Baron Tompster is a well-known defense expert in the Kingdom of Hicks and a rising star in the Association of Construction Engineers. He is now forty-one years old. This time he was sent to the Kingdom of Breault by King Melchid III to help Breault
People built a solid defensive front in the border mountains to resist possible attacks by the Overseas Dominion Army of the Kingdom of Ovilas.
Baron Tompster's father is a court noble who belongs to the Hicks royal family. In terms of blood relationship, he is indirectly related to the Hicks royal family. The so-called court nobles refer to nobles who specifically serve the royal family. They do not have a territory, but live in
Holding a certain position in the palace and receiving a salary can be said to be the most trusted minion of the royal family.
Baron Tompster's father hoped that his child would grow up to become an outstanding exploration expert, so that he might be able to find a valuable mineral resource for the family, provide the family with a steady stream of wealth, and be able to support the family in acquiring a piece of land.
Hereditary territory. So when Baron Tompster came of age, he was thrown into the Royal School of Mining and Engineering to study exploration and mining.
What disappointed Baron Tompster's father was that while his son was studying at the college, he became crazy about architectural engineering design and lost interest in his main major. Three years later, Baron Tompster graduated from the college.
By the time he graduated, he had become a well-known architect, but his knowledge of exploration and mining could only be said to be average or barely qualified.
What made Baron Tompster stand out was the set of simple defensive camp drawings he designed for a classmate's mining base. A certain noble's gold mining base also purchased the drawings and constructed them according to the drawings. Four
A few months later, the gold mining base was attacked by bandits. Seventeen miners hid in the warehouse facilities of this defensive camp and repelled the attacks of nearly a hundred bandits. They held on for half a month and only paid the price of one death and four injuries.
, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.
This incident shocked the entire Hicks Kingdom, and the defensive camp blueprint designed by Baron Tompster also attracted the attention of many people. Many mining owners suddenly discovered that if they built a mining base according to this defensive camp blueprint, safety would be guaranteed.
The performance can be improved several times. In the event of being attacked by bandits, it is really difficult to attack the various solid defense facilities in the defensive camp without powerful artillery. Therefore, Baron Thompson designed this defensive camp
The drawings have become the standard equipment of various mining bases...
It's just that Baron Tompster is a little angry now, because his Breault laborers who came to build the defensive front are really lazy. This time Baron Tompster wants to test his newly designed anti-artillery fire trenches.
As a result, he was very strict with the Breault laborers who were doing the construction. However, these laborers did not take him, a famous defense expert in the Hicks Kingdom, seriously, and they only dug one trench and it was completed.
Even though Baron Tompster earnestly told these workers that construction according to his newly designed drawings would ensure that the casualties of the defenders would be reduced after the war broke out. But even the Breault official responsible for managing these workers did not care much.
He told Baron Tompster that a trench would be enough. The brave Breault soldiers would not cower in the trench. They would rather rush out and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy than hide in a thick bunker.
Firing cold shots through small openings is not the behavior of a warrior.
Baron Tompster was very annoyed, but could not convince these stubborn Breaults. He actually wanted to lay a thick layer of earth and stone bunkers on the trenches, which would prevent the enemy's explosive shells from harming the soldiers in the trenches. But the mines
The Ultras were unwilling to do so. They believed that trenches with no roof above their heads would make it easier for them to charge and counterattack. However, after putting up bunkers, the air in the entire trench would be turbid, making people breathless, and it would also feel very depressing.
....
Baron Thompson was so angry that he decided to go to the Chief Inspector of Engineering of the Kingdom of Breault to complain, but he was stopped by his companion halfway. This companion was Captain Reiss, who came to the front line of the Kingdom of Breault with him.
Baron Sturt found that Captain Reichs was covered in mud, even his face was stained with mud, but he looked very excited. Baron Thompson was curious and asked him what he had done and how he was in such a mess.
What does it look like?
Captain Resis said excitedly that he went to the border of Menbamark Kingdom for reconnaissance and hid in a mud puddle. He stayed there for more than two hours and evaded the patrols from the Overas Kingdom camp on the opposite side.
