Chapter 462 Why are the Hicks still not attacking?
Chapter 462: Why haven’t the Hicks attacked yet?
Perhaps it was the fierce battle with the Hicks light cavalry. Well, the Nikancha people firmly refused to admit that they suffered a massacre. They only admitted that their 126 scout warriors encountered the Hicks in the process of detecting the enemy's situation.
The ambush and raid of two hundred and forty light cavalrymen of the Kess. After an arduous and arduous fighting, they paid huge casualties and repelled the enemy. The remaining seven warriors returned with their heads held high...
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There was also the camp bombing incident. The defense line guarded by tens of thousands of young and armed Nikancha people did not actually see a single Hicks soldier because of the shaking of a long row of torches on the mountain road in the distance.
As a result, these tens of thousands of armed and strong Nikancha people cried for their fathers and mothers, threw away their armor and abandoned their positions, and fled completely overnight. These two incidents finally made the elders and leaders of the Nikancha people
They recognized the reality and quickly reached an agreement with the directly-administered territorial war zone.
However, Claude felt very uncomfortable because General Bolognik and General Skerry of the theater command actually gave the Nikancha people a discount when they reached an agreement with them. Fortunately, the two
The general was wise and did not make concessions on the ceded land. He only discounted the amount of two million gold crowns that Claude extorted from the Nikancha people. The Nikancha people only had to pay a value of 800,000 gold crowns.
Gold and silver ore ingots worth gold krona will do.
In the Falcon message sent by General Skerry, he explained that General Bolognik was worried that if the bargaining with the Nikancha people continued, it would delay the time, delay the fighter planes, and delay the deployment of the front line. After all, the Hicks people had already deployed troops.
Facing the border between the northern and eastern mountainous areas, if they detect the emptiness in the eastern mountainous area and launch a surprise attack, it will easily disrupt the original defense deployment plan and cause unnecessary casualties to the frontline troops...
Therefore, after discussing with General Bolonik, General Skerry and General Bolognik thought that they could take a step back. As long as the Nikancha people agreed to hand over the territory designated by Claude, they could make some concessions in terms of funds and let these Nikancha people come to negotiate.
The representatives also had a good explanation. At least for these Nikancha representatives, they did not care much about the mountainous territory that was delivered. Instead, they were very concerned about the funds. At the beginning of the negotiation, they were only willing to pay 500,000 gold crowns.
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Claude, General Albert, and General Buechlin were all a little baffled, and they didn't understand why the Nikancha people valued money so much rather than territory.
But in the end, I think that the Nikancha people probably think that the inland territory they currently occupy is large enough. Let alone five million Nikancha people, they can arrange two or three times more. So they don't think it's a delivery.
What's wrong with giving the mountainous territories in the Direct Territory War Zone a disadvantage? Instead, it's wiser to let them avoid the war with the Hicks. With the Direct Territory War Zone in front of them, they can live their lives with peace of mind.
settlement life...
It's just that in terms of funds, the Nikancha people understand this. They believe that the territory delivered is the price they paid, so there is no need to pay any more wages to the troops in the directly-administered war zone. If they defeat the Hicks, then
The soldiers are rewarded by their own war zone, and if they are defeated, they are punished by the war zone, which has nothing to do with them, the Nikancha people. The reward of two million gold crowns that Claude asked them to pay is pure extortion.
It is really difficult to get nothing out of the pockets of these Nikancha people. Even if General Bolonik and General Skri gave them a 50% discount and only asked them to pay one million gold crowns, they would not agree.
It is said that the maximum payment is only 500,000 gold crowns.
It only took one day to negotiate the delivery of the territory, but it took five days to negotiate the funding issue. In the end, General Bolognik slammed the table and said, 800,000 gold crowns. This is the bottom line. We can't negotiate anymore.
Come down and get out, and then we reached an agreement with those Nikancha negotiators...
The completion of the negotiations with the Nikancha people means that where Claude is now, the eastern mountainous area and the northern coastal mountainous area have become another piece of territory under the jurisdiction of the war zone. The only question is whether this land can be transformed into a new direct jurisdiction of the war zone.
, it still depends on the outcome of the upcoming war with the Hicks commanded by Claude. If you win the war zone, you will open up the territory for the Kingdom of Ovilas again. If you lose, you will get nothing, and maybe you will have to fight again.
Compensate for other direct jurisdictions.
Claude is quite confident about the upcoming war. It's not that he's too confident, but he's really sure of it. Even though the Hicks have a total of seven standing corps with more than 400,000 troops this time, it's impossible for them to put all of them together.
All the troops were devoted to the attack. Based on what is known about the Hicks' troop deployment so far, it is obvious that they will use the eastern mountainous area as a breakthrough point for the attack.
