Chapter 438: The Standing Legion of Hicks Kingdom Arrives
Chapter 438: The Hicks Kingdom’s standing army arrives
April 5, the 593rd year of the Holy Light Calendar, Rodex Bay.
Less than ten days have passed since the rainy season on the continent of Nubisia. The golden sunshine shines on the light red sea, turning the sparkling sea into a gorgeous pastel dreamy scene. The clear sea water ripples in the delicate dark red sea.
On the beach, several children carrying small baskets and buckets were picking up shells on the beach, and their cheerful and carefree laughter could be heard from time to time...
A child who inadvertently looked up at the sea suddenly froze there. Several other children who did not get a response from him could not help but look towards the sea. They soon found the reason for their companion's loss of consciousness. However, they saw a distant figure.
On the sea, black spots appeared one after another, and soon they became one, and then countless sail shadows appeared...
This is a very large ocean-going fleet that the children have never seen before. The number of ships they have can even block the children's vision. Looking up, the sea in the distance is full of ships. Among these ships
Behind, more ships could be seen emerging on the sea level, and these ships were now speeding towards Rodex Bay.
A clear and long bell rang from the lighthouse on a large reef at the mouth of Rodex Bay, with a cheerful rhythm. This was a bell welcoming the ship to return. If it is attacked by pirates or a pirate ship is discovered,
When the bell strikes, the bell will sound very compactly, giving people a tense feeling, instead of ringing again every few seconds.
The artillery on the city wall also roared, its muzzle pointed towards the sky, and it fired fireworks and gunpowder packets, which exploded in the sky, flashing countless golden stars falling from the sky. Unfortunately, it was daytime, wasn't it?
At night, only on the evening of the birthday anniversary of the six Grand Dukes of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands and the New Year's Eve, can the residents of the city appreciate the wonderful and beautiful moments of the garrison firing fireworks and gunpowder packets from artillery...
Now the bells on the lighthouse and the fireworks and gunpowder packets fired from the cannons on the city wall only mean one thing. The Hicks, the big financiers who leased the Rodex Bay colony, are here. The colonial officials in the city and the local dignitaries
The characters are all neatly dressed, bringing their beautifully dressed family members and riding a carriage to the bay dock, where they will greet the landing Hicks and hand over the jurisdiction of the colony to them...
The advance personnel sent by the Kingdom of Hicks were also ready. They led nearly a hundred carriages to the dock, unloaded the ale loaded on the carriages in a large open space, and piled them into a barrel.
Xiaoshan. This is to welcome the officers and soldiers of several standing regiments who are about to disembark, and let them have a drink to relieve the pain of being on the ship for more than a month.
As the stewards sent by the Buffalo Trading Company to Rodex Bay Colony to discuss the ale trade with the advance personnel of the Hicks Kingdom, these spies sent from the war zone were also dragged to the dock by the understaffed Hicks people to help pour the beer.
Wine. This allowed them to observe closely the situation of the first batch of standing legions shipped from the Kingdom of Hicks. Can the elites draw conclusions from the performance of these officers and soldiers after disembarking...
One day later, Claude received a falcon message from the spies from Rodex Bay Colony, saying that the Hicks people were coming. As expected by Claude, this time the Hicks Kingdom
The three standing armies that were transported were all five newly formed standing armies selected from the more than 300,000 Hicks prisoners who were transported by the kingdom's emerging business aristocrats to be used as development labor in the newly occupied territory of the Kingdom of Overas.
Three of the regiments. The names of their regiments are very interesting, they are called Avenge the First Corps to the Avenge the Fifth Corps. This time, three regiments were brought.
According to the intelligence from the secret agent, the soldiers of the three standing legions disembarked by the Hicks this time were all veterans. They were all a bit older, basically in their thirties. They behaved very calmly after disembarking, and it felt like they had been there for a long time.
The elite troops who have passed through the battlefield are just like the veterans who have just been transferred to the eighteen local garrison regiments in the directly-administered war zone.
It's just that the direct-administered war zone transferred these veterans of the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion into the local garrison in order to let them use their remaining strength in the later stages of military service, while the Kingdom of Hicks reorganized these veterans who had been captured and worked hard for several years into a standing army.
, just to let them wash away the shame of being defeated and captured for their life as prisoners and hard labor. Perhaps in the war zone, these Hicks veterans are the most difficult enemies to deal with...
The spies also revealed another piece of news on the Falcon Message, that is, after everything was over in the evening, they had a meal and drinks with the advance personnel of the Kingdom of Hicks. Several of the advance personnel could take the battleship back to the Farea continent.
But the rest of the advance personnel will become the logistics officials of Rodex Bay Colony and continue to purchase logistics supplies for the arriving standing army. Therefore, their ale transaction with the spies will continue, and they also hope that the spies will come from overseas.
The direct-controlled territories smuggled more food and supplies for them...
After the Hicks advance personnel who were about to part ways got drunk, they inadvertently revealed a piece of news. This time it was the Sea King Fleet of the Hicks Kingdom and the joint forces leased from the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karnas.
fleet, as well as the Verona Goddess Fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, which provided a free transport, transported three standing legions. The next three fleets will soon return to the continent of Farea, from the new Kingdom of Ovelas
Capture the seaport of Florik and transport the remaining two Avenged Legions to Rodex Bay Colony.
