Claude did not expect that Bockar would accompany the Nikancha envoy to the port of Kaubicius to find him, and settled the Nikancha envoy. He also ordered old man Zacharasen to cooperate with them in mobilizing the direct-controlled territory.
After the relocation of the Nikancha settlement, Claude found time to have a good chat with Bokhar all afternoon.
Now Claude finally understands why General Albert left the matter of contacting the Nikancha country to Bokoal. To put it bluntly, in that Nikancha country, Bokoal is the representative of the war zone, and even General Bolognik
The Nikancha people are not as trustworthy as Bokoar. Any agreement they reach with the war zone must be signed and guaranteed by Bokoar before they can be trusted.
"How did you do it?" Claude looked at Bockar with curiosity and satisfaction. Now Bockar is no longer as fat as before. Although there is still a lot of meat on his body, he can already be called a
He has become stronger. The colonel's military uniform gives him a bit of military dignity, and he no longer looks like a corrupt logistics official with a big belly.
"Oh, don't mention it. I've been through life and death. It's hard to explain!" Bockar didn't show politeness to Claude. He chose a bottle of good wine from the wine cabinet, opened the lid and poured it for himself. After drinking a glass, he turned to this
Tell Claude about my experience of more than a year.
Before the capture of Vibato Port in the war zone, Bok'ar enjoyed a good time in the city. The Hicks Kingdom defenders at Vibato Port were trapped in the city, watching the area outside the city become a place for the Thunder Legion's light cavalry.
As time went by, although I had no worries about food and drink, other supplies gradually became tense, especially luxury consumables, which I had no money and no place to buy.
In the name of Bison Trading Company, Bockal continuously smuggled high-end goods and luxuries from the war zone to Vibato Port to meet the living needs of the dignitaries trapped in the city. At the same time, he also used this to make himself successful.
The most popular people in the city, guests of local officials and nobles in Vibato Port, could almost walk sideways in the city.
According to Bockaar's description, that period was the most comfortable period of his life. The local officials of Vibato Port welcomed him with smiles, and the ladies threw themselves into their arms, just because he could get countless people.
Luxurious lifestyle goods. Then the Port of Vibato was captured by the war zone. Bockar made a great contribution by leading the way and guiding the attack during the battle. After the war, he returned to work in the intelligence department of the war zone headquarters, because there was nothing to do after the colonial war.
Due to the incident at the Bison Trading Company, Bokoar returned to Vibato Port. When he found that there was no business, he went hunting with a few military friends. He happened to encounter a group of patrols expelling the Nikancha people from the country. Bokoar had an idea and decided to go
He was looking for business opportunities with the Nikancha people. So Bokhar went to the northern Nikancha country in the name of the director of the Bison Trading Company.
The following experience of Bokoar is like a legendary novel. He spent more than half a year wandering around the country of the Nikancha people, getting to know all kinds of Nikancha people, and gradually gaining their trust. During this period, he met
There were several dangers, and one time he was even accidentally involved in a battle where the Nikancha people attacked a mining base in an inland colony of the Hicks Kingdom, and almost died.
Regarding the fighting power of the Nikancha people, Bokoar said that they are brave, but they are not brainless, and they don't care about the charge when they get bloody. The musket is not as useful as a spear in their hands. Just like that
In the first battle to attack a mining base, more than a thousand Kamchas attacked a stone building defended by only about 130 Hicks. They had a ten to one strength advantage, including more than 700 muskets. The advantage was very
obvious.
As a result, the Nikancha people were severely defeated in such a battle, with more than 400 people killed and injured. The reason was that they were brainless. They would have been lying on the ground or hiding and sniping at the enemies in the stone buildings. If time slowed down, they would be killed.
Suppressed and consumed. However, after more than half an hour of musket shooting, one fool became impatient and charged forward with a single move of the musket, and then more fools followed. Bockaar said that he was dumbfounded at the time
I don’t understand what these Nikancha people want to do...
The enemy was hiding in a stone building. There were no windows on the first floor, and the front door was also a very thick iron door. After those idiots rushed up, they could only use muskets or spears to knock on the stone walls and iron doors, but there was no way they could break into the building.
If you go inside, you can only crowd around outside the stone building and yell and yell in an attempt to intimidate the enemy to come out and surrender.
As a result, the Hicks fired two rounds of rapid fire through the window of the two-story building, almost aiming at the head. Nearly a hundred muskets were fired twice in a row, and the Nikancha people surrounding below fell immediately.
One hundred and fifty-sixty, such casualties finally made these Nikancha people wake up, screamed, turned around and ran away, unable to hold them back.
As soon as they escaped, the rest of the people fled with them, and the Hicks who were hiding in the stone building took the opportunity to rush out of the building and launch a counterattack. This is how the defeat was formed. Those Hicks were like hunting in the pen.
