Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 565: Psychologically Transformed Hicks Return Division Officers and Soldiers

Cold winds, snowflakes and dancing, shady skies, destroyed houses burning to ruins. The body of a scratch-out Bakeler Legion soldier was taken out by the soldiers of the Mount Breot Legion and dumped in the square and piled up, quickly covering a thin layer of snow as the snowflakes drifted. There are already more than a dozen such bodies in the square. These are the victims of last night's intense battle. Traces of blood can be seen on the muddy snow...

Guided by several officers of the Breott Hills Legion, Claude entered the capital of Scannamo City in Skovia County and remained in the Executive Hall in front of a platoon of bodies on the ground. These bodies in General Hicks uniforms are clearly more favoured than those piled up in the outer square, and at least they are covered with a grey military blanket.

“This is Legion Leader of the Buckler Legion, the Mondo Carlo. His Royal Highness Prince Da Hicks.” Bearded officer Breott pointed at the body in the middle, wearing the Lieutenant General's uniform, and said, "He launched his final assault against us with the guards beside him, and then we knocked him all over the ground. Eventually, when we went over there, we found out that he was a lieutenant general, and we found a few more captives to confirm that he was Mondo Carlo. His Highness Da Hicks..."

“At the very least, he was brave enough to die. He died on the way to the battle. He didn't wear such a uniform unjustly, and he didn't embarrass the soldiers.” General Diavid around Claude expressed his feelings: “But he was not a qualified commander, trapping himself in the middle of nowhere, simply brainless and idiotic. He thought the Shining River could serve as a defensive barrier, but didn't expect the Shining River to trap his legions in Scannamo City as well..."

This is the morning of December 11, when the fighting in Skovia County ended before this morning. After a month of fighting, the Legion of Thunder and the three Mount Breot Legions used the mobility of the Light Riders of the Legion of Thunder to break through the defensive front set by the enemy and divide the enemy into separate towns. After the arrival of the three Breot Mountain Regiments, a robust offensive will be carried out in conjunction with the fierce offensive of the new Artillery Regiment, which will wipe out 350,000 troops assembled by the Hicks kingdom, mainly the Buckler Regiment and the Bruce Regiment.

Last night's night's attack was the result of a cooperative battle between General Diaved's Thunder Division III and the Breott First Mountain Regiment, where defenceless Buckler Regiment officers and soldiers resisted and surrendered with their hands raised. Resistance did not harden until it attacked the enemy's stronghold, the capital of Scannamo City. Finally, General Diaved ordered the use of nearly 100 new light infantry field artillery guns, bombing them for over an hour, destroying almost half of the city's main mansion before occupying the enemy's final stronghold...

“In total, we have captured nearly 200,000 enemies, with an estimated 110,000 killed and wounded and nearly 60,000 injured themselves. Of these, more than 8,000 were casualties in the Legion of Thunder, and nearly 54,000 were casualties in three Mountain Legions of the Kingdom of Breot..." Lieutenant Captain Faherring reported rough casualty statistics to Claude for the first time.

It is noteworthy that the majority of the casualties of the Mountain Regiment of the Kingdom of Breot were sustained in the solo capture of the city of Hidepath, more than 43,000, almost one-on-one compared to the defensive Standing Army of Hicksbrus. Even if Claude sent a new artillery regiment directly under his regiment to help, the casualties were greatly increased by improper cooperation with the Brainless Strike repeatedly launched by the Breot Mountain Regiment...

That's why last night's night's raid, Claude was instructed by General Diaved to lead the Thunderbolt 3rd Division, and the Breott 1st Mountain Regiment helped coordinate, just to show these simple mountain men what attacking a defensive city should do to reduce their own casualties. However, the results now appear to be limited, and instead, the officers and soldiers of the First Mountain Regiment of Breott have fought and fought, still killing and injuring nearly 10,000 people.

Depending on the situation, the reorganization more than half a month ago did not achieve the desired results, and the reorganization of Breot's three mountain regiments was nothing more than a weak selection. The selection of qualified elite soldiers from the three mountain regiments was regrouped into the First Second Mountain Regiment, and the remaining older veterans' oils were collected into the Third Mountain Regiment, which was responsible for the heavy transport of prisoners to take care of these matters. While the First and Second Mountain Regiments have been revamped and have strengthened their organizational and disciplinary management, their courage is more reckless than reckless and requires long-term tactical training.

The capture of Scannamo City, the capital of Skavia County, meant the extinction of the ashes of the two Standing Legions of the Kingdom of Hicks, the Buckler Legion and the Bruce Legion, and the loss of their defensive armaments in five of the eight counties along the southern coast. All that remains are the two standing regiments, the Dakhley Legion and the Faklin Legion, stationed in the three counties of the Manoli Plains.

In the winter of Holy Light 604, life was very difficult for the Kingdom of Hicks. Five of the eight local counties along the southern coast have fallen into the hands of the invading forces of the Overseas Autonomous Territory of the Kingdom of Ovieras, where the Legion of Thunder is deserted, where the administration and territorial nobility have been wiped out by these aggressors, people have been captured, their homes copied and their possessions looted...

