Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 438 Arrival of the Standing Regiment of the Kingdom of Hicks

Holy Light, Rodex Bay, 5th April, 593.

Less than ten days after the rainy season on the continent, the golden sun spills over the pale red sea, turning the sparkling sea into a glorious pink dream. The crystal clear waters swept across the dark red fine sand, and a few children with small baskets picked up shells on the beach with tiny buckets of water came from time to time with their cheerful carefree laughter...

A child who suddenly looked up to the sea suddenly stood there, and several other children who had not been able to get a response from him also looked to the sea, and they quickly found out what had caused their companion to faint. But on the distant surface of the sea, a black dot appeared, quickly connected, followed by countless sails...

This is a very large oceanic fleet that several children have never seen before, and the number of vessels they own can even obscure children's horizons. Looking away, the ocean is full of ships, and behind them you can see more ships coming out at sea level, which are now heading towards the Gulf of Rodex.

A crisp, long bell rang on a lighthouse on a Great Reef Plate at the mouth of Rodex Bay with a joyful rhythm, a bell that welcomed the ship home. If you are attacked by a pirate or find a pirate ship attacking, the bells will be very tight and tense, instead of ringing again every few seconds.

The artillery on the walls of the city also sounded, with its mouth facing the sky and fired with a kit of fireworks, blowing up in the sky, revealing countless golden stars falling from the sky. Unfortunately, it will be day, not night. Only on the eve of the birthday and welcoming night of six Grand Dukes in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands will the city's residents appreciate the wonderful and beautiful moments when the Guard fires firecrackers with cannons...

Now the bells on the lighthouse and the firecrackers on the walls of the city mean nothing more than the arrival of the Hicks, the great golden lord who rented the colony of the Gulf of Rodex. Colonial officials in the city and face figures in the locality are dressed up, with their dressed branches and extended families riding their wagons to the Gulf Pier, where they will greet the landing Hicks and hand over jurisdiction over the colony to each other...

And the advance men sent by the Kingdom of Hicks are ready. They led nearly a hundred wagons to the pier, unloaded the wheat loads from the wagons in a large open area and piled them up into a barrel hill. This is a breeze for the officers and soldiers of several standing legions about to disembark, giving them a drink to relieve them of their more than a month's journey aboard.

As administrators of the Buffalo Corporation's Rodex Bay colony to negotiate bargains with the Kingdom of the Hicks, past agents from these war zones were also dragged to the docks by understaffed Hicks to help pour wine. This allows them to observe in close proximity the situation of several of the first standing regiments transported by the Kingdom of Hicks, whether the elite can draw conclusions from the performance of these officers and soldiers after disembarkation...

One day later, Claude received a message from these agents from the colony of Rodex Bay that the Hicks had arrived. Not surprisingly, Claude, this time the Kingdom of the Hicks brought three Standing Legions, all from the newly occupied territories of the Kingdom of Ovilas, and more than 300,000 were transported by the kingdom's emerging commercial nobles to three of the five newly formed Standing Legions that had been selected as Hicks prisoners in the past for labour development. The names of their regiments were interesting, calling the First Legion of Xueshan to the Fifth Legion of Xueshan, and this time three legions were delivered.

According to intelligence sources, all three members of the Hicks' Standing Army disembarked this time were veterans, some of them older, basically in their thirties, and after disembarking, they performed calmly, feeling like elite troops who had been passing through the sand for a long time. Just like the veterans who had just moved into those 18 local guard regiments.

Except that the transfer of these veterans of the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps into the local guard forces in the direct territorial battlefield was intended to allow them to play their part in the later stages of military service, while the Kingdom of Hicks reconstituted these veterans, who had been captured for years, into the standing corps in an attempt to cleanse them of the shame of defeat for their captivity and hard service careers. Perhaps these Hicks veterans are the hardest enemies to deal with...

The agents also revealed another message in a hawk message that they were gathered for drinks and drinks with the advance men of the Hicks Kingdom at the end of the evening. Several of these advance personnel will be able to return to the Farea continent on board the battleship, but the remaining advance personnel will continue to procure logistics for the incoming Standing Corps as logistics officers in the Rodex Gulf colony. So they're going to continue their bargain with the agents, and hopefully the agents will be able to smuggle more grain and supplies for them from overseas jurisdictions...

After the forthcoming Hicks advance was intoxicated, a message was inadvertently revealed. This time it was the King's fleet of the Kingdom of Hicks, as well as the joint fleet rented from the Kingdom of Nasserley and the Principality of Kanas, and the Goddess of Verona fleet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which provided a free delivery, transported three standing regiments. The next three fleets will soon be returning to the Farea mainland, transporting the remaining two Legions of Shame from the newly occupied port of Florrick in the Kingdom of Ovilas to the colony of the Gulf of Rodex.