Turkey, he loaded, aimed, and shot easily. One by one, the fleeing Nikanchas were shot in the back and fell to the ground to save their lives. They never thought about using the musket in their hands to fight back...
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Bok Arna had to escape, but he was unlucky. Just as he was about to escape, he bumped into the leader and elder who directed the Nikancha people to attack. They were killed by a group of enemies because of their unique clothes.
I was targeted, and knowing that they might be the leaders, I kept chasing them, trying to capture these two alive...
There were only three people in Bock'ar at that time, himself, a guard and an orderly. They didn't bring any guns with them. The three of them carried cold weapons, only two daggers and a dagger. But Bock'ar still decided to save the man.
Two leaders and elders of the Nikancha people picked up three muskets and two ammunition bags from the corpses on the ground, hid in the grass and shot to death the two Hicks who were chasing after them.
The leaders and elders of the Nikancha people fled to a cliff.
Then Bockal and the other five were trapped on the cliff for more than half a month. If it weren't for the fact that there was only one rugged path up the mountain, and the terrain was difficult for one man to pass, perhaps the Hicks would have rushed up to take them out.
Their corpses were cut into thousands of pieces. They launched three attacks, but were defeated by Bokhar and the guards. The two leaders and elders of the Nikancha people also piled up some rocks and tree trunks for defense.
Weapons, the Hicks dropped four or five corpses and never launched another attack.
Bokoar felt that he was very lucky, because there were not many Hicks people, and they were probably unwilling to waste their lives on this cliff, so they stopped attacking and changed to a siege, hoping that Bokoar and the others would
They died of hunger and thirst on the mountain. They knew that there was no water or food on this cliff.
Bok'ar didn't know how he survived that half month. If his orderly hadn't brought their luggage with him when he went up the mountain, they might not have been able to survive three or four days. The luggage of the three of Bok'ar
It contains three days' worth of dry food and three sheepskin water bottles. If the five people share less, they may be able to survive for five or six days.
At this time, the two leaders and elders of the Nikancha people finally showed their abilities. They collected various edible wild vegetables and vine roots on the cliff, and used the sheepskin membranes inside their leather jackets to make a trap to collect dew.
With the water filter cloth, half a pot of clean water can be collected in the shadow of the cliff every morning and evening, which can barely be used to quench thirst.
In this way, the five of them stayed on the cliff for more than half a month. Bokoal said that he was hungry and thirsty at that time, and he was not very conscious. He only knew that he lost a lot of weight during that time. During this period, Hicks was at the bottom of the mountain.
People thought they were doomed, so they sent people up the mountain to check after about ten days, but they were ambushed by them, one of them was killed and the other injured, and then rolled down...
Bokhar said that he was lying on the cliff looking at the corpses below and wanted to climb down and take a bite, but he didn't have the strength to go down the mountain, so he just lay there half-conscious. Six or seven days passed like this, and he never came back.
When they couldn't stand it any longer, the Nikanchas sent troops again, and the Hicks had no choice but to withdraw to their mining base, and the five Bokoars were finally rescued.
That is to say, after this incident, Bokoar was regarded as one of their own by the Nikancha people. He obtained the exclusive trading rights in that Nikancha country, and all the resources and materials owned by the Nikancha people were opened to the Bison Trading Company.
At the same time, Bokoar also became an agent for the Nikancha country, helping them purchase various supplies from the war zone.
According to Bokoar's observation, this Nikancha country should actually be regarded as a settlement alliance, rather than a unified country. They are accustomed to allocating territory according to the size of the settlement. The more people in the settlement, the larger the territory. Currently, the largest settlement has seven
There are more than 10,000 people, and there are also more than a dozen vassal tribes. Such large settlements are impossible to appear in overseas jurisdictions. The largest Nikancha settlement among the three jurisdictions, such as Tiersim, only has more than 5,000 people.
people.
Nowadays, there are a total of six large settlements in this Nikancha country, followed by their respective vassal settlements, and these vassal settlements also have their vassal settlements, just like this, one level at a time. Bokhar has been there before
The smallest Nikancha settlement has only about thirty people, and they all live together because they are blood relatives.
When Claude asked how the war against the Nikancha people's attack on the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom was going, Bokoal's answer was to shake his head and smile bitterly. He said that the war was actually over, and only the Nikancha people on the front line were going on.
Because the existence of the Hicks Kingdom's mineral bases made them feel insecure, the Cha people organized people to carry out attacks. The purpose was just to prevent the enemy from appearing near their borders.
According to Bokoar's estimate, the entire Nikancha country only has a population of about two million. The territory they occupy now is really too big, enough for them to live a free life. In addition, they started riots and established a country to fight against Greece.
After the invasion of the inland colonies of the Kingdom of Kes, they started to get tired of fighting for so long and did not want to continue the attack.
