Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 517: The Gazette and Lies

Allied forces arrived in the Royal City of Polyvinia, with a total strength of approximately 550,000 troops. But after the Battle of Polovicia, except for the Supreme Commander of the Allied Army, Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot returned to the realm of the Hicks with 78,000 men who had been ill-advised and the remaining 430,000 coalition troops were all destroyed in the hands of the Legion of Thunder and Rock.

In the Royal City of Polyvisia alone, as many as 180,000 bodies were removed from the Allied Army side after the war, including, of course, an estimate of 56,000 people killed by artillery shelling in Royal Nasri Square. Only 130,000 Allied army officers and soldiers were injured and surrendered, a rare example of a defeated side losing more battles than captured and surrendered.

Even in the thousands of years of the history of the French world, there has never been a precedent whereby defenses that break through the walls enter the city and the attacking party is more than four times larger than the defensive party, ending in the fall of the entire army. Future generations of war history and military experts have greatly appreciated the battle of Polyviria, especially when the defense uses scattered stockpiles of property to render the attacking soldier unwary, turning a strong army about to win into a bunch of people, thus falling into a defensive trap and eventually winning or losing...

The only highlight of this battle alliance army is its supreme commander, Pilag. When Marshal Hi-Feliot realized that the troops entering the city had fallen into the enemy's trap, he immediately took away all the wounded and logistical administrators of the Kingdom of Rihiks in the coalition battalion, as well as all members of the coalition forces willing to go with him. At the same time, all mounts stored in the Duchy of Rikanas Light Cavalry in the Allied Battalion were forcibly seized, so that the winning Legion of Thunder and Rock had lost the most valuable trophy.

In the Royal City of Polyvisia, the Allied army has been planted with a strength of about 310,000, Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot has taken another 780,000 horses. Combined with the loss of life and casualties from the capture of forward positions and walls, there was no resistance to the eventual takeover of the Allied Coalition Battalion, which left almost 100,000 wounded and sick in the Kingdom of Nasri and the Principality of Kanas, placing yet another medical burden on the winners.

Good thing Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot was rather modest, having withdrawn from the Allied Coalition Battalion without following his men's advice and burning a warehouse of grass and armaments reserves in the Battalion. He just took all his belongings and carry-on weapons. In order to keep the light clothes moving forward, he ordered not to carry anything that affected the speed of travel, in addition to the necessary materials for the long march, and finally left some loot for the Legion of Thunder.

After occupying the Allied battalion, General Albert gave up chasing the leaking fish from the fleeing Kingdom of Hicks and returned to the Imperial City. Claude, however, immediately gave him another assignment to redeploy the second and third regiments from the Legion of Thunder, as well as the seventh and eighth regiments, and to replace the vacancies in the four main field regiments with officers and troops from the other regiments in order to reconstitute a temporary division. Claude had General Albert lead this temporary division to the capital of the Principality of Kanas, the Grand Duke of Bomalis, and to the demise of the Principality of Kanas.

At that time, the Royal City of Polyvysia was left with more than 16,000 troops in the second division of the Rock Legion and more than 6,000 horses in the Legion of Thunder. More than 20,000 troops are under tremendous pressure to take care of the prisoners and the wounded and sick of more than 200,000 Allied troops. Fortunately, after the Battle of Polyvinia, the prisoners of these Allied armies had been frightened and listened to honestly. In the eyes of the Legion of Thunder, every day they formed a team to clear the battlefield in the western district of Wangcheng, with little sense of resistance.

Claude reorganized the Temporary Division in the hope of sneaking up on the capital of the Principality of Kanas and beating the Grand Duke of Kanas. Because the Supreme Commander of the Coalition Army, Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot's first evacuation brought the battle of Polyviria to an imperfect end. Once that Pilag... Marshal Hill Ferriot's evacuation team is out of danger and will certainly pass the message on to the Grand Duke of Kanas in the first place.

