The flames of war instantly lit up all of Sines.
At the beginning of June, the Kandla Empire's army invaded the Kingdom of Ruhr.
Following that, the Malor Empire and the Falk Kingdom's army invaded the Drake Duchy, fighting a fierce battle with the Drake Duchy and the Lampari Kingdom's army on the border.
At the same time, the Sack Kingdom's army gathered to attack the Lampari Kingdom's northern army.
If these three places were connected, one would find that the three armies were all pointing to the same place, which was the Principality of Constantine in the southwest corner of the continent.
Accurately speaking, they were pointing to the New Flyer.
Moreover, the flames of war weren't just limited to the southwest corner of the continent. Before the flames of war were ignited, the forty seven countries that had listed the New Flyer as enemies had already put pressure on the surrounding countries, asking them to expel the New Flyer from their borders. Otherwise, they would be regarded as supporting the New Flyer and would be listed as enemies.
Under the pressure and consideration of benefits, there were many countries that didn't declare the New Flyer as an unwelcome company. They sealed all the bases, factories, and shops that the New Flyer had set up in their countries.
Of course, there were some countries that didn't care about this warning and maintained their cooperation with the New Flyer.
These countries included the Nozdormu Business Union Kingdom and the Duchy of Wales, the sixteen countries that had deep cooperation with the New Flyer.
So after the flames of war were ignited in the southwest corner of the continent, these sixteen countries were also attacked by one or even several countries.
The targets of these attacks were the various bases of the New Flyer.
Since the war between the Kandla Empire and the Malor Empire forty years ago, this could be considered the war that the Sines had launched in the past few decades that involved the most countries and the most wide scale war.
The target of this war wasn't a country, but rather a company. This was the most strange war in the history of the Sines.
In the eyes of most people, no matter how powerful New Flyer was and how powerful their military magic machines were, it was impossible for them to truly contend against a massive empire like the Kandla Empire.
Not to mention that this was the first time the Kandla Empire and the Malor Empire had joined hands since they were established. Adding in the Marlow Magic Kingdom, the Dror Kingdom, the Franks Kingdom, and other countries with decent strength, they could be considered to have gathered most of the power in Sines.
Even if the New Flyer had the support of the Lampari Kingdom, the Kingdom of Ruhr, the Drake Duchy, and other countries, how could it resist such a terrifying force?
Therefore, most people believed that New Flyer, the company that led the magic machine industry on the continent, was about to come to an end.
However, when the flames of war were ignited, what happened next made the entire continent speechless.
The first to ignite the flames of war was the Kandla Empire.
But as the vanguard of the Kandla Empire's army, the first to invade the Kingdom of Ruhr, one of the ten elite armies of the Kandla Empire, the Radiant Regiment, had been wiped out in just half a day of fighting with the Kingdom of Ruhr's army. The army commander Count Antusor had even died in battle.
After that, the army of sixty thousand from the Malor Empire and the Franks Kingdom was stopped by the army of less than twenty thousand from the Drake Duchy and the Lampari Kingdom at the border between the Drake Duchy and the Franks Kingdom.
Both sides had been fighting for two days. The Magic Cannons and logistics of the Marlow Empire and the Frankish Kingdom's army had been bombarded by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce's Magic Airships and had been wiped out in the end.
After losing their supplies and the Magic Cannons that they relied on the most, they were forced to retreat from the Drake Duchy, but they were also bombarded by the Magic Airships of the New Flyer during their retreat.
Although there were two Great Magicians and several Adept Magicians accompanying the army, the final result was that two Great Magicians died on the spot. A total of twenty-six of the thirty-seven Adept Magicians died in battle, and eleven of them barely managed to escape.
In the end, the allied army suffered heavy losses from the bombing of the Magic Airships and the pursuit of the Drake Duchy and the Lampuri Kingdom. There were only twenty thousand people that managed to escape back to the Falk Kingdom, which could be considered a heavy defeat.
However, compared to the losses of the Sack Kingdom, the losses of the Kandla Empire and the Marlody Empire weren't considered that much.
In order to cooperate with the attacks of the Kandla Empire and the Malor Empire, the Sack Kingdom that had already reached an agreement with Dark Red had attacked the Lampari Kingdom's northern army, trying to restrain the Lampari Kingdom's side.
