Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 503 Arrival and Impersonation

On January 25, 2000, the 72,000 horses of the First and Second Regiments of the Rock Regiment under the Overseas Autonomous Military Region arrived in Bai Lu City and were warmly welcomed by the Temporary King's Court. However, despite the warmth of the welcome atmosphere, the Rock Corps officers and soldiers disembarked from the ship were the first to suffer from senior officers sent by the Royal Army Department to greet them. The reason is simple, because the new uniforms worn by the Rock Corps generals are not the great red of the tradition of the Kingdom of Orvilas...

“The colour of this uniform is so ugly, it's the same colour as shit...”

“Hey, you see, they have an iron pot on their heads, it's like a turtle shell...”

“Why do I find this uniform so beautiful? ”

“Though the uniforms are weird in color, these soldiers look very tough...”

Watching the crowd stare at the soldiers who had come down from the ocean carriers and gathered in queues was commentary. Indeed, people are accustomed to the colors of the Grand Red Army uniform, and the new brown and grey uniform of the Rock Regiment always has a very earthy feeling. Senior officers of several Royal Army Ministries directly questioned General Bolognick and General Bitchklin, who had just disembarked.

“General, I wonder why you Overseas Autonomous Corps uniforms are different in colour from our kingdom, are you prepared to stand alone from the kingdom? ”

General Bolognick smiled gently: "The Overseas Autonomous Territory is the autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Ovilas, and it is autonomous, not self-reliant. We still have to serve the kingdom, pay taxes and fight against each other. Legions belonging to autonomous territorial military districts, however, belong only to local armed guards and can decide on the colour of their uniforms themselves.

The real reason is simple: the kingdom itself has been unable to support the Overseas Autonomous Territories for many years, so much so that we have been lacking large red uniform fabrics. And the countless casualties of colonial wars have forced us to consider alternatives to military uniforms in red when rebuilding our legions, and finally we have to choose the cheapest and most common fabric, brown grey, to make military uniforms. ”

“Uh...” those high-ranking officers couldn't speak immediately. General Bolognick admitted that the overseas autonomous territories did not produce fabric for the Great Red Army uniform and could not replace it with this ugly brown grey fabric. This is a very good reason, you can't let others go naked without the Great Red Army uniform, who called the kingdom for so many years has failed to support the overseas autonomous territories with armaments.

“Oh, nothing, Rock Corps and Thunder Corps are the local guard corps of the overseas autonomous territories, they have the right to customize the colours and styles of their uniforms, there is no need to follow the rules and regulations of the regular corps of the kingdom...” A few senior officials who came to the welcoming ceremony rushed up to play the roundabout and finally let the senior officers of the Army Departments step down.

The welcoming ceremony was organized and measured, and the atmosphere was enthusiastic. Apart from those who were excited to express their welcome, the senior officers of both sides who attended the ceremony were tight faces and did not talk to each other much, at best they measured each other with courtesy and embarrassment. For the officers of the Rock Regiment, they look down on these friendly armies that will only defeat the battle for help, and look up to the higher ranks. And the senior officers of the Royal Army, who feel the arrogance of the officers of the Rock Corps, who look at themselves with a contempt, are simply unjustifiable.

Soon after the welcoming ceremony, the generals of both sides came to power and bragged to each other, reiterating their confidence in the eventual victory of this war of resistance, reinforcing their belief in the victory of our army, inspiring corporal morale, and soon ending. The disembarked Rock Corps generals will go to the already prepared camp, where they will rest for a short period of five or six days, resume the hard work of the second half of the month's sea voyage and begin their journey to the front.

General Bolognick and General Bitchclin travelled the following morning to see His Majesty at his temporary residence in Frederie I, and then quarreled with the Royal Minister of the Army at a military conference chaired by His Majesty. The reason for this is that the Royal Minister of the Army suggested that the Rock Regiment be sent to the second line of defense to strengthen its guard capacity there.

Bolognick, however, declined the request, demanding that he head to Ambrizeshire to defend himself and reconstruct a new defensive front in order to prevent the second defensive front from collapsing again after being attacked by the enemy's superior forces, causing the enemy to drive straight in. Doubt at the same time why not give up the five broken counties and insist on dying with weak troops and enemies?

Thus, General Bolonik was attacked collectively by the old royal family of Wang Tingli, who believed that the land of the kingdom could not be easily abandoned by an inch, while the Rock Regiment went to Ambrizeshire to lay defense was greedy for life and fear death, and wanted to hide behind the second line of defense to see the soldiers on the front line fight for life and death, with an unspeakable purpose...

General Bitchklin joined the argument, pointing out only one fact: if all the Kingdom's current strength were to be buried on the second line of defense for the lands of those kingdoms, the Kingdom would no longer have any hope of losing. The Rock Regiment laid defenses in Ambrizeshire in order to give the Royal Army on the second line of defense the chance to withdraw. When the defensive line is deployed, the Royal Army on the front line can retreat to the rear and be reconstituted, with the Rock Regiment facing all the Legions of the Eastern Region alone...

