Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 367 Emergencies

Claude was busy, and although Marshal Michel had taken care of most of his battlefield headquarters at the New Ward Preparatory Conference, the chief of all departments, including the Communications Intelligence Logistics, had arrangements that did not require Claude's attention. But Claude's decision to move the new war zone headquarters to Langhu Town has kept everyone busy.

However, Marshal Michelle did not object to Claude's decision, because he also felt that Castle Grenouille, as the capital of Amphiston, was a little too far off the mark, as the town of Lake Lang was conveniently located in the middle of Amphiston. It's just that Castle Grenouille was the largest mountain town in mineral development, home to two gold mines. The direct administration of Amphiston has traditionally been dominated by mineral development, and it is indisputable that the capital is located at Castel Grenouille for the smooth development and security of the two gold mines.

During the war, however, it was more anachronistic to set up theatre headquarters at Castel Greno. It takes half a day to get from Lake Lan town to Castle Grenouille, so it takes a day to get back and forth in case of an emergency. Relocating theatre commands to Lanhu town is not an easy task, not to mention simply transporting materials from the Ranhu Legion's reserves to Lanhu town. Moreover, Marshal Michel ordered all four-wheeled wagons of the entire regiment to be taken to Tyrsim to pick up the immigrant families.

As Marshal Michel said, time is indeed pressing. The storm fleet has escorted the immigrant fleet out of the sea and will reach Tyrsim in about half a month. And it takes more than twenty days from Tilsim to Amphiston, which of course means carriage.

This means that the theatre commands will need to be relocated within 30 to 40 days and an immigration camp will be set up in the town of Langhu to allow these immigrants a place to live first. and industrial arrangements for these immigrant families, during which there are also food supplies and medical assistance provided to these immigrant families…

Things were very busy, Claude was almost too busy, and even if his villa estate was in Langhu town, he didn't have time to go home and have a good night's rest. Fortunately for him, with the help of close relatives such as Magic, Berklin and Diavid, he rode one or three groups of nearly 5,000 veterans, and more than 4,000 were willing to join the thunderous division to be formed, which allowed Claude to complete the basic structure of the new division without any effort.

Marshal Michel was right to estimate that the majority of the ranks of the old Rangers were willing to move into the second-line regiment upon promotion to the first-level ranks. They are more willing to create a future on the battlefield than pay and benefits subsidies. Post-war rewards tend to be more than those paid or anything, especially if they have confidence in Claude, who, under his command, earns more and more than any other force in the Rangers.

More than 26,000 of the more than 30,000 former Rangers are willing to move into the five newly formed reinforced divisions, and more than 2,000 of the 30,000 new recruits are willing to remain here with the veterans. Marshal Michel simply ordered 5,000 veterans for each division, leaving over 3,000 to Claude's Thunder Division.

The more than 30,000 officers and soldiers of the Ranger Regiment who were to be brought back to the kingdom were used as labor by Marshal Michelqi, who was tired of complaining about the need to set up immigration camps in Lanhu Town before returning. Marshal Michelle didn't care, he said that these scumbags didn't even dare go to war, so it wouldn't be worth the effort...

Mr. Viberon's son, Derivique, also voluntarily joined the Legion of Thunder as a retired officer, re-established as a lieutenant officer, and is currently undergoing a study and adaptation mission. Claude took the time to meet briefly with the president of the Mining and Business Association, Henderman, to define the principles governing the allocation of immigrants.

It turns out Claude didn't expect the mining and business associations to need immigrants to dig, to dig, to do these things with the youth of the Nechas. What they need is talent, for example, five or six fewer people, more than a dozen people in the world. In addition to one retired soldier per household, 100,000 immigrants have parents, brothers and sisters. And mining and business associations need to tap into talent...

This is an overseas jurisdiction, and it's really hard to find someone compared to those counties in the kingdom itself. In contrast, mining and business associations are placing too large a shelf in the mountainous areas of Amphiston, and there is an acute shortage of managers at the grass-roots level. Those Nikancas had to be placed in managerial positions at the grass-roots level, resulting in very low productivity. The mining and business associations naturally took advantage of the 100,000 immigrants in the Kingdom who had previously tried to find no one to work for.