However, the Hungry Wolf Regiment that had sent six large groups for a total of thirty thousand people had been fiercely counterattacked by the Lampari Kingdom's northern army without exception. Of the thirty thousand people, less than four thousand had escaped.
The more important thing was that the Lampari Kingdom's northern army had immediately launched a counterattack against the Sack Kingdom.
If one were to talk about the complete set of military magic machines, other than the New Flyer's guards, the other army in the Sines was the Lampari Kingdom's northern army.
Since close to twenty years ago, the Lampari Kingdom had been developing a good relationship with the New Flyer to build the northern army.
After close to twenty years of training, the Lampari Kingdom's northern army had already evolved into a new army with a complete set of military magic machines.
Just in terms of the Magic Airships equipped with military magic machines, the northern army had fifteen of them and there were countless other kinds of military magic machines.
This kind of army of over fifty thousand people, it could be imagined how strong they were.
Even if the Sack Kingdom had been developing military magic machines over the years, there was no doubt that they couldn't compare to the military magic machines that the Lampari Kingdom's northern army had from the New Flyer.
So as soon as they fought, the Sack Kingdom's army kept retreating.
In just half a month, the Lampari Kingdom's northern army had defeated all the resistance from the Sack Kingdom's side and had successfully broken through the Sack Kingdom's capital, Nordham City.
The Sack Kingdom's king had already escaped with some ministers before the city was broken, so the Sack Kingdom's capital had fallen.
At the same time, after the Lampari Kingdom and the Drake Duchy's army repelled the Malor Empire's army, they didn't stop and directly invaded the Falk Kingdom. They were like a hot knife through butter, repelling the three armies of the Falk Kingdom and the reinforcements sent by the Malor Empire. In the end, when they reached the Falk Kingdom's capital, they chose to retreat and built new fortifications on the border with the Drake Duchy.
After this battle, the Falk Kingdom's army had lost most of their forces and they were heavily injured. They didn't have the ability to fight the Drake Duchy at all.
The Malor Empire's side never expected that they would be defeated this quickly and this miserably. Even with the reinforcements still being organized, they couldn't attack for a while.
So the Drake Duchy's north was temporarily at peace.
But ….. the Kingdom of Ruhr's side to the south wasn't at peace at all.
After the Radiant Regiment was almost completely destroyed and even the regiment commander Count Antusor had died in battle, the Kandla Empire was filled with rage and immediately sent an army to invade the Kingdom of Ruhr.
Although the Kingdom of Ruhr had some military magic machines, the Kandla Empire was well prepared. They had sent an army of one hundred and eighty thousand soldiers, invading from many directions.
At this time, the effects of the Norton Duchy merging with the Kandla Empire could be seen.
Originally, if they wanted to enter the Kingdom of Ruhr from the Kandla Empire, they could only choose from the east and the northeast of the Kingdom of Ruhr. But after the Norton Duchy merged with the Kandla Empire, the north of the Kingdom of Ruhr was completely open to the Kandla Empire. This allowed the Kandla Empire to send an army of one hundred and eighty thousand soldiers to invade from six different directions.
The Kingdom of Ruhr only had fifty thousand soldiers, so it was impossible for them to completely resist the invasion of one hundred and eighty thousand soldiers.
But at this time, the New Flyer made a statement to the outside world. For the first time, the Kandla Empire and the Malor Empire made a public statement to refute the accusations made by the New Flyer.
In the statement, the New Flyer stated that the New Flyer had always been cooperating with the two empires, promoting the magic machine industry in the two empires. They wanted to improve the daily lives of the citizens of the two empires and promote the development of the two empires.
However, the two empires had inverted black and white, slandering the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for participating in reactionary activities. Without any reason or basis, they had closed down the various industries of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce in the two empires. Not only did this bring large economic losses to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it even caused serious casualties.
Regarding this, the New Flyer could not accept it and strongly condemned it.
Of course, this was not the main point.
The main point was that the New Flyer stated in the second half of the statement that the Drake Duchy and the Kingdom of Ruhr were long-term strategic partners of the New Flyer. Now that the two empires had launched a military invasion against the Drake Duchy and the Kingdom of Ruhr, the New Flyer would not just stand by and watch. They would support the two empires according to the strategic cooperation agreement and help them resist the invasion of the two empires.
The New Flyer also stated that this support was not only in terms of resources, but also in terms of military support.
In other words, the New Flyer Guards would officially announce their participation in the war.