Pivot of the Sky

According to Amon's previous points and the cooperation programme negotiated by Iso and others, Salem City has become a logistical base for the Anu Legion to attack southwards, but the defense of the city state and the narrow fortress of the Black Fire Marsh remain in the hands of Salem City, where the Anu Legion combatants are not allowed to enter the territory of Salem City State, which is a heavy transit point and hoarding ground for expeditionary armaments.

The military expedition of 6,000 samurai, with 20,000 or 30,000 non-combatants in charge of logistics supplies, and the movement of more than 10,000 people, who have always lived in the city of Salem, also present an opportunity for prosperity and development for this emerging city state.

On the other hand, the new deal in Iso has also made the city of Salem very appealing, attracting people from all over the continent to the city. They come here to create their homes and create dreams with their hands from nothing. What is thus gained is most valuable, and therefore the strongest fighting spirit can be aroused when cities, states and homes are threatened. Salem City State has grown at its fastest pace since its inception during this period, despite continued small-scale friction with the northern state of Enrir City.

The Anu Regiment attacked the city of Marduk, which was established in Yussir, six hundred miles south-south of the central plains, eastward on the northern shore of the inland lake, but the fighting did not go smoothly, as the Kingdom of Baron also mobilized elite forces across the River Junior to confront it. The kingdom's elite Baron Legion, the Kish Legion on the western border and the Uruk Legion all went to the front.

The Legion Commander of the Uruk Legion is no longer Gilgamesh, and his fighting power is not as powerful as Enchi was when he was alive, but he is still a force that cannot be ignored. King Baron Hamorabi II is about to die with Hattie!

King Khati Ya's strategy is a two-way knockout, and in addition to the Anu Legion south of the Tuk Plains, another elite Enrir Legion is attacking Barren's Kish State east along the southern shore of the inland lake, from the State of Syria City. If the land of Kish City State to the west of the Little Bottom River can be seized, the city of Marduk in the Tuk Plains will be cut off from backup and trapped in front and rear sieges of the two-way army.

Knowing that the situation was not good, Eucil, the owner of the city of Marduk, immediately sent a letter to Medanzo, who had cooperated privately with him, expressing his willingness to form an alliance with the city of Salem and to provide strategic supplies against the city of Enrir in the north, provided that Salem closed its trading corridor in the Black Fire Swamp and did not cooperate with the Kingdom of Hati. Medanzo grinned for half a day with this letter and only replied, “What have you been up to? ”

Though the alliance was not negotiated, Eucil then relieved, as the Baron regiment of the Kingdom of Baron rushed to Marduk City. At the same time, two other regiments crossed the border of the River Junior to gather in Kish City State against the Enrir Regiment that had entered the country. Hattie is on offense and Baron is on the defensive. The war has been fought intermittently for more than a year, and Hattie's army, although prevailing, has never won decisively.

The Kingdom of Baron fought for statehood, and the commander-in-chief of the battlefield was Prince von Nyuk, who had a strong reputation in the country. This war is obviously hard work and if you lose, you will lose the land west of Marduk City and Kish City State. If you win, you will not take advantage of the Kingdom of Hati. At best, you will destroy each other's army.

But Prince von Knock did not come and had to come. The last war took place in this area, which earned him a well-respected reputation. At the same time, he was also put in this position. The Barron Manchukuo minister did not hesitate to elect him as commander-in-chief of the battlefield.

Prince Feng Nun was also very talented. He promoted Dickie Zhou, a small mayor from Arcade Town, as the chief military officer. The battle for the defense of the earth, though arduous, was not defeated. This situation, or the anticipation of the creation of a king in Asia, was not accompanied by the Anu Regiment, which did not take down the city of Marduk, nor did Enrir's Regiment drive the Baron army to the eastern bank of the River Junior, but which cooperated in another task.

