Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 387: Machid III's Intrigue

It always feels like something's wrong, letting go of all the information in hand about the Kingdom of Hicks, Claude. If all the information at hand is true, as long as it is clearly visible, it can be concluded that the Kingdom of Hicks will not be able to provide effective military support to the colonies of the Nubian continent for at least six months. In other words, the standing regiment in Porto Vibato will have to die for six months, which gives the Nikancas a good opportunity to riot...

But it is no longer important for the Nikanca riots not to riot. What is important is when the situation in the Kingdom of Hicks will be calmed down and who will win the corner between the Hicks royal family and the nobility of the traditional territories. In the event that the nobles of the traditional territory of the Kingdom boycotted the compulsory conscription orders issued by them and refused to use their own private armies to form new standing regiments, it was simply impossible to send eight elite standing regiments under the Crown's control to the colonies.

At the same time, the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kanas rejected the request of the Kingdom of Hicks to continue to employ its main regiment to the colonies of the Nubian mainland, and Claude's reunification of the Thunder Division with the Rock III was enough to annoy both countries.

Like the Duchy of Kanas, after five years of Eastern Wars, it retained only three major regiments, and was hired by the Kingdom of Hicks, and then completely destroyed in the continent of Nubicia, which has already left the Principality of Kanas devastated, how could it promise that the Kingdom of Hicks would continue to hire its own major regiments...

And the kingdom of Nasseri, although there is still room, has twice as many standing regiments as the Principality of Kanas. Less than a decade after the peace accords ended the war, however, it was simply reluctant to risk offending the Kingdom of Orvilas to allow the Kingdom of Hicks to continue to employ its main legions. The employing of a regiment may also claim to be a voluntary regiment of retired soldiers, but continues to employ a second regiment, which is to be prepared to turn its face against the kingdom of Ovieras, which is unwilling to wage war against it again.

Claude now understands why Machid III of the Kingdom of Hicks provoked this colonial war, because the original colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks were in the hinterland of the Nubian continent, and mountainous forests, besides mineral and timber resources, were not suitable for agricultural and pastoral development and had to be attacked with caution by indigenous tribes.

Like those articles in the Morning Dawn of the Kingdom of Breot, it was ironic that Machid III was a fantasy that the nobles of the kingdom's native territory wanted to replace it with a colony. In the case of its landlocked colony, there could be no territorial aristocracy willing to displace the enclosure there. Even the newest enclosed aristocracy would rather have no territory than its own.

This has changed considerably since the Kingdom of Hicks acquired the Port Vibato colonial county of the Kingdom of Nasseri. With the excellent port of Vibato, the Hicks kingdom has a good sea exit in the hinterland colony of the Nubian continent, and the mineral resources developed by the colony are constantly being channelled to the kingdom itself. Territorial aristocrats found that investing in colonial mineral development yielded very good returns and began to be keen to form mineral trading houses to hire people for exploration and mining in colonies.

Machid III was acutely aware of the relaxation of the resistance of the nobles of the Territory and did not appear to oppose the replacement and enclosure of the Territory to the colonies. Only then did the colony become a sealed land and there was a new problem, that there were mining firms everywhere with aristocratic participation to invest, dividing a territory to a new lord, but the minerals on that territory were being exploited by aristocrats from other territories, which was easily disputed...

So McGidd III turned his attention to the Overseas Direct Administration of the Kingdom of Orvilas, which had been initially developed, fertile and flat, with two direct administrations, Cromwell and Beringana, on the north bank of the Dolinibara River. Especially since the inland parts of the two Territories also connect the Alberto Plains, hunting and migrating herds of bison alone are a rich asset each year, worth as much as a large gold mine.

The Morning Dawn reported that Machid III's attempts at the Overseas Direct Administration of the Kingdom of Orvilas had been unanimously endorsed by the Kingdom's ministers and territorial nobles, and that even the Lord had expressed his willingness to replace his territory in the Kingdom's own territory with those two Direct Administrations as a pioneer of the Kingdom's colonial development. This has also led to the determination of Machid III to seek directly from the Kingdom of Orvilas the two jurisdictions.

Less than three years after the end of five years of war in the eastern part of the country, the Royal Auvellas Army was exhausted and the people had a difficult life. Instead, the Kingdom of Hicks has stabilized itself as a dominant power in the northern part of the Farea continent, surrounded by his little brother allies. McKid III and his ministers had thought that the strength of the nation would force the kingdom of Ovieras to take over and agree to cede the two jurisdictions to the Kingdom of Hicks, and had no idea that the kingdom of Ovieras would refuse their unwarranted demands.

