Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty-Four Prime Minister Blanket's Proposal
Chapter 564: Prime Minister Blancart’s proposal
"Reporting to your Excellency, Marshal, this is the Falcon Message just received, from General Belklin." A captain officer from the Communications Office handed the gray note in his hand to Claude.
Claude took the note and looked at it, only to see eight words written on it: invincible and invincible. He couldn't help but smile. It seemed that the Thunder Legion was progressing smoothly, otherwise Belklin would not be like this in front of him.
Show off.
At this time, Claude was leading the troops directly under the headquarters of the Thunder Legion, together with the three mountain legions led by King Avitley I of the Breault Kingdom, to Skvia County. It must be said that he was accustomed to the rapid maneuvers of the light cavalry legion, and then with
Pure infantry regiments marching together feel like a snail crawling slowly.
The four main light cavalry field divisions of the Thunder Legion have already launched a vigorous offensive against the enemy's defensive front, but the three mountain legions are still slowly moving forward in the rear. One hundred and seventy-eight thousand horses can cover thirty miles a day.
It was a very good progress. In the first two days, we could only travel more than 20 miles each day. It seemed that we would not be able to reach the mountain city of Hidpath in less than ten days and a half.
This is not surprising. Avitelli I was ashamed to explain to Claude that the officers and soldiers of these legions in the mountains could travel at least forty or fifty miles a day, but it felt wrong to march on the plains. There were always all kinds of things.
The trouble delayed the trip. At first, most of the troops were dispatched on flatbed trucks, so they could reach the Wangjing area in about ten days. Now those flatbed trucks are used to load captured grain, grass and other supplies. Everyone walks on two legs, and the speed suddenly increases
It slowed down.
"The organization is not good, and the military discipline is not good either!" This is the comment made by Colonel Bockar to the three mountain regiments of the Breault Kingdom, which pointedly pointed out the shortcomings of the Breault Kingdom's army.
The Rock Army of the Overseas Dominion is also an infantry army, but if it marches long distances, it can cover fifty or sixty miles a day, and it can even reach more than eighty miles on a forced march. However, the Rock Army is a professional professional army, and its training and technical and tactical levels are beyond
It has greatly exceeded the combat power of the armies of various countries in Farea Continent. And now the performance of the three mountain legions of the Kingdom of Breault during the march is the normal appearance of the armies of various countries.
I get up early in the morning at about six or seven, and slowly make breakfast, which is nothing more than a big bowl of porridge or soup with two slices of black bread. Then I clean up the camp and other things, and it's already around nine or ten o'clock when everything is done
left and right, and then started to set off amidst the shouts and curses of the leading officer. There was no queue, a large group of people gathered together and moved forward. If they were in a good mood, they could sing a few folk tunes. If they were in a bad mood, they would curse and move forward.
Yes, a few people find a place to sit down and rest to catch up on some sleep. This is a very common scenario.
Scenes like this can be seen everywhere, and ordinary officers will not care about them, as long as they can rush back to their troops at night. Colonel Bockar told Claude that among the three mountain regiments of the Breault Kingdom, father, son, and brother
It is very common to be in the same legion. Relatives, friends, fellow villagers, etc. are often organized into the same unit. In this way to ensure combat effectiveness, there is a lack of military discipline for the soldiers, because when they break the law, they often form a group.
Punishing them would also trigger protests from the entire army...
The situation of the three mountain legions of the Breault Kingdom cannot be said to be without combat effectiveness. Such armies and soldiers will be very powerful if they fight madly or if they fight smoothly. But against the Thunder Legion or the Rock Legion, they will be very powerful.
A highly professional and organized professional army will end up being crushed. This is also the reason why the Breault Kingdom is unable to resist the Hicks Kingdom. Even if the Hicks Kingdom's army is not as powerful as the troops of the Dominion Military Region, it will
Breault Kingdom can still do it by rubbing it on the ground a few times...
Avitelli I and Prince Ixdo, who followed Claude as his personal adjutant, were very envious of the Thunder Legion's orders and prohibitions, and hoped to imitate the overseas autonomous military regions in military reform. So Claude decided to help them.
I was very busy and stayed at the border of Skvia County for a few days to reorganize the three mountain legions of the Breault Kingdom.
Of course, Claude also had to stop the march. In addition to reorganizing the three mountain regiments of the Kingdom of Breault, another reason was that Prime Minister Blancart finally arrived. He wanted to discuss with Claude the participation of the kingdom's troops in the war.
The question. The twenty days of traveling day and night had exhausted him. As soon as he saw Claude and said hello, he fell on the ground and fell asleep, making Claude dumbfounded.
Prime Minister Blancart slept for about fourteen hours, and it was already the next night when he woke up. He immediately asked to see Claude, and then ate and drank in Claude's big tent.
After a pause, he told Claude about his purpose. Prime Minister Blancart meant that the Kingdom’s army would also participate in the war against the Kingdom of Hicks. At the very least, the Kingdom’s army would also be in Hicks.
Revealed in the Kingdom of Kes...
The Red Dragon Legion stationed in the Royal City of Polyvisia in the Nasseri area is ready to go, and it will only take half a month to appear in the Kingdom of Hicks. Similarly, the Red Dragon Legion can obey Claude's command
, but Prime Minister Blancart hopes that the Red Dragon Legion can be stationed in the royal capital of the Hicks Kingdom, St. Hyprian City. Only in this way can it be shown that the Kingdom of Ovelas is not a soy sauce player in this war...
