Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 510: The Serious Situation

“Honey, what are you doing?” Claude returned to his place of residence and was surprised to find that Sheila, who usually liked to lean on the loungers and read books, was not on the loungers, but was making something before the alchemy charm array she carried around.

By the way, this Thunder Corps toured the Farea continent, and Sheila had to live with Claude. In the end, she had to dress up as a man as Claude's personal guard and accompany Claude all the way to the Polyvorian City. Apart from the guard squadron and Claude's little brother, no one knew Claude had brought his lover on this expedition.

“Oh, I went to the goldhouse today, looked at the treasures of the Nasserly royal family, and picked out two jewellery.” Sheila didn't lift her head either.

The so-called Gold House is a repository of valuable items such as property, gold and silver appliances and jewellery, and prestigious art treasures that the Legion of Thunder searched for in the Kingdom of Nasserley along the way. As for the gold and silver currencies and so on, they're deposited separately. Though the treasury of the Kingdom of Nasserli does not have many reserves and silver currencies left over from the war, it does not mean that the civilian population is not wealthy. Two clearance operations allowed the Legion of Thunder to seize large quantities of property with a total value of nearly 50 million gold kroner.

In fact, Claude was surprised when he found out about the statistics. To put it badly, the demise of the Duchy of Rimodra and the Duchy of Siddins, where the Legion of Thunder seized less than 3 million gold kroner, was already the result of all the estates of the two Grand Dukes plus the copies of the nobility of those principalities. Compared to the Nasserly royal family, these two Grand Dukes and those Duchy aristocrats really look like beggars...

As a result of the raid on the Royal City of Polyvisia by the First Division of the Legion of Thunder, most of the members of the Royal House of Nasserly and the nobles of the kingdom of the city did not escape, their property also landed in the hands of the Legion of Thunder. Compared to the reserve of less than 2 million gold kroner in the national treasury, the Nasserli Royal Treasury has given the Legion a great surprise, not to mention the gold and silver currency reserves valued at more than 6 million gold kroner, as well as the jewellery and collectibles that are treasured, valued at nearly 10 million gold kroner.

In addition, there is the wealth of the aristocratic families of the Kingdom of Nasserli in the Royal City of Polyvisia, the gold and silver currency also has 45 million gold kroons, valuable gold and silver appliances, jewellery, jewellery, art treasures and so on. The next two raids, in which gold and silver currencies were plentiful and gold and silver appliances and other items were seized from the homes of the civilian resistance militants, alone exceeded Claude's imagination.

Nothing could be more efficient than an organized robbery by the army, and in addition to storing these gold and silver appliances, jewellery and art treasures, the palace has deliberately set aside a huge temple to store other valuable objects. For example, on the fiftieth birthday of Nasseri VII, a set of gold-plated white brass tableware was given to each of the officers and soldiers of the close guard corps to commemorate. Now that the tableware is piled up in this polarized hall, Claude considered that it could be given to the officers and soldiers of the Legion of Thunder as a souvenir to their conquest of the Kingdom of Nasserley.

It is worth mentioning that the Kingdom of Nasserli does not have a national bank like the Kingdom of Ovieras, but only a royal bank. The Royal Bank is responsible for issuing gold and silver copper coins from the Kingdom of Nasri, while carrying out high interest lending activities and not undertaking small savings operations. This is because the kingdom of Nasseri is sovereign and the royal nobility has its own enclosure, limiting the ability of the Royal Bank to open branches in the counties. As for commercial finance and high-interest lending activities in aristocratic territories, most are in the hands of lords.

With these seized possessions, the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion will not have to be saddened to reward the soldiers of both Legions if this reinforcement of the kingdom itself is successful. Or it can be said that this battle back to the Farea mainland, the Overseas Autonomous Military Regions have earned all the capital money invested in armaments in previous years, even the next five or six years of military spending don't have to be saddened...

But Claude is now curious about what Sheila is doing, and he's not giving Sheila the precious jewellery he hasn't caught, but Sheila is ignoring the craziness of the Lady. Normally she likes to watch the secret Nasserly Royal Collection magic books on the lounge chair or whatever, waiting for Claude to return, and sometimes she vomits that many of the Nasserly Royal Collection books on magic are hearsay fabrications, not as accurate as the one her mother left behind in the cave.