That was how the First Colonial War broke out, and the Kingdom of Hicks thought that with the strength of its two elite standing legions, it would be able to hang its arms in places under the direct overseas administration of the Kingdom of Orvilas. But the two elite standing armies of the Hicks kingdom, which have not fought in more than four decades, have not performed very well, having fought for about six months at a Wickham castle alone, giving the Kingdom of Ovilas enough time to send reinforcements from the kingdom itself.

Next came the performance time of the Rangers of the Overseas Territories of the continent of Nubian, when the two so-called elite standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks were wiped out. The destruction of these two elite standing regiments, which belong to the nobles of the traditional territories, has infuriated the territorial nobles of all the Kingdom of Hicks, unanimously demanding reprisals against the Overseas Territories and the annihilation of the Rangers of the Kingdom of Orvilas.

Machid III immediately pushed the boat and ordered the dispatch of five elite standing regiments belonging to the aristocratic side of the Territory to the Nubian mainland. At the same time, it was announced that the successful fighters of the war could be granted a seal of territory and a seal of territory. The royal family is willing to grant or replace the lands of both Cromwell and Bering Ghana to the nobles of the Territory in recognition of their courage and determination to open up colonies for the kingdom...

Nobody in the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks thinks they will lose, five elite standing legions, nearly 300,000 troops. Only one so-called Royal Corps of Armed Rangers, more than 32,000, is sent overseas by the Kingdom of Orvilas, almost a 10-to-1 force gap. As for the two newly formed overseas field regiments, no one has seen them, and everyone knows that they have little fighting power at all to guard the armed regiments.

The resourceful territorial nobles of the Kingdom of Hicks soon gathered the logistical support and armaments needed by the five elite standing regiments to launch the Second Colonial War. Unlike what they had imagined to be a broken bamboo, their five elite standing regiments had been sniffed and even stuck by the Rangers, and finally had to surrender their weapons to the Rangers because of the invasion and burning of the logistics base at Castle Wickham.

When the news of the tragic defeat of the Second Colonial War and the total annihilation of the five elite standing armies reached the Kingdom of Hicks, it was believed that the only one who was happy was Machid III. Without those seven elite standing regiments of aristocratic forces in the territories where the Royal Armed Chambers fought, the elite standing regiments of the eight royal forces in his possession had already shown up in the Kingdom of the Hicks, and the Royal Army had rarely become his monologue, and nobles from any territory had jumped out against him.

However, Machid III was well aware that most of the Territory's nobles had lost a little bit, but they were still there, and he was prepared to fight while the iron was hot and bleed the nobles of those Territories a little more. In the wake of the failure of the Second Colonial War, it was not that no minister had asked Machid III to immediately deploy an elite standing army under the Crown's control to the colonies of the Nubian continent to rescue the crisis. Only those demands were rejected by Machid III under the pretext of inadequacy in armaments.

Machid III began his suffocating operation, employing two major regiments and a combined fleet from the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kanas to stabilize the colonial situation. Immediately after, in the name of the nobles of the Territory, he refused the entry of the envoy of the Kingdom of Auvellas, closed the door to peace talks and humiliated the Kingdom of Auvellas and the Royal family of Sterling. The intention of the nobles of the Territory to redeem their captive loved ones from the kingdom of Orvilas has also been frustrated...

McGidd III then gave another enthusiastic revenge speech in support of the territorial nobles to rebuild their armaments and to continue the colonial war on the Nubian continent, where the Kingdom would pay to equip them to rebuild 10 standing regiments. He wielded a large sum of money, dropping all 10 standing regiments of conscripts into the territory of the nobility.

At this time, the nobility of the Territory finally came back to taste, and after careful reflection, it was discovered that the two colonial wars were all powered by the nobility of the Kingdom's territory, and King Machid III stood by and watched the bustle. Apart from some military spending, all that remains is verbal promises and recognition, while the consequences of the failure of the two colonial wars are borne entirely by the nobles of the Territory...

The so-called formation of ten standing legions to continue this colonial war has been accompanied by the recruitment of strong labour from various noble territories, while the royal family has taken the opportunity to infiltrate the territories of various nobles. Now that the Hicks kingdom is under full control of the royal family, in case Machid III has any bad thoughts or opinions about the nobility of the territory, then only the private armies in the hands of the nobility of the respective territories, that is, the local security forces, are simply unable to resist the attacks of the elite standing regiments of the royal forces, the consequences will be unthinkable...

