The World Online

Chapter 1159 – Leaving an Ember

To Great Xia, whether they gave up Morocco Province or not would lead to two totally different outcomes.

Choosing to fight to the death with the enemy at Morocco would expend a lot of their resources and energy without getting anything in return. Furthermore, the risks were really high, and if they handled it badly, the entire situation would collapse.

After Zhang Liang analyzed the situation, Ouyang Shuo even suspected that this was Silver Hand’s real goal.

Only by giving up could the skies be clear once more.

“While Morocco attracts the enemy’s attention, there is much we can do. Java, Johor, and Piao country are all good choices,” Zhang Liang suggested.

As for the specifics of who the send and how to attack, the Grand Council would naturally make the decision.

“I’ll have to remind you all that if we do not want Somalia to follow in the footsteps of Morocco, we must act, and we must be quick,” Zhang Liang said.

One must not forget that Somalia Province was directly opposite to the Arab Empire.

Due to the above considerations, the Grand Council spent a day in a meeting and finally came up with a battle plan. The next morning, the Great Xia Army placed around the various lands started to move.

A huge war was just a touch away from starting.

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Handan City, Palace.

During these past few days, Di Chen’s mood was really good. After Algeria officially declared war on Great Xia, Di Chen smiled, “Great, winter is finally over.”

Juedai Fenghua smiled too. She could understand Di Chen’s mood.

“This time, let’s not be greedy and just take down Beijiang Province and Liaojin Province!” Di Chen was full of confidence with acting while Great Xia was being held up. The Beijiang legion corps was naturally nothing to him.

Juedai Fenghua nodded. At least, Di Chen did not let his happiness get to his head and knew what was right. Even if Great Xia was surrounded, it was still a lion that could not be easily challenged.

To smoothly take down two provinces would already be a huge harvest for Great Zhou.

In the future, if Silver Hand continued to push down on Great Xia, they could naturally take down Yingzhou Province. When that happened, Great Zhou’s tough situation would be solved, and they would go from a fish in the ocean to a bird soaring in the sky.

“Old fox, let’s see how long you can remain so arrogant.” Di Chen muttered.

…

Gaia 6th year, 3rd month, 5th day.

Regarding the revenge talk of Algeria helping the Morocco royal family, Great Xia’s Honglu Temple gave out a reply that said, “The talk of restoring the country is a joke. Morocco Province belongs to Great Xia, and we will not stand to see its dignity be compromised.”

Along with the words of Honglu Temple, Great Xia West African legion corps 1st and 2nd legion started to gather toward the east. This action was naturally read by the outside world as, “Facing the challenge by Silver Hand, Great Xia has accepted it!”

The moment the news spread out, the world was boiling.

After Silver Hand revealed their presence, players around the world felt a chill, and the reveal of Azure Badge made the normal players feel more despair as they honestly said, “This is not the world I’m familiar with!”

How would they have expected the world to actually be so dark?

Under such circumstances, the Great Xia Dynasty who had always had problems with Silver Hand along with Ouyang Shuo’s background as a commoner became the lamp of light amongst the darkness for the normal players.

When the Atlantic Squadron was crushed by Silver Hand’s scheming tactics, players were annoyed.

Algeria’s declaration of war had pushed the global situation to a new climax. The players were waiting to see how Great Xia would react. Would they fight or would they want peace?

The players’ moods were conflicted.

They hoped for Great Xia to not yield and go head on against Silver Hand, but they were also worried that Great Xia was not strong enough and would get wiped out by Silver Hand. If that happened, they would lose all hope.

Great Xia’s reply naturally received a lot of discussion amongst the players.

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In the following few days, Great Xia’s legions started to move, gathering toward cities with teleportation formations. Anyone could see that Great Xia was going to go all out. They would rather die than give up their territory.

This was in line with the style of Great Xia.

When Silver Hand got the news, they finally placed down their worries.

“He is still a young man. He could not withstand the provocation and blew up at a touch.” Number 1’s mood was really good.

After confirming that Great Xia was going to fight a huge war, with the organization of Silver Hand, the Mediterranean alliance squadron swiftly gathered toward Algeria to transport ocean amounts of goods to the frontline.

