A few minutes after the aircrafts ascended to fight the Bair fighters' weird contraption, the order was given out to fire all of the artillery that had been set up long in advance. To everyone watching, this fight would decide which side would be able to be victorious. The fighting was fierce, one plane was shot down after another, one artillery destroyed in the same way. Despite all of the losses that the coalition was taking, they were making some form of progress in the way that there were fewer shells and bullets coming out of the mysterious plane every minute. It took quite a while, but it seemed that the enemy plane had sustained quite a bit of damage and was in fact slowly losing altitude. This could be it, this could be how they triumph.
After another few hours of this combat, the contraption was already at half of the altitude that it was when it first showed up, but it seemed to get closer to the base. All of the coalition's military aircraft were given the order to fire everything they had at it. They continued to make progress until they nearly brought it down. Just as it hit 1 kilometer in altitude, it dropped something that everyone knew was something not to be trifled with. It was the "Little Boy" that had been used against Madam Zheng in the previous tournament. There was nothing they could do but witness the absolute destruction that it caused before the thing finally fell, by its' own bomb no less.
This was a cause for celebration, they seem to have taken out their most powerful enemy, not all that remained was for them to fight each other for control of the first spot in the competition. However, none of the top brass could believe that the Bair fighters were gone just like that, it was just way too easy. If they weren't there to defend their bases, and they weren't there to command that giant airship, then what could they be doing at a moment like this?
The top brass was quite concerned about this and it kept them from calling off the coalition temporarily. As shameful as it was to admit, many of them were not able to hold a candle to the Bair fighters, and even the ones who did not have the blueprints to take them head-on. This was a tricky opponent and it would require so much more than this coalition to bring them to their knees. What could they do now except wait for the enemy to make their next move? Although this was the thought process of a very few select top brass members, the vast majority of the other strategists genuinely believed that they have beaten the Bair fighters.
Who could really blame them? After all, the territory of the Bair fighters had already been taken over by the coalition. The seemingly final weapon that they had up their sleeve had been taken out. Could they really have prepared for all of this in advance?
Even after one month of waiting, there really was nothing out of the ordinary. They had not been attacked, they had not even seen the Bair fighters at all during all of this. Perhaps their reasoning was lacking in some ways, but none of that mattered as many of the strategists were getting antsy over having to stay still and not fight for so long that they were getting rather rowdy. To appease this majority, the top brass of each faction finally called off the coalition to return to their own territory with the added bonus of carving the Bair fighters' territory up 4 ways.
After a few months of consolidating their own forces, every faction began to do battle with each other all at once. This was possible due to all 4 factions bordering each other whereas before they were only bordering the Bair fighters and two other factions. As expected, the two most prominent factions, the Yellow Wang faction and the Sun Alliance faction came out on top after doing battle with the others for the better part of a year. The reason that it took so long was due to the fact that there was a lot of land in each factions' territory and it would take massive amounts of resources and manpower to fully take over another faction.
The first one to fall was the coalition faction named the Leftovers as they had the least synergy between them. Even then, the top strategist of that bunch tended to contradict each others' orders and eventually, that became their downfall. Most likely, they would have split up if any of them had any confidence in going head to head with the other remaining factions. In a few risky plays, the Yellow Wang faction was able to take out the Leftovers faction relatively shortly. On the other hand, it took the Sun Alliance quite a bit to take over and completely destroy the Middle Kingdom faction.
Now that there were only a few of them left, it made absolutely no sense to fight in an area so big. So they all decided that it was best to shrink down the map to a fifth of its size. What was once a 250 kilometer squared simulation map, instantly turned into a 50 kilometer squared map. It was now time for the final lap of the Sun Alliance tournament.
Despite all of this though, Lian Po, Wang Jian, Bai Qi, Li Mu, and a couple of elders from the Sun Alliance were still not able to shake off the fact that there was still something more than the Bair fighters could be hiding from them. Of course, their gut feelings were not really based on any concrete evidence, but they felt like it was best to be on guard if anything were to occur. It would be a real shame to have come all this way, fighting for a couple of years, to just lose at this point.