With vigilance and clarity, the aristocrats of the coming territories began to use their best means against the Royal Family and Machid III, which was a covert boycott, a lack of cooperation and diligence, delaying Machid III's demands and the formation of 10 standing legions, so that for the next year or more, the Kingdom of Hicks had formed only two standing legions, and three more legions had been unable to be fully recruited.

Machid III was also aware that the nobles of the Territory had discovered his plot, but he was not concerned, either, by sending two formed and trained standing regiments to the colonies, while urging that the three standing regiments that were being formed be fully staffed. As for the other five standing regiments, since the nobles of those territories were not interested, they could well be put on hold for a while, and once the colonial wars on the Nubian continent had progressed and the nobles of those territories had been given some sweet meals, they could be motivated again. MacGruber III knows very well the virtues of the aristocracy of these territories, which is to see the rabbit without the eagle...

In King Machid III's eyes and in the eyes of the Royal Army, they still failed to bear in mind the failure of the previous two colonial wars, which they considered to be the result of the failure of the nobles of those territories who were too greedy to rush for a speedy settlement. Machid III decided to adopt a steady and steady strategy, which was to be transported to the continent of Nubian after training had been completed in the formation of the three subsequent Standing Legions before launching a third colonial war.

There will be seven major regiments on the colony's side, spearheaded by two volunteer employing regiments and backed by five standing regiments, first clearing the entire Cromwell administration, setting a solid line of defense and then taking the opportunity to attack Belingana. In the view of McKid III and the military of the Kingdom of Hicks, the battlefields and five reinforced divisions set up by the Kingdom of Ovilas in the Overseas Direct Territories of the continent of Nubicia are simply insurmountable against the heavy military repression of the parties. Their best defensive strategy is to relinquish the Cromwell and Beringana Direct Territories and retreat to the southern shores of the Dolinibara River to defend against terrain and rivers...

With the two direct administrations of Cromwell and Bering Ghana, Machid III would be well placed to fulfil its promise to the nobles of the Territories to compensate them for the enclosures of those Territories, respectively, based on the magnitude of their contribution and the extent of their losses during the previous two colonial wars. With these spiteful interests, it is believed that the kingdom's territorial nobles will abandon their stereotypes of him and his royal family and strongly support his demand for the formation of five more standing regiments.

By the time the five standing legions were also formed and transported to the Nubian mainland, the Kingdom of Hicks would have twelve major regiments in the colony. MacGruber III was convinced that no one could block the direction of the Royal Army or even sweep the rest of the Overseas Directions of the Kingdom of Orvilas, the shame of the failure of the two previous colonial wars.

At that time, the Kingdom of Hicks will be more prestigious in the Farea and Nubian continents, and the kingdoms' territorial nobles will not oppose the replacement of their territories with colonies. He, Machid III, will lay the foundation for the unbeatable millennium of the Kingdom of Hicks and become another legendary monarch in the history of the Kingdom...

It's just that, by chance, McKid III never dreamed of the new commander in chief of the war zone in the kingdom of Ovillas, who would succeed the Maoist commander in the post of Marshal Michel, who had launched the third colonial war first. The reinforced Thunder Division, which led him on his own initiative, attacked two volunteer regiments hired by the Kingdom of the Hicks, three short battles, not only annihilating the two militant hiring volunteer regiments, but also swallowing the newly formed Toffed Standing Army. The remaining Standing Regiment reserved room for the reappearance of the Hicks kingdom only if it was reduced to a strictly defensive defense in Port Vibator City.

All the plots of Machid III were shadowed by the tragic collapse of the Third Colonial War, and when the news came, he wrathfully smashed all the ornamental artwork in the Royal Palace study. Sometimes the planning above is better, and there is nothing we can do about the lack of strength and delaying the legs of those below. Yet again, Machid III wanted to send envoys immediately to the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kanas with the intention of hiring their main regiments from those two countries to stabilize the colonial situation on the Lower Nubian continent.

However, regardless of the efforts of the Special Envoy, the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kanas rejected the request of the Kingdom of Hicks to hire their main national army, and the road was not open. Machid III was unwilling to send the elite standing army belonging to the royal family to the colony, so he decided, relying on the power of the king and the strength of the army, to forcibly recruit the private armies of the aristocracy of the territory, the local guard forces of each territory, and to complete the formation of five standing armies to send to the colony...

As a result, the nobles of the Territory, while not raising their flags directly to rebel, could implicitly instruct the local guards below to oppose the compulsory conscription order of Machid III, who could go up the mountain with the Machid III faction to seize and hide their standing regiment. The Kingdom of Hicks is plunged into civil strife, and Machid III has lost control of the colonies of the Nubian continent...