Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 435: The Nikantha Embassy is here.

“... what I meant was to put this single-barrel telescope on top of a new rifle, act as a sight, carve two crosses on the lens of the telescope, and when the sniper was ready to aim, the crosses on the front and rear lenses of this single-barrel telescope coincided with the target, pulling the trigger and shooting the target three or four hundred meters away. This is not an ordinary soldier's rifle, but a sniper rifle, picking out the best shooter, shooting the enemy's commanding officer on the battlefield with this specially tailored sniper rifle, causing confusion..."

Claude wipes the sweat off his forehead, and at this moment he really regrets how he learned in his past life about computer application management, not the engineering majors of mechanical chemistry. With new rifles and single binoculars, Claude naturally wants to combine the two to create a special sniper rifle. It's just that he has this concept in his head, but it's hard to portray it in a concrete way so that his sister Anna and Mrs. Sonia, who are in charge of the trial, understand the characteristics of the sniper rifle, and they finally finished communicating with the sniper rifle in a collision.

“You actually told us that you wanted the new rifle to have an accurate range of three or four hundred meters, nagging for half a day to make it clear that the naked eye couldn't target too far away, and needed to be assisted by a single telescope...” Lady Sonia complained: “Is there anything else to pay attention to? ”

Claude smiled. “Perhaps you can try to lengthen the barrel, and the bullet needs to be made special to ensure its long-range hitting power. This can try to lengthen the cartridge shell and increase the charge of the launcher. And you can also try to see if the wire inside the barrel, turning into a spiral, increases the stability and range of the bullet. That's all I can think of, mainly relying on the two of you to experiment.

It's a little tight, honey, and you're tired. But there is no way, and this time the Hicks are on the brink of preparing to sweep the entire battlefield, which is a test of life and death for our battlefield, and I have to find a way to increase the chances of victory in the battlefield. In mountain combat, a good sniper rifle can withstand a cannon, even more threatening than a cannon. A few hidden snipers, to the enemy, are like messengers of death coming... "

Don't look at how easy Claude said at the Senior Military Command Mobilization Conference, as if the enemies between the fingers could fly away. In fact, he knew from his own heart that the war was not easy to fight. So with the exception of the new night at the end of the year, when I was home with my wife and kids, the rest of my time was devoted to crazy work.

Most importantly, the relocation of her sister Anna's laboratory from the ranch to the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop in Port Vibato, because Lady Sonia became the actual head of the Firearms Manufacturing Workshop. In order to start producing new rifles at full capacity, the Firearms Manufacturing Workshop needs to install two more production lines and recruit and train more than 3,000 new employees. Much is happening. She is too busy to run back and forth, let alone feel comfortable doing tests in the laboratory.

The experimentation and manufacture of new weapons, however, were inseparable from Mrs. Sonia's extensive firearms manufacturing experience and guidance to her sister Anna, so Claude simply decided to relocate her laboratory directly to the firearms manufacturing workshop. Anyway, McJackie is leading the Battalion Thunder One, Three and One in charge of guarding the firearm factory, which is also a private matter to reunite the two couples. Mother has been nagging for a long time, saying that her sister has been married for several years, why is she not pregnant...

In addition to producing new rifles, the firearms manufacturing workshop has now successfully developed another new type of weapon, namely landmines, which is very simple: it took only three or four days for sister Anna and Lady Sonia to make the test. There are two types of landmines, one is a pressure mine, which is buried on the ground and explodes as soon as a person steps on it. The other is tripping lightning, which, by definition, is pulling a wire on it, and when a person walks over it, the mine blows up.

Claude would have liked to have studied landing mines, which could have caused a lot of trouble for fleet landings. It's just that Claude can't really figure out how an iron shell mine floats on the water, or how a ship hits a mine and causes an explosion. And the same goes for jumping lightning, which is the most lethal mine. As Claude had seen in the Forum in his previous life, it had been said that mines would jump and explode in mid-air when they were touched, and that steel balls filled with mines would cause serious damage to all objects within 30 metres of the perimeter. The problem is Claude doesn't understand how this burst thunder is made, not even with the help of her sister Anna's alchemy charm array.

The third type of new weapon is what Claude calls a sniper rifle. With a new rifle at the bottom, Claude believes that the development of a sniper rifle should be completed soon. Besides, he does not need a modern sniper rifle that lets the enemy die at 800 meters and 1,200 meters away, he only requires a sniper rifle that hits the enemy with precision within 400 meters, believing that his sisters, Anna and Lady Sonia, will not disappoint him and will produce a qualified sniper rifle in a short time.

