Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 348 War Zone Settings

On January 28, 586, the Grand Prince of Hansburg arrived in Tyrsim. On behalf of the Royal family of Sterling, he came to visit the overseas territories of the Nubian mainland, while transporting long-awaited supplies of equipment and logistics to the Rangers and the overseas field corps. Nearly 100,000 of them are Obash III firearms alone, ready to replace vintage firerope guns equipped with armed guards in all areas under their direct authority...

On the way to inspections and condolences, the Grand Prince arrived at the end of March, just after the rainy season, when Claude led the newly expanded Ranger Battalion of Light Cavalry to take charge of the Grand Prince's security guard. After accompanying the Grand Prince on his visit to the ruling capital of Amphiston, where he received the Governor and Governor, Claude also accompanied the Grand Prince to Port Patres, the capital of Robisto, where the division headquarters of the Rangers were located.

On 18 April, the Grand Prince arrived in Port Patres and General Michelchi held a grand parade to welcome the Grand Prince.

After the parade ceremony, the Grand Prince delivered a public and enthusiastic speech, winning the cheers of tens of thousands of live audiences and rangers attending the parade ceremony, as well as officers and soldiers of the overseas field corps, in a very warm atmosphere.

After the speech, the Grand Prince held a ceremony of decoration and promotion for the meritorious officers and soldiers, the most notable of which was the promotion of General Michelchi from the rank of General to the rank of Admiral and the promotion of the title from Viscount of Honor to Count of Honor. Claude, on the other hand, was awarded the honorary Baron of the Kingdom, two of whom were the only two to be promoted and sealed by the Rangers.

By the way, when Claude was given the Baron, there was one formality: what was the word of hope? As a general rule, Claude may choose the alphabet, which is the acronym for Amphiston, or the rhetoric, or the white word, which means that the credit was earned from Robisto and Bering Ghana, or even the grammar, to commemorate the recovery of the defective Cromwell.

But Claude chose Chinese characters, which made Prince Hansburg confused. I don't understand why Claude chose Chinese characters to give words. Claude explained that it was the wisdom of Prince Hansburg, who promoted himself to the end of the brigade and gave himself the Knight's Medal. So Claude was thankful, and to show that he didn't forget the Grand Prince's hand, that's why he took the initials of the Grand Prince's name to give words.

Even though the Big Prince thought Claude was kissing his ass, he was still happy. Everyone liked the man who wanted to know the gratuity, so he waved a fortune and recognized Claude's title as Chinese. From this moment on, Claude became Claude. Baron Han Field. Even with his family, his first and last name had an extra Chinese character.

Though that is how the great prince was interpreted, in Claude's heart, this Chinese character was the only word in his life that could be associated with previous generations. Because in his previous life he was a Han man, a word that represented 2,000 years of glorious civilization, great and glorious. Even after a difficult and painful experience, modern times have been humiliated, but at the moment of Claude's passage, after more than thirty years of reform and opening up, the homeland of the Chinese characters as the dominant nation has risen to the height of the world's power...

After the promotion and sealing ceremony is a grand celebration feast. Claude just found out that Prince Hansburg didn't seem too excited and that the feast started shortly after the disappearance of General Michel and General Michel. Indeed, when he returned to his residence at night, Claude was notified of a military conference the following day at 9 a.m.

“… the Kingdom of Hicks once again ignores the Kingdom's will for peace and refuses to acknowledge at all the failures it has suffered on the Nubian continent. Their arrogant statement to the Royal Envoy that the collapse of the Pancrat and Clado Legions did not mean that the Kingdom of Hicks had a stronger army than the Kingdom of Ovilas. Because both regiments were armed in colonial areas, not standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks...”

Prince Hansburg brought the bad news that the war would continue for the Rangers who participated in this High-level Military Conference. Fortunately, the Kingdom of Hicks did not turn its eyes to the mainland of the Kingdom, with stubbornness where it fell and where it climbed. For the first time, the Kingdom of Hicks announced that it would deliver five standing regiments to the colonies of the continent of Nubian, using offensive defenses and invading invading invading forces of the Overseas Territories of the Kingdom of Ovieras to the death of all enemies who invaded the colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks…

“No, how did we become invaders? We're stationed on the colonial border between the two countries, and we're not trespassing on an inch of the colony of the Kingdom of Hicks?” A number of high-ranking officers were confused that the Kingdom of Hicks called the Rangers the invaders of their kingdom's colonies.