At the same time, the Kingdom of Hicks will also hire the Verona Goddess Fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands to help transport military supplies and food and grass. After the two standing corps and military supplies are transported to Rodex Bay Colony, the five following
In the name of avenging the humiliation, the Standing Corps will soon take military action and launch an attack on the mountainous areas occupied by the Nikancha people in the north and east.
"What do you think?" Claude asked General Albert next to him. The two of them are now staying in the Monkenard Castle in the Port Vibato Colony, which is about to be completed. It was also the only castle in the Port Vibato Colony County.
The location of a large silver mine. Monknad Castle was rebuilt on the original site of Monknad city that was destroyed by the Nikanchas. A local garrison composed of veterans was stationed here to guard against Nikancha.
Investigate people’s immigration theft.
Since reaching an agreement with the Nikancha people to cooperate against the Hicks in mid-February, a frontline headquarters has been established in the theater, located in the Monkenad Castle. The frontline commander is Claude, and Ai
General Berendt and General Beachlin became his two deputies. As for General Bolonik and General Skerry, they still need to be based in Lanhu City and are responsible for handling various large and small matters in the eight overseas territories under the jurisdiction of the war zone.
Administrative affairs.
"Bik has gone to the eastern and northern mountainous areas of the Nikancha country to supervise the relocation of the Nikancha settlements and preparations for clearing the country. At the same time, it is also necessary to survey the terrain in the middle of the mountainous area and prepare to set up a defensive front. Judging from the current situation
, the Nikancha people are still very cooperative. They have prepared sufficient young men to build defensive positions, and have guaranteed to provide manpower and transportation assistance for the logistical supplies of our troops.
The two regiments led by Colonels Belklin and Murield have already launched an attack on the remaining inland colonies of the Hicks. In the past two years, the port of Vibato has been occupied by our theater, and the mineral resources of these inland colonies
The development bases have no way to transport gold and silver ore ingots, so they can only store them. We have obtained gold and silver ore ingots worth nearly two million gold crowns from the warehouses of the seven captured mineral development bases. Unfortunately, they still have to be divided.
Give the Nikanchas thirty percent."
General Albert spoke with a bit of reluctance. Thirty percent of the two million gold crowns seized would be given to the Nikancha people for free. This was already a huge sum of 600,000 gold crowns. Fighting
They were all handled by two regiments of the Thunder Legion. The Nikancha people just led the way, transported some supplies, and scared the prisoners. They were soy sauce throughout the whole process, but they were able to get so many seizures. And there are more to come.
There were so many manors and mineral bases established by the Hicks, and General Albert was very unwilling to think about how much of the seizures had to be given to the Nikancha people.
Claude glanced at him with a smile: "I now understand why King Mechid III of the Kingdom of Hicks wants to fight to the end with our war zone, and I also know where he spends so much military expenditure.
There are seven gold and silver mines, and two years of ingot reserves are worth nearly two million gold crowns. The entire inland colony of the Hicks Kingdom has dozens of mineral development bases, large and small, all of which belong to the Hicks Kingdom.
The mining development companies built by nobles and nobles are owned by the Kingdom of Hicks, and the Kingdom of Hicks will receive a 10% tax from their mining development profits.
You can calculate how much wealth the Kingdom of Hicks can gain every year from the large and small mining and development companies run by these nobles. No wonder everyone says that the Kingdom of Hicks is extremely rich. The nobles of their kingdom often spend a lot of money in the auction house.
Those jewelry, gems, art collections and the like were auctioned for sky-high prices. The Hicks Kingdom has been operating this inland colony for nearly twenty years. You can imagine how much gold and silver they have taken from this inland colony.
Their treasury has accumulated too much wealth.
Therefore, after the Hicks Kingdom experienced three disastrous defeats in colonial wars and domestic noble rebellions, it was still able to spend 2.5 million gold crowns to lease the Rodex Bay Colony of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands for five years and reorganize it.
Ten standing legions. For the Hicks, they must keep this inland colony. Only in this way can their nobles continue to live a luxurious and luxurious life. And Melchid III can stabilize his throne.
, let the Kingdom of Hicks continue to serve as the dominant power in the northern region of Farea continent..."
"I understand what you mean." General Albert replied: "To preserve this inland colony, we must find a reliable and safe seaport for the mineral transportation of this colony, and at the same time we need to develop a mine that is all gold and silver."
The Lord's inland colony provides an agricultural and animal husbandry colony with abundant living supplies as a logistics support base.
So that bastard king of the Hicks Kingdom took a fancy to our Cromwell and Beringana territories, and asked our kingdom to cede these two territories to them, with the Dolinibara River as the boundary.
.The real reason why this colonial war broke out is because this bullshit Melchid III took a fancy to our territory? Why does he have it?"
