Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 475: Rage

Boquer was busy, and just after a half-month vacation, he was assigned to the newly established Rocky Hills administration by General Skerry. The War Zone Direct Ministry decided to build a town on the border with the Nykansas as as a market place for all kinds of trade with the Nykansas, making it a bridgehead for dumping all kinds of goods produced in the War Zone to the Nykansas.

The end of the colonial war compelled workshops under the direct authority of the theatre to shift the target of their products from military to civilian use. The War Zone Logistics Department has drastically reduced orders for a variety of military and industrial products, while also finding a commercial route for direct territorial production. This is also why General Skerry has targeted the Nikanca nation, and as a trusted friend of the Nikanca people, Bok Al has become the most suitable candidate to preside over the project.

Mr. Rubilwell wanted to re-establish his family business in the Overseas Territories, except for his initial arrival, where there was no extensive commercial relationship and where he was struggling. Boquer's former bison dealership, which used the name of the theatre to carry out all sorts of pit smuggling, was a plain sign of the theatre's intelligence services' cover-up of their clandestine activities and did not add much to his family's business.

While the Ward Command promised Mr. Rubiewell that his family comptoirs would share a cup of business with the Nikans, it would also take time, and at the earliest more than six months, to reach a commercial consensus with the Nikans over there on such matters as building towns and cities. Mr. Rubiewell also runs several production workshops to accommodate the families of his family business associates, as well as to supply goods to his family business...

If Eriksson's Black Sail pirates come to the door, Claude will promise to trade arms with them. Anyway, the Six Kingdoms seized large quantities of weapons and equipment, even if some of them were sold to the administrators in Rodex Bay City, but more seized armaments were stored in various warehouses in the theatre. Claude did not mind selling some arms to Ericsson to allow his Black Sail pirates to maintain security in the area of direct jurisdiction for some time, while also benefiting from war zones to compensate for military expenditures incurred during the war.

At present, however, it seems unlikely that Eriksson will be able to make a deal with the immediate battle zone in the short term. Claude estimates that it will take at least two months for them to return to their nest, sail to the mainland of the Kingdom to pillage people and property, transport people and property to the old nest, and then make a deal in the immediate battle zone, which will take at least two months to make the return voyage, and there will be plenty of time to prepare for the battle zone.

Following discussions with General Bolognick and General Scully, Claude was prepared to place the deal in the small town of the fishing port that had been burned to white ground. The Hicks accidentally landed at Claude et al., realizing that the fishing harbor town could be opened up as a deep-water wharf. However, the reconstructed fishing harbour towns need to be fully equipped with maritime defence facilities, while a reliable local guard force needs to be deployed to reassure theatre commands of their proximity to critical locations.

It takes two to three days to land in Lake Lang from Port Patres under Robisto. And it takes just over two hours to sail from Port Patres to Fishing Harbor Town, and half a day to disembark from Fishing Harbor Town to Langhu City, which saves almost two days, and the Ward Command cannot refuse this convenience...

Claude is ready to put future deals with Ericsson's Blacksail Pirates in this fishing port town, out of course of a buffalo dealership willing to back up the blackpot for the war zone. If Bok Al is busy with the Nikantha, he is in charge of the deal. If he doesn't come back, Claude is going to have Mr. Rubywell preside. The war zone, on the other hand, can deduce the true strength of Blacksail pirates by the quantity of goods traded with Ericsson.

The only headache for General Bolognick and Claude is that no naval commander is currently available in theatre to integrate the cruise fleet. Not that no good naval talent can be found within the direct jurisdiction theatre, like those who are smugglers willing to serve in the direct jurisdiction theatre are good battleship masters, but they cannot reassure theatre to hand over the entire fleet to their command.

Anyway, this is the age of sailboats, naval warfare is nothing more than artillery bombardment, sinking or forced landing of enemy ships, nearby ships with various weapons to kill, who dares to fight and win will be more sure. Once you've learned these two points and figured out what it means to detour, seize a cannon position, preempt an enemy, siege at sea and other tactics, you can form an initial maritime battle force for the entire cruise fleet...

General Albert should have been the most suitable leader of the fleet, General Bolognick could not have left his post as acting commander-in-chief of the theatre, while Claude was responsible for the deployment, rehabilitation, discipline supervision and training of two regiments and locally armed men throughout the theatre, and could not have held any command of the fleet. General Bitchklin was stationed in the Rodex Bay colony again, and General Skerry, as the overall logistics director of the theatre, was not fit to lead the troops.

Only General Albert, as Chief of General Staff of the Thunder Corps, held the deputy position of Claude. Claude arranged all sorts of missions. It's just that these tasks are perfectly capable of being carried out by the officers under his command and do not need to be conveyed through him. So General Bolognick decided to put General Albert in charge of the battlefield cruise fleet, integrating and forming the fleet. As a result, it was firmly rejected by General Albert.

