Claude strode into the frontline headquarters, took off his military hat, and at the same time handed the riding crop in his hand to his adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Anders. While taking off his cloak, he asked the approaching General Albert: "
Have there been any movements among the three standing legions of the Hicks in Rodex Bay Colony in the past half month?"
Something happened at the Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop some time ago, and Claude needed to go and make the final decision. In addition, the grenade developed by his sister Anna and Lady Sonia has made great progress, and Claude also had to rush over to fill in the gaps.
So Claude left the frontline headquarters and stayed in the gun manufacturing workshop for nearly half a month, and he just came back today.
General Albert has been on duty at the frontline headquarters during this period to respond to emergencies. He shook his head: "There is no big move. It is still the same as before. The major forces of the three standing legions of the Hicks are
Some officers and soldiers are conducting daily actual combat drills and pre-war training in the Rodex Bay Colony. At the same time, they have also sent troops to set up a very crude defensive cordon line on the northern and eastern mountainous borders, and each has sent a regiment of troops.
guard.
In addition, the False Eagle message sent by the spies said that their ale business was very good and very popular with these Hicks veterans. Half of the second batch of 50,000 barrels of ale shipped over had been consumed, and they
In the name of the Buffalo Trading Company, we will provide these Hicks with 100,000 barrels of ale in the next six months, the kind of large barrels that weigh 100 kilograms, with a total amount of more than 40,000 gold crowns. This ale business alone in our war zone can suffice.
Earn ten thousand more gold crowns from the Hicks."
Ale is a low-alcohol wine, somewhat similar to the beer in Claude's previous life. In a tavern directly under the war zone, a cup of ale weighs about one kilogram, which costs five pfennigs a cup. Ale in a small barrel costs five pfennigs.
Ten kilograms, a large barrel holds a hundred kilograms, and the market price of a large barrel of ale is five riyals, which is half a silver thaler.
However, the price of the ale sold by the Buffalo Trading Company to the Hicks is double the market price. A large barrel sells for two silver thalers, which is twenty riyals. Plus shipping and other factors, the order for a hundred thousand barrels can be sold in the war zone.
Among them, the profits were divided into 10,000 gold crowns. No wonder General Albert was stunned by the generosity and wealth of the Hicks...
An ale brewing workshop with a scale of more than 100 people can produce 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms of ale a day as long as the raw materials are available. With a few more brewing workshops for 100,000 barrels of ale, the order can be completed within three months.
The two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana have become two major grain-producing provinces under the jurisdiction of the war zone. In the past two years, thanks to the hard work of the two million immigrants from the royal family, they have successively achieved bumper harvests in reclaiming wasteland.
, the amount of food harvested is worrying.
Unexpectedly, the Hicks' ale order found a new outlet for the excess food in the direct-administered territory. The three standing legions that came first could consume so much ale. It is conceivable that the subsequent seven
After the standing army comes over, the order for this ale will continue to increase. If you sell grain to the enemy, no one in the war zone will agree, but if you sell ale to the enemy at a high price, no one has any scruples. Just making money from the enemy like this always feels a bit strange.
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Claude burst out laughing. It was really ridiculous to earn a little money from the enemy before the battle even started. Taking the stack of falcon messages handed over by General Albert, Claude looked at them carefully.
The first thing was the intelligence that the spies came from the Rodex Bay Colony. In fact, what they registered was the daily life of the three standing legions of the Hicks. Indeed, as General Albert said, the enemy behaved quite well.
, nothing unusual happened.
Then there was a report from General Bichklin, who was responsible for surveying the terrain in the eastern and northern mountainous areas of the Nikancha country and supervising the implementation of the decision by the Nikancha settlement to clear the country. He said in the Falcon Message that the eastern mountainous areas have been
The survey has been completed, and the defensive front is currently being constructed. And a main field division of the Rock Corps he brought is also performing the task of training the Nikancha people's armed forces and supervising the Nikancha people's young labor force to build defensive positions.
