Waiting is a process that makes people feel very anxious, but all the insiders have to keep it secret and not let any news out. In this world where everything is slow-paced, it often takes several months to get a result.
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Claude attributed all this to the lack of information circulation. With the rapid changes in the previous life, the whole world was presented on the Internet, and any news that happened could be reported to people all over the world in just a few hours.
Comparing it with the world we know. In this Faslan world, both the pace of life and social changes appear to be extremely slow.
In the same continent of Nubisia, it often takes a month or two for news about the colonies on the west coast to reach the overseas territories. As for the major events that happened in the Farea continent, it takes the longest time for the news to reach the west coast and then to the overseas territories.
It's even more than half a year away...
In the blink of an eye, the end of the year came, and Colonel Bockal rushed back to the theater headquarters. He visited the colonies of three countries on the west coast, and finally confirmed the lease of the Rodex Bay Colony from the Kingdom of Hicks to the United Kingdom of Fox Islands.
The news has become a fact. After more than four months of negotiations, the Kingdom of Hicks paid five million gold crowns to lease the Rodex Bay Colony of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands for five years.
Two gold crowns are exchanged for one gold crown, and five million gold crowns is equivalent to two and a half million gold crowns. The lease term is five years, which means that the annual rent is five hundred thousand gold crowns.
The Kingdom of Hicks is so wealthy that the descendants of the Kramer pirates in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands almost burst out laughing. To them, the Kingdom of Hicks is clearly a wealthy man. You must know that the only one in the Rodkers Bay Colony is
What is valuable is the catch from the bay, which produces some relatively rare and valuable sea fish. The valuable seafood caught every year is frozen by magicians and transported back to the Farea continent, where it becomes a delicacy at the banquets of the princes and nobles at a high price.
But even so, the total value of the colony's catch per year does not exceed 100,000 gold crowns. In addition, the entire colony has a population of less than 20,000, and the revenue it can bring to the United Kingdom of Fox Islands is less than 10,000 gold crowns per year. Therefore.
The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands was preparing to sell Rodex Bay Colony to the Kingdom of Hicks, but the sky-high price they offered was too high for the Kingdom of Hicks to afford, so it had to convert it to a lease.
"This is the news that came out after a cruise squadron from the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands arrived on the west coast of the Nubisian continent in late October. Along with the ship was a purchasing group from the Kingdom of Hicks. The mission of this purchasing group
That is to pre-purchase food and other daily necessities produced in the colonies on the west coast next year and the year after that. They have already placed a deposit of nearly 100,000 gold gram shields. At present, several colonies have begun to consider large-scale land reclamation and planting. It is expected that the west coast will be planted next year and the year after.
The food production of each country's colonies will be doubled...
I came into contact with a man from the Hicks Kingdom purchasing group who called himself Sorum. He heard that I was a smuggler from an overseas territory, and he asked me about a lot of inside information about the war zone in the territory. About the army and
I deceived him about the news about the war zone and told him that I usually don’t pay much attention to these things and focus on business. However, he was very interested in the fact that I could get a large amount of low-strength ale in overseas territories, so he placed 30,000 yuan for me.
For the order for barrels of ale, I was also given a deposit of one thousand gold gram guilders.
This contact made me discover that there must be many secret agents from the Kingdom of Hicks lurking inside the war zone. I found that this man named Solum was relatively clear about some things about the war zone headquarters, such as the eighteen new places established in the war zone.
The garrison recruited 100,000 new soldiers and sold 300,000 captured matchlocks from the Hicks Kingdom to the Nikancha Kingdom and others. It is impossible for ordinary residents to understand such insider information, so I doubt that inside the war zone
It is very likely that there are secret agents from the Kingdom of Hicks, otherwise the enemy would not know these specific numbers.
Because I told him that there is a brewery under the Buffalo Trading Company, and a large amount of wheat is purchased every year to brew ale. So this Solum hopes that I can provide him with a thousand bushels of wheat, and he is willing to pay three times the market price.
I suspected that this was a test of my identity as a smuggler. War zones have always strictly controlled the outflow of grain, but the Bison Trading Company can perfectly avoid suspicion when it purchases grain to brew ale. Three times the market price is enough.
Countless smugglers risked their heads to complete this transaction.
(Note: Pushel is the unit of weight in the Kingdom of Hicks, which is equivalent to a ton, that is, one thousand kilograms. One thousand pushers is one thousand tons.)
However, from the request he made, we can deduce that in addition to placing orders for the food production of various countries' colonies in the coming and coming years, the Hicks Kingdom's purchasing group also has a process of purchasing existing food from each country's colonies.