Meanwhile, the Kingdom of the Hicks will hire the United Kingdom fleet of Goddess Verona to help with another shipment of armaments and grass. As soon as these two regiments and armaments are transported to the colony of the Gulf of Rodex, the five armed regiments, in the name of snow and shame, will launch military operations against the mountainous areas occupied by the Nikancas in the north and east.

“What do you think?” Claude asked next to General Albert. They are now both staying in the almost finished Monkenard Castle of the Port Vibato colony and the only large silver mine in the Port Vibato colony county back then. The Castle of Monknard was rebuilt at the original site of the city of Monknard, which had been destroyed by the Nikanchas. A local guard corps of veterans has been stationed to guard against entry theft by the Nikanchas.

Since mid-February, when an agreement was reached with the Nikanca State to cooperate against the Hicks, a front-line command has been established in the theatre, located at Castle Monknard. Claude was in command of the front line, while General Albert and General Bitchcline became his two deputies. As for General Bolognick and General Skerry, there is also a need to sit in the town of Lake Lang, which deals with various administrative matters of the size and size of the eight overseas direct jurisdictions under the jurisdiction of the theatre.

“Bick has travelled to the eastern and northern mountains of the Nikanca nation to oversee the movement of those Nikanca colonies and preparations for the clearance of solid walls, along with the need to set up a defensive front in the middle of the mountains to survey the terrain. As things stand, the Nikanchas are still very cooperative, and they are well prepared to build defensive positions and pledge to provide personnel and transport assistance for the logistical supply of our troops.

Two regiments, led by Colonel Berklin and Colonel Muried, have launched attacks on the remaining Hicks inland colonies. The port of Vibato has been occupied by our war zone for two years, and the mineral development bases of these inland colonies have been unable to transport gold and silver ingots out of the country, but have to be stockpiled. We acquired nearly two million gold and silver ingots in the warehouses of the seven mineral development bases seized. Unfortunately, it has to be distributed to the Nikancas at 30 percent. ”

General Albert spoke with a certain reluctance, with the seizure of two million gold kroner and a white score of 30 per cent to the Nikancas, which is already a huge sum of 600,000 gold kroner. The battle was the responsibility of two regiments of the Legion of Thunder, the Nikanchas, who led a road, transported supplies at the transport point, frightened the captives, and fought soy sauce all the way, but were able to distribute so many seizures. And then there are more Hicks built plantations and mineral bases, and when you think about how many more seizures have to be distributed to the Nikancas, General Albert is very uncomfortable.

Claude glanced at him with a smile: "I now understand why King McKid III of the Kingdom of Hicks is dying with our war zone, and where he spends so much of his military spending. Seven gold and silver mines, two years of ingot reserves worth nearly two million gold kroner. The entire hinterland colony of the Kingdom of Hicks has dozens of mineral development bases, large and small, owned by mineral development firms built by the size and nobility of the Kingdom of Hicks, and the Kingdom of Hicks receives 10 per cent of its mineral development revenues.

You can calculate how much wealth the Hicks kingdom receives each year from small and large mining developers run by these aristocrats. No wonder people say that the kingdom of Hicks is rich and oily, and the nobility of their kingdom often throws thousands of gold at auction houses and bids heavenly prices on jewellery jewellery art collectibles and such. The Kingdom of Hicks has been operating this inland colony for almost two decades, and it is conceivable how much gold and silver they have taken from this inland colony, accumulating too much wealth in their treasury.

So after three devastating colonial wars and the rebellion of the country's nobles, the Kingdom of Hicks could still spend two and a half million gold kroner to lease the Rodex Bay colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for five years and reconstitute 10 standing regiments. For the Hicks, they must preserve this inland colony, and only then will their nobility continue to spend their luxurious lives in the sun and wine fields. And McKid III will be able to stabilize his throne and allow the Kingdom of Hicks to remain the dominant power in the northern part of the Farea continent... "

“I know what you mean. General Albert replied:" Preserving this inland colony requires finding a reliable and safe seaport for the mineral transport of the colony, as well as providing this inland colony, which is entirely dominated by gold and silver mineral development, with an agro-pastoral colony rich in domestic goods as a logistical base.

So that bastard king of the Hicks kingdom sees our Cromwell and Bering Ghana, demanding that our kingdom cede these two areas to them, bordering the Dollinibala River. The real reason this colonial war broke out was because this bullshit McKid III had a crush on our land? What makes him? ”

Claude fell into memory: "Just five years after our kingdom ended the war in the eastern part of the country, the people were lost, the treasury was empty, and more than 600,000 soldiers were killed or injured in the Kingdom, occupying only a large area of ruined land. Especially before the signing of the truce peace agreement, the Blue Feather Regiment and the two second-line regiments were also raided on the prairie by the Duchy of Kanas light cavalry, leading to the collapse of the entire army. This tragic defeat has led a number of bystanders to think that we are a strong player outside our kingdom, and that there are cheap ways to pick it up...

