Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 589: Naval Warfare in the Nubari Islands

The Autonomous Territory had a long history of planning for a demand that some of its officers and troops would be reluctant to retire in the process of downsizing the eight Hicks Return Regiments. In fact, the Overseas Autonomous Territories have just added more than 3.8 million Hicks immigrants, so adding a Hicks Corps can stabilize the psychological activity and emotional changes of those new Hicks immigrants, so that they understand that the Overseas Autonomous Territories do not see them as outsiders...

So Claude entrusted the volunteer regiment to eight Hicks Return Division regiments, and General Derivique selected the most elite 90,000 horses out of the more than 300,000 Hicks officers and soldiers to form this regiment. As for what the weapon was equipped with, the Rock Corps aligned itself, for example, with a new rifle instead of a Vibron rope gun.

Now that the families and relatives of these Hicks officers and soldiers have emigrated to the Overseas Autonomous Territories, Claude naturally no longer has to worry that these Hicks officers and soldiers will rebel. So in terms of weapons, equipment and salary and welfare, all these treatments are in line with thunder, and the Rock Regiment is in line to show equal treatment. However, officers and soldiers of the Volunteer Corps who have just switched to the new rifle will also have to train in shooting to master the shooting skills of the new rifle and avoid unnecessary waste of bullets.

At present, of course, the Hicks Volunteer Corps is useless, with only four returning divisions, and four returning divisions awaiting the last migration convoy. The Autonomous Territory has decided that the future battlefield of the Hicks Volunteer Corps will be in the West Coast colonies, and even if the war ends, the Hicks Volunteer Corps will be scattered among the rented seaport cities on the West Coast to defend the interests of the Overseas Autonomous Territories.

On August 17, 607, Holy Light, the National Republic of Pamigal, was leased to the port of Filims in the Autonomous Territory Military Region. Today the port has again arrived at a cruise unit consisting of six Ironclad warships, and the six Ironclad warships that arrived on this occasion, perhaps better known as the Teaching Unit, were the first steps taken by the Pamigals to build their own navy, in accordance with the agreement reached between the Autonomous Territory and the high Pamigal ranks.

The Autonomous Territorial Navy will teach the Pamigals how to control the six Ironclad Battleships, which will be transferred to the Pamigal National Republic after a six-month internship period, which will form the first naval cruise sub-fleet of the Pamigals. It may be argued that the Autonomous Territory has spared no effort in supporting the Pamigals.

More than a decade later, the naval officers and soldiers on these six Ironclad warships were very well connected to the Pamigals they had learned from. It was on the same day that one of the warship's captains and two Pamigal cadets met, and everyone decided to host a grand birthday party to celebrate their common birthday.

Because of the many years of young, beautiful and enthusiastic Pamigal women at such magnificent Yang drunks and banquets, this birthday party lasted one night until the next day at noon when all the officers and soldiers were awake and recovered. When a naval officer accidentally looked at the six Ironclad warships in the harbor, he was shocked and screamed, “Where are our warships? Where's the battleship? ”

Six Ironclad battleships flew flat, and all naval officers and Pamigal cadets were detained, not even the Pamigal women attending the banquet. At the outset, senior members of the Pamigal National Republic thought that officers and soldiers of the autonomous territorial navy were guarding the theft. They were reluctant to hand over the six Ironclad warships to the Pamigals, which was the reason for the farce.

But as the investigation progressed, especially the confessions of young Pamigal women who attended the birthday party, and the list of naval officers and soldiers with whom they had a relationship that night, it was concluded that all the officers and soldiers on the six Ironclad warships had participated in the birthday party and that they had ample proof of their presence that the witnesses were the young Pamigal women.

But how could the six Ironclad ships have disappeared if they hadn't been made by autonomous naval officers and soldiers? The Pamigal cadets had just learned a few days and could not operate the six Ironclad warships on their own. That is why the navy officers and soldiers on the battleship are so arrogant that even the sentries on the ship are not arranged, and everyone rushes to the birthday party. They all believed that no one could operate the six Ironclad warships, and that this was, in turn, a seaport base leased by the Autonomous Territories, where security could be guaranteed.

As a result, six Ironclad warships were so unknown that they lost their trace. The investigating officer from the Autonomous Territory finally found an eyewitness, an old Pamigal sailor, who got up in the middle of the night to unload the pier and prepare to fish for some seafood and sell it to the tavern in the morning for some change. He said he did see the six Ironclad warships moving slowly out of the harbor in the middle of the night, as if they didn't start the machine and couldn't hear the rumbling...

The old Pamigal sailor didn't think it was going to be a night trip. The moonlight was bright, and he could see a lot of people moving on those six Ironclad ships. That's why he thought it was Ironclad's normal night training, and he had no idea that six Ironclad warships had been hijacked and left the harbor.

The more the officers sent by the autonomous military regions to investigate, the more they wondered, it was clear that six Ironclad warships would not disappear for no reason, and that only Navy officers, not Pamigals, could control the six Ironclad warships. But the Autonomous Navy swore up and down that they didn't do it. Who would do that? No one else can control the Ironclad! The Royal Navy can fly these six Ironclad warships, but do they have the guts to come to the Nubian mainland?

