Come to think of it, no sitting Russian leader could possibly allow territory to be carved away from the country during his term. That would make him a sinner in history.
Every Japanese leader hoped to reclaim the islands that belonged to them during his term. That would make him a hero remembered for generations.
The higher-ups on both sides fought it out, while the media stirred up publicity in the middle, and the people suffered. Clearly, Arctic Island was Russia's outlying island and the island the Japanese most wanted to occupy. Even if they could not do it at the national level, they still wanted to fight for it once.
Lu Yang felt that his chance had come. He had always wanted to weaken Ono's strength, but Ono never took the bait. Previously, he had kept K leading the navies of three countries to besiege Ono's forces at sea. Even when Ono suffered losses, he still refused to find a way to fight K decisively. Instead, he chose to endure and remained in the Sea of Japan.
Whenever K's navy entered Japanese territory, before it even reached Japanese waters, Ono's spies would learn of its movements in advance, causing K to return empty-handed several times.
The Heaven's Eye Alliance demanded that Ono restrain Lu Yang, but Ono remained unmoved. Like an elderly player, he led his forces around that tiny patch of territory every day, as if he were the ruler of a weak and insignificant nation. But anyone with sense knew he was enduring.
Lu Yang had originally thought that if Ono dared to fight K decisively, then with Chen Mo's naval strength and K's current forces, as long as K fled toward Chinese waters when attacked, Chen Mo could arrive with reinforcements within two hours.
But Ono