Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 412: Disarmament Orders and Amazing News

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, the more efficiently Wang has never given the Overseas Territories a reply. On January 8, the battlefield command sent a hawk letter regarding the Grand Prince's secret order to the seaport communications department under the direct authority of Tyrsim, and a storm fleet expedited cruise ship to White Deer City on the mainland of the Kingdom. The communication department of White Deer City then sent a hawk letter to Wang Du and handed it over to the Royal Army Department.

On 2 March, we received a reply from the Royal Army Ministry, which is already very fast, less than two months old, and is nevertheless two continents, one vast silent ocean apart. It's just unexpected for some generals in the war zone to reply to what was said above about the Grand Prince's secret order only once they knew it was over...

There is no sense of reassurance, but rather some reprehensible language, which seems to be to keep the responsible generals of theatre commands at ease and not move their minds. The civil war on the mainland of the Kingdom will soon be settled, and under the wise leadership of Prince Sterling XI, Prince Widreck, the Royal Ministry of the Army has the confidence to wipe out the rebels.

If it doesn't matter to reply to these words alone, it seems to be Claude, who reported the Grand Prince's secret order to himself rather than to himself. Perhaps the elders on Wangdu's side thought that several responsible generals in overseas territorial war zones should not be lonely, want to come out to hassle hot spots or something at this time of the kingdom's civil war, which is why the Great Prince made up such absurd lies.

The Kingdoms didn't believe Prince Hansburg was cooperating with the Hicks kingdom. Why would the Kingdoms return Port Vibato and cede Cromwell and Bering Ghana? For the King of the Hicks fleet and the United Fleet to return the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion to the kingdom?

That's a big joke, you know that Prince Hansburg now has Bluefeather Corps and three standing regiments with a strength of more than 200,000. What he has to do is break through the Odin Mountains defense line, instead of shipping two second-line regiments to the distant continent of Nubicia, and pay high freight for the three territories under his jurisdiction. He's not Kai...

So Claude, the big prince they informed the Royal Army Ministry, secretly ordered this to become a false fabrication lie in the eyes of the Wangdu Big Men, the purpose of which is to get the Wang to pay them money for local development and construction to appease them, which is a disguised way of asking for money and is not worth promoting.

In addition to reproaching others for nothing, Wang Du replied that some kingdoms are now also in financial difficulty, if they have no money to disburse. Then there is the key issue, and even if you are far away in the battlefield of the Overseas Territories, you should be at odds with the Kingdom. Now that the colonial war is over, the Royal Army Ministry does not consider it necessary to maintain the strength of more than 130,000 troops of both regiments in the Overseas Direct Combat Zone, calling for disarmament in order to ease the burden of military expenditures...

Several generals in this war zone were fed like a sip of sho. Instead of loyalty to Wang, they were instructed to disarm. As generals, no one was willing to dismantle the troops under their command. Wang Du means very simple. Aren't you going to have local development and construction funds? Then let's disarm, save up the military spending and have development funds...

Fortunately, the Royal Army Department also knew that the Overseas Territories were far from the Nubian mainland and that the Thieves of the Kingdom of Hicks were still alive, so they did not intend to reduce the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of Rock to a real local second-line empty shelf regiment, but instead gave a figure to the effect that they would disarm themselves and maintain a strength of 40,000 troops per regiment, so that the two regiments could reduce their strength by 50,000 horses and save 160,000 gold on military expenses each year.

Coincidentally, Claude swore he would never do these tricks again. You can never guess what the big man's mind thinks. You're acting the opposite of what he's doing. Just like this big prince's secret order, Claude, they reported it to the King to show their loyalty, but in the opinion of Wang Du's bosses, it became a blackmail, so they slapped him and let the Overseas Territories separate from each other...

General Bolognick now looks really sad. I didn't expect Wang Du's reply to give a disarmament order. To put it badly, more than two million immigrants from the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Bering Ghana have migrated, of whom more than 100,000 are young and fit for recruitment. These are also young conscripts around the age of 20, more so if they add up to 20 to 30 years of age. They are now waiting for the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion to enlist and acquire a land estate for their families.

If the war zone now recruits 100,000 recruits, then 560,000 migrants will be resettled. As immediate family members of these recruits, they can take care of 30 acres of farmland or 300 acres of pasture under the name of the recruits, while also greatly reducing the workload borne by the war zones on the daily lives of relatives of these regiments. Of course, it is not possible to recruit 100,000 new recruits in the theatre, preparing to discharge only more than 10,000 veterans whose service expires in the second half of the year, while recruiting more than 10,000 new recruits to fill the vacancies.

