Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 569 The situation in September

Holy Light, 11 September 605, Kingdom of Breot, Plains of Manoli, Port of Patcala.

This is the third time that the Overseas Autonomous Territories Ocean Transport Fleet has transported family members and relatives of Hicks Return Division officers and soldiers to the Overseas Autonomous Territories for naturalization as immigrants. Nearly 500 large sailboats filled the entire harbor, and all the decks were full of servicemen, who wanted to see this once homeland again, and then embark on an unknown journey to a distant strange continent to start a new life...

“Forty-seven large sailboats and eight iron armored carriers were added this time to carry 50,000 more people, thanks to the help of General Beechlin.” Admiral Muried, Navy Governor of the Autonomous Territory, was very excited to say: "If the convoy of the Southern Troika that commanded the Autonomous Volunteer Corps this time raided Port Filims did not use fire, perhaps we could have more than a hundred more ocean ships..."

Claude just smiled and shook his head, making it very difficult for General Beechlin to bring these forty-seven large sailboats to the ocean. While the Overseas Autonomous Military Regions were at war with the Kingdom of Hicks, the war between the three countries of the southern part of the Farea continent, the Kingdom of Morosik, the Kingdom of Riznia and the Principality of Vassilico to recover the colonies of the western coast of the Nubian continent was again fought. Nearly 430,000 coalition forces invaded the Pamigal National Republic just a few years after its establishment, occupying much of the coastal to inland territory.

The Pamigal National Liberation Front (FNL) forces were simply unable to defend themselves against the Allied Coalition forces and had to retreat to the remaining hinterland areas and Russman territory to persevere in the fighting. After entering colony No. 2 on the west coast of the former kingdom of Riznia, the Allied Coalition of the Three Kingdoms carried out a bloody massacre against the Ruthmans, all of whom, apart from young women and young prisoners who could be enslaved, were elderly and infirm, and were the targets of killing...

The brutal massacres forced the Russmans to stop killing each other and fighting each other for power and to unite against the most vicious enemies. Faced with the help of the Pamigals and Ruthmans, the autonomous military region hidden behind them also had to fight barefoot, directly converting two rock divisions into volunteer divisions, recruiting a large number of retired veterans, forming a so-called voluntary corps of overseas autonomous people to assist the peoples of the West Coast to gain independence and freedom, and travelling to the Pamigal National Republic to defend the Allied Coalition against the stronghold of the Troika with three victorious defensive battles.

In response to the visit and questioning by the Special Envoys of the three colonial Powers in the southern part of the Farea continent, General Bichclin, representing the autonomous territorial military region, replied that it was a volunteer of civilian veterans and had little to do with the autonomous territorial military region. And since the volunteer corps formed by these civilian veterans operates on the West Coast beyond the jurisdiction of the Overseas Autonomous Territories, the Autonomous Territory has no binding powers over these veterans who go to help the Pamigals gain independence and freedom...

Ridiculously, the three southern colonial Powers and the overseas autonomous military regions fought for water while ordering a variety of armaments and daily consumables from the overseas autonomous territories, which were then sent to the front line of the West Coast for logistical supplies from the Allied Coalition Forces. And General Beechcrin and the three envoys, falsehoods and serpents, shirked their responsibilities. The remote control commands the front line of defensive combat, and is not happy to be busy.

Until December last year, General Bitchclin took advantage of a new evening near the siege of the Allied Coalition Forces of the Three Kingdoms, commanding a task force of the Pamigal Armed and Voluntary Corps to make a major detour into the greater rear port of Filims, where the Allied Coalition forces of the Three Kingdoms occupied land, carrying out a surprise attack on the distant convoy of the Allied Coalition Forces of the Southern Colonial Powers assembled here, burning more than a hundred large shipping vessels and dozens of wind sails with fire. The attacking forces then disappeared into the open sea in the dozens of cargo ships and warships they had seized.