Claude was going to build a sniper battalion in the Thunder Legion, led by his brother Browick, a special force of his time. Claude will select the elite of the Legion of Thunder to form a special unit when conditions permit, and then he can carry out beheading operations or go deep into the enemy and make a scene in Heaven Palace or something. Perhaps in a few decades, Claude will most likely be named the father of the sniper and the father of the special forces...

It is now February, more than a month after Holy Light 593, and in April, the Standing Regiment of the Kingdom of Hicks is about to land in the colony of the Gulf of Rodex, just not knowing that the first shipments will be made by several Standing Regiments. Several agents from the Intelligence Service of theatre headquarters have sent hawks, saying that the advance men of the Kingdom of Hicks arrived in the Rodex Bay colony at the end of last year and were busy paying for labor to build military barracks warehouses.

The local inhabitants and local officials of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands were said to have tripled all the goods and manpower of the entire colony in a caveat of indestructibility. So many agents dispatched from the war zone had to accept the Hicks' hire to help build the camp to earn a living, and the falcon sent a letter complaining that they couldn't even afford to buy beef to feed the falcon...

The agents went in the name of a branch of the Buffalo Company based in the Rodex Bay Colony, mainly to negotiate a deal for 30,000 barrels of low-intensity wheat wine. They complained in a hawk message that local residents had a certain monthly quota to obtain the necessary subsistence at a lower price, so they were not affected by the price hike. The rest of the outsiders were implicated by the Hicks and could only buy meals at high prices.

They now regret that the wheat from overseas jurisdictions that was shipped to them was too cheap to sell and that the Hicks used it as water for drinking. You know, a glass of fresh water in town is more expensive than these wheat wines because charcoal is needed to burn open water and charcoal is expensive. The good news is that the Hicks have placed another 50,000 barrels of wheat wine, and the price, to say the least, has risen by a third. The Hicks themselves are probably frightened by the price in the city, so the wine is the best choice for them to see as cheap and tasty.

In addition to complaining about soaring prices and trading in wheat wine, the agents made a suggestion. Upon arrival at the Rodex Bay colony at the end of last year, these advance elements of the Kingdom of Hicks hired personnel to build military barracks and warehouses. The warehouse is now largely complete, with the arrival of shippers from the direct territories of the West Coast countries on a daily basis, delivering thousands of tons of food and countless other items of subsistence to the advance personnel of the Hicks kingdom.

The agents were acquainted with the advance men of the Hicks kingdom and heard them complain while drinking together that King McKid III had given them the task of collecting grass in advance in the colonies of the West Coast countries, awaiting the arrival of the Kingdom's Standing Army. They had thought that the task would be easy to accomplish, and it was only in the colonies of the countries of the West Coast that they realized that there were not as many food reserves in local cities as they had imagined, for very complex reasons.

Since the colonies of the West Coast countries had maintained peace for two or three decades, and although there had been conflicts between them, they were basically petty and could soon be resolved through negotiations. Coupled with the absence of natural or man-made disasters, food production in colonies was thus stable and some reserves were sufficient to meet the needs of the local population. More farmers prefer to grow cash crops, which are the source of income for transporting back to the countries of the Farea continent.

McKid III of the Kingdom of Hicks gave orders to these former men to buy millions of pounds of food, and as a result they arrived on the West Coast and found it impossible to procure so much food reserves at all. Farmers had to be lured to cultivate food vigorously by having to book food output for the following year at two or three times higher prices. They complained that in the colonies of the West Coast countries they had bought coarse grain potatoes that sold the price of flour.

The agents discovered that the pre-built warehouses of the advance agents of the Hicks kingdom had stockpiled a lot of food and supplies, so they suggested that action be taken to infiltrate the warehouse area to prevent the burning of the food or something, so as to give the Hicks a disembarkation horse.

However, the war zone soon rejected the agent's proposal for the simple reason that the lease agreement between the Kingdom of Hicks and the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands had not yet entered into force and that the current colony of the Gulf of Rodex was still under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. In the event of a fire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland intervened in the investigation. When it is discovered that the theatre is set on fire, the theatre will be held accountable and compensated...

Rather than the war zone fearing offending the Fox Islands United Kingdom, there is no need to add more trouble to the war zone. Since the civil war broke out between the two kings of the kingdom's mainland, the original kingdom of Auveras, a powerful country in the eastern part of the Farea continent, has become a small and deceptive actor. Had it not been for the historic record of World War III, the colonial war waged against the Kingdom of the Hicks, there might have been other countries coming to fight for the Overseas Territories.

