Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 592 Humanitarian Relief

The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands went mad and six months ago it was the country with the largest number of colonies on the western coast of the continent, and as a result, three of its colonies had disappeared. Most unexpectedly, the three colonies were not in the hands of its most defensive enemy, the Overseas Autonomous Territories, but of its allies, the pirates, who had divided them...

The anticipated allies had inserted two knives in the back of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands and the annexation of the central colony and the southern port colony of Lupusel by the colonial authorities of the Principality of Rériolo and the Union of the Cities of Opsaro, respectively, were the most stimulating places for the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, a colony that had been operating for many years, with a large number of immigrants and a wealth of property, and was the most reliable logistical security base between the two continents across the Kingdom's powerful navy.

The occupation of the Wades Hill Harbor colony by Blacksail pirates is another bad news, except that the colony, at its northern end, is remote and a mineral resource collection site for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the Fox Islands. There are few immigrants and few merchant ships come to trade other than ore carriers and slave traders...

If the Kingdom did not intend to make this colony a shipbuilding base capable of producing Ironclad warships, it would invest in large-scale infrastructure. But all of this was destroyed by the Black Sail Pirates. After being plundered by the Black Sail Pirates, the colony was forgotten by the top of the kingdom, but it was not expected that Black Sail Island would return to reclaim the colony in a silent circle.

Having lost all the colonies of the Fox Islands, the United Kingdom, like ants in an iron pot, was restless and within three months had sent three envoys to the Overseas Autonomous Territories. The first envoy waved the bank draft and ordered twelve second-generation Ironclad warships, which were delivered six months later. The second envoy came to the autonomous military region to negotiate the training of Ironclad battleship cadets, who paid 100,000 gold to allow the autonomous military region to agree to use the Gulf of Rodex as a training base.

The third envoy was also a purchaser of artillery from the autonomous military region equipped with second-generation Ironclad warships, although unfortunately the autonomous military region no longer produces heavy guns of that kind with firing solid bullets from the front loads. Fortunately, more than a dozen armed smuggler ships that were later captured by General Muried's ocean convoy were equipped with this, ordering the guns to be collected to meet the demands of the third envoy...

Six months later, 12 Ironclad warships customized by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland were assembled in the Gulf of Rodex. The trainees were trained, and the Ironclad carriers were loaded with coal, and confident senior United Kingdom Navy officers were commanding the fleet to set sail to reclaim the lost colonies.

But Claude didn't like what this second-generation Ironclad fleet of the Fox Islands UK was doing north, mainly because the kingdom was too heavily skewed, and now it's not a powerful naval fleet to wrap up the ages of the world. With the navy alone, the Fox Islands UK can't take back the lost colony, even if it can...

Unexpectedly, the first target of this Ironclad fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands was the colony of Port Lupusel, annexed by the Union of the States of Opsaro. However, the OPSAL does not have a strong navy, nor does it intend to engage in a maritime showdown with the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. Instead, they may be ashamed to have taken the initiative to evade the fortifications of the Ironclad fleet of the Kingdom of Fox, relocate the inhabitants of towns within thirty miles of the coast inland, implement a naval ban, and leave the Ironclad fleet to torment within thirty miles of the coast...

There's nothing to tease about, empty harbor towns, nothing unless the team is pushing inland. But the weakest thing about the United Kingdom in the Fox Islands is the Army, leaving the warships and marching inland. So after two or three days off the coast of the colony of Port Lupusel, it seemed pointless to order the return to sail, this time targeting the central colony occupied by the Principality of Rériolo. There are hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the Fox Kingdom who should be able to get help and recover their lost lands.

However, the Principality of Leriolo had long built strong defensive installations, such as artillery turrets, in seaport towns off the coast of the Central Colony, and had waged artillery warfare of a bombarding nature against the United Kingdom Ironclad fleet in the Fox Islands. At the same time, a generation of Ironclad warships attacked the Ironclad fleet as if they were sewn into a needle. As a result, three days and two nights later, the UK Ironclad fleet of the Fox Islands voluntarily withdrew, and insisted that the food and ammunition fuel ran out, and the Ironclad fleet would be captured by the enemy...

Now the remaining material from the Ironclad fleet is sufficient to sustain a trip to the Wades Hill Harbor colony, where all supplies and ammunition will be supplied as long as the colony is recovered. The United Kingdom Navy officers in the Fox Islands had never had such a pressing hope that they would have a seaport to base on the West Coast. Believe that black sail pirates will not always be opponents of the Ironclad fleet. Normally, pirates will turn around and flee when they see a country's regular navy.

But the Black Sail Pirates seemed to regard the Wades Hill seaport colony as their own territory, built artillery turrets for coastal ports, built waterways into and out of the seaport, and had the courage and determination to die out of sight of the United Kingdom's Ironclad fleet in the Fox Islands. So the battle began again, and the sailors of the Ironclad fleet who had been wandering at sea were low in morale and did not fight the Black Sail pirates until the final determination and the dedication of the brave battle to the death of the sandbox...

