Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 768 - 009: Response

When the war broke out, it hadn’t been long since several duchies surrendered to the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

On one hand,

only the royal high-ups of these border countries decided to surrender and delivered an unconditional surrender letter to the southern Dragon’s Nest army. The local control had already declined to the extent that the publication of this decision sent several countries into chaos.

On the other hand, the upheaval in these countries disrupted the expansion plans of the Blue Dragon Kingdom’s army advancing from the southwest.

Due to rugged terrain and inconvenient transportation, the Blue Dragon Kingdom’s army, still in the south, found it difficult to move into the heart of these countries to formally take over the military defense of these border duchies and officially bring them under rule.

In this context,

the northern border, already somewhat chaotic due to the decisions from the Royal Capital, had no means of resisting under the attack of the Red Dragon Empire.

The land was ablaze everywhere!

The northern territories successively fell.

This time, the war was even more cruel and fierce. The full-scale attack of the Red Dragon Empire, carrying the terror of the monster army, burned down, killed, looted, burned fields, destroyed cities, and turned every place their army reached into scorched earth.

Amid the flames of war, the Northern Land was riddled with devastation under the attack of the monster army.

Faced with this terrifying army, neither the local powerful nobles nor the adventurers, traveling merchants, mercenaries at the border, nor the common folk cultivating fields had any ability to resist.

That terrifying monster army, any one of them possessed power beyond Silver and Gold.

Along with the mighty ranks of goblins, goblins, beastmen, and other auxiliary troops, ordinary people faced certain death when encountering them. Even powerful adventurers had little hope of escaping when faced with this frightening army’s passage.

Remember, when the Red Dragon Empire rose from the west, it did so under tremendous pressure spanning the entire Central Earth Continent, directly facing attacks from several justice organizations, rising from the chaos of war.

Facing the full-scale attack of the Red Dragon Empire, these remote duchies on the southwestern border of the Central Earth Continent had no ability to resist.

After narrowly escaping the massacre of the monster army, large numbers fled south in a frenzy.

The vast Northern Land fell.

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The state of war in the north quickly reached the camp of the Blue Dragon Western Expedition Army.

Through wireless magic power transmission, the spies and operatives positioned within these countries sent over all the domestic upheaval of the surrendering countries.

The advancement of technology changed the forms of war.

"War has broken out, we’re still a step too late, the Red Dragon Empire’s monster army has already penetrated north, occupying nearly one-fifth of the land..."

"The Duchy of Korov and other duchies like Ditri have already declared allegiance to us, making them territories of the Blue Dragon Kingdom. The Red Dragon Empire is provoking us, they are invading our country!"

"We must respond with thunderous retaliation, this cannot be allowed to slide! The army of the Kingdom has never feared challenges, since they dare to start a war, they must accept the consequences!"

"When can the army be ready?"

"There’s no way around it, such a geographical environment is too far from the homeland, transportation is difficult, it’s already an effort that the young men could gather here in a short time, after all, we didn’t expect these duchies to surrender so quickly."

Within the command department, chaos erupted due to the upheaval in the north.

Despite the contingency plans prepared for this, the southwestern border of the Central Earth Continent is already quite far from the homeland of the Blue Dragon Kingdom. Additionally, the place is full of hills and mountains, various forests and grasslands are heavily surrounded, making the advance of the great army exceedingly difficult. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Sometimes, even if the places are not far apart, the journey would twist and turn through winding roads, circumventing numerous mountains and forests to reach the destination.

In such a context,

even though the Blue Dragon Kingdom’s army held advanced magic science and technology, it still found it challenging to conquer this treacherous land full of bad mountains and evil waters within a short time.

The advance of the army got obstructed, making it nearly impossible to quickly enter those surrendering duchies and organize a counterattack against the Red Dragon Empire.

"No need to dispute further, gather officers and soldiers above Silver from the army to form a truly elite force and advance north quickly, first taking control of these countries and resisting the Red Dragon Empire’s offensive!"

At that moment,

the tent of the command department was lifted, and a majestic figure clad in golden armor walked in.

One of the three great generals of the Blue Dragon Kingdom,

General Gory!

Occupying a high position, the battle-hardened Gory glanced around the huge tent, an invisible pressure and air spreading, making the entire tent camp quiet down at that moment.

As an early defector to His Highness Austin, Gory had established massive meritorious contributions since the founding phase of the Blue Dragon Kingdom. The personal motives that led to his defection long ago, had vanished entirely, and he had genuinely become a member of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

Especially as the Blue Dragon Kingdom breached the Southern Border Great Wall, tearing a huge gap in the south of Central Earth World.

Leading the army to set foot on the land of the Central Earth Continent, many friends and relatives back then reached out through connections; the dissatisfaction of being trapped in the Dragon Nest Division back then had dissipated entirely. It seemed fortunate to have accepted Edward’s commission back then, eventually joining the Dragon Nest Tribe after the mission failure, becoming one of the founding heroes of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

Over these years, though having reached the status of one of the three great generals of the Blue Dragon Palace, occupying the highest rank among the human military of the entire Kingdom, Gory had never slackened.

Establishing the great undertaking of creating an empire from scratch, and participating personally as one of those involved, the recognition of personal ideals within cannot be replaced by anything like Gold and Silver.

Being cautious and never making mistakes allowed Gory to remain a perennial presence in the upper echelons of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

This Western Expedition, General Gory was the Commander of the 300,000 Western Expedition Army.

Under Gory’s command, the command department ceased its objections.

It began organizing based on this order, filling gaps and defects, selecting suitable elite officers, and at the same time, maintaining the coherence of the larger army and stabilizing the remaining forces once the elites were drawn away while initiating various logistical support constructions.

In a nutshell: when the higher-ups move their mouths, the lower ranks break their legs.

However, as the Commander of the 300,000 Western Expedition Army, Gory inherently possessed absolute command authority.

Moreover,

now indeed a need arose for an elite force to advance first, intercepting the swift and unstoppable offensive of the Red Dragon Empire, lest by the time the Blue Dragon Kingdom army is organized, those surrendering countries would have been pre-emptively occupied by the Red Dragon Empire.