On October 7, 586th year of the Holy Light Calendar, Claude finally received the order from General Michelchi. There were only two big words on the Falcon Message: Action! Then there was the signature of General Michelchi.
and the official seal of the division headquarters.
"McJack, pass the order and have the four directly affiliated field battalions act according to the plan, and all the regiment commanders will set off with me." Claude ordered.
"Yes, sir." Michael stood at attention and saluted. He is now a captain. After returning from half-year leave, he was promoted to a higher level. He still holds the position of Claude's personal adjutant.
"By the way, let the big man Gimi keep that box of treasures and don't leak them out. That's our secret weapon, understand?" Claude warned Michael.
Mike nodded and left the office.
The box of treasures that Claude mentioned was the result of Mike and his sister Anna going back to visit relatives for vacation. A box of hand grenades with long wooden handles. This was the only result of the two weapon design drawings that Claude gave to his sister.
The development of the grenade went very smoothly. We only needed to solve the problems of ignition and delayed explosion to complete the production of the sample.
This box of grenades was all made by my sister Anna in the alchemy magic talisman, twenty-four of them. The only shortcoming is that the power of the explosion is not too strong, but this is a problem with the gunpowder, not the design and manufacture.
It's a mistake. However, when it is thrown into a fire and explodes, it is enough to split the outer iron shell into more than twenty pieces, posing a sufficient threat of killing the target within a three-meter range. This is what my sisters Anna and Mike did on a group of sheep.
the conclusions drawn.
Along with the arrival of a box of grenades was a production drawing hand-drawn by her sister Anna. Based on the process of making grenades in the alchemical magic talisman, she deduced the equipment and steps required for actual mass production, as well as how to improve product quality.
Inspection procedure. In other words, with this production drawing, Claude only needs to purchase equipment and raw materials, and he can manufacture weapons such as grenades on a large scale according to this production drawing.
Claude just told McJack to keep this production drawing. He doesn't want to produce any grenades in the short term. The imitation of this thing is very simple. When he doesn't have enough strength to keep the production rights of grenades, Claude doesn't want to add more grenades to himself.
Trouble. Entrusting his sister Anna to make grenade samples is just some private preparation made by Claude for the next war, maybe to save his life, maybe to make a meritorious service...
There is also a blueprint for a revolver that is still being developed. According to the report from McJack when he returned, sister Anna believes that the rest of the revolver's components can be made using the alchemy magic talisman. The only difficulty is the primer of the bullet.
Among them, the pointed lead bullets and cartridge cases are very simple. What is the raw material for the primer is a big problem. It is said that my sisters Anna and McJack have tried many methods, but the misfire rate is still too high.
Claude can understand this. After all, his sister Anna is a pharmacist, not a chemist. There are no two courses of chemistry and physics in this world. Some knowledge about chemistry and physics is said to be classified into the mysterious alchemy.
What is not spread to the outside world is in the hands of the royal family and magicians. That is why matchlock guns are still used for more than six hundred years...
Take your time, Claude himself was a scumbag in chemistry in his previous life. When he was in college, he majored in computer applications. After graduation, he also took the technical route. After joining the boss, he was also responsible for logistics and technical management. Until he traveled to this different world, he
Only then did I realize that not learning the most basic knowledge of applied chemistry and physics was the biggest mistake.
As news from the front line came, Claude quickly learned about the latest battle situation. Two days ago, the two standing armies deployed by the Kingdom of Hicks on the border, the Tanya Army and the Viklen Army, crossed the border.
, marched towards the Cromwellian Territory in a big way. Behind these two legions, hundreds of miles apart, were also followed by the three standing legions of Sebok, Cudroa and Febot.
Perhaps it has learned the lesson from the previous two standing legions that were completely annihilated. This time the Kingdom of Hicks adopted a strategy of heavy troops on the territory, a steady attack, and echoing back and forth. All five standing legions were committed to the attack. As long as they encountered Austrian troops,
Due to the stubborn resistance of the defenders of the Kingdom of Vilas, the five standing legions surrounded them and used their knives to kill the enemy's defenders, thus giving a sigh of relief to the two standing legions that were completely annihilated last time.