As Chairman Henderman said, illiteracy doesn't matter. It's always possible to manage the hard work of those Nikanchas. Neither does it require much encouragement, with a firearm and a whip, and basically the Nikanchas will obey. What the Mining and Commerce Association lacks are these people with guns, and if any of these immigrant families are literate and arithmetic, that's better. The Association has job placements...

Claude also agreed with Chairman Henderman that, in principle, he had no objection to mining and business associations soliciting talent from these immigrant families, but that everything must be voluntary, until immigrant families arrived at the reception camp, before being solicited in the camp by members of the association, without any deception or coercion, and that only those who voluntarily went to settle in the mountain cities could the association assist in resettlement.

The time had passed quickly, and more than thirty days had passed, and the first immigrants were approaching. And at that time, Claude from Ward Command was getting a report that something had happened to Logistics...

The head of the logistics department of the Ranger Regiment, General Fansnik, has had another moth attack, and he is unaware that Marshal Michel has left all the military supplies in the Regiment's reserves in the new theatre of operations, which are operated by Colonel Skerry. Based on the previous Legion Logistics Department ledgers, he believed that there were too many seized items of arms in the Hicks Kingdom, so he was looking for a buyer to sell the items from the warehouses.

Perhaps closer and closer to returning to the kingdom, General Van Snick, head of the Ranger Corps Logistics Department, is also becoming more and more indifferent in his desire to sell unnecessary military materiel in the warehouse of the Corps into cash. Instead, he thought it would be easier to sell these things if he didn't take them back, so he contacted the merchants on his own initiative to sell them.

Easily contacted an intentional businessman, General Fansnik rushed to visit the Legion's material warehouse. As soon as he opened the door to the warehouse, General Van Snick was shocked, and several warehouse stockpiles of goods were lost, not to mention several warehouses still stockpiled with seals on them, stamped with special seals for the Logistics Department of the theatre...

General Fansnik was in a hurry on the spot, clearly a reserve of military materiel for the Rangers, how did he become the Zone Logistics Department? He went to Colonel Scully angrily and demanded the return of the Rangers' supplies. Colonel Skerry, however, told him that it was the order of Marshal Michel to hand over all the military supplies from the Rangers to the theatre and that he would not be able to return to the mainland of the Kingdom anyway.

General Fansnik, who was desperate to announce that the order of Marshal Michelchi was a mess and that he, as head of logistics for the Rangers, had no idea about it, so without his consent, the military supplies of the Regiment's reserves could not be transferred to other forces. He ordered Colonel Skerry to hand over all the materials to him immediately...

Colonel Skerry immediately refused to carry out his order and asked him to obtain the consent of Marshal Michel and to produce a warrant, at which time it would not be too late to return the materiel.

But where did General Van Snick get the guts to go to Marshal Michel? He had the idea of selling these surplus armaments, then profiting from them, and putting the rest of the money in the books of the Rangers' Logistics Department as one of his own. Now that the plan was frustrated, he became angry, emphasizing that Marshal Michel did not have the authority to dispose of this armament, which falls under his authority as head of the logistics department...

So he ordered the gendarmerie of the Military Justice Department of the Ranger Corps to detain Colonel Skerry on charges of private transfer and embezzlement of arms and then packed and sold the arms supplies returned to the warehouse to the big businessman who had bought them.

Colonel Scully is currently in charge of the logistics department in the new war zone, and when he was detained, the entire logistics department was in disarray, and no one could take the lead, and a lot of things quickly backlogged up. Fortunately, there were other Logistics officers who were sober and immediately sent a message to Claude by Eagle, as well as Colonel Bitchcline of the Rock 4th Division integrated at Castle Greno.

Although the Forces nouvelles sector headquarters has been relocated to Langhu town, Colonel Skerry's logistics department is also handling the stocks transferred from the Rangers to the theatre at Castle Greno. Nobody expected this to happen, and Marshal Michelchi has now deviated from the city of Brickaman under Robisto to inspect the formation of the First Division of the Rock and the Dorinibara River Defense Line. And General Van Snick was the biggest officer in the Ranger Command, and nobody could stop him.

Claude was overwhelmed, and he couldn't fly to Castle Grenouille right away. He could only send a message to Colonel Bitchicklin, demanding that he immediately impose a cordon martial law at Castle Grenouille, stop the businessman who had bought large quantities of armaments from leaving the city, take him into custody, then take him to the command of the Rangers, and rescue Colonel Skerry.

