Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 384: Drawing a Big Cake for the Nikantha

“General...” McJackie Zema rushed onto the dune where Claude was stationed, jumped right off the horse, threw the reins at the attendant next to him, and proceeded to stand up in front of Claude.

Claude nodded at him and continued to look at the two-way horse winding in the distant wilderness. To the north is the movement of the Nikancas, who heeded the advice of Claude and would go to the mountainous areas along the northern coast of the Port Vibato colonial county, ready to resist their subsequent capture by the Kingdom of Hicks, relying on the land and the weapons and ammunition that Claude lent them.

At the same time, they will send their armed men into the hinterland colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks, attack mineral development sites and local towns, free their fellow citizens as slave miners and strengthen their armed forces. A new uprising was unleashed in the hinterland colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks to seize more territory and find the opportunity to build their independent State.

Yes, to build an independent Nikancha State. Last night, Claude accompanied the four Nikancas on a chess game and succeeded in drawing them a biscuit. Instead of giving free weapons and ammunition to a standing legion in the Kingdom of Hicks, he lent them on credit to the Nikancas. Once these Nikancas are firmly anchored in the hinterland colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks, they can be reimbursed with all kinds of mineral resources and so on, and then they can continue to receive arms and ammunition support from Claude...

McJackie and Berklin were also subsequently members of the talks, and Claude entrusted them with two tasks, and McJackie will lead the guerrilla 131th Battalion to continue to show off beneath Port Vibbato City, creating the image of large troops remaining in the Port Vibbato colony and buying hundreds of thousands of Nikancas a month to move north. Berlin, on the other hand, will bring close to a hundred grass-roots officers to follow the Nikans north into the coastal mountains, where they will set up several defensive needles for the Nikans and conduct the most basic military training for the Nikans' armed forces for a period of three months.

This team to the south is much smaller than the Nykancha's northern relocation. Apart from the two main regiments of General Albert's Rock Division III, there was only a large portion of Thunder 1301. But in addition to hundreds of cars full of trophies, they also have more than 2,000 armed prisoners of war in the Hicks, all of whom sweep through the harvests of the colonial county of Vibato.

In addition, nearly 10,000 Nikancas followed the team south behind them in an effort to travel to the three logistics base positions of the Front de défense du frontière and to move armaments, such as arms and ammunition, that Claude promised to lend them on credit to a Hicks Standing Army regiment.

Berklin also took a dozen lieutenant officers to the dunes where Claude was, and Claude patted them on the shoulder: "Do you understand your mission? ”

Berklin grinned, “Of course, boss, don't worry, we can match these Nikanths to those of the Standing Army of the Kingdom of the Hicks, and let them fight as hard as possible with the Kingdom of the Hicks. When the attention of the Hicks kingdom is drawn to the past by the riots provoked by these Nikanths, then our thunderous division will have the opportunity to touch the fish and stab them in the back while the Hicks kingdom is not paying attention...”

That was too straightforward, but Berklin was absolutely right, and he knew exactly what Claude was up to. Claude laughed bitterly and pretended to kick Berklin's foot angrily: “Bastard, you're a colonel of the kingdom anyway, and this time you can add another silver moon to your shoulder. Don't talk like a little hooligan, it's not like you're going to be a gangster in the king to blackmail those little dealers and make me look like a senior officer in the kingdom! ”

Looking at the dozen captain officers holding their laughter, Claude's face began to get serious: "You are all on duty as lead officers this time. I don't care what you think of the Nikanchas in your hearts, how you despise them, but you can't show them in any way. The tone of external reunification is sympathy for their suffering and rejection of the capture of them as slaves by the Kingdom of Hicks. So you volunteered to help them train soldiers, set lines of defense, and defend against Hicks' attack on them.

I would like you to remember that, after your past, you must not interfere with internal personnel disputes and settlement management, except by training the Nikanchas to arm themselves and by setting up defensive fronts to help them plan attacks on those mineral development sites and towns. They give you delicious food and delicious food, and they even give you women, which you can enjoy as usual. But you have to remember, you're just going to help them for a while, and don't get too involved with them so they don't get away when they get back, all right? ”

A dozen lieutenant officers stood up and saluted: "Yes, General. ”

Claude waved: "All right, you guys go. I wish you a safe journey. Lieutenant Colonel Berklin, there are 96 grassroots officers in this tour besides you. I hope to come back with you in three months, 96 people, not one less..."