Then there was a falcon message jointly signed by Colonel Belklin and Colonel Murield. Each of them led two regiments of the Thunder Legion. With the guidance and logistical supply support of the Nikancha people, they were moving with
The autumn wind swept down the fallen leaves and swept through the Inner 6 colonies of the Hicks Kingdom. The progress is going smoothly so far, with extremely light casualties and very rich seizures. It's just that the Inner 6 colonies of the Hicks Kingdom are a bit too big, and most of them are in mountainous areas. They arrived
Only half of its area has been captured now, and it will probably take another two months to complete the mission and return...
Finally, there was a routine briefing from General Bolonik and General Skerry. General Bolonik mainly asked Claude whether a reserve army should be formed in the theater to avoid defeat due to too many casualties in the battle with the Hicks on the front line.
The situation... It seems that the Hicks people still put a lot of pressure on General Bolognik. After all, this time there are ten standing legions with more than 600,000 troops.
The Falcon message from General Skerry was to inform about the preparation status of various logistical armaments and the ongoing arms transactions with the Nikancha people. This time, the Nikancha people were bleeding a lot and spending a lot of money, almost packing it up.
All the Hicks Kingdom's muskets and artillery that had been captured in the first three colonial wars in the war zone's warehouse were seized. Then they made a request, hoping that the war zone could sell them the Obash Type III standard matchlock guns.
At present, the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion, as well as the eighteen local garrison regiments composed of veterans of the two legions in the late military service, are equipped with the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun. If Claude did not instruct the Sonya 591 Type
As for a new type of rifle, the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun can be regarded as one of the most advanced matchlock guns in the Faslan world, and it is still ranked at the top, at least among the top three.
The biggest feature of the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun is that the range of precise aiming and shooting can reach about one hundred meters, and this is mainly due to the special customization and processing method of its barrel material. After the projectile is shot out of the barrel
, can maintain ballistic stability within a straight line distance of 100 meters, which provides the most powerful guarantee for precise aiming and shooting within a distance of 100 meters.
No matter how many countries in the Farea Continent imitate the Obash III standard matchlocks, their precise aiming and shooting range is only within seventy or eighty meters. Like the matchlocks equipped by the standing army of the Kingdom of Hicks,
The precise aiming and shooting distance is seventy meters. This means that there is a difference of thirty meters between the two. Before the soldiers of the Kingdom of Hicks can carry out precise aiming and shooting on the troops in the directly-administered territorial war zone, they need to endure the suffering of King Ovilas first.
Only by accurately aiming and shooting from a distance of nearly thirty meters can the enemy launch a counterattack...
Before this colonial war broke out, the Kingdom of Ovelas did not pay much attention to the armament status of the local garrison forces in the seven overseas territories. Because the local garrison armed forces were equipped with Obash Type 1 and Type 2 standard matchlock guns.
Suppressing the rebellion of the Nikancha people, and going to the Nikancha settlement to collect taxes. Until the Rangers came to the continent of Nubisia in response to the Hicks Kingdom's invasion of the overseas territories.
The Ranger Regiment had a full strength of 32,000 men, all equipped with Obas III standard matchlock guns, and also had a spare 3,000 muskets. Later, the Ranger Regiment was expanded into a corps, and two overseas troops were adapted.
As the next generation of field troops, the kingdom shipped another 100,000 Obash type III matchlock guns. In order to make up for the loss and damage of muskets on the battlefield, a musket repair workshop and ammunition production were built in the territorial war zone.
workshop.
After the victory of the Second Colonial War, Marshal Michelci was ordered to return to the Kingdom. In order to appease him and to show his support for the strategic concept proposed by Marshal Michelci to deal with this colonial war, the Kingdom once again sent 100,000 guns.
Obash type III standard matchlock gun to form five reinforced second-line divisions and strengthen the combat effectiveness of local defense forces in directly-administered territories.
