Finally, there was Claude's post-war summary speech on this war. He said a lot. The Thunder Legion had never suffered such heavy casualties since its establishment. Almost half of its troops were lost in battle. But they could withstand the Greeks.
The Kex people's counterattack won the final victory, and they have the qualifications to grow into a strong legion. Such battle losses will become the glorious history of the legion and the honorary inheritance of the iron-blooded military spirit.
Claude talked about the difference between grenades in offense and defense, and also talked about the issue of bullet supply for new rifles. He only briefly mentioned the emergence of sniper rifles and landmines, but these two new weapons were not included.
It was truly proven in this war. The main reason is that the number is too small and the scope of use is not wide.
What Claude talked about the most was about the great melee and the bloody battle, which he had personally experienced and witnessed. When he was so excited, he even cursed General Bolognik as a stingy man in front of everyone attending the meeting.
General Bolognik was made to laugh and cry, and he couldn't argue with Claude.
Because what Claude said was all true, General Bolognik understood Claude's sadness because of the heavy casualties suffered by his men, especially the feeling of regret after discovering that the heavy casualties could have been avoided...
Claude said that if the war zone could equip all low-level officers of the two legions with a portable revolver before the war began, then the Thunder Legion would at least have saved thousands of casualties in the melee. There were so many outstanding officers.
The sacrifice of the grassroots officers made Claude feel extremely heartbroken. If they had revolvers, many of them would not have to sacrifice...
But before the war, General Bolognik only offered five gold crowns for a revolver. Such a price could not even reach the cost price. It would have to be at least doubled to ten gold crowns to be able to afford it. So the war zone
So I canceled the order for this revolver...
Compared with the 20,000 to 30,000 wounded and disabled soldiers who sacrificed their lives and the pensions paid in the war zone, is it so difficult to increase the expenditure of 50,000 gold crowns? This is why Claude slapped the table and scolded General Bolognik for being stingy.
The reason, General Bolognik was really speechless.
In fact, it was not that General Bolognik was stingy, but that he did not realize that the revolver could play an important role in close combat. He believed that with the new rifle, the enemy could be eliminated from a long distance, so a revolver with a close range would be
It became a dispensable decoration. When military expenditures in the war zone were tight, and he did not realize the huge benefits that could be obtained by clearing the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom, he canceled the revolver because one copper coin served as two envoys.
Order...
Claude then talked about the performance of the various units of the Thunder Legion. He agreed with General Beachlin that when replenishing the troops, a group of veterans should be recruited back to serve as the backbone of the grassroots and better help the new recruits grow up.
On the battlefield, the presence of veterans will allow recruits to perform better, and they will learn more combat experience from veterans.
After Claude finished speaking, General Bolognik said a few more words, in other words, he asked the senior officers in the theater who participated in the meeting to do their part in the next few days, complete the tasks assigned to them by the theater, and then adjourn the meeting.
It's just that Claude and the others can't leave yet. Next is the decision-making meeting of the five giants in the war zone to discuss the follow-up matters of this colonial war.
Or to a certain extent, what this decision-making meeting really wants to discuss is whether the cooperative relationship between the war zone and the Nikancha country to jointly resist the Hicks should be maintained. At the beginning of the meeting, Claude,
General Albert and General Beachlin all said in unison that they could no longer cooperate.
General Buechlin complained that when resisting the attack of the Hicks, he put more energy into the Nikancha people than the Hicks people, and even had to beware of those Nikancha people causing trouble for him.
Trouble. Disobeying orders and violating military discipline are trivial matters that are not worth mentioning. The most important thing is that the Nikancha people have always been eyeing the troops equipped with new rifles in the war zone. This is the most intolerable thing for General Bi Chiklin.
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General Albert has always been resentful of the Nikancha battalions garrisoned in important areas in the northern frontier mountains, especially their refusal to participate in the attack on the Hicks camp during the great melee. He could not let go.
They also believe that cooperation with the Nikancha people will not be of any benefit to the war zone. Instead, it will drag down the war zone and even cause the troops in the war zone to suffer greater losses in the subsequent war, especially in the transportation of logistical supplies.
Claude was confused by the ignorance of the Nikancha people. He asked himself that he had always been kind to the Nikancha people, otherwise he would not have sent troops to help the Nikancha people clean up and occupy the entire Hicks Kingdom.
