Black Iron's Glory - Chapter548

On the 14th of June, 603 of the Holy Light Calendar, the pamigal National Liberation Front managed to reclaim the last two port towns, Port Filimuz and Port Saint Nicholas, after a night of fierce fighting.

The occupation of the two port towns meant that Moroshik had lost its colony on Nubissia. For the first time in two to three hundred years, the natives of Nubissia had revolted and overthrown the rule of the colonists. They had regained their independence and freedom.

On the 7th of July, the president of the pamigal National Liberation Front, Tazinger Nora Taganem, announced the establishment of the Pamigal National Republic with Peda Brasso as its capital. The 7th of July would be celebrated every year.

When the news spread, all the colonies on the west coast of Nubissia went silent. No one expected the pamigals to succeed.

In a short period of time, the colonies were in an uproar and the relationship between the natives and the colonists worsened.

On the 23rd of July, two standing corps of 125,000 men from Lesnia arrived at the second colony on the west coast and stationed their troops at the border of the pamigal National Republic.

On the 25th of July, a standing corps from the Vassiliko Principality arrived at the colony of the Vassiliko Principality on the west coast. They assembled a reserve corps that was temporarily conscripted by the colony and stationed their barracks at the border of the Pamigal National Republic.

On the 28th of July, Morosik, a country on the south coast of Freia, announced that it would never give up its colony on the west coast of Nubissia and that the pamigals there were rebels.

The Kingdom of Morosik would train its troops and battle these rebels to the end, until the colony was reclaimed ….

On the 29th of July, the Kingdom of Lesnia and the Principality of Vasilko announced that they would not recognize the country established by the Pamigars.

The two countries claimed that the pamigar's rebellion and independence were the greatest threat and destruction to the peaceful life and social order on the West Coast.

In order to help Morosik reclaim their colony, Lesnia and Vasiliko would send troops to help Morosik quell the rebellion and eliminate the pamigal rebels.

On the 30th of July, three of Lesnia's colonies and two of Vasiliko's colonies launched an attack on the pamigal National Republic. The pamigal National Republic's war began.

On the 1st of August, the first president of the pamigal National Republic, Tazinger Nora Taganem, announced that the pamigal National Republic was in a state of emergency. The entire nation was mobilized to fight the invaders from Lesnia and Vasiliko.

Tazinger Nora Taganem declared in the announcement that they had the confidence to destroy the invading enemies of the two countries and would fight back against their colonies. The Pamigal people would help the brotherly peoples of the two colonies to achieve the same national liberation and establish independent nation-states ….

On the 7th of August, at the border between the pamigal National Republic and Vasiliko's colonies, the three pamigal corps managed to fend off two of Vasiliko's corps with their defensive lines. The two sides fought for three days and four nights. Corpses were strewn all over the place. Vasiliko's corps lost forty to fifty thousand men, but they still weren't able to break through the pamigal defensive lines.

On the other side, Lesnia's two standing corps and the colony's garrison easily broke through the obstruction of two Shiksan folk and made their way to the capital of Pamigal, Peda Brasso.

Lesnia's high-ranking officers were glad that their opponents were the weak-willed Shiksan folk. They mocked Vasiliko's troops for being held back by the pamigal forces and shouted for them to take down Peda Brasso and capture the baron alive.

They even privately announced that the corps would have three days of free time after taking Peda Brasso.

Then, on the evening of the 7th of August, just as the officers were giving the order to set up camp and rest, the two standing legions of Lesnia were suddenly attacked by heavy artillery fire. What was even more unexpected was that all the artillery shells exploded on the ground. At the same time, there were also countless long tubes that fell into the camp and the supply wagons, spewing flames.

Intense gunshots rang out from all directions, as if two or three armies of enemies had surrounded them ….

The vanguard of the Lesnian Kingdom collapsed in less than half an hour. The officers couldn't find their soldiers, and the soldiers couldn't find their superiors. There were corpses and injured people everywhere, and the camp was littered with corpses.

Gunfire, explosions, flames, corpses, blood, wails, cries, gunshots, everything painted a tragic picture of hell.

The first corps collapsed. The soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the hell of gunfire ran 15 kilometres back in a daze before being taken in by the middle corps.

When the middle corps learned that the vanguard had been attacked, they tightened their guard at night and set up defensive measures and battle lines in the camp.

But it was all for naught. The middle corps was still attacked in the middle of the night. Cannonfire and rockets fell into the camp from all directions.

Rows of tents were burning fiercely, and the flames lit up the entire camp, allowing the enemy's artillery to have a clearer target to aim at. From time to time, human bodies would be sent into the air by the flames of the explosions, before falling to the ground in pieces.