The Fombix Gang Hicks deployed a standing corps in the rear plain to prevent troops from the directly-administered war zone from sneaking into the rear to sneak into the general logistics base camp again. Two standing corps were deployed at the northern mountainous border to blockade and defend.
, thus leaving three standing legions unable to devote themselves to the attack.
Although there are four standing corps deployed on the eastern mountainous border, one of them is the Royal Knights Reserve Corps, which belongs to the light cavalry corps. It would be a fool to let the light cavalry enter the mountainous area to fight.
Therefore, the Hicks can only deploy three standing legions to attack on the eastern mountainous border. After entering the eastern frontier mountainous area, the Hicks have to send a standing legion to protect the logistics transportation channels as they did in the last war.
In this way, the only thing they can really launch an attack on is two standing legions with more than 100,000 troops, which Claude has not noticed yet.
Claude asked the three local garrison regiments that had been withdrawn from the eastern frontier mountainous positions to return to their original territories and positions, while General Beachlin led a division of the Rock Army and two main field regiments to the central part of the mountainous area.
The three defensive fronts were responsible for commanding defensive operations. The Thunder Legion continued to rest and wait for the Hicks to launch an attack.
However, this time the Hicks were more patient, and in the blink of an eye, in June, there was still no sign of the Hicks launching an attack. Information from the spies lurking in Rodex Bay City said that the Hicks
The Sri Lankan people also purchased grain, grass and other military supplies in various colonies on the west coast. The General Logistics Base Camp near Bay City also continuously transported the purchased grain, grass and other materials to various camps on the front line.
According to the information obtained by the spies, the Hicks are preparing to reserve three months of food and grass in the three camps on the front line. It seems that these Hicks are frightened by hunger and want to be prepared. Even these previous
The secret agents of the Buffalo Trading Company who were in charge of the fictitious activities also once again received a large order of one hundred thousand barrels of ale, which must be delivered to Rodex Bay Colony within three months...
For theaters and territories directly under the Central Government, the sooner the Hicks attack is launched, the better. It is best to postpone it until next year. In this way, at least half of the two legions under the theater can be equipped with new rifles, and combat readiness can also be improved.
Make more complete and sufficient preparations. However, after June passed and July came, there was still no movement from the Hicks. Now even Claude was a little confused and didn't understand what the Hicks were doing.
To Claude's dismay, even if he dispatched the Wolf Fang Squadron, he also had McJack's 131st Battalion dispatch to ambush the Hicks patrol team and capture many Hicks prisoners, but these were
The captured prisoners also didn't understand why their superiors had no intention of launching an attack. It seemed that their arrival was a confrontation with the troops in the directly-administered war zone at the mountainous border.
Another thing that upset Claude and several generals in the war zone was that Colonel Boquear returned to the kingdom's mainland on behalf of the overseas territories war zone and went to the royal capital. He brought a large number of gifts to meet with the new king Sterling XI and convey the war zone's message.
I want to pay my respects and want to find out the royal capital’s views on the war zone and its plan to deal with it. More than three months have passed, but there has been no news.
According to the itinerary and time, Colonel Bokoal should have returned. In addition, in the past three months, not a single sea ship from the Kingdom has arrived in the overseas territories. The situation seems very strange. General Bolognik used a falcon to convey messages and
After discussion, Claude and others decided to send two ocean-going smuggling ships back to the kingdom to collect intelligence and find the whereabouts of Colonel Bolognik and his party...
Even though Claude is worried about what kind of problems his young friend encountered that prevented him from returning to the direct-administered war zone, his main focus at present is the movements of the Hicks. Claude personally went to the eastern mountainous border to explore the Hicks
The reason why the Si people did not launch an attack for so long was that he had stayed on the front line for nearly half a month and still had no clue.
The Hicks people tightened their security range, and the patrols they sent out only moved within a distance of five miles in front of their military camp. If they were ambushed within such a distance, the Hicks patrols would react immediately
He lay down with his gun ready to fight back, waiting for troops from the camp to be sent to rescue him, forcing the ambushed Thunder Legion soldiers to give up their loot and evacuate.
Because if the soldiers of the Thunder Legion come out of the ambush point, they will be easily shot by the enemy lying on the ground and cause casualties. If the confrontation continues, they will not be able to protect themselves until the large groups of people from the enemy camp arrive. Unless it is an ambush.
The entire Hicks patrol team can be wiped out with the first shot, otherwise the ambush point can only be evacuated if one does not want to suffer casualties.
Claude, on the other hand, is prohibited from risking the lives of his comrades in order to destroy the enemy. After all, the enemy's advantage lies in its strong military strength, and one must not compete with the enemy for consumption. In Claude's eyes, the lives of his soldiers are more valuable than those of the Hicks.
Precious, this is mainly because the one who carried out the ambush mission was either the Wolf Fang Squadron or McJack's 131st Battalion, both of which were elite combat forces under Claude.
