To the south of the Sack Kingdom near the Lampari Kingdom's border, there was a mountain range that wasn't too high, but it was very long.
When the Lampari Kingdom was founded, they stole a large piece of land to the south of this mountain range from the Sack Kingdom. In the end, the two kingdoms used the Muerto Mountain Range as their border. The Sack Kingdom was in the north and the Lampari Kingdom was in the south.
Because of this, the Sack Kingdom from the king to the citizens all hoped to take back this land from the Lampari Kingdom.
So since the Lampari Kingdom was founded several hundred years ago, the dispute between the two countries had never stopped.
Although these two countries didn't have the courage or the economic strength to wage a full scale war, there were still small conflicts that kept happening.
The Sack Kingdom would invest large amounts of manpower and resources on this border each year. On average, they would lose several thousand people each year, resulting in a loss of several hundred thousand gold coins.
Although the Sack Kingdom always had the upper hand on the border, they didn't have that much of an advantage.
After all these years, they had only pushed their territory from the foot of the mountain range when the Lampari Kingdom was founded to just past the mountain range. Every time they wanted to push forward, they would be met with strong resistance from the Lampari Kingdom's northern army.
At the beginning of this year, under the proposal of the Sack Kingdom's king, after careful planning by the royal army, the Hungry Wolf Regiment guarding the southern border launched a large scale attack that was completely different from before.
Faced with the Sack Kingdom's large scale attack, the Lampari Kingdom's northern army was caught off guard and couldn't resist at all. In just a short week, the Hungry Wolf Regiment had driven them out of their original territory and the entire Muerto Mountain Range fell under the Sack Kingdom's control.
The entire Sack Kingdom was very excited about this result.
For the citizens of the Sack Kingdom, this had a strong symbolic meaning. It meant that the balance between the Sack Kingdom and the Lampari Kingdom had been broken and the Sack Kingdom had won for the first time. It was the first time they had the advantage.
For the Sack Kingdom's royal army, this was a result worth being happy about.
That was because as long as they had complete control over the Muerto Mountains, they would have an absolute geographical advantage.
For the Lampari Kingdom's Northern Battlefront Army, if they wanted to counterattack, they had to attack from the foot of the mountain, which was much more difficult than attacking from the ground.
That was the truth.
When the Lampari Kingdom's northern army finally stabilized their footing from the Sack Kingdom's Hungry Wolf Regiment, they took advantage of the fact that the Hungry Wolf Regiment was building fortifications in the Muerto Mountains to launch a counterattack. However, because they were at a disadvantage and faced with the firm defenses of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, they couldn't achieve anything at all. In the end, they could only leave over a thousand lives and helplessly retreat.
To the Sack Kingdom's army headquarters, this meant that the Sack Kingdom already controlled the Muerto Mountains.
From now on, because of their geographical advantage, the Sack Kingdom could attack or retreat with the Muerto Mountains. The entire north of the Lampari Kingdom would be exposed to the fangs of the Hungry Wolf Regiment and they could rampage as they wished.
However, the good times didn't last long.
After the cold winter at the beginning of the year, the Lampari Kingdom's northern army launched another counterattack. The Sack Kingdom's Hungry Wolf Regiment found that the northern army's counterattack this time was incomparably fierce and they found it hard to resist.
In less than a month, the Hungry Wolf Regiment had already lost two mountains and the defenses of the entire mountain range had been seriously damaged.
If it wasn't for the Sack Kingdom's army headquarters immediately increasing the support of the Hungry Wolf Regiment and even bringing in the Fierce Tiger Regiment, the Muerto Mountains that were hard to obtain would have been taken back by the northern army.
There was only a single reason for the northern army's sudden increase in battle strength, which was the change in the northern army's equipment.
Before this, although the Sack Kingdom's Hungry Wolf Regiment had the advantage against the Lampari Kingdom's northern army, in the Hungry Wolf Regiment, they had always had a high evaluation of the Lampari Kingdom's northern army's battle strength.
Because compared to the full equipment of the Hungry Wolf Regiment, the equipment of the Lampari Kingdom's northern army's soldiers was a bit worse.
When fighting the Hungry Wolf Regiment, the Lampari Kingdom's northern army's soldiers weren't even guaranteed a set of armour, many of them were just wearing old leather armour.
Moreover, their weapons were clearly very old. Whether it was their sharpness, weight, or quality, they couldn't compare to the weapons of the Hungry Wolf Regiment.
There was no one who was clearer on how good equipment could increase a soldier's battle strength than the soldiers themselves, so the Hungry Wolf Regiment was filled with admiration for the northern army's soldiers who were only at a disadvantage in this kind of difficult situation, being able to defend their position in the Muerto Mountains.
