The World Online

Chapter 1049: The Army Departs

Japan region, Sanli City.

After confirming the Great Xia troops plan, Keisuke Honda let out a long sigh of relief.

Since the information piece at the start of the year was released, all the Japanese players were in a really tensed atmosphere.

The huge China region was like an endless gloomy cloud that hung high over their skies.

To save their country from falling, from that moment onward, Keisuke Honda had started acting. He knew that Japan alone was not enough, and he had to depend on outside help.

The greatest help was the Silver Hand.

Although the Honda family was not as big as the Di family in Silver Hand, it was still a core member. Furthermore, many people internally did not want to see Great Xia get strong, so naturally, they all came to a consensus.

At the start, the Honda family placed their hopes onto Di Chen. They hoped that he could take down the role of leader. If that happened, all the problems would be settled.

Unfortunately, the heavens did not give them what they wished, as Di Chen lost in their battle.

Seeing that a country war was unavoidable, Keisuke Honda wanted to find enemies for China to reduce the defensive burden of Japan. Korea, which was connected to China, became Japan’s first ally.

Korea Ulsan City Lord Park Wins naturally understood the theory of how the teeth feels cold when the lips die, “If Korea looks on while Japan falls, Korea might be the one that falls the next year.”

Apart from Korea, Keisuke Honda originally wanted Luzon, Java, and India, these huge countries, to work together. Helplessly, due to various factors, it did not work out.

Java and India were too far from China. Moreover, their own region was not settled. They wanted to remove the small countries around them first. Naturally, they were not willing to join these milky waters.

Luzon was interested but their country’s opinions differed, so they could only give up in the end. Helplessly, the Honda family could only find the next best options.

There were reasons why they were called scapegoats.

The two countries naturally knew that after Great Xia took down Annan, the next step would be to wipe them out. However, they had the ostrich mentality, and they were not willing and did not dare to initiate an attack on Great Xia.

To be able to drag on for another day was another day that they could live.

The Honda family used their killing blow and bought out the country war leaders Bi Wenlie and Lang Gong to directly target China.

At this time, the two of them were probably in deep trouble.

However, they probably did not mind because to recruit them, the Honda family had spent a lot. Even if the two countries were wiped out, both of them could still live happily on Planet Hope.

“But that was not enough!”

The three countries could take up a portion of the pressure, but China was just too strong. Even if it only used a third of its strength, it could still crush Japan.

“Now, it’s up to them to decide…”

Keisuke Honda looked at the neighboring country across the sea. His heart was unsettled, and his eyes shone bright.

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5th month, 27th day, Shanhai City.

From today onward, the various troops started their travels. Adding in the traveling time, one could say that the country war month had begun.

The fastest one was the southwest warzone.

Dragon Legion Corps marshal Baiqi had already returned to Annan Province. With the cooperation of the Privy Court and the Annan Provincial Governor office, the grain gathered by the Combat Logistics Department was transported to the frontlines.

At the same time, Baiqi had set up a traveling plan.

Last afternoon, Huo Qubing had already led the Guards Legion Corps to teleport to Stone City to move toward the area where Beijiang Province and Korea connected.

Since the Bear Legion Corps had difficulties gathering up, they needed two more days.

Beijiang Province Governor Wufu had already received Ouyang Shuo’s orders and would prepare the logistical supplies for the army.

Ouyang Shuo’s orders were to block the enemy outside the country. He was not willing to let the flames of war spread into Beijiang territory. Since Korea dared to start war, they needed to be prepared to be wiped out.

He had his reasons to be confident.

Last afternoon, the Great Qin, Great Han, and Great Tang dynasties had sent their envoys over to express that once the country war started, the three dynasties would each send 150 thousand troops into Beijiang Province to help out in the defense.

As a result, Great Xia did not need to bother about backline defenses. The 840 thousand strong army led by Li Jing could just enter directly and kill their way into Korea territory.

Ouyang Shuo was becoming more and more confident about the Battle of Korea.

Since they were taking the initiative to strike, the nine imperial cities of China and their tens of millions of guards could not go overseas to fight. Although that was the case, they could help in local defenses.

These ten million guards were the stabilizing needle of China. No matter how the country war went, at the very least, Great Xia territory would remain safe. This was also the reason why the neighboring countries feared China.

Ten million guards along with mighty lords like Qinhuang Hanwu, Tangzong Songzu as well as generals like Wei Qing and Wang Jian; it was easy to make one despondent.

Great Xia was not the only reason China was strong.

