Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 420: The Legend of Bok Al

Claude didn't expect Boquer to accompany the Nikanca envoy to Port Cobichous to find himself and settle the Nikanca envoy. It was only after Old Man Zacharathon was instructed to cooperate with them in mobilizing the ruling Nikantha colony for relocation that Claude made time to have a good afternoon chat with Bok Al.

Now Claude understands why General Albert left the matter of liaison with the Nikanca Nation to Bok Al, stating that in that Nikanca Nation, Bok Al is the representative of the war zone. Even General Bolognick is not as trustworthy as Bok Al, and any agreement they reach with the war zone needs to be signed by Bok Al in order to believe.

“How did you do that?” Claude looked at Bok Al curiously and happily, and now Bok Al is not as fat as he used to be, and although he still has a lot of meat on him, he can already be described as fine. The colonel's uniform wore on him, but he had the authority of a few soldiers, and he could no longer see the big belly of a logistical corrupt official.

“Oh, don't mention it. Birth to death, no wonder!” Bork Al was not polite with Claude, and he picked out a bottle of good wine from the wine cabinet, opened the lid and poured himself a drink before telling Claude what he had been through for over a year.

Until the war zone did not capture the port of Vibato, Boquer was very easy to eat in the city. The Hicks Royal Guard in Port Vibato was trapped in the city, and the area outside the city became a stronghold for the Light Riders of the Thunder Legion. Over time, although not sad to eat and drink, other supplies have become increasingly tense, especially luxury consumables, and there is no place to buy them.

In the name of the Buffalo Shop, Bok Al continued to smuggle high-end goods from the war zone to the port of Vibato, living luxury goods that met the living needs of the dignitaries trapped in the city. It also makes itself the most popular person in the city, the local officials of Port Vibato and the aristocratic guests, who can almost walk across the city.

According to Bok Al, that was the most comfortable period of his life, when local officials in Port Vibato greeted him with a smile and the lady of honor gave him a hug because he was able to bring countless luxury goods. Then the port of Vibato was captured by the theatre, and Boquer led the attack in battle with a great deal of success. Returned to the theatre command intelligence service after the war because of inaction at the end of the colonial war.

As a result of the business of the bison business, Bok Al returned to the port of Vibato, where he found that he had no business hunting with several of his best friends in the army and ran into a group of patrols to expel the Nikancas who had entered the country. As soon as the Bok Arling machine moved, he decided to look for business opportunities with the Nikancas. So Bok Al went to the Nikancha country in the north in the name of the director of the bison business.

The next experience of Bok Al was like a legendary novel, wandering around the Nikan country for most of the year, knowing a wide variety of Nikans and gradually gaining their trust. There were several dangers during this period, and there were even accidental incidents in which the Nikans were involved in a battle against a mining base in the hinterland colony of the Kingdom of Hicks, which almost killed them.

With regard to the fighting power of the Nikanchas, Bok Al said that bravery was brave, but without brains. Blood, once it came up, it was not as useful to launch an attack as a spear in their hands. Just like that attack on the mining base, more than 1,000 Nikancas attacked a stone building defended by more than one hundred and thirty Hicks, with a 10-to-1 strength advantage, of which more than 700 were firearms, and the advantage was very obvious.

As a result, the Nikancha were beaten to death and injured more than 400 people. The reason is brainless. If you were to get on the ground properly or hide and snipe at the enemies in the stone building, time would slowly deplete them. But after more than half an hour of shooting, a fool got impatient and rushed up with a gun, and more fools followed him. Bok Al said he was staring at himself and didn't understand what these Nikanths wanted to do...

The enemy is hiding in a stone building with no windows on the ground floor and a thick iron door. When those fools rush up, they can only knock on stone walls and iron doors with guns or spears. There is no way to rush into the building. They can only clutch around outside the stone building screaming with the intention of intimidating the enemy to surrender automatically.

As a result, the Hicks carried out two rounds of sudden fire through windows on the second floor of the building, almost aiming at the head. Nearly one hundred guns were placed twice in a row, and the Nikans surrounding them fell one hundred and fifty and sixty instantly. Such casualties finally awakened the Nikans, and they turned around screaming and fled, unable to pull.

