind.

Karon, in his dragonkin form, did not show how powerful his majesty and aura were, but the multi-armed giant king Mogyes, the frost giant king Ragna Hegg, and the sun elf Serithius, who were in the same king tent with this dragon emperor, did not speak first.

In addition to these kings, there were also the black dragon Rosani and the prince of the Beastman King Bosel Lion, Kadi Lion, who had rushed over from the east and west front lines.

As well as the Thunder Lord Dos and the Lord of the Shadow Nest, Saros.

The representatives sent by these kings arrived here at the first moment when the Marino Defense Line was completely breached, for the purpose of the huge amount of war ordnance and magic-guided artillery captured.

As well as the unification of the strategic intentions with the Emperor of the Golden Empire, Karon Goggamora. Karon Goggamora, as the leader of the Kings' Alliance, his ability was recognized by these kings, so they did not care whether their actions would convey any influence to the outside world.

The Kings' Alliance had a unified goal, and they would not be affected by anything now, all enemies would be crushed into渣 by these unprecedentedly united kings.

On the magical mountain and geographical map, the territory and sphere of influence of the Kings' Alliance were expanding rapidly, especially the power of the Orc Kingdom.

At the moment when the Orc King Bosel Lion broke through Raman Beach, the subsequent troops of the entire Orc Kingdom attacked again, they cut down trees day and night to build ships.

Together with the joint fleet of the Golden Empire and the Kings, all the orc warriors who could fight were fully deployed on the northern continent.

Compared to Karon Goggamora, this dragon emperor, who could retreat to the Golden Empire to recuperate after a failure, the Orc Kingdom had now almost exhausted the power of a country, and could only win, not retreat.

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"The entire northern sea route of the Northern Continent is under the control of the Empire and the Kings. Once the logistics supply is guaranteed and the fleet is reorganized and rested, the Golden Empire and the Kings can connect the three war zones into one and launch a full-scale attack!"

Karon Goggamora's hideous hand claws gently tapped the sand table map in front of him, and slowly said: "These already occupied cities do not need to be deeply cultivated and built, we do not have that time, the Kings should fully unite and advance, until the Southern Nobles are completely swept out of the Northern Continent."

"Only when those obstructive nobles are completely eliminated can the Kings stabilize and build deeply cultivated occupied areas, but once the Kings' Allied Forces advance, the rear cannot catch fire, so the Kings must leave enough loyal and brave warriors to garrison those key roads and cities connecting north and south."

Kadi Lion, this orc who has the same lion-like mane as the Orc King, was the first to speak in agreement as the person with the relatively lowest status in the king's tent.

"What His Majesty Goggamora said is correct. Before my father sent me here, he had already told me that His Majesty Goggamora's wisdom is the most forward-looking among the kings, and His Majesty Goggamora's opinion is my father's opinion."

Kadi Lion said this, it seems that this orc is the descendant that the Orc King Bosel Lion is currently vigorously cultivating.

The multi-armed giant Mogyes nodded indifferently and said: "I have no objection, anyway, my alliance with you is unstoppable on this front, even if the city behind us catches fire and a rebellion occurs, we two can easily crush those stinky bug dregs."

The Frost Giant King Ragna Hegg and the Sun Elf Serithius looked at each other and nodded in agreement silently.

Although these two legendary figures captured the two legendary combat forces of the Noble Alliance alive, they did not develop a conceited mentality because of such trivial matters. After all, the multi-armed giant Mogyes and the ancestral red dragon Karon Goggamora in the Kings' Alliance are undoubtedly powerful existences.

The difference between people is sometimes greater than the difference between people and dogs, and the difference between legends and legends is sometimes greater than the difference between people and straw sandals.

The Frost Giant King and the Sun Elf Serithius are undoubtedly the relatively weaker existences in the Kings' Alliance for the time being.

The Lord of the Shadow Nest, Saros, did not express any doubts about the ancestral red dragon's opinion, she just turned her words and asked: "Then how should the ordnance materials seized from those noble allied forces be distributed? With the help of these siege weapons, the next war of the Kings' Alliance will be much easier."

The steel dragon Midir, who had been silent all along, squeezed out of the crowd. As the dragon in the Empire who was most sensitive to numbers, this steel dragon is now the logistics commander of the Kings' Alliance.

She looked seriously at the material list in her hand, which was filled with dense numbers, and said: "Among the seized materials counted in the past two days, there are a total of two thousand five hundred alchemical ordnance left by the Southern Nobles, including magic-guided heavy artillery, armor-piercing giant crossbows, siege crossbows, etc. that can still be used."

Although this number seems extremely amazing, the heavy firepower distributed on the entire Marino Defense Line has become particularly scarce.

"There are a total of 58,000 complete sets of standard iron armor, 189,000 sets of standard leather armor, and various standard weapons, various grains..."

Everyone present held their breath. Such wealth and assets could only be achieved by gathering the wealth of the twenty-one countries of the Southern Noble Alliance, enough to instantly arm tens of thousands of warriors in the Kings' Alliance.

As for those noble legion warriors who surrendered, they are not in the consideration of the Kings for the time being, those warriors are now only being treated as prisoners and controlled.

"That's about it," the steel dragon Midir said, then quietly retreated behind the black dragon Rosani, hiding her face, after all, some of the ideas and ideas of this steel dragon had caused some 'small' losses to the orcs, the Hobis Empire, and the elves.

"I will distribute all of this batch of seized ordnance to your eastern and western fronts to arm your warriors," Karon Goggamora said decisively: "The Kings will attack on three fronts at the same time, launching a full-scale offensive, sweeping away all resistance forces in the three countries, and meeting in the south!"

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The war between the Kings' Alliance and the Southern Noble Alliance, declared at the beginning of summer and prepared for several months, officially broke out in late autumn.

However, by the time winter arrived, the Kings' Allied Forces had already cleared all resistance forces in the three high-ranking duchies of the Duchy of Marino, the Duchy of Dumyat, and the Duchy of Rosetta.

The war preparation took several months, but in just one short month, the Kings' Alliance completely defeated and occupied a total of seventy cities across the three high-ranking duchies.

The Marino Defense Line, hailed as impregnable to mortals, only managed to delay the Golden Empire and the Kings' Alliance for a single day.

The Kings' hundreds of thousands of troops advanced rapidly.

After the aerial legions and rangers scouted the maps, drew icons, and pinpointed locations, once the signal to attack was given, the Kings' Allied Forces' heavy artillery positions opened fire directly on the positions, allowing no building taller than two meters to remain standing wherever they went.

In such a fierce battle, no city could withstand such offensive pressure; without the natural geographical advantages of the Marino Defense Line, even city walls could not stop the Kings' Allied Forces' advance.

Thus, the three high-ranking duchies of the Southern Noble Alliance were removed from the map of the Acania world. The speed of the annihilation war and the Kings' Allied Forces' formidable combat power shook the noble kingdoms of the entire Northern Continent.

And then, this sweeping storm began to spread towards other continents.