Claude walked up to Sheila and found herself watching a beautiful, very sapphire necklace in the Alchemy Charm Array.

“This is a magic necklace, and I saw it in a magic note from the Royal Collection of Nasserley, saying that there is a composite magic on this necklace that brings together three psychic spells of allure, illusion and seduction, and that wearing this necklace is targeted at a specific goal, giving 100% trust to the target, or that someone who falls in love with wearing this necklace, willingly obeys the instructions of the person wearing the necklace, even if they give their life without a doubt. So this necklace is also known as the temptation of the Enchant, and I am now preparing to copy and split these three spells from the necklace..."

Sheila briefly introduced this necklace, and besides being with Claude, she's now interested in studying various spells.

No wonder Sheila took the initiative to pick out jewellery, which had something to do with magic. Claude shrugged: “Is this necklace really so powerful? ”

“Just exaggerating.” Psychological spells are complicated, "Sheila said." If the object of the spell is a magician, the chances of success are less than 10 percent, because every magician practises meditation, which naturally resists the effects of psychic spells on himself. If the object of the application is ordinary people, it also depends on the effect, some people are more spiritual and resistant. Like the compound technique on this necklace, it is mainly used to seduce a goal in a light red, wine and green banquet arena to match the surrounding atmosphere to achieve optimal results. ”

Claude thought about his spiritually stunning spell, which was true, and the magician who dealt with the highway robbery didn't do much good. Sheila is now studying this necklace mainly because psychic spells are rare, which is why she's interested in breaking this compound down into three separate spell model constructions.

This period has just cleared up the element of instability in the Royal City of Polyvisia, where the Legion of Thunder assumed prima facie control. Now that the scouts are out and the eagles are flying, they just want to understand the whole war situation. It has been a waste of two months to clean up the towns surrounding the Royal City and the Royal City of Polyvisia, and it is now up to us to see what the situation is on the mainland side of the Kingdom and what action the Rock Corps has taken.

Three days later, Claude received a report from the Ironclad fleet of the Great Sea Battle of St. Rusk Island, and Claude was relieved by the collapse of the Sealord's fleet of the Kingdom of Hicks, which sort of eliminated the threat of an assault by the Sealord's fleet across the eastern sea. However, the landing of those two reinforced Hicks Standing Regiments left Claude somewhat apprehensive and eagerly ordered scouts for the five northeastern counties of the Kingdom of Nasserley.

The first division of the Legion of Thunder was slanted from the territory of the Principality of Siddins straight into the hinterland of the Kingdom of Nasri, as if a man had been stabbed in the waist by a knife, straightening towards the Royal City of Polovisia, leaving the Kingdom of Nasri unprotected. Claude then led the second division along the same path into the kingdom of Nasri, where the detachment swept away sixteen local counties in the central Nasri kingdom. So much so that only five counties in the northeast and seven counties in the southwest of the kingdom of Nasri were not attacked by the Legion of Thunder.

The five northeastern counties of the Kingdom of Nasseri are coastal zones, while the seven southwestern counties are frontier counties connected to the Kingdom of Auveras. Prior to the First Eastern Region War, there were only two border counties southwest of the Kingdom of Nasri. And the kingdom of Ovilas, with thirty-two local counties, plus the Ibnister Plains, is the largest country in the eastern region. Five years after the Eastern Wars, the Kingdom of Ovieras added a new occupation, and two thirds of the entire Eastern Territory belonged to the territory of the Kingdom of Ovieras, one of which became the dominant power in the eastern part of the Farea continent.

Unfortunately, the ensuing colonial war in the Overseas Territories was the civil war in the Kingdom caused by the dispute between the two kings of the Kingdom's mainland. Together with Prince Wedeleck of Denki, Sterling XI, the son of a seller did not feel comfortable selling his grandfather's fields and gave half of his five frontier counties to the Kingdom of Nasserley in exchange for large sums of money and loans for military expenditures, which drove the Great Prince and his men out of the Kingdom itself and into the new occupied territories.