As soon as they fled, the rest of them fled, and the Hicks hiding inside the stone building took the opportunity to fight back out of the building, and that's how the big defeat came about. The Hicks are like turkeys in a hunting fence, loading, targeting, shooting with ease. A fleeing Nikancha man was shot in the back and fell to the ground to earn his life, and he never wanted to fight back with a gun in his hand...

Bok Arna will have to escape too, but he was unlucky, he was about to escape, but he ran into the leader and elder who commanded the Nikancha to attack. They were targeted by a team of enemies because of the unique clothes they were wearing. Knowing that they might be leading the team, he chased them both and tried to capture them alive...

There were only three people at the time, himself, a guard and a paramedic, who had no guns around them, all three with cold weapons, only two short swords and a dagger. However, Bok Al decided to save the two Nikans' chiefs and elders, who picked up three guns and two ammunition bags on the ground, hid in the grass, shot and killed the two Hicks behind them, and fled to a cliff with the two Nikans' chiefs and elders.

Then the five of them were trapped on that cliff for more than half a month, and if it weren't for the rugged path up the hill, the Hicks would probably have rushed up and torn them to pieces. They carried out three attacks, which were continued by Bok 'al and two guards. The leaders and elders of the two Nikancas also piled up some rocks and trunks to defend themselves, and the Hicks left four or five dead bodies without launching any more attacks.

Bok Al felt lucky because there were not many Hicks and they were probably reluctant to consume their lives on this cliff, so instead of attacking, they changed to a siege, trying to starve Bok Al to death on the mountain, knowing that there was no water or food on this cliff.

Bok Al didn't know how to survive that half month. If it weren't for his crew who went up the hill, they might not have survived three or four days. Three days of dried grain and three sheepskin kettles in the bags of the three Boquer people, and maybe five or six days if they score less.

At that time, the leaders and elders of the two Nikancas finally showed their strength by collecting a variety of edible vegetables and vine roots on the cliff, and by using the sheepskin membrane in their fur coat, they made a filter cloth to collect dew water, which collected half a pot of fresh water each morning and evening in the shadow of the cliff, barely to quench thirst.

So the five of them had been on the cliff for more than half a month, and Bok Al said that he would be hungry and thirsty and that his mind was a little less sober, only to know that he was very thin during that time. In the meantime, the Hicks at the bottom of the mountain thought they were finished. In more than a decade, they sent someone up to the mountain to check on them, and they ambushed them, killed them and wounded them, and then rolled down...

Bok Al said he was lying on the cliff and watching the bodies below him try to climb down and bite, but he didn't have the strength to go down, so he was half awake. Six or seven days later, when it was no longer possible to survive, the Nikanchas sent troops, and the Hicks could not help but withdraw their mining base, and the five Bok 'ars were finally saved.

That is, after the incident, Bok Al was considered his own by the Nikancas, who acquired exclusive trading rights in that Nikanca country, and all the resources and goods owned by the Nikancas were open to the bison dealers. At the same time, Bok Al has become an agent in this Nikancha country, helping them to purchase a variety of materials from the war zone.

According to Bok Al's observation, this Nikancha nation should actually be a coalition of colonies, not a united nation. They are accustomed to allocating sites according to the size of the colonies, and the larger the number of colonies. There are currently more than 70,000 people in the largest colonies, together with more than a dozen client tribes. Such gatherings are unlikely to occur in the Overseas Territories, with more than 5,000 of the largest Nikanchas in the three Territories, such as Tyrsim.

Today, there are six large colonies of the Nikantha nation, followed by their respective colonies of subordinates, which also have their colonies of subordinates, so that they descend on the first level of subordination. The smallest Nikancha colony ever visited by Bok Al, numbering more than three dozen, lived together in kinship.

When Claude asked how the war between the Nikantha nations against the hinterland colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks was going, Boquer replied, shaking his head and grinning. He said that the war was actually over and that only those Nikanca communities on the front line, who felt insecure because of the presence of the mining bases in the Kingdom of Hicks, organized attacks only to keep the enemy from appearing near their own borders.

According to Bok Al's estimates, the entire Nikancha nation has a population of about two million, and the territory they now occupy is too large to allow them to live at large. Moreover, after they had fought for so long in an uprising to establish a state to attack the hinterland colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks, they became tired of not wanting to continue the attack.

The largest colonial chiefs were sober, knowing that they and the Hicks could not coexist, but that the firearms were expensive, that they did not know how to maintain or receive supplies, and that, together with the losses on the battlefield, there were not many firearms and ammunition in their possession and that they were unwilling to waste any more on the battlefield.

