Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 544: Pamigal riots

“Has Congressman Underkoros's Horse Team returned yet?” Claude asked.

Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes replied: "No, the previous day, after they had transported arms supplies to the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik and handed them over to Colonel Boquer, the Horse Squad returned to the Lomonkdor Mountain border for two days and took off loaded with some smuggled goods.

Councillor Endocross, their smuggling association, built a large camp on the Mount Lomonkdor border, where they transported goods from the city of Monknard by wagon to the camp on the Mount Lomonkdor border through that inland avenue of the Nikancha nation, and then smuggled them into the interior of the colonies of the West Coast countries with a convoy of horses.

In addition, the Chamber of Smugglers ordered a large number of light rails at the railway manufacturing workshop to be laid on that secret corridor. I thought they were going to build a railroad, and I didn't know until I heard about it that they said they were going to build a railroad track in Mala, which would save half the journey time and the amount of horses consumed.

In addition, the smuggler would be prepared to build three warehousing camps on that secret corridor to store smuggled commodity shipments, thus speeding up the delivery time. However, their road repair team and neighboring Nikantha colony had several fights, all for small things with chicken skin and garlic, but they all used their fists and feet and did not use their weapons... "

Claude was very satisfied with his deputy, at least he was able to keep a clear picture of what was going on with the smuggling association of the Congressman Andercolos: "Send a notice to Congressman Andercolos saying that the name of the smuggling association they had started was too ugly to be changed to the Free Trade Transport Association. ”

“Yes." Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes put Claude's request on his notebook.

“How much time does General McJackie have left? ”

Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes picked up a folder from the table and looked at the answer: "It may take more than a dozen days, the day before yesterday, when Falcon rumored that General McJackie had completed the integration of the local guard corps in Port Vibator State and that the final itinerary was Rocky Hills State. He will not be able to return to Lake Lang until the two local guard regiments in Rocky Hills State have been integrated. ”

Claude nodded, pulled a cigar out of the cigarette box on the table, lit it and took a deep breath: “Is there anything else you need to deal with? ”

“Yes, you haven't responded to General Derivique's application. It's the third day.” Deputy Mason Hughes cautioned.

General Derivique was responsible for recruiting the liberated Hicks prisoners to join the so-called volunteer corps, which turned out to be unexpectedly 56,000. This has exceeded the target number of divisions, lost the election and the subsequent Hicks were uncomfortable, fighting outside the barracks every day. General Derivique had to send someone to tell Claude the news and please show him what to do...

Claude bit his teeth: "Forget it, let's form another Hicks division, let Hibilos. General Ta Boriot will head this new division. I consider that if the Pamigals could really take the colony of the Morosic kingdom and build it independently, then the Morosic kingdom would probably send an expedition to the Nubian mainland, and then this new Hicks Second Volunteer Corps would be useful..."

In any case, the military expenditures of the two Hicks volunteer regiments were paid in advance by the Autonomous Territory and could be converted into loans or repaid with principal and interest once the Pamigal had established his country independently. So Claude didn't care about forming an extra volunteer corps, and he couldn't chill the hearts of the Hicks prisoners who volunteered to join the army. Whatever their personal purpose, the willingness to sacrifice blood for overseas autonomous leaders cannot be easily failed.

No one knows what will happen after the armed uprising of the Pamigals, and the Kingdom of Morosik will not anticipate any of this. Perhaps the colonies of the two countries next to the Pamigals after their independence would even intervene. By then, it will be better to be prepared than unprepared. One more division will have one more battle force to fight back. Otherwise, there will be a shortage of troops and no time to regret the collapse of merit, and the autonomous military regions will not be allowed to fight with their bare arms.

Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes took notes and continued to report to Claude on his official duties: “Master Byrd and General Muried sent a letter stating that the first Ironclad ships delivered to Wang Du had been refurbished, please take a few days to inspect..."

Claude nodded: "Ming, the day after tomorrow, we'll go to Patres military port the afternoon after tomorrow, and we'll be back in two days. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes nodded and noted Claude's itinerary on his notebook: "Mr. Viberon reported that weapons and ammunition, such as the first new type of firearms, as well as vintage throwers of the kind produced by the Kingdom of Hicks, had been transported to the military camp and that the firing of firearms by the Hicks First Volunteer Corps could begin immediately. ”

“General Derivique is entrusted with examining the advantages and disadvantages of this new type of rope gun, which, if there is no problem, could be produced and equipped on a large scale. Another small shipment to Bok Al, give the Pamigals a try first, so they can test the performance of the new guns.” Claude thought about it.

“Yes, Marshal.” Colonel Mason Hughes started recording on his notebook again.

“Is there any new news coming from the kingdom itself?” Claude asked.

