Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 431: Face Punching

Sometimes when the words are too full, the face is beaten fast. Claude was just finishing up the eulogy of not being loyal to Prince Hansburg as a traitor, but seeing General Bolognick, General Scully, General Albert and General Bitchcline all looking at themselves in a weird way, and then General Scully finding a newspaper from the stack of newspapers on the table and passing it to Claude: "Let's take a look at this story...”

This is a newspaper from the kingdom of Nasserli, the dead enemy of the kingdom of Ovilas, called The Herald Tribune. It was also published more than three months ago, and should have been bought by a captain or someone to take it to the boat and throw it on the boat. Colonel Boquer bought all kinds of newspapers at high prices, and this long overdue newspaper was brought here.

The report is interesting, and it's about cheering for peace, celebrating the lost return of the Kingdom of Auvellas, changing the strings, turning confrontation into cooperation, and re-casting a new chapter of peace with the Kingdom of Nasserley. They cheered for a reason because Prince Sterling XI, the envoy of Prince Widreck, had signed a treaty with the Kingdom of Nasserley to return Kafirezt, Ruston Kron and Berta Arnia, as well as Woodnisia, which had been occupied in the Great War of the Eastern Five Years, to the Kingdom of Nasserley...

During the reign of His Majesty King Sterling IX and Sterling X of the Kingdom of Auvellas, three wars broke out between the Republican kingdoms of Nasri and the second time the soldiers of the Auvellas kingdom came under the capital of the Kingdom of Nasri. Kafirezt, Ruston Kron and Berta Arnia, originally territories of the Kingdom of Nasserley, the third war between the two kingdoms, the Kingdom of Nasserley sought peace and was unable to bear war reparations, as a result of which the three counties were forcibly annexed by the Kingdom of Ovillas.

This is also why the kingdom of Nasserley became the dead enemy of the kingdom of Ovieras. During the five years of the Eastern War, the Red Dragon Corps of the kingdom of Ovieras once again occupied the county of Woodnisia in the kingdom of Nasserley. After the war, it was not returned to the kingdom of Nasserley. Whoever made it unable to pay ransom could only pay off the land. However, these four counties have always been difficult to govern on the border, and residents are easily provoked by the clandestine instigation of the Kingdom of Nasseri to wage an insurgency against the Kingdom of Orvilas...

Good thing there's a current affairs analysis underneath this article that shows Claude why Prince Widreck did it. Simply to get rid of the baggage, but also to avoid two lines of battle, to abandon all the territory that can't benefit itself or even invest money to maintain local order, to concentrate all the elite forces first to calm down the rebellion of the great prince of Hansburg in the country, and to eliminate his rivals for the throne.

In late May of this year, the forces of Grand Prince Hansburg and Prince Widreck finally engaged in a massive confrontation in which both sides fought each other. This is not the traditional pattern of battle on the Farea continent, where marching in queues of troops is used to score victories and defeats, but rather the pattern of trench positions in which the two sides build their own defensive fronts to attack each other by surprise in an attempt to force their entire defensive front to collapse.

The battle was extremely intense, with the positions of both sides staggering like canine teeth, throwing bullets all over the sky, blade warfare from morning to night, and dead bodies and limbs everywhere on the ground. It's just that both sides are well positioned for longitudinal and deep protection, even if the first line of defense fails, there are a few lines behind it that can resist enemy raids. After more than a month of fighting, both sides suffered heavy deaths and injuries, with 200,000 dead and injured each. In the end, even ammunition could not be supplied and the armistice had to be brought back to life...

In terms of combat power, the forces under Prince Hansburg are much stronger than Prince Widreck's forces, and even Prince Hansburg's command boosts the troops. But the problem, as Marshal Michel said, is that the war is now about logistics. The troops of Prince Wedelec, supported by the military industry of the old nobleman family, were much more abundant in terms of supplies than their enemies, who threw a bomb at them and threw three or four at them to fight back.

Prince Hansburg's troops were overwhelmed by the blade battle, and as soon as they rushed into the position, the position would change hands. Prince Weidlek's troops also had experience, and as soon as a position collapsed, they organized a bomb squad to throw a hundred and ten bombs at that position, causing heavy casualties and becoming the troops of Prince Hansburg...

The battle against this position, known as the "June Blood War”, appears to have been won or lost by both sides, but the reality is not very good for the Grand Prince of Hansburg, who cannot compare himself to Prince Widreck in terms of the collection of soldiers or the supply of ammunition. After the war, he had to voluntarily abandon the four local counties on the defensive front, retract their forces to White Deer City and defend himself, hoping to block the troops sent by Prince Widreck to chase them by virtue of the risky land, in order to buy time for his side to regain its vitality.