It did not go well. It is likely that the colonies of various countries need to maintain local food demand and the stability of social order, and do not want food prices to rise too high, so they refuse to sell large quantities of stored food reserves, so that Sorum cannot
They want to buy grain through me for less than three times the market price.
There is also unconfirmed news that the officers and soldiers of the Fox Islands United Kingdom's cruising squadron confided during the carnival in the tavern. Since the Hicks Kingdom paid a high rent, the Fox Islands United Kingdom will send two ships back and forth between the two countries every year.
The ocean-going fleet of a continent transported supplies or troops to the Kingdom of Hicks. This was an additional clause of the lease agreement. Because the transportation was free, the officers and soldiers of the fleet were very dissatisfied and complained. We cannot determine whether this news is true or false.
, those officers and soldiers were all drunk.
Finally, there is news from the Kingdom itself, which is also unconfirmed. It is said that Prince Wedelek has transferred the four counties of Cafilezte, Raston Keren, Berta Arnia and Woodnesia.
The border county was returned to the Kingdom of Nasseri, and received a security compensation of one million gold crowns and a high-interest loan of four million gold crowns from the Kingdom of Nasseri. The Griffin Legion had abandoned the Odin Mountains and moved to
The three southwest counties are currently launching an attack on White Deer City occupied by Prince Hansback. The results of the battle have not yet been reported..."
This is an intelligence report collected by Colonel Bokoal in various colonies on the west coast. He confirmed the determination of the Hicks Kingdom to continue this colonial war. It has become a fact to lease the Rodex Bay Colony to gather troops. Wait.
After this New Year's Eve, the direct-administered war zone is also facing the threat of war again after ushering in the new year. And the outcome of this war will determine the life and death of the entire direct-controlled war zone.
The atmosphere in the conference room was very dull. When the news of the impending war became a reality, the senior officers of the theater command who were qualified to sit in this conference room to discuss felt a heavy sense of depression. The rain was about to come.
The wind fills the building, Claude somehow remembered this poem from his previous life. The current scene perfectly describes the artistic conception of the poem...
Claude was about to cough twice and say a few words to boost everyone's morale. But he saw General Bolognik grinning reluctantly and nodding to Boker: "Colonel Boker, you did a very good job. Thank you for your hard work."
You have been running back and forth. With the information you have collected, our theater can make targeted preparations for this war. I believe that the final winner of this war will be our theater. The reason is very simple, because
The Hicks have always been defeated by us, and this time is no exception!"
"General Bolognik is right, the Hicks have never been our opponents." General Albert knocked on the table twice with his fist: "Although they claim to gather ten standing legions, sixty
We have more than 10,000 troops, but in my opinion, they are just a bunch of rabble. Regardless of whether we compare the elite and well-trained troops, the advanced weapons, and the leading tactics and tactics, our troops are much better than them.
.Perhaps we will create a legendary chapter in the history of war this time, and these ten standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks will become the cornerstone for us to ascend to the altar..."
General Beachlin clapped his hands, attracting the attention of all senior officers in the conference room: "In fact, there is nothing terrible about the upcoming war. What General Claude did to the Hicks Kingdom's Lend-Lease operation last time is
Everyone should have read the analysis report, and the intelligence collected by Colonel Boquear also confirmed General Claude's foresight. It is absolutely impossible for the Kingdom of Hicks to gather ten standing legions at Rodex Bay Colony at once.
, food and grass will become the biggest problem limiting their war.
Even if the Kingdom of Hicks has sent a purchasing team to the colonies on the west coast to reserve grain for the next year and a certain amount of food reserves, as long as they launch an attack, we can clear the mountainous areas of the Nikancha country.
The strategy of luring the enemy deep into the mountains and playing hide-and-seek with them in the mountainous areas will delay their progress and consume their food. Then the Hicks, who will be surrounded on all sides and cut off from food, grass and logistical supplies, will have no other way out but to surrender to us.
Already..."
"This time we hope to keep the more than 600,000 troops of the Kingdom of Hicks out of the war zone, so as not to spread the war to various overseas territories and cause adverse consequences to the immigration life of the kingdom and the economic development of the territories.
Impact. So we will set the battlefield in the mountainous area of the Nikancha country, use the good defensive terrain and hills and woods to deal with the Hicks, and drag the Hicks to death in this mountainous area. If we cannot eliminate them
If the enemy's effective strength is limited, we will also consume the enemy's limited food and supplies and trap the enemy to death in the mountains.
All troops in the theater, whether they belong to the two legions or the local garrison troops stationed in the directly-administered territories, will carry out mountain combat training within the next year. The theater command has made a training plan for this, and all troops must strictly follow the plan
Carry out careful training step by step, and do not be sloppy or perfunctory. The theater command will send inspectors to conduct on-site inspections and result assessments of the training status of each unit. All personnel who fail to meet the standards in mountain combat training, whether they are officers or soldiers
, they may face forced retirement.