The two regiments built docks on both the north and south shores of the inland lake, creating vessels that opened waterways that could echo each other. The Anu Regiment developed a fertile soil in the wilderness on the northern shore of the inland lake, first as a rear military barracks, then as a material storage site for forward bases, from villages to municipalities, then from municipalities to urban states.

Fighting the city of Marduk with glue in the front, the rear is constantly sending people to reclaim the wasteland to build the city state, which has been on a scale for almost two years. The name of this city is Mesocity, and there are places on the Tuk Plains that can be developed, and this thousand miles of fertile soil can accommodate far more than just the current cities.

The plan for the King's expedition would have been two-handed preparations, on the one hand to curb the expansion of the Kingdom of Baron, which would have been better if it had been repelled, and, on the other, to take advantage of the Turk Plains and open new frontiers. Amon had already anticipated this, but the situation in Isaac at that time could not prevent the Kingdom of Khati from doing so, and only cooperation would be mutually beneficial.

After more than a year of this war, both sides had some desire to thrive. Prince von Nguyen led the resistance of the army, and the death toll was not compensable for both countries, while the Kingdom of Khatta had achieved its strategic goal of establishing a city state on the Duke Plains.

The areas controlled by the State of Mercedes are mostly in the Duke Plains, with a small portion on the grasslands on the southern shore of the Inland Lake, where the two territories cross each other by ferry. The Enrique has crossed the inland lake to join the Anu Regiment, with the exception of a portion of the army left at the ferry. While they are still at war with the Kingdom of Baron, large-scale attacks have become less and less frequent and the situation has gradually stabilized, creating a new balance.

Logistical pressures on the Hati Expeditionary Force have also been decreasing as a result of the establishment of urban states and the opening of inland lake routes. If the situation continues, it may only be necessary to sign an armistice agreement between the two kingdoms. Prince von Nyuk has asked King Baron to send a messenger to King Hattie to negotiate.

It was at this time that the battlefield mutated, and no one thought that the soldiers of Assyrian King Sinah had defeated the Assyrian plateau from the northeast, launching a sudden attack on the Kingdom of Baron.

The Kingdom of Assyria, with its smallest borders and relatively small property, has always been regarded as the weakest and smallest country. The city of Enrir, in the north of the Turk Plains, has also attracted the attention of all, and it is known that the Kingdom of Assyria sent a legion of giants over the Assyrian Plateau to establish the city in the north of the Turk Plains, after a great war and continuous friction with the city of Salem, and I am afraid there is no room at all to focus on anything else.

Even if the Assyrian kingdom wanted to wage war, it would continue to reinforce the city of Enrir, consolidating the strategic foundations already established while expanding the sphere of influence, which was an inertial way of thinking. The Assyrian kingdom has broken this inertia and played a trick.

After the war with Salem City, the Kingdom of Assyria did not reinforce other regiments to Enrir City. It merely ordered the Giants to continue to assemble and not the war with Salem City. It merely maintained a low-intensity state of war through the continuation of small military clashes. It is naturally difficult for a legion of giants to attack the city of Salem, but there is no problem in trying to defend Enrique.

The Giant Legion has always been the most elite forward force in the Assyrian kingdom in people's impressions, and wherever it appears, it means the main thrust of the Assyrian military strategy, but this time it is a false shot. The Kingdom of Assyria has not been noticeable for too long, and no one has expected King Sinah to spend 10 years silently training four integrated regiments, each with comparable combat power to the main forces of other kingdoms.

How can the Assyrian kingdom support such a vast elite army? It can be said that Sinah was ambitious or that he was a poor soldier, concealed and plotted for many years on a military road. Most of Assyrian soil is in precarious highland mountains, with little and no arable land to cultivate. But the Assyrian plateau is multi-mined, capable of building weapons, and Sinah's power over the years has been quietly practicing.