However, Lesnia's army was known for being strong in the southern coastal countries of the Freia Continent. Even under the heavy bombardment, the soldiers of Lesnia who had suffered heavy casualties still obeyed the orders of their officers and defended the camp to the death.

However, the frontline soldiers who were taken in by the Middle Division became the last straw that crushed them. These frontline soldiers who were already frightened by the mere twang of a bowstring panicked the moment the flames of the artillery fell on the back of the camp. They ran around in all directions, shouting in panic that the enemy was coming, causing the morale of the entire camp to waver …

A few officers from the Middle Corps made a prompt decision and executed a few frontline soldiers who ran up to them.

However, no one had expected that the vanguard soldiers would actually pick up their weapons and counterattack when they saw this scene.

They had long lost control of their emotions and couldn't differentiate between friend and foe. The only thought in their minds was to escape the camp. Anyone who stood in their way was the enemy.

So they started killing each other. Combined with the continuous cannonfire, they ran like a flood.

Countless middle corps and vanguard soldiers pushed down the fences of the camp, wanting to get as far away from the cannons as possible. They abandoned their weapons and ammunition and ran back with only one thought in mind: leave the colony and return to the kingdom. That was the only way they could guarantee their own safety.

However, none of the fleeing soldiers got what they wanted. The two Shiksan folk they thought they could easily crush had already blocked their path of retreat. The defenseless frontline and central corps had no choice but to surrender obediently. They didn't even have any rations or water to drink.

The news of the 7th of August's victory was like a bolt of lightning, shocking all the colonial authorities who had been paying attention to the pamigal war.

When the war began, almost all the colonial newspapers believed that the so-called Pamigal Republic of the Nation would soon become a part of history, like a cactus blooming epiphyllum.

Under the combined attack of Lesnia and Vasiliko's five corps, its fate was sealed. It wouldn't be able to hold out for long. Only defeat and destruction awaited it.

The pamigal nation wouldn't get the chance to grow and would be wiped out in its infancy. The five million pamigals living in the colony would be wiped out.

Lesnia was a powerful military nation along the southern coast of Freia. Vasiliko's military wasn't inferior to Moroshik's either.

The five corps of the two kingdoms amounted to more than 300,000 soldiers. Was that something the pamigals could stop?

It was already impressive enough that they could fend off a hundred thousand men from Vasilko with three corps. Would two Shiksan folk be able to fend off three corps from Lesnia? That was impossible.

The outcome shocked everyone who had been paying attention to the battle. The two Shiksan folk didn't stop the Lesnian corps and allowed them to charge in instead. Then, they ambushed them in the middle of the night and annihilated the two corps just like that. Only a few dozen of them managed to make it out alive.

From the survivors, it was revealed that there weren't just two Shiksan folk, but four.

Coupled with the explosive artillery fire, the burning long-barreled rockets, and the continuous gunfire, the two regular standing armies of the Lesnian Kingdom that had traveled thousands of miles to reach the colony were wiped out just like that.

A third of the casualties and the remaining seventy to eighty thousand soldiers were taken as captives.

When the legion that was behind to transport the logistics and supplies heard that the front legion and the middle legion were gone, they immediately abandoned the supplies and advanced at full speed. They were even faster than when they set off, saving two days to escape back to the camp set up at the border of the two countries' colonies and defended with all their might.

On the 21st of the 8th month, the four Shiksan folk launched a counterattack against Lesnia's colony. The garrison at the border only held out for three days before it was breached. Less than a full line of soldiers managed to escape back to Castle Salat.

The four Shiksan folk claimed that they were there at the request of the lusman to help them achieve national liberation and independence.

So, the four Shiksan folk took over most of the towns in Lesnia's colony, imprisoned the local officials and looted the properties of the local officials and immigrants. They locked the captured officials and immigrants in camps, saying that they would be used as hostages in future negotiations with Lesnia.

In the end, they handed the towns and camps over to the reveling lusman to manage.

Even Great Chief Unamas, who had the highest prestige among the losmans, repeatedly declared that they didn't invite Shiks to come.

He personally went to the capital of the colony, Salat Castle, to explain to the authorities to clear up any misunderstandings. However, the suspicious authorities still placed the chief under house arrest and requested him to order the release of the Lesnian Kingdom's immigrants and local officials who were imprisoned in the concentration camp …

At that time, Lesnia's colony still occupied a small area along the coast with five to six towns and two ports.

