I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Dozens of fighter planes carrying small aerial bombs can also take part in the bombing mission and bomb the kingdom's defense line on the Putum side.

At the same time, the four large-caliber machine guns built into the fighter plane continued to fire at the opposite side. Some pilots even flew at ultra-low altitudes and adjusted the shooting angle into the trenches.

A row of dense bullets plowed across the entire trench, turning a large number of soldiers who did not have time to hide in the holes inside the trench into a pile of rotten meat.

Blood splattered everywhere, body parts flew into the air, such scenes were played out repeatedly on the Cabancia position.

They don't have such things as mechanical soldiers. Except for those wearing magic armor, the soldiers only wear ordinary iron armor or even leather armor. Such defense is basically equivalent to paper in the face of modern large-caliber weapons.

In general, due to the limited amount of ammunition carried by the fighter planes, they did not cause too many casualties, which were far less than the casualties caused by the 75 rapid-fire guns.

But the whistles they made when flying at low altitudes became a terrifying sound that the kingdom's soldiers could never forget.

This is not the end. After the position was completely stabilized, the White Area Army also took out its trump card tank troops and launched a counterattack.

Fifteen Saint-Chamond tanks took the lead and overwhelmed all the firepower of the Cabancia Line of Defense. The huge vehicle bodies even caused a local mutiny in the Royal Army, and a large number of soldiers stationed in the trenches raised their hands in surrender.

This scene was like a chain reaction, with large groups of kingdom soldiers raising their hands in surrender.

Chapter 229: Unrest Begins

Trench warfare is the most direct dimensionality reduction attack on feudal dynasties.

It was not uncommon for an entire attacking division to be wiped out within ten minutes.

Without systematic knowledge education to shape a good sense of national identity, it may be okay to fight a few favorable battles, but it is not an easy task to get an army to fight for you like this.

Or maybe the training and selection costs and effort are too heavy, so the number of people cannot be too large. It is very likely that the royal family would not be willing to build an army that is really willing to fight for the kingdom.

Although the security environment in the white areas has not been very good in recent years, the small regimes that have been able to come to power have all received comprehensive Seres-style military training, and their combat skills and ideology have been comprehensively strengthened.

The weapons and equipment are also systematic, with all the necessary tanks, artillery, machine guns and rifles, which can support a war of medium intensity.

The most interesting thing is that Cabancia was still the invading party, which gave the Seris Alliance sufficient excuses in international morality, and the poor military discipline of the royal army aroused fierce resistance from the people in the white areas.

The people in the white areas who worked in the Union either returned directly to their country to prepare to join the army and fight, or simply organized marches and demonstrations in the Union, spreading the evil deeds done by the Cabancia soldiers to arouse sympathy.

Small-scale riots also broke out in Porto Mueller and Porto Tagera, where soldiers and civilians from Cabancia stormed the Governor's Palace, sparking bloody clashes and killing several government workers.

Through this, the Allied Military quickly obtained official authorization and formally mobilized the air force of nearby states to bomb military facilities within the Kingdom of Cabancia.

A Greengoal bomber aviation division was transferred to the nearest Red Zone, Manalazani State.

The division level is currently the largest organization of the Seris Alliance Air Force, consisting of four 64+4 aviation brigades plus four aviation division headquarters. It has 4 aircraft and thousands of ground crew members.

Within a month, the kingdom, including the capital of Cabancia, was subjected to more than 800 aerial bombings by the Alliance Air Force.

The industrial cities of the Kingdom of Cabancia and the road transportation system behind them were destroyed successively.

The Kurgas State Front in the white area also basically wiped out the small groups of royal troops that had entered the territory, and began to carry out large-scale mobile sweeps with tracked infantry fighting vehicles and all-terrain vehicles, gradually pushing the front line to the original border.

The Putum Kingdom Army suffered a devastating blow. After the Putum State Army surrendered the Kingdom Army in the main battlefield area, it began to switch from defense to offense and entered Cabancia. The situation between the two sides was completely reversed.

On the main continent, the Kingdom of Puelente and the Diocese of Demetria signed a non-aggression treaty, and the six countries signed a new strategic military alliance resolution.

At the end of September, Ixia and Puelente simultaneously declared war on the Kingdom of Surya without declaring war. The two kingdoms formed a coalition force of nearly 9 and launched a fierce offensive against the Kingdom of Surya.

The King of Surya Kingdom, Bulat, was stunned.

The Surya Kingdom, which had relied on the alliance for nearly fifty years, had been accustomed to a comfortable life. It never thought that the surrounding countries would dare to attack it. It was caught off guard and suffered a great loss, and lost several continents in succession.

To make matters worse, the Britian Empire and the Demetria Church were also involved in the war in accordance with the newly signed secret strategic alliance treaty.

In a very short period of time, the Surya Kingdom lost almost half of its territory.

Because the state of Cavavental was once the fiefdom of Blatt, King Blatt put the most effort into its construction. It withstood the first round of invasion by the Kingdom of Puelente and was not conquered, but its situation was not much better.