Now, more than 10,000 veterans have been discharged, not to mention 40,000 more. Knowing that many immigrants are targeting the 10,000 retired veterans is waiting for an adult child in the family to become a recruit and contribute to his or her family's acquisition of a personal property. If they knew that there were no more places to be recruited, they didn't know how much wind would come of immigrants who had to work in public fields to eat...

“Speak up, how do we disarm...” General Bolognick asked with impatience, and the king sent instructions to disarm, then obeying orders. Not far from the overseas direct jurisdiction of the Nubian continent can be ignored, and that would amount to treason.

General Albert touched his chin and said, "With 40,000 men and horses, it is clear to Wang that each of our regiments retains a full division, the other maintains an empty shelf structure, and expands until there is war in the future. ”

It goes without saying that several generals here are clear. Those local second-line regiments in the mainland of the Kingdom are essentially such empty shelf regiments in peacetime, such as four regiments per division, each retaining only one full field battalion, and none of the remaining three regiments have a soldier but officers. What's the emergency in the place is that full field battalion, the other three battalions are soy sauce players, can only watch the loud shouting six six six...

The problem is, if the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps are both empty shelf corps, that's better. Now, two divisions of one corps, one division full of another division empty shelf, then the grassroots officers and responsible officers assigned to the empty shelf division will have a sense of abandonment. It seems that the empty shelf master will never make it again, and easily abandons himself. Legion commanders, on the other hand, pay little attention to the full-fledged division, which would have a very negative impact on unity within the regiment.

Marshal Michel had previously commented on this empty shelf model at the senior military school workshop, arguing that the worst case scenario was when a unit was fully staffed with an empty shelf. As force commanders, the most elite soldiers and the best officers are often assigned to full-blown units, while subordinate soldiers and officers are assigned to empty shelf units, resulting in artificial class differences between the two units.

With the passage of time, the full-fledged troops will receive increased attention from their commanders, and resources and attention will be tilted towards them. Empty shelf units, on the other hand, will be increasingly overlooked and even the remaining officers will be discouraged from moving forward. Even if an empty shelf unit is expanded after a battle, the battle strength of the unit after its formation is very different from that of the full force, often acting as a lag behind, and even causing more serious harm...

“Forget it, let's not talk about how to adapt. What do you think of the 50,000 people you cut down, and just let them go home?” General Bolognick began to have headaches about this downsized soldier. Unfortunately, these soldiers were members of the immigrant families of the 100,000 demobilized soldiers who had migrated to the war zone of Amphiston, both for greedy property valued at 10 acres of fields and for continued service in order to gain national identity and improve their social status.

If disarmament begins now, these re-serviced soldiers will be the first to be reduced. While they are similarly entitled to 30 acres of land or 300 acres of personal property in both Cromwell and Bering Ghana, they will no longer be able to acquire national identity, which can easily lead to chaos.

General Bitchklin doesn't care about the 50,000 soldiers who are about to be reduced, and he thinks they can continue to serve. Simply put, the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion belong to the Kingdom's local second-line forces, so that there is no difference between serving in the two Legions and serving in the local guard armed forces, and the theatre is perfectly capable of transferring the downsized soldiers into the local guard armed. Five fortress-style castles, such as Port Wibateau, Port Patres and Castle Wickham, are unarmed, and the forthcoming Silver City of Monconade requires at least one local guard corps.

In the view of General Bitchclin, the theatre of operations did not deploy local armed forces in Robisto, Beringana, Cromwell and Port Vibato, except where former General Shazorak had formed them under the direct authority of Amphiston. The strategic locations of the four Direct Administrations are currently manned by the Legion of Thunder and the Rock Legion, which, to some extent, also disperses the strength of the two Legions and prevents them from assembling a strong counterforce.

Now that the Kings have ordered the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion to disarm in order to reduce military spending, it is just in time that these reduced soldiers were transferred to local guard armaments, where the two Legions could also entrust the task of stationing four strategic areas under their direct jurisdiction for guard armaments. Instead of mustering legions, they are better equipped to deal with future battles launched by the Kingdom of Hicks against the Overseas Territories.

