Recaps

Dragon Country launched air raids over Delhi as its ground forces secretly landed, and Dai Le struggled to respond to the overwhelming assault. The 1st Heavy Combined Arms Brigade annihilated the Eastern Ghats formation in under five minutes, leaving Dai Le stunned by Dragon Country’s strength.

• Dragon Country’s planes bombed Delhi’s outskirts, causing fires and panic, while Dai Le learned that his anti-aircraft guns could not reach them.
• Dai Le ordered his troops to avoid firing on the planes and use mountains and forests for cover.
• The Eastern Ghats formation reported Dragon Country tanks and armored vehicles near Calcutta, where they were already under attack.
• Dai Le realized the air raids had covered Dragon Country’s ground landing and ordered the Eastern Ghats formation to lure the enemy into the hills.
• The Firmament announced that the 1st Heavy Combined Arms Brigade had annihilated the Eastern Ghats formation, wiping out sixty thousand Challengers.
• Dai Le checked the Instance population and confirmed that the brigade had destroyed the formation in less than five minutes.

After Dragon Country crushed the Eastern Ghats Formation, Dai Le ordered the remaining formations to avoid direct battles and stall for time. Dragon Country then landed a heavily armed brigade at Mumbai, while the Western Ghats Formation watched from concealment as it began advancing through the city.

• Dai Le discovered that the Eastern Ghats Formation had been wiped out and ordered the remaining formations to hide and avoid confronting Dragon Country's troops.
• The Western Ghats Formation reported that Dragon Country was landing at Mumbai, prompting Dai Le to inspect the landing through the console's light screen.
• Dai Le saw Dragon Country bombard Mumbai's harbor and unload tanks, missile vehicles, and other equipment from the amphibious assault ship Sanjiangyuan.
• When the Western Ghats commander proposed attacking the transport ships, Dai Le forbade opening fire and ordered the formation to wait for the troops to enter the mountain forests before launching harassment attacks.
• The Sanjiangyuan completed its landing, and the 2nd Heavy Combined-Arms Brigade of Dragon Country's Dian City 14th Group Army began sweeping through Mumbai with about five thousand soldiers and a wide range of military equipment.

Dragon Country's Combined Arms Brigade took Mumbai and used drones to locate the Challengers hiding in the Western Ghats. Dai Le ordered a retreat and then a counterattack, but Dragon Country's forces overwhelmed the Challengers and drove their armored units back.

• Dai Le watched Dragon Country's Combined Arms Brigade seize Mumbai with a swift, precise assault and ordered his Challengers to remain concealed in the Western Ghats.
• The Firmament warned that Dragon Country's 2nd Heavy Combined-Arms Brigade had found the Challenger camp, and Dai Le learned drones had spotted their positions.
• Dai Le ordered the Challengers to retreat east and lure the brigade into a valley, but Dragon Country immediately destroyed their artillery positions, killing five thousand Challengers.
• With retreat cut off, Dai Le ordered the sixty-thousand-strong Western Ghats formation to attack from the flanks as it withdrew.
• Dragon Country's tanks and soldiers advanced through the mountain forests, forcing the Challengers' armored units to retreat.

Dragon Country’s 2nd Heavy Combined Arms Brigade annihilated India’s Western Ghats Formation in ten minutes, leaving Dai Le shaken and unable to command after electronic warfare cut his communications. The livestream audience reeled at the brigade’s strength as the war continued and Dai Le tried to steady himself for what came next.

• Dragon Country’s infantry used mobility and coordination to board enemy tanks, kill their crews, seize weapons, and turn the tanks against one another.
• Dai Le ordered the Western Ghats troops to fight back, but Dragon Country’s electronic warfare disabled their tank communications and cut off his command channel.
• Dragon Country’s brigade surrounded the formation and overwhelmed it with coordinated artillery, drones, and tank fire.
• The Western Ghats Formation was completely annihilated, and India Country’s Instance population fell to 1,680,000.
• Dai Le slumped in exhaustion, then tried to calm himself and consider his next move.
• The livestream audience reacted with shock and argued over Dragon Country’s overwhelming military strength and the fate of Dai Le’s strategy.