General Albert's refusal to do so simply means that he would rather disobey orders than be captain of any fleet. The reason is simple, he's really afraid of water, and he can't swim. If you take a long boat ride, you'll be seasick and let him be the leader of the fleet, you might as well burn the entire fleet with a direct fire, which will also reduce casualties for the battlefield...

Well, you can't let a man who's afraid of water, who can't swim and has seasickness skills outside to be the captain of some fleet, and the leader of the ocean cruise fleet in the battlefield is difficult to produce. Not just General Bolognick and Claude, but even General Scully. It was just that the candidate he had proposed was equally poor, and the biggest problem was the inability to serve and the inability of the theatre to determine his loyalty.

The captains of the smugglers themselves were brave enough to fight each other in the taverns, to meet pirates at sea, and they would calmly escape the pirate tail chase. But it is not the same thing to fly a naval vessel and lead a fleet; the fleet itself is not defensive, and all naval fleets have been set up to attack. You don't need to think about how to disengage when you meet a pirate, what you need to think about is how to destroy these enemies with the least cost of casualties...

At that time, however, Claude received a letter from Colonel Muried, the head of the 1302 regiment of the First Division of Thunder Far from Port Vibato. In his letter, the Muried said that he had wanted to join the Kingdom's fearless fleet as a Navy soldier since childhood, but was unable to enrol him in the Royal Naval College because of his low status at home. So much so that when he grew up, he joined the Army, and Yin Yang and Yang were mistaken for his current status.

Now he heard that the battlefield was forming an ocean cruise fleet, so he wanted to ask Claude to transfer him to the fleet, even as a trainee captain, which would finally fulfill his dreams of crossing the ocean when he was a kid and waiting for a bunch of bala talk...

Claude looked at the dark line after the letter, Muriel. The ghost believes what he said for his childhood dreams, you know that he is now a colonel of the Royal Army, if he hadn't been disconnected from the mainland of the Kingdom, he would have been promoted to Major General of the Kingdom. Captain, is he out of his mind?

A hawk sent word that Muriel would appear in front of Claude half a month later. Claude instructed Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes to guard at the door and, disregarding Muried's dust servant, threw his letter on the table and asked him what was going on.

Muriel replied with a smile, boss, that his cruise to the ocean was the result of an agreement, and that he had just drawn lots and lost. Because they met Colonel Bockard, who was working for the Rocky Hills, in Port Vibato, and learned from his mouth the passage to Wangdu and the work of Sterling XI. Now that the immediate war zone has prevailed over the Kingdom of Hicks and ended this colonial war, the Kings will soon send envoys to take over power in the war zone.

Because there are still four generals in the immediate war zone, no one will be willing to believe that they will proactively resist those envoys from Wangdu. After all, the prestige of the Sterling royal family is deeply embedded in the local commander, who has rarely rebelled in the three hundred years since the establishment of the Kingdom of Auvellas. So after you've discussed it, you feel like you should take control of this cruise ship, leave Claude and them a way back, and it's nice to sail out with everyone to take over an island and be a pirate.

The end of the colonial war meant that everyone was useless in the Legion of Thunder, and when the Royal Envoy arrived, an order might be issued to dissolve the Legion. Soldiers do not care, their families and relatives have moved to the direct authority and have been given private land divided into war zones, and they have a good prospect of becoming farmer ranchers when they are demobilized to their fields.

But for Berlin, Muried, they were reluctant to leave it to the royal envoy, unable to resist, to agree on a strategy to master this ocean cruise fleet, to send all the officers and soldiers loyal to Claude to this fleet, and to sail away with their families in case things change in the war zone, without the sack of the royal envoy...

Claude was a little moved in his heart, and I didn't expect his little brothers to be so thoughtful about themselves, just that their methods were inevitably too negative, only to escape and leave. He was silent for a while and asked Muriel again, are you sure you want to move into the cruise ship?

Muried nailed the iron cut to affirm.

Claude appealed: "In this way, you will temporarily assume the command of this battlefield cruiser fleet and be responsible for the formation and integration of this cruiser fleet, all of which will be selected from the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of Rocks. Remember, all those who are fit to join the fleet are based on Zhongcheng. As for manipulating warships and other skills, you can learn from the captured Hicks Navy officers and soldiers. The sooner they teach, the closer they are to release..."

With Claude's assurance, Colonel Muriet was well placed as acting commander of the battlefield cruise fleet, and his ability to remove the title of agent depended on his integration into the fleet. The battlefield gave him three months to complete the selection of fleet personnel, and then within six months, the entire battleship was able to complete its formations and take a tour of the ocean.

