Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 483: Against the Olympics

It has been a long time since the Autonomous Territories received news from the newly occupied territories of the Kingdom. More than a year ago, when Grand Prince Hansburg was reportedly assassinated and killed after his departure from the Kingdom's mainland and his return to the newly occupied territories, the newly occupied territories were divided and occupied by four regiments under the Grand Prince. Of these, the Blue Feather Corps occupies most of the territory of the former Principality of Rimodra, while the other three standing regiments occupy the remaining territory of each of the three Principality and are de facto divided.

The Pioneer Tribune, the most famous of the colonies of the West Coast, had published a commentary to the effect that the situation that followed was likely to be one in which the four regiments fought each other until the final victor was decided, ultimately making the new occupation of the Kingdom of Auveras independent as a new nation. This presupposes, of course, that there is no interference from external factors in the course of the conflagration of the four regiments, and indeed this assertion is not possible.

Compared to the kingdom itself, the situation in the newly occupied territories is arguably enemies on all sides. Grand Prince Hansburg was able to suppress the scene while he was still alive, but after his assassination and death, there was intense internal strife, and none of his four regimental commanders could resist anyone, and no suitable heirs could be proposed for a short period of time. Had it not been for the harsh external environment, the two vicious neighbours of the Kingdom of Nasri and the Principality of Kanas would have fought hard against the newly occupied land tigers, forcing the four regiments to warm up outside.

Five years after the Six Kingdoms War in the Eastern Region, the Duchy of Siddins, the Duchy of Rimodra and the Duchy of Eskirin were extinct, and the territory became the new occupation of the Kingdom of Ovieras. This five-year war in the East is arguably a two-loss war, with no real victors and hidden dangers for the ensuing civil war over the Second King of the Kingdom of Orvilas.

The three extinct principalities, with the exception of Grand Duke Eskirin, who surrendered from the city, both Grand Duke Siddins and Grand Duke Rimodra, were in bad hands and fled with their legs pulled. With their families in exile to the kingdom of Nasri, they are eager to return to their country, often secretly financing rebel armies on the territory of the former Principality in order to find trouble for the new occupiers. The Kingdom of Nathaniel and the Principality of Kanas were also devastated by this five-year war and were unable to provide more help to the two Grand Dukes.

The kingdoms of Nasseri and Kanas are still sitting on the hills watching the tigers fight and do not want to get involved in this war, even though the civil war broke out in the mainland of the Kingdom of Auvellas and broke out between the two princes into a rubble of powerful nations in the eastern part of the continent. The present situation is very satisfactory to the late enemy of the Kingdom of Auvellas, the Kingdom of Nasserli, who are perfectly fishermen and who do not need the means of war to get everything they wanted before the war.

King Sterling XI, the son of a loser, returned four frontier counties taken by the Kingdom of Auvellas from the Kingdom of Nasserley for 60 years, leaving the two countries without a land dispute. At the same time, three huge loans were loaned from the Kingdom of Nasseri to cope with the civil war in the Kingdom. Together, these three huge loans amounted to 56.0 million gold kroner. In fact, only 4.8 million gold kroner was paid, divided into three and five years, and eight million gold kroner was repaid after the expiration of five years...

Sterling XI could be said to have borrowed a high-interest loan from the Kingdom of Nasri for military expenses and to have rolled up profits if it had not matured, unless it continued lending to the Kingdom of Nasri and borrowed new debts to repay old ones. With the integrity of Sterling XI, he would certainly do so, and when the loan amounted to more than 20 million gold kroner, it would mean that the entire economy of the Kingdom of Auvellas would be in the hands of the Kingdom of Nasserley.

Unlike the use by the Kingdom of Nasseri of high-interest loans to suppress and control the economic development of its dead enemies, the Principality of Kanas is powerless. The Principality of Kanas lent a voluntary mercenary regiment to the Kingdom of Hicks, said to be made up of retirees, but was in fact one of the most elite armed light cavalry regiments in the Principality of Kanas. After being annihilated by the Thunder Division, it means being traumatized and devastated for the Principality of Kanas.

