Seeing the boxes of firearms and ammunition produced by the Kingdom of Hicks stored in the arsenal being moved out and loaded onto four-wheeled carriages before being transported to Rodex Bay City, Colonel Berklin scratched his head and looked around.
, quietly moved to Claude's side, lowered his voice and asked:
"General, I don't understand. The entire Fox Islands United Kingdom's army does not have more than one corps, and the total strength is less than 60,000. Why do these local administrative officials of Rodex Bay City dare to buy more than 20 troops?
Weapons and equipment for ten thousand people? This is a deal for one million gold crowns, what can they do?"
In fact, Claude had no idea that the local officials of Rodex Bay City would be so bold. He originally just wanted to sell some of the captured weapons and equipment to the local garrison camp of Rodex Bay City so that they could be replaced.
cash.
Anyway, they are all things to be burned. It doesn’t matter if you sell more or less. The main reason is to add some trouble to the five standing legions of Hicks who will arrive in the future. I saw the soldiers from the local garrison camp of Rodex Bay City holding the
No Hicks soldier would feel comfortable with the seized Hicks weapons and equipment Lord bought here...
But when the local officials of Rodex Bay City heard what Claude asked Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando, their eyes lit up, they grabbed Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando's clothes and walked aside, and after a brief discussion, they gave him
There was an unexpected reply from Claude.
If Claude really wants to sell the captured weapons and equipment of the Hicks Kingdom, then they will need as much as they want. As for money, it is not an issue. There is a Union Bank in the city that can provide loan guarantee for this arms transaction.
Of course, it was not Claude who loaned money, but these local administrative officials and Lieutenant Colonel Lemando. This answer really surprised Claude, but after thinking about it for a while, Claude understood what these local administrative officials were doing.
What an idea, it's just to make a fortune by changing hands, and Kaizi naturally still has five standing legions that haven't arrived at the Kingdom of Hicks in Rodex Bay Colony.
In war, weapons and equipment are always consumables. The Hicks Kingdom reserves enough weapons and ammunition to equip more than 200,000 troops in this general logistics base camp just to make up for the consumption and losses on the battlefield. Perhaps this may be the reason for the entire war.
The amount of weapons and ammunition consumed in the colonial war reserve is more than 600,000 troops, and more than 200,000 horses have been prepared for the consumption of weapons and equipment. A one-third loss rate is very normal...
Now this general logistics base camp has been captured by the Thunder Legion from the Overseas Directly Administered War Zone of the Overas Kingdom in a night attack, which means that all the weapons and ammunition stored by the Hicks Kingdom have become the enemy's trophies and can be obtained from their own warehouses.
It's crossed off the list.
Then after the Hicks Kingdom's next five standing legions arrive at Rodex Bay Colony, the Hicks Kingdom will also have to purchase a batch of weapons and equipment that are ready to be lost on the battlefield, and then transport them all the way to the Nubisian continent.
, the manpower, material, financial and transportation capacity spent during this period even exceeded the original value of this batch of weapons and equipment...
Now the local administrative officials of Rodex Bay City have this idea. They will buy the seized weapons, ammunition and equipment from the Hicks Kingdom at a low price from Claude, and wait for the Hicks Kingdom to
After the subsequent five standing legions arrived, they were sold back to the Hicks at a high price, earning a large amount of income from it, and even the profits could be doubled.
They are not worried at all that the Hicks people will not pay the bill. For the Hicks Kingdom, even if they buy back these weapons and equipment at a high price from the local administrative officials of Rodex Bay City, it is more cost-effective than re-producing them in the kingdom and then transporting them there.
First, it saves time, profit and money. There is no need for the Sea King Fleet and the Combined Fleet to make another trip to transport these weapons and equipment.
The second reason is more difficult to say, and everyone understands it tacitly. If the Kingdom of Hicks does not buy it, then the people of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands promise to sell these weapons and equipment throughout the continent. By then, all countries in the mainland will know about Hicks.
With the glorious record of the Kex people, they will once again become a big joke to other countries.