Please don’t forget that the war we are about to face is related to the life and death of the entire direct-administered theater, and all officers and soldiers must not slack off. Just as General Claude put forward, the more you sweat during training, the less you will bleed during war.
The slogan is the same, training tasks must be carried out strictly in accordance with the requirements of the training plan to achieve training goals and results. Any officers and soldiers who cannot meet the standards in the training assessment, regardless of whether they have made great contributions to the theater in the past, will only be dismissed this time.
Qing withdraws from the army because we cannot tolerate that in future mountain operations against the Hicks, the entire army will be dragged down by these incompetent officers and soldiers!"
General Skerry ended his speech, and the senior officers present at the theater command headquarters unanimously turned their attention to Claude, the five giants in the theater, but Claude remained silent.
Claude looked confused and thought to himself, "What should I say?" The four of them finished speaking. Some encouraged everyone not to be afraid, some raised morale and encouraged everyone to win the war, and some compared the qualities of both sides.
You talk about the pros and cons of tactics, and you also reprimand and warn everyone to take training seriously. What do you want me to say?
"Cough, cough," Claude coughed twice first, then leaned back on the sofa and chair, leaving everyone with a very relaxed feeling, and then slowly began to speak: "The Hicks are finally here.
As a soldier, I am very happy because we have a clear enemy again. To be honest, in the past two years, I have been doubting whether I am a soldier. I am obviously a lieutenant general of the kingdom, but why am I so busy?
Are they all boring administrative matters?
If he is not dealing with the resettlement work of immigrants from the kingdom, he is planning the construction of urban road transportation, or he is responsible for driving the Nikancha people onto the ship and moving them to the country of the Nikancha people, so as not to stay in the war zone directly under the jurisdiction and an eyesore.
. Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn’t wear this military uniform. In fact, it’s quite suitable for me to be an administrative supervisor. If it weren’t for the Thunder Legion recruiting new recruits for training and requiring me to check, I really forgot that I was a
A soldier.
I am really grateful to the Hicks people for this, especially King Mechid III. He never lets us down and insists on sending their country’s young people to help our war zone direct-administered public infrastructure construction.
It's free. We just need to fill their bellies and dress warmly. They are so polite that we don't even need to be responsible for the food and clothing. They transport everything themselves from the distant continent of Falea.
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In my eyes, the more than 600,000 troops of the Hicks Kingdom are more than 600,000 free young laborers given to us. All we need to do is to let them put down their weapons and obediently walk into the prisoner-of-war camp. I believe there are
With the help of so much free labor, the economic development of the war zone territory will be improved very quickly. The only thing we have to remember is that before we let these free laborers put down their arms, we have to let them understand that becoming our enemy is
Their greatest sorrow!
We are going to conduct this battlefield in the mountainous areas of the Nikancha country. We will let the Hicks remember that they rented the Rodkers Bay Colony to gather troops, which means launching a war in the wrong place.
Wrong war. I don’t want to say more about the outcome of the war. There is no doubt that this war will end the ambitions and delusions of the Kingdom of Hicks towards overseas territories. From now on, the continent of Nubisia will be Hicks.
The eternal pain in this man's heart.
We have already made arrangements on how to cooperate with the Nikancha people. We believe that the Nikancha people will come to ask for our help within two or three months. In fact, if the Nikancha people are not willing to cooperate with us, we will
It doesn't matter. When the Nikancha people cannot withstand the attack of the Hicks and are retreating steadily after losing cities and lands, we can also use surprise troops to capture the occupied mountainous areas. Of course, this will be more troublesome, but after the war, these territories
It belongs to us.
The Hicks are actually like a snowfield elephant, big and strong. If they gathered so many troops in the plains, I might have a headache. The difference in strength is very obvious. But in the mountainous areas,
An elephant cannot defeat a mountain monkey. The terrain limits its capabilities. A maximum of five or six points can be used for a full strength. The mountain warfare training program that General Skerry just mentioned is to make us become mountain monkeys and make the terrain environment a
Our helper.
Having said all this, I just want to tell everyone that we are very lucky and have military exploits to earn. As a soldier, it is both lucky and sad to have no war or enemies. Fortunately, he does not need to go to the battlefield and risk fighting.
His life is in danger on the battlefield. The sad thing is that he has never experienced a war and will never be able to prove that he is a true soldier. Now that the Hicks have imposed war on our war zone, we have only one answer, destroy them!"
As soon as Claude finished speaking, thunderous applause erupted in the entire conference room...