Perhaps General Beechcrin's rhetoric stunned the noble dignitaries at the Royal Court, who, while questioning the Rock Regiment's combat power, were unwilling to give up this opportunity to make the Rock Regiment suffer greatly. The private consultations led to the agreement of General Bolognick and General Bitchklin's proposal to send the Rock Regiment to Ambrizeshire to lay defences and to mobilize the population to help the Rock Regiment set up deployments to build defensive positions. It's just that they've given General Bolonik and General Bitchcline assurances that if the Rock Regiment fails to hold Ambrizeshire, the Royal Court will deprive the Overseas Autonomous Territory of independent combat and command...

After a five-day berth in White Deer City, the overseas autonomous cruise fleet finally unloaded all its supplies and immediately sailed back to the mainland of Nubian. Next, 120,000 men from the three divisions of the Legion of Thunder marched to the Florida seaport in the Principality of Rimodra to implement the Moon Hook programme, which hit the Eastern Association of Nations with a deadly blow. Round trip time, another month and a half...

On 16 February 2000, the three divisions of the Legion of Thunder boarded at the port of Cobichous in Tyrsim State, where members of the Autonomous Territorial Council and members of the military were crowded with piers and waving yellow handkerchiefs for the soldiers travelling. The docks are full of people, and several bands are playing cheerful and loud music, loud and loud.

“Too loud.” Claude said he was facing General Skerry, who was left behind, along with his mother, Kevin and two sons, and a maid with a daughter over a year old.

“The soldiers have high morale, listen to what they are screaming, Dad and Mom, don't worry, I will bring you a daughter-in-law back...” General Scully laughed: “The joke you told about dating last time has been spread in the army, many officers and soldiers did go out with the idea of finding a wife for themselves, be aware of this, don't turn the boat in the gully, but also emphasize discipline, don't overdo it. ”

Claude laughed. “I'll take care of it. I'll leave it to you. Not much to say, I should get on the boat...”

I kissed my mother, my wife, and three kids, and Claude was the last one on the boat. The bow of more than 200 ocean carriers stood a trumpet, and together they blew the trumpet, the trumpet of "woo woo” echoed in the harbor, and a seaship anchored and sailed. More than twenty Ironclad ships acting as fleet escorts also started steam engines, black smoke appeared in the chimney, and a low “rumble” sounded and began to break waves on the sea surface.

Claude was naturally on board the new flagship of the Ironclad fleet, the Whitehead Sea Sculpture, the second improved Ironclad cruiser produced by the Overseas Autonomous Territories. Immediately after the successful acceptance of the sea test, General Muried of the fleet designated him as his own ship and the new flagship of the Ironclad fleet. Compared to the first Golden Claw Seahawk Ironclad Cruiser, the Whitehead Seasculpture Cruiser has a better habitability, with at least less boot noise from the bottom cabin's marine steam engine.

Fourteen days later, storm waters, just a day and a half from White Deer City.

“Should our fleet dock in White Deer City for a few days?” Muried asks Claude, who is watching the ocean.

“That's not necessary.” Claude shook his head: "If we dock in White Deer City, maybe our trail will leak out when we set sail again. Turn right here, stick around for a dozen more days, and we'll be at the destination port of Florrick, where we'll rest. Now every sailor on board is practicing and must not be a soft shrimp and cannot stand on his feet as soon as he lands. Our operation is a quick battle, we will continue after disembarkation, only until the bending moon hook plan is completed..."

Long Muried sighed: "I'm beginning to regret that I shouldn't be in charge of this cruise ship. As a soldier, it is a lifelong honor to destroy the enemy's Imperial City. But now that I'm in the Navy, I can't follow the boss on land, and I feel a little sorry for him. Berklin and Diavid have been showing off in front of me for a long time. Sometimes I want to beat them up. What the hell! ”

Claude Haha laughed: "Siege, destroy the enemy is indeed the glory of the army, but Yangwei is invincible but the navy style. This moon hook program also places a heavy burden on you, not only to escort us to our destination, but also to destroy the kingdom of Hicks' naval fleet, seal off the northern bay of the Principality of Kanas, destroy the cruise sub-fleet of the kingdoms of Nasseri and Kanas, and capture those ocean shipping ships of enemy nations...

To be honest, I've been worried that the Ironclad fleet has too few warships, and now it's only 22. It's not enough for an enemy cruise sub-fleet, like the Neptune fleet, to own more than a hundred sailships. While I am confident that the Ironclad fleet will be victorious, I do not want too much war damage to affect subsequent escort plans. You should be aware that the back escort plan is the key to the whole operation, and once we run out of ammunition for the Thunder Regiment, we will be in trouble... "

“Don't worry, boss. Muried said confidently:" Didn't we meet pirates last year when we escorted a convoy to the West Coast? As a result, the two Ironclad destroyers we escorted attacked, sunk seven pirate battleships and captured fifteen ocean ships. The small and prestigious Bordeaux pirate group in the waters of the Nubari Islands has been exterminated, and the most heinous pirate leaders have been hanged at the pier in Port Vibato, and the remaining 4,500 pirates have been escorted to the Rocky Mountains State for mining.