With the momentum of the multinational coalition, it won't take long for them to encircle the state of Cavaventar. By then, no matter how strong they are, they will not be able to withstand the defensive pressure of being surrounded by enemies on all sides.

What was even more fatal was that the former eldest prince Beram appeared in the allied forces, shaking the status of the new king Brat.

Especially at this moment when the kingdom is in turmoil, the appearance of Behram is like an excuse to give all residents of the Surya Kingdom psychological comfort. Even if they surrender, the kingdom is still the same kingdom, and there is no change.

This will make the resistance among the people of Suriya less strong.

The news of the sudden change in the situation on the main continent was quickly gathered to the alliance through the intelligence network. When Medea saw the news, she couldn't help but gasp.

The thought occurred to her: 'How dare they?'

Thinking again that the Seris Alliance seemed to have not fought a war for many years, Medea felt that it was a mistake made by his own pride.

The Allies owed Seris and Surya so much money, and the domestic environment was in turmoil. They had every motivation to join forces to start a war and default on their debts.

It was also Medea's fault for ignoring the consequences of its previous economic exploitation of various countries. The savings of the people in the Demetria Church were looted, and it also owed so much debt to various countries. If it did not launch a war against other countries, it would inevitably explode internally. It had already reached a desperate situation where it had to fight to the death.

The strength displayed by the alliance might be enough to deter other countries in peacetime, but it has never been demonstrated. The fact that it dared to take action can only be said to be beyond Medea's expectations, but it is also logical.

Madness does not require too much rationality. Even if they only take care of the interests of Surya and Ernesto, it is enough to delay their internal pressure. If they can also take a bite of the alliance, it will be even better. This is enough for them to start a war.

And because the two kingdoms have been storing a large amount of military forces on the border for many years and use border troops as the main force when launching wars, the alliance's intelligence network did not detect it in the first time, which slowed down the alliance's response speed.

In the short term, the Alliance cannot provide much substantive help to the Kingdom of Surya other than material support. Apart from heavy bombers to provide logistics support for the coalition forces, even the navy cannot be transferred there.

After all, given the Allies' current stance, a naval blockade of the alliance is inevitable.

According to the Intelligence Department's survey and statistics on existing naval warships in neighboring countries, there are more than 30 export versions of the Zhiyuan-class cruisers in total, so it is no problem to form one or two joint fleets.

The Alliance itself has 50 cruisers in order to maintain absolute naval suppression, and a total of 7 battleships were launched recently.

One of the fleets, consisting of one battleship and five cruisers, was still in the country where Medea's relatives were and had not returned, while the other fleet of the same size was escorting comrades for support to Ernesto.

The remaining five ships are hidden trump cards. They have completed outfitting and sea trials in the shipyard on the other side of Seris. It will take at least two weeks to immediately set off for the front line.

In other words, the current paper strength of the Alliance's navy is not much stronger than that of the Allied Forces. It is more than capable of defense, but if it disperses to provide support, the Alliance's long coastline will be left with gaps.

But it won't work if we just ignore it. At least we need to send an army to the territory of the Kingdom of Surya to maintain a strategic enclave and reduce resistance for subsequent landing operations!

Chapter 230 Declaration of War

In addition to the Surya Kingdom, Ernesto's pressure is increasing.

Although the army led by Yadov had achieved a complete victory, it was short-lived and was later coupled with the campaign to purge the nobility.

The noble landlords in Ernesto had a deep-seated hatred for these emancipated serfs, and they hated them with gnashing teeth.

They did not dare to confront Ernesto head-on, but they dared to hinder him from the side. When Ernesto faced huge international pressure, they colluded with old officers from the pre-Roshek period and regained control of their respective states.

Due to the heavy casualties caused by the previous uprising, the whole country can be said to be in a state of disrepair, and the proportion of young and middle-aged people is already very low.

Therefore, a large number of soldiers who are not of appropriate age are released back to build their hometowns, to cultivate fields, or to work in factories built with the support of the alliance.

As a result, except for the hot spots, there are not many garrison troops in other annexed states.

This also gave the old nobles a chance to make a comeback. They responded to the Tsar's call and fought against the army in their states.

Even though it did not achieve very good results, it did successfully pin down the local troops stationed there, disrupt and suspend production in factories within the state, and restrict the flow of food.

This is just internal worry.

Internationally, Ernesto's completely different ideology has led to the natural hostility of other imperialists, which has also been affecting Ernesto's development at all times.

The Seris Alliance is okay, after all, it is far away, and the Seris Alliance has a queen.

However, Ernesto's success constantly demonstrates how ridiculous their theories of theocracy and imperial power are, and how working like a slave in this life is to accumulate blessings for the next life, and how bad one's fate is due to bad feng shui in the family.

They were afraid that Ernesto's red flame would burn them one day, so they either had to destroy him or, at the very least, seal him off and turn him into a pathetic control group.