The Shiksan folk, on the other hand, left two folk to face off against the garrison at Castle Salat while the other two folk attacked Bay Loducus.

This was an unexpected disaster for the Fox Islands United Kingdom.

On the 19th of the 9th, a Shiksan folk took over Bay Loducus and locked up all the Fochian settlers and colonial officials in captivity. They also looted the properties of the settlers and officials in the city.

On the 25th of the 9th, a Shiksan folk launched a provocative attack on Loki Mountains. Their slogan was revenge, as if they were taking revenge for the defeat of Shiksan's expeditionary force.

One of the garrison lines stationed at the eastern border fought back and the two sides fought for eight hours. In the end, the garrison in Loki Mountains suffered heavy casualties and had no choice but to retreat.

The victorious Shiksan folk then pillaged three gold mining bases in the eastern mountains and looted large amounts of gold sand.

The region was enraged at the news and quickly mobilized 3rd Folk of Monolith to fight back.

On the 18th of the 10th, 3rd Monolith defeated the Shiksan folk and reclaimed the eastern mountains. They then entered Bay Loducus and engaged in a fierce battle with another Shiksan folk near Bay Loducus.

Gunshots rang out for a whole day and night. In the end, 3rd Monolith won and took over Bay Loducus. The remnants of the two Shiksan folk retreated to Lesnia's colony.

The furious 3rd Monolith wanted to continue their pursuit of the enemy, but they were stopped by the newly formed luthman armed forces at the border of Lesnia's colony. A series of clashes broke out between both sides and both sides suffered a few casualties.

However, considering that the 3rd Monolith Division had been fighting for a long time and had suffered heavy casualties, insufficient troops, and exhausted officers and soldiers, the autonomous military zone ordered the 3rd Monolith Division to retreat to the Cape Loducus Colony to rest, and not to continue to clash with the Luthmans …

After occupying Bay Loducus, the released colonial officials went to look for Monolith 3rd Folk's commander, General Ijic, in an attempt to regain control of Bay Loducus.

In the end, General Ijic rejected their request and mocked them instead.

As Bay Loducus was reclaimed by 3rd Monolith from the Shiksan folk, the colonial officials and the citizens were released from the captive camps.

General Iquique said that the Cape Loducus Colony now belonged to the Overseas Dominion. If the United Kingdom of the Fochs Islands wanted to take back the colony, there were only two ways. They could either declare war on the Overseas Dominion or pay to redeem the colony from the Overseas Dominion.

3rd Monolith had paid such a heavy price to take the colony from the Shiksan folk, so they couldn't just hand it over for nothing, could they?

That wasn't wrong. Not to mention, Bay Loducus had already been plundered clean by the two Shiksan folk. Nothing was left. Even the 6,000 citizens of Bay Loducus had to rely on the rations delivered by 3rd Folk to survive.

If these colonial officials of the Fox Islands United Kingdom could take back the Cape Loducus Colony from General Iquique with empty promises, then General Iquique would be the biggest good man and fool in history. At the same time, he would be immediately executed by the Overseas Autonomous Military Zone under military law …

Some people suspected that the Shiksan folk and the region's military were putting on an act. General Ijic was furious. He said that he had long opposed the pamigar's recruitment of Shiksan captives because they were all ungrateful bastards.

At the same time, he hoped that the region wouldn't sell advanced weapons and ammunition to them.

Unfortunately, he wasn't the commander of the region and no one listened to him. Also, after the west coast countries imposed a trade ban on the region, the councilors couldn't wait to do more business and sell everything.

Now, they were bitten back by the bastards. The captured Shiksan soldiers had always held a grudge against the region. Now that they had become mercenaries, they wanted to start a war with the region.

On the 13th of the 11th Nov, envoys from the region arrived at Pamigal and issued a stern warning to Tazinger Nora Taganem, demanding that the Shiksan folk he hired be apprehended for waging war against the region and dismiss the two Shiksan folk that attacked Loki and engaged in a fierce battle with Monolith 3rd Folk.

However, Tazinger Nora Taganem stated that he could only mediate the conflict between Shiksan and the autonomous region. He had no authority over the Shiksan folk.

Pamigal had long since ended its employment relationship with the Shiksan folk. Now, it was the Lesnian colony of Lusman who hired the four folk.

On the 18th of November, in Salat Castle, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesnia, the colonial officials announced that the Lusman chief Unamas Dia Modríguez had been sentenced to death for treason. He was to be hanged on the gallows.

Tens of thousands of Lesnian Colony's immigrants cheered as they looked at the corpse of Chief Unamas Dia Modric hanging in the air, as though this would immediately quell the rebellion …