Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 434 Statements

Waiting is a frustrating process, with all the intellectuals having to keep it a secret and keep it quiet. In a world where all the rhythms are somewhat slow, it often takes months to get a result.

Claude blames all this on the lack of circulation of information, the changing past life, the entire world on the Internet, and any news story can be compared to a world known to the world in just a few hours. The Farsian world is very slow, both in terms of pace of life and in terms of social change.

In the same continent as in Nubian, it often takes a month or two for the colonies of the West Coast countries to reach the overseas territories. As for the events that took place in the Farea continent, they spread to the West Coast and transferred to overseas jurisdictions, the furthest from each other, even more than six months ago...

Towards the end of the year, Colonel Boquer had rushed back to theatre headquarters, where he had travelled through colonies in three countries on the west coast, finally confirming the fact that the Kingdom of Hicks had rented the Rodex Bay colony from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. After more than four months of consultations, the Kingdom of Hicks paid five million gold shields to lease the Rodex Bay colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for a period of five years.

Two guilders for one guilder and five million guilders for two and a half million guilders. The lease period is five years, which means that the annual rent is 500,000 gold kroons.

The Six Kingdoms are rich, and the teeth of the descendants of the Kramer pirates in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands are about to fall out. For them, the Kingdom of Hicks is distinguished as a cake. The only thing of value to the colony of the Gulf of Rodex is the catch of the Gulf, which produces some rare and noble sea fish, which is caught every year by the magician frozen and transported back to the continent of Farea, making it a delicious dish for the royal banquet of nobles at a high price.

But even so, the total value of the colony's catches in a year does not exceed 100,000 gold kroner, and the population of the colony as a whole, with less than 20,000, would yield less than 10,000 gold kroner a year for the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. So the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands is prepared to sell the colony of the Gulf of Rodex to the Kingdom of Hicks, except that the prices they offer are unaffordable to the Kingdom of Hicks and can eventually only be converted into leases.

“This was a message from a cruise sub-fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands following its arrival on the western coast of the Nubian mainland in late October, accompanied by a procurement mission from the Kingdom of Hicks. The mission was mandated to pre-procure food and other supplies for subsistence in the colonies of the West Coast countries, which will be produced next year and the following year. They have already made a deposit of nearly 100,000 KP. Several colonies have now begun to consider large-scale wilderness cultivation, and food output is expected to double in West Coast colonies next year...

I was approached by a man from the Hicks Kingdom Purchasing Corps who called himself Solum, who heard that I was a smuggler from overseas jurisdictions, and pulled me into a lot of questions about the war zone. I ignored the news about the army and the war zone and told him that I usually didn't pay much attention to these things, that I was concerned about business. However, he was very interested in my ability to obtain large quantities of low-intensity wheat wine in overseas jurisdictions. He placed an order for 30,000 barrels of wheat wine and gave me a deposit of 1,000 kilograms of guilders.

This contact led me to discover that there must be a number of Hicks Kingdom agents lurking inside the theatre, and I found that this man, Solum, was more clear about some of the things in theatre headquarters, such as the formation of 18 new local guard regiments in theatre, the recruitment of 100,000 recruits, and the sale of 300,000 captured Hicks Kingdom fire rope guns to the Nikanca Nation. Ordinary residents like this are simply not likely to understand, so I suspect that there may well be agents of the Hicks kingdom in the theatre, otherwise the enemy will not know these specific figures.

Because I told him that there was a winemaking workshop at the bison store that bought a lot of wheat every year to make wheat wine. So this Solum wanted me to give him a thousand pounds of wheat, and he was willing to buy it at three times the market price. I suspect that this is his test of my smuggler status, that the war zone has traditionally imposed strict controls on the outflow of food, and that the acquisition of grain barley by a bison dealer is perfect to avoid suspicion, and that three times the market price is enough to put countless smugglers at risk of dying to complete the deal.

(Note: Puisle is the weight unit of the Kingdom of Hicks, equivalent to tons, or one kilogram. A thousand pounds is a thousand tons.

However, it can be inferred from his request that, apart from placing orders in a predetermined fashion for the food output of colonies next year, the process of acquiring the existing food of colonies is not very smooth. It is likely that colonies need to maintain stability in local food demand and social order and do not want excessive increases in food prices, thereby refusing to sell large stocks of food reserves, so that Solum has to pay three times the market price to buy food through me.

