Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 350 Massacre and Enemy Seduction

On October 7, 586, the Holy Light, Claude finally received an order from General Michel, and the Eagle sent only two big letters, action! This was followed by the signature of General Michelchi and the official seal of the Division Command.

“McJackie, pass the word and let the four direct field battalions operate as planned, with the regiment indicating that the Ministries will follow me.” Claude commanded.

“Yes, sir.” Mike is on his way. He is now a captain officer, returning from a six-month vacation and promoted to the rank of deputy in the company of Claude.

“By the way, let Big Gummy keep that case of baby in his collection and don't leak it out. That's our secret weapon, you understand?” Claude admonished Michael.

Mike nodded and left the office.

The box of babies Claude was talking about was the result of Michael and his sister Anna's family vacation, a box of grenades, wooden handles. This was the only result of Claude giving the sister two weapon design drawings, and the grenade was well developed and the sample could be made only by solving the problem of ignition and delayed detonation.

This case of grenades was made entirely by sister Anna in the Alchemy Charm Array, twenty-four. The only thing that's missing is that the power of the explosion is not too great, but it's a matter of gunpowder, not a mistake in design and manufacturing. However, throwing the fire out of the explosion was enough to split the outer shell into two dozen pieces, posing a sufficient threat of death and injury to the target within a three-meter radius, which was the conclusion of a test conducted by sister Anna and McJackie with a herd of sheep.

With the arrival of a box of grenades, there was also a hand-painted production drawing by her sister Anna, who demonstrated the equipment and steps required for actual large-scale production based on the process of making grenades in the Alchemy Character Array, as well as the procedure for conducting product quality inspections. In other words, with this production drawing, Claude just needs to buy equipment and raw materials to manufacture a weapon like a grenade on a large scale according to this production drawing.

Claude just instructed McJackie to keep the production drawings, and he didn't want to produce any grenades in the short term. The imitation of this stuff is very simple, and Claude doesn't want to put himself in any trouble when he doesn't have enough strength to keep his hand grenade production rights. The sample of commissioning sister Anna to make the grenade is just some of Claude's personal preparations for the next war, perhaps to save her life, perhaps to make good...

There is also a drawing of a revolver, and the only difficulty is the bullet's bottom fire, according to the report of McJackie's return, that the remainder of the revolver can be made in the alchemy spell array. These are pointy lead warheads, shells, and these are simple, and it's a big question of what the underlying fire is made of. Sisters Anna and McJackie are said to have tried many methods, but the dumb fire rate is still too high.

This Claude understands that her sister Anna is, after all, a pharmacist, not a chemist. There are no chemistry and physics courses in the world. Some knowledge of chemistry and physics is said to be classified as mysterious alchemy, is not disseminated externally, and is held in the hands of the royal family and magicians. That is why it has been more than 600 years since the use of fire rope guns...

Take your time, Claude himself was also a chemical scum in his previous life. In college, his major was computer applications. After graduation, he also walked the technology route. After joining the boss, he was also responsible for logistics technology management. It wasn't until he crossed over to the other world that he realized that failure to learn the basics of applied chemistry and physics was the biggest mistake.

With frontline news coming, Claude soon learned about the latest war. Two days ago, two standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks on the border, the Tanya Regiment and the Vikron Regiment, crossed the border and headed straight for Cromwell. Behind these two regiments, a hundred miles apart, followed the three Standing Regiments of Seiburg, Kudzoya and Fabert.

Perhaps it is a lesson learned from the last time the two Standing Regiments were completely eliminated, and this time the Kingdom of Hicks adopted a strategy of heavy military repression, steadfastness and backwardness. All five Standing Regiments were thrown into the offensive. As long as they met the resistance of the Royal Oberas Guardian Army, the five Standing Regiments were surrounded, killing chickens with cow knives and defeating the enemy's guards, so that they could breathe a sigh of relief for the two Standing Regiments that had been destroyed by the previous entire army.