Luzon had given up on attacking China due to such considerations.

On the adventure gamemode players’ side.

Blood Shadow Alliance, Jiangshan Alliance, Purple Moon Alliance, and the Streamer elite squads had gathered in Stone City.

Apart from the four super guilds, many scattered groups of players moved toward Beijiang Province. Their overall numbers even exceeded that of the four super guilds, and it was enough to counter the combat occupation players of Korea.

There were three reasons why the players were so eager.

First, the Outreach Division of the Honglu Temple was effective.

Zi Luolan had arranged for many people to start huge discussions on the forums to raise the fighting spirit of the adventure gamemode players and thrown them into the battle.

Secondly, the Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties all acted as good examples.

These three dynasties held an unshakeable position in the hearts of the Chinese players, Most adventure gamemode players gathered in the cities of these dynasties.

The three of them sending troops to aid Great Xia in defending the local land was an obvious signal. The moment the news spread out, many adventure gamemode players made their way over to Beijiang Province.

Thirdly, everyone had their own loves.

Japan was obviously China’s greatest enemy. Similarly, there were many players who did not like Korea. After they learned that Great Xia’s commander in chief Li Jing was about to lead troops to attack Korea, many of them naturally jumped in.

For these many reasons, it was destined that the victory of the Battle of Korea would tilt in Great Xia’s favor. How much Great Xia had to pay and how far this battle would go depended on Li Jing.

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Apart from the above two groups, the Japan group had also started to move.

Without a doubt, no matter how attractive the Korea battlefield was, the Battle of Japan was still the focus. It was also the battle that the adventure gamemode players cared the most about and joined in the most.

As they were fighting across the ocean, the first batch of troops were sent out today.

Beihai Port.

Early in the morning, Ouyang Shuo led the civil servants and generals over to send them off.

The Great Xia Grand Council split the Battle of Japan into four parts, the ocean battle, the disembarkment, the sweeping, and then the imperial city final battle.

The ocean battle involved the navies of the two sides engaging one another.

Japan had a history of raiding Chinese ships and shoreline, which was why they had experience in seafaring and ocean battling. Along with the shipbuilding and firearms technology provided by America, they had developed a strong navy.

If they did not wipe out the Japanese navy, the following disembarkment battle would be impossible.

On this aspect, the responsibility laid on the Pacific Squadron led by Shi Lang. As for the Yu Dayou led Yashan Squadron, they would be in charge of protecting the ocean route between Great Xia and Japan.

One could foresee that there would be large amounts of merchant ships sending over troops, players, and grain. Even so, they would probably need to make many return trips.

It would be impossible for such a huge fleet to move without protection.

Furthermore, China was on the offensive, so they needed to prepare for plots by Japan to send a squadron over to destroy their supply line.

Although it would not affect the big picture, it would affect their morale.

With Japan’s pillaging ability, it could even cause huge loses. Hence, Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to arrange the Yashan Squadron to prevent such things from occurring.

As for the main battlefield, no matter how strong the Japanese navy were, in front of both the Pacific Squadron and Handan City’s Haizhou Squadron, they would not have a good time.

A day ago, along with Pill Sun City, King City, and Blood Red City merging into Handan City, the entire Handan City military structure was restructured.

The first to be changed was the navy.

As the Handan City, Blood Red City, and King City Squadrons were not filled up yet, they were reorganized into two squadrons, the Handan Squadron and the Haizhou Squadron.

Di Chen was ready to use the Handan Squadron to defend their home and Haizhou to attack.

The army was also greatly changed. Mainly to follow the Great Xia Guards Legion Corps model, they formed an elite palace Guards Legion Corps. Lianpo would act as the marshal of this legion.

Next would be to use the territory armies as well as the war prisoners from taking down West Chu and Wannan Province to form three full legion corps. Dantian would lead the Pill Sun legion corps, Wuqi the King legion corps and Xie Xuan the Blood Red legion corps.

With that, Handan City had four legion corps for a total of 1.4 million troops. In any country outside of China, they would be an undeniable overlord.

Back to the topic at hand.

The one setting off from the Beihai Port was the Yashan Squadron. Along with them was the 1st legion of the City Protection Legion Corps as well as two legions from the blazing legion corps. The elite force from the Blood Evil Mercenary Group would depart from here too.

The Yashan Squadron would go up north. Along the way, they would pick up the 1st legion of the Tiger Legion Corps.

The four legions would be the first batch of vanguard forces from the Shanhai Alliance, led by blazing legion corps marshal Guo Ziyi.