There is also unconfirmed information that officers and soldiers of the United Kingdom cruise fleet in the Fox Islands were exposed during a party in the pub. As a result of the high rent paid by the Kingdom of the Sixes, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands will dispatch two ocean fleets to and from the two continents once a year to deliver goods or troops to the Kingdom of the Sixes, as an accompanying clause to the lease agreement. Because it was free of charge, the officers and soldiers of that fleet were complaining that we could not determine the truth of the news, that the soldiers were drunk.

Finally, news from the kingdom itself is equally unconfirmed. Prince Widreck is said to have returned the four frontier counties of Kafirezt, Ruston Kron, Berta Arnia and Woodnisia to the Kingdom of Nasri, where he received a security indemnity of KK 1 million and a high interest loan of KK 4 million. The vulture regiment has abandoned the Odin Mountains and moved to three southwestern counties, and is currently attacking the White Deer City occupied by Grand Prince Hansburg. How the war has not yet come to pass... "

This is an intelligence report collected by Colonel Bockard in the colonies of the West Coast countries, confirming the determination of the Kingdom of Hicks to continue this colonial war, and it has become a fact that the colonies of the Gulf of Rodex were leased for the purpose of mustering troops. By the end of this new evening, the immediate area of war, after a new year, is equally under threat of war. And the outcome of this war will determine the survival of the entire war zone.

The atmosphere in the conference room was very dull, and when the news of the impending war had become a reality, senior officers qualified to sit in the theatre commands who were negotiating in this conference room had a sense of repression in their hearts. The storm is full of wind, Claude somehow remembers this poem from his past life. The current scene is a perfect portrayal of the meaning of the poem...

Claude was about to cough and say a few words to inspire morale. But when he saw General Bolognick grinning and smiling, he nodded to Bok Al and said, "Colonel Bok Al, you're doing very well, you're running back and forth. With this information you have gathered, our theatre can prepare for this war in a targeted manner. I'm sure the final winner of this war will be our battlefield, which is simple, because the Hicks have always been our defeated generals, and this time no exception! ”

“General Bolognick is right, the Hicks have never been our opponent.” General Albert tapped two tables lightly with his fists: "Though they claimed to assemble ten standing legions, more than 600,000 troops, it seemed to me to be just a bunch of people. Whether we compare the elite and well-trained forces, the advanced weapons and the leading tactical tactics of war, our forces are outnumbered. Perhaps this time we will form a legendary chapter in the history of war, and these ten standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks will be the cornerstone of our ascent to the altar..."

General Bitchclin clapped his hands and drew the attention of all senior officers in the conference room: “In fact, there is nothing terrible about the upcoming war, as you should have seen from General Claude's last analysis of this rental operation in the Kingdom of the Hicks, and the intelligence gathered by Colonel Bockall confirms General Claude's vision. The Kingdom of Hicks would never have assembled the 10 Standing Legions in the Rodex Bay colony at once, and grass would have been the biggest problem limiting their war.

Even if the Kingdom of Hicks had sent procurement missions to the colonies of the West Coast to schedule food production for the coming year, some food reserves had been made. But as long as they attack, we can launch solid wall clearance in the mountainous areas of the Nikanca nation, lure enemies into deep tactics, hide with them in the mountainous areas, delay their process and consume their food. By then, the Hicks, who cut off grass and logistical supplies, will have no alternative but to surrender to us... "

“We hope this time to reject the more than 600,000 troops of the Kingdom of Hicks outside the direct jurisdiction of the theatre of war, so as not to spread the fighting to the overseas territories, with negative repercussions on the migratory life and economic development of the kingdom. So we're going to set the battlefield in the mountainous areas of the Nikanca nation, and we're going to use the good defensive terrain and hill forests to circle with the Hicks and drag the Hicks to death in this mountainous area. If we cannot destroy our enemies' viable power, we must also consume their limited grain and supplies and trap them in the mountains.

Troops in theatre, either under two regiments or in areas under their direct authority, will conduct training in mountain combat over the next year. A training programme has been developed for this purpose by theatre commands, and troops must be carefully trained in strict accordance with the programmatic steps and must not be so-so or prone. Field inspections and outcome assessments of the training of troops will be conducted by the sector headquarters, and all those who fail to meet the standards in mountain combat training, whether military officers or soldiers, may face mandatory decommissioning.