Dai Le abandoned his defensive strategy and ordered his remaining units to resist Dragon Country’s advance, hoping to buy time for Fulangche. At the Himalayan Sacred Mountain, Fulangche dismissed Joseph’s doubts and ordered his army to enter the mountain and attack Dragon Country.

• Dai Le resolved to fight rather than keep hiding as Dragon Country’s forces advanced.
• Dai Le ordered the Naga Hills Unit to prepare defenses and attack Dragon Country’s troops if the opportunity arose, with Bangladesh as a fallback.
• Dai Le sent the Aravalli Range Unit northwest through the India Great Desert toward the Kashmir Region and ordered the Delhi unit to hold the city against Dragon Country.
• Joseph told Fulangche that Dai Le had lost two units and doubted the veteran army could match Dragon Country’s combined arms brigades.
• Fulangche defended Dai Le, acknowledged Dragon Country’s strength, and ordered his army to enter the Himalayan Sacred Mountain area.

After India Country’s defeats left Katerina under pressure, she led Big Macaque Country’s fleet toward Qiong Island, hoping to force Dragon Country to divide its forces. Dragon Country detected her plans, and after her fleet destroyed a Type 815A reconnaissance ship, all-out war began.

• Katerina realized India Country was losing quickly and decided Big Macaque Country had to attack Dragon Country to relieve the pressure.
• She ordered her fleet to sail toward Qiong Island, but the Firmament warned that Dragon Country had decrypted her message and knew her intentions.
• Katerina ordered the fleet to destroy the Type 815A Electronic Reconnaissance Ship, and the ship sank after a fierce bombardment.
• Before it was destroyed, the reconnaissance ship sent Dragon Country an analysis of Katerina’s fleet strength and firepower.
• After Dragon Country declared all-out war, Katerina ordered Big Macaque Country’s forces to charge toward Qiong Island and open fire on any forces in their way.

Katerina ordered Prince Singh to delay Dragon Country’s advance through Big Macaque Country and target Qiong Island once the ultimate weapon was ready, but Singh dismissed the plan. Dai Le prepared to defend India Country, then received notice that Dragon Country had launched a huge missile attack on his Naga Hills formation.

• Katerina instructed Prince Singh to hold back Dragon Country’s army, hide if necessary, and fire the ultimate weapon at Qiong Island when it was ready.
• Singh refused to help, convinced that Dragon Country would not invade Big Macaque Country, and returned to enjoying his coffee.
• Dai Le reviewed his forces and devised a plan to use his formations and Challengers to counter Dragon Country’s advance into India Country.
• The Firmament announced that Dragon Country had located the Naga Hills formation and would launch Dongfeng 1 missiles, prompting Dai Le to order his troops to scatter.
• The Challengers saw more than a thousand Dongfeng 1 missiles fill the sky above the Naga Hills as the countdown ran out.

Dragon Country annihilated the Naga Hills formation with a barrage of Dongfeng 1 missiles, leaving Dai Le shaken but still determined to fight. When the Aravalli Range formation reached Kashmir and Dragon Country’s troops stopped, Dai Le spotted a way to exploit the border and tie down the enemy.

• Dragon Country fired over a thousand Dongfeng 1 missiles at the Naga Hills, destroying the formation and killing another 60,000 Challengers.
• Dai Le resolved not to give up and turned his attention to the Aravalli Range and De Le formations still under his command.
• Dai Le ordered the Aravalli Range formation to hurry through the Great Indian Desert toward Kashmir while Dragon Country’s aircraft and ground forces pursued it.
• After two hours, the Aravalli Range formation entered Kashmir, and Dragon Country’s troops stopped firing and turned back.
• Dai Le realized he could repeatedly send the formation across Kashmir’s border to keep Dragon Country’s army tied down.

