Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 380: General Albert

“What are you doing here?” Claude looked at Major General Albert, the division leader of the dusty Rock Third Division, and asked with a smile as he greeted the crew outside the ledge to get a basin of fresh water to wash General Albert's face full of dust and sweat.

General Albert was somewhat annoyed: “I rushed over with my troops to hear you hook up with the follow-on troops of the Principality of Kanas Volunteer Light Rider Corps, thinking that you couldn't eat them for a while, so I came to reinforce you and share in the battle. I didn't think you'd beat them all up for more than 20 days. It's a little too fast..."

Claude shook his head: "Alan, I appreciate your kindness, but you have to look at your condition. Our Thunder Division is still four legs. If we can't hit it, we can still rush a thousand miles. If we can't escape, we can still escape. You rock 3rd division is two legs rush, if this time we can't clean up this volunteer Light Rider Corps, we Thunder Division ran away, but you ran into them, isn't that meat sent to the door? ”

Claude didn't mean anything by that. He knew General Albert was really kind enough to come forward to reinforce the Thunder Division. It is much friendlier than the historical so-called squad of watching friends trapped, but stable as a mountain after dozens of miles apart, and the team of pigs who immediately pulled their legs out after the friendly army was wiped out by the enemy.

However, as Commander-in-Chief of the theatre, he was not in favour of such an approach, for the simple reason that it was a matter of equipment mounting. This white brings Ghana's direct administration to the brink of Marshal Michelqi's tactic of clearing the field without even an intact town. The Rock Third Regiment with its two legs rushing into the war zone in an unknown hostility is an extremely dangerous move.

If, as they say, the Corps of Volunteer Light Riders did not fall into place, did not change course of riding, disembarked from the horse to dig trenches, but confronted themselves with lightweight assault tactics until now, they would soon discover the whereabouts of the Rock Third Division entering the Alberto Plains. General Albert and his troops would suffer a huge defeat if they took a small number of troops involved in the Thunder Division and the large forces implicitly shifted to launch raids on the Rock III Division.

On the prairie, the power of light cavalry can be fully exploited, infantry arrays don't have that much time to defend against wanting to build a barrier, and can't resist sudden attacks from all sides...

General Albert knew exactly what Claude was referring to. He just shook his head and wiped his face with a wet towel: “You said that I had considered it. In fact, I really couldn't help but let them come to me without this legion of volunteer lightweight riders and let me test the power of the train formation. After all, you know, we have no bottom of our minds just to train, we can't see the effect, whether this car can be used or not, we still have to walk on the battlefield..."

Array... Claude, this is sort of an understanding of what General Albert depends on. Speaking of which, this is also the hall of fame created by Claude. More than six months ago, Claude and four division chiefs came to rejoice in another sandbox deduction, and luck came to the role of Kanas Meadow. Claude acted as commander of the overthrown Blue Feather Corps, while Major General Bolognick became commander-in-chief of the Duchy of Kanas Light Cavalry. The outcome of this battle is clear to everyone, so they all think what Claude can do is avoid the Blue Feather Regiment collapsing and fleeing back to a few more troops.

Nobody expected Claude to drum up a wagon, use the wagon to form a caravan, and fire shotguns with light infantry artillery to hit the assaulted Kanas Light Cavalry. Had it not been for Major General Bolognick's unsatisfactory position, allowing the light cavalry to cruise and save a large amount of troops, Claude might have commanded the Blue Feather Regiment to defeat.

The results of that sandbox roll-out opened the eyes of almost all senior officers of the surrounding theatre command, and Claude eventually relied on a trunk car to pull the Bluefeathers and the two second-line regiments back together, which was a tie for both sides.

That's when Claude introduced you to this bike, which was easy to assemble and disassemble, and built a reliable defensive barrier for infantry in the short time it took to spot an enemy cavalry raid. I didn't expect General Albert to actually get this thing out now, but unfortunately, the Principality of Kanas volunteer lightweight regiment was given away by Claude in a pot, and the wagon lost its place of use.