The vast and endless enemy garrison camp on the border of the country was empty. The enemy garrison staying in the camp was only the coalition of territorial nobles, not the Thunder Legion of the overseas autonomous territories. He found that most of the camps in front were empty tents and no one was living there.
signs.
It can be seen that the enemy will not launch an attack on the Kingdom of Breault at all. This is just a strategy to attack the east and attack the west. The Thunder Legion's attack on the Kingdom of Menbamark is probably to mobilize the troops stationed in the coastal areas of the Hicks Kingdom to Breault.
On the kingdom's side, reduce the pressure and intensity of resistance for their landings. In fact, it is easier and more convenient to capture a seaport and then land operations than to first open the road from the Breault Kingdom to the Hicks Kingdom...
Baron Tompster was a little disappointed. If the results of Captain Reichs' reconnaissance were true, then no matter how he designed and built the defensive line, it would be in vain and of no use. Perhaps those Breaults had also reconnoitred and
Captain Resis is in the same situation, so I feel that they have relaxed a little during these days and are not willing to bother building that defensive front anymore. The reason why they still hide it from them is probably to take this opportunity to obtain a large amount of free armaments from the Hicks Kingdom.
Aid, this is easy to understand...
In fact, the Army Department of the Kingdom of Hicks was also very concerned about the overseas autonomous military regions. When it learned that the Thunder Legion swept across the Kingdom of Menbamark and joined the noble coalition forces, they annihilated the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kannas, which were supported by the Kingdom of Hicks.
After the Restoration Army, Hicks Royal Court sounded the alarm and increased their combat readiness. After all, they were still in a state of war with the Kingdom of Overas. It was not an accident whenever they were attacked by the Thunder Legion.
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This is also the reason why Melchid III generously provided military assistance after receiving a letter of request for help from King Avitri I of the Kingdom of Breault. Normally, the Kingdom of Hicks has always been very wary of these vassal countries having disloyal intentions, especially
The Kingdom of Breault is the most powerful among all the vassal states. Moreover, the Kingdom of Hicks has never really conquered this country. In the past few decades, it has used its strong national power to subdue this rebellious little brother and make him behave.
of obedience.
But compared to the Thunder Legion of the Overseas Dominions, the Breault Kingdom is not that big a threat. Since Avitley I volunteered to resist the invasion of the Overseas Dominions, the Hicks Kingdom will naturally encourage and encourage him.
Support. In fact, Melchid III wished that both the Kingdom of Breault and the Overseas Dominion Military Region would suffer losses. That would truly solve the two major worries of the Kingdom of Hicks.
The senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom's Army Department are not all idiots. The Second Eastern Region War has made the Hicks Kingdom's senior officers well aware of the combat power of the Thunder Legion. They believe that even in frontal field battles, the Thunder Corps
One division of the legion is enough to defeat one of their standing legions. It is best for the Kingdom of Hicks to sign an armistice and peace agreement with the Kingdom of Overas to end this war. Only in this way can manpower and material resources be concentrated to develop the latest weapons and equipment.
, waiting for the opportunity to seek revenge from the Kingdom of Ovelas and the overseas autonomous territories in the future.
It is a pity that this wise proposal was opposed by the paranoid King Melchid III. He believed that the Kingdom of Hicks and the Kingdom of Ovilas were separated by two countries by land, and only one or two legions could be transported by sea at a time. As long as
If the Dominion Military Region dares to send the Thunder Legion ashore, then it will dare to concentrate all the military power of the country and fight to the end with the enemies who come ashore.
King Melchid III did not believe it. The eight standing legions of the kingdom were no match for the Thunder Legion and Rock Legion sent ashore by the Dominion Military District. They could kill these two legions just by heaping people on them. As long as the enemy dared to land, the Kingdom of Hicks would
If the eight standing legions are not enough to kill these two legions, then recruits can be recruited immediately to form ten or twenty reserve legions...
The senior officers of the Navy of the Kingdom of Hope were also helpless. They could only blame their bad luck for meeting such a king. But His Majesty the King was so insistent that they could not disobey the wishes of Melchid III, so they had to fill in the gaps.
Construction of defense facilities has been launched at five seaports along the coast, striving to build an iron wall to face maritime threats.