They even gave 30% of the spoils to the Nikancha people who were watching the soy sauce making. After the war, it was estimated that these 30% were gold and silver ingots worth more than 4 million gold crowns. General Skerry who knew the news was furious.
Half dead, he cursed Claude as a prodigal.
However, the kindness of the war zone did not result in the wholehearted assistance of the Nikancha people during the war. At the beginning, one hundred thousand young Nikancha soldiers were mobilized and handed over to the command of the war zone to cooperate with the war zone in clearing the country and fortifying the walls. This was purely in the face of Hick.
The huge pressure brought by the large-scale attack by the Sri Lankan soldiers. Not to mention the escape and poor performance at the beginning of the war, finally a hero volunteered to die to boost morale. In the middle and late stages, he returned to his old ways and started to have troubles again.
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Let’s not talk about the little things like disobeying the command and taking the initiative on their own, but they are the ones who suffer anyway. The transportation of logistics materials is inexplicable, and so much dropped for no reason that they could just turn a blind eye and let it go. But
The idea of using the new rifles of the two legions went beyond the scope of alliance and cooperation, and these Nikanchas had crossed the line.
What made Claude the most angry was that he took the Thunder Legion back to the northern mountains to rest, and the Nikancha battalion stationed in the frontier mountainous areas actually dared to force him to hand over the captured iron pumpkins and throwers produced by the Kingdom of Hicks.
Give it to them. After Claude rejected their request over and over again, these Nikancha people gave up the frontier mountainous areas and left without saying goodbye, thinking that this would force Claude to submit. I really don't know where they got this confidence.
Claude was really angered by these ignorant Nikancha people, and directly ordered the Thunder Legion to occupy the entire northern mountainous area. No matter whether it was the front or the rear, no more Nikancha people would be allowed in. Since you yourself
If you give up, don't say we took it without telling you. Claude's order was very clear. From the day those Nikancha people quietly evacuated, this entire northern coastal mountainous area became the territory of the war zone.
Already......
General Bichklin believed that it would be easier for the Nikancha people to become enemies in the war zone than to become allies in the war zone. To become an enemy, only a local garrison group could guard these Nikancha people, and
To become allies, every time you deploy a defensive operation plan, you need to consider sending several regiments to protect these Nikancha people. Otherwise, once they collapse on the battlefield, it will affect the defensive operations of the entire front.
General Albert hated these Nikancha people who disobeyed orders. He believed that if they were to be allies in the territorial war zone, the Nikancha people must learn to obey orders. They don’t need to be brave to fight, but at least they are
To become a qualified cannon fodder. If you cannot even serve as a qualified cannon fodder, then the war zone does not need such allies...
Claude's meaning is very simple. Regardless of whether the war zone continues to cooperate with the Nikancha people or turns against the Nikancha people and becomes enemies. Anyway, the northern coastal mountainous area occupied by the Thunder Legion cannot be handed over to the Nikancha people.
The territory that has become a war zone is no longer the territory of the Nikancha country.
General Bolonik smiled bitterly. He believed that even if he wanted to fall out with the Nikancha people, he should at least wait until the colonial war was over. How could he end the cooperative relationship with his allies only an hour and a half into the war? Next, Hicks
It will take at least half a year for the Japanese to launch another attack. He plans to wait for Colonel Bokoar to return from the Rodkers Bay Colony before sending him as a special envoy to the Nikancha country to see what is going on. He will shelve this issue for now.
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Among the five giants in the war zone, General Skree is the most conflicted. He agrees with the views of Claude and the three others, but is also reluctant to give up his alliance with the Nikancha people. After all, it is not easy to catch a culprit in the war zone. It has been half a year before the war started.
During that time, one-third of the military supplies produced in the war zone were sold to the Nikancha country at high prices. The previously captured junk weapons from the Hicks Kingdom were packaged and sold to them at twice the price.
The war zone profit from these Nikancha people was nearly two million gold crowns.
Such Nikancha people should be enshrined in Kaizi's major client war zone, especially Claude, a prodigal son. When he sent troops to help them clean up the inland colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks, he also gave them to these Nikancha people.
30% of the loot. At the beginning, General Bolonik and General Skri didn't care much. They thought that the so-called loot was nothing more than mining tools, and it didn't matter if they were all given to the Nikancha people...