Claude did not want the Grand Duke of Kanas to flee either, causing concern for the eastern part of the unified Farea continent of the Kingdom of Ovieras. The strength of a temporary division was sufficient to sweep the entire Duchy of Kanas, which this time provided three corps of light cavalry troops to the Allied army, without the support of the Kingdom of Hicks, the Duchy of Kanas would not have been able to form so many men and horses. Now there is also a close guard regiment in the capital, the Grand Duke of Bomalis, and some places in the Principality to guard their armies. They cannot resist the strength of the temporary division...

On the other hand, although the strength of the Royal City of Polyvisia is relatively thin, the wounded have rehabilitated their treatment camp in the palace in the previous months, and two temporary field regiments can be reconstituted over time to maintain order and order in the city. In addition, General Bolognick sent a regiment to join a support group from Thunder Division III, which will arrive in King's City in five or six days.

The battle of Polyvoria began on 7 November 2000, when Allied soldiers came under the Royal City of Polyvoria, and until 29 November, when the Legion of Thunder and the Rock fully recovered the western district of the Royal City, the last few hidden Hicks soldiers were discovered and captured. It lasts 23 days. The Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion won eventually. It can be said that from this day forward, the kingdom of Nasserli, which has fought the kingdom of Ovilas for nearly a hundred years, has officially been extinguished and withdrawn from the historical arena of the eastern part of the Farea continent...

The kings of the kingdom of Orvillas received reports from the Legion of Thunder and the Alliance of Rock Legions only on December 5th, and there were minor errors during this period. When the duty officer of the Royal Army received this hawk message, he was so arrogant that he thought the two regiments of overseas self-governments were bragging and lying. In his opinion, the coalition army of more than half a million troops, the Legion of Thunder and the Rock Legion combined in the Kingdom of Nasserley was 120,000 horses, how could it be possible to annihilate the coalition army of the Kingdom of Nasserley?

So the officer on duty ignored the eagle message casually, until half a month later, when the well-informed businessmen of Wang Du Folk learned about the achievements of the Legion of Thunder and the Rock Legion through the Express Horse and the Pigeon, began to publicize the great victory of the Battle of Polyvusia, celebrate the demise of the Kingdom of Nasserley, and even organized a team of manned businessmen to go to the Kingdom of Nasserley to seize business opportunities, Frederick I heard the wind and asked senior officers of the Royal Army Department for questioning...

Ridiculously, the senior officers of these Royal Army Ministries did not receive any official reports, and they swore to Dandan that the information conveyed by the outside folk in front of Frederie I must have been rumours, or perhaps the overseas self-governing territories, had caused havoc. They should want to increase their voice in the royal court, which is why they are exaggerating the battle power of the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps in the folk, in the hope of obtaining the kindness and attention of the people of Wangdu, and packing the two corps into the Kingdom's savior and hope, which must contain an unspeakable purpose.

Just as these senior officers of the Royal Army buried the topographical map of the Kingdom of Nasserley in front of Frederie I, they specifically analysed and explained why it was impossible to defeat the Allied armies with the strength of the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of the Rock, and possibly even to withdraw from the Kingdom of Nasserley in the face of an enemy of 560,000 troops. The new prime minister of the kingdom, the Marquis Blancat, rushed into the throne, waving with excitement a hawk message in his hand: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the kingdom of Nasserley is extinct. Long live the Legion of Thunder! Long live the Rock Regiment! ”

Frederick I and the senior officers of the Royal Army watched the new Prime Minister, the Marquis Blancat, go mad in front of them, and it took Frederick I a while to ask, “Sir Blancat, what are you celebrating? The kingdom of Nasseri is extinct? ”

“Yes, Your Majesty, it is true!” Prime Minister Blancat shouted with excitement: "The Legion of Thunder and the Rock have won the Battle of Polyviria, destroying more than 400,000 Allied troops, Pilag, the supreme commander of the Kingdom of the Hicks. Marshal Hi-Feliot has returned to the Kingdom of Hicks with 78,000 men, and the Kingdom of Nasserley has officially declared its demise! It's a good day to celebrate, my lord, and we don't need to hear the name of this damned enemy country anymore! ”

