Shadow King Chronicles: Building a Kingdom From Behind the Scenes
The Battle of Garlin Kingdom
The border regiments sent to monitor the activities of the Garlin kingdom and assisted by the 12th heavy infantry brigade of the fourth army of the kingdom had been in contact with the troops of the Garlin kingdom. Unfortunately, it was not a good contact. Scouts from the Garlin kingdom of 200 people clashed with the royal army of 500 people. One hundred beastmen were killed and 50 beastmen were captured.
The rest, they managed to escape. On the royal army's own side, about 50 people were killed and some wounded. It was a very intense friction as each side brought out their best abilities with each other.
The royal navy of Heinz immediately sailed towards the coast of the Garlin kingdom. They intended to occupy the entire length of the coast while most of Garlin's forces focused on the eastern part of the kingdom.
Of course the king of Boabdil was not stupid. Or at least his strategist. Their ships had been standing guard on the shores of the new Garlin kingdom. But their ship obviously could not match the much superior royal navy.
A brief battle at sea soon ensued. The results are easy to guess, though, heinz's far superior royal navy defeated Garlin's recently formed royal navy and managed to take control of the coast and other strategic positions such as ports and forts there.
But according to the orders of the central headquarters, the royal army should not enter further into the territory of the Garlin kingdom because it does not have accurate information about the geographical condition of the Garlin kingdom.
A war council was soon formed in the eastern province. Lieutenant General Jerome, fourth army leader (yesterday there was a misnomer of the character's name. The true fourth army leader was Jerome and not Arnold), Lieutenant General Charles Hill, and the leader of the eastern border regiment soon gathered.
"We have been in contact with the Garlin royal army. Based on the information we got from the captives, the Garlin kingdom has at least 60,000 soldiers ready to invade the Eastern province."
The commander of the border regiment began to give all the information they could from the fire fox tribe beastmen they had managed to capture.
"This is less than expected. What about the condition of their troops?"
"If you look at the beastmen's equipment, it looks like they are quite well equipped. There was enough food and drink for them. Moreover, they were all well-trained and disciplined troops. It's not an easy thing to repel their attacks."
Lieutenant General Jerome nodded. As expected of the warlike beastmen, they had a long experience of managing an army.
"When are they going to attack us?"
"Three more days. Some of them were sent off and set up a small camp to get ready. According to the scouts, as many as 15,000 beastmen have stoodby at the border."
"Then let's send 20,000 people and make sure they're alert. Even though they were going to attack for three more days, it was not impossible that there would be a surprise attack from them."
This time Lieutenant General Charles gave the order. Just like the Beastmen army, the royal army was a trained, disciplined, and experienced army. Perhaps if this were five years ago, the kingdom would have been in ruin.
But now, the kingdom will not lose to anyone. Even if their opponents were the powerful Moskov empire. But the Heinz kingdom was also not careless. Queen Aurellia was a very careful person in making decisions and it was contagious to her subordinates.
Now, they're ready to fight whenever the time comes. Nothing could stand in the way of the rise of the kingdom of Heinz.
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Meanwhile at the palace, Issac was dealing with five beastmen consisting of three silver wolf tribes and two black dog tribes. Issac recruited them to become RIS agents after a very tight selection. And now, Issac gave orders for their first mission.
"Heinz's naval forces had managed to take control of the Garlin kingdom's coast but their movements were halted due to a lack of information on the geographical conditions present there. In addition, the army also lacked people who could speak Garlin.
"That's why I will assign you to support the royal army to enter and occupy the Garlin area even deeper. Besides, I'll send two of you to Pesa to investigate the situation there."
The five men nodded. They had sworn allegiance to queen Aurellia and worked hard under the command of Issac. After what happened to them, there was no more reason to return to Garlin except to help the Heinz kingdom.
After preparations were completed, they were dispatched to the port in the southern province that day. Three of them are in charge of showing the way and communicating with the locals and the other two will leave for Pesa once they get there.
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Three days later, the first fighting broke out in the eastern province. Although both armies were equally well trained and disciplined, the royal army had superior war equipment. In addition, the mages are also equipped with extraordinary magic techniques that have been developed by the research and development department of magic.
As a result, the battle on the first day was won brilliantly by the kingdom of Heinz and the Garlin royal forces were repulsed. In fact, the kingdom managed to occupy the territory of the Garlin kingdom and built a military control post there.
"The Beastmen squad was successfully repulsed. Maybe aftershocks and small attacks will still occur in the near future. Be sure to always be vigilant and don't act rashly."
That's the message from the fourth army headquarters.
Meanwhile in the southeastern kingdom of Garlin, the royal army of Heinz pierced further into the territory of the Garlin kingdom. Their defense was too focused on the capital so the surrounding area had weak defenses.
Thanks to good communication between the local people and the Heinz royal army, conflicts between them could have been avoided. Much of the territory was occupied without bloodshed and the kingdom of Heinz sought to establish good relations with them.
As a result they sympathized with the kingdom that they did not even give Garlin. They were willing to meet the needs of the troops in exchange for the compensation provided by the commanders.
With this, the condition of the Garlin kingdom was getting desperate and their movements had been locked down.