The second reason is the high number of casualties, some 10,000 so far, most of them trained by officers previously sent by the Thunder Division. Without these primary-trained Nikantha soldiers, the fighting had declined considerably, which led to the killing and wounding of more than 400 people and the collapse of the army as a whole when more than a thousand people were seen sieging more than a hundred mineral bases in Bokhar.

Although the Nykancha nation is a coalition of colonies, the supreme authority is vested in a council of elders composed of the elders of the great colonies, which decides on all matters relating to the Nykanchas. And the chief of the colony is actually the military chief, who holds the military command of the colony and commands the colony's armed forces.

Interestingly, half the youth of the large colonized armed forces is provided by the following proxy tribes, while the armed forces of the proxy tribes are made up of half the youth of the proxy tribes, so depressed at the level of one. When there was an external war, the chief of the Great Gathering sent an order that the following protégé tribe and the protégé tribe should bring their horses to participate in the war. Just like those feudally sovereign countries on the Farea continent...

Bok Al spent most of the year in this Nikancha country, returning with a detailed report on this neighbouring country. The war zone was a surprise, and the report helped to understand the Nikancha nation, and gave Bok Al another great credit, which led to his promotion from Lieutenant Colonel to the rank of Colonel.

This time Bok Al came to see Claude, first to reveal himself as a colonel officer and secondly to discuss the transfer of the Nikanchas from the three jurisdictions. Unlike the Nikantha nation that Claude imagined refused to accept them, the Nikantha nation was happy to have so many of them on their soil. Because according to their tradition of colonial subordination, the three million Nikancas, if they truly migrated, would soon allow those colonies to increase their subordination and greatly enhance their strength.

That is why Bok Al is a stark illustration of the increased difficulties and problems of the past movement of more than three million Nikanths in the theatre of operations, which are nothing more than costs and transportation expenses and food consumption. As a result, the Nikanca Council of Elders waved, willing to pay millions of gold and silver in mineral resources to compensate the theatre.

However, in order to obtain this million-dollar reserve of gold and silver and mineral resources, the Nikanca State will also need to trade in arms and materiel with them, asking for 100,000 guns and corresponding ammunition reserves, while also assisting with a large amount of food and sending a group of grass-roots officers to assist their youth and soldiers in another six-month period of military training. If the war zone agrees to these conditions, the Nikanca nation is willing to pay another million in gold and silver reserves...

It was no longer Boc Arnault's call, but he had to take the Nikancha national envoy to Langhu Town to see General Bolognick. General Bolognick, in turn, agreed to these demands of the Nikancha nation after consulting with several generals in the theatre for a hawk telegram. Claude also received a message from Eagle about this, which General Scully very much agreed with.

In any case, more than 300,000 firearms and countless ammunition were seized from those regiments of prisoners and stockpiles of arms in the Kingdom of Hicks. It is not as advanced as the Obash 3 type flare gun equipped by the Thunder Division and can only be rusted in the warehouse. It could be sold to that Nikanca country in exchange for gold and silver reserves, armed them and continued to die with the hinterland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom.

As for military instructors, General Bockard has ordered General Albert to select more than a hundred officers at the grass-roots level to undertake primary military training for soldiers from the Nikanca nation. Also with regard to food aid, Boquer said that it was nominally aid to military food, and in fact they were asking for refined wheat flour for the enjoyment of those at high levels in the Nikancha country.

This is mainly the staple food of the Nikancas, potatoes, cassava powder and oats, which are easily grown in the mountains. Instead, barley is rarely grown by the Nikans. They are reluctant to grow barley. They are too tired to grow barley. They need to cultivate their fields and compost to mow the grass carefully. With the Nikans' habits and without the threat of whips, they are too lazy to use this energy...

Bok Al said he could use this to trade with the Nikanchas in the future to get gold and silver from them.

Claude is strange. Does the Nikantha have a lot of gold and silver? Where did you get this...

A lot. Bok Al answered very positively. He explained that there were more than a dozen small and medium-sized Hicks gold and silver mines in the hinterland colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks occupied by the Nikka people. The Nikancas wiped out the Hicks from these mines, seized a lot of refined gold and silver ingots, and now they drive the Hicks captives and the Etat to dig these gold and silver mines for them...