The disappearance of the Ironclad was one of the 10 most mysterious cases. Until three months later, the Black Sail Pirate fleet met a British Windsurfer fleet from the Fox Islands in the waters of the Nubari Islands. The Black Sail Pirates refused orders from the Fox Islands British Windsurfer fleet to stop their sailing anchors for inspection and both sides began to prepare for battle.

As the fleet of Windsurf battleships flashed outside the Black Sail pirates, suddenly twelve Ironclad battleships burst into the battlefield of the United Kingdom's Windsurf fleet in the Fox Islands, slamming all the battleships seen while firing. The wind sail fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands was in turmoil, and they were surprised to catch the culprits of the attack on the Shipbuilding Base at Mount Wades seaport, disappointed that they could not help but the twelve Ironclad warships of the Black Sail pirates...

This naval battle in the waters of the Nubari Islands ended when the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands lost nearly half of its sailboats. In fact, the Black Sail Pirate also lost a great deal, with 12 Ironclad warships scarred and more than 40 wind sail ships and warships that followed the battle, and nearly 20 more lost.

The winner of the naval battle, however, became Black Sail Pirate after losing nearly half of the United Kingdom's sailing fleet, which had one hundred and eight ocean sailboats and armed naval vessels. And Ericsson, the leader of Blacksail Pirates, has been complimented by other pirate forces as king of pirates, even calling himself Grand Duke Nubari.

Grand Duke Nubari, in the waters of the Nubari Islands, this archipelago known as Pirate Paradise, means the most powerful pirate group. His little triangular flag could even make all the pirate groups in the waters obey his will. Or it could be argued that Grand Duke Nubari, the pirate's mouth, is just a folklore, and in fact, no pirate would willingly obey the orders of another pirate group.

Eriksson's mind was quite clear on this point, as he defeated the regular United Kingdom naval structure, a powerful sailboat fleet, but also revealed that the Black Sail Pirates were behind the attack on the United Kingdom shipbuilding colony in the Fox Islands, and the mastermind behind the capture of six Ironclad ships in the Overseas Autonomous Territories Navy. Continue to stay in the waters of the Nubari Islands. That would be an interpolated seller, waiting for the enemy to come to the door and settle their own bills...

So Ericsson's Black Sail Pirate fleet suddenly left the waters of the Nubari Islands on a moonless night and vanished into the eyes of other pirate groups. The whereabouts of the Black Sail pirates were not found until another sailboat fleet from the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands arrived violently in the waters of the Nubari Islands.

The Special Envoy of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands travelled to Lake Lang City, where he met with General Claude and Beachcline and briefed them on the results of the defeated naval battle between their kingdom's wind sail fleet and the Black Sail pirates. Let the Autonomous Territory understand the reasons for the mysterious disappearance of their six Ironclad warships, while also ascertaining that the Black Sail Pirates have mastered the techniques for repairing and modifying Ironclad warships.

This is to blame for the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, whose Wades Hill seaport shipbuilding base was attacked when technical atlases, atlases, shells of six Ironclad warships, and more than a dozen technical experts and puzzlers all fell into the hands of Black Sail pirates. It can be inferred from the six Ironclad warships that the Black Sail Pirates could unwittingly drive away from the Autonomous Territory. The Black Sail Pirates know and master Ironclad warships in an extraordinary way...

And that naval battle in the waters of the Nubari Islands has made it clear to all the pirates and seafarers watching, that the future is bound to be the world of Ironclad warships. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has a fleet of one hundred and eight sailboats of varying size and size and armed seacraft. Blacksail pirates have more than forty sailships and armed seaships, and twelve Ironclad warships.

Only no one could have guessed that the result of the fighting was that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland had lost nearly half of its wind sail fleet to the battlefield. The wind sail fleet would have been no good without evacuation. The evacuation would have failed. It would have preserved half of its maritime power and continued the fighting without evacuation. Even if it had caused more serious casualties to the Black Sail pirates, the wind sail fleet would have been completely destroyed.

Blacksail pirates have lost eighteen sailships and armed seaships, and the twelve Ironclad warships they own are also scarred and still have combat power. Needless to say, in this naval battle alone, more than forty sails were destroyed by these twelve Ironclad warships. The commander of the United Kingdom fleet in the Fox Islands determined that there was no way to take these 12 Ironclad warships and had to order them to evacuate the battlefield to confess defeat...

Now no one can find the whereabouts of the Black Sail pirates, but everyone knows that when the Black Sail pirates reappear, they will still carry twelve Ironclad battleships and no pirate group and the navy of the West Coast colonial Power will be their rivals. The Special Envoy of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, who wanted the Autonomous Territory to launch a naval armoured fleet to hunt for Black Sail pirates, was rejected by the Autonomous Territory.