Just to disappoint the soldiers of the Kingdom of Hicks, the army of the Kingdom of Orvillas had no intention of defending the Cromwell administration at all, almost in one stroke, abandoning the capital of Cromwell, Wickham Castle, and four towns in the country. It was not until the five standing legions of the Hicks kingdom occupied the entire Cromwell administration that it was discovered that none of the capital, Wickham Castle, nor any of the four towns, were inhabited by a single citizen of the Kingdom of Orvillas, and that all they saw was the Nikanchas wandering around in their township dwellings...

The bloodshed soon took place, and soldiers from the Kingdom of Hicks were instructed to drive these filthy Nikancas out of their towns and back to their slums. The order was resisted by the Nikanchas who occupied abandoned houses that had been removed from the inhabitants of the Kingdom, who believed that the abandoned houses and fields of the inhabitants of the Kingdom had become their property, and then shouted around the cry of the soldiers of the Six Kingdoms who were on mission, shouting wrongs and surrounding them to death and not wanting to leave them.

The impatient officers of the Kingdom of Hicks ordered the shooting to warn the dead Nikancas, and as a result the shots went off, many of the soldiers of the Kingdom of Hicks who heard the shooting thought they could open fire at will against the Nikancas who refused to leave the houses. So a massacre took place, almost every visible Nikanca was targeted by the new occupier, and only young women were spared, but they were captured by the soldiers of the beastly Kingdom of Hicks and brought into the barracks to be ravaged...

The massacre at Castle Wickham soon spread across the Nubian continent with the mouths of the fleeing Nikancas. In fact, the blood toll was modest, with nearly a thousand deaths and injuries, and more than 200 young women being plundered into military camps. The makers of the bloodshed were not aware that the time of the massacre had deprived them of another source of information besides the scouting mission, and since that incident none of the Nikanchas from the overseas territories had been willing to cooperate with the army of the Kingdom of the Hicks in transmitting information and listening to them.

The main objective of the Legion of the Kingdom of Hicks to expel the Nikancas from the capital, Castle Wickham, is to prepare Castle Wickham as the general logistics supply base for the five Standing Legions, and the remaining four towns will also be important supply sites on the logistics transport corridor. And those Nikancas who are reluctant to leave the houses they occupy want to be compensated with some property or food or something. But they didn't expect that the soldiers of the Hicks kingdom, the new occupiers, actually opened fire on them...

Nikantha people have always been seen as hybrid bastards, greedy, selfish, intelligent, lying, facial, lazy, petty, stealing, rogue... almost all bad adjectives can be used against them. But the only undeniable advantage is that the Nikanchas are more united. They look like outsiders, but take good care of their own people.

To some extent, the Overseas Territories of the Kingdom of Ovieras are relatively fair in their treatment of the Nikanchas. Although they are not recognized as residents of the kingdom, at least in overseas jurisdictions, they earn a decent wage if they work well. Moreover, security and freedom are guaranteed in the country, provided that taxes and taxes are paid.

Just like the inhabitants of the kingdom who emigrated to overseas territories, although they were civilians, overseas territories, whether mining, running farm ranches, opening taverns, etc., would hire the Nikans as basic labourers, their own families as supervisors, and most of them would get along friendly with the Nikans and earn a good fortune for their families. This is also the main reason why the underlying industries of the seven Overseas Territories of the Kingdom of Ovieras have developed well.

Most of the colonies of the Hicks kingdom are in the hinterland of the Nubian continent, and Nikantha, who prefer to wander along the coastal areas, rarely go to the hinterland to earn a living. In addition, most colonists from the Hicks kingdom are engaged in mineral development and rarely in the slow-money industries of farm ranching. They are known as gold diggers, exploring mineral resources for a large sum of money.

