It was already the end of October when Claude and King Avitley I of the Kingdom of Breault arrived at Saint Hipprian City in Wangjing, and it had been ten days since the Storm Legion captured Wangjing. During these ten days, Saint Hipprian in Kingjing of Hicks Kingdom
The news of the fall of Li'an City has spread to all the countries in Farea Continent. It can be said that this news has caused a sensation in all countries that are paying attention to this war. No one expected that the arrogant and powerful Kingdom of Hicks, the overlord of the North, would be so easily defeated.
Fall down...
The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Overas, the Marquis Blancart, is rushing to the Kingdom of Hicks day and night. Now his heart is full of regret. At the beginning, Claude made it clear that he returned to the kingdom this time to deal with Hicks.
The Kingdom of Hicks, but His Majesty King Frederic I, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, and the senior officers of the Kingdom's Army Department could not believe Claude's words. Everyone thought that the Kingdom of Hicks was not that easy to deal with.
On the contrary, the royal court is full of vigilance towards Claude, the marshal of the kingdom who once committed a crime. After all, compared to the Hicks Kingdom, the current Ovelas Kingdom seems to be easier to deal with. In the past two years, the kingdom has invested all its energy and funds.
As the economy recovered and the kingdom regained its vitality, it did not focus on military construction. After learning that Claude had reorganized the Thunder Legion in the Beibu Gulf and formed a new Storm Legion, the royal court also immediately decided to form two standing legions to strengthen defense.
strength.
However, what Frederick I and the royal ministers did not expect was that Claude had indeed mobilized his troops to the Karnas Prairie this time to deal with the Hicks Kingdom. He successfully planned a sea attack and landing operation.
It attracted the attention of the Hicks Kingdom and mobilized all the national troops to the southern coastal areas to prepare to resist the landing attack of the Dominion Military District.
However, Claude concealed the truth and at some point convinced the Breault Kingdom to join the anti-Hicks Kingdom. Not only did he open up the national road, exposing the empty hinterland of the Hicks Kingdom, but he also sent troops to help the Thunder Legion and the Hicks Kingdom.
The Storm Legion launched a surprise attack, captured the royal city of Saint Hyprian, and annihilated the Iron Guards and Solem Standing Legion of the Kingdom of Hicks in one fell swoop.
The fall of Wangjing Saint Hyprian City means that the overall situation of the Hicks Kingdom has been decided. Regardless of the fact that there are still six standing legions and eight newly formed reserve legions in the southern coastal area of the Hicks Kingdom, which are heavily mobilized, but they have already lost
The Hicks Kingdom's armaments, weapons, ammunition and logistical supplies stored in the frontline coastal areas are simply not enough to sustain so many legions for two or three months.
This is related to the military system of the Kingdom of Hicks. In order to effectively control these legions, all logistics supplies, weapons and equipment are stored in Wangjing Saint Hipprian City, and supplies are basically only provided once every two or three months. Now Wangjing Saint Hipprian City
After the fall of Anseong, all these supplies fell into the hands of the Overseas Dominion Military Region. Even if they were collected on the spot, the eight southern counties would not be able to provide the food and grass supplies needed by so many legions. Hunger alone could disintegrate these Hicks legions.
During the Second Eastern War, the capital of the Kingdom of Ovelas was occupied by the alliance army. However, the troops of the Kingdom of Ovelas had taken away all the military supplies before withdrawing from the capital, so they could continue to resist.
, even if they retreated to the three southwest counties, they would not admit defeat. However, this time the Thunder Legion and the Storm Legion of the Overseas Dominion Military Region captured the city of Saint Hyprian, the King of Hicks, but there was a complete loss, and all the people and supplies were arrested, and even Xi
Even if the Kingdom of Kes still has so many troops on the southern coast, the outcome is already clear.
That's why Prime Minister Blancart desperately rushed to the Kingdom of Hicks. He needed to negotiate with Claude to win the qualification for the Kingdom of Ovelas to participate in this war. We can't let the overseas autonomous territories be in the limelight.
