When there was a mutiny in White Deer City, most of the storm fleet stationed there defected to Prince Hansback. The remaining naval officers and soldiers who were unwilling to fight a civil war took more than a dozen warships and took refuge in overseas territories. Claude originally wanted to send these dozen
The warships were organized into an offshore cruise fleet directly under the jurisdiction of the war zone, and served as the first barrier to guard against pirate attacks and harassment by the Hicks Kingdom's navy in the coastal areas of the overseas war zone. However, they were rejected by these naval officers and soldiers.
These former naval officers of the Storm Fleet declared arrogantly that they were the Royal Navy, under the direct jurisdiction of the Navy Ministry, and accepted the King's orders. Your direct-administered war zone is only responsible for local defense. What qualifications do you have to ask them to obey your orders, and you want to take advantage of them?
When they were in distress, they came to coerce them and demote them from the royal navy to the local cruise fleet. This is simply a treasonous act committed by the following, and they will never agree...
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is just that these naval officers and soldiers who came to take refuge disliked the poverty and lack of money in the directly-administered theater. If they were transferred to the cruise fleet directly-administered in the theater, their salaries and welfare subsidies would be much lower than when they were in the Storm Fleet, especially
It was because the sea transportation and trade with the kingdom's mainland was cut off, which meant that they could no longer carry private goods in this ocean shipping for personal gain.
Since the good intentions of the war zone have been rejected by these naval officers and soldiers, the war zone can only let them stay in the port of Corpicius in the direct jurisdiction of Tiersim. In addition to being responsible for their daily food supplies, they have nothing else to do. Once these naval officers and soldiers
They asked the war zone to give them salaries, but General Skerry refused. The reason was also stated by themselves. They were the Royal Navy and were not under the jurisdiction of the war zone. The war zone could not do anything suspicious...
Although they had no worries about eating and drinking in the port, these naval officers were also short of money. After the war zone refused to pay them, they were forced to rely on themselves, such as fishing in territorial waters, transporting goods, setting up offshore shipping, or accepting employment from merchants.
The offshore cargo fleet provides escort, and sometimes is entrusted by war zones to patrol coastal waters, forcing these kingdom navies to become mercenary fleets.
However, after the war zone opened the Overseas Minsheng Bank with low-denomination banknotes last year, the economy finally became better in the second half of the year. These remaining naval officers and soldiers of the Storm Fleet actually wrote an application report, requesting the war zone to allocate funds to them to reorganize a squadron of the Storm Fleet.
General Skerry once again refused, replying that the Royal Navy was not under the jurisdiction of the war zone and the war zone had no right to allocate funds to them. The two sides began to have conflicts.
Now that Claude said that the remaining warships of the Storm Fleet should be returned to the Kingdom, General Skerry was of course very happy. He wished to send these uncles away as soon as possible. It was interesting enough that the war zone was responsible for providing them with free military rations, but he actually wanted the war zone to provide them with it.
Drinks and fresh meat. Originally, the fleet personnel purchased these by themselves. If they had no money, the war zone would be responsible for them.
General Skerry never accommodated them, and he still refused when he should refuse, and was only willing to assume the obligations of the theater. Anyway, they were not directly under the jurisdiction of the theater, and it did not matter whether they lived or died. As a result, the contradictions between the two sides became more and more, and even
There were also several fights between naval officers and soldiers of the Legion of Rock stationed at the Port of Corpicius.
Seeing what Claude said, General Bolognik agreed to the suggestion after thinking about it for a while. However, when it came to sending a messenger to the royal capital as a messenger in the war zone, he could not decide on a suitable candidate. At this time, Bockar volunteered to stand up.
, expressed his willingness to serve as a messenger and return to the kingdom's mainland, and with Claude's recommendation, the matter was decided.
Claude knew in his heart that Boker was eager to go back because he wanted to go find his family. Unlike other officers and soldiers in the war zone who took their families and relatives to the war zone directly under the direct jurisdiction of the war zone, Boker's home was in Bailu Town.
His father was also considered a local celebrity and a big businessman. He founded a large trading firm with branches in all three counties in the southwest.
Therefore, Bok'ar's family members are not in the directly-administered war zone. Now that the war has subsided, Bok'ar certainly wants to return to Bailu City to find his relatives as soon as possible. He doesn't know if they have survived. Newspapers in the colonies on the west coast said that both the eldest prince and the second prince
The troops have been engaged in a fierce war around Bailu City for more than a year, and Bailu City has been reduced to ruins...
As General Albert said, the life and death of Prince Hansback and whether he was assassinated or not has nothing to do with the directly-administered war zone. He is just an acquaintance in everyone's memory. Seriously investigate both sides.
In reality, the relationship is still hostile. What really concerned the dozen or so senior officers in the conference room was that the Kingdom did not send an envoy to contact them for five months, which made everyone feel very unhappy.
Comfortable.
