What Claude didn't expect was that he spent five days by boat from Vibato Port, landed in the fish port town of Anphiston, and rushed to the theater headquarters in Lanhu City, only to find that the theater and Nikan
The police envoys still failed to reach any agreement, and both sides fell into endless wrangling and bargaining...
"What's going on? Didn't we clarify the requirements of the war zone? What do those Nikancha people mean?" Claude was a little strange. According to the plan discussed in advance, the war zone had already formulated a rough strategy and tactical plan.
When the Nikancha people came to ask for help, they were asked to implement the strategic plan in order to prepare for the war.
General Bolognik replied with a wry smile: "Those Nikanchas asked us to provide more advanced muskets. They wanted the Obash III standard matchlocks we equipped, not the Hicks matchlocks with inferior performance of the captured weapons."
guns. At the same time, we are required to sell artillery ammunition, send people to teach them how to use artillery, and form a regular artillery force...
In fact, these are all within our expectations. As long as they are willing to pay, we can agree to their requests and even help them form a regular army so that they have a certain combat effectiveness. But these Nikancha people use the excuse that they
Due to financial difficulties, I was unable to pay the bill in full, so I asked if I could pay on credit or in installments, and was prepared to spend ten years paying the bill.
In addition, these Nikancha people rejected the strategic plan proposed by our theater and believed that our unilateral war plan ignored reality and the independence and dignity of their country. The war took place on the territory of their country and would be harmful to them.
It had a great negative impact on the lives of the Nikancha people in various settlements, so they insisted on keeping the enemy out of the border."
"Keep the enemy out of the border?" Claude was stunned for a moment, a little confused: "Are those Nikancha people out of their minds to make such a request? Don't they want us to go to Forks?
Let the Rodex Bay Colony of the United Kingdom of Islands fight a decisive battle with the ten standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom..."
General Bolognik grinned and shook his head. It was obvious that he was also amused by Claude's words: "That's not to say, the Nikancha envoys haven't had such a fever. If they are really like that
If you say this, it means that they are hopeless. Our war zone will not hesitate to give up any cooperation and agreement with them, and sit back and watch them destroy the country.
Just look at the map and you will know that those Nikancha envoys proposed that they are willing to give up the eastern and northern mountainous areas within 30 miles of the border connected to Rodkers Bay Colony to allow troops from our theater to station and construct
Set up a defensive front, and our troops in the theater will be responsible for guarding against the Hicks' attack, while they will provide us with logistical support..."
"What they had in mind was a good idea. Let us in the war zone be in front to block their guns?" Claude was so angry that he laughed: "Why do these Nikancha people have the confidence to propose such a defense plan? Do they think that
Our war zone is a puppet made of clay, at their mercy? Let the troops in our war zone guard the Hicks within thirty miles of the border mountains and fight to the death, and they can watch the show from behind and enjoy the results, and still
No need to pay any price?"
"Alas..." General Bolognik sighed: "You don't know, the news these Nikancha people got from the colonies on the west coast is that the Kingdom of Hicks is leasing the Rodkers Bay Colony to gather ten
The more than 600,000 troops of the standing corps are to continue this colonial war with our territorial theater to avenge three disastrous defeats.
Therefore, these Nikancha people think that they are involved in the war zone under our direct jurisdiction. If the northern coastal mountainous area of their country is not blocked between the Rodkers Bay Colony and the war zone under our direct jurisdiction, then they don’t have to worry about being attacked.
When the Hicks attacked, they were unlucky enough to be sandwiched between our territorial war zone and the Hicks, and suffered an unreasonable disaster.
These Nikancha envoys said that due to their good relations with our directly-administered war zone and close cooperation with each other, they are willing to help us deal with the Hicks this time. Otherwise, they only need to abandon the northern coastal mountainous area and let
Open the passage from the Rox Bay Colony to the territorial war zone, and then the Hicks can drive directly into the Vibato Port Territory."
"These Nikancha envoys really said that? Can I regard them as a threat to our war zone?" Claude sneered and asked General Bolognik: "Where did they get the courage to dare to stand in front of our war zone?
Saying such unreasonable words? I have always heard that the Nikancha people have cunning habits. I have never seen it. This time it is an eye-opener. I really think that our direct territorial war zone cannot do without them in this war.
support?
It is clear that they themselves are facing the danger of national annihilation, but they want to pass the crisis onto the heads of our territorial war zone. Let the troops in our territorial war zone fight to the death with the Hicks, but they are reaping the benefits. I am sure that if
We agreed to their request, and then we even had to pay them high tolls and labor costs in order to ensure the logistics supplies for the front line, otherwise these logistics supplies would disappear for no reason and their whereabouts would be unknown."
