Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 334: Another War Is Coming

“Sir, this is the training outline sent by the Division's General Staff, which requires that our battalion must complete the training requirements and that each soldier pass the training examination…" Major Schneck handed over a copy of this document to Claude, who had just entered the battalion's office.

Claude flipped over and shook his head, what is so far-fetched, this so-called training outline. Since the Rangers were equipped with 20,000 horses, the General Staff of the Regiment wanted to train soldiers equipped with horses to be able to fight on horseback and raid on horseback with dual-use talent. Unfortunately, the horseback riding of the 131th Battalion is all horseback riding, so soldiers are also asked to master the basic skills of a cavalry.

“Continuing with our original training plan, this training outline will be discussed with General Michelchi for rectification. The division staff was meant to be good, but did not understand the operational purpose and nature of our battalion. If on the big battlefield, more cavalry from one battalion won't help much. For us, the role of a horse is not just a surprise, but more helpful is mobility and flexibility to quickly move to the next combat location to achieve its unintended operational effects. Just like the last field rehearsal where our battalion first arrived in front of the enemy and set up an ambush..." Claude threw this training syllabus on his desk.

“Yes, sir.” Major Schneck replied.

Almost two months have passed since the last military manoeuvre against the NDA, no one expected Claude to take the Range One, Three, One Battalion with him in the field manoeuvres, so that none of the next three field manoeuvres would have to be tried again. The officers of the Guardianship Corps were gray-headed, and Claude returned to the cantonment camp with a Ranger Battalion of 131, as if he were a hero. Even General Michel came to inspect him personally, exaggerated Claude as a flower, and announced that all officers of the Ranger Battalion of 131 had received one level of honor...

No one likes a commander who can lead himself to victory and minimize soldier casualties. Claude now has a true command of the Range One, Three, One battalion, and no one can resist what he says. Even Major Schneck, as deputy battalion commander, was guided by Claude's orders.

The first edition of Wangdu News, which was opened on the table, was entitled "The Special Envoy travelled again to the Kingdom of Hicks in an effort to find a way to reach a friendly peace agreement.” This is the third envoy the Kingdom has sent to the Kingdom of Hicks for more than six months, and the problem is that the first two envoys have done nothing. Instead of refusing to acknowledge the violations and harassment of the Overseas Territories of the Kingdom of Ovieras by their presence on the continent of Nubia, the Kingdom of Hicks considers that the local guard forces of the Overseas Territories first violated their colonies and, in turn, asks the Kingdom of Ovieras to apologize and compensate them.

McJackie put a hot cup of black tea on the table, Claude continued to look at the second edition, and there was no such thing as a labor bill. What is ridiculous is not that this amendment to the Labour Act could not be approved by the National Assembly, but that the proposal of Vice-President Obinite to spread the formula for the migration of more than a million indigenous young and powerful people from the Nubian continent to the newly occupied territories of the Kingdom, not only did envoys from the countries of the Farea continent come to protest, but the kings also gathered tens of thousands of residents to protest, on the same grounds, refusing to allow the descendants of the demons of the Nubian continent to pollute the pure Farea...

The deputy Speaker's residence in Wangdu was also reportedly smashed to pieces by an angry march, while the policemen in charge of maintaining order stood idly by. There are well-informed sources who claim that the popular protest was backed by several major shrines, as the indigenous people of Nubian traditionally believed in evil gods, whose beliefs would spread in the Farea continent once they were allowed to migrate to the Farea. The actions of the major temples are also precautionary...

Well, it's about faith again. Claude knew only a little bit more generally that the indigenous people of the Nubian continent had originally believed in primitive gods, and that in the eyes of the indigenous people everything had spirits, winds, trees, stones, rivers, mountains, anything could become the god they worshipped. With the arrival of the colonizers, indigenous tribes were exterminated and so-called primitive god offerings and sacrifices were banned. And the major temples of the Farea continent sent people to the colonies to preach and recruit indigenous followers in the hope of changing the beliefs of the descendants of these demons.