However, after deciding to send Colonel Bockal as a war envoy to the kingdom to test the royal capital's reaction, General Bolognik also lost interest in exploring the assassination of the eldest prince, and ordered General Skerry to send people to contact the Port of Corbichus
After contacting the evacuated naval officers and soldiers of the Storm Fleet and telling them that they could return to the kingdom, they gave Bokoar seven days to prepare and clean up, and then announced that the meeting was adjourned.
Claude took Bockar back to his new manor, letting Bockar stay here for the next seven nights without going to the military camp. Although Bockar was a colonel, he belonged to the Theater Intelligence Office and did not lead troops. He was only assigned to
It was a small dormitory in the security barracks of the theater headquarters. Normally, Bokhar seldom stayed there and only used the small dormitory as a utility room.
Claude decided to write a letter to Madam Maria, asking Bockar to use the name of delivering the letter to inquire about the royal capital's views on the Overseas Directly Administered Territory War Zone. Although he had not contacted Madam Maria for several years,
But Claude believed that with his current status as the kingdom's lieutenant general, he could help Madam Maria regain the relationship between master and disciple. So he wrote a lot about the situation of his family and his sister in the letter, and asked Caifuni to choose a few.
A splendid and exquisite gift for Bokhar to bring to Lady Maria...
It took half a month before Bok'ar set off for the kingdom's mainland. He brought a squadron of soldiers as escorts. The main reason was that he carried too many things. In addition to a batch of tributes collected in the war zone and presented to Prince Wedelek, there were also
In addition to the precious gifts from Sterling XI, the five generals also asked Colonel Tobok Al to send letters and gifts to their relationships in the royal capital, so that he could successfully open up situations and build relationships in the royal capital.
Another reason is that the contact between General Skerry and the evacuated naval officers and soldiers of the Storm Fleet was not very smooth. When those guys heard that White Deer City had been recaptured by the Kingdom's Red Dragon Army, they did not rush to pull anchor and set sail, but turned around.
Come to blackmail the war zone, saying that the warship has not been used for three years and needs to be renovated, and requires the war zone to provide them with a large amount of funds and supplies...
General Skerry rejected their request without hesitation and warned them that they would not be provided with free food supplies next month. If they continued to stay here, they would have to wait to be accepted into the war zone because they were no longer worthy of being a warship.
A kingdom's navy. The war zone no longer recognizes them as the kingdom's storm fleet, but treats them as deserters.
In the end, General Bolognik came out to smooth things over, asking the theater finance office to allocate a sum of money to them, and mobilized food and water for the voyage, as well as supplies needed for the voyage. The naval officers and soldiers of the Storm Fleet turned their heads.
Use this money to purchase a large number of local specialties from various trading houses in the direct territory, and then set sail back to the kingdom.
Claude once again went to the military camp in the direct jurisdiction of Port Vibato to train new recruits. Unexpectedly, just over half a month later, he received an urgent falcon message from the war zone, asking Claude to return to the war zone headquarters. But this time
This time, it was not that the war zone received any news, but that a special delegation from the Nikancha people came. They made a proposal and wanted to hand over all the northern coastal mountainous areas and eastern mountainous areas to the war zone, but required the war zone to use 3,000 new rifles.
Come to exchange...
General Bolognik and General Skerry were unable to make the decision, so they had to send another message to Claude and others to return to Lanhu City for discussion.
The paralyzed Nikancha people have their own thoughts again... General Albert, who came back with Claude, has been scolding the Nikancha people all the way, and has never stopped talking.
He flew into a rage after the Harrier sent the message to the war zone headquarters, and firmly refused to allow the war zone to hand over to the Nikancha people new rifles that even his own troops were not fully equipped for the sake of territory.
After returning to the theater headquarters, Claude found that General Bolonik seemed to want to agree to the Nikancha people's conditions. General Bichklin said nothing and General Skerry was vague. General Bolonik believed that the new rifle should be handed over to Nikancha.
In exchange for this large area of land, the war zone can gain another direct jurisdiction. This is a very advantageous transaction.
And Claude said before that the new rifle is not important, the important thing is the supply of bullets. Even if a new rifle is equipped with a hundred bullets, those Nikancha people will eventually have to pay to buy them from the war zone after they run out of bullets.
, then the war zone can use bullets to control these Nikancha people, and sell the bullets at high prices to obtain a large amount of revenue from the Nikancha people.
Perhaps General Bolonik used this reason to persuade General Skerry in exchange for General Skerry's attitude of not supporting or objecting. At the same time, for General Bolonik, this deal means the meritorious service of opening up territory for the kingdom, even if the royal capital
In the future, he will punish the five generals in the war zone. He can also get better treatment for this meritorious service. No kingdom will treat its generals ill when they expand their territory, otherwise they will be called a faint king and their name will be left in the history books.
It's just that General Bolognik chose a wrong method, because Claude said coldly: "I object! Let those Nikancha envoys go wherever they come from..."
