nucmednet Chapter 314 The Spark Rekindled in the Balkans
Chapter 314 The Spark Rekindled in the Balkans
Josep Broz Walter, a Yugoslavian from the Balkans and a liberator of the Balkan people, looked at the young woman before him, a former "prince" of the Balkan Empire, who had returned to her homeland.
The Balkans, the Balkans, is a good place in itself. For Walter, everything has changed from the former empire to the present day. So much has changed.
East of the Balkans, the vast empire of the Caliphate disintegrated in a war, and the victorious Lucyshene Empire seized the entire heart of the continent. In the steppes, the so-called Khanate of Qasar, which was actually a puppet of the Lucyshene Empire, was established. The Third Army of the Empire brutally ruled the steppes, and the Bear-men, also known as the "Slava," controlled several regions of the Northern Balkans, openly occupying the Northern Balkans. The Lucyshene Empire's army, under the guise of the Caliphate, carried out large-scale invasions.
When Lilivia, the Balkan "prince," met Walter again after many years, it was in a small village. Since the Amelan West Balkan Emergency Control Force announced the end of its peacekeeping mission and withdrew from the Balkans, the Lucy Snow Empire's army had completely and unscrupulously invaded the Balkans, and its local Balkan government quickly collapsed and became a puppet of the Lucy Snow Empire.
She knew all this. Over the years, envoys from the Lucy Empire had come to her many times, asking her to "reclaim the throne and take control of the country," but she knew that it was just another form of enslavement.
The middle-aged man before her had once been her subordinate, her officer, who maintained his military bearing even in the final moments of the empire. But now, the travel-worn man looked at her with eyes that no longer held any trace of his former obedience.
She looked up and saw a red flag hanging there, with a sickle and hammer. She already knew that this former imperial officer had changed, along with the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army and everything the Yugoslav Proletarian League had created in the Balkans.
She saw soldiers dressed in all sorts of old-fashioned military uniforms. In the mountains and rivers of the Balkans, they were the only force against Lucy Sher. The Yugoslav People's Liberation Army guerrillas were composed of all sorts of decommissioned weapons: Russian-made AS-44s, Italian-made FN FALs and Carcanoes, Romanian-made BM-59s, and even De Horan's Mannlicher M59s, and Said-made QBZ56, QBZ63, and QBZ81 automatic rifles.
In general, this guerrilla group possessed a wide variety of weapons and ammunition. Located in the middle of the East and West continents, this area was one of the world's largest black markets, which allowed the guerrilla group to procure weapons from various countries.
Walter led her out the door. This small village was the guerrillas' western base. Walter patted her on the shoulder and said, "What should I call you again?"
Obviously, Walter wouldn't, and couldn't, call her by the title he used back then. Lilivia smiled and said, "Lilivia is fine. I'm no longer a member of the royal family. I'm just an ordinary person who graduated from university and came home to try to make this place a better place."
Walter nodded: "Our guerrillas' main source of weapons is the black market. The largest black market in the entire Balkans is located on the Adriatic coast, but our guerrillas are about to launch a strategic offensive to retake Belgrade."
The guerrillas controlled the entire southern Balkans, and with the help of the Adria ports, they could obtain stable foreign trade channels. However, the Lucy Empire could also obtain supplies in the Balkans, such as in Kragujevac, located south of Belgrade, where the industrial center of the entire Balkans—the Zastava Group—was located.
As the former territory of the Grand Duke of Zastava, the Zastava Group inherited the industrial transfer from Amelansi and established a huge industrial complex in the city. Now, under Lucy Xue's control, this military factory located at the foot of the Kragujevac Mountains produces AS-44 automatic rifles, RP46 light machine guns and other light weapons and related ammunition for the Third Army.
Walter knew that if he could take down Zastava, he could take down Belgrade.
As the Red Star of the Central Plains, the Liberation Army received substantial weaponry support from Rome. From M47 main battle tanks to M113s, although they were still referred to as "guerrillas" by the Lucy Empire, they were in reality a regular army, even possessing an airfield and equipped with a considerable number of F4 fighter jets and Roman-made G91 fighter-bombers.
"The head of the Zastava Group is your former most loyal lord, the Grand Duchess of Zastava. Of course she still remembers you. We've communicated a few times. Lilivia, you'll have to handle the communication with her."
"Mr. Walter, what I want to know is, what kind of country do you want to build?"
Lilivia looked at Walter, who was looking into the distance. The sun was about to set, and a liberation force was heading forward in trucks and armored vehicles.
"The Yugeslava state we are going to build must be an equal, independent and free state, a state built on the basis of brotherhood among all races and workers' self-governance, where no race shall oppress another race... But most importantly, we must build it on independence."
Valte nodded, and the tricolor red star flag fluttered behind the red flag. The Federation of the Red Star Republic of Yugesrafa would surely become the second people's nation to rise on this continent.
They talked for a long time, and Lilivia couldn't remember the details. She only knew that at the end, Walter pointed to the village next to them, where wisps of smoke were rising from the chimneys. A military truck unloaded a group of soldiers from different ethnic groups of the Liberation Army. They joked and laughed with each other under the same flag.
“This won’t be easy, Lilivia. We don’t know how many difficulties we have overcome to unite the different races on this land, but as long as we have done all this, the future will be bright.”
Lilivia finally bid farewell to Walter and headed towards Kragujevac, passing through unit after unit along the way, crossing the war zone, and finally arriving at the city.
On February 9, 673, the Balkan Liberation War broke out in full force. After decades of revolution, development and consolidation, the Balkan People's Liberation Army launched Operation February Storm against the "Balkan State" under the puppet rule of Lucie Snow!