Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 347 Victory and Expansion

Claude now looked at Mike always felt a little weird, the kid became his own cheap brother-in-law, his own beautiful and well-behaved sister became the kid's wife, and all I could think of was saying that the kid was out of luck. Yin and Yang were wrong, or it could be said that there was a good reward for the kindness. Sister Anna was prompted by her mother to run away from home, so she let Mike take up the space and become the son-in-law of the Fields family...

Browick, my brother, was very happy, and every time she saw Anna call Mike and drink, she was busy like a dog with her mouth splitting. Now he is happy that someone took his place and was taught by his sister, so he has no objection whatsoever to McJackie becoming his brother-in-law. Instead, he thinks that his whole life will be miserable if he marries his sister Anna. The tracheitis is certain...

If Anna wasn't a magician, then Mike would have thought the marriage was perfect. He never thought he'd be Claude's brother-in-law, and he never had a crush on Anna, thinking he'd have anything to do with this proud young lady. Or the self-lowliness of begging on the streets when he was a kid, who never saw himself as equal as Claude, even though he is now an official lieutenant in the kingdom.

In McJackie's mind, he saw Claude as his own master, and Claude took him in to teach him how to survive and develop in the barracks. He followed Claude to learn to read and write, to learn a variety of military skills, to become a good royal officer, to become Claude's most trusted and heavy deputy, and thus to dedicate his loyalty to Claude.

When McJackie was a kid, he begged in town with a crippled old hobo, listened to this old hobo and the liquors in the tavern about magicians who used to scare him to tease him, and the magician's favorite thing to do was turn people into frog sheep and monsters and stuff, which left him with a deep psychological shadow. So when he found out that Anna was a magician and tied herself up like a pussy, the thing he was most afraid of was what she would become...

Instead of turning into a frog or a monster, Anna was going to be his wife. This is something he never dreamed of, except for fear of facing Claude's wrath, and McJackie was more of a surprise. But anyway, McJackie has inadvertently reduced his fear of the Wizard, and as long as Anna can be his wife, he doesn't care if the Wizard is evil or not.

During the war, it was always Jane. Now that my sister insists on marrying Mike, Claude certainly has no right to object to this good thing. It's just not a good time for a big wedding, so just seven days later, Claude took some of his friends from the barracks to Gleno Castle, Amphiston's capitol, and held a very simple wedding ceremony at the city's Moon Temple for his sisters Anna and McJackie, offering their blessings.

But since the war was imminent, and McJackie didn't get his wedding leave, it had to wait for the Rangers to destroy the Pancrats, the Claddo Regiment, and recover all the lost ground. Sister Anna also had to live temporarily in Langhu Town until after the war had ended before she could take her husband home to give her mother an account.

On 11 May, the Rangers led the Overseas Field Corps towards the cantonment camp of the Pancrat Corps. Since the reconnaissance cavalry of the Pancrat Legion had previously been suppressed by the Rangers Battalion 113, the majority of the Rangers remained undetected by the enemy until the cantonment site 10 miles away. When General Michelch was airborne, he ordered all the Rangers to mount their horses, incarnate the light cavalry and raid the cantonment camp of the Pancrats.

The Pancrat Regiment was then divided into two divisions, one cantoned and one attacked the port of Patres, the capital of Robisto. The enemies of the cantonment camp, unable to resist the tidal wave of light rides, were quickly washed away from their defensive positions, and their cantonment camp fell into the hands of the Rangers.

Without the logistical oversupply that the cantonment camp could provide, most of the Pancrats, besieged under the town of Port Patres, after three days of perseverance, eventually raised their white flags and surrendered their weapons to the Rangers. This battle cavalry paid only minor casualties, and General Michelch led a division of the Cavalry and the Overseas Field Regiment, waving straight into the Krado Regiment under the direct authority of Bering Ghana.

The enemy had been informed of the demise of the Pancrat regiment, which had retracted its forces attacking the town of Brickaman and placed three defensive fronts around the town of Giinko. But because of the huge disparities in strength, equipment, morale, etc., the Corps of Carados could not resist the siege of the Rangers. After only three days of defense, soldiers from the Rangers stormed into the town, dividing the enemies from the defensive positions in half and attacking back and forth, destroying them immediately.