The Spanish Invincible Squadron, the Portuguese Squadron, and the Gaule Squadron were in charge of locking down the ocean region. Originally, they were supposed to lock down the Gibraltar Straits, but under the interference of Atlantis, they decided not to be too much.

Luckily, as long as they locked down the west shore, Morocco Province would not be able to do anything in the ocean.

One had to mention that Great Xia owed Atlantis a huge favor this time. Without Kalia’s interference, Great Xia’s plan would not have proceeded so smoothly.

While they prepared for the Battle of Morocco, Silver Hand also told Java, Johor, and Piao not to attack in case Great Xia got too worried and did not focus fully on Morocco.

Just as Ouyang Shuo had predicted, in Silver Hand’s attack on Morocco Province, the goal of occupying territory was secondary. The true goal was to fight a battle of attrition with Great Xia in order to drag them into the dirt.

In history, there were super countries that were destroyed like that.

“Time to watch the good movie!”

…

3rd month, 7th day, night, Gibraltar Straits.

Using the thick night sky as a cover, hundreds of merchant ships passed Jidian City and Tangier that were opposite to one another. With the help of the Provincial Governor office, huge amounts of resources and precious finances were shifted to Jidian City.

Morocco Province could be lost, but Jidian City had to be kept.

Jidian City was surrounded by mountains on three sides and the last side faced the sea. Not only did it have perverted defensive work, but they also had two combat puppets from Atlantis.

Even the Gibraltar Straits had remnant forces of the Atlantis Squadron defending it. When the Atlantic Squadron went out to sea, they left half an division there, which became the only survivors.

After that cruel naval battle, the Atlantic Squadron was no more, and the magic powered submarines that survived were transported to Gibraltar Port.

With the dim moonlight, one could see that a giant human head statue on the west cliff of Jidian City was slowly taking shape. It was a week away from competition.

That was Alvaro’s statue.

Alvaro’s death was Great Xia’s biggest lost, and it pained Ouyang Shuo. This general that came from another country decided to die for Great Xia.

As a result, Ouyang Shuo instructed Jidian City to carve such a statue to remember Alvaro’s merits to motivate the Great Xia Army to continue forward.

Facing Jidian City, a fortress without any defensive dead ends, which was also connected to the imperial city through the teleportation formation, even if Silver Hand wanted to take it down, it would be harder than taking down Morocco.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo was determined to keep Jidian City.

To give Jidian City sufficient amounts of war resources, Ouyang Shuo personally contacted Kalia to ask her to interfere with the enemy squadron and lead them away from the Gibraltar Straits.

They had really wracked their brains.

In Ouyang Shuo’s words, “Let’s take it as keeping an ember in the Mediterranean. One day, I’ll come back and kill my way through.”

This debt of blood could only be paid in blood.

While the resources arrived in Jidian City, the 3rd legion of the West Africa legion corps also moved in.

…

In the night, Tangier pier.

A young lady looked out at the busy harbor. She was surrounded by a group of officials. In the dim light of the pier, one could feel the hesitation in the girl.

“Miss, are we really going to abandon this place?”

There were still Morocco officials who did not understand the Imperial Court’s decision even now.

The young lady was the new duchess, Morocco Provincial Governor Mulan Yue. Her feelings toward Morocco were even deeper than all the officials, but she did not have any regrets.

“The decision is correct. The province is alone out at sea and cannot block the enemy attacks. Rather than that, why not let go?” Mulan Yue’s voice was really calm, and no one could see what she was thinking.

“Miss had done so much for Morocco for it to have its current prosperity. It is such a waste to give up now.” The officials felt regretful.

Mulan Yue smiled and did not say anything.

As the first player Provincial Governor of Great Xia, she knew when to give up and also knew when to place aside personal feelings and judge from the viewpoint of the Imperial Court.

“Let’s return!”

Mulan Yue took a final look at the ships before turning around and leaving.

“Morocco Province still had things she could not bear to leave behind like the civilians…”

She could not bring everything with her. Only the officials, advanced artisans, and rare talents could pass through the teleportation formation and go back to Shanhai City.

The remaining civilians were left to fend for themselves.

Mulan Yue needed to quickly return to Rabat to defend her post until the final moments of the battle.