He sent a conspicuous legion of giants to the Duke Plains, and when the battle between the Kingdom of Hati and the Kingdom of Baron reached an impasse stage, the opportunity finally came. As Commander-in-Chief, Sinah led three regiments around the Assyrian plateau and stormed the interior of the Kingdom of Baron from the northeast.

The military mainstay of the Kingdom of Baron is fighting the Khati army west of the Little Deep River, and all important strategic supplies are hoarded in the western state of Kish City, where they cannot be urgently redeployed back. The northeastern cities and states are the weakest to guard against, and the garrison is simply no match for the tiger-like Assyrian army, which has been plunged into six cities and states in a row for six months.

The Kingdom of Baron has been taken advantage of and lost so much, both because its main forces are on the western front and because two successive wars have severely depleted its national power. At the risk of the destruction of the entire kingdom, the elderly Hamorabi II urgently ordered Prince Feng Nyu to lead the army back.

With such a gifted opportunity, how could King Yasser of Hati not order the army to take advantage of the opportunity to launch a strong attack? As a result, Prince von Nyu's efforts for a year and a half were wiped out, and he had to beg for peace with the Kingdom of Hati, ceding land west of the River Junior, while the city of Marduk fell. The Khati army established a city state, attacked a city state, and gained the Kingdom of Baron in the small half of the West Bank, becoming a newly opened frontier, completely achieving its strategic goals!

Young King Ya set in the royal palace looking up to the heavens and laughing, he finally got what neither his predecessor King nor Gore had achieved!

The annexation of vast tracts of land by the Kingdom of Hati took time to digest, and the strategy of the King of Asiah was based on appeasement. He renamed the city of Marduk as the city of Budamia, pushed down the statue of Marduk and established the Temple of Enrir, still allowing the natives to live in reclamation, but vowed allegiance to the Kingdom of Hati and to the Great God of Enrir and become the children of the Kingdom of Hati.

The second phase of this anarchic war, mainly between Assyria and Baron, lasted for much of half a year.

After returning to his division, Prince von Nyu defended the king's capital, but the kingdom was already heavily wounded. In the face of the fierce Assyrian army, he had to beg again and formally sign an instrument to sever the six fallen cities. The lands of those six city-states have been seized by the Kingdom of Assyria and cannot be regained by the current strength of the Kingdom of Baron.

But once the official instruments are signed, they amount to recognition of the six city-states as part of the Assyrian kingdom. It was still a paperwork that Prince von Nyu had signed on behalf of the Kingdom of Baron, when he almost bit his teeth off and could only bear not to cry. Six cities have fallen to the face of Africa. Many places have become scorched earth. Sinah the Assyrian is too brutal!

Prior to the war in Sinah, while there were many atrocities in the country, he was generally a fairly wise and talented monarch. He pursued a path of military statehood in which the lives of the people had been painful, but the ancient and popular Kingdom of Assyria had maintained a stable social order and accumulated strong military forces. Sinah may be a military genius, knowing indulgence and finding the most suitable warplanes.

Shortly before his arrival, 10 years ago, he had embarked on a military reform that not only made it compulsory for every adult man in the kingdom to be trained as a samurai, but also introduced a system of military recruitment, recruiting distant highland giants, bandit gangs and vagrant adventurers into the army and promising them a generous reward in war.

The regiment of the Kingdom of Assyria consists not only of traditional chariots, cavalry soldiers, but also heavy armoured infantry and light infantry. It also specializes in the training of attackers and heavy armies, as well as engineers not found in other Royal regiments. Army equipment is supplied by the State and is equipped with iron armor, weapons and horses of war, as well as impact machines and stone throwers for sieges.

When the great Assyrian army pushed into Barren like a broken bamboo, the brutal nature of Sinah was finally completely revealed, like a more distorted outbreak after years of repression. As a weak monarch in a corner of bias, he has been invincible for too long to endure himself, and can only be exasperated in nearly insane killings.