It can be said that this surprise attack on the rear seaport convoy of the Allied Coalition Forces for the Southern Colonialization became a historic turning point in this war of national liberation on the West Coast. After losing its pelagic convoy, the troika was clearly weak and had to turn to defend itself. Armed with Pamigals, the Russman Light Mounted Forces and the Voluntary Corps of Overseas Autonomous Territories recovered a large number of lost and occupied towns in the first half of this year and once again began a counter-attack against the Troika.

And what General Muried called the 47 large sailboats that joined the Autonomous Territory Ocean Transport Fleet were the loot that surprised Port Filims at the end of last year. These captured ocean shipping vessels were rehabilitated, renovated and renamed at the military port of Patres in the Autonomous Territory and joined the Ocean Transport Fleet, adding bricks to the immigration cause of the Overseas Autonomous Territories and contributing their own luck...

So, when this ocean convoy returned, General Muried brought to Claude General Bitchcline's report of the war that took place in the Pamigal National Republic, in the Russman's territory, and in the colony of the Principality of Vassilico, a thick book. Claude, after watching it, was not concerned about the negative changes in this war with the three southern colonial Powers, but began to consider whether to reinforce General Bitchcline.

Because General Bitchicklin stated in his report that the Rock Legion's Good Leader was defensive, a volunteer regiment based on two divisions of the Rock Legion likewise continued the strengths of defensive combat. Only then will the Corps of Volunteers lack a fist force capable of spearheading a breakthrough and attacking a sharp knife at a critical juncture. As in the battle to surprise Port Filims, the attacking forces suffered many unnecessary casualties, mainly because the attacking consciousness of the soldiers was not comparable to that of the Legion of Thunder and suffered many unrelated war damage in the course of the operation...

Generally speaking, since General Beechcrin had such a lamentation in his report, Claude should find a way to send a division from the Legion of Thunder back to the Overseas Autonomous Territories for reinforcements. For example, General Berklin was a good candidate, and he could well serve as General Beechlin's deputy and assume command force offensive responsibilities. But after Claudes came to think about it, he decided to let General Bitchklin stick around for a while, not in a hurry to implement the West Coast Colony Wildfire Program, or until the situation stabilized on the side of the Hicks Kingdom.

In his reply to General Bitchcline, Claude mentioned that the fighting on the side of the Kingdom of Hicks would probably take more than a year to end. He hoped that General Beechlin's side would slow down the offensive and not go too far in his quest to defeat the Confederacy of the Southern Colonials in the shortest possible time. Instead, this short period should be used to rotate the battles of the various forces, to train the Pamigals and the Russman Light Riders and to give them greater combat power.

Claude believes that defeating or annihilating the Allied Coalition of the Southern Colonial Powers may not be the end of a war, but the beginning of another. The territories of the original Pamigal National Republic and Russmans were colonies of the Kingdom of Morosik and the Kingdom of Riznia, and even that colony of the Principality of Vasiliko was almost half armed by the Pamigals. Since these three colonial nations did not admit failure, other West Coast colonial nations were embarrassed to do so...

The current battle with the Allied Coalition Forces of the Southern Colonies was in fact a general protection of the three colonies, which could be viewed with caution by military intelligence agents. If the coalition of the three southern colonial Powers were to recover their colonies with the strong support of other West Coast colonial Powers, there would be no need for the three envoys to make vigorous purchases of armaments and consumables from the overseas autonomous Territories. Claude, which was mentioned in General Bitchlin's report, had begun to suspect that other colonial countries on the West Coast were equally unfavourable.

Obviously, the overseas autonomous territories produce all kinds of armaments needed by the three southern colonial coalitions, which are indeed inexpensive and beautiful if purchased from the overseas autonomous territories. But grass-fed meat is also intriguing if it is purchased from overseas autonomous territories. The price of grass-fed meat in the colonies of the West Coast countries will only be cheaper and more affordable than that of the overseas autonomous territories. This, combined with the differences in far-flung freight costs, makes it all the more obvious that the purchase of grass-fed meat from the colonies of the West Coast countries should be the most affordable.