Unlike the emigration of civilians from the Kingdom of Ovilas to overseas jurisdictions for exploitation and construction, gold diggers from the Kingdom of Hicks are essentially employed by nobles and powerful figures, who can earn a huge fee for exploring a rare mineral resource in a colony. That mineral resource would then be taken over by the nobles and powerful to reap ever-growing benefits.

Because the exploitation of minerals requires a great deal of labour, the nobles and powerful people hit the indigenous tribes with ideas, and they organized mercenaries to attack the indigenous tribes, capture the labor of the people, invest in the dark caves and exploit endless wealth for them. This is almost a million-dollar slave trade, and they don't have to pay anything at all. This is also the reason for the ongoing indigenous riots in the colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks, where, in the eyes of gold diggers, an indigenous tribe and mineral resources are equivalent…

Had it not been for the Colonial County of Vibato from the Kingdom of Nasseri, perhaps the Kingdom of Hicks would not have had too many crossings with the Nikanchas. More radical than the pureblooded indigenous Etat, the Nikancas live in the slums next to those towns and are willing to feed themselves with their own labour, while also allowing young Nikanca women to sell their flesh for payment.

The first soldiers to come to the Pancrat and Clado Legions on the Nubian continent learned how to deal with the Nikans, so their reconnaissance cavalry would get some information from the Nikans with food and money when they could not find clues to the enemy, just as they learned that they were going to hunt down two groups of the enemy, as the town of the Modo River had been burned down by a fire, causing the entire army to collapse.

But the officers and soldiers of the five standing legions did not learn how to live with the Nikanchas, and they did not care about the massacre that took place at Castle Wickham. Instead, noble officers felt that perhaps the slave owners who exploited the minerals could turn their targets to the Nikans, who were more comfortable than the belligerent Etat...

The five Standing Regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks spent a month occupying the entire Cromwell administration, followed by a four-way blockade towards the Bailingana administration. What they had to do, because Bering Ghana's direct administration was too great, and if it had been followed by a robust strategy, it would have taken them at least twice as long to occupy the entire administration.

It would be foolish of the enemy to take over places without any defensive force at such a slow rate when he was almost defenseless and abandoned all the towns. On the unanimous advice of all Regimental Staff Officers, the five Regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks are no longer united, but stretch out like four arrows to the direct authority of Bering Ghana with the intention of occupying the entire territory of Bering Ghana in the shortest possible time, while leaving behind a standing regiment to prevent attacks on and destruction of logistics supply corridors by the enemy.

Bering Ghana is not as defenceless as Cromwell, and there is always a battalion or a regiment of guards in some precarious terrain. They staunchly obstructed and evacuated at critical moments when the enemy gathered around them. While all four standing legions of the attacking Hicks kingdom have suffered some casualties, it appears that the victory they have won is real…

This is how a senior officer who once again took up enemy defensive positions ordered his men to report to the Legion headquarters: “The enemy is overwhelmed, our army is overwhelmed! ”

These high-ranking officers of the Kingdom of Hicks, who have not experienced war for more than four decades, are indeed bewildered by the victories they have won. They forgot to check the proportion of casualties on both sides of the enemy. There were often few bodies of soldiers killed in action on the defensive positions of the captured enemy, and the casualties of the troops they attacked were often calculated by battalion size.

Their victory took the enemy's defensive positions and their enemies fled, but they lost battle battalions after battle, a situation considered normal by senior officers of the Hicks kingdom, which they did not care much about. A standing army, with twenty battalions, is perfectly normal, even if it loses half of its battalions, as long as it continues to win and seize enemy territory.

It is only unclear to the senior officers of these standing regiments in the Kingdom of Hicks that they have been lured away from their original goals by the Rangers, one by one, into the trap of the enemy. Using a small defensive position, the Rangers made every standing army in the Kingdom of Hicks believe that the enemy's main force was in front of them and set up new defensive positions to wait for their attack. So they were all braving forward, inadvertently ignoring each other's mutual correspondence, and the distance between the regiments grew further away...