“Still four days ago,” said Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes, "the border territory of the Nasri region was looted by bandits from the Kingdom of Menbamak and a small-scale conflict erupted, and the Kingdom sent envoys to the Kingdom of Menbamak to seek solutions to the growing problem of border bandits. The kingdom's three main battlefield ace regiments have begun to equip themselves with new rifles, General Albert has once again wiped out a nomadic tribe in the Kanas Prairie, North Bay has begun planning for the expansion of new territories, and so on..."

Claude sighed, these are old news stories that he had already seen.

Colonel Mason Hughes made a note, made a gift, and stood still as he was about to leave the office: "Marshal, I want to step down...”

“Hmm?” Claude looked up at Colonel Mason Hughes: “You want to go down there and be a troop commander? Where are you going? ”

“General Derivique said that if you agree, he would leave me the post of Commander.” Colonel Mason Hughes replied.

“Son of a bitch, dug all the horns here.” Claude scolded and looked at Colonel Mason Hughes: “Okay, I promise you, but I'll give you three days to get me a better deputy. Otherwise, you're not going to be a leader..."

“Yes, sir.” Lieutenant Colonel Mason Hughes saluted once again with excitement: “I'm going to find you a satisfied deputy. ”

“Hey, take care of what I told you to do first!” Claude sighed at the closed office door and shook his head with a smile. This guy's been following himself for years, and it's time to put it down there on his own. Speaking of which, the deputy who followed him around was the most convenient and considerate to use by both Mike and Mason Hughes. I can't help but leave.

On 14 October 602, the Pamigali uprising erupted in the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik on the West Coast. The reason for the incident is said to be the imposition by the authorities of the city of Ubilis, the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik, of a levy on the local Pamigals for self-spinning linen, a high levy on the Pamigals' own textile linen, which led to the Pamigali uprising.

The Kingdom of Morosik is home to fine linen, most of which is sold at high prices to the colonies. And the colonial Pamigals, reluctant to be the culprits, planted their own rough hemp and woven cloth. The hemp merchants of the Kingdom of Morosik then colluded with local officials to issue a ban on the use of agricultural land for the cultivation of hemp, in many towns of the colony, so that the fine hemp from the Kingdom's mainland could sell the entire colony.

It's just that these businessmen and local officials are a little too simple to let the cultivation of marijuana on farmland can be grown in the wild, but the demands on the land for this crop are very simple anyway. The Pamigals often walk around in the wild with a seed of rough hemp, and after about six months the wild is full of rough hemp, which can be harvested and soaked home to collect hemp wire for spinning.

So the hemp dealers and local officials were angry, and they made another ban. That is to say, if anyone has a textile machine in their home, they pay an exorbitant tax on self-textile linen, which means that if you have a textile machine in your home, you will trade in textile linen privately to the detriment of colonial interests. There are only two options, either paying taxes or confiscating textiles.

A wooden textile machine was already a bridesmaid treasure for a Pamigal woman these days, and with a textile machine she could feed herself, even if she didn't have the money to use it as a currency. Some smart Pamigal women can also make fabrics that are as fine as linen with crude hemp.

If the fine linen from the Morosic kingdom was sold at a low price, perhaps the business would be good. Unfortunately, the hemp dealers in the Kingdom of Morosik were greedy enough to scrape the wealth of the Pamigals with fine hemp, selling five times more than the price of the hemp shipped from the Kingdom itself to other countries. As a result, the hemp became retarded and few Pamigals were willing to buy it.

It could have been justified by the fact that there were too many fine linen cloths smuggled in by the overseas autonomous territories at too low a selling price, but the Moroccan colonies similarly imposed a restraining order on the overseas autonomous territories, without which the smuggled cargo fabrics were lost, and the fine linen cloth from the Moroccan kingdoms remained on hold. In order to force the Pamigals to come and buy these expensive linen, these linen dealers and local officials vacated this self-spinning linen tax, thinking that without the textile machine you would always buy our linen, otherwise you would have to be naked...

The weapons used by the Pamigals at the beginning of the uprising were still stones, knives, spears, homemade bows and arrows, which were easily dispersed with guns by colonial garrisons and local guards, and the streets were filled with the bodies of rioters. Colonial officials and garrisons from the Kingdom of Morosik assumed that the riot would be calmed down in less than three days, as it had been in the past.

However, they had no idea that the riot had lasted for half a month and that the weapons in the hands of the Pamigals who had finally emerged had been replaced with a new type of fireline gun, seemingly with rigorous military training, and that the cantonment of a battalion of colonies in the city of Ubilisi and a battalion of local guards had quickly lost a heavy toll and lost the entire city.

The colonial authorities of the Kingdom of Morosik were surprised by the failure of the city of Ubilis, until they learned that the Pamigal organizer of the riot was the bastard Baron Tetz Singh, who had been ridiculed. Nora Taganem, who announced the formation of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Pamigal in the city of Ubilis, was committed to the national liberation and independent nation-building of the Pamigals. Countless Pamigals have traveled to Ubilisi...