And Berklin got serious: "Yes, General, not one less! ”

Watching Berklin take a dozen lieutenant officers back to his horse, McJackie finally couldn't help himself: "General, do you really think the Nikancas can handle this? ”

Claude sighed softly, not answering, but asked, "What do you think? ”

McJackie shook his head: "I don't believe them. The inhabitants of the direct administration have a saying: don't believe in the sincerity of the Nikancas. He swears in front of you, turning his head and forgetting, they are the least credible and honest people. Now there is a need for us, so stay low in front of us and listen honestly. But if they defeat the Kingdom of Hicks and truly build an independent nation, they will surely repent of our deal and overturn their promises..."

“You're right, the Nikanchas are not worthy of our trust.” Claude nodded: “But they are indeed the only allies we can find now, helping them and helping them become the primary focus of the Kingdom of the Hicks, the only way to change our strategic disadvantage. As you should be well aware, the Kingdom of Hicks can fail again and again, and he still has a very strong reserve. And in our war zone, we can't fail once...

If we are to divert the attention of the Kingdom of the Hicks to the uprising of the Nikans, we must first make the Nikans stronger, make them the hearts and minds of the Kingdom of the Hicks, and take advantage of the opportunity of the Kingdom of the Hicks to confront the uprising of the Nikans, annihilate several standing regiments of the Kingdom of the Hicks, make the Kingdom of the Hicks feel painful and have to take the initiative to seek peace talks from the Kingdom in order to end this endless colonial war... "

“I understand what you mean, General, but the one-time transfer of so many seized arms and ammunition and other armaments to the Nikancas is somewhat excessive and easy for some people in the mainland of the kingdom to deal with you..." McJake persuaded politely.

“No, Jack, although the non-sale of firearms and ammunition to the indigenous peoples of the Nubian continent is a subordinate rule to be observed by every colonial Power in the Nubian continent, this is not an explicit regulation. After all, the Nikancas are mixed ethnic groups, descended from the colonists of the Farea and the indigenous peoples of the Nubian continent, so that they can live in the periphery of the colonial towns and sell their labour to obtain the warmth of their families from the towns. Even some experts on the mainland argued that the Nikancas were not indigenous residents of the Nubian mainland..."

Claude refers to the Nikan army moving north in the distance: “No one can truly ban Nikans from obtaining firearms and ammunition. Didn't that Kuka say last night that he had bought more than two hundred firearms privately from those adventurers to protect his Kumani colony and to terrorize and annex three small neighbouring colonies with firearms, becoming the most powerful settlement leader of the Nikans on the West Coast. He was an ambitious Nikanca and dreamed of building an independent Nikanca nation, and I just gave him a chance to realize his dream.

In the Nekancha colony, they worshipped the evil god of faith called Sunidat, proclaimed the Lord of all things, established the kingdom of God on earth and expelled the white colonists from the Nubian continent. It used to be just a propaganda slogan, but now they see a glimmer of hope that if they could occupy the vast hinterland colony of the Hicks, maybe they could really build an independent Nikan nation in that territory, so I don't have to worry about them compromising with the Hicks and betraying us.

Sometimes I really don't understand if the people of the Hicks kingdom were caught in the head, beating the idea to the heads of these Nikanths, capturing them as slaves and forcing them to work. In fact, they didn't need to spend much effort, they just had to pay a little bit to keep the Nikans warm and fed, and they had a little bit of money to buy a few bottles of bad wine to intoxicate themselves, so there would be enough Nikans working hard in their mines. Just like those mining development firms in our kingdom's overseas jurisdictions, some Nikancha miners dig holes for a living.

Perhaps it can only be said that the nobles and miners of the Hicks kingdom were too greedy to hear that they used to hunt down the real indigenous Etats to dig, but that the Etats' resistance was intensifying and their capture was becoming more and more irreparable, so the nobles and miners of the Hicks kingdom struck the relatively friendly and lazy Nikancas, who were accustomed to pushing slaves for free and treated the Nikancas slaves, not willing to pay a price at all, and eventually forced them against the Nikancas.