This is a good way to do it, with some downsizing and more comfortable armed service at the local level, which is attractive to older soldiers in their thirties. If we deploy a local guard corps to each of the strategic locations in the General Chicklin newspaper just now, 50,000 people may not be cut enough...

However, this raises the question of whether even local armed guards require military expenditures and weapons and equipment, and whether theatres can generate military expenditures and firearms and ammunition for the formation of local armed guards. According to General Skerry's calculations, several generals in theatre suddenly discovered that if the four territories were first armed and deployed, theatre would then be expanding instead of cutting troops.

With the formation of nine local guard regiments by the four direct administrations, all of which were converted from veterans of the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of Rock, together with those veterans who had retired in the second half of the more than 10,000 years of service, the two regiments needed to recruit more than 20,000 new recruits to fill the vacancies in their ranks, which relieved General Bolonik of the hope that those immigrants would finally be strong.

Over the next month, the theatre has been busy with disarmament matters. Which soldiers are to be transferred to the local guard force, and which officers are to become commanders of the local guard corps, require the discretion of several generals in the theatre, neither to allow the combat strength of the corps to be affected nor to allow the local guard force to become a commonplace. In the plans of General Bolognick and Claude and others, local guard armies need to be a reserve force for both regiments to play a facilitating and complementary role in future warfare...

When the battlefield was ready to start forming nine local guard corps in May, an astonishing piece of news came from the mainland of the kingdom, and everyone who heard it was astonished.

Late in February 592, Prince Hansburg united the kingdom of Hicks' naval fleet and the United Fleet to seal off the dauntless fleet of the kingdom of Ovilas in two seaport cities of the former Kingdom of Siddins. This was a scourge for the Dauntless fleet, which led the army along the road to the Odin Mountains when Prince Hansburg rebelled, disregarding the coastal cities. The Dauntless fleet also relaxed its vigilance and did not expect the Grand Prince to suddenly strike their ideas.

The fearless fleet under both sides of the attack was overthrown, and even a small plank did not escape to report. And the next three months are the rainy season of the Farea continent. Normally, the fearless fleet will not go out to cruise the base, and the land and sea will be tightly sealed off, so Wangdu's naval ministry is not vigilant.

As a result, after the March rainy season, the Grand Prince of Hansburg led the Blue Feather Regiment and a standing regiment onto the carriers of the Shanghai King's fleet and the United Fleet, penetrating directly into the eastern waters of the Kingdom. On 5 April, on a shallow beach less than two hundred miles from the Ibnister plains, Grand Prince Hansburg ordered a landing, and the two regiments' leading troops landed on a small slab before blocking that large area adjacent to the sea.

Supporters of the long-standing conspiracy, Grand Prince Hansburg, placed hundreds of large, sealed empty wooden boxes near the beach and saw the fleet arrive, pushing the empty wooden boxes to the sea, connecting them with iron rings and quickly erecting several floating bridges that floated to the sea. When these long empty wooden crate pontoons were connected to the carriers, a massive landing began.

Between 5 April and 11 April, the Blue Feather Regiment and the Standing Army came ashore almost unharmed. Throughout the landing operation, only three light infantry artillery and six soldiers were lost, and no one found Prince Hansburg leading two regiments from the sea bypassing the Odin Mountains and appearing in the hinterland of the Kingdom.

On April 16, when the Great Prince Hansburg soldiers entered the Ibnister plain in two ways, less than two days away from the king, the king who confirmed the news of the enemy attack was like boiling water that had been burned down and had become an uncontrollable mess.

Nobody would have thought that Prince Hansburg would be such a strange soldier, that the king had sent the Guardian Corps to keep him on the other side of the Odin Mountains. All that remains in Wang Du is the strength of less than one division of the National Guard Corps, and they have no power to fight back against the enemies of both regiments.

Prince Widreck, or Sterling XI, once again took advantage of his fast-paced legs and fled to Berta Arnia County night after night with his family and a dozen wagons of treasures before the Wangdu bosses made a firm or evacuated decision. That is where the Red Dragon Legion of the King's Field Legion is stationed. His father-in-law, Marshal Siegfried, is the current Commander of the Red Dragon Legion, where his safety is guaranteed...

On April 17, 592, the Forwarders of the Blue Feathers Regiment came under Wang Du. On April 18, Prince Hansburg arrived in the capital. On April 21st, the Great Prince entered Wangdu, and the Blue Feather Regiment held a parade ceremony in Wangdu with pride...