Dai Le tried to exploit the Kashmir border to draw Dragon Country's forces away, but his maneuver triggered Pakistan's entry into the war. Pakistan's forces devastated the Challengers, and the Aravalli Range formation was destroyed.

• Dai Le ordered the Challengers to maneuver across the Kashmir border and draw Dragon Country's fire.
• Firmament announced the Iron Brother Support buff, sending Pakistan's forces to attack the Challengers and fight for the rest of the Instance.
• Pakistan's aircraft arrived and bombed the Challengers' faction, destroying much of Gaul's military hardware.
• Pakistan's ground forces entered Kashmir with thousands of VT-4A tanks and began a fierce barrage against the Challengers.
• After half an hour of fighting, Pakistan and the Challengers had suffered heavy losses, and the Aravalli Range formation was buried in smoke and dust.

After India Country's Aravalli Range formation was destroyed, Dai Le accepted that the Challengers could not defeat Dragon Country and ordered his remaining forces to make a final stand outside Delhi. The sixty thousand Challengers assembled to face six Dragon Country combined arms brigades, whose troops and equipment filled them with fear.

• The Firmament announced that India Country's Aravalli Range formation had been annihilated and that six Dragon Country combined arms brigades would encircle Delhi.
• Dai Le regretted sending the Aravalli Range formation to Kashmir, then concluded that Lin Ye's Instance was too powerful for the Challengers to conquer.
• A Challenger reported that Dragon Country's six brigades had assembled outside Delhi and called on the defenders to meet them beyond the city.
• Dai Le ordered the Challengers in Delhi to assemble outside the city for a final battle, explaining that it was their last chance to defend their dignity.
• Dai Le's sixty thousand troops formed up outside Delhi opposite the six Dragon Country brigades, and the Challengers trembled at the sight of the force before them.

Dai Le led the remaining Indian Challengers in a final attack, but Dragon Country’s forces wiped them out. Katerina then sent her carrier aircraft toward Qiong Island, only to find Dragon Country’s fleet waiting there and destroy her air force.

• Dai Le ordered the Challengers to attack Dragon Country, hoping to learn from its combined-arms tactics, and was killed by a Type 99A shell as his forces were defeated.
• The Firmament declared India Country’s Challenger forces wiped out and reported that Dragon Country would strike India Country’s remaining forces and Big Macaque Country’s forces.
• Katerina learned of India Country’s defeat and ordered two thousand carrier aircraft to bomb Qiong Island during the hour before Dragon Country’s reinforcements arrived.
• Dragon Country’s five aircraft carriers, destroyers, and coastal anti-aircraft batteries ambushed Katerina’s aircraft and destroyed the attacking force.
• Katerina saw that Dragon Country had anticipated her plan and had kept a powerful fleet near Qiong Island while its forces in India were only a small part of its strength.

After Dragon Country destroyed Katerina’s carrier-based aircraft, she sent decoy fleets to draw fire and launched her explosive-packed Decoy Fleet toward the Nanming Fleet. The Decoy Fleet reached the Dragon Country ships during a lull, leaving them facing a dangerous choice as it closed in.

• Katerina learned that Dragon Country had destroyed all her carrier-based aircraft and concluded that attacking Qiong Island directly would be dangerous.
• Katerina ordered her three million ships split into smaller formations and sent ten advance fleets to draw Dragon Country’s fire.
• The Nanming Fleet attacked the ten Gaul fleets with aircraft and missiles, sinking ships and causing Big Macaque Country’s numbers to fall.
• Katerina sent the Decoy Fleet, including three carriers packed with explosives, charging toward the Nanming Fleet at thirty knots.
• The Decoy Fleet approached the Dragon Country ships during a lull in their attacks, threatening to trigger massive explosions if it was struck or allowed closer.