And some small principalities without arms production capacity will definitely be interested in these advanced weapons and equipment of the Kingdom of Hicks. For the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, these weapons and equipment will not worry about being sold, but it will only take a little longer.
It's just a little troublesome to find a buyer.
Whether it is Claude or the local administrative officials of Rodex Bay City, this is a big arms deal, worth one million gold crowns, which can equip more than 200,000 people.
Claude's muskets, artillery, ammunition and other armament supplies were all sold at a 40 to 50% discount to these bold local administrative officials.
Anyway, for Claude, these weapons and equipment produced by the Hicks Kingdom are useless to the direct-administered war zone. If they are sold, they can get real money, which will not be a small supplement to the military expenditures in the direct-controlled war zone.
As the saying goes, every time a cannon is fired, there is ten thousand taels of gold, which means either a big profit or a big loss. Claude doesn't want to owe a huge sum of military expenses after winning the battle in the territorial war zone. He can earn a little bit, so he is here again.
It took more than two days.
A local administrative official from Rodex Bay City came to Claude. In the past few days, Claude had gotten to know the financial director of Rodex Bay City. His name was Blanc Putt, who was fifty-four years old.
He is one of the leaders who led this arms deal.
He was responsible for handing over the gold and silver coins shipped from the Union Bank in the city to Claude's financial director of the logistics department. However, now that the weapons and equipment and other military supplies in the arms warehouse have been almost transported, he will come to Claude.
De should be saying hello and saying goodbye.
Sure enough, this Blanchard came to say goodbye to Claude. The smoothness of this arms transaction made both parties very comfortable. Claude acted vigorously and resolutely, and the local administrative officials of Rodex Bay City also
There was no fuss, they had already purchased so many weapons and equipment from Claude at a low price, and it was obvious that they could make a lot of money, and all participants could get a huge profit, so they were very sensible and did not think about defeating them.
Lord can make some money here or something.
However, Brampton still refused to give up and asked Claude if he could reconsider and sell them another batch of trebuchet-style throwers and iron pumpkins produced by the Hicks Kingdom. They were even willing to pay a high price.
Buy.
Claude shook his head and rejected the old man's request again. All the matchlocks and three types of artillery produced by the Hicks Kingdom, ammunition, bayonets, military uniforms, leather boots, water bottles and other military supplies can be sold, except for the thrower.
and iron pumpkins. Claude only sold ten throwers and a hundred iron pumpkins to Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando to strengthen the defense of the city wall of Rodex Bay City. The rest of the throwers and iron pumpkins were all installed
The car is ready to be taken away.
Although the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands is famous for its powerful navy, its military industry is not advanced. Most of the weapons and equipment produced are geared toward the navy, but its shipbuilding technology is very developed. When countries in the Falea continent were imitating projectile bombs, the United Kingdom
The Navy Ministry has discovered that this is an advanced weapon that can be used on land and sea, but it is limited by the backwardness of its military industry. The projectiles produced by it are obviously not as far-throwing and powerful as those produced by other countries.
Brown Putt, the financial director of Rodex Bay City, obviously wanted to take a further step in his official career, so he set his sights on the throwers and grenades produced by Hicks Kingdom. If this deal could be reached,
His name and achievements would be brought before the powerful decision-makers in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, he quoted from low prices to market prices and then to high prices, but Claude was not tempted and could only leave disappointed.
Colonel Belklin already knew the inside story of this arms deal. He looked at the old man Brown Putt who was leaving, curled his lips in disdain, and spat on the ground: "Profiteer!"
Claude asked thoughtfully: "Isn't there any news coming back from Murray Ed these days?"
Colonel Berklin replied: "No."
Strange, logically speaking, the news should have been passed back yesterday, because according to calculations, the garrison troops of Hicks's three divisions on the northern mountainous border will send at least one after learning that the General Logistics Base was attacked.
The troops of the division came to the rescue. According to the plan, they would enter the ambush circle of the Murieled and Diavid regiments two days before the trip. Could it be that the enemy has not received the news asking for help, or is it that they still don’t know that the camp has been attacked?
An unexpected incident?
Claude felt a little confused.