Black sail pirates' Ironclad warships were launched, and artillery shells from both sides swept through the air, leaving traces of artillery shells of varying size and depth on the boards of their respective Ironclad warships. A Black Sail Pirate Ironclad Battleship rushed to a second-generation Ironclad Battleship not far from the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, about a dozen to twenty meters apart, with heavy artillery fire, and several Black Sail Pirates put a shark specimen like an iron shell into the water, aimed at a second-generation Ironclad Battleship in front of it, and lit the fire rope above...

Something like that shark specimen lit up on the back of its iron shell with black smoke, and then it moved in the ocean, rushing off to a second-generation Ironclad warship not far away, not fast. It's just that the United Kingdom Navy officers in the Fox Islands didn't know what it was, and they looked at it like a sea monster, and they just looked at this shark specimen and hit the bottom of a second-generation Ironclad warship.

A huge explosion sounded and the water flowers were more than ten meters above the battleship. The second-generation Ironclad warships began to tilt to the other side as if they had been hit by a train. The attackers in the basement climbed up and reported that the heavy explosion just now had caused a huge crack in the welded part of the bottom metal board of the battleship, the sea water surged in, the steam-powered machinery in the basement had been submerged, too much water in the battleship had not saved everyone's lives...

Four violent explosions abandoned three second-generation Ironclad warships from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There was also a lucky one, with small fractures blocked desperately by the damaged pipers, leaving the other warships pulled off the battlefield. This Ironclad fleet from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Falks, which lost the battle, finally arrived in the colony of the Principality of Federo before running out of fuel, where it was repaired and reclaimed at the seaport...

The colony of the Principality of Federo did not produce blackstone coal mines, and the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands had to pay for a large quantity of charcoal to be loaded on board for fuel, returned to the Autonomous Territory with nine wounded second-generation Ironclad Battleships and, after repairing the battleship at the Port Vibato Shipbuilding Base, purchased a large quantity of marine steam-powered machinery and propeller spindle configurations to return to the Fox Islands. In the decades to come, the UK fleet of the Fox Islands will never reach the West Coast again...

Claude had a shark specimen-like bomb plot in front of him that the Black Sail Pirates used to attack the Fox Kingdom Ironclad. What Claude didn't expect was that this thing was called an active mine...

Who gave you that name? Claude picked up the pen and changed it to a torpedo, looking like a shark. This is said to be a masterpiece of Ericsson's puzzle magician, who was supposed to build a mine that could hold a rabbit in the water, but he couldn't make a device to control when the mine exploded. It simply directly creates an active mine that can hit the warship on its own initiative, and this shark specimen-like active mine appears.

This mine structure is very simple, with a long cylindrical appearance like a shark and two shark wings balancing outside. The head is filled with gunpowder and there is also an impact trigger, and the tail is a small propeller with a springy disc. Tighten the springy sprinkle strips when placed in the water to push the entire mine forward in the water. Of course, it's only 20 meters away. It's not fast, it's almost faster than walking alone on the flat. If the ship finds out sooner, it can be avoided...

If it cannot be avoided, then the mine will explode the moment it hits the board, essentially underwater, tearing apart the gap welded to the board using the water pressure generated by the explosion, causing the floorboard to leak into the underwater chamber and sink. But this thing seems to pose no threat to the third and fourth generation Ironclad warships of the Autonomous Territory Navy, because the bottom compartments of Ironclad warships used by the Autonomous Territories all have a watertight compartment design, and leaks like this have little effect on the warships...

This is supposed to be the most primitive torpedo, and Claude ordered attention to be paid to this weapon by investing in up-to-date experiments and improvements to reach a practical level as soon as possible. His request is simple, this torpedo can be launched with a battleship, it can be launched at a distance of up to 1,000 meters, and it can exceed twice the speed of an Ironclad Battleship, guaranteeing that a single hit will sink an Ironclad Battleship, so that it will be of real value...

With the exception of the Black Sail Pirate's original torpedo, which gave Claude an unexpected surprise, there was little interest in Claude's encounter north of the United Kingdom Ironclad fleet in the Fox Islands. A kingdom that had lost all its colonies and the army was not strong enough to rely on the Ironclad fleet to recover its lost lands was a dream. Especially since its enemies also have a fleet of Ironclad warships that can't even seal off the sea, not to mention a seaport base that is not fully supplied, how is it possible to recover the three lost colonies?

It was time for the Autonomous Command Region to do its own thing, and the restructured Hicks and Thunder Legions had been put in place. Soon, together with a standing army of the Pamigal National Republic, humanitarian relief would be provided to the two indigenous peoples of the neighbouring Duchy of Vasiliko, the Skolo and Gistad, who were still killing each other, an end to their ethnic genocide and the inclusion of the colony of the Principality of Vasilik in orderly social security.