Who would have thought that within two years those Hicks mining bases would accumulate gold and silver ore ingots worth 1,700 gold crowns. After learning this news, General Bolognik and General Skerry finally understood the financial resources of the Hicks Kingdom.
Where did it come from? Why did it have the confidence to form ten standing legions to continue this colonial war after three disastrous defeats?
But then they began to stomp their feet with regret, just because Claude promised to divide the Nikancha people into 30% of the loot. Fortunately, General Skerry bullied the Nikancha people into not knowing much about mathematics, and ordered that the treasure worth 17 million gold be directly transferred to the Nikancha people.
The gold and silver ore ingots were divided into two piles, one worth thirteen million gold crowns and one worth four million gold crowns. Then he pointed at the gold and silver ore ingots worth four million gold crowns to the Nikancha people.
Say, this is 30% of your income.
The Nikancha people calculated that 30% of the 13 million gold crowns was 3.9 million gold crowns. In this way, the war zone also gave an extra gold and silver ore ingot worth 100,000 gold crowns, so they happily took away the gold and silver ore ingots.
Gold and silver ore ingots worth four million gold crowns, and he also believed that General Skerry was very loyal and would not care about the small interest...
Therefore, General Skerry has no objection to falling out with the Nikancha people, but the prerequisite is that he must first obtain the four million worth of gold and silver ore ingots from the Nikancha people in the war zone. During this time, General Skrili is organizing a large-scale
Officials from the Theater Logistics Department sell various daily necessities to the Nikancha people, and half of the orders he places for the production workshops in the directly-administered territories are for the Nikancha people.
This issue was finally shelved by General Bolognik, who decided to see if the Nikancha people had any explanation after the New Year's Eve. The next decision was to take over the defense, which was decided quickly.
The war zone will dispatch six local garrison regiments from each directly-governed territory to the northern coastal mountainous area and the eastern mountainous area to defend the forward mountainous area and three defense fronts.
With the local garrison formed by these six veterans to take over the defense, the troops deployed by the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion in the forward mountainous areas can be withdrawn for rest and replenishment. At least they are more capable than those Nikancha battalions stationed there.
Let the war zone rest assured that when the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion go again in half a year, these six local garrison regiments will also assist the two legions in resisting the Hicks' attack.
The third topic was revolvers. General Bolognik accepted Claude's criticism humbly and decided to equip all grassroots officers in the theater with a revolver. The price was the cost price of ten golds that Claude said
One crown, with thirty rounds of bullets. However, Claude thought for a while and refused to let Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop take the order.
Claude explained that the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop was working hard to produce new rifles, and it really had no energy and no way to distract itself from building another revolver production line. Claude meant to simply re-establish a military industry to produce specifically for war zones.
Throwing grenades and revolvers. It just so happened that the production and development of grenades also needed to be rectified this time. Claude decided to separate the workshop that produced grenades in Mr. Veblen's iron ore workshop and build a revolver production line.
Of course, everyone is welcome to invest in this military industry.
Nothing can keep people closer than a community of interests. Claude's suggestion really made everyone happy. So the four generals present each paid 10,000 gold crowns and each occupied the military industry that was about to be established.
Ten percent. Because Claude was the inventor of grenades and revolvers, he also paid 10,000 gold crowns and occupied 30% of the shares. The remaining 30%,
We are going to give 10% to Mr. Wieberhorn, who is in charge of production management. Of course, he will also have to pay. For the 10%, he needs to pay 100,000 gold crowns.
Twenty percent of the shares are reserved for future use and can be rewarded to those who invent new weapons in the future. General Bolognik was very worried that the new military industry to be established lacked sufficient start-up funds, so he used the name of the war zone to give
Claude received an interest-free loan guarantee from the Overseas Minsheng Bank of 500,000 gold crowns. At the same time, when the agreement was signed, the order quantity of revolvers had increased to 20,000, and the price had unknowingly increased to 18 gold.
A handful of crowns.
After everything was settled, everyone continued the meeting to discuss. The current topic was to discuss Colonel Boquear's proposal to send a batch of grain to Rodex Bay Colony for sale in the name of smuggling. The price of grain there has increased tenfold.