If King Sterling X had been alive and no civil war had broken out in the kingdom itself, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands would never have rented the colony of the Gulf of Rodex to assemble its forces in the Kingdom of Hicks. Their country is only tough with four major naval fleets, and the level of land warfare has collapsed. But now two naval fleets in the kingdom of Orvilas, one fearless fleet, are destroyed and the other storm fleet belongs to the rebellious Grand Prince Hansburg. The entire kingdom, plus the Overseas Territories, is at sea defenceless and can only significantly strengthen coastal defences against attacks and dangers from the sea...

The lease agreement between the Kingdom of the Six and the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands would not enter into force until the landing of the first shipments of standing legions. Within that five-year period, all colonial sites outside the city were under the responsibility of the Kingdom of Hicks, with the exception of the inhabitants of the city of Rodex Bay, which was also under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. Even if battlefields sent troops into the colonies of the Gulf of Rodex and the Hicks fought for their lives, the inhabitants of the city would only cry out loud on the walls, saying that they adhered strictly to the principle of neutrality and would never participate in the fighting between the two countries.

So if you want to burn down the Hicks' warehouse, there will be opportunities, and now it will not be lost to set fire to it. Even if the food is burned, it will only alert the enemy. They will vigorously strengthen the security and safety of the warehouse area and make it even more inconvenient for future attacks.

According to General Bolognick, all new rifles produced by the firearms factory were first redecorated by the Legion of Thunder to enhance its offensive combat power. Claude nevertheless rejected the distribution arrangement, insisting that the new rifle be distributed equally between the two regiments and that the units with the strongest fighting power be replaced first. He considered that in the ensuing battle in the mountainous areas, not only offensive but also defensive forces of good standing were needed to accompany the battle.

Both regiments were redecorated at battalion size, and a significant increase in unit combat capacity with new rifles was expected. One of the first battalions of the Rock Regiment to equip itself with a new rifle, in subsequent field exercises, set up defensive positions on the ground, successfully resisting the offensive by both regiments. Eventually, during the sandbox exercise, a division was deployed, and the entire division was concentrated in artillery bombardment before finally taking down the defensive position...

This field exercise also added to the determination of officers in theatre command to defeat the Hicks. Unlike this field manoeuvre in the mountains, the enemy is unable to take a tactic that positively attracts fire around the back of a two-rib raid, and they can only secure the way forward by seizing one hill at a time.

Claude had McJackie and Muriel, several of his little brothers in Berklin, trained in mountain warfare for the entire regiment's troops, and he had gotten himself into a firearms manufacturing workshop and developed a new weapon with Mrs. Sonia and her sister Anna, Hitto, to play a strange role in the ensuing war. Just as the sniper rifle was about to be successfully developed, Claude received a message from the battlefield headquarters that the hawk was still rushing, with three hawks on it. The letter states that the Nikancha Nation sent a massive mission to ask for help in the theatre.

It appears that the Nikanca nation has confirmed the news of the return of the Hicks from the West Coast, who should also have been frightened by the 10 Standing Regiments, more than 600,000 large troops.

As far as the war zone is known, the Nikancha State does not have a formal national army. Each of their six largest colonies has an armed force of over 10,000 people. The next two dozen of their subordinate tribes are armed with between 5,000 and 3,000 young men, and the next subordinate tribe is armed with only nearly 1,000 and hundreds of escorts. Armed here are Nikanca youths who are officially armed with guns and trained in elementary military training, not those who wave a bow and arrow spear knife...

Obviously, the Nikanca State is not without sober minds, and it is clear to them that the Hicks' offensive cannot be resisted at all by the armed forces of their various colonies. Because they had no artillery, the most powerful weapons were the Hicks guns that had been seized from the theatre. While they are on the same level as their enemies, they are well-trained, heavily armed, heavily armed and supported by a variety of artillery. At the level of their concentration of armed men with only short-term military training, they cannot be rivals to the Hicks.

So they can only place their hopes in the hands of the direct territorial battlefield, knowing equally well that they have nothing better to do with the Hicks. Even if their integrity was no longer a scoundrel, they would not want to be Hicks' slaves again. This mission, almost half the elders and chiefs of the six largest gatherings, are hoping to reach an agreement with the war zone, preferably by sending troops directly to the war zone...