War's Quagmire!
The two sides had traded blows for more than a year, yet remained deadlocked near the Yiluo River. The people of the NM region had gradually grown accustomed to the war.
At first, the people in areas controlled by the Delin Armed Forces had been somewhat nervous. After all, they knew who was backing the Delin Armed Forces' enemy this time.
But after the fighting had gone on for a while, they realized the conflict was stalled near the Yiluo River. Only occasionally did planes fly over to launch surprise attacks on military targets, and from time to time they even saw those attacking planes crash. They finally let their guard down.
The backers of the Rakhine Armed Forces seemed to realize that the Delin Armed Forces weren't as fragile as they had imagined, so they began resorting to special tactics.
They believed that a generous enough reward would bring out brave men. Since the NM region had plenty of desperate people who cared about nothing but money, they decided to offer huge sums for their targets' lives.
For example, the Haiya Military Court suddenly announced that Xiao Lou had committed war crimes and demanded that the NM authorities extradite him to Haiya. To achieve their goal, they even offered a massive bounty!
Xiao Lou's bounty was as high as ten million dollars, while the other leaders were assigned bounties according to their positions.
At the same time, the Rakhine Armed Forces bypassed the NM regional government and applied to the United Organization for military protection, while accusing the Delin Armed Forces of ethnic persecution.
However, their proposal was unanimously rejected. The stated reason was that this was an internal affair of the NM region, and other regions should not interfere.
The United Organization's refusal to intervene didn't