So when the economic development of the Kingdom after the war failed three years ago, the Kingdom of Hicks began to provoke the colonial borders of the two countries of the Nubian continent, and finally, on the pretext that our Kingdom's territory was armed, fired at the patrol teams that had entered the Cromwell territory first, demanding that the Kingdom cede the Cromwell and Bering Ghana jurisdictions to apologize. The Kingdom rejected this unjustified demand, and this colonial war broke out.

So here we are, and all the senior kingdoms at the time thought we were just doing our best to show that the kingdom was determined not to give up any overseas jurisdiction. At that time, we were just a cavalier regiment, with a division stationed against two colonies of the Hicks, and we won, and the kingdom began to build war zones. Then the Hicks brought in five standing legions, which gave us over 300,000 more prisoners.

The Hicks then became more and more frustrated, declaring the formation of ten standing legions to wage this colonial war. It really scared me a little. After all, Marshal Michel was transferred back to the mainland of the kingdom, and we all had nothing in our hearts. It turned out unexpected that the Hicks themselves had a noble rebellion in their country, and I finally waited impatiently and volunteered to sweep out three of their regiments. The war zone also took over the Port Vibato Colony County.

Now that the Ten Standing Regiments of the Hicks have finally arrived, and we have seized all their inland colonies and destroyed them, I see why the Kingdom of the Hicks should continue this colonial war. The Hicks had no place on the continent, and when the colonial war had ended, the military might of the Hicks had been seen by all countries, so rich, as if they were children's money.

It is believed that the neighbouring countries will soon strike their minds, and then this so-called dominant power in the northern part of the Farea continent will be waiting to be rubbed to the ground by others. With a winner, more predators will soon be thrown over. I'd like to see, without the strength of the 10 standing legions, and the 200,000 Hicks prisoners who still serve free hard labour under our direct authority, how many more young legions can the Kingdom of Hicks recruit to defend itself against prisoners from other countries? ”

With no words, General Albert thought that what Claude had said in front of others to defeat the Ten Standing Legions of the Kingdom of the Hicks was merely to strengthen our belief in defeating our enemies, and that Claude was trying to keep all of the Ten Standing Legions of the Hicks here. This is not a crushing victory, but a symbol of the desire to wipe out more than 600,000 enemies and the confidence of Claude...

But General Albert didn't want to throw cold water at Claude either, and he had something else to warn Claude: "Claude, we took over the Hicks' hinterland colony, but we're going to hand over all this gold and silver minerals to the Nikans, okay? It's not fair that we, the Legion of Thunder, are all contributing, the Nikanchas are watching the show, and we have to give them a copy of the catch..."

Claude laughed, "Do you know why I sent over 10,000 troops to attack Hicks Inland? Those Hicks plantations and mineral development bases have an armed force of up to 100 people, and I can actually sweep the entire hinterland colony with just one battalion.

Two missions were sent because this was a rare opportunity for pre-war practice. Most of the soldiers in our regiment are new recruits who have just been recruited, and although they have completed all kinds of training, they have never seen blood or fought on the battlefield, which is why I practiced for them with this inland colony of the Kingdom of Hicks, the estates and mineral development bases.

I let Berklin and Muried rotate their troops every time they attack, and it would be better for every soldier to see blood and gain some combat experience, which is a pre-war drill. As far as seizures and those gold and silver minerals are concerned, I did not pay attention to them, but first gave the Nikanchas a taste of sweetness and added a little confidence and security to their cooperation with our theatre.

If after the war the people of Nikanca went to mine gold and silver, I would be happy to see them. You know, gold and silver ingots can't be eaten or used as guns, and even if they dig up gold and silver, they end up trading with us in the war zone, buying food and drinks and weapons and ammunition from our war zone, and the luxury of life that leaders and elders need.

This is actually the equivalent of the Nikans digging gold and silver for our war zone, where we don't need a penny of our own money to trade in, with those cheap, massive foodstuffs and ammunition, and high-end life luxury goods, from the Nikans to real gold and silver. Is there a better deal in the world than this?

When the Nikancas get used to buying large quantities of gold and silver minerals from our theatre, they give up growing potatoes and hunting hard on their own, and only need one piece of gold and silver to buy from our theatre. This is tantamount to finding a stable trading target for a large quantity of agricultural and living goods in the war zone, a dumping market that belongs to all goods in our war zone... "