The Third Colonial War, under the leadership of Claude, annihilated the three main armies of the Hicks Kingdom. However, this war was relatively fierce and cruel, with nearly 20,000 casualties and thousands of damaged muskets. But later Alger
General Si led the Guards Division to come to compete for credit. Although there was an assassination incident, the Colonial County of Port Vibato was occupied by General Bolognik and became the eighth overseas territory in the war zone.
When the successfully completed Guards Division returned to the Kingdom, they left their spare muskets, ammunition and other military supplies in the war zone, and boarded the ship with rich trophies and local specialties from overseas jurisdictions. General Skerry organized a manpower count and found out that
The war zone currently has a total of about 240,000 Obash type III matchlock guns. This is due to the fact that when the Rangers returned to the kingdom, Marshal Michelchi ordered that all weapons and equipment be left behind and empty-handed.
ship, so the directly-administered war zone has an additional legion of weapons and equipment...
The Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion have 130,000 troops, plus 18 local garrison regiments, with a total strength of 220,000. Therefore, the theater logistics department still has about 20,000 spare Obas III standard matchlock guns.
, of course, less than half of them are second-hand muskets that have been repaired by gun repair workshops. It is these second-hand muskets that General Skri wants to sell to the Nikancha people.
Without Claude's new Sonia 591 rifle, the war zone would never have thought of the Obas III standard matchlock gun. But now that there is a new rifle for comparison, General Bolognik and Sk
General Li no longer looked down on this kind of matchlock gun that seemed very backward and primitive. General Skerry wanted to sell the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun at a high price to subsidize the high cost of equipping the troops in the theater with new rifles.
One of the captured muskets of the Hicks Kingdom was sold in the war zone for five gold crowns. The standard light field artillery produced by the Hicks Kingdom was sold to the Nikancha country at a high price of one hundred and fifty gold crowns. Of course,
The war zone also needs to provide instructors to teach the Nikancha people how to shoot artillery. But now the Nikancha people are interested in the Obash Type III standard matchlock guns equipped by the troops in the war zone, saying that General Claude agreed to sell them to them.
General Skerry was ready to sell the repaired second-hand pistols to them, and quoted a sky-high price of twenty gold crowns apiece.
Claude felt a little dizzy and had to take it easy first. It wasn't that the war was about to come, so why were everyone busy doing business? The spies sent out were busy doing ale business with the Hicks, and even General Skree was only interested in doing business.
Fortunately, there is a gun manufacturing workshop in the war zone, which can produce new rifles to replace the Obash Type III matchlock gun. Otherwise, after a big war, there will be no spare muskets in the warehouse.
Then it's over...
So Claude was not ambiguous and directly wrote a letter of approval and asked Adjutant Anders to send a message to General Skerry with a hawk. The only thing he emphasized was the price of twenty gold crowns a piece, and the Nikancha people were not allowed to bargain. New style
A rifle costs only ten gold crowns. If you sell an Obash III standard matchlock to the Nikancha people, you can replace it with two new rifles. This is a good deal.
As for the other Falcon letter from General Bolognik to Claude, Claude curled his lips and prepared to ignore it. This letter said that General Bolognik was preparing to order 10,000 yuan from Claude in the name of the war zone.
Give revolvers to all officers in the army and form several commandos equipped with revolvers to strengthen the attack capabilities of night raids.
This is a good idea, and Claude also has such a plan, but the price offered by General Bolognik is a bit contemptuous. He is only willing to pay the price of a revolver in hardware crowns, and hopes that Claude can understand the financial constraints and financial constraints in the war zone.
Difficulty... Claude said in his heart that I understand you, so who can understand me? The thousand revolvers ordered in the last war zone cost twelve gold crowns each. I have given you a discount and only cost ten gold.
Crown, I'll spare you thirty bullets.
Because the quantity was too small, there was no need to set up any production line. My sister Anna and Mrs. Sonia stayed up for seven or eight days, directly manufactured all the spare parts in the alchemy magic talisman array, assembled them and completed the order, earning two dollars.
