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Chapter 349 The Eve of the War

Chapter 349: The Eve of the War

Merging four overseas territories into one war zone, and handing over military and political power to one person, is something that has never happened in the Kingdom of Overas since its founding. But for the kingdom, this is also a helpless choice.

The two direct jurisdictions of Renwell and Beringana were abandoned, while the two direct jurisdictions of Robistoe and Amphiston were the bottom line of defense in this war. Even if the direct jurisdiction of Robistoux fell,

The Rangers must also stick to Claude's defense line and protect the Amphiston Direct Territory...

Perhaps from the beginning of this war, the two warring parties have been in a state of inequality. The Kingdom of Hicks has almost the power of the whole country and can increase its troops to the Nubisian continent without any scruples and fight. However, the Kingdom of Orvelas can only

Being able to dispatch a ranger division, recruit and form an overseas direct-administered regiment to fight this war. Whether it is in terms of military strength or rear support, the Kingdom of Ovelas is at an extreme disadvantage.

As General Michelich said, compared to King Hicks' army, which has not experienced the baptism of war for more than 40 years, the only advantage the Rangers have is in its advanced weapons and equipment, new tactics and tactics, and

The soldiers have rich battlefield experience. The enemy is constantly sending reinforcements, but the Rangers are unable to obtain domestic military support. This is not because the Kingdom of Orvelas does not want to send reinforcements, but because it is powerless and has more than enough ambition but insufficient strength.

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The five-year war in the eastern part of the continent exhausted the kingdom's wealth accumulation of more than 20 years, leaving the treasury empty. Although they won the war, the situation they faced was still very serious. The mortal enemies of the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karrnath were close friends.

, even though a peace agreement was signed, half of the kingdom's military strength was still involved in the tight defense.

On the other hand, the territories of the three newly occupied principalities were reduced to rubble during the war. The kingdom needs to increase investment to restore people's livelihood, and it will take a long time to heal the wounds of the war. At the same time, the kingdom also needs to form a new standing army for use.

Guarding the place increased the kingdom's military expenditures and put a heavy financial burden on the kingdom.

This is still external, and the internal situation in the kingdom is not calm either. Sterling X is ill in bed and unable to handle state affairs. The emerging business aristocracy and the established aristocratic families are fighting for the interests of the newly occupied territories, and both parliaments are quarreling.

. During the war, everyone could restrain themselves and unite for victory. But after the war, everyone wanted to share the war dividends, and conflicts emerged. However, the only gain for the Kingdom of Orvelas from this war was the territory of the three principalities.

, it is impossible for everyone to obtain satisfactory war dividends.

Amid internal and external troubles, a colonial war broke out with the Kingdom of Hicks on the Nubisian continent, which was even worse for the Kingdom of Overas. Seven overseas territories have been providing the Kingdom with resources and minerals to restore its vitality.

This is the reason why the Kingdom cannot reach a compromise with the Kingdom of Hicks. After all, the Kingdom of Hicks is too ambitious. It wants to swallow up the Kingdom's three overseas territories in one go, which has already touched the bottom line of the Kingdom.

Rather than saying that the Ranger Regiment went to the Overseas Territory of Nubicia Continent to resist the invasion of the colonial garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks, it was what everyone expected, and that it was an unfavorable conspiracy by the nobles and powerful figures in the kingdom to attack the Sterling Royal Guards.

The Kingdom of Overas has no choice, and there is no troop more suitable to send than the Ranger Regiment.

The four major field ace legions of the kingdom, the Red Dragon and the Gryphon legion, are deployed around the sworn enemy Kingdom of Nasseri, unable to move easily. The Blue Feather legion has just been reorganized and is responsible for the important task of defending the light cavalry of the Principality of Karnas. As for the ban

The Guards Corps is the guarantee for the tranquility of the royal capital. If the Guards Corps is dispatched to the mainland of Nubisia, if it is severely damaged, it will only intensify the ambition and greed of the Kingdom of Hicks and turn its attention to the remaining overseas jurisdictions of the Kingdom.

collar.

The three newly formed standing legions need to guard the newly occupied territories of the three principalities and cannot be deployed. Although the Ranger Division is not a legion, it is indeed composed of elite soldiers and strong generals. It is recognized that its combat power is not weaker than that of the four major armies.

The ace army in the field. Even the Guards Corps, a military exercise with two battalions against one reinforced battalion of the Ranger Division, ended early with the defeat of all four field confrontation exercises. At this critical juncture faced by the kingdom, there was no place to guard

How can the Rangers be justified if they don't step forward to do their duty?

It only took more than half a year for the Rangers who arrived on the Nubisian continent to live up to the kingdom's expectations. They neatly annihilated the two standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks, annihilated the squadron of the Sea King fleet, and recovered

All the lost land. The Kingdom of Olvilas believed that this finally made the Kingdom of Hicks realize the reality, so it sent a special envoy, willing to cede an overseas territory directly under its jurisdiction and reach a peace agreement between the two countries.