And even if Prince Widreck had recovered four counties, his life would not have been easy. You know, he's now borrowing money to raise military spending. On the map, Grand Prince Hansburg occupies the newly occupied territory in the north-eastern part of the kingdom, as well as three counties in the south-western part, and Prince Widreck occupies the middle of the kingdom. Although the middle ground is the essence of the kingdom of Orvillas, a “June Blood War” has damaged these war-torn counties and is no longer able to provide much help to Prince Widreck in his quest to regain his energy.

Prince Widreck was not stupid. He knew full well that he could not leave Prince Hansburg with time to recover. He should chase hard and force him to leave the three counties in the southwest. However, Prince Hansburg is currently in White Deer City, the place of resurrection of the late King Sterling IX, and Prince Widreck is in no way willing to make the second Prince Sterling IX.

But Bai Lucheng Mountain Highway Insurance, in the event that the Guardian Corps fails to make a move and the semi-barred Red Dragon Corps needs to rest, the second-line corps of the faction sent to attack, which is to send a head to the great Prince Hansburg. The mountain battle kingdom is best fought by the Lizard Corps, except that the Lizard Corps is arranged in the Odin Mountains to block the offensive of the two new occupied Regiments of the Standing Regiment and has no time to pull out to attack White Deer City.

It was at this moment that Prince Widreck decided to return the territory of the four counties of the Kingdom of Nasri, which not only had no output, but also required considerable military spending each year to maintain local security and suppress riots. Like the Red Dragon Regiment, it has been stationed in Berta Arnia County on the border to prepare and pressure the Kingdom of Nasseri.

Another important reason is the return of the four frontier counties of the Kingdom of Nasseri, where the regiment of vultures stationed in the Odine Mountains can safely and boldly withdraw. Even if the two Standing Regiments of Grand Prince Hansburg stayed in the newly occupied territories occupied the Odin Mountains, they could not pose a threat to the Kingdom. Because Kafirezt County, which stands in front of them, has become the territory of the kingdom of Nasserley, and unless they want to fight the kingdom of Nasserley, they will no longer be able to attack the kingdom itself by land...

This is a triumph for Prince Widreck, who lost his baggage and no longer needed to invest military and repressive funds in the four counties of the frontier. The second is to draw back the regiment of vultures and continue the offensive against White Deer City, which is dominated by the great prince of Hansburg. The third is to cut off the danger that the kingdom's mainland will be sandwiched on both sides. Even if Grand Prince Hansburg escapes from White Deer City and returns to the newly occupied territory, he will find that the newly occupied territory is no longer connected to the kingdom's mainland. In order to pose a threat to the kingdom, he must first occupy Kafirezt County, which belongs to the Kingdom of Nasseri...

Of course, this also has a great disadvantage, because it amounts to Prince Widreck throwing away the fruits of the war victories won by his predecessors, King Sterling IX and Sterling X, who will become the famous King of the Loser Prince in the history of the Kingdom. But Prince Widreck never cared if he was notorious or notorious. All he cared about was the removal of Grand Prince Hansburg from the kingdom or physical extermination, so that he could hold the throne steady.

The analysis of the Herald Tribune's report is very detailed, and the arguments are beyond doubt, and one can see that the person who wrote this analysis has a very good view and level.

Claude dropped the newspaper, silent, and only felt a hot pain in his face, which hit him so hard in the face. Prince Hansburg had merely released more than 300,000 Hicks prisoners, while Prince Widleck, who had been ordained king by war zone generals, had sent his breath to the dead enemy, the Kingdom of Nasserli, to four frontier counties. I don't know if this treaty has any insights, but it's just an amount of compensation...

The question is, are these sites compensable for money? In the eyes of the Orthodox soldiers of the Kingdom, Prince Widreck did so by throwing the sacrifices and blood paid by the soldiers of the Kingdom for these territories over the years. He was not only a loser, but trampled under all the war honors that the kingdom of Ovilas had earned since Sterling IX, forsaking the glory and glory of nearly a million sacrifices on the sand...

Needless to say, when the kingdom itself and the new occupied territories are no longer interconnected by land, this means that Prince Widreck has legally relinquished his authority over the newly occupied territories. This is the death and injury of more than 600,000 soldiers in the Kingdom of Ovilas, and the accumulation of more than two decades of State finances, which have fought five years of war against five anti-Olympic countries in the eastern part of the Farea continent, eliminating three new territories only occupied by the Principality...