The Hungry Wolf Regiment's commander Chalon Linear had privately expressed his emotions to his chief of staff Ivy Joao more than once. It was a good thing the Lampari Kingdom was too poor, otherwise if the Lampari Kingdom's northern army had the same equipment as the Hungry Wolf Regiment, the Muerto Mountains would have been taken by the northern army already.
And now, the thing that Chalon Linear was most worried about had happened.
In this counterattack, Chalon Linear personally saw that every single soldier of the Lampari Kingdom's northern army was wearing a set of shiny and neat armour. At the same time, they were holding extremely sharp weapons that emitted a cold glint.
Chalon Linear and the Hungry Wolf Regiment's soldiers were still in shock, but they were even more shocked to find out that the armour of the northern army's soldiers was incomparably sturdy. Even under the rain of arrows, they weren't injured at all.
Sharon Linear, who was a high ranking general, watched as a Northern Battlefront Army soldier at the front was shot by at least a dozen arrows, but his armor only had a small mark. Not to mention being pierced through, it didn't even deform!
When the northern army's soldiers charged up the mountain and clashed with the Hungry Wolf Regiment's soldiers, the Hungry Wolf Regiment's soldiers were extremely shocked to find out that the quality of their weapons was far inferior to the northern army's. When both sides clashed, the weapons of the Hungry Wolf Regiment's soldiers would definitely be destroyed.
Some of the weapons of the Hungry Wolf Regiment's soldiers were even weaker and were directly broken by the northern army's weapons.
With such a clear difference in equipment and the fact that the northern army's fighting strength was much higher than the Hungry Wolf Regiment's soldiers, a normal battle would have lost its suspense the moment the two sides clashed.
Even if the Hungry Wolf Regiment had the advantage in terms of manpower and terrain, they still couldn't stop the northern army's charge.
If it wasn't for the fact that the northern army chose to retreat after getting some results, the Hungry Wolf Regiment would have lost more than two mountains in the first week.
After the Lampari Kingdom's northern army's fierce counterattack, the Hungry Wolf Regiment's internal discussions were filled with both joy and doubt.
Joy was that the northern army chose to retreat, so the Hungry Wolf Regiment didn't suffer a crushing defeat.
They were also confused about this.
The Northern Battlefront Army had taken the initiative and the advantage on the battlefield. But unexpectedly, they chose to retreat. Why was that?
The answer would be revealed half a month later.
After the Lampari Kingdom's first attack on the Muerto Mountains, they rested for half a month before launching their second attack.
The Hungry Wolf Regiment had been prepared to receive the fierce attacks of the northern army with their advantage in equipment, but they didn't think that the northern army wouldn't attack up the mountain this time. Instead, they pushed out several strange looking giant machines at the foot of the mountain.
Then they saw countless giant rocks shoot out from these strange giant machines, accurately hitting the Hungry Wolf Regiment's defensive position on the mountain.
Under such a continuous and powerful rock attack, the Tanlang Corps could not even hold on for an hour before they were defeated.
Every time the Hungry Wolf Regiment wanted to use the terrain advantage to charge down the mountain and attack the strange giant machines, they would be met with a dense rain of arrows. The moment the Hungry Wolf Regiment's soldiers charged out of the camp, they would be turned into porcupines.
Unable to defend, unable to attack, the Hungry Wolf Regiment's officers saw that the situation was not good and could only announce a retreat.
However, the Lampari Kingdom's northern army didn't choose to retreat this time. After taking down a position, they didn't show any mercy and continued to push forward one by one.
When the Hungry Wolf Regiment found out that there were only three strange looking giant machines and wanted to attack without the three giant machines, they were met with a rain of arrows. Adding on the fact that the northern army had the advantage in equipment, the Hungry Wolf Regiment's attacks were all in vain.
In just a month of fighting, the Hungry Wolf Regiment had lost all of their positions in the Muerto Mountains. They were even chased out of the Muerto Mountains by the Lampari Kingdom's northern army.
Therefore, in just over three months, the situation between the two sides had completely reversed.
Now it was the Lampuri Kingdom's northern army that had the terrain advantage. Moreover, with their excellent weapons and equipment, as well as their arrows that didn't seem to cost money, as well as the three unimaginably powerful giant machines, the Hungry Wolf Regiment didn't have any hope of fighting back.
But towards this result, including Chalon Linear, while everyone in the Hungry Wolf Legion was dissatisfied and angry, they were also filled with doubt.
How did the Lampari Kingdom's northern army suddenly become so rich?