"We will leave after lunch. According to the plan, your regiment will be in front, and Colonel Jedwork's fourth regiment will be responsible for escorting the prisoners and the logistics convoy..." Claude said.
Originally, Claude was planning to leave the camp tomorrow morning, but now that the local administrative officials of Rodex Bay City are so awesome and have already transported all the traded arms, Claude decided to evacuate half a day in advance.
"What to do with the wounded prisoners?" Colonel Belklin asked.
In this night attack, about 8,000 Hicks were killed and wounded, and more than 20,000 Hicks soldiers were captured. After the camp was captured and the captured soldiers were interrogated, they discovered that the Hicks guarding the general logistics base
The division is not all veterans who have been captured and worked as hard labor. This garrison division has more than 30,000 troops, most of which are local garrison troops dispatched from the Kingdom of Hicks. They were originally the territorial protection troops of the rebel nobles.
In fact, the 300,000 Hicks captives who were used by the kingdom's emerging business aristocracy as the main labor force to develop the new occupation no longer numbered 300,000 after their release. Some of them died or were disabled during the labor process.
Tens of thousands of people. Even after the Kingdom of Hicks sent people to take over these vengeful captured veterans, they reorganized five legions but still lacked the strength of one division.
So Melchid III reorganized the private armed forces of the noble territories that had surrendered during the domestic counter-insurgency into a division and dispatched them to make up the numbers. Because these soldiers who originally belonged to the private armed forces of the noble territories considered themselves superior, they looked down on the veterans who had been prisoners.
, resulting in many conflicts in the military camp, and in the end the division could only be sent to the General Logistics Base Camp as a garrison, so as to avoid seeing them out of sight and avoid being embarrassed when they fight on the front line...
It must be said that Claude was very lucky. During the night attack, Claude happened to encounter such a ragtag group. It only took more than an hour to defeat the more than 30,000 garrison division with minor casualties and captured the entire camp.
If it were a garrison composed of Hicks veterans who had done hard labor, then Claude and the soldiers of the Thunder Legion might have to face a hard and fierce battle, and even have to pay several times the casualties.
After the night attack, more than 6,000 Hicks wounded soldiers were treated, and less than 2,000 were killed or killed by thrown bombs. The rest surrendered early when they saw that the situation was not going well.
There were more than 23,000 intact prisoners.
Now Colonel Belklin asked Hicks what to do with the wounded soldiers. In fact, he had two meanings. Either let the prisoners with intact hands and feet carry the wounded soldiers on the road, or simply cut their throats and dispose of them, which would lead to a happy death.
Live and suffer. There is no need to spend precious medical drugs to treat the enemy's wounded soldiers. This is a normal thought for ordinary soldiers in this era.
Claude shook his head. When cleaning up the battlefield, he could treat the enemy's wounded soldiers as if he hadn't seen them, but he couldn't do it now: "Bandage all the wounded soldiers, give them a tube of captured healing potion, and then carry them all out."
Set it up somewhere far away from the main camp. When we left, we set fire to the general logistics base camp. As for the wounded soldiers, weren't Hicks' senior officers still hiding in Rodex Bay City?
We will leave these wounded soldiers to them for treatment. Anyway, their military expenses are still high, so they should spend some money on treatment."
At one o'clock at noon, Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando saw the soldiers of the Thunder Legion carrying countless stretchers from the camp on the city wall, and then placed these stretchers on the plain more than 500 meters away from the camp. He picked up
I looked through the monocular to see what these soldiers wanted to do, and found that the stretchers were all filled with Hicks' wounded soldiers, and their bodies were thoughtfully covered with a military blanket.
After the thousands of wounded soldiers' stretchers were placed on the field, the soldiers of the Thunder Legion left. Soon, flames began to break out in the general logistics base camp built by the Hicks in the distance. Perhaps it was caused by the splash.
Probably because of the kerosene, the flames quickly spread into pieces, raging in the camp. Black smoke and green smoke kept rising. Even Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando, who was standing on the city wall, seemed to be
You can feel the fierceness and heat of the fire in the distance...