The intentional or unintentional trade blockades by surrounding countries forced Ernesto to rely on alliances thousands of miles away to transport supplies. Not only was the journey long, but the amount of transportation was also always limited.

Considering the current population of tens of millions in Ernesto, the amount of food consumed every day is an astronomical figure in itself, and it is necessary to have a certain production capacity.

But it happened that the war just ended this year, and the planting areas were basically destroyed in the spring and summer, resulting in a poor harvest in the autumn. In the winter, we can basically only rely on the alliance for transportation.

Insufficient food and winter clothing, and going to war at this time is simply the beginning of hell. Soldiers have to eat, right? Where does the food come from? It can only be taken from the people. Yadov couldn't even think of how to explain it to the people below.

Didn't we say that we would live a good life together after the revolution? Why did our life become even more difficult after the revolution?

Veronica, who had infiltrated Ernesto and served as the logistics minister, was also worried. The Alliance sent a lot of food, but Ernesto's infrastructure was so poor that the food was lost greatly during transportation, like a hole that could not be filled.

Therefore, the plan that Veronica proposed to the alliance was to split the supply of industrial equipment and food, salt, oil and daily necessities in half, giving priority to the supply of agricultural machinery manufacturing technology and workers, as well as fertilizers and support for high-quality grain seeds.

But now that the war has started, all agricultural machinery factories will most likely have to transform, putting production aside to focus on survival, and all the preparations made before will be in vain.

In fact, whether it was the rebel army led by the old officer Tsar, or they were suffering from food shortage and famine, or they were encircled and suppressed by the Allied Forces.

Any one of these three factors alone would be considered tricky at best, but it's not impossible to fight against. The deadly thing is that the three factors are combined together, which is extremely fatal.

It is impossible to not give them food and yet require the people to produce, to force them to join the army and shed blood, and to let them watch their families starve to death. This is completely destroying one's own popular base.

The logic behind the Allies' aid to the Tsar was very simple. They wanted to overthrow Ernesto. Even if they could not overthrow him, they had to cause complete chaos on the other side, disrupt the other side's development process and occupy its land to the greatest extent possible.

Now that Ernesto has been messed up and cannot hinder them, their main focus can be on the alliance's counterattack after they have swallowed up Surya.

As the war progressed smoothly, at the internal meeting of the alliance, the Imperial Prince Ardashir even began to declare: "I believe that His Majesty Tsar Roshek will win, and I believe that Prince Behram can be crowned king. After all, what matters is not the size of the 'dogs' in the fight, but the scale of the 'dogs' fighting!"

His meaning was very clear. In this war, it didn't matter whether the dogs were big or small. What mattered was how big the war was. Ardashir believed that the Allies would definitely be the winners of this war.

Although they had reached a consensus with the Seris Alliance not to escalate the war with the Roshek Dynasty, the current situation proved that they had been prepared for a large-scale war from the very beginning.

As Medea had expected, the cruisers sent out for foreign trade were formed into a super joint fleet consisting of hundreds of ships by the Allies. The fleet cruised near the Allied waters to obstruct and deny the Allied cargo ships, and even fired artillery to forcibly stop them.

They even approached Kopalaq Port and bombarded the dock, causing hundreds of casualties and losses of more than one billion Alliance coins.

However, because of the need to defend the surrounding ports and docks, the Alliance cannot assemble a large-scale fleet for a decisive battle right now. Such behavior is not rational when it is unable to fight a decisive battle.

Especially now that the battleships have not yet arrived, short-term tolerance is for a better future.

However, since the relationship has already been torn apart, the faction within the alliance that advocates peace has completely abandoned its unrealistic ideas. The pro-war faction has completely gained the upper hand and completely unified its internal thoughts.

On September 3300, 9 of the Continental Calendar, the Seris Alliance officially released information through multiple channels and declared war on the Allies.

Mitia concluded his subsequent nationally televised speech by saying:

"Perhaps the representatives of the allied countries who were calculating strategies on chess did not have enough knowledge of the real war that would shed thousands of miles of blood, and they treated the agreement and the contract as a joke."

Wide-plate trains carrying tanks sped along the rails and were transported to the port of Kopalaq for assembly and loading onto ships. At the same time, a large number of soldiers also took special soldier trains to the nearby docks to wait for the arrival of transport ships.

"They don't even feel the slightest bit of humanity from Sera in the limited bombing of the Alliance, but instead regard it as the incompetence of the Alliance."

The combat readiness airports in various states were activated from a semi-closed state, fighter jets stored in warehouses began to be inspected and maintained by ground crews, all vacations were cancelled, and pilots began adaptive training.

The first two dreadnought battleships entered the port of Bonwich from the waterway to begin replenishment and repair, and formed the first fleet of the alliance with the warships that had been waiting for a long time.

“Once a war is launched, politicians are no longer its masters, but slaves to an unpredictable future and uncontrollable events.”