Munitions Empire

The speed of information transmission in this world had already ceased to be sluggish. With the advent of the telegraph, a new means of communication, many people were able to receive news from afar the moment it was sent.

The news that the Ice Cold Empire had declared war on a small neighboring kingdom spread widely by the next day.

Many nations realized that the impact of this war could extend across the entire world!

Previously, due to economic pressures, every nation had thought about waging war to deflect internal strife and solve their problems.

However, as orders from the Great Tang Group started coming in, many nations abandoned such dangerous thoughts, and the looming clouds of war temporarily dispersed.

But with the Ice Cold Empire igniting a new war, the atmosphere around the world once again became turbulent.

The Empire of Nanla, already possessing vast territories, suddenly launched an attack to the south, initiating a new round of expansionist warfare.

This time, the Empire of Nanla chose a small, obscure kingdom as its opponent, a kingdom so weak in combat that it had only a few machine guns.

Employing tactics nearly identical to those of the Ice Cold Empire, the Empire of Nanla opened the prelude to war on a night close to spring, when its airship troops launched a surprise attack on the capital of the kingdom.

Caught completely off guard, the kingdom collapsed on the day its King City was bombed, revealing the power of the new war machinery to the whole world, and for a time, airships became the most talked-about topic of interest.

The Suthers Kingdom, having prepared a large fleet of airships, thrived in this situation, displaying the horrific face of "future warfare" to all in an even more frenzied conflict.

The Suthers Kingdom attacked its northern neighbor, and on the day the assault began, the Suthers airship troops deployed 50 Kirov airships, fully loaded with bombs, to ambush this unfortunate neighbor.

Within just one day, the poor kingdom in the north had fully collapsed, having lost its railways for transport and its armament factories destroyed by bombings, effectively erasing its war potential, leading them to choose a dignified surrender the next day.

The emerging Air Force had just arrived on the battlefield and already demonstrated its tremendous combat power, and industrial cities, more easily destroyed than before, starkly illustrated just how vulnerable their rear was to the people.

The Ice Cold Empire’s war continued, and the Empire of Nanla’s outward expansion had just begun, while the Suthers Kingdom, with its fleet of over 70 massive airships, had already annexed a nation, eliciting immense envy from all.

It was not until today that everyone realized the Suthers Kingdom’s investment in building an airship fleet was not in vain—it was, in fact, incredibly worthwhile.

Without losing a single soldier, they had seized a neighboring kingdom. This was nothing short of a new miracle in the history of warfare, as well as the first time in world history that an Air Force had decided the outcome of a war.

However, Tang Mo soon received some less-than-ideal news: the civil war within the trade alliance that he had hoped to avoid had finally erupted.

Or rather, 15 days after the outbreak of three local wars, a true global conflict... had fully unleashed.

The Poplar Kingdom suddenly attacked its neighbor, the Songmu Kingdom, and fierce clashes broke out along their border.

This internal conflict between members of the Elf Race was completely different from the wars between other nations. It was a true modern war that erupted between two industrialized nations that had essentially completed their Industrial Revolutions!

Both sides had deployed deep trench defenses along the border and simultaneously strengthened their artillery troops. Although the Poplar Kingdom had the advantage in overall troops, the Songmu Kingdom had the benefit of passive defense.

On top of that, both sides were evenly matched in artillery strength. The Poplar Kingdom had deployed 500 cannons, while the Songmu Kingdom had 450 at the border to meet the challenge, and the fighting went back and forth.

Shockingly, at the start of the war, the Poplar Kingdom followed the military tactics of the Ice Cold Kingdom and the Suthers Kingdom, sending airships to strike at the Songmu Kingdom’s rear industrial facilities.

The result was unexpected, as the airship tactics, which had previously been foolproof, failed this time because the Songmu Kingdom possessed anti-aircraft guns that they had acquired or produced themselves!

Having witnessed the power of airships in the expansion wars of the Ice Cold Empire and the Suthers Kingdom, the Songmu Kingdom naturally took extra caution.

They preemptively placed anti-aircraft guns in cities within airship range, near the border, so when the Poplar Kingdom launched their airship attack, they were greeted by a sky full of gunfire!

The Poplar Kingdom’s airships, embroiled in combat, suffered heavy losses instantly; all 20 airships that were sent did not return—they were all shot down.

However, these airships were not entirely unsuccessful. Loaded with ammunition, they crashed into cities and still managed to cause considerable trouble for the Songmu Kingdom.

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In response, the Songmu Kingdom launched its own counterattack. Their airship troops attacked the border cities of the Poplar Kingdom days later but also suffered heavy losses.

The airship troops, operating independently, failed to complete their bombing missions. Seven airships were lost without a trace, with the remaining three barely making it back. Their bombing was limited in effect, but the Poplar Kingdom’s anti-aircraft artillery troops had their moment of triumph.

This aerial skirmish demonstrated to the world that airship tactics were not indefensible. The fragile airborne bombers were not invincible after all.

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