Dragon Country turned Katerina’s explosive Decoy Fleet against her by using torpedoes to raise a wave that drove it into her forces, inflicting catastrophic losses. As Katerina struggled to recover, Dragon Country’s returning carrier groups arrived and surrounded her carrier, the Queen.

• Katerina watched Dragon Country’s five carriers fire torpedoes into the sea and realized they might be trying to raise a wave.
• A gigantic wave turned the Decoy Fleet around and swept it into the densest part of Katerina’s fleet, where its explosive carriers detonated.
• The blast killed 700,000 Challengers from Big Macaque Country and took ten carriers and thirty carrier groups out of action, cutting Katerina’s strength by nearly forty percent.
• Katerina was injured and despaired as she recognized that Dragon Country had turned her own attack against her.
• The Firmament announced that Dragon Country’s First, Second, and Third Carrier Groups had arrived at the Qiong Island battlefield.
• Dragon Country’s carriers, destroyers, and aircraft surrounded Katerina’s carrier, the Queen.

Katerina turned her trapped fleet toward the three carriers returning from India Country, hoping to break the Nanming Fleet’s defenses by forcing it to send reinforcements. The two sides fought to a temporary deadlock, but five carrier groups arrived around Qiong Island and tipped the battle toward Dragon Country.

• Katerina ordered her fleet to turn around and attack the Tibet Number, the Miaojiang, and the Heavenly Prefecture.
• The Challenger fleet and Dragon Country’s ships exchanged fire, and the outdated vessels the Challengers had brought sank rapidly.
• Katerina used her Zumwalt-class Destroyers and Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships to hold off Dragon Country’s forces and issued formation and attack orders.
• The battle became a deadlock between the Eagle Sauce ships and Dragon Country’s top-tier fleet, drawing intense attention from the Instance livestream audience.
• Five carrier groups around Qiong Island reached the battlefield and began attacking the Challenger fleet, shifting the balance toward Dragon Country.

Katerina’s surface fleet collapsed under the Nanming Fleet’s attack, so she led the hidden Columbia-class submarine force toward Qiong Island for a final strike. The submarines encountered a vast formation of Dragon Country submarines waiting in the deep sea.

• The Nanming Fleet used its speed advantage and concentrated missile attacks to devastate Katerina’s fleet, reducing the Challengers from one million to 600,000.
• After a missile hit the Queen, Katerina decided to use her hidden force of 50 Columbia-class Strategic Nuclear Submarines to attack Qiong Island.
• Katerina boarded a submarine and ordered the formation to head for Qiong Island and launch its missiles.
• A Challenger warned Katerina about something ahead, and she saw thousands of Dragon Country submarines packed across the seabed.

Katerina’s submarine attack on Qiong Island failed when Lin Ye’s hidden fleet of nuclear submarines destroyed Eagle Sauce’s submarines and the Nanming Fleet eliminated the surface forces. With Big Macaque Country reduced to one challenger, spectators questioned whether the Challenger Alliance could still defeat Dragon Country.

• The Nanming Fleet deployed a thousand Type 097 nuclear submarines, blocking Katerina’s route to Qiong Island and leaving her fleet outnumbered and trapped.
• Katerina realized Lin Ye had anticipated her tactics and, as torpedoes closed in, admitted defeat to her uncle and cousin over Watchtower No. 1’s channel.
• Yu-8 torpedoes destroyed all fifty of Eagle Sauce’s nuclear submarines, while the Nanming Fleet wiped out the challengers above the surface.
• The Instance’s personnel count fell until only one challenger remained from Big Macaque Country.
• Spectators reacted to Katerina’s defeat and wondered whether Mr. Fulangche and Prince Singh could still lead the Challenger Alliance to victory.

After Dragon Country defeated Katerina’s forces, Singh hid in civilian clothes and planned to survive until Bear Country delivered the Big Ivan nuclear bomb. Joseph and Fulangche faced the collapse of their chances, but Joseph rejected his father’s caution and prepared to attack Sunlight City.

