Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 769 - 10: Rebellion and Arrival

The clash of armies, the morale battle during warfare, is also extremely important.

Once the monster army of the Red Dragon Empire fully conquers those few nations, creating unstoppable momentum, when the main army arrives, it would require a much greater cost to resist the opponent whose morale is soaring.

Moreover, those few defecting duchies are now, in name, the territory of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

As soldiers, there is an inherent duty to defend the territory. How can we do nothing due to logistical troop movements and watch our nation’s land be trodden under the iron heels of the enemy? 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Mobilize elite warriors, forsake excessive logistics, and form an elite battalion to launch a surprise attack.

This is the only way to respond for now.

Thus,

with the efforts of the General Staff, five thousand elites were quickly selected from hundreds of thousands of the westward expeditionary army, forming an unprecedented elite battalion. Lightly equipped, they set out under the leadership of one of the three great generals of the kingdom, Gory, and crossed the treacherous mountains and hills spanning hundreds or even thousands of miles to enter the southwestern hinterlands of the Central Earth Continent.

Due to their light equipment and being the elite of the elite from the westward expeditionary forces, all at least Silver Level warriors, the entire elite battalion managed to traverse a route that would take the Blue Dragon army at least a month to march in just five or six days.

This could be described as a miraculous speed.

The elite battalion advanced first, while the rear army did not stop moving.

Under the consolidation of the General Staff, the remaining 300,000 expeditionary forces were fully mobilized, blazing trails as they advanced rapidly to provide support and commenced major construction at the rear.

For instance, building various improved teleportation arrays, opening up transportation routes, etc., to transport all kinds of logistical supplies as quickly as possible from behind, exerting the greatest effort to get most of the reinforcements into the duchies currently attacked by the Red Dragon Empire.

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As Kowoff Duchy’s royal capital faced the Red Dragon Empire’s monstrous army to the north, sweeping through the north like a broken bamboo, with a war record causing trembling fear and imminent peril, the Red Dragon Empire’s monster army was about to descend, threatening to annihilate the nation.

The entire duchy was plunged into chaos.

The northern Red Dragon Empire’s monster army was destroying all visible structures, sweeping through everything within a few days, the entire area fell.

At this time, within the royal capital.

Due to the royal family’s surrender, a chaotic situation had ensued.

Some powerful nobles, unwilling to lose their grasp on power, were very dissatisfied with the king’s decision and had secretly contacted the Red Dragon Empire to the north long ago. Taking advantage of the nationwide chaos, they launched a coup in the royal capital.

"The king has gone mad, seeking allegiance with that evil Blue Dragon Realm! Surely there is a malicious adviser whispering to His Majesty!"

"Precisely! Surrender to the King of Calamity of the Red Dragon Empire offers a glimmer of hope, while submitting to that evil Blue Dragon Realm over ten thousand miles to the south is simply courting death!"

Despite the notorious and evil reputation of the Red Dragon Empire, this was only pertinent to the lower peasants.

For those powerful nobles, the Red Dragon Empire, wanting to rule a region and develop it later on, would largely accept the defect of these great nobles.

Thus, they would not be slaughtered by the monster army as readily as the lower-class commoners were for food. Even after the duchy surrendered, these nobles could still remain as lofty rulers.

In comparison, the Blue Dragon Kingdom could hardly be compared favorably in the eyes of these mighty nobles.

Although the empires’ rulers were both Giant Dragons like the southern Blue Dragon Kingdom,

the political system of the Red Dragon Empire vastly differed from the Blue Dragon Kingdom. The Red Dragon Empire retained the noble-citizen survival development system, allowing these nobles to maintain their ruling positions even after the nation fell.

Because the Red Dragon Empire needed them.

In the past, the rise of the Red Dragon Empire established by the King of Calamity was achieved by sheltering the noble families who fled from fallen nations to govern its vast territories, realizing governance within the nation.

And the Blue Dragon Kingdom?

Despite being located in the remote southwestern areas, the rise of the Blue Dragon Kingdom in recent years and the spread of product information allowed these national nobles to gain some understanding of the south-rising Blue Dragon Kingdom.

There are no nobles in the Blue Dragon Kingdom!

Or rather, in the Blue Dragon Kingdom, nobles have been completely eradicated!

The "accounting" carried out by the army of the Blue Dragon Kingdom during the conquest of enemy states, with its terrifying "cruel" policy against nobles, caused the majority of the world’s noble class to regard the Blue Dragon Kingdom as a mortal enemy.

Losing all power, losing all status, and even being too oppressive to their vassals previously could result in accounting.

This policy extremely unfriendly to the noble class caused the Blue Dragon Kingdom’s army to have to annihilate the opponent’s resistance forces during each invasion of other countries before taking control.

Yet even after requiring such a considerable effort, the Blue Dragon Kingdom’s policies remained unchanged.

Therefore,

when the King of Kowoff Duchy decided to surrender to the Blue Dragon Kingdom to the south, it created significant chaos within the country, especially among the noble class in the royal capital. Taking advantage of the Red Dragon Empire’s strike on the north, they directly launched a rebellion in the capital.

To preserve their positions and maintain their noble privileges.

Several dukes jointly launched a power-seizing coup in the royal capital.

The rebellion incited by the great nobles plunged the entire duchy into even greater chaos, making it impossible for the already unstable nation to exercise local control.

The northern war situation, lacking the royal capital’s troop mobilization and integration, found it increasingly difficult to resist the Red Dragon Empire’s onrush.

As the Red Dragon Empire’s monster army advanced swiftly, and the capital of Kowoff Duchy descended into chaos,

the elite battalion led by Western Expedition Grand General Gory finally arrived.

However,

the vanguard of the Red Dragon Empire’s monster army simultaneously reached an area thirty miles north of the capital.

An army of over ten thousand monster troops,

like a sharp knife, thrusting straight towards Kowoff Duchy’s royal capital.

At this moment,

the reinforcements from the Blue Dragon Kingdom’s elite battalion barely managed to suppress all rebellions within Kowoff Duchy’s royal capital, took over the capital’s defenses, and before integrating all their strength, were about to face the spearhead of the Red Dragon Empire.

Facing off,

war was on the verge of breaking out.

This was the first interaction between the Blue Dragon Kingdom, rising in the southern Seta Continent, and another nation built by a Giant Dragon.

Although the contact was not particularly friendly.

And this war will also determine the future trajectory of the southwestern Seta Continent.