, selling a batch of grain can bring huge profits to the war zone, which is even more profitable than robbery.
General Albert Lund and General Beach Green firmly opposed it, believing that this was an act of supporting the enemy. At the same time, they also believed that by selling grain to the enemy for profit, if the Hicks recovered their strength and completed their rest, they would probably
If you launch a surprise attack when the war zone is unprepared, then the war zone will probably shoot itself in the foot, and it will be too late to regret it.
General Skree believes that it should be sold, but the war zone will not provide a lot of food, and smuggling in small quantities should be no problem. He believes that selling food will not only make profits for the war zone, but also allow the agents of the Buffalo Trading Company to gain the trust of the Hicks people.
, can better collect information.
General Bolognik was in a dilemma, and felt that everyone's opinions were reasonable. Finally, he asked Claude whether he should sell grain to Rodex Bay Colony?
Claude thought for a while and said that Colonel Fodeles of the Intelligence Department mentioned that the Rodex Bay Colony is currently experiencing a food shortage. The Hicks have gone to the colonies of various countries in the Western Continent to urgently purchase food.
It will take time to buy and transport it back. It is estimated that they will not have food shipped back until a month later. And during this month, whether it is the residents of Rodex Bay City or the standing army of the Hicks Kingdom, they can only
I relied on ale and sea fish to fill my stomach and get through this month.
Since those Hicks people will not starve to death within this month, then we will sell them the food they consume for a month. Counting those Hicks people plus the residents of Dex Bay City, there are a total of 100,000 people.
Three kilograms of grain per person per day is equivalent to 300,000 kilograms, and the maximum is 10 million kilograms of grain in a month. I don’t believe that the Hicks people can recover with these ten million kilograms of grain. Can they save half of it just by saving more?
, how can they find the courage to attack us when they are half full...
So the matter was decided, and the Buffalo Trading Company was allowed to sell 10 million kilograms of grain to the Rodex Bay Colony in the name of smuggling. General Skerry was very happy. At ten times the price, the war zone could gain 40,000 gold crowns.
, these 40,000 gold crowns seem very inconspicuous, but for the war zone, it is also a small supplement. Unfortunately, it can only be sold at a high price...
Next, the five generals discussed and decided on some matters regarding the amount of pensions and disability allowances, and then encountered an embarrassing problem, that is, how to solve the promotion of the soldiers who have made meritorious services in this war. In the past, it was usually
After the war, the list of officers and soldiers who have made military exploits and need to be promoted will be reported to the Kingdom's Army Ministry for approval. The Kingdom's Army Ministry will verify and issue a list of officers and soldiers approved for promotion.
Rewards are not a difficulty. The theater has financial autonomy and can directly distribute the reward amount. At the same time, the funds obtained from the troops selling trophies will also be distributed to the troops. After winning the previous three colonial wars, the Ministry of War of the Kingdom will also allocate funds when the promotion list is completed.
A sum of money is used as a bonus, so many veterans look forward to fighting when they have no money. If they win, they will naturally have money...
It’s just that sea traffic between the overseas directly-administered war zones and the kingdom’s mainland has been cut off. It’s not clear to what extent the kingdom’s civil war has progressed in the directly-controlled war zones, nor is it known who of the two princes will have the last laugh. Under such circumstances, the promotion list is natural
It is impossible to submit the report to the Kingdom's Army Ministry, so what should the soldiers who have made military exploits this time do? Can they be promoted?
For Claude and the five generals, promotion or not does not matter, but for the lower-level officers of the legion, promotion is related to their future. If only rewards are given without promotion, it is likely to dampen the morale of the troops, but
The war zone's decision to promote them seemed a bit overstepping their authority. General Bolognik, General Skerry and General Beachlin were all hesitant at this time.
In the end, Claude made the decision. Promotions, from non-commissioned officer to lieutenant colonel, are based on merit and rewards. If a colonel has merit in battle, remember it first. After all, promotion from a colonel to a general in a war zone cannot be decided.
Approval from the Kingdom's Ministry of War and the King is required. All the rest will be handled according to the normal promotion procedures. In the worst case, you can just go through the reporting process after contacting the Kingdom itself.
During the war, the priority was to win the war, and everything else was ignored for the time being. The other four generals thought about it again and again, and finally agreed to deal with it as Claude said...