At that time, the Principality of Kanas was just two light riders, and it was helpless to lend one to the Kingdom of the Hicks. The four principalities held together before the war could complement the economy, but after the war there was only one Duchy of Kanas, and the beef and sheep produced lost their previous markets, making it difficult for the bad economy of the Principality to sustain two elite standing light riders.

I just didn't expect this leasing elite corps of light cavalry to collapse in this colonial war on the Nubian continent. Even if the Kingdom of Hicks had paid a compensation fee, it would still be difficult to compensate for the loss of the Principality's military strength. So what happened in the kingdom of Ovieras later, the Duchy of Kanas could only be a good audience, and it did not want to help Grand Duke Siddins and Grand Duke Rimodra recover, but was not confident to get involved in this mess.

Prince Hansburg is a generation of generals, and his regiment has always been strong. Even if the great prince is assassinated, the strength of the four regiments won't disappear. Besides, the Duchy of Kanas is not going to get bored at this critical juncture because he can't catch the assassin like a mad dog. So while intent is on helping the two Grand Duke restore their country, it can only hold on for a while and let the newly occupied territories have a calm year.

On the Farea continent today, there are two great jokes, one of which is Machid III of the Kingdom of Hicks, who started this colonial war, which almost consumed the accumulation of the treasury of the Kingdom of Hicks for the first two decades, and who lost more than a dozen standing legions of nearly a million troops, ultimately to nothing and shame.

At the same time, this colonial war in the southern part of the Nubian continent also pierced the bubble of the dominant power in the northern part of the Hicks kingdom of Farea, whose army was cynically labeled the sheep army. Because in writing alone, the Kingdom of Hicks used a total of seventeen standing regiments, but it was unable to beat the two second-line regiments deployed by the Kingdom of Auvellas in overseas jurisdictions, and it still had no return.

Today, the military power of the Kingdom of Hicks is underrated in the Farea continent, and even the stupidity of neighbouring countries cannot be suppressed. The military conflict between the two neighbouring countries over the border contradictions has been resolved independently of the mediation of the Kingdom of Hicks. Machid III has thus become the counterproductive teaching material for the children of the monarchs of the continent. His heart is higher than the sky. Without knowledge of the timing of the trial, walking all the way to the tip of the dead horn is what he describes.

Another joke was King Sterling XI, the new loser of the kingdom of Orvillas, who, in order to compete with his brother for the throne, treated the kingdom's territory as garbage, abandoned it, and gave it away to others, only to allow himself to sit safely on the throne. As a result, the kingdom of Auvellas fell from its status as a powerful power in the eastern part of the continent to that of an ordinary kingdom, once the great good that two generations of previous kings struggled to create for the kingdom was destroyed.

When he became king, Sterling XI was not inspired to seek cure, but rather indulged in a variety of banquets and dances. At the same time, people were sent to pursue the culpability of the supporters of the Great Prince during the civil war, to scrape civilian wealth for their own enjoyment, and to make a kingdom free of chatter and displaced people everywhere. In the end, it was forced to violate overseas jurisdictions, not only claiming autonomy, but also sending the Legion of Thunder into the mainland of the Kingdom, robbing local county factories of machinery and equipment and gathering displaced persons.

Today, in the eyes of the peoples of the Farea continent, Sterling XI has been equated with the Dinosaur, who, together with Machid III of the Kingdom of Hicks, has been referred to by folk as the Double Fool King. McGidd III, known by folk as the Bullseye King, did not bow his head and walked all the way to the dark. And Sterling XI is the king of the losers, the hopeless unconscious.

No one could have imagined that Grand Duke Siddins and Grand Duke Rimodra had struck McKid III with the idea of a return, and that they had gone to the Kingdom of Hicks to find a chance to meet with McKid III and convince him. In secret, the Kingdom of Nasri and the Principality of Kanas were sent secretly to the Kingdom of Nasri and the Principality of Kanas by four standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks to launch a two-way offensive against the newly occupied territories of the Kingdom of Ovieras in late July.