But unexpectedly, the peace intention brought by the special envoy sent was ignored by the Kingdom of Hicks. The heavy casualties of the colonial garrison had angered the military of the Kingdom of Hicks. At this time, the Kingdom of Ovelas sent a request to cede an overseas country.

In their view, the request from the direct territories to reach a peace agreement was an insult to the Kingdom of Hicks. They clamored that what was lost on the battlefield must be recovered on the battlefield, and decided to send five standing legions to the mainland of Nubisia to bring this country back.

The colonial war continues...

No one in the Kingdom of Overas is optimistic about the prospects of this war. No matter how brave and skillful the Ranger Division is, the one to ten strength gap between more than 30,000 enemy troops and more than 300,000 enemy troops is an irreparable gap.

As for the two overseas field corps that were ordered to be recruited from the local garrison forces of the seven overseas territories directly under the Central Government, they were just cannon fodder and fill-in, with no combat power at all. The final result of this colonial war for the Kingdom of Ovelas will only be failure.

The four overseas territories were merged into one war zone, and General Michelich of the Ranger Division was responsible for all military and political affairs in the war zone. This unprecedented decentralization actually showed that the Kingdom of Ovelas had given up.

For the three overseas territories of Cromwell, Beringana, and Robbins, he only needed the Rangers to guard the territory of Amphiston. This was the bottom line of the kingdom.

In his private meeting with General Michelich, Grand Prince Hansbach had already stated the kingdom's attitude towards this colonial war. Regardless of the fact that the four overseas territories were merged into one war zone, General Michelich had great power, but

In fact, the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana need to relocate all the kingdom's residents, fortify the walls and clear the country, and become battlefields. There are no civil affairs at all.

The same is true for the Robisto Direct Territory. It needs to rely on the natural danger of the Dolinibara River to resist the enemy's attack and cause greater casualties to the enemy as much as possible. If you really can't hold on, you can retreat to Anphes.

The territory was directly under the jurisdiction of Dundu, and the terrain and mountainous terrain were used to fortify layers of defenses to maintain a stalemate in the war.

Maintaining combat supplies and reinforcements for a ranger regiment in the Overseas Territory of Nubicia Continent is already a difficult task for the Kingdom of Overas. The long distance adds a lot of transportation to all logistical supplies.

Cost. What is certain is that the Kingdom of Hicks will have to pay a greater price to maintain five standing legions fighting on the Nubisian continent. The Kingdom of Overas now hopes that this colonial war can be delayed, allowing Hicks to

The Kingdom of Sri Lanka continued to lose blood on the continent of Nubisia until they could no longer hold on.

Before leaving, Prince Hansback announced the establishment of a firearms repair workshop in the direct jurisdiction of Amphiston, responsible for repairing and transforming old-fashioned muskets to make up for the loss of equipment on the battlefield. This is the overseas direct jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Ovelas.

The first finished product workshop established was also set up due to the helplessness of logistical supplies. To transport a batch of firearms from the kingdom to the front line, the shortest estimate is that it will take about half a year...

In the past few decades since the Kingdom of Orvelas vigorously developed colonies on the Nubicia continent, it has basically regarded overseas territories as the source of resources and minerals for the kingdom, and has strictly prohibited the establishment of finished product workshops related to the national economy and people's livelihood in overseas territories.

Overseas jurisdictions transport mineral resources and materials back, process them into finished products, and then resell them back to overseas jurisdictions. Gun workshops are not allowed to be opened in overseas jurisdictions. Every time, they have to travel thousands of miles to overseas jurisdictions.

The firearms needed for the garrison were transported from the kingdom itself.

This time the kingdom decided to establish a firearms repair workshop in the Amphiston Direct Territory, but there was no other way. The 100,000 Obash Type III standard matchlock guns brought by the eldest prince this time were expanded into a legion in the Ranger Division, and at the same time overseas

After the direct-administered territories established their second overseas field corps, there were very few left. If we include the replacement of new equipment for the local garrison forces of each direct-administered territory, plus battlefield losses, then at least 100,000 of the latest precision aiming and shooting models are needed.

Musket.

This is something that the kingdom cannot do in the short term, and it cannot be transported to the mainland of Nubisia before the war. In the end, it can only be decided to temporarily open a firearms repair workshop in the Amphiston Territory. One is to repair

Among the muskets that were lost on the battlefield, the second was to transform the old matchlocks originally equipped by overseas territories directly under the Central Government to meet the needs of the battlefield immediately.