• Singh raged over Katerina’s defeat and feared Dragon Country’s overwhelming military strength.
• Singh disguised himself as an ordinary NPC and planned to wait for the Big Ivan nuclear bomb to arrive at Cam Ranh Bay the next day.
• Joseph saw Katerina die and urged Fulangche to let him attack Sunlight City immediately.
• Fulangche warned Joseph to stay calm and coordinate their forces, offering to draw Dragon Country’s fire.
• Joseph refused Fulangche’s plan and declared he would cross the Camel Hump Air Route to bomb Sunlight City with everything he had.

Joseph defied Fulangche’s warning and prepared the Challenger camp’s remaining air force to cross the Himalayan Sacred Mountain and attack Tibet’s main city. As the formation reached the Camel Hump Air Route, Joseph ordered the pilots to fly at Mach 1 despite their concerns about the dangerous conditions.

• Fulangche warned Joseph that flying through the Camel Hump Air Route was too dangerous and ordered him to support the attack only around the Sacred Mountain’s outskirts.
• Joseph rejected his father’s orders, believing the air force had to attack before Dragon Country’s forces could reinforce their position.
• Joseph prepared the Challenger camp’s aircraft at Gurkha Air Force Military Base and ordered them to attack Tibet’s main city.
• Fifteen minutes later, 400,000 aircraft took off toward the Camel Hump Air Route, and Joseph reflected that his D.520 fighters were inferior to Lin Ye’s F-22 Raptors.
• As the formation approached the mountain pass, Joseph ordered every aircraft to cross the Himalayan Sacred Mountain at Mach 1 despite the pilots’ objections.

Joseph led the Challengers’ fighters through the Himalayan Sacred Mountain at Mach 1, hoping to reach Tibet before Dragon Country’s reinforcements arrived. The perilous flight destroyed most of his force, and as Joseph emerged alone, a vulture flew into his engine.

• Joseph ordered the fighters to follow his flight path at Mach 1, and Firmament announced Dragon Country’s formations would intercept them in one hour.
• Joseph flew into the Himalayan pass, where thin air, freezing temperatures, turbulence, and failing instruments made the route increasingly dangerous.
• Hundreds of thousands of Challengers crashed into mountains or collided with other fighters as the losses mounted.
• Joseph struggled through the mountains and emerged near the exit, then ordered the surviving pilots to bomb Tibet’s main city.
• Joseph realized no teammates remained after the route had cost him three hundred thousand Air Force personnel, and a Tibetan Himalayan vulture flew into his engine blades.

Joseph’s F-22 crashed after a Himalayan griffon vulture struck its engine, wiping out the Challenger camp’s Air Force and ending his Instance mission. As spectators mocked Joseph’s failure, Singh disguised himself as a beggar and prayed for protection, realizing he could rely only on himself.

• A Himalayan griffon vulture struck Joseph’s F-22 engine, and the damaged jet plunged into the mountains, killing him.
• The Firmament notification confirmed Joseph’s death and recorded that his mission ended, leaving him a spectator.
• Spectators mocked Joseph for losing the Challenger camp’s entire Air Force without attacking Dragon Country.
• Singh watched Joseph’s defeat from the street outside the Presidential Palace in Luo City and cursed the Gaul Settlement for wasting 300 million points.
• Singh concluded that the other Settlements were unreliable and prayed to the gods to protect him until the next day.

After Joseph’s defeat left the Challengers facing overwhelming Dragon Country forces, Fulangche refused to give up and revealed that he had chosen India Country for the Himalayan Sacred Mountain. He ordered the remaining army to bombard the mountain to trigger an avalanche against Dragon Country’s approaching ground forces.