But what these temples did not expect was that a nascent monotheistic religion soon emerged and spread among the indigenous mixed inhabitants of the colony, a monotheistic religion called the Sunidat God, which preached the Lord of all things. The other gods were the incarnations of the Divine Lord, illusory images and were not worthy of admiration. At the same time, the creation of the Shinto State on the ground was promoted among the indigenous population, with the expulsion of white people from the Nubian continent and the acquisition of countless followers of mixed indigenous peoples.

Those sent to the Temple to preach on the Nubian mainland were assassinated, the built temple was burned, and they were caught in a religious war with this Sunidat for two or three hundred years, unanimously claiming that the Sunidat was a cult and the Sunidat was a cult. Now that Vice Speaker Obinite was so dizzy that he came up with the idea of sending millions of young, mixed indigenous people from the Nubian continent to the new occupied territories of the Kingdom, it immediately provoked the sensitive nerves of the major temples. Obviously, among the millions of indigenous young and powerful, there is no shortage of followers of the Sunidat evil god, and the great temples do not want that evil god to spread faith to the Farea continent.

Now that Vice Speaker Obinite has become the fallen dog everyone shouts, as the representative of the emerging business aristocracy, he has done nothing but act for the benefit, he has forgotten the civil customs and religious disputes on the continent, he has only seen the brilliant gains in his eyes, but has forgotten the risks. Now he doesn't know where he's hiding, but predictably, his journey is over.

The second edition of Wangdu News has turned into entertaining news, writing that the sons of two aristocratic families fought jealously for a very famous actress in the grand theatre, making a scene. and made an appointment in the suburbs for an illegal life and death duel, which resulted in serious injuries to both of them, while the actress became the mistress of another powerful man in Wang Du...

Well, the show was bloody enough, Claude had to admit, more news on Wang Du's side. It is easy for people like this to get into the newspapers and become the everyday interesting news that the general public likes to see. After all, men and women alike have a gossip heart and like to ask about the privacy of the most powerful people.

There was no interesting news, Claude drank black tea and said hello to Major Schneck, who took Maggie and Big Gemmy with him to inspect the regiments' training. Claude was relieved that the four direct battle battalions, Muried, Diaved and Berklin, were at the mercy of three captains. There is also a new captain Kashmir, who is the captain of the 4th Battalion and has a good personality, is a good listener, is carried by the three Murieds, and the training is well under way.

Claude's main concern was the Light Cavalry Brigade, which he asked not to become a purely cavalry force but a reconnaissance cavalry beyond the Duchy of Kanas. The training method set up for them was to aim precisely at the horse's back, hit the enemy's mount within 100 metres, and then turn around and run. Instead of seeing the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry slap the horseback knife into a hard cut, they lead them into an ambush circle when they come after them. In Claude's eyes, all that was stupid...

Unfortunately, the captain of this Light Cavalry Brigade was a prick, and he trained his men in the same old way as the Kingdom Light Cavalry, believing that that was the right way to train cavalry. When Claude asked him to train his cavalry to shoot on the horse's back, he did not resist, but the training was not very effective. McJackie once reported that this big captain privately commented on Claude's practice of firing a gun and running away was actually cowardly behavior. The real cavalry should have the courage to pull the knife forward to launch an attack, regardless of whether the enemy in front was a thousand horses or not...

Claude has moved the idea of sending this light cavalry captain, but for a short time he didn't think of a good replacement. He does not want the division to send another cavalry officer with a traditional head like granite to this position. To be honest, these so-called professional technical officers who receive traditional military education in the Kingdom have a clue in their brain. It seems like the cavalry should fight the enemy face to face to face, even the battle death sandbox is an honor...

In this era, there was no threat at all if the cavalry was not large. There were only two hundred and eighty light cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry Cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry cavalry caval This is simply not a positive breakthrough on the battlefield created by the battalion, and it is an act of death. In addition to sneaking up on enemy artillery positions to protect them from light-handed raids, all that remains is the role of the scout cavalry.

So Claude is not interested in the front breakthrough position training and slaughter training of the cavalry in his battalion. Except for the slaughter that can be used in the defeated pursuit battle of the enemy, he will not let this cavalry team carry out the position attack task. Even if he wins, he will not know how many light cavalry to sacrifice...

