The Falcon's message stated that Colonel Bock'ar did not come back alone, but brought forty-eight dilapidated ocean-going transport ships, smuggling ships and fishing boats of different sizes to the Port of Corpicius in the Tiersim Direct Territory.
These ships were loaded with nearly 60,000 refugees from various local counties in the Kingdom. They survived the arduous sea voyage for more than twenty days by relying on a little bread dumplings mixed with sawdust, bark and wild vegetables, and finally arrived.
Overseas jurisdiction
In addition, only thirty-seven people from the guard squadron that followed Colonel Bock'al to the royal capital to meet with Sterling XI to escort the gifts returned. Including Colonel Bock'ard's personal guards, a total of 37 people died during this trip.
Twenty-four people. Most of their sacrifices were caused by robbers, thieves and bandits they encountered on the roads in the kingdom. It is said that the most dangerous one was when they were besieged on a small hill by a bandit gang of three to four hundred people. After passing a
It took a bloody battle to escape
Also, the main reason why Colonel Bockaar has not returned is that he was affected by those refugees. This is because after the end of the war in the kingdom, Sterling XI has not come up with policies to heal the wounds of the domestic war. Instead, he has dealt with those refugees.
The people who joined Prince Hansback during the war were brutally punished and liquidated, causing turmoil within the kingdom and countless people displaced. In order to bring the refugees who followed them to overseas territories to give them a way to survive, Bock
Colonel Al spent all his money and his family's fortune
In order to collect ocean-going ships that could go to sea, Colonel Bockal spent three months traveling to various port fishing villages along the kingdom's coast, purchasing and hiring, salvaging and repairing, and finally assembled such a shabby fleet. These shabby fleets were assembled.
After the refugees were packed onto the ship, the fleet finally set sail and returned to the overseas territories.
But the fleet's voyage at sea was not very smooth. Two ocean-going fishing boats sank, and hundreds of refugees died despite timely rescue. The worst thing was that they encountered black-sail pirates. Fortunately, there were refugees on board, so there was nothing to worry about.
Robbed. After the black-sail pirates boarded the ship for inspection, they let the refugee fleet go with curses. They even showed compassion and replenished the fleet with some food and water, as well as some green radishes and some old pumpkins.
Claude stayed at the Port of Vibato for three days, where the 1st Thunder Division went ashore to Monknade Castle, while the Wolf Fang Squadron followed Claude back to Lanhu City, and the 2nd Thunder Division stayed on the ship as usual.
Five days later, the combined fleet arrived at the Port of Patres in the Robidos Dominion. All warships and ocean-going transport ships were parked here waiting for the reorganization of the theater. The combined fleet would be reorganized into an ocean-going cruise fleet in the territorial territory.
Claude and General Albert led the Wolf Fang Squadron and the Second Thunder Division back to Lanhu City. In less than half a year, Lanhu City once again became a large construction site, with dust flying everywhere, ditches everywhere, and scaffolding connected together.
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"Actually, it's a good thing that Lanhu City was reduced to rubble!" General Albert suddenly said with emotion.
"Huh?" Claude didn't understand what General Albert meant by saying this.
"You don't know, General Skerry encountered a lot of trouble when he expanded Lanhu City last time." General Albert explained, "Many homeowners in the old city refused to renovate their houses, so that the underground drainage pipes could not be repaired."
Paving and construction. In the end, General Skerry was forced to move the city center eastward and build a new city. The road traffic and underground drainage and sewage pipes in the new city and the old city are two systems. This time Lanhu City was reduced to rubble, which happened to be
During the reconstruction process, the old city and the new city will be integrated into an overall urban planning."
Claude nodded, this is true. General Skerry has wanted to rectify the old city for a long time. In many big cities, because of the separation of the new city and the old city, the old city is often reduced to slums and the territory of underground gangs.
Because of the numerous lanes and remote location, it also brought great troubles and hidden dangers to public security. This time Lanhu City was smashed into ruins. Although the loss was great, it was like a blank piece of paper on which planning and construction could be carried out again.
