Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 386: News from the Kingdom of Hicks

Just to figure out why the Nikancha lost contact, Colonel Kofissler, in charge of the intelligence services of the theatre headquarters, could not take the initiative to pay tribute to Bok Al, who, most importantly, stabilised the foot of the bison merchants at the port of Vibato, weaving a human resources network for the bison merchants in just six months. Although Bok Al can't get along with the high-ranking figures in Port Vibbato City, the middle- and lower-ranking officers of the Military Logistics Department and the city administration have basically had a pretty good relationship with this fat guy...

Perhaps to some extent, Bok Al has received information and intelligence from his associates in the middle and lower levels of Port Vibato earlier and in more detail than the Governor of the Port Vibato colony in the Kingdom of Hicks, and basically all parts of Port Vibato City are not classified or restricted for this fat man. So much so that Colonel Kfissler, the head of the intelligence service, complimented Bok Al in his praise report, that he was a first-rate agent by nature.

Intercepting information and passing it on may not be enough to show Bok Al's excellence, and it is rare that this fat man also used smuggling to earn more than 3,000 gold kroner in six months. The first time grass had been smuggled had actually not made much money, and the Port Vibato colony had solved the food shortage and the grass smuggled had made little profit. Bok Al bought hundreds of horses for double the price and came back to make a small fortune. Next, however, the big fat man specializes in the smuggling of luxury goods and fine ingredients and liquors, which he uses to engage mid-level officials in Port Vibato.

Thanks to the excellence of Claude-led Thunder Division on the battlefield, the guards of Port Wibateau could only dare not attack, which led to a huge increase in the price of all kinds of alcohol, and Bok Al made a fortune not only by requiring financial subsidies from the Intelligence Service, but also by allowing the Intelligence Service to have a great deal of speed, which is the main reason why Colonel Kofissler praised the fat man.

Claude wrote the words of consent in the report of the Intelligence Service to Bok Al, followed by a signature and seal. Unfortunately, Bok Al has gone to Port Vibato again in the name of intelligence. In fact, as we all know, the fat man has gone into business again, but no one will say. Who called this fat man a man? The Buffalo Fields family accounted for 40% of the share earnings, the War Zone Logistics Department accounted for 30%, the War Zone Intelligence Service accounted for 20%, and Fatty himself accounted for 10% of the share earnings. During this time, Port Vibato has cut off traffic from the out-of-town colonies, and prices in the city have skyrocketed, and Bok Al will not miss this opportunity to make money.

Sometimes Claude had to give a compliment to a friend of his youth, not to mention his business perspective, who also seemed very clever in dealing with relationships. It was Claude who had her sister Anna acquire it as the property of the Fields family. It is then loaned to the Sector Intelligence Service for use as a vest of a cover nature. In order to enable Bok Al to travel smoothly to Port Vibato for intelligence purposes, Claude allowed Bok Al to smuggle as a shareholder in the bison business and gave him 20% of the shares and the share of proceeds.

However, when Boquer returned, he privately asked Claude to surrender another 40% of the proceeds of the Bison Company's shares, which he himself distributed to the Ward Logistics Department and the Ward Intelligence Service. Bok Al made it clear that eating a single meal can easily become a target. Now that Claude is the commander in chief of the theatre, the theatre's logistics department and intelligence services have to cooperate, and the smuggling of bison dealers can only be closed once.

Rather than pulling the two sectors together with interests, the bison dealership has much to offer. With the same interests, Claude will not be required to force subordinates to execute, and many things will not need to be solved by Claude. For example, the War Zone Logistics Department could hand over useless seizure stocks to the Buffalo Shop for sale, the Intelligence Service could work with the Buffalo Shop against the remaining smugglers in the Territory who are out of control, and so on...

Closed the papers to pay tribute to Bock Al, followed by Sir Bennett's civil affairs, the last immigrants had arrived and been resettled, and General Bitchcline's Rock IV Division had been formed and was currently undergoing training. Related to the Thunder Division was the sale of horses seized during the Third Colonial War, where more than 5,000 horses were pushed to the market in exchange for a huge sum of nearly 30,000 gold kroner.

Claude led the Thunder Division in the Third Colonial War to exterminate the Principality of Kanas' Volunteer Light Riding Corps, seizing more than 50,000 horses and more than 2,000 horses and marines, followed by the destruction of the Kingdom of Nasseri's Volunteer Field Corps, as well as the Kingdom of Hicks' Toffed Corps, which totalled more than 3,000 horses and marines.