"Actually, Bick and Skerry believe that time is already very tight and they can discuss with the Nikancha envoys the intensity of support and assistance. As long as both parties can reach an agreement, then according to the provisions of the agreement, the Nikancha country must also
Send troops and work together to resist the attack of the Hicks on the defensive front. At this critical moment of life and death, the Nikancha people will also fight tooth and nail.
After all, the first batch of standing legions shipped from the Kingdom of Hicks will land at Rodex Bay Colony in April. Our theater needs to seize the time to survey the terrain and construct defense lines on the eastern and northern mountainous borders of the Nikancha country.
"It takes at least twenty days to travel from our war zone to the eastern and northern mountainous borders of the Nikancha country. Time is really tight."
General Bolognik said hesitantly that as the general who was best at defensive warfare in the theater, he knew very well how important a well-equipped defensive front was to resist the enemy's attack. It would take sufficient time to reach the destination and set up a defensive line.
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"Stop the negotiations with these Nikancha envoys and leave them alone for three days..." Claude said coldly: "We can't be at their mercy and obey their orders. The only thing they have to do is
Yes, that is, to implement and execute all our requirements for them in accordance with our pre-formulated strategic plan! Otherwise, we will watch them destroy the country, and wait until the Hicks kill rivers of blood in their country, and the young men and women will
When Zhuang is treated as a slave, they will regret it later.
Tell those Nikancha people that I will take over the negotiations from today on, and I will not recognize the terms and agreements anyone else has reached with them. If they want our artillery and advanced matchlock guns, and help them form a regular
For the army, all this must be done with real money and no credit. We in the direct-administered theater area are not wealthy people. We have already sold everything to make a living for this colonial war, and we do not have the ability to help them for free.
These three days are for them to calm down, so as not to make unreasonable demands again when negotiating with me. Only by executing according to our strategic plan can we ensure victory over the Hicks and avoid their danger of annihilation.
.At the same time, our directly-administered war zone can also guarantee the integrity of their country's territory and sovereignty in the agreement. When we defeat the Hicks and win, we will withdraw our troops from their country and will not continue to station them."
"Bik and Skerry will be unhappy if you do this..." General Bolognik said helplessly, but he still agreed to Claude's request: "I will send an adjutant to inform them to stop.
When negotiating with the Nikancha people, reject all the demands of the Nikancha people and tell the Nikancha people that the negotiations will start again in three days and you will have the final say."
This is the greatest support General Bologne has given to Claude, and Claude knows this very well. He has also sat in the position of supreme commander of the theater, and is very aware of the difficulties of General Bologne acting in this position. Many times Bologne
What General Ke needs to deal with is not the solution to the problem, but the balancing of the contradictions arising from all aspects of the theater.
Claude is very glad that he is not sitting in this seat now. Looking at General Bolognik's half-bald head and pale hair on his temples during this period, you can tell how difficult it has been to be the acting supreme commander of the theater in the past few years.
.Resettling military immigrants, rejecting the request of Prince Hansback, disarmament turmoil, military expenditures, rebellion of the governor and admiral, cutting off contact with the mainland of the kingdom, relocating the Nikancha people, and when all this settled, the Hicks people returned
Coming...
"It's okay. It's better for the two of them to be unhappy now than regret it in the future." Claude explained: "General Bi Chiklin was also influenced by his idea of setting up a deep defense front in the northern coastal mountains. Now the Nikancha people
He was very happy to be willing to hand over the eastern border mountainous area to our war zone for defense. The troops handed over to our war zone are always more reliable than letting the Nikanchas armed garrison, and there is no need to worry about the defensive front being captured by the Hicks.
The breakthrough point spreads thousands of miles.
As the general manager of the theater's logistics affairs, General Skerry needs to be responsible for the war zone's military expenditures and the rising budget deficit. The main purpose of his negotiations with the Nikancha people is to obtain the Nikancha country's gold and silver ore ingot reserves.
I hope that the Nikancha people can use these gold and silver ore ingots to pay for arms transactions, so as to reduce our military expenditure. However, the Nikancha people want to tie us to their tanks using credit and installment payments.
This was something he hadn't considered.
Obviously, if we agree to the Nikancha people's request for credit or ten-year installment payment, then we must take the initiative to help the Nikancha people deal with the Hicks. Because once the Nikancha people's country is destroyed
If so, who should collect this debt from our war zone? This involves millions of gold crowns, not a small amount of money. I believe that those Nikancha envoys must have agreed to the high price of weapons we quoted without bargaining.
....."
General Bolognik's face looked a little ugly, and he also came to his senses. The reason why the Nikancha envoys agreed to the high price of artillery and Obas III standard matchlock guns reported in the directly-administered territorial theater was obviously because of hope.
The bigger the final total price, the better. They only need to pay a deposit, so the direct-administered war zone will naturally go to the Hicks to fight for this arms deal worth millions of gold crowns, and they must also ensure that Nikkan
The security of the Nikancha people's country. Otherwise, if the Nikancha people's country is destroyed by the Hicks, who will the directly-administered war zone ask for accounts...