Cheering Prime Minister Blancat looked at the senior officers of the Royal Army Department on the other side and asked, somewhat puzzled, “What are you doing here? You were supposed to get the first information, right? What makes you look so weird? Haven't you heard from the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps yet? ”

A senior officer asked somewhat embarrassingly, "Prime Minister, where did you get this hawk message? Is this accurate? ”

Prime Minister Blanchard handed the Eagle in his hand to the senior officer: "Look for yourself, it's signed by General Bolognick of the Rock Corps. He said he had sent a report to the Royal Army Department half a month ago, and received a message from my hawk. He was still wondering, how come there has been no movement in the kingdom? I was also surprised to hear the news from the family store this time. I sent a letter directly to Hawk asking him if it was true...”

General Bolognick confirmed the credibility of the information circulated by Wangdu folk in this private hawk communication with the Prime Minister, the Marquis Blancat. Bolognick, however, did not speak of the course of the battle in Polovicia, but merely mentioned that the Legion of Thunder and the Second Division of the Rock Legion, under the command of Claude, General Beechlin and General Albert, had wiped out more than 400,000 horses in the Allied army and destroyed the Kingdom of Nasseri.

In the meantime, General Bolognick mentioned in this letter the detailed report on the Battle of Polyvinia in a letter sent by Claudena to the Royal Ministry of the Army half a month ago. The Prime Minister could go to the Royal Ministry of the Army, which contained confirmed data on casualties on both sides of the enemy and statistical reports on the seizure of loot, and asked Wang Ting to send officials to the Royal City of Polyvinia to take over the local administration of the Kingdom of Nasseri...

So Frederick I and Prime Minister Blancat, along with senior officers from the Royal Army Department, came to the Royal Army Department for more than half an hour and finally found this joint Eagle of Thunder Regiment and Rock Regiment in an abandoned pile of documents. It briefly describes the battle in the Battle of Lower Polyvinia, to the effect that Claude set a trap in the Royal City of the Kingdom of Nasseri, inducing the Allied armies to fall into the city. The Thunder Regiment and the Rock Regiment used ambushes and artillery shelling to wage alley warfare against the enemy, eventually eliminating more than 300,000 enemies entering the city, then counterattacking the coalition battalion that took the enemy, gaining victory in this battle...

The letter also contains a list of the more famous generals and senior officers of the coalition forces killed and captured, as well as the quantities of armaments, grass, etc. seized from the coalition camps. As for possessions and such, Claude only mentioned the nearly two million gold and silver reserves seized in the royal treasury of the kingdom of Nasserley, while those seized in the private sector and the treasures seized in the royal treasury of Nasserley were left clean...

As for Claude's letter stating that the Royal Court would send officials to take over local administration as soon as possible, after all, the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of Rock belong to the Overseas Autonomous Territories and would fall under the jurisdiction of the Overseas Autonomous Territories if not the territories occupied by the two Legions. This is the Farea continent, not the Nubian continent, where the hands of the overseas autonomous leaders are not yet inserted. Additionally, throwing those cumbersome administrative matters to the King, Claude can focus on the restructuring of the two regiments and the handling of the trophies...

For these high-ranking officers of the Royal Army, the found Hawk message was a slap in the face. Earlier, they also vowed in front of Frederie I that Dandan would surely fail the Thunder Regiment and the Rock Regiment, and that their losers would destroy the bulk of the Allied armies, while the Jet of the Nasserli Kingdom lay in the Army ministry for half a month. Had it not been for the Prime Minister, the Marquis Blancat, to have heard the wind send a deliberate message to General Bolognick, perhaps the matter would have remained silent.

The later we find out, the bigger the face of the Royal Army, the more suspicious the eyes of these high-ranking officers are when we don't see Frederick I? Perhaps the seeds of mistrust have been buried in His Majesty's heart. Anyway, starting with the debt war, the judgments and prophecies of these senior officers of the Royal Army have been repeatedly erroneous and rarely accurate. Especially this time, it is ridiculous, even the victory of the Quote has been casually taken aside as a lie...