Claude grinned and told the United Kingdom envoy of the Fox Islands that if they happened to meet Blacksail pirates in the ocean, the Autonomous Navy's Ironclad fleet would surely be at war with Blacksail pirates and would not let any of their Ironclad warships go. But deliberately sending an Ironclad fleet to the colonial waters of the West Coast countries to hunt Blacksail pirates, unfortunately the Autonomous Territory Navy has no time to play hide-and-seek games with Blacksail pirates at all...

As can be seen from the map, the main task of the Autonomous Navy's Ironclad fleet is to maintain the safety of the maritime corridors of the ocean convoy between the two continents. Like the overseas autonomous territorial waters, the northern bay waters of the Kanas Prairie, and the maritime security of two leased harbour cities, although there is an Ironclad Cruise Subfleet, it is more about guarding than attacking...

Ironclad warships are amazing, but maintenance costs and costs are also high. With nearly sixty Ironclad warships in total, the Autonomous Navy is already the largest limit on the amount of naval funds that the Autonomous Territories can sustain, and increasing the number of Ironclad warships will cost the Autonomous Territories more. So under the present circumstances, even knowing that Blacksail pirates are the mysterious masters of the six Ironclad warships, the Autonomous Navy's Ironclad fleet has no time and energy to find them.

Sixty Ironclad battleships of the Autonomous Navy are clearly distributed on nautical charts, starting with the Overseas Autonomous Territories, requiring two six-strong Ironclad cruise units to patrol back and forth to maintain maritime security. This was followed by a rotating cruise of two small units in the northern bay. The two chartered seaport cities each have a cruise unit of six Ironclad warships stationed.

Thus, a total of 60 Ironclad warships owned by the Autonomous Navy already have 36 Ironclad warships. The remaining Ironclad fleet of 24 Ironclad battleships will maintain a pelagic convoy of up to 300 sailboats to escort security issues in the pelagic trade between the two continents...

The Special Envoy of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands found it true that the Autonomous Territory could not relocate its Ironclad fleet to search for Heffan pirates, nor was he discouraged, and made a proposal to build an Ironclad Battleship for the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. This business can be done, Claude smiled and quoted 300,000 gold kroner for the high price of an Ironclad warship.

The Special Envoy was shocked to ask why prices had climbed so high. Claude explained that the price he quoted was the second generation of Ironclad warships, not the first generation. The cost of the first generation of Ironclad warships is only half that of the second generation, but the operational effectiveness is really low, it is a phased out variety, and the shipyards of the Autonomous Territories no longer accept the customization of the first generation of Ironclad warships...

With the second-generation Ironclad Destroyer and Ironclad Cruiser, and the parameters of the Ironclad Armed Transport Vessel gone, the Special Envoy was unable to take the lead on his own and required high-level contact with their kingdom. It would appear to take some time to receive a reply from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as to whether it was purchasing a customized Ironclad Battleship from the autonomous military region.

The marketing of second-generation Ironclad warships is an economic plan developed by the Autonomous Territorial Assembly for the rehabilitation of the port of Vibato. The three major deep-water ports of overseas autonomy, the port of Cobichous in Tyrsim County, have become the main transport port linking the mainland of the Kingdom and the overseas autonomy, and are lively. And the port of Patres in Robisto has become a military port and a shipbuilding base, busy and unusual. Only the port of Vibato has been depressed and has little room for development.

Of course, this has to do with the railways that the overseas autonomous territories have greatly expanded, and now the autonomous railway companies are studying how to bridge the Dolinibara River so that the railways can connect the north and south sides of the Henan River without needing to get off and transfer, and how to lay railways in the tunnels of the Rocky Mountains region to transport all kinds of mineral resources. Due to the development of the railways, travelers to Port Vibato preferred to take the train and abandoned the boat, causing the port to become colder and clearer.

The Autonomous Territorial Council hopes to develop the port of Vibato into another heavy industrial base, leading to economic development in the surrounding states. Meanwhile, Port Wibateau is adjacent to Rocky Mountain State and has access to a wide range of mineral resources. Thus, the first and second generation of Ironclad warships, which had been eliminated by the Autonomous Territory, entered the Executive Committee's eyes when it chose how to bring about the economic recovery of Port Vibator City. Conscious parliamentarians have set up several more shipyards to spread their stalls in the port of Vibato. In the future, the main product here will be the first and second generation of Ironclad ships...

Claude had no objection to parliamentarians earning money by buying and selling first-generation Ironclad warships and second-generation Ironclad warships, but the problem was making them and selling them. If possible, the cost of selling a second-generation Ironclad warship could well be used to build a fourth-generation Ironclad warship. How could such a high profit margin Claude and senior officers of the Autonomous Territory object, the only difficulty is where to find such a wealthy man...

Twelve Ironclad ships of Black Sail pirates are now docked in a remote shipyard in Port Vibato for repairs, which General Bok Al contacted for Eriksson. In addition to repairing these twelve generations of Ironclad warships, the shipyard owner took over a big job from Ericsson by putting a finger in the thick copper skin on the shell of the sixteen fast-sailing warships that Ericsson picked out of the pirate fleet at a budgeted price of 50,000 gold kroner per warship, and retrofitting the previous generation of marine steam-powered machinery in the basement...