Very suddenly, the offensive from the Principality of Kanas against the former Duchy of Eskilin was carried out by four standing regiments, two in the Kingdom of Hicks, one in the Principality of Kanas and one in the Kingdom of Nasri. They formed the West Road Regiment, beat the stationed regiment. Before they could muster their troops, they were cut off from traffic and communication roads by the Light Cavalry Regiment of the Principality of Kanas, divided and surrounded, and then destroyed by the entire army...

However, the three counties in the southern part of the former Principality of Eskilin are the most important military industrial base in the newly occupied territories and have traditionally been the focus of the forces of the Grand Prince Hansburg. There was a solid defensive front, and a division stationed there after receiving a front-line police report was killed, blocking the strength of the Joint Troika and buying valuable time for the rear to assemble.

But the two Standing Regiments of the Kingdom of Nasserli and the two Standing Regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks formed the East Road Regiment, invading the territory of the former Principality of Siddins from the border of the Kingdom of Nasserli, and it can be said that the four regiments belonging to the forces of the Great Prince in the newly occupied territories were enemies and were caught on both sides. The regiment stationed in the former Principality of Siddins was unprepared and did not expect to be suddenly attacked, as if they were submerged in a raging wave like a reef...

Only the Blue Feather Regiment stationed in the Principality of Rimodra fought resolutely and valiantly, but in the face of the overwhelming military disadvantage and the constant arrival of new projectiles from enemy sources, their resistance seemed grievous and helpless and lasted only half a month before the Blue Feather Regiment was completely overthrown. The remaining standing regiment, stationed in the three counties of the south, also had little time to resist, and had to withdraw while fighting, leaving some two regiments of the remnants behind to retreat to the Piclett Mountains to escape the pursuit of the three national coalition forces.

The war in the newly occupied territories took only two months from its inception to its end. In total, the Kingdom of Hicks, the Kingdom of Nasserley and the Principality of Kanas used more than half a million troops from eight standing regiments to attack some 200,000 people in the four standing regiments that were not fully staffed in the newly occupied territories. The two-way regiment of the three coalition forces swept through the newly occupied territories like a fall wind, demonstrating a strong fighting power, and Machid III finally became the rightful name for the army of the Kingdom of Hicks.

As a result of the war, the three coalition forces lost more than 50,000 people, while the four garrisoned regiments belonging to the forces of the Grand Prince lost nearly 100,000 lives and were captured nearly 100,000. Only less than 20,000 of the remnants fell into the mountains and became bandits. While the countries of the Farea continent were appalled by this brief war, the nominal owner of the new occupation, the Kingdom of Auvellas, pretended to be deaf and mute, and Sterling XI was pleased to host a grand ball to celebrate the Kingdom's rebellion, with the shameful failure and demise of four regiments belonging to the forces of the Grand Prince.

The Principality of Siddins was reinstated on 5 September 595. On 21 October, the Principality of Rimodra returned to its country. The territory of the former Duchy of Eskirin fell into the hands of the Kingdom of Hicks. Machid III was proud to claim that, since no colony could be acquired in the Nubian continent, it would also be good to acquire an enclave in the eastern part of the Farea continent, after which the Kingdom of Hicks could intervene in the affairs of the eastern part of the continent with all due respect.

On November 18th, the Kingdom of Hicks, the Kingdom of Nasseri, the Principality of Kanas, the Principality of Rimodra and the Principality of Siddins issued a joint communiqué announcing the establishment of the National Union for the Eastern Region of the Farea Continent, prepared to implement economic policies such as currency generalization, promoting commercial prosperity and the formation of a joint defence counter-attack command structure in the military sphere. Any country that has a military conflict with a member of this national coalition would mean declaring war on all the members of this national coalition and would be subjected to a joint armed counter-attack by all the members of the coalition...

“Obviously, this so-called National Coalition is directed against our kingdom of Ovilas, but it is yet another reproduction of that anti-Olympic alliance!” General Bolognick said with a blue face.