Grand Prince Hansburg laughed bitterly: "Because the Kingdom of Hicks has always been overwhelming in believing that the land they occupied is their territory. How else could they occupy the entire northern part of the Farea continent? The Cromwell administration fell into the hands of the colonial garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks for six months, a land that, according to the laws of their kingdom, became their legitimate and undeniable colony. We recovered the Colony of Cromwell, and in their view, it was an invasion...”

“Bullshit!” “Damn it! ” ……

All the officers present here were outraged, and before the war was over, the Kingdom of Hicks considered the Kingdom's overseas administration to be their legitimate colony, an insult to the Kingdom and a disdain for its army. Almost everyone at this moment is ready to teach the Hicks army a harsh lesson in the next war.

A deputy chief of staff next to the Grand Prince walked to the wall hanging the map and briefed the officers of the rangers' regiment present on the army of the Kingdom of Hicks. Located in the northern part of the Farea continent, the Kingdom of Hicks occupies the entire northern region, divided into 57 counties in 13 states. The army is divided into the army and the navy, which consists of fifteen standing legions, essentially one standing legion in one state, with a total strength of some 63,000 troops. The size is actually similar to that of the Ace Field Corps of the Kingdom of Ovillas, which has a standing armed force of nearly a million troops.

The Navy of the Kingdom of Hicks is the Navy of the Neptune, whose main mission is to protect Higros from evil magicians and pirate groups attacking the northern part of the continent and the coastal islands. But the rumours that the so-called Higros demon wizard had once again invaded the Farea continent were circulating year after year, and basically nobody took them seriously. The navy fleet, which had no rival, began to reach out to the continent of Nubicia and, after obtaining the port of Vibato, could not wait to set up a sub-fleet, except that all of this sub-fleet sank in the Dolinibara River...

In fact, the Pancrat Legion and the Clado Legion, which were exterminated by the Rangers, were also among the standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks and were transported to the Nubian continent as the main forces in suppressing the indigenous riots in their colonies. At the same time, the Kingdom of Hicks enlisted local guards in the colonial territory to arm three battlefield regiments in the colony, turning its attention to the Overseas Direct Administration of the Kingdom of Ovilas after exterminating the indigenous insurgency in the territory.

The Kingdom of Hicks had thought that with the power of the Pancrat and Clado regiments, it would be possible to bite down several overseas territories from the kingdom of Ovilas. It did not expect to steal chickens without losing rice. The two regiments were wiped out, the entire fleet was wiped out, all the land seized was recovered and the colony lost nearly 240,000 troops.

This is an intolerable face-to-face assault for the traditionally bullish Kingdom of Hicks, who are determined to fight with the kingdom of Auvellas on the Nubian continent to win. As they claimed to the envoy of the Kingdom of Ovilas, what is the point of being annihilated by two regiments? There are some elite troops in the Kingdom of Hicks. Send five regiments first. If you can't send ten more regiments, you won't believe that the Kingdom of Ovilas will not surrender on its knees...

In fact, the Rangers were ready to continue fighting just before the Grand Prince informed them that the war would continue. As a result of information received from probes in the previous two months from the port of Vibato, the Kingdom of Hicks has transported three regiments to the Nubian mainland, and two regiments have now been placed on the border to confront the Rangers' regiment and the Overseas Field Regiment, although both sides have been able to exercise restraint and no gun-fighting clashes have occurred.

In this regard, it may be that the strength of the Kingdom of Hicks has not been deployed, so it is not desirable to engage the Rangers prematurely. On the other hand, the Rangers abide by the above orders, do not cross the border and do not provoke, so as not to adversely affect the peace negotiations between the Kingdom and the Kingdom of Hicks. But it now confirms the intention of the Kingdom of Hicks to continue the war. Immediately, an officer proposes to pre-empt the two regiments deployed by the enemy at the border before they reach the port of Vibator…

However, both the Grand Prince and General Michelchi rejected the proposal, and the pre-emptive was a viable strategy, which did not meet the strategic needs of the Kingdom. What the Kingdom needs now is not to defeat the enemies that are about to invade, but to sustain the bloodshed of the mighty Kingdom of Hicks in the Nubian continent until it loses its threat to the Kingdom itself in the Farea continent.

“The enemies who have lost 250,000 troops do not care, and if they lose 2.5 million, I am sure that there will be no more Hicks kingdom, the dominant power of the North.” General Michelch said, "Is it possible that everyone is listening foolishly? Eliminating two and a half million troops in the Hicks Kingdom is simply not something that can be done.