But Claude was still curious: "Alan, where did you get all those pull horses? Didn't you say the last thing you need in the war zone is a horse? ”

General Albert's face was bitter: “Forget it, I begged Grandpa to sell out this face before borrowing all their equipped horses from Dean Bolonik's Rock Division I and Dean Sevicht's Rock Division II, plus our division and battlefield logistics, for a total of 2,000 horses. A Ramallah, although it can pull, still needs soldiers to push the car from time to time, so we rush over so slowly..."

Claude Haha laughed: "Come on, don't be upset, we Thunder Division have wiped out the entire volunteer lightweight army, and we have captured warhorses and horses. I'm sending people to take the horses back to the market to alleviate the need for underpower in the war zone, and now you can pull the car with a war horse, two battle maras, one car to guarantee fast speed. ”

“Yeah!” General Albert is pleased: “How could I forget this... No, I have to ask them to remove the horse immediately and try the speed of the vehicle on the two horses. ”

Nor did General Albert say goodbye, and he ran out "sneaking”. Claude was helpless, so he had to recruit Lieutenant Colonel Anders to follow General Albert and help him solve some problems before anything happened. After all, it was two divisions, but the capture belonged to the Thunder Division. Without Claude's warrant, General Albert might touch a nail in front of the soldiers on duty.

Soon, however, General Albert will be back, and Claude is approving some of the Thunder Division's papers to examine the process and results of certain things, as well as the logistics department's accounts and statistics on material disbursements, which must be accounted for and signed by Claude before they can be retained. If Claude is dissatisfied with the outcome of one of these matters, he has to write down his own opinion and send it back to the department in charge of the division for re-processing...

General Albert was naturally well aware of the process, and he himself was a division leader, so he stayed quietly and went out to make himself a cup of black tea. Claude handled the papers quickly and basically satisfied him with the process and results. He wrote a reading on the papers and signed his name, stamped the big stamp of the division leader, and these trivial things ended. Only the Department's accounts need to be accounted for and will take longer.

When Claude reviewed and approved these matters, he raised his head and found General Albert sitting flat, looking straight at him and wondering what he was thinking. After watching the time, Claudella pulled the summons rope, Major Anders came in from outside the ledge and waited for orders. Claudella asked him to talk to the diner and get a table and drinks. He was going to entertain General Albert in a large account.

General Albert has returned to God and has no objection to Claude's offer of hospitality. Claude asked with a smile what was going on, and General Albert said he remembered forming an overseas field corps in previous years.

Claude had little knowledge of the Overseas Field Corps, except that Marshal Michel had sent two then Colonel General Albert and General Bitchcline, who had taken a group of Ranger Corps officers from the Overseas Territories to select elite armies to serve as reserves and supplements to the Ranger Corps.

However, now that both overseas field corps have been disbanded, the age-appropriate soldiers selected from them have joined the five reinforced divisions. So Claude smiles and asks General Albert what good memories he has to share, presumably accepting the banquets of powerful local people and the wonderful experiences of those beautiful ladies?

General Albert laughed bitterly, and he replied that there was no such exaggeration, in fact, that he had been instructed to form an overseas field corps, which he had not himself anticipated would be so dangerous. The assassination of him and General Beechcrin alone took place several times. General Beechcrin had bad luck, and in one case he was seriously injured and rested for six months before returning. From this point of view, the overseas territories of the Nubian continent, far from the kingdom itself and alone, have long become lawless and extrajudicial.

And then Claude listened to General Albert nag a lot about the past. In a way, the Kingdom's jurisdiction over overseas territories was inappropriate, and the system of governors and supervisors, although militarily separate, could easily lead to rivalries between the two brothers, so that powerful people at the local level could only defend themselves as neutrals. If one of the governors and governors were sober, the Overseas Territories could still develop. Afraid that both the Governor and the Governor would treat the position as a distribution and that the local situation would be messed up without regard for local development and only with money.

That is why General Albert and General Beachcline were assassinated. The Governor and the Governor were uncomfortable with each other, using the city of the directly administered capital as a cornerstone for both sides, renouncing effective administration of the remaining towns under the direct administration and ignoring everything as long as taxes were received. As a result, local towns and cities fell under the control of the local hawks, and even local guard forces became the private force of the local hawks.