The colonial Powers should logically endorse and strongly support the grass and meat of the three southern colonies to recover their own colonies, which were worthless anyway and could earn more if sold. Strangely enough, the countries of the West Coast colonies were crying out loud, what colonial Powers were similarly attached to each other, the Movement against the Independence and Freedom of Colonial Indigenous Peoples, the support of the three countries for the recovery of their colonies, the suppression of rioting indigenous peoples and so on.

On the other hand, they refused to provide the required armaments and grass-fed meat to the Allied Coalition Forces of the Southern Colonies on the pretext of repressing the armed violence waged by indigenous peoples in their colonies by mobilizing troops from their respective kingdoms to the colonies of the West Coast, citing, inter alia, increased spending on restless local authorities in their own colonies. Several countries are said to have mobilized two regiments of troops to their colonies...

While the envoys of the Kingdom of Morosik and the Kingdom of Reznia, as well as the Principality of Vassilico, came to the Overseas Autonomous Territories and Autonomous Territories to protest or something, the logistical officials who accompanied the envoys threw out a large number of orders for goods in the Autonomous Territories. General Beechcrin made a joke in the battle report, but Claude felt profoundly malicious, as some of his inaccurate mouths soon revealed dissatisfaction with the ruthlessness of the colonies of the West Coast and the refusal to provide food for the meat trade.

That is also why Claude, in his reply, asked General Beechlin to calm down and not to destroy the Confederacy of the Southern Colonials so quickly. The longer the time lags, the more blood the three southern colonial Powers will shed and the more military spending they will spend. When the future eventually fails, there will be no more energy to recover the three lost colonies. In particular, the Kingdom of Riznia, although it has two colonies on the West Coast, has now lost colony No. 2, which has become the largest wound on the body of this very powerful military Power, and has been bleeding continuously.

Claude believed that when the kingdom of Riznia was exhausted and its energy was badly damaged by the torment of colony number two, the instigation of the Ruthmans in his colony number one would mean that the kingdom of Riznia would soon lose all its colonies on the Nubian mainland. Also, Claude wondered if the other West Coast colonial nations were waiting for the defeat of the Confederate Troika of Southern Colonials, and now the Confederate Troika is fighting, so they can't intervene, but if the Confederate Troika fails, then the other colonial nations are likely to embrace each other and want to divide the three areas without a monarchy...

So Claude thought it inappropriate to give General Bitchcline reinforcements at this moment, and sending a light-handed fielder from a thundering regiment back to deal with the Confederacy of the Southern Colonials was really effective. But it did not do much to the next siege of the remaining colonial nations on the West Coast.

To complete the wildfire plan to enable all indigenous peoples in the colonies of the West Coast countries to take the flag off the colonizers, achieve the liberation of independence and freedom, build their own nation-states, and make the entire West Coast a commodity dumping ground for the overseas autonomous territories is a long and arduous war that will take longer than hopefully succeeding in just a few short years...

Claude was well prepared for the West Coast Colonial Wildfire Project, which took a long time to prepare for success, unlike the Kingdom of Hicks. Claude attacked the Kingdom of Hicks to fight a short, flat war.

The Autonomous Territorial Regions have little interest in the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks, mainly because of the immigration of members of the Hicks Return Division and because of the future financial crisis of the Autonomous Territorial Regions, nothing is more expensive than robbing a wealthy and dominant nation. The third is a definitive solution to this dead enemy nation of the kingdom of Ovilas and the Overseas Autonomous Territories.

Of course, Claude does not deny that King Frederick I of the Kingdom of Ovilas and a group of Royal Ministers headed by Prime Minister Blancat were hidden in the offensive plan against the Kingdom of Hicks. Ever since His Majesty the King issued a sealed order to receive 30 million gold kroner in cash and large quantities of armament weapons and an Ironclad sub-fleet from overseas autonomy in the name of martial fees and land selection fees, he has been secretly pursuing the idea of autonomous lords...