Hicks Kingdom, as the suzerain Kingdom, how can the Overas Kingdom have the dignity to control the development of the autonomous territory military region in the future?
Even though His Majesty King Frederic I and Prime Minister Blancart know very well that the overseas autonomous territories currently do not have big ambitions. But for the Kingdom of Ovelas, the autonomous military region is still the biggest threat to the kingdom. Especially the new formation of the autonomous military region
The third formally established legion, said to be after the Storm Legion to guard the Karrnath Steppe region, is equivalent to having an independent armed force in the eastern region that does not listen to propaganda.
If the Dominion Military Region is allowed to destroy the Kingdom of Hicks, the overlord of the Northland, in the future, the reputation of the Overseas Dominion will be higher than that of the Kingdom of Ovelas. Countries in Farea Continent will even choose to deal with the Overseas Dominion and ignore Ovelas.
Kingdom, this is something that Frederick I and the royal ministers cannot tolerate. The mission accepted by Prime Minister Blancart is to join this war no matter what. To put it simply, he must get a share of the pie....
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General Albert held a large military parade in the city of Saint Cyprian in Wangjing to welcome the arrival of Claude and King Avitri I of Breault. Claude found that the city defense facilities in Saint Cyprian in Wangjing were complete.
, after asking around, I found out that after the Storm Legion besieged Wang Jing, they found that there were not enough troops to defend the city wall. I originally thought that the defenders had set some kind of trap, but when they started to attack the city, they realized that there was really a lack of troops, so they could not attack from all sides.
It took half an hour to capture the city wall and twelve city gate exits.
The real problem was the resistance they encountered after entering the city. The Storm Legion fought for five days in street fighting before occupying the entire city, with heavy casualties. The last defenders of Saint Hyprian City, King of Hicks, gathered at the palace.
There was a desperate resistance there. In the end, General Albert ordered to directly bombard the enemy's resistance stronghold with artillery, destroying most of the palace. Only then did the remaining Hicks Palace defenders lay down their weapons and surrender...
"Where is Melchid III?" Avitri I asked.
"Dead." General Albert shrugged: "Don't blame me, I also want to capture him alive, but this old guy refuses to surrender. I can't let my soldiers die in vain just to capture him. I just
He ordered artillery to bombard the palace where the old guy was hiding. Later, when cleaning the battlefield, he found half of his body. He was unlucky, the artillery fire did not hit him, but a huge beam fell down and hit him in the waist.
Split in half..."
Melchid III died like this... The culprit who provoked the colonial war between the Kingdom of Hicks and the Kingdom of Overas was smashed to death by the beam of his own palace. This death was too unexpected.
Unexpected...Claude felt a little disappointed. He had imagined meeting with the paranoid king of the Hicks Kingdom countless times, and wanted to see with his own eyes his depressed look after being captured by him. It was just that
Unexpectedly, he died in such an unexpected way...
"Take us to see his body." Claude said.
So General Albert led them to a hall of a stone and wood building that was probably the residence of the palace servants. This hall should be the canteen where the palace servants ate together. The floor was very greasy and the walls were dirty. But now
There were more than twenty coffins placed in the hall. General Albert said that the bodies of the famous people who died in the Hicks Palace were gathered here.
"There are three corpses of princes here, two are the uncles of Melchid III, and one is the eighth son of Melchid III. The four corpses over there have not yet been identified, but they are all wearing Hicks
The general uniforms of the kingdom, two are major generals, one lieutenant general and one admiral. The old lady here is said to be the wet nurse of Melchid III and was given the title of marquise. She was killed by artillery fire in the palace of Melchid III.
around.
This little girl was the seventeenth daughter of Melchid III. She died in the arms of the wet nurse. The cause of death was a small piece of shrapnel shot into the back of her head. Fortunately, she died without pain. Damn old man,
I really don’t understand why he didn’t surrender. Would he be happy if everyone around him died?” General Albert was very angry, especially because the dead little princess was only thirteen or fourteen years old. She had a bright future.