When he arrived at the theater headquarters, Claude didn't see Bockaar. After asking, he found out that he had gone to settle down his family. This time Bockaar came back and moved all his family and relatives, as well as the family business employees and their families.
Overseas Territory General Bolonik gave him half a month's leave and asked him to settle down his family and relatives first.
Although he didn't see anyone, Claude could see the report and trip diary written by Bockar. Combining the two, you can find that due to the civil war, the kingdom itself is full of devastation, the people are in dire straits, refugees are everywhere, and the mountains are
Thieves and bandits emerge in endlessly. Instead of appeasing the people and eliminating banditry, the local officials of the kingdom intensify their efforts to exploit and exploit their subordinates. Their purpose is only to flatter King Sterling XI and keep their official positions.
, while avoiding the ongoing wave of accountability and reckoning in the kingdom.
In fact, Bok'Al did not get along very well with the naval officers and soldiers on the dozen or so Storm Fleet warships that returned to the Kingdom's homeland, and the relationship between the two parties was not good. Sometimes Bok'al wondered whether he would be attacked if he took the ship alone.
Their plot was to be tied up and thrown into the sea in the middle of the night. No clues would be left. They could even say that he jumped into the sea in the middle of the night or accidentally fell into the sea from the boat.
Therefore, Bock'al's eighteen-day voyage on the ship was very difficult. He urged his guards to be careful at all times. In particular, food and drinking water had to be inspected before they could be imported. After finally arriving at White Deer City, Bock'al was shocked.
Because what he saw from the boat was ruins, and the lively and prosperous town scene in the past was like a bubble, only remaining in his memory.
The troops of Prince Hansback and Prince Wiederek have been fighting back and forth in White Deer City for more than a year. There are not many intact buildings left in the entire city. Now all the ruins are shabby shacks.
Bok'ar didn't find many old people he knew well in White Deer City. Most of them were afraid to avoid him when they saw the military uniform he was wearing.
The local officials in Bailu City have changed again. They are concerned about the dozen or so returning Storm Fleet warships and the special materials brought by the naval officers from overseas territories. For Bok Al, who represents the former war zone of overseas territories,
The envoy who came to see Stirling XI only coldly provided directions and certificates, and arranged for two carriages to be loaded with gifts and luggage. There was nothing else, so Bokhar had to spend his own money to purchase about sixty pack horses.
Come and be the mount for your group.
As a result, the packhorse and carriage made them become big fat sheep in the eyes of the bandits and bandits on the road. They suffered seven large-scale sieges and roadblocks along the way. The most dangerous one was when they were robbed by three to four hundred refugees.
A gang of bandits was besieged on a small hill. Bokhar said that he heard with his own ears that the refugees were shouting. He rushed up and killed them and snatched their pack horses. They would have meat to eat at night.
Fortunately, the guards from the squadron guarding Bockaar were all selected elites with excellent marksmanship. They fired three rounds of muskets and took away more than a hundred bandits who were at the forefront of the bandit group. Then there was a hand-to-hand battle with bayonets.
With one against three, when the bandit leader was shot and killed, all these bandit gangs, who were like refugees, fled. However, in that battle, seven guards were killed and eighteen were wounded.
It was not until Ibiniste Plains where the royal capital is located that the security situation improved. The production recovery situation here is also better than that of other local counties. After all, it is an area under the jurisdiction of the royal capital, and there are corps of guards here.
Generally speaking, there are few large-scale bandit gangs in the city. However, checkpoints are set up on the roads around the Ibiniste Plain to prohibit refugees from other counties from entering the plain area under the jurisdiction of the royal capital.
Bock'al and his party successfully passed the checkpoint and trekked for a few days to reach the Royal Capital. They were planning to settle at the Mining and Commerce Association's office in the Royal Capital, but they didn't expect what would appear in front of them after arriving at that address.
It was a ruin destroyed by fire.