What disappoints the soldiers of the Hicks Kingdom is that the troops of the Overas Kingdom have no intention of guarding the Cromwell Territory. They almost all retreat with one blow, giving up the prestige of the capital of the Cromwell Territory.
Wickham Castle and the four towns within it. It was only when the five standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks occupied the entire Cromwell Territory that they discovered that there was no Kingdom of Overas in the capital Wickham Castle and the four towns.
Many civilians still live in the city, and all they see are Nikancha people wandering around the town houses...
The murder soon occurred, and the soldiers of the Hicks Kingdom were ordered to drive these dirty Nikancha people out of the town and back to their slums. This order was abandoned by the residents who occupied the relocated kingdom.
They believed that the houses and fields abandoned by the residents of the kingdom had become their own property, so they surrounded the soldiers of the Hicks Kingdom who were performing their tasks, loudly begging, shouting injustice, and surrounding them to death.
I don't want to leave these places either.
The impatient officers of the Hicks Kingdom ordered shots to be fired as a warning to these shameless Nikancha people. As soon as the gunfire rang out, many Hicks Kingdom soldiers who heard the gunshots thought they could shoot at those who refused to leave.
The Nikancha people opened fire on their houses. Then a massacre occurred. Almost all the Nikancha people who could be seen became the shooting targets of the new occupiers. Only the young women were spared, but they became
The captives of the bestial Hicks Kingdom soldiers were brought into the military camp and became the targets of ravage...
The massacre at Wickham Castle soon spread across the Nubisian continent through word of mouth from the fleeing Nikancha people. In fact, there were not many victims in the murder, with nearly a thousand people killed and injured, and two more
More than a hundred young women were kidnapped and marched into the military camp. The perpetrators of the massacre did not know that the timing of the massacre cut them off from another source of information other than the scouts and Qingqi reconnaissance. Since this incident, no overseas direct-administered territory has
The Nikancha people are willing to cooperate with the army of the Kingdom of Hicks, delivering intelligence and gathering news for them.
The main reason why the Hicks Kingdom's legion wanted to drive away the Nikancha people from the capital, Wickham Castle, was to prepare to use Wickham Castle as the general logistics supply base for the five standing legions, and the remaining four towns would also be used.
It is an important supply station on the logistics transportation channel. Those Nikancha people are unwilling to leave the houses they occupy because they want to get some property or food as compensation. But they did not expect that the Hicks Kingdom's
Soldiers, the new occupiers actually opened fire on them...
Nikancha people have always been regarded as mixed-breeds. They are greedy, smart, liars, thick-skinned, lazy, stingy, thieves, scoundrels... Almost all bad adjectives can be applied to them. But the only advantage that cannot be denied is
Yes, the Nikancha people are relatively united. They look the same to outsiders, but they take great care of their own people.
To a certain extent, the Overseas Territories of the Overas Kingdom are relatively fair in treating the Nikancha people. Although they are not recognized as residents of the Kingdom, at least within the Overseas Territories, as long as they work well,
You can still earn enough to live and feed your family. And as long as you pay various taxes, your safety and freedom within the country can still be guaranteed.
Just like those Kingdom residents who immigrated to overseas territories, although they are civilians, whether they are opening mines, starting farms, ranches, or opening shops and taverns in overseas territories, they will hire Nikancha people as basic labor, and their own family members will do the work.
Most of the overseers can get along well with the Nikancha people and earn a lot of money for their families. This is also the main reason why the basic industries of the seven overseas territories of the Kingdom of Ovelas are well developed.
Most of the colonies of the Hicks Kingdom are in the inland areas of the Nubisian continent. The Nikancha people who like to hang out in coastal areas rarely go to the inland areas to make a living. In addition, most of the colonists from the Hicks Kingdom are engaged in mineral development.
Few engage in low-income industries such as starting farms and ranches. They are called gold diggers, exploring various mineral resources in order to make a fortune.
Unlike the Kingdom of Overas, which immigrated civilians to overseas territories for development and construction, the gold diggers from the Kingdom of Hicks were basically employed by nobles and powerful people. They could find a rare mineral resource in the colony.