With the exception of Claude, who equipped General Albert's Rock Division III with 35,000 horses, the remaining horses were assigned to the immediate units of the Sector Command and three other divisions, all of which were replaced and handed over to Sir Bennett for sale to immigrant families. Nearly 5,000 horses have been placed on the market, which has considerably alleviated the difficulty of straining civilian capacity in the war zones under the direct authority.

This large sum of more than 30,000 gold kroner has been placed in the account of the Thunder Division, and the proceeds of the sale as a loot seizure will be distributed in accordance with the usual distribution principles of the Royal Army. That is, 30% to the prince, 30% to all officers of the division, 20% to all soldiers, and the last 20% to the dead and the disabled. The money, Claude, was just a quick glance, and was eventually distributed by Colonel Siegfried, head of the Division's Logistics Department.

After a busy afternoon, Claude finally took care of some urgent business to make sure he could take care of all the trivial business before the new battlefield commander took office. He wouldn't let the new Admiral, the hereditary Count pick out any problems in this regard, and Claude's mood relaxed, ready to go home to see his wife and children he hadn't seen for eight months...

In fact, the women of the Fields have become accustomed to Claude appearing before the crowd for some time, naturally working for the kingdom as Major General, and even Claude's family on the battlefield rarely worried about him. As Mother said, Claude is already a general, naturally guarded by guards, without the need to risk his life in battle. She was mainly worried about her brother Browick, or a small sergeant, who had been killed in the war.

Kevin was busy taking care of his second son, who had thrown it all to his grandmother. Fortunately, this estate villa was rented to Mr. Vibran of Claude, who was kind enough to help Claude find families of immigrants from both kingdoms to do housework and babysit. So Kevin's birth and upbringing of the baby was not as difficult as it was when he had his eldest son, and he recovered and looked better in the year after the birth.

Go home and say hello to your mother, swear to your mother that your little brother Brooke finally stepped down in his mother's nagging after he jumped alive and healthy like a calf on the front line. Then he took a bath and changed his clothes, accompanied Kevin to tease his second son, and it was almost dinner time. After dinner, Claude was about to go for a walk with Caffrey by Lake Lang, and the big guy Gemmy came to report, and Mr. Vibran came.

Mr. Viberon has come this time to deliver the latest news to Claude, and all General Bolognick has received from the Mining and Commerce Association is information about the theatre of war. Mr. Viberon, on the other hand, brought to Claude a variety of intelligence and gossip gathered by the Mining and Commerce Association in Wangdu about the Kingdom of Hicks, as well as Wangdu, which was very helpful to Claude and very helpful to him in judging the situation from the standpoint.

Claude first found information about the Hicks kingdom, and although most of the information gathered by the Mining and Commerce Association about the Hicks kingdom came from newspapers and gossip, Claude was relieved when he read it, something went wrong within the Hicks kingdom, and in a short period of time it was likely to lose sight of the colonies of the Nubian continent.

The simplest proof is a morning newspaper from the neighbouring kingdom of Breot in the Hicks, which published a story in the name of happiness. Reports indicate that a local guard unit in a local county called Les Mendas was reluctant to go to the colonial continent of Nubicia as a result of a forced conscription order by the military of the Kingdom of Hicks, robbed the county's arsenal and ran to the mountains next to it to raise the flag to rebel.

Two or three local guard units from the Hicks Army were defeated by them, and many more joined the rebel forces. The Hicks Army had to draw a standing army against these rebel guys, but these rebels went deep into the mountains, and this standing army caught up in hiding, and the war stalled for more than a month...

However, the reason why the local police force in Les Mendas County rebelled was not well reported. Claude searched for half a day and found no relevant information in several dawn papers brought by Mr. Viberda. He had to ask Mr. Viberda if there were any other reports of the rebellion of the Hicks local guard?

After reflecting, Mr. Wiberda replied that there were newspapers in the Kingdom of Menbamak that had clearly analysed the causes of this rebellion. Claude found this newspaper called the White Horse Alert and an analytical article on the rebellion in the second edition.

The article analyzes that the Kingdom of Hicks is a traditional kingdom of feudal lords, and that the powerful king of the year, Machid III, has made several policy changes in his desire to change the system of sovereignty, to reduce the force in the possession of the nobles of the Territory and to empower the royal court. The first was to envelope the new territorial nobility to the colonies of the Nubian continent, and the second was to destroy the traditional territories of the noble families and to replace the colonies of the Nubian continent by one to two or one to three.