The senior officer in the Army had to look for a scapegoat, and the officer on duty that day, the major who had received the Eagle message, was not afraid, but made a ridiculous argument in front of Frederie I. He sees no mistake, because he concludes that the newspaper is a lie because he has heard too many words in the Army Department that do not favour the two regiments in the Overseas Autonomous Territories, and it is these high-ranking officers who have made these statements.

To prove their point, these senior officers have also conducted a number of sandbox field exercises in the Ministry of the Army, culminating in the conclusion that the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of Rock will lose at least half their strength and flee from the Royal Nasserley. And the Allied forces will be roughly one-third killed and injured, and two regiments of overseas autonomous territories will need to be in the newly occupied territories in the future, while the Red Dragon Legion and the Lizard Legion of the Kingdom will be in a state of confrontation on the border between the two countries and the Allied armies, a stalemate that will persist until the Kingdom and the Alliance resume armistice negotiations and sign a peace agreement...

It is these senior officers of the Royal Army Ministry who infused their subordinates with too much information detrimental to the Legion of Thunder and the Rock Legion and expressed too many pessimistic opinions, so the major officer on duty was predominantly preconceived and naturally thought that the newspaper was fabricating a lie. So many of our predecessors have said that the two regiments of overseas autonomous territories cannot win, then the newspaper must be fake.

Frederick I felt a little strange and asked, “So you don't have your own judgment? As a soldier, you should have your own insights. Besides, it's hard to fake newspapers like this in war, and it's impossible to fake them like this. Is there supposed to be training in military schools? ”

Surprisingly for Frederick I, the Major Officer replied frankly: "Your Majesty, I have never been to a military school. I'm from the Adrissino family. My father forced me to work for the Royal Army. He said that I was in the Army Department, so long as I obeyed the guidance of my predecessors, I would naturally be able to make my way. Like I have military duties and messengers arranged long ago...”

The Adrizino family, part of the old-fashioned aristocratic family of the Kingdom of Ovieras, is dominated by the Adrizino family and has a large presence in the Guardianship Corps in all four of the kingdom's current military industries.

It was a joke that Frederick I, a noble son who had never attended a military academy, was given the rank of Major of the Realm as soon as he entered the Royal Army Department. Even the most basic regulations on the promotion of personnel of the Royal Army are disregarded. No wonder there are so many omissions.

A senior officer rushed forward to explain: "Major Adricino, though not in the military academy, is a senior literary student at the Cleveley School of Arts. We recruited him specifically and awarded him the rank of Major in order to improve the simplicity of the correspondence, without violating any military ordinance..."

“I remember the special recruitment and the appointment of civilian officers, the highest rank is only the rank of lieutenant...” Frederick I looked at this senior officer who came out of the defense for a moment, and he jumped out of his mouth and turned away.

The Prime Minister, the Marquis Blancat, watched the farce in front of him and couldn't say anything but sigh and chase him...

On December 28, the royal eagle arrived at the Royal City of Polyvisia. The letter appoints Claude as interim governor of the Nasseri district, responsible for all military affairs. It was not until after the New Year's Eve that King Ting reconvened the pilgrimage meeting on January 15 of the New Year to discuss the candidature of the head of the Nasserly region that he would travel to Polyviria for a handover with Claude. As for the great achievements of the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion General, they will also be announced at the first Dynasty Conference of the New Year...

But before receiving this hawk message, Claude had just received a hawk message from General Albert. After a 17-day march, his temporary division arrived at the Grand Duke of Bomalis, capital of the Principality of Kanas. It is only regrettable that the Grand Duke of Kanas has packed his belongings with his family and a group loyal to him, as well as a number of Duchy nobles who are said to have taken refuge in the Principality of Hicks by boat.

General Albert and the Temporary Division had to occupy several towns in the northern bay before the Eagle sent a message to Claude.

The Duchy of Kanas is also extinct...