Delai Port fell even sooner than Lieutenant Lawrence had expected.
After their headquarters was captured, the defenders of Delai Port's fortress, attacked from both front and rear, promptly chose to surrender. By sunrise, the Empire's flag was already flying over Delai Port.
News of Delai Port's fall soon spread across the continent, shocking every nation.
When the war began, the other countries had mainly focused on the confrontation between the Sasha Alliance and the Duchy of Seth. In most nations' eyes, the Duchy of Seth had already endured two campaigns. Its men and horses were exhausted, and it lacked funds to pay its troops and weapons to equip them.
Even with full mobilization, the Duchy of Seth could muster only four hundred thousand men. Facing the Sasha Alliance's two million troops, it seemingly had no option but to throw up its hands and surrender.
Yet the seemingly exhausted Duchy of Seth displayed remarkable resilience, actually holding off the Sasha Alliance's massive offensive.
That alone was enough to astonish the other nations. What surprised them even more was that the Empire, which had remained utterly silent before the war, struck like lightning. Not only did it rout the Kingdom of Kront's hundred and twenty thousand vanguard troops in one fell swoop, it even seized Delai Port on the Far Northern Sea, threatening Kront's second-largest city, Deburg!
This sudden turn of events left Kront completely stunned!
When they first devised the Double-Headed Eagle Plan, they had never imagined that the Empire would attack them first!
Now Kront faced attacks from three sides: the Olucci Empire, Francis, and the Empire. Once Francis and the Olucci Empire learned that the Empire had captured Delai Port, they grew even more eager to strike, and the situation on the front deteriorated further.
One wrong move could