After learning about the news that the Thunder Legion of the Overseas Dominion Military Region swept across the Monbamark Kingdom, the Army Department of the Kingdom of Hicks immediately organized senior officers to conduct a sand table exercise, hoping to conclude that this was a plan by the Dominion Military Region to launch a large-scale attack on the Kingdom of Hicks.
The sign is that the Nationalist Army went too far and sent out the Thunder Legion to annihilate them.
The letter for help sent by King Avitley I of the Kingdom of Breault also caused disputes in the Army Department of the Kingdom of Hicks for the first time. Many senior Hicks officers believed that the Dominion Military Region was likely to ask the Kingdom of Breault
Launch an attack, and after occupying this neighboring country, they will attack the Kingdom of Hicks and launch attacks and raids.
The evidence of these senior officers of the Kingdom of Hicks is that the Thunder Legion is a light cavalry legion that is good at mobile raids. Only land operations can fully utilize the combat power of the light cavalry legion. And by sea transportation, based on transportation capacity calculations, the Dominion Military Region cannot be in
When transporting soldiers, the equipped war horses are also placed on the ship. At most, only a small number of war horses can be transported. Then the Thunder Legion undoubtedly gave up its own strengths to fight positional offensive warfare, which was the most unwise choice.
In addition, after the Thunder Legion swept across the Menbamark Kingdom, they set up a large camp on the border with the Breault Kingdom that could accommodate four or five legions. Think of the spy sent by the lurking in the Beibu Gulf.
According to intelligence, the two or three legions transported by the ocean cruising transport fleet of the overseas autonomous territories under the escort of the armored fleet during this period have already shown that their next target of attack is the Kingdom of Breault.
However, the senior officers of the Kingdom of Hicks, who insisted that the Overseas Dominion Military Region would use sea raids to transport the legion to land at a certain seaport city and then launch an attack, scorned the so-called plot of the Dominion Military Region to attack the Kingdom of Hicks by land. They believed that
The land faction ignored the most important point. The border area between the Kingdom of Breault and the Kingdom of Menbamark was entirely mountainous. Light cavalry was also difficult to use and could not play a big role.
As for the road between the mountainous areas, it is easy to be blocked and destroyed. In addition to the defensive positions on the hilltops, the Thunder Legion also has to dismount and fight on foot. Only after conquering the hills one by one can the road in the middle of the mountainous area be repaired. However, the Breault people did not
They are brave mountain warfare experts. They will not let the enemy easily pass through their territory to attack the Hicks Kingdom. If the Thunder Legion wants to protect its logistics supply channels, it must first occupy the Breault Kingdom and eliminate the mines.
The threat of Ultras in the mountains...
Compared with entangled with the Breault people in the mountains, it is more convenient and faster to capture a seaport city on the coast of the Hicks Kingdom. At least there is no need to add an enemy to oneself. Therefore, these senior Hicks officers from the maritime faction decided that
, the large camp arranged on the border of Breault Kingdom is most likely a conspiracy of the enemy. The purpose is nothing more than to make Hicks Kingdom divide its troops or cause domestic panic or something...
For these senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom's Army Department, the most painful thing is that the initiative in the war is not in their own hands, but in the enemy's hands. Now the Thunder Legion has only occupied the Monbamark Kingdom, and in the Breault Kingdom
A large camp was set up on the adjacent border, causing the Kingdom of Breault and the Kingdom of Hicks to live in chaos and have no peace.
The Kingdom of Breault has entered a state of war readiness to guard against surprise attacks by the enemy. The Kingdom of Hicks has also sounded the alarm, and the troops are on strict guard. The officers are racking their brains to imagine how and where the enemy will launch an attack. Mechid
The Third Emperor also wanted to recruit new soldiers immediately to form several reserve legions, but fortunately the ministers in the royal court were still clear-headed and stopped his impulse.
It's very simple. If the Thunder Legion in the Dominion Military Region has no intention of launching an attack, then what's the use of the Hicks Kingdom recruiting new soldiers to form these reserve legions? It's just a waste of military expenditures? The current Hicks Kingdom is a bit ugly.