No wonder they moved the wounded soldiers so far. It turned out that they were going to set fire to the camp. They should be evacuating at this time... Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando called a soldier from the garrison camp: "Go and tell those soldiers.
Officer Hicks inside said that the troops from the Overseas Territory War Zone of the Kingdom of Overas had evacuated. They also set fire to the camp, leaving them with thousands of wounded soldiers. They must deal with these wounded soldiers as soon as possible.
, otherwise when the weather gets cold or rains at night, these wounded soldiers will die..."
They escorted 23,000 Hicks prisoners and walked for three days before reaching the ambush location of Murray's second regiment and Diavid's third regiment. Unfortunately, more than 9,000 soldiers from these two regiments were ambushed in the wilderness.
After five days and five nights, they did not wait for the arrival of enemy reinforcements. At this time, morale was extremely low. Many soldiers also suffered from gastrointestinal diseases due to the large temperature difference between day and night and the fact that they only ate dry food and drank cold water for five days and five nights...
..
"Set up camp and rest for two days before leaving." Claude ordered that there is no need to ambush. It is obvious that the enemy will not send any more reinforcements. It has been so long, and the enemy also knows very well that sending reinforcements again will lead to death. They are not fools.
.
But this is really strange. Could it be that the enemy expected an ambush, so they didn't even send reinforcements? This is too unreasonable. After all, it is also their general logistics base camp, stocking all their preparations on the battlefield.
Weapons, ammunition, military supplies and food and grass were all lost. After learning about the attack, we had to express our concern no matter what. It was normal to send a division to come to the rescue. In the end, no reinforcements were sent, which seemed very strange.
"Have you received the Falcon message from General Albert?" Claude had no choice but to call the communications director and ask.
"No, General." the communications director replied, and then explained that they were deep into enemy territory and could only send hawk messages to General Albert from here, but General Albert could not send hawk messages from there.
come over.
After all, the hawks that use messengers also have certain communication restrictions. The hawks cannot find the target of the message when the troops are in motion, because the hawks in the sky cannot tell whether the troops on the ground are the enemy or ours. They can only rely on
Use special flags to identify your destination. The biggest taboo about using these special flags in enemy territory is that after the falcon flies once, it will continue to look for flags on the ground next time, and your troops are not there at that time.
It is easy for the messenger falcon to fall into the hands of the enemy, thereby leaking military information...
Therefore, Claude can only send an eagle message to General Albert to explain the progress on his side, but he has no way of knowing the battle situation on the eastern front and the northern mountainous border.
"Then send an eagle message to General Albert, tell him where we are currently camping, and ask him to send someone to explain to us the changes and progress in all aspects of the current war." Claude could only give this order.
Communications Director.
After two days of rest, the morale of the Second Regiment and the Third Regiment had recovered, and most of the soldiers who had suffered minor illnesses had recovered. Claude was ready to break camp again and return to the northern mountain border to see the situation before deciding whether to attack the troops stationed there.
Those three divisions of Hicks on the border.
It was expected that the three-day journey would be dragged down by more than 20,000 prisoners and numerous horse-drawn carriages carrying supplies, and it would probably take five days to return to the northern mountainous border area. Fortunately, after traveling for a day, we ran into someone sent by General Albert.
Messenger, he told Claude two pieces of news. One was that Hicks veterans of the three divisions in the northern mountainous border area were originally preparing to send reinforcements, but after walking for half a day, they sent out fast horses to recruit the reinforcements back to camp.
Another piece of news is about the eastern mountainous front. The Hicks there suddenly withdrew, which made General Beach Green very embarrassed, because he never expected that the Hicks would give up everything so quietly.
The first defensive line they occupied retreated. It was not until a day later that they noticed the movements of the Hicks, and commanded the troops to pursue them. Unfortunately, they were ambushed by the Hicks' rear-guard troops, and the Nikanchas who were chasing at the front were
The losses were very heavy...
However, the current situation is that General Beach Kerin has commanded the Rock Army to bite the main force of the Hicks. The current battle situation is that one wants to evacuate the mountainous area as soon as possible, and the other is very attentive to stay. Both sides are in the eastern frontier mountainous area.