Only in this way did the kingdom's territory shrink dramatically, leaving only twenty-seven of the thirty-two counties in the original kingdom, while abandoning twenty-three counties in the new occupation, degrading the kingdom of Ovieras from a dominant power in the eastern region to a small, medium-sized country, not even the Kingdom of Nasserley. As a result, it became a water-dropping dog in the eyes of the Association of Eastern States, almost exterminated.

With the reinforcement of the Overseas Autonomous Territory Legion of Thunder and the Rock Legion, the Kingdom of Ovilas has prevailed. The Principality of Siddins and the Principality of Rimodra perished again, as the two Grand Dukes and their families were captured, and the Principality would no longer have to wish to return. And the Legion of Thunder surprised the Royal City of Polyvoria and swept up half of the kingdom of Nasserley, which has left the dead enemy of the kingdom of Auvellas unturned, and the forgotten nation close at hand.

But the Legion of Thunder was caught in an unexpected crisis...

“What the hell are they doing! This is ridiculous!” Claude was so angry that the good situation was messed up by the assholes of the Temporary King. He never dreamed that the nobles of the kingdom, who had sworn that Dandan would fight the invading army of the Eastern League of Nations to die, would send the invading army out of the country and peacefully restore the Ibnister Plains and the Wang Du, as well as the failed counties...

Just these two months, as the Legion of Thunder was busy clearing the towns and cities surrounding the Royal City of Polyvisia of resistant armed elements, the Allied forces invading the Kingdom began to withdraw. It was also home to three regiments of the Kingdom of Nasri, three standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks, a division of the Principality of Kanas, and two newly established regiments of the Principality of Siddins and the Principality of Rimodra, which together numbered nearly half a million horses.

Despite the size of the Allied forces, there was no threat, the Principality of Siddins and the Principality of Rimodra had been exterminated, and those two newly-formed legions, who had no sense of war, were forced to surrender sooner rather than later to return home. The three legions of the Kingdom of Nasserli were also anxious to return to their country for rescue because of the occupation of the Royal City and were unwilling to remain in the Kingdom of Auvellas. And the three Standing Legions of the Kingdom of Hicks and a Light Rider Legion of the Principality of Kanas were cut off because of their backtracks, and likewise had no intention of remaining in the kingdom to defend themselves against the attack of the Rock Legion. Of course, they just want to resist and they can't resist...

So the Allied forces began to withdraw from the kingdom itself, first from the second line of defense to the first line of defense, then from the first line of defense to Wangdu. And when the Rock Regiment discovered the enemy's movements, the tail chase began. Like a lone wolf hidden behind the shadow, always ready to strike the enemy with a deadly blow, biting off its fat flesh.

No one dared to ignore the threat posed by the Rock Corps to the withdrawing Alliance forces, so senior Alliance officers and command did not hesitate to throw out two new regiments from both Principals to block the Rock Corps's offensive route. Perhaps in their eyes, these two new legions, like the bereaved dogs, are just a burden to them, not their companions and comrades.

The newly formed regiments of the two extinct principalities also surrendered to the Rock Corps the first time they were abandoned. The best option would be for the Rock Regiment to hand over the surrender of the two newly formed regiments to the incoming Guardian Regiments, the Lizard Regiment and the Red Dragon Regiment. Then continue to pursue the withdrawing Allied armies, forcing the enemy to break up and intercept, these broken armies will become fat meat falling into the mouth of the Rock Legion...

If that were to happen, even if the Allied forces eventually withdrew from the Kingdom of Ovilas, they would have become a very serious internal contradiction and would have been reduced by at least more than half. No one is willing to sacrifice themselves to become others, especially on the way out. The objective of the Rock Corps, on the other hand, was the standing regiment of the three Hicks kingdoms and the light cavalry of the Duchy of Kanas, a divisional force, determined not to allow the two armies to return to the kingdom of Nasri.

But all the plans were disrupted by the revelations of the Guardian Corps, the Lizard Corps and the Red Dragon Corps, who refused to accept the managerial and convergence tasks of the two newly formed corps that had surrendered and insisted on pursuing the withdrawing Allied forces. Meanwhile, the senior officers of the Royal Army and the ruling nobles of the Interim Royal Court have expressed to Frederie I that the Rock Corps has become a great credit and that it is time for the three new regiments to be restructured to perform...