In the city of San Hiprian in Wangjing and the Wangjing region, the invaders carried out a vigorous inventory, and countless patriots who had the will to report to the State were either arrested or killed. What angered the Hicks most was that those Hicks officers and soldiers who had been the Expeditionary Force of the Hicks Kingdom of Nubicia had turned and become accomplices to the aggressors. They do more hateful and hateful things for the tigers than for the officers and soldiers of the fierce Storm Corps.

In contrast, if the Storm Regiment was simply looting property, the residents of Wang Jing would take it for granted, after all, it was the standard act of the aggressor. But why are the families and relatives of the Hicks Return Corps so honored? You know, the soldiers forcibly recruited into the Expeditionary Army are the lowest villains in the Hicks kingdom. So even if the Expeditionary Army suffered a tragic defeat in the colonial war, nearly half a million prisoners remained unquestioned in the Kingdom of the Hicks, and no one was involved in the deaths of these Dalits.

War will naturally disrupt the normal social order. Nearly a million residents of Wangjing San Xiprian City, everyday consumables depend on the Orchard Farm of small and large farms in the Wangjing area and the supply of supplies from all parts of the Kingdom, but after the collapse of Wangjing San Xiprian City, the supply of supplies is of course greatly affected. Even if the occupier does not deliberately disrupt this private business activity, it is inevitable to impose an income city tax and strict scrutiny.

The supply of living goods in the city of San Hiprian in Wangjing began to get a little nervous, prices rose quickly, and many residents of Wangjing were forced to leave their homes to surrender to family and friends elsewhere in the county. In such circumstances, the families and relatives of the four Hicks Return Regiment officers and soldiers were accorded great privilege. They even occupy large areas of Royal Square and aristocratic settlements, set up residential camps, and provided all living goods free of charge, naturally at the expense of resources and materials collected from the treasury of the Kingdom of Hicks.

For many residents of the city of San Hiplian in Wangjing, the soldiers and officers of the Expeditionary Army are in their eyes low-handed and artillery ashes, and noble, they usually look down on these sluts. But now they are the most troubled people in their lives, lacking a lot of necessary supplies and consumables, and even buying a loaf of bread is queued for two hours. And those they despised were reunited, laughing and laughing in the residential area. So much so that the hatred of the inhabitants of the city of Saint Hiplian of King King rose up these villains who rebelled against the Kingdom of Hicks...

To the surprise of General Albert, the town guard of Wangjing, with the arrival of the families and relatives of the Hicks Return Corps officers and soldiers, there has been a sharp decline in attacks on the Storm Corps generals in the city of San Hiplian and Wangjing districts of Wangjing, as opposed to increasing terrorist attacks in residential camps where the families and relatives of the Hicks Return Corps officers and soldiers are located. In just two months, close to 100 families and relatives of members of the Returning Division were injured as a result of these attacks.

In contrast, the capture and pursuit of the perpetrators of these attacks by Hicks Return Corps officers and soldiers has become increasingly brutal, even in order to obtain traces of the pursuits, to find the planners of these attacks, who can live to torture the captured prisoners to death...

Compared to what happened when they first entered the city of San Hiplian in Wangjing, these Hicks Returning Division officers and soldiers became brutal from greenery to cruelty. In their eyes, the inhabitants of the city of San Hiplian in Wangjing have become their enemies, not their compatriots. Any Hicks people who prevent them and their families from joining in a happy life have become enemies they do not share.

As the Military Intelligence Agency has arranged in the reports of the agents of these Hicks Return Regiments, these officers and soldiers who have been recruited into the Hicks Expeditionary Army to cross the Silent Ocean for colonial warfare between the mainland of Nubia and the Overseas Autonomous Territory military regions, mostly serfs and colonists under the nobility of the territory of the Hicks, are of a humble status and are dastardly and inferior to the eyes of most of the free people of the Hicks kingdom, to whom no one can see them.

After the collapse of the colonial war, they were even better treated than they were in the Kingdom of Hicks, even if they served in the overseas self-governing territories. Eating and wearing warmth is already the most basic condition if you work hard, bury yourself hard, and even get a very low salary and benefits subsidy to accumulate and become personal property. If Ken were to study, they would also be taught to read and read in the labour camps, all of which they could not get from the nobility of the Territory...

So after hard labour, the Hicks prisoners still live well in the Overseas Autonomous Territories, where they are truly free men. Workers are paid as well as self-employed men. The only difference was that they were not immigrants and did not receive an industrial distribution from the Autonomous Territories that gave preferential treatment to immigrant families. This is also the real reason why 230,000 Hicks prisoners want to settle in overseas self-governing settlers. The rest of the Hicks captives don't want to share the same ideas as these companions, but rather carry the family of the Hicks kingdom...

Now, the Overseas Autonomous Territories have issued a new ordinance allowing them, the Hicks prisoners, to form eight groups of returnees, to return to the Kingdom of Hicks to bring their families and relatives to the Overseas Autonomous Territories, to accord the same privileged treatment to the migrants of the Kingdom of Ovieras, to assign them a family estate and to allow them to settle peacefully and live happily in the Overseas Autonomous Territories.