• Fulangche blamed Joseph’s impulsive actions as the remaining Challengers lost hope and Dragon Country’s air, ground, and naval forces closed in.
• Bonaparte soldiers urged Fulangche to stop fighting, but he rebuked them and insisted the battle was not yet lost.
• Fulangche showed his commanders a map and ordered them to gather west of the Himalayan Sacred Mountain.
• Fulangche directed all 1.2 million weapons to bombard the mountain when Dragon Country’s forces arrived, aiming to bury them in an avalanche.

Fulangche led the surviving challengers in bombarding the Himalayan Sacred Mountain to trigger an avalanche against the Dragon Country army. The avalanche reached the mountain’s foot and swallowed the Dragon Country troops, while the challengers’ fate remained unclear.

• Fulangche ordered 1.2 million challengers to gather outside Kashmir and warned them not to enter the region.
• After the Dragon Country brigades and Tibet Corps arrived, Fulangche ordered the challengers to bombard the Himalayan Sacred Mountain.
• The bombardment exposed the challengers’ position, and the Dragon Country troops began heading toward them.
• The repeated artillery strikes shook the mountain and triggered a massive avalanche.
• The avalanche swept down to the mountain’s foot and engulfed the Dragon Country soldiers and equipment.

Fulangche celebrated an avalanche that devastated Dragon Country’s forces on the Himalayan Sacred Mountain and prepared to advance on Sunlight City. His victory turned ominous when the Challengers triggered Dragon Country’s powerful Every Inch of Territory Cost in Blood BUFF, mobilizing the country to fight back.

• Fulangche saw that the avalanche had raised the ground and received notifications that Dragon Country’s Combined Arms Brigades and Tibet Corps had suffered heavy damage.
• Fulangche led the Challengers back toward the Sacred Mountain, where they found the mountain path buried beneath snow, wreckage, and the frozen bodies of Dragon Country’s troops.
• The Challengers celebrated their apparent victory, while spectators praised Fulangche and taunted Lin Ye.
• Fulangche ordered the Challengers to hurry through the Sacred Mountain and attack Sunlight City before Dragon Country could send reinforcements.
• The Firmament announced that the Challengers had damaged Dragon Country’s territory and destroyed more than half of a major formation, triggering the Every Inch of Territory Cost in Blood BUFF.
• Fulangche sensed the BUFF’s immense power as Dragon Country mobilized its forces to repel the Challengers.

After Dragon Country’s national spirit buff appeared, Fulangche’s army encountered scattered Tibet Corps soldiers who sacrificed themselves to inflict losses and delay the advance. Fulangche’s forces eventually crossed the Himalayan pass and continued toward Sunlight City.

• Fulangche ordered the Challengers to hurry across the Himalayan Sacred Mountain before Dragon Country’s main army arrived.
• Frozen Dragon Country soldiers rose from the snow and used antitank guns to destroy several Gaul tanks before being shot down.
• Fulangche rejected talk of ghosts and warned the Challengers to beware of the soldiers, even if they seemed like corpses.
• A hidden Dragon Country soldier let a tank run over him before detonating explosives, flipping the tank and wrecking nearby artillery vehicles.
• Fulangche urged his forces onward despite the suicide attacks, and the Challengers crossed the mountain pass toward Sunlight City.

Dragon Country soldiers sacrificed themselves with explosives to devastate the Gaul Challengers’ formation, leaving Fulangche and his forces terrified and unable to continue. After the Firmament explained the soldiers’ devotion to their country, Fulangche accepted defeat and acknowledged Lin Ye’s skill.

• Dragon Country soldiers on Sacred Mountain attacked the Gaul force, then leaped into its ranks strapped with explosives, destroying weapons and killing 100,000 people.
• Fulangche questioned the Firmament about the soldiers’ willingness to die, and it explained that Dragon Country’s soldiers would sacrifice themselves for their country and future generations.
• Fulangche was shaken by the soldiers’ faith, while the surviving Challengers lost the will to fight and pleaded to stop advancing.
• Fulangche accepted that the Gaul force had lost, lit his last cigar, and praised Lin Ye.