But she died unexpectedly because of her father's stubbornness.
Claude finally saw the body of Melchid III, which was pieced together. It was covered with a dirty curtain. It looked like it was cut from some curtain cloth. If it weren't for the golden tassels on the clothes on the shoulders that were exposed.
In other words, he looks like an ordinary old man in his fifties. However, the expression on the face of Melchid III is very ferocious, as if he is roaring something. But Claude would rather believe that this is the painful expression he showed when he was dying.
, because I heard that criminals who were cut in half were the most punished, and the cause of death of Melchid III was actually similar to that of being cut in half.
"When I was thirty-four years old, I came to the royal city of Saint Hyprian once," Avitri I looked at the body of Melchid III and fell into memories: "That time was the 540th anniversary of the founding of the Kingdom of Hicks.
The kings of the vassal countries would gather in the capital to congratulate the Kingdom of Hicks. At that time, Melchid III was so majestic and majestic that he was known as the Lion King. All the vassal kings were prostrate on his throne.
Next, I am no exception...
In the following year, he started a colonial war with you. Originally, we all thought that the great Lion King would soon get the results he wanted. But what we didn't expect was that in our eyes, the invincible Hick
The Hicks Legion would perform so badly in this colonial war. Mechid III has been slapped in the face by you all the time. He ruined fourteen Hicks Legions in this colonial war and became a great figure that we love to see.
joke.
Even after the colonial war ended and the Kingdom of Hicks was defeated by your overseas autonomous territories, it is still a behemoth and an unrivaled giant in the eyes of us vassal states. But Melchid III became like a tyrant and became increasingly arbitrary.
.Because of the failure of the colonial war, he did not even hold a celebration for the 550th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Then in just five years, he more than doubled the materials and tributes provided by us vassal countries.
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It wasn't until he intervened in the Second Eastern War and was driven back by you that I came up with the idea of forming an alliance with you to defeat the Hicks Kingdom and regain the occupied territory. Blessed by the God of War, you did not let me down. I never dreamed of it.
I never imagined that I would see the body of Melchid III right in front of me. Even if I die and see my grandfather, father and brothers, I can proudly tell them that the Kingdom of Hicks fell at our feet.
....."
The emotional Avitley I went to rest, and Claude and General Albert went to visit the medical center set up in the Hicks Palace. The place was crowded with wounded soldiers of the Storm Legion, as well as Thunder
A small number of wounded soldiers were transported back by the legion.
"We suffered more than 14,000 casualties in the city." General Albert said with a heavy heart: "We almost wiped out one division of our Storm Legion. The city of Saint Hyprian, King of Hicks, is different from the last time we captured it.
The Royal City of Polyvisia in the Kingdom of Nasseri is very different. Although the Kingdom of Nasseri is the sworn enemy of our Kingdom of Overas, the residents in the city had little sense of resistance after the royal city was occupied. But it is different here, even though
Now that we have occupied the whole city, there are still many Hicks people who are resisting and secretly shooting at our patrols..."
"How do you deal with these things?" Claude asked. He also felt a little headache. After all, the Kingdom of Hicks is also the dominant power in the North. The residents of Wangjingli have high patriotism, strong sense of resistance, and are not afraid of occupation.
Wang Jing's Storm Legion, urban guerrilla warfare like this will be difficult for whoever is the occupier.
General Albert shrugged: "What can I do? It's nothing more than tooth for tooth and blood for blood. The captured rebels were immediately hanged by the roadside as a warning. But the Hicks residents here are not very cooperative. We
Only a small number of resisters could be captured, and most of the resisters escaped under the cover of the residents here..."
Claude thought for a while: "Let's let General Derivic lead four Hicks Homecoming Divisions into Wangjing to perform security missions. First, search for muskets and other weapons and ammunition from house to house. Don't let the residents of the city hold them.
We have shooting weapons and check hidden spaces such as underground passages in residents’ basements to eliminate the possibility of our soldiers being attacked in the future.