Claude was actually annoyed because the Pamigal riot in the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik was an unexpected and unplanned event, and the Hicks First Volunteer Regiment, which had been formed on this side, was still in the barracks outside Lake Lang for training and had not been able to travel to the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik.

“They were almost two and a half months ahead of schedule, and the majority of the Pamigals involved in the riots were young and had not even completed three months of military training. The Nikancas are the Nikancas, and their unorganized and undisciplined habits have been incorporated into their blood, or they can change this bad habit if they change their name to Pamigal!” Chief of Staff, Natas. General Ba Lavagus was angry, and he hated all those who did not follow the plan.

“A hawk message from Colonel Boquer said that the armed uprising had been waged in advance because many Pamigals had been killed in the city of Ubilisi, many of them young Pamigal relatives and family members who were being trained to learn that this scourge had consumed the anger and hatred of those young men who had secretly returned to the city of Ubilisi with weapons and ammunition to take part in the uprising.

They had no choice but to initiate an uprising in advance. Fortunately, the weak presence and low level of armed forces in the colonial areas of the Kingdom of Morosik are not rivals of these Pamigals with brief military training. When the city of Ubilis fell into the hands of the Front de libération du peuple pamigal, Tez Singh... Nora Taganem must come forward, or someone else will take the title and command... "

McJackie looked at the hawk message in his hand and explained that, suddenly, even Colonel Bockard over there had to push the boat, not stop the Pamigals from revenge their loved ones and stop the riot.

“Marshal, what are we supposed to do now, suspend the training of the Hicks First Volunteer Regiment and get them armed and set off immediately for colonial support in the Kingdom of Morosik?” General Fordless, Head of Military Intelligence, asked.

Claude waved and asked McJackie, "Did Colonel Bockard request immediate military assistance from our Autonomous Territory in this hawk letter? ”

“No, he just explained why the armed uprising had been launched in advance, saying nothing else.” Mike replied.

Claude laughed: "Well, let's just forget about the Pamigal riots. General Netas was right. The Nikancas are the Nikancas. Either the Pamigals change their name or they lose the bad habits of the Nikancas. I don't think this is going to be a good time for Colonel Boquer and the officers we sent, because the Pamigals are going to be so proud of their easy capture of Ubilisi...

The Pamigali uprising is said to have never been won in nearly two hundred years, nor to have seized any city. I am confident that this time the city of Ubilis will fall into their hands, which will surely give them full confidence in themselves, and will then sweep much of the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik, and countless more towns will fall into their hands.

There's no shortage of them, Colonel Boquer. Nora Taganem, along with more than 20,000 Pamigal youthful men trained in short-term military training to use fire-rine guns, is not their opponent for the colonial garrison and local guard arming of the Kingdom of Morosik... "

“Isn't it wasteful that we have a plan and so much money invested?” The head of the Treasury Department, General Senanov, is somewhat anxious that if the Pamigals take over the colony of the Kingdom of Morosik and establish it independently, the military expenditures of the two Hicks volunteer regiments formed by the Autonomous Territory will have to be borne by themselves.

General Fordless, the head of the Military Intelligence Department, laughed: "Don't worry, the words of Marshal Claude have not been exhausted. The Pamigals can sweep the majority of the colonies of the Kingdom of Morosik without being able to occupy the entire colony alone. When the Morosic kingdom reacts and sends an army from the kingdom's mainland to repress it, some of these Pamigals suffer. We can be patient until they are beaten to the point of asking for our support, and in the end these Pamigals will be willing to pay a greater price in return for our help. ”

General Netas, the chief of staff, nodded: "General Fordless was right, and it was not too late for us to do it again. Only my biggest concern is whether the colonies of the Kingdom of Riznia and the Duchy of Vassilico, adjacent to the colonies of the Kingdom of Morosik, will be involved in this Pamigal uprising.

If the colonial garrisons of these two countries help the Kingdom of Morosik to suppress the Pamigal uprising, I doubt the Pamigals will last until the day our support arrives... "

Claude shook his head: “This will hardly happen, because the Kingdom of Morosic and the Principality of Vassilico are already enemies, both in the Farea continent and in the West Coast colonies, there have been several wars. Had it not been for the support of the Union of the States of the City of Opsaro behind the Principality of Vasiliko, the Principality of Vasiliko would have been exterminated by the Kingdom of Morosik.

As for the colonies of the Kingdom of Riznia, they were the primary subjects of protection for the colonies of the Kingdom of Morosik, which had had several conflicts over their colonial borders and had not enjoyed very good relations. The Pamigali riots in the colonies of the Kingdom of Morosik are now unfortunate, and the colonies of the two countries will only be blighted. The Pamigals of the Kingdom of Morosik will be independently established.

Because this is the only way they can make an ex-post to the Pamigal nation and seize the colony, they will never make an ex-post before the Pamigal riots, and possibly even give support to the Pamigals privately... "