This is great news for all the Hicks prisoners, who are eager to sign up to join the army and even the unsuccessful ones ask their own comrades to bring their families back to the overseas autonomous territories. This was also facilitated by the autonomous collars, who were allowed to register and bring their families and relatives back to the overseas autonomous territories at no cost.

Their mood was very complicated when the eight Hicks Return Division officers and soldiers stepped once again on the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks. There is both joy and fear, and how they have become rebels, following the overseas autonomous military regions to attack their homeland. As a result, after receiving orders to assist the Storm Regiment in conducting an inventory of the city of San Xiprian in Wangjing and apprehending the resistance elements, the four Hicks Return Regiments who had arrived in Wangjing were not performing very well and appeared to be doing very well.

Intelligence agents who arranged the four Hicks Return Regiments reported that they had just entered a squadron of Hicks Return Regiments in Wangjing and were instructed to guard a stone bridge in the city to check that pedestrians travelling in and out of vehicles were armed. In the course of their mission, a noble lady from the Kingdom of Hicks yelled at them, accusing them of being Hicks scum, traitors or something. And the soldiers in this squadron behaved shamefully. They checked softly and let the intercepted carriages cross the river...

This is not an exception, and most of the four Hicks Return Regiments who have just entered the city have performed similarly. As they put it, this is the most proud city of St. Hiplian, King of the Hicks, who, as inhabitants and serfs, may never have had access to this great city in their lifetime. This time they came to Wang Jing as occupying forces, their minds were still humble and with panic, they always felt that the inhabitants of the city were more noble and noble than them.

General Albert, however, did not punish the Hicks Return Division officers and soldiers for these reasons, but kept his promise to raise the morale of the Hicks Return Division officers and soldiers by sending their troops to the counties to bring their families and relatives back to Wangdu and by arranging a large residential area for them to be provided with sufficient supplies to reunite them with their relatives.

It just didn't occur to me that the result was that the relatives of the Hicks Return Corps officers and soldiers in the residential area were jealous of the people of the city of San Hiplian in Wangjing. The armed resistance also targeted the residential area, claiming that the rebels of the Hicks kingdom were equally suffering from the loss of their loved ones, which was the price they should pay to betray the kingdom, etc., so even the relatives of the officers and soldiers went shopping on the street and were targeted, either beaten seriously or insulted by robbery, verbally abused, and the residential area was also attacked by gunpowder pack explosions, causing dozens of casualties...

Resistors in the city of San Hiprian in Wangjing had no idea what consequences they had caused, and they had to be proud that the attacks in the Yangon had provoked the enemies of the officers and soldiers of the Hicks Return Division. No one can stop these soldiers and their relatives from throwing themselves into a happy life in the overseas self-governing territories, where they truly live like individuals rather than humble untouchables.

If the attacks were directed against the officers and soldiers of these Hicks Return Division, they could endure humiliation. Anyway, they consider themselves Hicks and are now ashamed to help the troops of the Overseas Autonomous Territories invade their homeland. Even casualties are inevitable to their respective lords. Their deaths and injuries are compensated by autonomous military districts. Families can still live in happiness and tranquillity, so that their sacrifices are worthy.

However, the attacks against their families and loved ones provoked outrage among all the officers and soldiers of the Returning Regiment, which was the most heinous crime to which their relatives had been subjected in the run-up to immigration to the overseas autonomous territories. So these Hicks Return Corps officers and soldiers became conscious, and now they no longer see themselves as Hicks, but as members of the Overseas Autonomous Territories. They started searching for the resistance and even shot the captured armed men in the street in public...

If the residents of Wang Jing San Xiprian City scolded them when they first entered the city, and the officers and soldiers of the Hicks Return Division were silent, then now who scolds them as traitors, traitors and so on will only be caught by them and beaten severely, which is lucky. Bad luck can even put your life in danger.

There is such a small territorial nobility that it is recognized that several of the soldiers and soldiers of the returnees were once their serfs and colonists, who were publicly accused of being assholes. So this courageous nobleman of the Territory was picked to death in the streets by their former serfs and inhabitants with bayonets...

And after killing the nobility of the territory, the serfs and the colonists, who dared to kill their former masters, gave several blows to the bodies, saying that when they fought for the Kingdom of Hicks on the continent of Nubia, he, as lord, threw their families out of the castle. Without them, the lords were reluctant to feed these burdensome old and weak, and their families were insulted by the fact that they could only collect garbage in their territory. And they were captured overseas in self-governing servitude, and the Lord of Life and Death didn't ask, why didn't such a Lord kill and keep it?

There are many such cases in the Hicks Return Corps, where lucky officers and soldiers can find their families and relatives. The bad news is that some families have left the world and the worst luck is that the entire family has died. With news from all over the country and the arrival of relatives of officers and soldiers, more and more Hicks Homecoming Division officers and soldiers have made overseas autonomous leaders their true home and hope. They are willing to sacrifice and fight for the blood of overseas autonomous leaders...