I promised to lend them arms, ammunition and other materiel on credit last night from a standing regiment, on the one hand, in order to strengthen the force of these Nikans before they could strike a blow in front of the standing regiment in the Kingdom of Hicks after we left. On the other hand, we cannot return with the weapons seized by Tofid, a standing legion. The armaments are too heavy. We need at least 1,000 more four-wheeled wagons to get them back, but where do we find so many more?

So these seized weapons, equipment, military materiel, we can only give up. Their guns are not our range and precision, and gunpowder doesn't go with us. We have to reprocess them when we get them back. That's very troublesome. As for the uniforms of the Hicks, I'm sure you don't like them either. It is imperative for us to abandon these useless things, because we have only so many men and care for the delivery of more than 100,000 prisoners.

It's perfectly normal that we give up these useless things and fall into the hands of the Nikans, and everyone knows that the Nikans' favorite thing to do is pick up the rubble, and then they get these weapons and ammunition and other armaments that we give up, and that's none of our business, and we give them back to the Hicks? It's better to get into the hands of the Nikancas to resist the Hicks' capture than the Hicks' reacquisition of these armaments against us... "

McJackie was silent, and Claude's words had shown that he was very thoughtful and even had an excuse to shirk his responsibilities. Last night Claude refused to let Nikantha's leader, Kuka, leave his beautiful daughter, the so-called Sunidat goddess, beside herself, because she didn't want anyone to catch her. Even the logistics base positions for armaments, such as arms and ammunition, for the three reserves of the Standing Army of the Kingdom of Hicks, explained to them that the Nikanchas had to wait for the soldiers guarded by the Thunder Division to evacuate before being allowed to move to the warehouse.

“Don't think about it.” Claude slaps his brother-in-law on the shoulder: "It's no big deal for us that the Nikancas have guns and ammunition, they don't have gunpowder factories, they don't have gun repair factories. The more lively they fight with the Kingdom of Hicks, the more our support will be inseparable. Firearms without ammunition are less lethal than a spear, and the guns will be so devastated in war that they cannot repair them, relying only on us to provide them with support and supplies.

That is why the Nikanchas must pay the price if they are to acquire arms and ammunition from us. They do not have much money now, but their wealth can be looted from the colonial mineral owners and local towns of the Hicks kingdom. The more vicious they are, the more money they get, the more support they get from us, the more the Kingdom of Hicks cares about them.

Compared to our Overseas Territories, the Hicks Army will only try to calm down these Nikancha riots first, otherwise those nobles in their kingdom whose interests are compromised in the interior colonies will not let them go... "

Now that Claude had an idea, Michael had nothing else to say, and he nodded: “General, you go back, I will drag the guards of Port Vibato here for a month, and I will never let them come out and disrupt our plans and arrangements..."

Claude patted him on the shoulder: "There are some things that take a lot of brains and you don't have to go to Port Vibato every day. Just hold a few key locations and ambush the reconnaissance cavalry dispatched from Port Vibato to get them out more often than not, and the Guards will naturally assume that our troops are still nearby. In addition, you choose another camp at night and do not stay in the camp to avoid being attacked by the enemy..."

“Uh? General, what do you mean, choose another camp?” Mike was stunned.

“Simply put, if the guards of Port Vibato send a light mount team out for reconnaissance, you will not escape your pursuit. But if they sneak one or two people out in the middle of the night dressed as civilians, you wouldn't think that if you met one of them during the day, you'd scare him off for a while at most. In that case, the news that the Vacant Battalion has left will reach the Port Vibato Guards' ears, knowing that you have only one battalion, the enemy will likely send several regiments of troops to attack you...

So don't stay in the camp at night, find another place to hide. If the enemy finds the battalion empty, they will surely send troops to reconnaissance. At this time, you must concentrate your forces to carry out raids on one of the enemies. If you can strike the enemy again, the enemy will think that the battalion emptiness is our plot to lure them out of the city. I am confident that the enemy will regain its strength to defend itself against death in Port Vibator and will never attack again easily. ”

Claude's words made McJackie suddenly realize: "I understand, General, don't worry, I'll make sure the enemy's guards stay in town for another month..."