In particular, Claude, as General Michelchi's operational staff, learned the lesson of his failure to lead a cruise on the logistics base of the town of Ginko by commanding the artillery units of the Rangers' regiment to destroy all houses in the forward direction, making the offensive forces smoothly split the enemies of the town of Ginko in two, then clamped back and forth, forcing the enemies to rush out of their positions, launch a helpless counter-attack at the offensive forces, and then become a target to be defeated on the ground...

The fighting lasted a total of seven days, with the Clyde Corps losing most of its troops and the rest of its troops running out of food before surrendering to the Rangers. Claude was eager to find the enemy officer who set up the artillery position, but only after questioning the prisoners did he discover that the staff officer who set up the artillery position in the Claudeau Corps had buried him under the rubble the day after the battle because he was hit by the artillery and the house collapsed. When it was dug out, man was stiff...

In just a month and a half, two legions of enemies were annihilated and the Rangers' prestige was devastating. Immediately after the Knights built a floating bridge with a big flag drum at the ferry, three heavy field artillery positions were quietly set up along the ferry.

Unexpected by General Michelch, the kingdom of the Six Kingdoms' naval fleet, the Nubian mainland sub-fleet, carried out a major raid, with seven battleships and eleven armed merchant ships along the Dolinibara River forcing the ferry under Ghana's direct administration to destroy the floating bridge and bomb the Rangers' camp. As a result, they fell into the trap set by General Michelchi, where three hidden heavy field artillery positions were fired upon, and the enemy's fleet was inescapable and a living target on the Dolinibara River.

The battleship fought artillery battles for an hour and a half, leaving the enemy's fleet behind four battleships and eight armed merchant ships. This does not mean, however, that they can safely return to the departing port of Vibato. The port of Patres, the capital of Robisto's direct administration, has already planted twelve heavy field artillery cannons, blocking the entrances and rivers of the entire Dolinibara River. The enemy fleet did not open fire when it came in order to close the door and hit the dog...

Once again, the defenceless enemy fleet was bombarded by heavy field artillery, which lasted more than half an hour, and only one heavily traumatized armed merchant ship escaped the Dolinibara River. The sub-fleet of the King's Fleet of the Kingdom of Hicks in Port Vibato has been completely overthrown and all seven battleships have sunk in the Dolinibara River.

Without the threat from the sea, the Dolinibara no longer serves as a gateway to the enemy fleet. In mid-June, the Rangers led an overseas field corps across the Dolinibara River, sweeping the territories of Robisto and Beringana across the river and recovering all the lost towns. At the end of July, he entered the last defective Cromwell Overseas Territory, sweeping the entire territory and attacking the capital, Wickham Castle, in mid-August. So far, the Rangers have recovered all the lost ground.

“General, why are we not attacking the enemy's colonial county of Vibato, but stationed at the border? If we take over the enemy's port of Vibato, the enemy will lose its only military port and will no longer be able to send troops and logistical support to the Nubian mainland, and the entire colony of the Kingdom of Hicks will fall into the hands of the Kingdom..."

The Colonial County of Vibato was formerly a colonial territory of the Kingdom of Nasseri, which had to be repaid because of the enormous debt owed to the Kingdom of Hicks. The Kingdom of Hicks has thus obtained the only excellent port in its colony on the continent of Nubian, enabling it to transport troops and supplies to suppress the indigenous uprisings taking place in the colonial territories in which its kingdom is situated.

Upon the restoration of the Cromwell Overseas Territories, the Rangers were stationed on the colonial border between the two countries and did not march towards the Colonial County of Vibato in the Kingdom of the Hicks. The senior officers of the Rangers questioned this at the Division's military conference, agreeing that the enemy's port of Vibato should be seized while it was being pursued, that the enemy should be cut off from reinforcements from the Farea continent and that all colonies of the Nubian continent should be brought under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom.

General Michelchi can only explain with a smile: "Gentlemen, our Rangers have recovered all the lost ground, destroying the enemy's Pancrat Corps, the Clado Corps and the enemy garrison in all the lost territories, as well as the Port Vibato sub-fleet of its Neptune fleet, which is expected to destroy and capture more than 250,000 enemies in total, which is a very heavy blow to the Kingdom of Hicks, losing two thirds of its troops in the colonial colonies of the Nubian mainland.