It took a few days to complete the cruise of the ocean fleet, Claude went back to theatre headquarters, brought Colonel Bockall's report on his journey to see Sterling XI, and re-recruited the guards who followed Colonel Bockall back to the kingdom to tell them what they had seen and heard on their way to the kingdom and the process of fighting bandits, and then brought them together into a tour novel, where some newspapers were first published in the direct territorial war zone, then published for a while, and finally distributed to all the stationed forces.....

General Scully's unannounced cooperation with Claude's actions soon made the inhabitants of all the direct governorates aware of the tragedy taking place in the kingdom itself, the newspapers were sold insane, people were told from time to time in the tavern about the absurd acts of Sterling XI, the troops stationed everywhere were also fluctuating in their minds, and began to question the promise of rewarding all the soldiers and officers who had participated in the colonial war by sending envoys to the king propagated by the battlefield command...

General Bolognick was half mad, waving the newspaper into Claude's office, angrily asking what Claude was up to.

Claude simply told him calmly that he wanted the inhabitants of the Overseas Territories to know the truth about the tragedies currently taking place on the mainland of the Kingdom. In contrast, one can understand how much a war zone pays for their well-being and tranquillity, and one has to learn to be grateful...

“But you're ugly! These tragic events on the mainland of the kingdom, which spread to the newspapers and allowed the inhabitants of the direct administration to comment freely on the wrongs done by our king, will soon become a new crime for the generals of our war zones. When the articles published in these newspapers are passed on to the colonies of the West Coast countries, our King becomes a joke to those neighbouring countries, which is treacherous!” General Bolognick growled.

Claude stared at General Bolognick and was very disappointed: “I know what you're thinking, you're being selfish, you just want to preserve your own personal reputation, you never think about the inhabitants of the direct jurisdiction, the generals who made a great sacrifice in defending the direct jurisdiction war zone. All you want to do is wait for the arrival of the Kingdom's envoy and hand over your powers and responsibilities so that no matter how much you suffer, you will have a good reputation in the history of the Kingdom..."

“Boom!” Claude slapped his wrath on the table, pointing a louder voice at General Bolognick and shouted, "Is that how you hide the truth? Did you hide what His Majesty did? In a few months, without our propaganda, the joke of our new king will come from the countries of the Farea continent! I'd rather have all the residents of our direct jurisdiction in their hearts than knowing anything!

Besides, who do you think the envoy from the kingdom would be, and you think our new king, who knows nothing but what he said to Colonel Boquer, knows that he doesn't care if our war zone is a colonial war with the Hicks kingdom, that all he wants is to raze the wealth of the overseas territories to satisfy his life of pleasure and luxury, do you know how many tragedies will ensue if he doesn't tell the residents of the territories now?

When you visited the troops, you told the generals that when the Royal Special Envoy arrived, all officers and soldiers who had been neutral in the colonial war would be promoted and rewarded. You know it's impossible, why lie to them? When the royal envoy really arrives, you can give up your powers and responsibilities and be relaxed. But what about the sergeants you promised to deceive? The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Do you know how much damage they'll do to our immediate battlefield when they mutiny because of disappointment?

Why should I publish a report in the newspapers on Colonel Bockard's journey to the King to see the new King, just to give the inhabitants of the direct administration and our generals a head start so they don't have much hope for the forthcoming envoy of the kingdom! This will allow us to restrain ourselves from the harm inflicted upon us upon the arrival of the Kingdom's Special Envoy and will not lead to an unfortunate outcome. As acting commander in chief of the war zone, I want you to think more about the residents of the direct war zone and our brave generals, not just about your reputation! ”

General Bolognick's anger swept in, and instead he was scolded by Claude, who returned with no words of right or shame. General Bolognick did, as Claude put it, take a protracted attitude to much of the battlefield command during this period. This is to prepare the Special Envoy of the Kingdom to hand over his powers and responsibilities when he arrives, so that he does not have to worry about these chores.

Instead, Claude took the initiative to take over all the chores and approve them in his own name and order them to be executed. Both General Scully and Claude in theatre command are counting, which General Bolognick thinks the Royal Envoy is on the verge of coming, so he wants to give up power. The small thing that is unwilling to take ownership is to maintain the situation of the forces in the theatre and the territories under their direct authority until the day when power and responsibility are handed over.

That is why General Bolognick publicized Claude's great anger and dissatisfaction at the reports of Colonel Boquer's return to the kingdom and his visit to Wang Du to see Sterling XI, which he believed would cause anxiety and instability in the war zone under his administration. He just didn't realize Claude didn't give him face at all, poked his mind and thoughts straight through, scolded him for being a selfish little man and a liar, only for his own reputation...

After being scolded by Claude, General Bolognick began to cuddle up in bed and stopped coming to theatre headquarters.