Now that all three principalities' territories had been thrown away by Prince Widreck to the great prince of Hansburg, he did not care whether the great prince of Hansburg had established a new State on the newly occupied territory or whether the newly occupied territory had been used as a base against which the kingdom itself was attacked. Prince Widreck simply asks that the Great Prince of Hansburg be removed from the kingdom as soon as possible, so that the door can be closed comfortably and comfortably to be his king. As for the strong opposition and protests of the Royal Army, he took it completely as if he could not see.

General Bolognick sighed, breaking the silence and embarrassment in the conference room. He laughed bitterly: "The two brothers fought for the throne to survive. It was only at this scale that Wang Sterling X forcefully pioneered the overseas direct jurisdiction of the Nubian mainland. With more than two decades of accumulation, three principalities have been eliminated, vast areas of new territory have been occupied, and the kingdom has been given a universal base in the eastern part of the autocratic continent.

As a result, each of the two princes beat the other, and Prince Hansburg demanded that we cede the Overseas Territories to the Kingdom of Hicks. Prince Widreck has sent four frontier counties to our kingdom's dead enemy, the Kingdom of Nasseri, and has relinquished its jurisdiction over the newly occupied territories. The results of nearly a hundred years of foreign development in the kingdom have been thrown clean by these two brothers.

As a soldier of the kingdom, it is our sadness to meet these two monarchs, but this is no reason for us to abandon our responsibilities. As long as this uniform is still on, we will protect the Overseas Territories from enemy aggression. Whether or not the Kingdom of Hicks has assembled the ranks of the 10 Standing Legions, we must do our utmost to defeat them.

It is now clear that you are also aware of the current situation in the Kingdom, and I am confident that even if Prince Widreck eventually triumphs, we will not be able to obtain any support and help from him, even if he may send envoys from overseas jurisdictions to scrape money for him. So we shouldn't put our hopes on this prince. Let's find a way to rely on our own strength... "

General Scully nodded: "The only thing we can count on now in our Overseas Territories is ourselves, and almost all West Coast colony newspapers don't like the final victory we can win in our battlefields. After all, the Kingdom of Hicks assembled more than 600,000 troops in 10 standing regiments, five of which were made up of veteran prisoners in preparation for the shameful arrival of the Standing Army, and five standing regiments, composed of the noble militias of those aristocracies and the youth of the noble territories, after McKeed III had evaluated the country's noble insurgency, had some fighting power.

For some countries, those more than 600,000 troops were already capable of exterminating the country, and the Kingdom of Hicks was prepared to devote them all to the next colonial war, taking into account the lessons of their tragic defeat during the previous three colonial wars. So it's their best tactic to rent the Rodex Bay colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and gather up all their troops and push them south with bold force. The Kingdom of Hicks knows exactly where the weaknesses in our immediate battlefield lie. We do not have the support of the kingdom itself. We can only defend ourselves against their attack with the strength of two legions. They can deplete us by consuming the war... "

“So we must first occupy the northern coastal mountains, build a strong defensive front on the ground and rely on longitudinal and advanced weapons to block the attack of the ten standing legions of enemies! If the Nikans don't know each other, I don't mind annihilating the Nikans first!” General Bitchicklin plays it all over again.

But this time it's not General Albert's turn to argue, and Claude looks at General Beechlin coldly: “How can you be so sure that the 10 standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom will descend south of the northern coastal mountains? What do you do if you occupy the northern coastal mountains, build a defensive front, deploy troops to fight defensive positions, and the Hicks bypass your defensive line and don't go south from the northern coastal mountains? And offended the Nikantha, adding a dead enemy to our battlefield. ”

“But can the Hicks fly south of the northern coastal mountains from the sea?” General Bitchicklin muttered that he knew Claude had a stronger strategic vision than he did and must have seen something wrong before criticizing himself so much.

Claude got up and walked to the map by the wall, knocking his fist at the mountains on the eastern border of the colony of the Gulf of Rhodex: "Don't forget that most of the Hicks' inland colonies are in this direction, and the damn Nikancas have not yet fully taken over this inland colony. If the Kingdom of Hicks is to march, he must, or must, rescue their encircled immigrant and mineral developer bases...

Moreover, they and the Nikans were also the dead enemy, and for the Hicks, the Nikans were slaves to their rebellion, and it was an insult to the Kingdom of Hicks that the Nikans had taken over their colonial independence. So I think they're going to set aside our war zone, destroy this Nikan country, teach these Nikan slaves, and reclaim the entire hinterland colony first. ”

Claude looked at General Bitchcline again: "If you go to occupy the northern coastal mountains and build a defensive front, the Hicks can totally ignore this area. They can get breakthroughs from the eastern mountains, and as long as they occupy the Nikanca nation and reclaim the hinterland colonies, they can choose another route into the war zone under our direct jurisdiction..."