Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 394: General Argers

Claude was very busy over the next few days, and he took Master Byrd and Mrs. Sonia to the iron ore workshop he had joined with Mr. Viberon to watch the production of the fire engine and the production of projectiles. Unexpectedly, Master Byrd was very interested in the fire engine and projectiles, and he agreed to Claude's solicitation and was ready to study the fire engine and projectiles in the next day.

Of course, he did not resign from the position of director of the firearms repair workshop, but it doesn't matter if he goes there or not, where the inspectors are in charge. Claude is also in favour of Master Byrd as the head of that firearms repair workshop, after all, a public position that can bring a lot of convenience in many cases.

In the future, Master Byrd can concentrate on doing research and experiments in the laboratory on the ranch. An occasional visit to the firearms repair workshop will be regarded as a distraction, showing his face in front of the inspectors and not having to take care of things, so everyone will be happy.

Now that both Master Byrd and Mrs. Sonia have agreed to Claude's offer, Claude will have to make a huge civil effort on the ranch, expand the laboratory and the supporting small production equipment workshop in an effort to satisfy both Master Byrd and his daughter with the laboratory's hardware conditions, and build good living facilities for both Master Byrd and his daughter so that they and little Mark can have a high-quality daily life.

So poor Mike was captured by Claude, who threw him a construction drawing, put him in charge of building a manor house and supporting laboratory on the ranch, and put him back on the force when all the construction started. As for the cost, Claude asked him to take it from the military expenses of the Hicks kingdom. Even the estate villa with the lab, Claude is ready to invest 100,000 gold kroner, the only requirement for Master Byrd and Lady Sonia is confidentiality...

The busy hours passed quickly and almost a month passed by. Claude had just received a message from General Skerry, sent by the Royal Army Department to replace Admiral Argers, the hereditary Count of the Kingdom, as the commander in chief of the war zone. General Kay Osmoring will arrive in Lake Lang Town around 10 a.m. tomorrow. Claude has to go and wait for the reception in person and take over...

Well, it can only be said that the former commander of the Guardianship Corps was in a state of desperation, and with him the Guardianship Corps arrived under Tyrsim's command and disembarked from the ship, marching all the way to Amphiston's command in the theatre, not even the invitation of the Governor's banquet party along the way, fearing that his target, Port Vibato, would be attacked. Since he has not yet taken over the post of Chief Commander of the theatre, it is understandable that the five division leaders in theatre could ignore his orders...

Claude arrived on the mainland of Nubicia, from Tyrsim to Amphiston, and it also took about 10 days, when Claude-led Ranger Battalion 131 was still a light cavalry battalion with great power. And this is Algers. The guard regiment led by General Kay Osborne, a mixed division of semiinfantry and semicavalry, took only twelve days to reach Amphiston and see how desperate his heart was.

Though Claude is not responsible for tomorrow's reception ceremony, he's used to being a handshake, and these chores are naturally prepared by General Scully and Sir Bennett. Claude and the five division chiefs just need to show up at the welcoming ceremony to salute the new commander-in-chief of the theatre, and then return to the theatre command to take over, and attend the welcoming banquet even if the mission is complete.

The next morning, outside Langhu town, the banner of the Guardian regiment did not appear in front of the crowd until 11 o'clock. Claude discovered that the soldiers of these regiments, although neat, still had red wire in their eyes, and that the pace seemed neat but slightly skewed, and it was clear that they had rushed along the way to be very tired and tired. Perhaps last night was a whole night off, but the fatigue of the road wasn't one night to recover, and now they're just holding on.

Algers. General Kay Osmorin also appeared before Claude et al., and the spirit of the Kingdom was significantly better than that of those of the guard regiment. He rode a white stallion with a purple saddle decorated with a golden thorn pattern, still dressed in the garrison general's uniform and very neatly handled.

The former head of the garrison was estimated to be in his fifties, faceless, faceless, blonde, and two gray, golden beards. He sat high on his horse and looked cold at his crowd.

“Play music!” A major drank aloud, and the well-lined band behind him began to play the famous song The Great Kingdom. Claude brought a bunch of generals to Algers. Before General Kay Osborne's ride, he began with Claude, then a self-proclaimed name and post, paying tribute to this kingdom sitting on horseback.