Let us not forget that the war that we are about to face concerns the very survival of the entire theatre of battle, and that no officer or soldier should be relentless. Just as General Claude's slogan of regular training is sweaty and less blood in time of war, training tasks must be carried out in strict accordance with the requirements of the training programme in order to achieve the goals and results of the training. Any officer or soldier who fails to meet his standards in the training assessment, whether or not he has previously made a Khan Ma tribute to the theatre, can only be cleared out of the force this time, because we cannot tolerate that these incompetent officers and soldiers will drag the entire force into future mountain warfare against the Hicks! ”

General Skerry concluded his statement, and the senior officers of the battlefield headquarters here unanimously turned their attention to Claude, who was silent on the battlefield five giants.

Claude's squeaky face, his heart says I should say something, all four of them have finished the speech, there is encouragement for everyone not to be afraid, there is a morale boost for everyone to win the war, there is a better quality of both sides to speak of tactics, and there is reprimand to warn everyone to take the training seriously, what do you want me to say?

“Cough, cough," Claude began by coughing twice, then leaning on the sofa chair, leaving you with a very relaxed feeling, which slowly started the speech: “The Hicks are finally here, and I'm very happy to be a soldier, because we have clear enemies again. To be honest, I've been wondering if I'm a soldier for two years. I'm a lieutenant general in the kingdom, but why am I so busy with boring administrative matters?

It is either dealing with the resettlement of the Royal Immigrants or planning the construction of urban road traffic, or it is responsible for driving the Nikanchas aboard the ship and relocating them to that Nikancha country, saving them from obstruction of the direct jurisdiction of the war zone. Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't be wearing this uniform, but it's appropriate for me to be an executive. I really forgot I was a soldier if it wasn't for the Thunder Corps recruiting recruits for training that I needed to examine.

And I really appreciate that. The Hicks, especially MacGruber III, will never let us down and insist on sending the youth of their country to help us build public infrastructure in our war zone, all free of charge, just to fill their bellies and dress warmly. They were so polite that we didn't even have to take responsibility for this food and clothing, all transported by themselves from the Farea continent.

In my view, the more than 600,000 troops in the Kingdom of Hicks are the more than 600,000 free young and strong labors that have been given to us. All we need to do is get them to lay down their weapons and walk into the prisoner of war camps. With the help of so much free labor, it is believed that the economic development of the war zone will soon improve. The only thing we need to remember is that before we let these free labourers lay down their weapons, we have to make them understand that being our enemy is their greatest sorrow!

This battlefield, which we are preparing to carry out in the mountainous areas of the Nikanca nation, will remind the Hicks that they have rented the colony of the Gulf of Rodex to assemble their forces, which means waging a wrong war in the wrong place. I do not want to say more about the end of the war, which will undoubtedly put an end to the ambitions and delusions of the Hicks kingdom over overseas territories, after which the Nubian continent will be a permanent pain in the hearts of the Hicks.

With regard to how to cooperate with the Nikancha nation, we already have arrangements in place, and we are confident that the Nikanchas will come to our doors in two or three months to ask for our help. In fact, we don't care if the Nikantha don't want to cooperate with us. We can also highlight the encroachment of strange soldiers on the occupied mountain areas when the Nikancas are unable to withstand the Hicks' offensive and the feud of losing their city. Sure, it's gonna be a bit of a hassle, but after the war, we own the place.

The Hicks are actually like a snowy barbarian, big and strong. If they build up so much force in the plains, maybe I have a headache, and the strengths and weaknesses of the different forces are very obvious. But in mountainous areas, an elephant can't fight a monkey, and the terrain limits its ability to play, with a maximum of five or six points. The mountain warfare training programme that General Skerry has just described is to turn us into monkeys and make the terrain environment our help.

That's all I'm saying, I just wanted to tell you that we're lucky to have another battle to do. Being a soldier without war and enemies is both fortunate and sad. Fortunately, he did not need to go to war, risking his life on the battlefield. Sadly, he had never experienced war and could never prove himself to be a true soldier. Now that the Hicks have imposed war on our battlefield, we have only one answer, destroy them! ”

Claude's voice just went down, and there was thunderous applause all over the room...