It is like a rat stuck in a bellows, with no way out. Not to mention the sea, without the Sea King fleet, troops cannot be transported, and the sea route has been blocked, unless the Kingdom of Hicks can build a military district to compete with the Dominion.
The armored fleet came out.
The surrounding countries are also vassal countries, and there is no opponent if they want to start a war. Unless the Kingdom of Breault agrees to open the road to allow the army of the Kingdom of Hicks to pass through to attack the Thunder Legion occupying the Kingdom of Menbamark. However, Melchid III does not have the courage.
His generals also disapproved of this. When the combat capabilities of weapons and equipment were different from those of the enemy, taking the initiative to launch an attack was not called bravery but called death. It was adding merit to the enemy.
At this moment, the Army Department of the Kingdom of Hicks finally received a report from Captain Resis who was on the front line of the Kingdom of Breault. This was not the result of one person's reconnaissance, but the result of more than a dozen Hicks sent to the Kingdom of Breault.
A joint report from the military officers.
Under the leadership of Captain Reichs, these Hicks officers continued to conduct repeated reconnaissance of the enemy camps set up on the border in the next half month, and captured several lone enemy soldiers. From their confessions,
It was learned that the Thunder Legion had already returned to the Beibu Gulf area. The camps set up on the border were indeed empty camps, and the purpose was to deter the Kingdom of Breault from sending troops to intervene in the fact that the Kingdom of Menbamark was occupied by a coalition of nobles...
This was a false alarm, and the maritime faction won a complete victory. The land faction was so angry that they put forward a suggestion, which was to prevent the kingdom's army from attacking the Monbarmak Kingdom's noble coalition of Ovilas Kingdom through the Breault Kingdom, and then attack again after victory.
Take advantage of the situation to attack the Nasseri area and help Nasseri return to exile in the royal court...
But this suggestion was quickly rejected by Melchid III. As these land factions said, the Thunder Legion was a light cavalry army. Who knows whether their return to the Gulf of Tonkin was true or false, and the spies there did not send any definite information.
If this is a conspiracy to lure the snake out of its hole, then the Hicks army that takes the initiative is likely to fall into the trap set by the enemy and face the crisis of destruction.
It is better to be still than to move. The officers and engineering construction experts sent to the Kingdom of Breault can come back. Thinking of the large amount of military supplies, weapons and ammunition and other assistance delivered to the Kingdom of Breault, Melchid III felt a little distressed. He also
He wanted to save face and had no intention of asking for the aid supplies back, but this did not prevent him from using the Breault Kingdom as cannon fodder.
So Melchid III wrote a letter to Avitli I, requesting the Kingdom of Breault to send troops to assist in resisting the enemy's attack when the Hicks coastal area was attacked by the Dominion Military District. What satisfied Melchid III was that Avitli I said
He agreed to his request and promised to send at least two legions to assist in the battle.
On July 23, Hicks' agent lurking in the Beibu Gulf sent intelligence one after another, reporting that the Overseas Dominion Military Region had assembled more than 300 sailing ocean-going transport ships in the Beibu Gulf, as well as nearly a hundred sailing warships, and a
A fleet of twenty-eight armored warships. The flags of the Thunder Legion, the newly formed Storm Legion, the Rock Legion and a reserve legion appeared in the Beibu Gulf camp. The total strength is estimated to be more than 400,000 troops.
Since the camp was heavily guarded and no one could get close to it, the spies could not get close enough to see what was going on. However, in the taverns of the capital Canpast City, they would always encounter some drunken junior officers from the Dominion Military Region, and they would leak the information.
It can be determined from the gossip that the Dominion Military District has decided to launch a landing operation against the Kingdom of Hicks, but it is still unclear which seaport city their target is...
On August 11, the armored fleet of the Overseas Dominion Military Region appeared in the waters of the Kingdom of Hicks. They sank all Hicks fishing boats, seized merchant ships and freight ships, and bombarded Minslaike Island and Chemback in the Hicks waters.
The island was wreaked havoc for three days before leaving.
On August 23, the armored fleet of the Overseas Dominion once again appeared in the waters of the Kingdom of Hicks. This time they dispatched the Marine Corps and occupied Minslaike Island and Chemback Island.