Algers. General Kay Osborne also sat on a ride with a salute, and waited for all heads of theatre command to salute him before coming down from the horse with a smile on his face and a handshake with the crowd, one by one. In front of Claude, he reached out and held hands. He laughed at Claude's fame. The Third Colonial War made the name of the Royal Army. It was the rear show of the Royal Army...

Then comes Sir Bennett, the famous men of these places, who have come forward to welcome you, Algers. General Kay Osborne changed his initial indifference and, as he had seen others, laughed while being crowded into theatre command.

Claude and General Bolognick landed last, stealing whispers.

“He's a bad guy. He just arrived and gave us a horse down.” General Bolognick sighed: “When we signed him up for a salute, he sat deliberately high on his horse, with his face on his face indicating that he was the commander in chief of the theatre from today onwards, and that he was in charge of all our soldiers and that his orders must prevail in the future. I can't help it, who called him Admiral of the Kingdom. ”

“Then why did he get off the horse again?” Claude didn't take this, Argers. General Kay Osborne thought very simply, but he did not understand why this General Algers had come down later to shake hands.

“Don't you understand?” General Bolognick had a truly unknown look: “For the first time he sat on the horse and asked us to salute him. That was because of the superiors and subordinates of the army. There was no situation to tell. Did you not notice that he sat on the horse, but everyone returned the salute? Then he got off the horse and shook hands, which was no longer a relationship in the army, but a relationship with everyone as a nobleman, indicating that after this meeting, it was a friendship..."

“That's pretty serious...” Claude really didn't expect so many connections.

General Bolognick laughed: "These are the traditions of the old aristocratic families. Forget what they're thinking or thinking, but don't you feel like dating them? Of course, having them treat us that way demonstrates the value that we use in their eyes. Otherwise you will only feel their arrogance and disdain for you, and you have to go faster, don't wait for them to advance to the battlefield command before you rush to take over..."

Claude thought General Bolognick was right. He took a few steps in a hurry, bypassed the crowd in front, went into theater headquarters, stacked all the documents he was about to hand over on his desk, and waited for Argers. The arrival of General Kay Osborne.

Shortly after, General Algers entered Claude's office, accompanied by General Scully and Sir Bennett. Claude hurried up to greet him, pointing out all the documents on the table and preparing for the handover. Although General Algers was surprised, I didn't expect Claude to be so simple. General Scully smiled beside him and said: "General Claude has been expecting you to take his place for a long time, so he can spend more time home with his wife and children..."

General Algers was surprised that Claude had brought his family with him. But he didn't ask very carefully, but smiled: “Since General Claude is so sincere, let's take over. ”

The documents on Claude's desk are, to a large extent, representations and review of the documents files of the various operations of the Sector Command, the cost of which also requires an auditor brought in by General Argers himself to check which accounts do not negotiate with Claude immediately.

However, Claude's ledger was simple, all expenses were reviewed by General Scully's head of the Logistics Department, and Claude was not accustomed to paying with public funds on private signatures. Instead, he preferred to trade with his own money, something that was not traceable.

After the handover, it was a feast, and the guests rejoiced, and Claude was fed enough by General Bolognick and others. Almost at the end of the meeting, you were informed that tomorrow at 9 a.m., General Argers will hold a conference of senior officers from the theatre, demanding that Claude and others be present.

The next morning, at 8.30 a.m., Claude arrived at theatre headquarters and found that a number of officers of the rank of Major were already in the General Assembly Chamber, all of which could be reached. Senior officers of the Thunder Division stationed at Wickham Castle could not attend the meeting, which was too far away. But McJackie also came, and during that time he was busy building manor villas and laboratories on the ranch, as Claude ordered, without escorting the recruits to Wickham Castle with Thunderbolt 131 Battalion.

General Algers entered the conference room at nine o'clock, and it appeared that he was on time. After the announcement of the meeting, he first read out the prize of the Royal Army Ministry for the great victory of the Third Colonial War, which Claude had already known, nothing more than that he had been promoted to Lieutenant General of the Kingdom and given as Viscount Emeritus of the Kingdom. The headlines were the Thunder Division and the Rock III Division combined and converted into the Thunder Corps, with Claude serving as the head of the Corps.