Claude fell into memories: "At that time, our kingdom had just ended the five-year war in the eastern region. The people's livelihood was in decline, the treasury was empty, and the kingdom's soldiers suffered casualties of more than 600,000 and only occupied a large area of ruins. Especially before the armistice and peace agreement was signed,
The Blue Feather Legion and the two second-line legions were also attacked by the light cavalry of the Principality of Karnas on the prairie, resulting in the entire army being annihilated. This tragic defeat made many onlookers think that our kingdom is powerful outside the country and that there is something to be gained...
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So when three years passed and the Kingdom's post-war economic development showed no improvement, the Kingdom of Hicks began to provoke provocations at the colonial borders between the two countries on the Nubisian continent, and finally entered them first under the pretext of the local garrison armed forces directly under the jurisdiction of our Kingdom.
The patrol team of the Cromwell Territory opened fire and demanded that the kingdom cede the two territories of Cromwell and Beringana and apologize to them. The kingdom refused this unreasonable request, and this colonial war broke out.
So we got here. At that time, the high-level bosses in the kingdom thought that we were just trying our best to show the kingdom's determination to never give up any of its overseas territories. At that time, we were just a ranger regiment.
We fought against the two colonial garrison legions of the Hicks, and we won, and the kingdom began to set up a war zone. Then the Hicks sent five standing legions, giving us an additional 300,000 prisoners.
Then the Hicks became more frustrated and braver, announcing that they would form ten standing legions to fight this colonial war. It really scared me at the time. After all, Marshal Michelci was transferred back to the kingdom, and all of us felt that
I had no idea. As a result, I didn't expect that a noble rebellion broke out in the Hicks' own country. I finally got impatient and took the initiative to send troops to clean up three of their legions. The war zone also captured the Colonial County of Port Vibato.
Now the ten standing legions of the Hicks have finally arrived. After we capture all their inland colonies and eliminate these ten standing legions, I see what reason the Hicks Kingdom has to continue this colony.
War. There is no longer a foothold for the Hicks on the Nubisian continent. When this colonial war is over, the military strength of the Hicks will be clearly seen by all countries. Their country is so rich that they are like children.
Holding gold in the city.
I believe that some neighboring countries will soon take advantage of them. By then, the so-called hegemonic power in the northern part of Farea Continent will be waiting to be pinned to the ground and rubbed by other countries. As long as there is a successful person, there will be more soon.
Many predators pounced on me. I want to see, without the strength of these ten standing legions, plus the more than 200,000 Hicks prisoners who are still doing free hard labor in our direct territory, the Kingdom of Hicks
With one million less troops, how many young men and women can he recruit at home to form legions to resist the invasion of other countries?"
General Albert was speechless. He thought that what Claude said about defeating the ten standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom in front of others was just to strengthen everyone's belief in defeating the enemy. Unexpectedly, Claude actually wanted to defeat the Hicks Kingdom.
All ten standing legions of the Sri Lankans were left here. This was not a defeat-style victory, but represented the annihilation of more than 600,000 enemies. I don’t know where Claude got this confidence...
However, General Albert didn't want to pour cold water on Claude. He had other things to remind Claude: "Claude, we have captured the Hicks' inland colony, but we want to take this gold-rich
Is it okay to hand over all the territory of the silver mine to the Nikancha people? Our Thunder Legion is all doing the work, and the Nikancha people are watching the show, and they have to be given a share of the seizure. This is too unfair...
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Claude laughed: "Do you know why I have to send two regiments of more than 10,000 troops to even attack the Hicks inland colony? The armed forces of those Hicks manors and mineral development bases are only
With nearly a hundred men, I actually only need to mobilize one battalion of troops to sweep across the entire inland colony.
Two regiments were sent there because this was a rare opportunity to train before the war. Most of the soldiers in our regiment were newly recruited recruits. Although they had completed various trainings, they had never seen blood or served in the military.
They had been through the battlefield, so I took the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom, those manors and mineral development bases to practice with them.
I asked Belklin and Murield to rotate their troops every time they attack. It is best to let every soldier see blood and gain some combat experience. It can also be regarded as a practical drill before the war. As for the seizure and
I didn't take those gold and silver minerals to heart. I just wanted to give the Nikancha people a taste of the sweetness first and give them some confidence and security in their cooperation with our war zone.
If all the Nikancha people mine gold and silver mines after the war, then I will be happy to see the results. You know that gold and silver ore ingots can neither be used as food nor as guns. Even if they dig gold and silver mines, they will eventually have to
Trade with our war zone and buy food, drink, weapons and ammunition from our war zone, as well as the luxuries needed by the leaders and elders of the community.
This is actually equivalent to the Nikancha people digging gold and silver mines for our war zone. Our war zone does not need to spend a penny, just relying on transactions, using cheap and large quantities of food, goods, arms, and high-end luxuries.
Get real money and silver from the Nikancha people. Is there a more cost-effective deal in the world?
After the Nikancha people get used to using gold and silver minerals to purchase large amounts of supplies from our war zone, they will give up planting potatoes and hard hunting. In the future, they will only need to use a piece of gold and silver to purchase from our war zone. This is
This means that we have found a stable trading partner for a large amount of agricultural products and daily necessities in the war zone directly under our direct jurisdiction, and it is a dumping market for all goods belonging to the war zone directly under our direct jurisdiction..."