According to reports from spies who sneaked into the port of Vibato, the Kingdom of Hicks wants to transport five standing legions to the mainland of Nubisia to continue the war. It will take at least three or four months to complete. The reason is very simple. The five standing legions are thirty

The material consumption of more than 10,000 troops is not a small amount. Although the Hicks Kingdom's colony on the Nubisia continent is large, it is not well developed and most of them are predatory resource extraction.

Not to mention anything else, the colonial food consumption alone had to be purchased from the overseas territories of the Overas Kingdom. This was why the Hicks Kingdom coveted the Overas Kingdom. Cromwell, Beringana, and Robbie

The reason why there are three overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction of Stowe. As long as these three places are obtained, the Hicks Kingdom colony can be completely self-sufficient in food and meat consumption.

After transporting three standing corps to Vibato Colonial County in one go, the military of the Hicks Kingdom began to be dumbfounded. People sent supplies and failed to keep up. Let alone fighting a war, it was very difficult to hold on. There was no food and no ammunition.

Then why fight? But the Sea King Fleet only transports so much logistical supplies each time. It takes nearly two months to go back and forth. After the second supply of supplies arrives, it is often found that the first supply of supplies has been almost consumed.



This is the shortcoming of the staff officers of the Kingdom of Hicks who have not experienced a war for more than 40 years. They have no experience in coordinating a colonial war that took place on another continent thousands of miles away. What is the colony of Nubisia?

All supplies are lacking, and all combat materials need to be transported from the mainland. Moreover, sea transportation is not safe, and shipwrecks such as sea storms, pirate attacks, and foggy navigation occur one after another. Even the information transfer and exchange between the two places takes a month.

It takes a long time to be delivered.

All the members of the Hicks Military Logistics Department had almost lost all their hair in more than half a year. In the end, they had no choice but to spend a lot of money to hire the combined fleets of the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karnas, and requisitioned the Hicks.

Most of the ocean-going ships of the Kingdom of Kes were able to maintain the sea lanes for transporting logistical supplies to the mainland of Nubisia.

The spies who sneaked into the Vibato Port reported that the military supplies in the Vibato Port military base were piled up like mountains. It is estimated that the Kingdom of Hicks can store enough logistical supplies to complete the continuous war with two more shipments. In addition, the Hicks Kingdom has not yet

The two standing armies that arrived are likely to complete war preparations in four months and launch an attack on the Kingdom's Cromwellian Overseas Territory.

The spy asked in the report whether it was necessary to send capable personnel to sneak into the military base in Vibato Port and try to burn and destroy some military supplies in order to delay the war?

But General Michelich rejected the spy's request. For him, four months was enough for the Rangers to complete all war preparations. There was no need to delay by sneaking into enemy bases, burning and destroying military supplies.

In war, what the Ranger Legion needs is to lure the enemy deep, divide and encircle them, and annihilate the enemy legions one by one. Only in this way can we truly defeat the Hicks Kingdom. The loss of the five standing legions may make

The Hicks Kingdom understands that the Overseas Territory of the Overas Kingdom is not a target they can covet.

The relocation of the kingdom residents from Cromwell and Beringana is already proceeding in an orderly manner. The young men of the seven overseas territories have received recruitment orders and will be gradually gathered in the Amphiston Territory to form the first branch of the Kingdom.

Two Overseas Field Legions. General Michelich was not prepared to push the young men of these directly-administered territories to the battlefield to become cannon fodder. He only needed the Second Overseas Field Legion to take over the Claude Line of Defense and Doliny after receiving a short military training.

The Bara River Defense Line will do.

"Colonel Claude, how is the expansion of your 131st Regiment completed?" General Michelich urgently summoned Claude again.

"Reporting to the general, the expansion of our 131st Ranger Regiment has been completed. All new soldiers are selected from the soldiers of the right age in the local garrison forces of each directly-administered territory. This saves us the time of training new recruits. At present,

They are getting familiar with the precise aiming and shooting training of the newly equipped Obash Type III matchlock gun, and they are also receiving training on the new tactics of the Ranger Division..." Claude answered at attention.

"Is there any difficulty?" General Michelich asked.

"Report to the general that the supply of war horses is insufficient. Currently, our regiment still needs more than 2,000 war horses. However, the Logistics Department said that the next batch of war horses may arrive in half a year. They suggested that we use requisitioned healthy horses to temporarily replace the war horses..."

General Michelich pondered for a while and made a decision: "I will order to draw enough war horses from the four mobile field regiments directly under the division to supplement yours. Colonel Claude, you only have three months to complete your regiment's mission."

training. Because the enemy is likely to attack us in three months. I need your 131st Ranger Regiment to move to the Cromwell Territory after the enemy enters the Beringana Territory to cut off the enemy's

The logistics supply transportation channel creates the conditions for victory for our ranger regiment to encircle and annihilate the enemy's five legions..."

Claude stood at attention again: "I understand, General, we will complete the mission."


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