Perhaps in Machid III's view, such a change would not provoke fierce opposition from the nobles of the Territory. After all, the land of the Kingdom of Hicks is limited, while the nobility increases each year, and several new territorial nobles have to be sealed each year, which means that the land under the Crown's control is becoming smaller and longer, and perhaps the Kingdom will become a principality.

Unfortunately, however, the nobles of the Hicks kingdom were unwilling to go to the colonies of the Nubian continent to reclaim new lands. Anyway, all nobles had the right to send people to the colonies to dig and explore for wealth. Why tie up the fate of their families and descendants there in order to greed a desolate land? So Machid III's plot was not surprisingly boycotted by all the royal nobles.

So Machid III started a colonial war with the kingdom of Ovilas, and the seven standing legions of the Hicks kingdom that were exterminated by Marshal Michel in the first two colonial wars were actually forces belonging to the nobility of the kingdom's traditional territories. For McGidd III, he was going to forge a grand medal to be promulgated to Marshal Michel in recognition of his diminishing influence of the nobility of the traditional territories in the army of the Kingdom of Hicks...

But the nobles of the traditional territories of the Kingdom of Hicks were not fools either, and they soon discovered McKid III's plot. After all, the failure of the previous two colonial wars had no bearing on the strength of the Hicks Crown, except for the loss of money and disgrace in the treasury. The seven extinguished standing regiments are all within the sphere of influence of the traditional territorial nobility and serve as officers of the traditional territorial nobility. But they are now captives of the kingdom of Ovilas, and even because of the breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two countries, none of their relatives can redeem them.

Just as the Ten Standing Regiments declared by the Kingdom of Hicks were formed to perpetuate the colonial war, all the areas of conscription were on the territory of the nobles of the traditional territories, and nobles of the traditional territories were willing to assume middle- and high-ranking officer positions in those Regiments at the expense of the State Treasury to arm them, except that in the end the completed Regiments would all go to the mainland of Nubian for the next colonial war.

Sober territorial aristocrats found this a disguised way to diminish the influence of their forces in the army. If their people won this colonial war, it would be embarrassing to fail, even if they could escape to serve in the Royal Army. In terms of combat power, a standing army in their kingdom has not been able to counter a division in the kingdom of Orvilas, especially the commanding officers of the enemy, one by one. What is most painful is that the troops have been completely destroyed, and it is unclear how the enemy has defeated the army.

Thus, the territorial nobles of the Kingdom of Hicks began to boycott orders to conscript within their territory to form 10 standing regiments, leading to the completion of only half of the plan by the Hicks military. After completing their training, the first two standing regiments were sent to the colonies of the Nubian continent, and the next three were finally able to complete their conscription tasks and had just begun their training. The remaining five regiments are still on paper and can't even mount an officer shelf.

After the news of the collapse of the Third Colonial War reached the Kingdom of the Hicks, the nobles of the traditional territories quit, this time as an advance attack in the immediate battlefield of the Kingdom of Orvillas, destroying the three main regiments that had decayed the colony, and it became clear that the newly formed Standing Regiment was no match for the enemy at all. Therefore, the nobles of the traditional territories demanded that Machid III send some of the eight elite standing regiments belonging to the royal forces to stabilize the colonial situation.

McGidd III did not wish to see the formation of 15 elite standing regiments in the Kingdom of Hicks, seven of which belonged to traditional aristocratic forces killed by Marshal Michel in the first two colonial wars. The eight elite standing regiments that exist in the Kingdom belong to the royal family and are the cornerstone of McKid III's efforts to stabilize the Kingdom, and he will not send them to the colonies.

Machid III then sent envoys to the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kanas with the intention of hiring several more major regiments from those two countries. But the two countries equally rejected the request, and it was impossible for them to hand over to the Kingdom of Hicks the only remaining major regiments in the country.

Finally, Machid III struck the nobility of the traditional territories, and he asked the Royal Army to issue a compulsory conscription order to send the private forces of the nobility of those traditional territories, the local guards of the various noble territories, to form a new, combatant regiment to be transported directly to the Nubian mainland.

The result is that the nobles of these traditional territories cannot afford to be conscripted within their territories, but mobilizing their private armies is the bottom line that touches the nobles of all territories. With their acquiescence, the local county guards of Les Mendas rebelled, taking over the mountains directly, and even making a big scene with the land, behind which are the nobility and royalty of the traditional territory of the Kingdom of Hicks in the corner...