We can search the residential areas one by one until the entire Wangjing is cleared. Once the city is cleared, we can conduct an inventory of the entire Wangjing area. All rebels will be dealt with as we did in the Nasseri Kingdom.
, find a place to imprison them first, and then make plans after the situation stabilizes.
We may have to stay here for a year or two. Eliminating the danger as soon as possible can ensure the safety of our soldiers. In a sense, we are now in an enemy country, and we are all enemies. But don't forget that we still have eight more people.
The Hicks Returning Division, they are our most capable helpers. Perhaps they cannot help us eliminate the standing army of the Hicks Kingdom, but they are very suitable for dealing with these resisters..."
"Then what will we do with the Kingdom of Hicks in the future? Will it be destroyed and become a direct territory of our overseas autonomous territories?" General Albert asked.
Claude shook his head, feeling helpless: "To be honest, I don't know what to do now. The original plan was to defeat the Kingdom of Hicks and force King Mechid III to sign an armistice and peace agreement with our kingdom and the overseas autonomous military regions.
.Then our Dominion Military Region made a huge profit from the Kingdom of Hicks, and then immigrated all the family members and relatives of the eight officers and soldiers of the Hicks Returning Division to the overseas Dominion, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Kingdom of Hicks and never allowed it to grow again.
Until you get up.
But now that Melchid III has died in the battle, and the Hicks Kingdom is leaderless, who should we ask to sign this armistice and peace agreement? If Melchid III is still alive, we can still force him to order the six southern coastal areas
The standing army has surrendered, and now we can only prepare to eliminate them. I think we will wait until we have checked out the rebels in Wangjing and the Wangjing area first, and then think about what to do in the future..."
General Albert said with some shame: "It's all my fault. I ordered the bombardment to destroy the palace and let the old man Melchid III die..."
"It's not your fault, it has nothing to do with you!" Claude interrupted General Albert: "You did the right thing. The lives of our soldiers in the Dominion Military Region are much more precious than this dead old man. We can't catch this dead man alive."
The old man allowed our soldiers to sacrifice in vain.
And with the paranoid character of this old man, there is a high chance that even if we capture him alive, he will not be willing to cooperate with us. It is better to die like this. Otherwise, you and I may still be humiliated by him. He is the king, and we
If you don’t want to become the King Killer, you can only endure being insulted by him. If you think about it, it’s really better to die. You don’t have to feel guilty about this..."
General Albert laughed: "Actually, you are right. I admit that I ordered the artillery bombardment because this old man kept cursing us. After I persuaded us to surrender for a long time, the old man hid in the palace and shot outside.
, there were nearly a hundred guards inside. We launched four charges, trying to rush into the palace for hand-to-hand combat, but were repelled by intensive firepower.
At that time, the road leading to the palace gate and corridors was covered with the corpses and wounded of our soldiers, with nearly a hundred casualties. I persuaded the people inside to surrender, but the dead old man cursed and provoked us, saying that we would die as many as we came.
In a rage, I ordered artillery bombardment. After destroying most of the palace, the surviving guards surrendered. The weapons they had were revolvers and revolvers. No wonder the firepower was about the same as ours, so dense...
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Claude has seen the palace that was mostly destroyed. Indeed, as General Albert said, apart from shelling, the only way to get closer is to charge with human lives. The palace is made of stone and wood, with granite on the outside.
The inside is simply a fortress. Outside the palace are low flower beds and grass, which cannot provide physical cover for the attacking soldiers. The process of rushing through this area is tantamount to becoming a target for the defenders in the palace. In this case, even if Claude
When commanding here, he will also order the use of artillery.
"Okay, General Drivick's four Hicks Homecoming Divisions will arrive at Wang Jing this afternoon. You can discuss it with him tonight and start an inventory of Wang Jing starting tomorrow. I am responsible for commanding the Thunder Legion and the two
The Breault Mountain Army will deal with the standing armies of the Hicks Kingdom in the south and the eight newly formed reserve armies." Claude said.