Don't say two and a half million troops, it's half lost, a million troops lost. The Kingdom of Hicks will be devastated and will no longer be able to sustain the shelves of the Northern Lord. Maybe some of his little brothers around will start this idea of the blood-loss boss, ready to bite the fat out of him...

“I'm not kidding.” General Michelch said positively: "We fought with the Pancrats and the Krados, and in fact we didn't see them as real opponents. Their soldiers were indeed brave and resilient, and their officers were well trained at the grass-roots level. But compared to our Rangers, their tactical tactics are very old-fashioned, guns and guns, and these weapons and equipment are extremely backward, which is arguably a different era from ours.

Let us not forget that the Kingdom of Hicks has not experienced war for more than four decades, and that, despite their enormous standing armaments, these regiments have not really experienced war, neither have their officers nor their soldiers. At best, it is the suppression of the indigenous violence in the colonies and the cleansing of the bandits and bandits in the country. Unlike us, we have just experienced five years of war in the eastern part of the continent, with the latest methods of warfare, equipped with the latest weapons and rich experience in warfare. They are dogmatic and rigid and will only act in strict accordance with the old-fashioned pattern of war, and this is our chance.

If we preempt, then it is certain that the enemy will not be able to resist our attack at all, and eventually we will force them to retreat back to Port Vibato, which has strong and well-equipped defences. We cannot seize the port of Vibator, which is not in keeping with our strategy and even risks turning the eyes of the Kingdom of Hicks to the Kingdom itself. But not attacking the port of Vibato means that we will have a confrontation with the enemy, who will learn the latest tactics and tactics from us…

So our best strategy is not to attack the enemy, but to lure the enemy into our territory. Leverage space and time to lengthen the enemy's logistics supply line and push them into isolation. We can concentrate our efforts on separating them and surrounding them, and then destroying another legion. We have a more flexible engine and a stronger firepower than our enemies, and I am sure that no enemy will be our rival to the Rangers. ”

After General Michelchi had spoken of his strategy, Grand Prince Hansburg had issued several more orders, which could be regarded as the guiding strategy of the Kingdom of Ovilas for this war in the overseas territories of the Nubian mainland.

First, the Rangers will be enlarged into regiments and all required troops will be recruited and transported to the mainland of Nubian for military service among the country's age-appropriate civilian population. Secondly, a second Overseas Field Corps was re-recruited in the seven Overseas Territories as a second-line corps to support the Rangers in their war against the colonial garrison in the Kingdom of Hicks.

This order to form a second overseas field corps is a considerable burden for the seven overseas jurisdictions. Because the seven Overseas Territories together have more than 2.3 million inhabitants of the Kingdom. Two overseas field regiments, coupled with local armed guards in the various jurisdictions, have reached nearly 200,000 troops, 10 to 1 compared to the total population of the Kingdom, and have drawn almost all young men of appropriate age from the inhabitants of the Kingdom.

The third order was the division of the theatre of war, Robisto, where the lands of the two Bailinganese direct administrations opposite the Dolinibara River were merged into Bailinganese direct administrations, which, together with the Cromwell direct administration, would serve as a battlefield for the seduction of enemies, with all the inhabitants of the rear rear kingdoms being relocated to serve as a solid clearing ground.

At the same time, Robisto, on the side of the Dolinibara River, merged the remaining territories of the two direct territories of Bering Ghana into Robisto. With this division, the direct territorial area of Robisto appears on the map to be along a narrow area next to the Dolinibara River. And across the river, Bering Ghana appears to cover almost twice as much as Robisto.

The reallocation of the two direct jurisdictions, Robisto and Bering Ghana, was primarily for operational convenience. The bottom line for the Kingdom is to relinquish the overseas territories of Bering Ghana and Cromwell, opposite the Dollinibala River, and then to defend Robisto's territory with the risk of the Dollinibala River. Even if the Dollinibala River does not block the enemy's attack, it does so through the Claude Line of Defense under Amphiston.

The last order of the Grand Prince merged the four Direct Administrations of Amphiston, Robisto, Bering Ghana and Cromwell into the Overseas Direct Administrations of the Mainland of Nubicia in the Kingdom of Orvilas, with General Michelchi at the top of the line. Starting today, the Kingdom will bring back the governors and governors of the four overseas territories, all of which will be under the command of the Rangers' wartime command, that is, all four overseas territories will be under wartime military control…