Perhaps this strategic plan for the Kingdom of Hicks will allow His Majesty and the ministers around him to gather their minds and be clearer. Understood that even if overseas autonomous leaders paid so much money and weapons and equipment to the Kingdom, they would not be the target of their ideas. The Hicks kingdom, the northern ruler, has been beaten to the ground by the autonomous military region, so the seemingly powerful and weak kingdom of Auvellas is best not to piss off the overseas autonomous territory. The two sides are mutually beneficial, and the kingdom will be defeated.

Two months ago, Claude received envoys from five countries surrounding the Kingdom of the Hicks, who were unexpectedly trying to recover the territory they had lost. On that point, Claude was very generous, and he told the envoys that the five eastern counties could be made available to the Principality of Santa Cruz and the Kingdom of Castro, but that it would be better to enter after the Thunder Regiment had swept up, so that they could wait for the Thunder Regiment to hand them over.

As for the ten western counties, they were taken by the three countries, the Kingdom of Monadillo, the Principality of Tumako and the Kingdom of Isabella, because the autonomous military region was temporarily unable to draw troops to sweep the ten western counties. However, intelligence suggests that there are currently more than 300,000 troops of the Hicks kingdom entering the 10 western counties and joining the local guards, so the three countries still need some strength to recover their loss, at least to defeat the 300,000 troops of the Hicks kingdom.

But with the help of envoys from the five neighbouring countries, Claude quickly figured out the origins of the more than 300,000 horses in the ten western counties. The leader is also a Grand Duke of the Hicks kingdom and has blood ties to the Hicks royal family, which should be considered a hall of honor for McKid III. Neiltuzze. Sir Hicks, known as Grand Duke of the Sunset River.

Grand Duke Sunset's family territory is in Ferrinor County in the north, which is a strategically important place. His family territory was sealed there in the hope of the Hicks' royal family that their relative would suppress the strength and prestige of the Grand Duke Ferriot family in the North. However, it seems that the first generation of the designation of Grand Duke of the Sunset River and the present heir have not fulfilled the mission entrusted to the Hicks Royal Family. Let alone suppress the Grand Duke of the North, the Ferriots, even if they have not been suppressed, it is already very good...

However, this attack on the Kingdom of Hicks by the Overseas Autonomous Military Region showed the Grand Duke of the Sunset River the hope of escaping the barren family territory and dominating it. He borrowed the advantage of his status as the king's cousin, selling the family territory of Ferrinor County to the Grand Duke of the North, and gathered a place of more than 100,000 men to guard and arm, known as 300,000. With the slogan of reviving the kingdom and banishing the aggressors, he made a turn into the ten western counties, paying no attention to the way the Legion of Thunder was sweeping the nine eastern counties next door.

Ten western counties were attacked by the Allied Lords of the Kingdom of Ovilas, who had already ruined four local counties by the Allied Lords, and were therefore very welcome to come and protect them by this Orthodox army belonging to the Hicks Crown. So the Grand Duke of the Sunset River was immediately warmly welcomed by the people of the ten western counties, owning the territory of the ten counties, starting the whole army to form a defensive front, competing for seconds to build the ten western counties like turtle shells...

The Grand Duke of the North, Pilag. The Duke of Hi-Friot made Claude confused, and he did not seem to worry about the Kingdom of Hicks, which had fallen into most of its territory. Even if those two standing regiments, the Clyde Legion and the Jessica Legion, went to him, they simply ordered the two regiments to stay in their perilous places, apparently with no intention of striking from the northwest highlands to reclaim the territory.

Claude doesn't really know what the Lord North thinks, but the eight Hicks Return Corps officers and soldiers aren't from the eleventh county in the North, so he doesn't have to deal with the Lord North. When the Legion of Thunder swept away the counties in the east and centre, and then dispatched the Legion to the remaining six counties in the west to collect the families and relatives of the Returning Legion officers, all the mission of the Autonomous Territory to attack the Kingdom of Hicks was accomplished.