The Yellow Wang faction and the Sun Alliance faction had a mutual understanding that there would be no big moves for now. Only small scale battles between younger generations would be taking place just on the outskirts of each territory. This was a method of both sides combing each other's defenses to see if there were any weaknesses that could be capitalized upon. Not only that it was a way for both sides to prepare for the eventual battle that would require a lot of resources that would be better off spent in a few quick, short, and decisive campaigns rather than any single continuous battle.
No matter how violent or how much blood has been shed, there would be no action from the top brass unless they seriously intended on launching a campaign. This also allowed for a lot of the younger generations to experience more warfare with others of their same skill level. In a sense, it was a training method to see who was the most capable of the unnamed youths. Of course, there were ones who outshone their allies, while others were defeated one after another. Such an experience was part of Planet 4. Just one month after all of this started, the Yellow Wang faction took the initiative to get the ball rolling.
The 4 leaders of the Yellow Wang faction figured that if they began the offensive moves first, that they would hold the advantage. While they certainly decided where to do battle, the advantage was really up to anyone who was able to shift the battle to their favor. Though this was a campaign, it was only a half-hearted one meant to see where the Sun Alliance territory was the weakest, for future reference. Only the armies of Wang Jian and Lian Po were allowed to participate in this incursion.
Xuan Feng and the other 3 all-stars would be going along with Lian Po while Wang Jian had a few of his pupils tag along as well. Many of the all-stars were on a first-name basis with each other as their masters were close allies. Though both the pupils and the masters tend to argue with one another over serious issues. The plan devised by the 4 leaders was for Wang Jian to lead an army right down the middle of the two capital bases. Then, Lian Po would lead another army shortly after to find an opening within the north part of the Sun Alliances' territory. Finally, the all-stars of both Lian Po and Wang Jian's would join hands and find a path to the capital base through the southern region.
This was a 3 pronged attack on their enemies, and the 3 generals in charge of each army would be Wang Jian, Lian Po, and a team-up between Lun Hu and Ya Guang. Before their masters left, Xuan Feng and the other three made sure to properly wish Lian Po luck on his campaign which he reciprocated. The pupils of Wang Jian met up with the all-stars of Lian Po a few days before they were supposed to head out to figure out how they were going to cooperate with each other and divvy up the army.
Once they had all of that sorted out, they sent out their armies and marched alongside them. The army that would be led by both Lun Hu and Ya Guang was about 5 million in size and most of that number belonged to the Pupils of Wang Jian. Though the two leaders of this army supposedly had the same amount of power, it was clear that Ya Guang was the better strategist, and fighter as well. Even if it is just by a little bit.
With the news of Wang Jian successfully taking over several bases in just a few days, followed by Lian Po finding the same rhythm, the combined army followed suit, but at a slower pace. Both of their masters had armies much larger than their own which led them to be able to take over bases quicker. Plus, their experience here on Planet 4 has been much longer than any of the all-stars. That said, Lun Hu and his team of 3 plus Ya Guang and his team of dozens were no slouches either and were able to take over multiple bases which showed skill.
Surprisingly, both Wang Jian and Lian Po were able to penetrate quite far into the territories of the Sun Alliance than they had originally planned. So, they decided to continue on the expedition to see just how far they could get to. Finally, after a month of successes, they had managed to get halfway through the enemy territory and to the capital base. That was when they finally encountered some pushback from their foes. Wang Jian was facing off with perhaps one of the most difficult teams of strategists on the Sun Alliance side while Lian Po was in roughly the same boat. Meanwhile, Lun Hu and Ya Guang were faced off with Li Guang and one other all-star under the legendary Sun Tzu, the most powerful strategist in the Chinese community at the moment.
The battle was fierce on all 3 battlefields, but Wang Jian was the first to defeat his opponents and continue forth. He had lost a fair amount of his men, but he did the math and believed that he could get a bit more land before he was forced to retreat. Lian Po, on the other hand, fared a little worse and defeated his opponent, but at too great a cost that he was forced to end his campaign there.
Lun Hu and Ya Guang managed to take down Li Guang and his ally but they managed to slip away before anyone on the Yellow Wang factions' side was able to kill them. The damage to their army was extensive, but they took a bit of time to properly reorganize and allow the men some time to rest before heading out once more. They had gotten the news of the other two battlefields and they were not at all surprised at the result.
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