If the ambush failed, they could only monitor the enemy's camp. What made Claude depressed was that the Hicks held various military trainings behind their own camp every day, as if they were here for actual combat exercises. Claude
After observing for half a month, there was still no sign that the Hicks were preparing to launch an attack. In the end, they had no choice but to turn back to the defensive front headquarters.
At the end of July, Claude once again received the latest information from the spies lurking in Rodex Bay City. It said that the spies learned from a Hicks logistics supervisor in the general logistics base camp whom they knew.
The main reason why the Sri Lankans did not launch an attack was that there was still some shortage of military supplies, and they were waiting for the arrival of another batch of supplies in mid-August.
In addition, the Hicks general commander who first commanded the Hicks Kingdom's five shameful legions composed of veterans to attack the eastern mountainous area, Count Norberton Pon Belundi, has been replaced by Melchid III.
He was dismissed and returned to his country. The person who took over the general command position was another army general of the Kingdom of Hicks, Marquis Clario de Xirios, who was forty-three years old this year.
The spies finally found out about the origins of Marquis Clario de Xirios this time. They learned a lot of information from the Hicks logistics officers. If the former general manager who was dismissed
If the old man in command is an old-school member of the Hicks Kingdom, then Marquis Clario de Xirios, who took over the post of commander-in-chief, is a representative of the young faction of the Hicks Kingdom.
It is said that Marquis Clarion de Xirios advocated that the Kingdom of Hicks should learn from the disastrous defeats of the previous three colonial wars, carry out military reforms, research new weapons, and cultivate elite regiments. This greatly offended the military circles of the Kingdom of Hicks.
A group of old-timers. However, during the civil strife in the Kingdom of Hicks, Marquis Clarion de Xirios took the initiative to join the war and pledged his allegiance to Melchid III, gaining the trust and favor of Melchid III.
The reason why the noble rebellion in the Kingdom of Hicks was able to be put down in a short period of time, unlike the two kings of the Kingdom of Overas who fought for the throne for three years and reduced the entire kingdom to ruins, was mainly because of this Clarion de.
The Marquis of Xirios played a major role in this. He was known as the best offensive general in the Kingdom of Hicks. In the late period of the civil strife, he led a light cavalry regiment and suddenly inserted into the rear of the rebel noble coalition. Within a month
It swept through the territories of four rebel nobles, causing the rebel noble coalition forces on the front line to collapse without a fight, thus ending the civil strife in the Kingdom of Hicks.
After the war, this gentleman was not only promoted one level in the title, but was granted the title of marquis from earl. At the same time, his military rank was also promoted from the kingdom's major general to the kingdom's general. He became the favorite of King Mechid III, and the kingdom
Important minister. This time he was assigned to the mainland of Nubisia to take over the position of commander-in-chief of the front line. It was obvious that Melchid III had high hopes for him, hoping that he could bring victory and glory to this colonial war...
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This guy is not an easy opponent to deal with... Claude stroked the stubble on his chin and thought. The spies revealed in the intelligence that this newly appointed general of the Kingdom of Hicks, the frontline commander was on the fourth floor.
The handover of duties with the dismissed former commander-in-chief was completed before the end of the month, but it was only at the end of July that the spies discovered this situation. It is obvious that Marquis Clario de Xirios knows how to keep secrets and maintain
With such a low-key style, the directly-administered war zone never discovered that the Hicks had a new commander.
In addition, the newly appointed frontline commander of the Hicks Kingdom is known as the most famous general in the Hicks Kingdom who is good at attacking. However, we don’t know in which direction he will command the Hicks people to launch an attack, and in what method he will use to attack.
These are all things that Claude needs to worry about.
Sometimes Claude envied General Beachkerin's calmness, because General Beachkerin was very confident in the defensive lines he designed and commanded to build, and believed that there was no possibility for the Hicks to break through the defensive line he commanded.
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On August 13, the Sea King Fleet and the Combined Fleet of the Hicks Kingdom once again escorted a large number of transport ships carrying military supplies and grain to the Rodex Bay Colony. After receiving a tip from spies that the Hicks people were
After transporting the large amount of military supplies transported this time to the front line, Claude once again issued a combat readiness order to prepare for the enemy's planned attack.
To Claude's surprise, the Hicks did not launch an attack until the end of August. The spies reported that the Sea King Fleet and the United Fleet of the Hicks Kingdom had set sail and returned from Rodex Bay.
Parked in the bay are all offshore shallow-sea transport ships. These ships transport grain and grass supplies from the colonies on the west coast. Their ship owners will leave as long as they pay the freight or payment for the goods.
What the hell are the Hicks doing? Why haven't they launched an attack... Claude felt inexplicably irritable and uneasy...