The destruction of cities, the burning and looting of large armies have been endless, and the Assyrian kingdom has always had a strong popular culture, and these soldiers have become almost wild beasts in endless killings. They hung the bodies of their enemies on shredded wooden columns, dense and numb like jungle, and even women and children throughout the town were not spared when confronted with resistance, and treasures of gold and silver became spoils of war.

Such a killing scene could not be seen even by the "wise man's master” Faust, who had developed a military strategy for the kingdom. The great magician walked in the town of Baron, where the corpses were scattered, and somehow felt his legs softened.

Faust was a well-loved sage in the Assyrian kingdom and his strategic plan for Sinah. First, we watched the conflagration between Ecu, Hattie and Baron, and chose the right time to add a fire to the dispute. Hiddenly sending a legion of giants across the Assyrian plateau to establish a strategic stronghold and insert a nail between the kingdoms of Hati and Baron that would attract both attention and mix water. Attack the Kingdom of Barren in an unexpected manner when the conflict reaches its most advantageous situation.

Faust's strategic plan was a complete success, but he didn't expect King Sinah to kill so brutally that he couldn't help but say to Sinah -

“The invincible great monarch, you waged war to establish your cause and also for the permanent interests of Assyria. There is no need to kill unnecessarily. You condone soldiers from robbing so many treasures of gold and silver, but that does not fully serve the purpose of war. After war, you still need peace and lasting peace in order to build a strong and prosperous Great Empire. ”

It was at this point that Samir, the queen who followed Sinah's royal kinship, also came to the king, expressing her unwillingness to see Assyrian soldiers raped and plundered again, or she would no longer serve the kingdom on the battlefield. Sinah had just begun to jump like Ray, scolding the wise master and queen he had never reprimanded before, but when the wars in the foreground came, the resistance in the occupied areas had intensified and the war was consuming, he had finally accepted Faust's advice and issued new orders.

The Assyrian army ceased its burning in the occupied areas and compiled the inhabitants of the conquered areas into Assyrian registers, forcibly relocated to decentralized arrangements elsewhere, and all persons could not continue to reside in their places of origin or congregate in their original villages or towns. These scattered and relocated former Baron residents received new plots of land, cultivated for Assyrian slave owners and paid taxes to the Kingdom.

The Assyrian kingdom occupies land in six cities, becomes a new frontier and possesses a large number of slaves, and those involved in the military war in the Assyrian kingdom form a new privileged and noble group that acquires land and slaves to rule the area, restores some of its production, compensates for the consumption of the war, finally stops killing and gradually stabilizes.

These Sinah policies, which were proposed by Faust, are indeed conducive to domination of the occupied territories, while Faust's main objective is not to see massacres of corpses everywhere. At the same time, at the firm request of Queen Samir, Sinah finally agreed.

The implementation of the new deal will take time to digest the occupied areas, while the front lines of the Assyrian army have almost reached their limits and the front lines are still fighting. It was at this time that King Baron sent Prince von Nyu's army to resist the latest round of Sinah's attacks and demanded a truce and begging.

Sinah enjoyed the joy of King's Landing and was pleased to see the formerly mighty Kingdom of Baron submit to itself, and temporarily unable to expand on a larger scale, so he promised the begging of the Kingdom of Baron. After the truce, the last thousands of prisoners of war were taken back from the front line, including army fighters from the Kingdom of Baron, but mostly urban residents who had resisted the Assyrian army.

The Assyrian Army did not win the final battle in its entirety, and Sinah was very angry and ordered the decapitation of all these men, young and old, in order to deter those who sought to defy his authority. Faust and Semir could hardly see it and insisted that the King stop killing those who had surrendered, many of whom were ordinary residents and had never fought the Assyrian army at all.

Sinah was unhappy, but suddenly changed his mind: “Seek mercy for these people and pray for my mercy to leave their lives behind. Well, I'll split these slaves in two and give them to the wise master and queen. But I have a job for you, or these people will still die! ”

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