It was a great honour for Frederick I to order the Rock Regiment to serve as a close guard for his royal conspiracy, which was not rejected by General Bolognick and General Bitchcline. The Guardian Corps, the Lion Vulture Corps and the Red Dragon Corps became the main armed forces in pursuit of the withdrawal of Alliance troops, as they wished.

The problem is that the withdrawing Allied forces are afraid of the Rock Regiment and not the Guardian Regiment, the Lion Vulture Regiment and the Red Dragon Regiment. Nearly three years into the war, these three regiments have long been familiar to the Allied forces, and it is unclear who has a few kilos or two to each other. The men and horses pursued in the rear were found replaced by these three regiments, and soon the Allied forces set up their positions on the Ibnister plains, touching hard with the three regiments being pursued in a final battle on the Kingdom's mainland.

Unexpectedly, the three regiments again touched a hard nail and kicked the iron plate. Although the battle on the Ibnister Plains was very strong on both sides, the battle proceeded quickly, retreating with little casualties, and only the Red Dragon Regiment, which was at the forefront of the battle, suffered heavy losses and again lost the strength of both regiments. And the Guard Corps and the Lizard Corps are in a bad position, turning fast and not even facing the Allied armies...

I don't know how to say that, in the Temporary King's Court, when the three regiments were against the Rock Regiment, they were able to work together to take advantage of the Rock Regiment. But if the Rock Regiment throws them a large quantity of armaments, then the three Regiments will fight for themselves and everyone wants the most. The same was true of the Allied forces that were being retreated, and the Red Dragon Corps was the fastest in pursuit, losing more than 10,000 people.

And then the Guardian Corps and the Lion Vulture Corps had no faith in the enemy, to rescue and cooperate with the Red Dragon Corps in battle. Instead, Happy Happiness first moved in and stood outside playing soy sauce to watch the bustle. Red Dragon Corps officers and soldiers hated to bite their teeth and could only consider themselves unlucky. They quickly withdrew from the battlefield and disengaged from contact with the Allied forces.

If, after the Battle of the Ibnister Plains, the Rock Regiment were able to pursue the withdrawn Allied forces again, the plan developed by the Autonomous Territory would still be completed. However, the previous three regiments continued their so-called pursuits, concealing the unfavourable state of engagement. In fact, the coalition forces remain silent until the coalition forces withdraw before recovering the lost ground. As a result, the three regiments succeeded in recovering Wangdu and the fallen counties, almost as a gift, returning the Allied forces to the territory of the Kingdom of Nasri.

The Allied forces, which have arrived in the seven counties south-west of the Kingdom of Nasseri, are once again revitalized, because this is already their territory. Seven southwest frontier counties are equipped with adequate defensive facilities and lines to resist rock regiments. Most importantly, they still have more than 400,000 combat troops, which have not been damaged on the way out...

It was not necessary for De Claude not to be angry, because when the scouts reported the reconnaissance, Claude discovered that the situation facing the Legion of Thunder was very serious. The five counties northeast of the Kingdom of Nasri have assembled two new Standing Regiments of the Kingdom of Nasri, two additional Standing Regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks, and a new Light Riding Regiment urgently recruited by the Principality of Kanas, with a strength of nearly 300,000 troops.

Seven counties southwest of the Kingdom of Nasserli are more than 400,000 troops withdrawn from the Kingdom's mainland. The original plan, with only half of the 400,000 troops left, involved in the Rock Corps, posed no threat to the Thunder Corps at all. But now, enemies in both the northeast and southwest directions have outnumbered the Legion of Thunder by ten times. Obviously, their next goal must be to recover the Royal City of Polyvoria...

In the first and second divisions of the Legion of Thunder in the Royal City of Polyvisia, the total strength is less than 70,000, and the enemy cannot be dealt with at all. Because the royal city also has an enormous fortune, more than 100,000 captives, and more than 200,000 isolated captive families, all of which require troops to guard...