Earn a huge fee. Then those nobles and powerful people will take over the development of the mineral resources to obtain a steady stream of profits.
Because developing minerals requires a lot of labor, the nobles and powerful people set their sights on the indigenous tribes. They organized mercenaries to attack the indigenous tribes, captured the laborers, and put them into dark mines to provide
They exploit endless wealth. This is almost a lucrative slave trade, and they do not have to pay any wages at all. This is also the reason why indigenous rebellions continue to occur in the Hicks Kingdom colony. Anyway, in the eyes of gold diggers, an indigenous tribe and minerals
Resources are of equal value...
If it had not obtained the Vibato Colonial County from the Kingdom of Nasseri, perhaps the Kingdom of Hicks would not have had much interaction with the Nikancha people. Compared with the pure-blooded indigenous Etat people, the Nikancha people are more
Being more civilized, they live in slums next to those towns, willing to use their own labor to obtain food, and at the same time, they also let young Nikancha women sell their skin and flesh for payment.
The first batch of soldiers from the Panklei and Crado legions who came to the mainland of Nubisia learned how to deal with the Nikancha people, so their scout cavalry would use food and money to get food and money from the Nikancha people when they could not find any clues about the enemy.
Obtaining some information from the inspectors was like learning that the two regiments they went to conquer the enemy were wiped out because the Modo River town was burned down by fire.
But the officers and soldiers of the five standing legions did not learn how to get along with the Nikancha people. They did not care about the massacre at Wickham Castle. On the contrary, some noble officers thought that perhaps the slave owners who developed those minerals
You can turn your target to these Nikancha people, because compared with the aggressive Etat people, the Nikancha people are more docile...
The five standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks spent a month occupying the entire Cromwellian Territory, and then they blocked four routes and marched towards the Beringana Territory. What did they have to do, because the Beringana Territory
The territorial committee is too large. If they continue to adopt the original steady and steady strategy, they will have to spend at least twice as long to occupy the entire direct-administered territory.
When the enemy has no intention of defending and has almost given up all the towns, it is simply a fool's errand to use such a slow speed to capture places without any defensive force. With the unanimous advice of all the corps staff officers, Hicks
The five legions of the kingdom no longer huddled together, but stretched out like four arrows towards the Beringana Direct Territory, intending to occupy the entire Beringana Direct Territory in the shortest possible time. At the same time, they left a guard on the back road.
Standing legions are established to prevent logistics supply channels from being attacked and destroyed by the enemy.
The Beringana Territory is not as undefended as the Cromwellian Territory. In some dangerous areas, there is always a battalion or regiment of the Kingdom of Overas guarding there. They have carried out a tenacious blockade.
, and always evacuate at the critical moment when the enemy gathers and encircles them. Although the four standing armies of the Hicks Kingdom during the attack have suffered some casualties, this makes it seem that their victory is genuine...
A senior officer who once again captured the enemy's defensive position proudly ordered his subordinates to report to the legion headquarters: "The enemy is vulnerable, and our army is invincible!"
These senior officers of the Kingdom of Hicks, who had not experienced a war for more than 40 years, were indeed confused by the victories they had achieved. They forgot to check the ratio of casualties and losses between the enemy and ourselves, and the captured enemy defensive positions.
There were often few dead soldiers, and the casualties of their attacking troops were often calculated based on battalion strength.
They successfully captured the enemy's defensive position, and the enemy fled in panic, but they lost one combat battalion after another. This situation was considered by the senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom to be normal casualties, and they did not care much about it.
A standing army has twenty combat battalions. As long as it can continuously win victories and capture the enemy's territory, it is normal to lose half of the combat battalions.
It's just that the senior officers of these standing legions in the Kingdom of Hicks don't know that they have been lured away from their original goals by the Ranger Division and are falling into the enemy's traps one by one. The Ranger Division used a
This small defensive position made every standing army in the Kingdom of Hicks think that the enemy's main force was in front of them, and they set up new defensive positions waiting for their attack. So they were all moving forward bravely, inadvertently
Neglecting to take care of each other, the distance between the various legions has become farther and farther...