"You..." General Bolognik was very angry, but he still held back his temper. He sighed, frowned and pondered for a while before asking: "Claude, why do you object?"
Claude strode to the wall where the map of the Nikancha people was hung, patted the map with his hand and said: "You should all understand why the Nikancha people want to hand over the northern coastal mountainous area and the eastern mountainous area to us.
Is it because of the war zone?”
General Bichklin laughed: "Isn't it their special envoy who came to complain that our war zone did not regard their armed young men as our own? The 100,000 armed young men of the Nikancha people who were given to our command were gone in one battle."
Did we kill nearly 60,000 people? This casualty has frightened the elders and leaders of the Nikancha people. However, we have only wiped out about three legions of the Hicks. Next, the Hicks will have more
Seven standing legions with more than 400,000 troops.
This time the Nikancha special mission asked us to provide an explanation for the nearly 60,000 young and injured Nikancha armed forces. They believed that continuing to fight against the Hicks would give them the strength of the emerging Nikancha country.
Bringing catastrophe. Because according to this casualty ratio, if they want to defeat the seven standing legions of the Hicks, they will have to pay at least 200,000 casualties, which will be an unbearable price for them.
So they want to hand over these two mountainous areas to us, and let our war zone block the next attack of the Hicks for them. The soldiers in our war zone are bleeding and fighting in the front, while these Nikancha people are living a comfortable life in the rear. Only
However, they were reluctant to part with the two pieces of land that were handed over to us in the war zone for nothing, so they came up with a way to let us exchange new rifles with them."
General Albert scoffed: "What a beautiful idea they have. They want us to guard the gate for them and fight the Hicks, and they want us to send them new rifles. Do we in the theater still have to apologize to them and compensate them for the nearly 60,000 yen?"
Pensions and compensation for the casualties of the young men and women of the Kamchat armed forces? Don’t these Nikanchas have any self-awareness? They disobeyed military orders, did not obey orders, acted arbitrarily, and caused us so much trouble..."
"Not only that, they also want to be responsible for the more than 2,000 Nikancha deserters in the war zone who were punished for killing one out of ten, and they demanded that I, the commander of the defensive front, be punished..." Bichklin
The general said in a somewhat sinister tone, and it seemed that he was very dissatisfied.
General Bolognik smiled bitterly and said: "Bik, I have rejected the request of the Nikancha envoys, and also explained to them that this is a necessary punishment, otherwise the second defensive line will not be able to hold...
....”
"Explain, why explain to these Nikancha people." Claude shouted impatiently: "What's the explanation? Why should these Nikancha people ask our war zone to give them an explanation! It's our war zone who should ask
They want an explanation! Allen, tell those Nikancha people that we don't want their territory and we don't want to negotiate with them.
By the way, let me tell them that the last three standing legions of the Hicks will arrive at Rodex Bay Colony in more than a month. They will probably attack again at the end of May or early June. You let these
The Nikancha people should eat more and have fun, because they only have two or three months left to perish.
In view of the unreliability of their young Nikancha armed forces in the last battle and the trouble they caused to our troops, our theater has decided to suspend cooperation with their country of Nikancha people to avoid being implicated by them and directly under the jurisdiction of the theater
Therefore, our theater is only preparing to defend the northern coastal mountainous area this time, and we will not leave a single soldier in the eastern mountainous area. In other words, we will give up the defensive front in the eastern mountainous area and no longer hold on to it."
Claude is mainly anti-customer. He is not prepared to accept the Nikancha people's suggestion and the request to hand over the territory. Instead, he wants to abandon the entire eastern mountainous area. It is conceivable that if the Hicks find that the eastern front is empty, they will definitely march straight in.
At that time, the Nikancha people who have retreated to the territory of the original six colonies in Hicks will have a lot of fun...
"Okay, I'll talk to those Nikancha people and tell them to get out as soon as possible." General Albert said with a smile, and was about to leave the conference room to find those Nikancha envoys.
However, he was stopped by General Bolognik: "Claude, don't cause trouble. You have to understand that these two territories were voluntarily handed over to us by the Nikancha people, and they were not snatched by us from the Nikancha people.
The total adds up to adding another direct-administered territory to the war zone. And they only ask for 3,000 new rifles. I think this is really a good deal."
Claude shook his head: "I will not hand over a new rifle to them, and they only handed over the northern coastal mountainous area and the eastern mountainous area to our war zone, without any sincerity. Look at the map, there are only two areas in these two areas.
There are only one small gold mine and two small silver mines in it. For our war zone, the gain outweighs the loss and it is not worth exchanging the precious lives of our soldiers for these two small pieces of territory."
"If the general wants to open up territory for the kingdom, he can wait for the Hicks to capture the territory of the Nikancha people before attacking. Anyway, we are at war with the Hicks, and it is reasonable to occupy their territory. As for the Nikancha people, we are at war.
Kamchat people, if we refuse to cooperate with them, it means we are no longer allies. Do the Nikancha people still want to take back their territory from our war zone after the war?"