After the reward and promotion of the war, General Argers began his first speech after taking office, offering to open the door. The next priority of the theatre was to attack the port of Vibato in the Kingdom of Hicks and end the colonial war, demanding that all officers and soldiers in the theatre work towards that goal and restore peace to the Kingdom's overseas territories as soon as possible.

General Argers then announced that he would visit all forces in the theatre for the next half month to accurately assess the overall combat strength of the theatre. At the end of his half-month visit, he will consolidate all combat forces in the theatre and contribute to the port of Vibato.

By the time the General Assembly arrived here, it had just been announced that, after the adjournment of the meeting, Claude and General Bolognick, among others, had been retained for another military meeting after a brief lunch. It appears that General Argers has little confidence in the fighting power of the divisions in the theatre. After all, these five divisions belong to the second-line forces in the kingdom, and the fighting power of the second-line regiments has not performed very well in the five years of Eastern Regional Wars...

That is also why General Argers rushed to the theatre of battle, but was prepared to spend another half month inspecting the forces. On the one hand, the need to give rest to the guard regiment that followed him, the hasty day and night long march had almost dragged down the entire guard regiment and would not restore its vitality without a 10-and-a-half day break.

On the other hand, there is a need to assess the combat strength of the five reinforced divisions in the Overseas Territories war zone, not only as required by the Royal Army Ministry, but also by General Argers himself. Although the Third Colonial War had been won in its entirety and the three main regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks had been destroyed, that did not mean that all five divisions in the theatre had a very strong fighting power.

The original plans for the formation of five reinforced divisions in the theatre, developed by Marshal Michel, were all defence-oriented, as can be seen from the fact that there was only one offensive Thunder Division. The remaining four divisions were named after the rocks, meaning they were rock strong and guard-oriented, while the Thunder Division was a strange soldier in the defense battle, acting as an enemy food disturbance guerrilla.

It's just that no one expected Claude to lead the Thunder Division across the three main regiments of the Hicks kingdom to a great victory. Seriously, the main force in the Third Colonial War was the Thunder Division, and the Rock III Division happened to have made a little effort. More than a third of the Thunder Division's casualties have been severely damaged in those regiments in the kingdom, and it will not be possible to recover to their original strength for a short time. So General Algers didn't like the power of the three defensive divisions that didn't fight, because what he was going to do next was attack the city...

But what did not surprise General Algers was that General Claude and General Bolognick, General Sevicht and General Bitchcocklin were very confident positions against the capture of the port of Vibato, while the information on the port of Vibato presented by Colonel Kofisler, head of the intelligence service of the theatre command, opened General Algers' eyes. With regard to the setting of defensive positions in the city, the location of artillery on the city walls, the distribution of the force of the standing legion guarding the city and the range of movements were presented to him in great detail.

As for outside the city, it is the land of the Wrangling Horses of the 1301 to 04 Regiments of the Thunder Division. The guards of the port of Vibato have been blockaded in the city for almost six months, and in fact they have nowhere to go, even out of the city, because the Nikancas in the northern coastal mountainous areas have waged anti-Hicks riots, formed armies and are attacking the hinterland colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks, which have occupied one fifth of the hinterland colonies for more than two months.

General Algers was surprised that the situation in the Hicks kingdom of Vibato Colony County had become so beneficial to the war zone, and he asked strangely: "Then why didn't you expect to send troops to take over the port of Vibato? ”

Claude replied: "The Thunder Division has suffered too many casualties and needs to be rested. ”

General Bolonik said: "Our appointment is to uphold the Dolinibara..."

General Sevicht thought about it and said, "Like the Rock First Division, we need to defend the Claude Line. ”

General Bitchklin stalled: “Our Rock Fourth Regiment has just been formed and recruit training has not yet been completed..."

General Algers was impressed, because it was obvious that the battle to capture the port of Vibato had been left to himself. In his view, the city of Vibato was already like a ripe fruit. Whatever it took to tap it, it would fall, and Claude's four people did not take it was to their own face.

“I know your kindness, and we, the Osmullins, have taken note of this. Then, half a month later, send troops to Port Vibato.” General Argers said.

“Why only a few days?” Claude asks, "General, you don't have to bring the Forbidden Regiment, just a few of our Rock Regiments have promised to take over Port Vibato. ”

General Argers thought about it and shook his head: “No, I'm not alone in this battle. The Guardians must take it, and they need it too..."

Everybody understands.