According to people with knowledge of the surrounding area, they were soldiers of the Blue Feather Legion under the eldest prince. They wanted to evacuate the royal capital because of the defeat, so they went on a robbery spree in the business district. Unfortunately, the office of the Mining and Commerce Association here suffered a disaster, which was probably caused by the resistance.
The soldiers got angry and were shot dead. Finally, in order to cover up the crime, the soldiers set a fire before leaving, burning half the street to white ground.
However, several members of the Mining and Business Association's office in the royal capital escaped. When Bock'ar saw them, he discovered that they had become beggars. The reason was that once the fire burned, the bank hidden in the office
The account books, seals, formal certificates and other documents were all reduced to ashes. The funds reserved by the Mining and Commerce Association in the National Bank were swallowed up by the bank's handlers. The lawsuit was unsuccessful because all the savings and withdrawals
All the vouchers are gone and I can’t find the proof even if I want to report the loss.
In addition, the business in the royal capital has collapsed due to the war, and has not improved so far. They have to guard these ruins to prevent the overseas governors from finding them as survivors, so they can only stay in the
He worked odd jobs or begged nearby to make a living, and lived in a small shack built on the ruins at night.
When they met Bokhar, a special envoy from an overseas territory, these staff members shed tears and unanimously asked Bokhar to take them home. Bokhar could only agree to them and put them into the team, preparing to leave
Then take them back to the overseas territories directly under the Central Government.
Next, Bok'ar had no choice but to find another hotel. He found that prices in the royal capital were two or three times higher than after the war in the eastern region. In order to save money, he found the garrison of the Royal Guards in the royal capital.
He wanted to stay in the military camp. Unfortunately, his request was rejected by the guards officers in the military camp. The guards officers said that outsiders were not allowed to enter the military camp without the permission of His Majesty the King.
In the end, Bockal went to the Kingdom's War Department and spent three days submitting an application to meet King Sterling XI. At the same time, he obtained a camping site from the War Department, which was located near a park surrounding the Kingdom's War Department.
Several rows of wooden dormitories were built on the vacant land, which used to be the location of temporary military camps. Now it is the residence of many families of Army Department officers who come to visit their relatives. Accommodation is free, but you have to take care of your own food and horse feed, and the Kingdom's Army Department will not reimburse you.
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After settling down, Colonel Bokoal visited everywhere to test the views of Stirling XI and the kingdom's senior powerful figures on the Overseas Territory War Zone, and what they had to say about the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks that has continued to this day.
None of the goals were achieved. Whether it was Sterling XI or those high-level powerful figures in the kingdom, they seemed to have forgotten that the kingdom also had an overseas territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom, and there was also a colonial war going on there with the Kingdom of Hicks.
When Colonel Bokoal visited them, they were always happy to accept the gifts, but when it came to the overseas territorial war zones and this colonial war, these senior powerful figures in the kingdom would only express their spiritual sympathy and support for the territorial war zones.
Encouragement, but in fact, there was no support or help at all. In the end, a person who knew the inside story of the kingdom told the truth. With the current situation of the kingdom, it is powerless to support overseas war zones and it is impossible to do it.
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The most egregious one was Stirling XI. When Colonel Boker met with him, he first reprimanded the war zone for being too shabby and worthless, and then asked why the overseas war zone had not paid taxes and taxes to the royal capital in the past few years.
Tribute, do you think there is nothing you can do against them because they are separated by an ocean kingdom? When he, the wise king, cleans up his old kingdom, he will reorganize the kingdom's fleet. At that time, he will personally conduct a military expedition to teach the directly-administered war zone a lesson.
Colonel Bokoal was scolded inexplicably. He hurriedly explained that the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks was still going on in the territorial war zone. Only then did the wise King, still smelling of alcohol from the night before, realize that he was not
He didn't know the truth. He didn't know that there was still a war in the overseas territories. After asking several ministers standing next to him, he found out that what Colonel Bokoal said was the truth.