Claude's idea was to have one of Muriel, Diaved and Berkelin take up the position of captain of the Light Rider Brigade and have the division send an infantry captain to throw the current captain of the Light Rider Brigade back to his original cavalry unit. He just needs to know who his three little brothers are better suited to take up the role of captain of this scout cavalry and train this scout cavalry into the model he wants.

Time passes quickly, turning around is half a month. Claude decided to go to Division Command and meet General Michelchi to address the hidden danger of Captain Light Cavalry. At that point, Lieutenant Mitchell, the communications staff officer, came in and reported to him that a message had been received from the division headquarters, Eagle, that General Mitchell was calling Claude.

What's going on? No other regiment is going to have another military manoeuvre with the Rangers? Claude could only arrive at the division headquarters in Fort Christopher, accompanied by a fast magazine, awaiting the summons of General Michel.

Not long after waiting outside the office this time, General Michelch allowed Claude into the office in less than five minutes, and Claude was given a formal order to ride the Battalion 113 to the three southwestern counties within three days for the purpose of White Deer City.

Claude was happy to see his family again back in White Deer City, but Claude was curious that instead of a long distance pull, he rode the 131th Battalion to be the pioneer of the entire division, first heading to White Deer City and leaving a guard horse at an important location along the way.

“General, what's going on?” Claude had a bad feeling in his heart.

General Michel sighed deeply and leaned on the chair: "Claude, I have some unfortunate news for you, the war has broken out. ”

What do you mean, a war broke out? Who are you fighting? It's not in the papers! Claude is unknown so look at General Michel.

“Not here, on the continent of Nubian…” General Michelchi grinned bitterly: "It was the colonial garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks that declared war on the seven overseas territories of our kingdom. The Kingdom of Hicks demanded jurisdiction over the three overseas territories of Cromwell, Beringana and Robisto in the continent of Nubian, and was rejected by the Kingdom, so the war broke out...”

“So our division is going to the Nubian mainland?” Claude asked, "Isn't it ridiculous that the Horsemen's Regiment is not a close guard of the Sterling royal family? Why does a war in an overseas colony require us to fight?"

“The Army Ministry says that just three years after the end of the Eastern War, the Kingdom is powerless to send troops, only we, the Rangers, have no other task but to be a mobile weapon that can be immediately dispatched to the front lines of the continent of Nubicia to fight, strong enough to defend against the attack of the colonial garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks…" General Michelki seemed helpless looking at the ceiling.

“No troops to send? Impossible! The kingdom does not have four Ace Field Legions, and three new Standing Legions have been built...” Claude said with impatience that he did not want to go to the Nubian mainland.

“Neither of them can be moved," General Michelch said plainly: "The twenty-ninth county of the newly occupied territory needs three newly formed standing regiments to bullet the ground. The Red Dragon, Blue Feather, and Lizard Field Regiment are deployed on the border between the Kingdom of Nasserley and the Principality of Kanas to prevent the Kingdom of Hicks from invading our kingdom through these two countries..."

“But the Guardianship Corps is still in King's hands, isn't it?”

“Oh, the Jailguard Regiment…” General Michelchi shook his head with a smile and a smile: “They were engaged in a major troop rehab under the pretext that your last military exercise was crushed zero to four by your Range One Battalion in field combat drills. and highly recommend that our Rangers travel to the mainland of Nubian to defend against the colonial garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks, declaring that our Rangers can fully promote the Hercules of the Royal Army in the mainland of Nubian with one enemy of ten..."

“This, too, is shameful...” Claude opened his mouth and didn't expect his good performance in the military exercises to be a reason to go to the Nubian mainland.

“Execute the order, Claude.” General Michelch ordered the official order on the table: "We had to go to the Nubian mainland, and the situation is that the enemy has taken over half of Cromwell's territory and is sieging the capital, Castle Wickham. It was decided to block the news and confine the war to the Nubian continent in order not to cause civil panic.

And the purpose of our Rangers' battle is to teach the Kingdom of Hicks a harsh lesson on the continent of Nubian, so that the enemy understands that a full-scale war with the Kingdom will be a two-fold end, and thus force the enemy and us to sign a truce peace agreement. The Army Department promised to expand our Rangers into regiments when this war was over... ”