In terms of my inner desire, I also hope to be able to march into the enemy port of Vibato and to take all the colonies of the Hicks kingdom in the Nubian mainland into its own pocket. But no, there are strict orders to ban us from entering enemy colonies. The reason why we, the Rangers, have come here is simply to teach the Kingdom of Hicks a harsh lesson, not to piss off the northern rulers of the Farea continent and to fight another battle of life and death against our kingdom.

If we occupy all the colonial territories of the Kingdom of Hicks in the Nubian continent, the most likely outcome will be a renewed war between the Kingdom of Hicks and the Kingdom of Nasserley, the Principality of Kanas, in the eastern part of the Farea continent. This will be a disaster of extinction for a kingdom that is only a few years away from the end of the war, awaiting new and slowly recovering its vitality. Because none of us can predict whether the Kingdom will still be victorious in the next great battle.

The envoy of our Kingdom to the Kingdom of Six should be on his way by now, and the best outcome is that the Kingdom of Six has learned the lesson of reaching a peaceful truce agreement with the Kingdom to restore peace and tranquillity to the continent of Nubian. If the Kingdom of Hicks continues to be dissatisfied with our kingdom, as long as the port of Vibato is under their control, they will send reinforcements only to the mainland of Nubian without turning their eyes to the mainland of the kingdom.

Since we, the Rangers, can defeat our enemies once and for all, no matter how many reinforcements they send again, we will continue to defeat and destroy them until the enemy cannot afford such enormous losses and bows his head to us. Gentlemen, do you have that confidence? ”

“Yes!” all officers attending the military conference stood up and responded loudly.

General Michelchi was satisfied with the effect of his speech, and then assigned the officers attending the military conference their own tasks, nothing more than training the overseas field corps, constructing various defensive installations, continuing recruitment in the rear overseas jurisdictions and preparing for the worst possible outcome.

Claude was given the simple task of returning to Amphiston territory and expanding the Range One Thirty-One battalion into a regiment, with the required troops selected from among the civilian age-appropriate elements of each territory and forming a fighting force within six months.

In fact, in the battle of the Rangers to destroy the Pancrats, the Claddock Regiment and recover all defective territorial defects, the Rangers Battalion acted only as a scout for the light cavalry, with almost no casualties. As Colonel Sevicht said, by the time the great army arrives, you will have ridden the battalion of one, three, one and a half battalions with countless merits. Now it's their turn to fight, so don't come for the medals.

At the end of October, the 131th Battalion returned to the town of Langhu under Amphiston, where they will expand into a 131th Range Range, select suitable civilian youth from the recruits recruited under the rear administration, conduct recruit training, and set up their own field battalions. Things were very busy, but the most important thing for Claude was to send her sister Anna and McJackie home to visit their relatives and make their mother wish.

McJackie was granted a six-month family visit, one of which was a bridal leave and one of which was a return trip. Just the night before their departure, Claude took his brother Browick to the cabin that sister Anna rented and spread two drawings in front of her.

Claude said very seriously to his sister Anna that these were the drawings of the two weapons he had designed, hoping that her sister Anna would be able to use the Alchemy Charm Array to help him study them when she got home, and that Mike could assist her by deceiving her sister Anna with his military skills and weapon knowledge. Claude wanted to do his own research, but being in the barracks was so inconvenient that he had to ask his sister to help him.

The first drawing is a schematic of a long-handled grenade, which is relatively simple, and the difficulty lies in the setting of the ignition device and the delay in the blast throwing time. The second drawing shows a revolver, the biggest difficulty being bullets, shells and firing.

Claude no longer hopes to develop a shotgun, but simply jumps straight to the revolver. He had seen a western film in which the main character made his own lead bullet with a small press device, placed a base fire on the bottom of the shell, stuffed it with gunpowder, and put a warhead on it, and one bullet was done.

Though the revolver was not far in range, Claude believed that if sister Anna could help him figure out useful bullets, the day would soon be over. Of course, regardless of whether the weapons on these two drawings can be studied, the most important thing is to keep it confidential and not let anyone else know...