All those who heard it were soldiers who had participated in five years of war in the eastern part of the country and naturally understood what the old general meant. It is called the Association of Nations of the Eastern Region of the Farea Continent, but why is it that one kingdom of Ovieras has been missed? When Wang Sterling X was in power earlier, no one feared being targeted by the Five Anti-Olympic Alliance, not even the Five Anti-Olympic Alliance.

But the situation is completely different now, with a defeated son in power and a kingdom that has just ended the civil war in which the two kings fought. Not to mention the trauma caused by the civil war, the mere fabrication of Sterling XI after the end of the war caused a greater disaster to the people of the kingdom who survived. At this time, those countries formed this alliance, which is a manifestation of their disdain for the Kingdom of Orvilas. It's hard to say, the kingdom of Orvillas will even face extinction...

Claude is also a bit of a bummer, though a traveler, and it's been almost two decades now. Anyway, staying in a place for a long time creates feelings, and he is accustomed to his current status and power. After all, it was also for the wounds of this kingdom that the blood sandbox fought, consciously and unconsciously regarded itself as a soldier of the kingdom of Auvellas. With regard to what General Bolognick said, he also had a feeling of resentment.

But what if they're in a hurry? Neither the Kingdom of Nasseri nor the Principality of Kanas were once defeated by the Kingdom, and now the Kingdom of Hicks has been brought together again. But the question is, what are the options for overseas self-governing territories to have access to these countries? It is hard to say that the Overseas Autonomous Territories are now also isolated from the Kingdom, and as long as Sterling XI is in place, the Kingdom's indigenous and Overseas Autonomous Territories will only have hostile relations and will not have an opportunity to improve.

In the blink of an eye, the holy light passed in 595, and the month of February of 596 soon arrived. At that time, the Legion of Thunder and the last group of Royal refugees returned to the Overseas Autonomous Territories on board an ocean-going vessel, escorted by an ocean-going cruise fleet, bringing a complete end to the launch in the mainland of the Kingdom.

When General Albert came back, he brought back to Claude the head of the Legion of the Eagles, the heirloom marquis of the kingdom, Jarriace. A handwritten letter from Admiral Ho Hadro stating that the Legion of the Lizards would be stationed in White Deer City in case the coastal zone of the Kingdom's mainland was again attacked by black sail pirates. He hoped that there would be open ocean trade with the Overseas Self-Governing Territories and that the various specialties and mineral resources of the Overseas Self-Governing Territories would be procured at fair prices. The only condition is that the Overseas Autonomous Territories can only trade with the Legion of the Lions in the ocean, and the Legion of the Lions wants to profit from the trade to fill the gap in military spending...

This is actually what the Legion of the Lizards wanted to monopolize the proceeds of the pelagic trade in the kingdom itself, and Claude laughed and forwarded the letter to the Executive Committee of the Autonomous Territories. As long as there are gains, there will naturally be adventures by businessmen, and these things will be handled by General Bolognick and General Skerry, without Claude having to worry about them.

Claude is now worried about the expansion of the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop and the reconfiguration trial run by Mrs. Sonia and her sister Anna of the new infantry field artillery. Now that we have a shot, the new infantry field artillery is entering the setting phase. The other thing is, there has been a lot of progress in the development of those long-barrelled rockets...

And the good news is that Master Byrd started researching ship steam power after the successful development of a locomotive steam engine. A marine steam engine currently being tested has entered the pilot phase by constructing an offshore transport vessel to test the speed of the vessel, while armouring a light cruise ship in the ocean to test the power of the marine steam engine.

On March 21, Claude was preparing to observe the speed test of a marine steam engine hosted by Master Byrd in Port Patrez, and suddenly received a message from a hawk in the war zone. According to the letter, Wang Du mutiny, Sterling XI was shot to death in the Sleeping Palace, and His Royal Highness Prince Frederick, the fourth prince, was elected as the new king of the kingdom by the Guardian Corps, known as Frederick I.