The leaders of the largest settlements are very sober and know that they and the Hicks cannot coexist. However, firstly, firearms consume a lot of money. They do not know how to maintain and cannot obtain supplies. In addition, coupled with the losses on the battlefield, they now have muskets and ammunition.
There aren't many of them, and I don't want to waste them on the battlefield anymore.
The second reason is that the casualties are very large. So far, there have been about 10,000 people. Most of them were trained by officers sent by the Thunder Division. Without these Nikancha soldiers who have received preliminary military training, their combat effectiveness has declined.
That's why Bok'ar saw a situation in which more than a thousand people besieged a mining base of more than a hundred people, but more than four hundred people were killed and wounded, and the entire army was defeated.
Although the country of the Nikancha people is an alliance of settlements, the highest power is held by the council of elders composed of the elders of each large settlement. All political affairs concerning the Nikancha people are decided by this council of elders. The leader of the settlement is actually the military
The chief holds the military command of the settlement and commands the armed forces of the settlement.
What's interesting is that half of the young men and women in the armed forces of the large settlements are provided by the vassal tribes below, while the armed forces of the vassal tribes are composed of half of the young men and women provided by the tribes that vassal them. It's like this.
Press down at the first level. When a foreign war breaks out, the leader of the large settlement will send someone to convey the order, and the vassal tribes below and the vassal tribes will bring their troops to participate in the war. Just like those feudal feudal tribes in Farea.
Lordship countries generally...
Bokhar spent more than half a year in this Nikancha country. After returning, he wrote a detailed report about this neighboring country. The war zone was very surprised by this. This report helped to understand this Nikancha country.
, so Boker was credited with another great merit, and Boker was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel.
This time Bokoal came to see Claude, firstly to show off that he had become a colonel officer, and secondly, about the transfer of the Nikancha people from these three jurisdictions. The Nikancha country refused to accept it as imagined by Claude.
The difference between their compatriots is that the Nikancha country is very happy to have so many compatriots on their territory. Because according to the tradition of their settlement and vassalage, if these three million Nikancha people really move there,
, will soon allow those large settlements to add their vassals, greatly enhancing their strength.
Therefore, Bockaar tried his best to explain that the difficulties and problems caused by the migration of more than three million Nikancha people to the war zone were nothing more than the cost of transportation and food consumption. In the end, the Nikancha Elders Council waved its hand.
, willing to pay mineral resources and gold and silver reserves worth millions of gold crowns as compensation for the war zone.
However, if they want to obtain these gold and silver reserves and mineral resources worth millions, the Nikancha people country still needs the war zone to trade a batch of arms supplies with them. They require one hundred thousand muskets and corresponding ammunition reserves, as well as a large amount of food assistance, and then
Send a group of grassroots officers to help their young men and soldiers undergo military training for another six months. If the war zone agrees to these conditions, the Nikancha country is willing to pay another million worth of gold and silver reserves...
This was no longer something Bokoar could decide. He could only take the special envoy from the Nikancha country to Lanhu Town to meet General Bolognik. General Bolognik conducted falcon communication discussions with several generals in the war zone.
Later, he agreed to these requirements of the Nikancha people. Claude also received a hawk message about this matter, and General Skerry agreed very much.
Anyway, there are more than 300,000 muskets seized from the prisoner regiments and reserve arms warehouses of the Hicks Kingdom, and the ammunition is countless. It is not as advanced as the Obas III standard matchlock gun equipped by the Thunder Division.
It can be piled up in a warehouse and rust. It can be sold to the Nikancha country in exchange for gold and silver reserves, and they can be armed to continue fighting against the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom.
As for the military instructors, General Bokoal has ordered General Albert to select more than a hundred junior officers to go and be responsible for conducting basic military training for the soldiers of the Nikancha country. In addition, regarding food aid, Bokoar said
In name, it was to aid military rations, but in fact what they requested was refined wheat flour for the enjoyment of high-ranking people in the Nikancha country.
This is mainly because the staple food of the Nikancha people is potatoes, cassava flour and oats. These coarse grains are easy to grow in the mountains. On the contrary, few Nikancha people are willing to grow barley. They think that planting barley is too tiring and requires the cultivation of fields.
They also need to take careful care of composting and weeding. Given the habits of the Nikancha people, without the threat of whips, they would be too lazy to spend this effort...
Bokoar said that he could use this to trade with the Nikancha people in the future to obtain gold and silver from them.
But Claude was very surprised, did the Nikancha people have a lot of gold and silver? Where did it come from...
A lot. Bockal answered in the affirmative. He explained that in the one-third of the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom occupied by the Nikcha people, there were more than a dozen small and medium-sized gold and gold mines of the Hicks people.
Silver mine. The Nikanchas destroyed these mining Hicks and captured a lot of refined gold and silver ingots. Now they in turn drove the Hick prisoners and the Etats to dig these gold and silver for them.