The kingdom of Hicks' navy fleet, though full of battleships, is an old sailboat. And now we're equipped with white phosphorous shells. If they hit one, they can't even save the fire. If they want to run, there's no way, they can only watch the battleship burn to torch. And we're all Ironclad warships, and with their old guns firing solid iron bullets, they're tickling us. Don't worry, boss, we'll send the King of the Hicks fleet to the bottom of the ocean. Even if we don't hit them, we can totally hit their warships to the bottom of the ocean... ”

Muried is right, just like the two Ironclad Destroyers who met the Bordeaux Pirates at the end of last year, who were hit by countless solid shells from pirate ships, just about a hundred more pits on their boards. And the seven pirate ships they sank, three of them actually sunk by artillery, and the other four were all hit to the bottom by their sharp collision angles.

So Muried's confidence was strong, and he didn't think the 100 + Windsurfers in the Neptune would pose any threat to the Ironclad fleet. Over the past two years, the overseas autonomous territory of Port Patres has built four Ironclad warships, four to six each, and already possesses fourteen Ironclad destroyers, two Ironclad cruisers and six Ironclad armed carriers, each of which has improved and can be truly shaped by the time the last Ironclad destroyers are produced.

On March 14, 2000, two hundred and forty-eight ocean carriers escorted by the Ocean Cruiser and the Ironclad fleet arrived in the waters off the Florida seaport of the Principality of Rimodra. Ironclad warships seized all fishing vessels and passing cargo vessels in the waters, and then the coyoteeth battalion dressed in disguise, led by Major Blovik, mixed them into the harbour at midnight, silently controlling the Eagle Communications, the main city headquarters, local guard camp sites, the patrol police, the gates and checkpoints outside the city.

As the torch swung at the pier, a massive landing began. Until the dawn of dawn, the inhabitants of the Florrick Harbor City realized that the city had been inadvertently occupied by the enemy and that even those with a heart who wanted to leave the city could not deliver the message.

“I will seal the city for three days and keep the news of the occupation of Florrick Harbor from circulating.” Claude called an emergency meeting: “But I will only give you one day's rest. Bellin is the main force of the first attack. You lead the first division straight to the King Polyvisia in the kingdom of Nasserley. Don't hit the flag of our kingdom. Just hit the flag of the Overseas Autonomous Territories. Don't tell anyone your number and destination along the way except for the requisition of supplies. Everything is presumed to be confidential, so the enemy can't touch his head...”

Claude's argument stems from the fact that, after the occupation of the Florrick Harbor, the city's inhabitants sometimes mistake the Legion of Thunder for a newly formed force of the Association of Eastern States. Because the Thunder Legion soldiers wore brown grey uniforms and helmets on their heads, no one ever believed that this was the army of their own enemy, the Kingdom of Orvilas.

Even if soldiers told the residents of the city that they were members of the Royal Auvellas Army, this time they came to reclaim the lost land. But the city residents still think it's a joke. It is well known that the soldiers of the Kingdom of Orvillas have always worn military uniforms with big red tops and black pants, big red straight caps, black boots and black leather belts, which at first glance would never have been such brown and grey uniforms. So the residents of these towns are happy to say, I get it, we all do, and you're here to keep it a secret, aren't you...

When McJackie told Claude the reactionary jokes of the residents of those towns, Claude fell into contemplation and ordered the collection and falsification of documents and certificates from the Eastern League of Nations, impersonating a newly formed army of enemies to reinforce the front line. The forged documents were then handed over to Berlin, where he led the first division in a quick raid on the Royal City of Polyvisia in the Kingdom of Nasri, and the forged documents allowed him to collect grass and horse supplies in the towns along the way.

“You don't have to worry about the towns you left behind and the capital of the Principality of Siddins, Fort Ivanos, all of which can be left to our follow-on troops to clean up. Your sole purpose is to make it to the Royal City of Polyvisia, to occupy it at the earliest possible speed, to defend it and to await our arrival. Understood?” Claude looked at Berklin and asked.

“Understood, General, I am not ashamed of my mission.” Berklin rises to salute.

“Michael, your mission is to lead the Third Division, sweep the territory of the former Duchy of Eskirin and reclaim the enclave occupied by the Kingdom of Hicks. The focus is on maintaining the military industry in the three southern counties and integrating it in the first place. Build a manufacturing workshop that can produce the shells and bullets we need. If the supply of ammunition transported by sea is interrupted, we need to rely on the ammunition produced here to fight…"

McJackie stood up: "General, promise to complete the mission. ”

“Colonel Anders.” Claude looks at his old deputy again: "Your 1304 regiment is stationed here to maintain order and wait for the ocean fleet to arrive again to deliver ammunition and supplies to us. Do you understand your duty? ”

“Yes, General, the city is here, and I will never let Florrick Harbor lose it in my hands!” Colonel Anders stood up and saluted, yelling out loud.

“All right, everybody, let's get ready for the war, and we'll leave in three days.” Claude said.