"We don't need to set up any defensive fronts in the mountainous areas on their eastern and northern borders. What we need is for the Nikancha people to thoroughly implement the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness in their mountainous areas. And our defensive fronts can be set up in the middle of the mountainous areas.
This can shorten the distance of our logistical supplies and military support. It also brings greater trouble to the Hicks' attack. The enemy needs to pass through the mountainous area in front to reach our defensive front and then launch an attack, which will attack their troops.
Support and logistical supplies will cause difficulties.
In addition, the small team we sent can carry out a raid on the enemy's rear route in the mountainous area in front. If the Hicks want to ensure the safety of their logistical supply channels, they need to set up a complete defensive front to block it like us.
We must live in the entire mountainous area ahead, and we must deploy enough troops to divide the troops for guarding. Doing so will only drag the entire war into a confrontation, which will be a very bad situation for the Hicks who are strapped for logistical supplies. I believe there is no
A Hicks Kingdom commander would be happy to see this happen..."
Claude picked up his military cap and was about to go home: "Tell General Beachlin what I said, he will soon understand my intention. In the next three days
I will rest at home and not see anyone. Tell those Nikancha people that the negotiations will start again at 9 a.m. three days later. I will only give them one day. If they do not accept the strategic plan we have formulated, then please ask them
When we go back, our territorial war zone will suspend all cooperation with their country and watch them be destroyed by the Hicks."
Three days later, Claude stepped into the large conference room of the theater headquarters at the last minute of nine o'clock, with the door closed and the handful of crystal colored sand falling from the hourglass.
The large conference room was already filled with people from both sides who came to participate in the negotiation. Compared with the forty or fifty elders and leaders sent by Nikancha countries to act as envoys, only General Bolonik came to the theater headquarters.
He and General Albert, as well as several senior officers and record-keepers. Generals Bichklin and Skerry did not know whether to avoid suspicion or were worried that their presence would misunderstand the Nikancha envoys, so they talked with them some time ago.
He deliberately declined to come to participate in this negotiation as a reason for dispute over several terms reached.
Claude came to the big conference table and just said that I would be the host of this negotiation when he was interrupted. A very strong leader of the Nikancha people stood up angrily and shouted loudly
: "General, aren't you afraid that we will abandon the northern coastal mountainous area and allow the Hicks to march straight in and reach the city of Vibato Port?"
Claude burst out laughing: "No, I'm not worried at all. I even wish you would do this. It's a simple reason. I will fight back the Hicks wherever they come. The two of us in the war zone
The legion has long been prepared for battle, hoping that the Hicks will come as soon as possible. To our soldiers, these Hicks are all military exploits and rewards delivered to their doorsteps.
As for the northern coastal mountainous area, it was voluntarily given up by your Nikancha country. After driving away the Hicks, we can actually occupy it. Maybe we can add another coastal mountainous area directly under the direct jurisdiction of our war zone. Still.
It can be directly connected to Rodex Bay Colony, which is really good news for our territorial theater."
"But, the Hicks have ten standing legions, with more than 600,000 troops. You, how many troops are there in your war zone? How, how can you drive away the Hicks so easily! You, you are just bragging.
..." The leader of the Nikancha people never dreamed that Claude would answer like that. When his threat failed, he instead gave up the northern coastal mountainous area to the war zone as a direct jurisdiction. He was so angry that he raised his troops.
Examples that are too different.
"Very good, it seems that you finally know that the Hicks people have come with ten standing legions, with more than 600,000 troops..." Claude didn't seem to notice so many people in the Hicks Kingdom at all.
In the eyes: "But can you guarantee that these Hicks will definitely attack our theater first? They only attack our theater and are not interested in your country at all?"
The leader of the Nikancha people stammered all of a sudden, hesitating and unable to speak. However, an older elder next to him stood up: "Dear General Claude, I want to remind you that all the people on the west coast are
Colonial newspapers say that the Hicks are leasing Rodkers Bay Colony this time just to continue the colonial war with your territorial war zone, so your territorial war zone will be their first target...
"
Claude smiled and shook his head: "It seems that you still don't understand that we are the enemies of the Hicks, so they want to fight us. This is a legitimate thing. But you Nikancha people are in the Hicks
In the eyes of people, you are just slaves, rebellious slaves, and they occupied their colonies and established an independent country. This is a great humiliation for the Hicks. They will not regard you as enemies, because it is an insult to them.
So they won’t talk about war with you. In their eyes, annihilating you is just to quell the rebellion of the slaves..."
The Nikancha elder was immediately speechless. It seemed that they themselves knew very well what kind of things the Nikancha people were in the eyes of the Hicks.