However, Sterling XI did not apologize for this. Instead, he arrogantly told Colonel Bokoal that he did not care whether the territorial war zone was engaged in any colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks. In the past few years, the overseas territories had not been handed over to the national treasury.
The taxes and tributes paid to the royal family must be paid, and the fines must be doubled. After saying this, he turned around and left impatiently. As he walked, he asked the royal manager how the preparations for tonight's palace ball were going.
The meeting with the king ended with this. In the following days, Colonel Boker became a frequent visitor to the Kingdom's Army Department, and once again visited all the powerful people who could speak in front of Sterling XI, but no one could help him.
Busy. Because Sterling X was busy holding various banquets, dances and cocktail parties, he had no time to deal with an envoy from an overseas territory.
Only then did Bockal discover that the Kingdom's Ministry of War was no longer the powerful authority it was when the late King Stirling X was on the throne. Instead, it had become a rubber stamp. At most, it could only arm local defense forces in various local counties.
After issuing documents to convey the king's instructions, they could not even raise the funds to maintain the operation of their own institutions. A civilian lieutenant colonel in the Army Ministry who was close to Colonel Bockher said that he had not received a salary for more than half a year and was now idle.
I am here just to get free food at noon to bring to my family
Nowadays, the Kingdom's three major legions, the Guards Corps are directly under the control of Sterling XI, the Red Dragon Legion is the father-in-law of His Majesty the King, and the Kingdom's Marshal Duke Siegfried is in charge. The Griffin Legion also does not show weakness, they recommend themselves
The commander of the army, the hereditary marquis of the Kingdom, Admiral Jarius Hohadro, became their commander-in-chief and obeyed orders.
The ace field corps of these three kingdoms are now somewhat warlord-like. All military expenditures are directly allocated to the corps from the Kingdom's Treasury Department, instead of being allocated to the Kingdom's Ministry of War, which then controls the military expenditures of each corps.
The budget was reviewed and inspected. Even the collection and trading of armament materials such as guns and artillery were left to the logistics departments of the three legions.
The power of the Kingdom's Army Department has been reduced, and even the funds to maintain the office have been delayed. It is said that the reason is that during the civil war, most of the officers of the Kingdom's Army Department supported Prince Hansback as the new master of the kingdom and went to defect.
There are countless people. There are only a handful of people who uphold neutrality and support Prince Wedelek, and they cannot even maintain the daily operations of the Kingdom's Army Department.
For this reason, Prince Wedelek hated the Kingdom's Army Department deeply. After defeating Prince Hansback, he even wanted to abolish the Kingdom's Army Department, but was dissuaded by his father-in-law. After all, other kingdoms have war departments, Ovi
The Kingdom of Ras must also establish a name, otherwise it will become a joke to other countries. Now the Kingdom's Army Department is the most disliked department in the eyes of Sterling XI, and its only role is to forward documents and stamp them.
After staying in the royal capital for more than a month without achieving any of his goals, Colonel Bockal could only give up his efforts. After getting a formal reply letter from the Kingdom's Army Ministry, he returned to the three southwest counties to find the whereabouts of his family and relatives.
.On the way, due to the temporary kindness of the attendants, they gave alms several times, and as a result, a large number of refugees followed behind them.
It was not until they arrived at Bock'ar in White Deer City that they discovered that the dozen or so Storm Fleet warships had been summoned to guard the waters around the Ibiniste Plain. Sterling XI was very afraid that someone like Prince Hansback would come again.
Landing for the first time, the troops penetrated directly into the side of the royal capital. He was not willing to flee again, especially since he had officially become the new king of the kingdom.
Without the ship, Bock'ar could only find ocean-going ships on his own, and the number of refugees was increasing. In the end, Bock'ar could not find his father and persuaded his father to transfer the family business to others, and all the property was used for high prices.
Hiring ships that could sail across the ocean and buying food, he took his family, relatives, and more than 60,000 refugees and set sail back to overseas territories.