But after more than an hour, Claude again received a message from Colonel Bitchcline's Eagle stating that General Fansnik had used the logistics battalion of the Rangers' Logistics Department to escort the businessman's convoy out of town. Currently confronted by both sides, General Fansnik accused Colonel Beechlin of premeditated mutiny...

Claude was eager to scold, although most of the Ranger Corps troops were built in Lake Lang town, there was also a guard battalion and a logistics battalion at Ranger Corps headquarters in Castle Greno. Claude couldn't get Colonel Bitchcline under pressure to really fire at the regiment's logistics battalion, and that was unbearable, after all, they were ordered to do the same.

Communications officers from the theatre command reported that the hawks flying to Brickaman City, under the direct control of Robisto, would take three hours to receive a reply from there, approximately 6 p.m. While Marshal Michel left yesterday morning, they are currently estimated to be on their way and will probably not arrive in Brickaman until tomorrow afternoon. In addition, although Marshal Michelqi accompanied the hawk, he could only deliver it to him by sending the hawk first. It's impossible for a messenger hawk in Ward Command to target a traveler on the road...

What should we do? Claude frowned for a moment and thought that this emergency, if not handled properly, would have a huge impact on the new war zone. No one would have guessed that General Van Snick would have stunned everyone with this blank shield. In fact, that shipment of arms that he had sold back didn't matter. It was a stockpile of the seized Kingdom of Hicks. After a few days of Marshal Michel's return, he'll be taken care of.

But Claude didn't want to let this General Van Snick go, and if he didn't get a hard lesson this time, he might have a lot of trouble in the next few days. And if he succeeds this time, it will only cast a shadow on the Forces nouvelles zone command. The people above naturally understand their own difficulties, but what the soldiers below will think will greatly diminish their prestige as the new High Commander of the theatre...

“Send another hawk message to let Colonel Beechlin let them pass...”

“The Thunder Division guerrilla camp will follow me immediately.” Claude ordered.

The guerrilla battalion is currently the only full battalion of the Thunder Division, with McJackie as the battalion's commander, as was the 131 field reinforcement battalion led by the former Knights Claude. The battalion of more than 1,600 men, all veterans, was prepared by Claude as the sharpest knife of the Thunder Division.

It took about two hours for Claude to lead the guerrilla camp to the entrance of the hill and order a rest. At the same time, send outposts along the hillside to see if the merchant convoy escorted by the logistics camp led by General Fansnik has arrived. Fortunately, down the hill from Castel Grenouille, there is only one avenue, and that convoy can only pass from here.

After more than half an hour of waiting, a sentry ride arrived and the convoy arrived soon.

The next thing is very simple: a guerrilla camp ambushed on the side of the hill suddenly appeared, crying out loudly for General Van Snick's treason, arresting him immediately, and daring the rebels to shoot him in the face.

Most of the officers and soldiers of the logistics battalion turned unconscious and, overwhelmed, were handed over their weapons. General Van Snick yelled outrageously, claiming that he was a blood branch of the Sterling royal family, how could treason be possible, which was clearly a slander. Several officers next to him moved intently and were about to come up for questioning, but were beaten to the ground and tied up by veterans from the guerrilla camp.

Claude walked up to General Van Snick and pulled a hawk message out of his arms, in front of everyone: “This is a hawk message just sent by Marshal Michel, which says General Van Snick betrayed the interests of the kingdom, privately shared the Kingdom of Hicks, stole information about the war zone, and ordered the war zone to capture it immediately..."

Nobody saw what Claude had written in the Eagle Message, but because Claude must have taken it seriously, he was basically convinced that it was indeed the order of Marshal Michel.

Only General Van Snick jumped up and down: "Bullshit, I'm not treason! You are insulting a member of the King's Master, and I will not spare you. ”

Claude punched him directly in the jaw, and he immediately fell to the ground and struggled.

“He grabbed it and tied it up and threw it on the carriage. He also stuffed some broken socks in his mouth and the carriage bounced in case he accidentally bit his tongue.” Claude took out a white handkerchief and wiped his fist.

“Sir, what about the businessman and the convoy?” McJackie asked.

“Take them all. Go back to Colonel Shazorak for questioning. Isn't he an anti-spy? I need that businessman to admit that he's an agent of the Hicks Kingdom...”