Three thousand gold crowns of hard-earned money.
Now the war zone wants to order 10,000 revolvers, and the price is only gold crown, and Claude needs to understand the financial constraints of the war zone. This is a joke, these 50,000 gold crowns may not even be enough to assemble and produce the mechanized production line of revolvers.
.Not to mention anything else, the wealth squeezed out of the hands of the Nikanchas in the war zone this time is as high as gold and silver ore ingots worth more than two million gold crowns, and the Thunder Legion helped the Nikanchas capture 6 of the Kingdom of Hicks
The property seized from the colonies is estimated to be in the millions of gold crowns...
Not to mention the cost of replacing all the troops in the theater with new rifles and training, it is more than enough to pay for the rewards and pensions after the war, and to recruit another 100,000 recruits to form two reserve legions. It can be said that waiting for two months is more than enough.
After Belklin and Murield came back with their seizures, the war zone became extremely rich...
The price for a revolver was only gold crowns. Claude decided to pretend that he had not seen General Bolognik's falcon message and ignored it. Besides, the Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop has just reached full production capacity. (This time he
This is what I went to deal with), all the energy was put into the production of new rifles, where was the manpower to assemble a mechanized production line for revolvers, and there was no time to even train technical workers.
Besides, Claude defined the revolver as a self-defense weapon. Its short range and lack of lethality at long distances are its biggest shortcomings. With the new rifles, the role of the revolver on the battlefield is extremely limited.
Besides, if their sisters Anna and Mrs. Sonia have time, they are still busy developing ideas and concepts for several new weapons provided by Claude. If these are successfully developed, they will be much more powerful on the battlefield than revolvers. So.
There is no need to discuss the production of revolvers at this critical juncture. Claude has never been very fond of bargaining...
After reading these falcon messages, Claude said to General Albert: "It seems that our arrangements some time ago did not make the Hicks nervous. I don't know if they are absolutely confident or if they have a death order from above. No,
They are allowed to act rashly. It seems that only in two or three months, when the next two standing legions are delivered, will the Hicks attack the Nikancha country..."
In fact, it is not that Claude has not considered the idea of the three Hicks standing legions that have just arrived at Rodex Bay Colony, but the Thunder Legion has just replaced the veterans and brought new recruits to complete this time with one against three and a weak one.
Claude was unsure of Shengqiang's attack.
Therefore, he instructed newspapers directly under the war zone to vigorously declare the war zone's military assistance to the Nikancha country, including selling captured muskets and artillery produced by the Kingdom of Hicks to the Nikancha country, and sending instructors to guide the Nikancha armed forces.
Training and conducting operations, etc.
The only thing not mentioned is that the troops in the war zone have entered the northern and eastern mountainous areas of the Nikancha country. Instead, it is said that the war zone has deployed heavy troops on the border with the Nikancha country and is confident that it has the ability to defend the kingdom of the overseas territories.
Immigrants continue to live a stable and happy life.
Claude believed that the spies of the Kingdom of Hicks would pass newspapers and news from the overseas territories to the commanders of the three standing legions. If anyone could not withstand the temptation, he wanted to take advantage of the untrained Nikancha armed forces.
If he launches a surprise attack on the Nikancha country, Claude can happily close his net and fish.
He even planned to surround the enemy for reinforcements and capture the three newly arrived Hicks standing legions in the mountainous area. At that time, he wanted to see the expressions of the Hicks people. When the subsequent two legions arrived, he found that he had become
Alone, it can only build fortifications in the Rodex Bay Colony to defend itself, which will make the Kingdom of Hicks a big joke to all countries in Farea Continent.
It is a pity that these three Hicks standing regiments were not fooled, and did not even send a small team of scouts into the border mountains to conduct reconnaissance. The security arrangements of the military camp in Rodex Bay Colony were also loose on the outside and tight on the inside.
No one could find an opportunity to take advantage of, which made Claude very disappointed...