Speaking of the two indigenous peoples, the Skolo and the Gistad, have been killing each other for about four years. Two indigenous peoples, originally numbering almost five million, now have less than two million people left, and more than one million Skolo and Gistad elderly and vulnerable women and children are said to have fled to the OPSARO State Union colony as refugees. It can be said that, in the four years of feudal killings between two indigenous peoples, the population was artificially reduced by two million people.

At present, both Skolo and Giste indigenous peoples are building barriers to self-preservation in the mountainous hills they occupy, almost restoring their primitive lives and refusing to communicate with outsiders. The robbery of the Principality of Vassilico, which had to be abandoned after two unsuccessful expeditions, had been carried out in groups without means of subsistence, because local guards were not at all adversaries of these vicious indigenous peoples, and the casualties were enormous.

However, just after the Autonomous Territorial Military Region, together with the Pamigals, issued what they called a humanitarian relief operation for two indigenous peoples in the colony of the Principality of Vasiliko, halted the feudal killing between the two indigenous peoples and built a harmonious and peaceful happy life, the Legion of Thunder and the Hicks Voluntary Legion, as well as a standing Pamigali legion, entered the colony of the Principality of Vasiliko, destroying all the land and timber villages built by the two indigenous peoples found and separating the two indigenous peoples in the eastern and western directions of the colony.

Less than three months later, the entire colony of the Principality of Vassilico had been swept away, and all indigenous peoples had been separated from the two camps. However, the two regiments of the Autonomous Consular Corps continued to advance and soon entered the OPSAL colony. The colonial authorities of the Union of the Cities of Opsaro rushed to send troops to block the way and sent envoys to the front-line command of the autonomous territorial military region to address this problem of misentry into the border...

Only General Bitchklin, the commander-in-chief of the Front Line Command of the Autonomous Territorial Zone, did not see this as an issue of border crossing. He called on the colonial authorities of the Union of the States of Opsaro to clear the way immediately and to cooperate with the forces of the Autonomous Territorial Zone in resolving once and for all the problem of the feudal killings of the two indigenous peoples, the Skolo and the Gistad.

Because, in the course of sweeping the colonies of the Principality of Vassilico, there were many clues that the colonial authorities of the Union of the States of the City of Opsaro had encouraged the Skologists and the Gistads to kill each other, culminating in a humanitarian catastrophe between two indigenous peoples in the colony of the Principality of Vassilico, in which two million indigenous people died as a result of violence and massacres.

Of course, the envoy of the colonial authorities of the Union of the Cities of Opsaro shouted out injustice and impossibility, protesting that the so-called humanitarian relief in the autonomous military region was in fact a way of invading the Union of the Cities of Opsaro colony. General Beechlin laughed so loudly that even if we invaded you, there was no way. Don't forget that we also have evidence that you are behind the murder of this indigenous people in the colony of the Principality of Vassilico. For the sake of peace, I hope you will still surrender your weapons...

Naturally, this is not possible, and the colonial authorities of the Union of the States of Opsaro immediately mobilized local guards to build a defensive front, but none of this could resist the thunder regiment and the Hicks Volunteer Regiment. The Standing Regiment of the three OPSARO Cities Alliance collapsed, and even many troops and troops raised white flags as soon as they were attacked.

So when the Thunder Corps seized the Port Loupsell colony, the former Fox Islands United Kingdom collapsed into the OPSAL colonial authority, it was suddenly discovered that two more security corps of surrendered OPSAL officers...

The indigenous peoples of the original OPSAL colony were also Skolo and Giste, the same as the two indigenous peoples of the colony of the Principality of Vassilico. Immediately after the violent massacres between the two indigenous peoples in the colony of the Principality of Vassilico, the colonial authorities of the Union of the States of the city of Opsaro closed the border between the two countries and vigorously defended the two indigenous peoples in their colonies against death and violent repression, which calmed them down by replicating the will of their fellow colonists to kill each other.

And while the Autonomous Territory refers to the deer as the horse, arguing that the colonial authorities of the Union of the Cities of Oppsaro are the masters behind the killing of two indigenous peoples against each other, who let the colonial authorities of the Union of the Cities of Oppsaro block the way to the Autonomous Territory?

Moreover, the Autonomous Territorial Zone, after taking over the colony of the Union of the States of the City of Opsaro, carried out a major relocation plan, which involved the relocation of all Skolows to the former colony of the Principality of Vassilico, and then the relocation of all Gistdes to the colony of the Union of the States of the City of Opsaro, so that one colony was occupied by the two rival indigenous peoples and two high sidewalls, 300 metres apart, were built along the border of the two colonies. Except for a limited number of crossings, anyone who appears in the remaining position between the two walls will be shot dead by guards on both sides.

That is how the Republika Srpska and the Alliance of Gisted Unity were founded, and the two indigenous peoples' States have been regarded as enemies of each other since their establishment. As for the colony of Port Lupusel, the indigenous people, also known as the Langstobuks, established the Free Federation of Lupusel, and the autonomous military region rented the famous deep-water port of Port Lupusel from the Langstobuks as the second military port base on the west coast, also for 99 years...