Marshal Michel instructed General Albert and General Bitchcline to integrate local guards around the country to form an overseas field corps, and as a result, some of the localities in which the situation was confused thought it was suppressing them. Private contacts were prepared to give the two Tiger Mouth Royal Officers a hard-on look, and the beauty paid to buy the money and not accomplish the assassination decision. The end result is, of course, the extermination of the clan, and no one against the regular army of the kingdom is attractive.

General Albert told Claude with emotion that he slept for two years with an eye open to avoid accidental poisoning. Good thing it finally survived and formed an overseas field corps before it went smoothly. Rather than forming an overseas field corps, Wangdu gave them credit for rectifying local order, suppressing local haughters and ambitions, and strengthening the Kingdom's jurisdiction and prestige in these overseas jurisdictions...

Claude now understands why Albert and Beachcline, the two unheard of principals in the Rangers, can also be promoted to Major General of the Kingdom with him. If General Albert hadn't told him that, he might have thought that Albert and Beachcline were the two seniors who walked through the door of a kingdom chief to become one of the five reinforced division chiefs.

Then came the wine, and Claude invited General Albert to his seat, and the two of them began to eat. When the staple food had passed, the attendants poured wine on the two generals, and Claude let him go, without standing beside the waiter, which asked General Albert if the speed of the two Marabou cars had increased considerably...

General Albert shook his head and said he didn't trade war horses for test runs. Because he doesn't think it's necessary. Originally, this bike was designed to fight the Principality of Kanas Volunteer Light Riding Corps, and now the Volunteer Light Riding Corps has been annihilated by the Claude World War I, and the bike will be of little use next. At best, it is used in the logistical heavy battalions assigned to the divisions to transport supplies, which can be used as protection against small enemy cavalry raids, and large units are no longer useful.

Thus, General Albert now strikes at the horses captured by Claude, who he hopes will be assigned to his division as Commander-in-Chief of the theatre, making him the second Thunder Division, playing a role in the offense, not as a backup for the Rock First and Second Division.

This idea coincided with Claude's earlier vision, who frankly claimed that he did have plans to form a Thunder II division, but that it was important that he gather all his deputies back to the war zone to discuss carefully which division became a Thunder II division, fight together under his command, and use offense to suppress the enemy.

General Albert was delighted, and he told Claude bluntly, without further ado, that Thunder 2nd Division was set. The reason is simple: whether it's General Bolognick, General Sevicht, or General Bitchicklin, they're good at defense. On offense, except for Claude, the only one left is himself. It's not bullshit, it's facts, the three division leaders admitted in the sand plate presentation. Perhaps General Albert is the fastest learner from Claude in offensive tactics.

There was some movement to see Claude, and General Albert hit the iron while he was hot, saying that he and Claude had done so many sand tray demonstrations. Though he lost countless times, that's why he has a certain understanding of Claude's offensive tactics and can certainly work with Claude on the battlefield. At the same time, they will obey Claude's command and will not make their own claims. From any point of view, his Rock Third Division is the most suitable candidate.

In addition, General Bolonik's Rock Division I and General Sevicht's Rock Division II, with significant responsibilities on the Dolinibara and Claude Lines, could not be formed as Thunder Division II. At the same time, the style of these two seniors is conservative, longer than defense is shorter than offense, so it doesn't do much to equip them with horses...

As for General Beechlin's Rock Fourth Corps, there are only 10,000 of them now, an empty shelf division. The last group of more than 20,000 immigrants have not yet been transported from the mainland of the Kingdom, so the Rock Fourth Regiment has not been fully staffed and cannot be formed as Thunder Second Division.

In the light of the above, General Albert believes that there is no better conversion to the Thunder Second Division than his Rock Third Corps. Claude, as the supreme commander of the theatre, could have given direct orders, and his Rock Third Division was here to take advantage of the opportunity to adapt immediately and locally without having to drive all the horses back to the theatre.

Claude laughed: "Well, let's give you an opportunity to draw two regiments to escort prisoners and horses back to Robisto's command, and the rest of the troops will be replaced by light cavalry, accompanied by our Thunder Division to Cromwell's command.

It was heard that a volunteer field regiment in the Kingdom of Nasseri was moving civil engineering on the ruins of Castle Wickham and was preparing to rebuild it as a logistics base. I'm going to pull this nail out, and if your division can cooperate in this battle, I think I can make you the second thunder division... "