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Claude welcomed the idea that the Kingdom's army wanted to take a hand in this war. Because now his subordinates, namely the Thunder Legion and the Storm Legion, were the main force in the battle, and the rest were a half-legion of aristocratic coalition forces, and three more
There is a mountain legion of the Breault Kingdom. I won’t comment on the combat effectiveness of the noble alliance, but the combat capabilities of the three mountain legions of the Breault Kingdom are really unsatisfactory. It is hard to say whether they can be relied upon at critical moments.
As for the eight Hicks Returning Divisions, they are still qualified to maintain local order and do some fighting. But the problem is that the main task of these eight Hicks Returning Divisions this time is to take their families and relatives to immigrate overseas.
Go to the Dominion. Let them become the main force in the battle. Claude doubted whether these Hicks prisoners could still maintain their fighting power and determination to enterprising in the territory of their motherland.
After all, the overseas dominions are invaders now, and these eight Hicks returning regiments are, to put it bluntly, puppet armies. And Claude naturally knows how powerful the puppet armies are. Even if he has given these eight Hicks
The officers and soldiers of the Returning Regiment have all found a way out, allowing their families and relatives to immigrate to overseas autonomous territories. However, Claude is still very doubtful and worried about what combat missions the eight Hicks Returning Regiments will actually be given.
Fishing, fooling around with things in the past...
The Kingdom of Hicks is very large, with fifty-three local counties and the Wangjing region, and it is also the dominant power in the North. This time, the Overseas Autonomous Territory Military Region carefully set a trap to lure King Mechid III of the Hicks Kingdom and the ministers of the kingdom.
After being hooked, the Thunder Legion and Storm Legion from the Dominion Military Region attacked Wang Jing with lightning speed and took away their nest.
It is because the city of Saint Cyprian in Wangjing fell too quickly, so the current situation in the Kingdom of Hicks is that it is leaderless, and most local counties have not responded. And the reason why Claude ordered General Albert to command the Storm Legion and the Four
The Hicks Returning Division immediately launched an inventory operation in the city of Saint Hyprian in Wangjing. He led the Thunder Legion to attack the Hicks army assembled in the southern coastal area. He was to take advantage of the enemy's failure to react and eliminate the opponent's effective forces first.
, the idea of reducing threats to one's own side.
The resistance forces and organizations in Saint Hyprian City in Wangjing must be eliminated as soon as possible to prevent these resistance forces from evacuating Wangjing to mobilize the people to resist the invasion of the overseas autonomous military regions. And eliminate the Hicks Kingdom's standing army in the southern coastal area.
Only a large army can bring a deterrent effect to those local counties, so that they dare not resist.
Seriously speaking, the four local counties on the national road from the Breault Kingdom to Wangjing are controlled by the four Hicks Returning Divisions. Next are the Wangjing area and Wangjing St. Hyprian City
, fell into the hands of the Storm Legion, and together with the four Hicks Returning Divisions who arrived later, they were conducting an inventory operation against Wang Jing.
In addition, there is Dartmouth County, which was purged and plundered by the Thunder Legion, and Skvia County, where the Thunder Legion is launching an offensive. The fifty-three local counties of the Hicks Kingdom and the Wangjing area, Claude can
He can confidently say that what he controls is actually six local counties and one Wangjing area. However, among these six local counties, Dartmouth County has been plundered and abandoned, while the other county is in trouble.
During the battle, no one can say what Skovia County will look like after this battle is over...
Therefore, Prime Minister Blancart rushed over and said that the Kingdom would also join this war. Claude still expressed his welcome. Especially since the Red Dragon Army has replaced the new rifles produced by the Dominion Military Region, its combat effectiveness can be said to be more powerful.
.In addition, he is willing to accept Claude's command. Claude is of course very happy. He currently lacks armed forces that can defend one side on his own, so he can let the Red Dragon Legion help him defend one side.
But Prime Minister Blancart went to extreme lengths and proposed that the Red Dragon Legion be stationed in Wangjing Saint-Cyprian City. This request was immediately rejected by Claude. What a joke, he gave up Wangjing Saint-Cyprian City to the Red Dragon Army. What a shame.
You can imagine. Claude despised Prime Minister Blancart and said to himself that we are just conducting an inventory operation. We will not settle the property in the royal city until the end of this inventory operation. How can you share such a big piece of fat?
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After the Storm Legion occupied the royal city of Saint Hyprian, the reserves confiscated from the Hicks royal family's treasury alone amounted to 17 million gold crowns. This did not include the huge amount of materials confiscated from the treasury. No wonder that Mai
After the Hicks Kingdom suffered multiple defeats at the hands of the Dominion Military Region, Kidd III still had the capital and confidence to continue his unrelenting hostility with the overseas Dominions. It is conceivable that the Hicks Kingdom was so wealthy that Claude had no choice but to defeat it.
The master was right to seek wealth and death.
After being rejected by Claude, Prime Minister Blancart was not in a hurry. He asked Claude where he planned to place the Red Dragon Army. Claude spread out the map of the Hicks Kingdom and analyzed it for Prime Minister Blancart.
The current situation. The aristocratic coalition composed of the Red Dragon Duke and the Griffin Marquis currently has three divisions with nearly 100,000 troops. It has taken over the ten western counties of the Kingdom of Hicks where the defense force is empty. The remaining eleven northern counties,
There are still a large number of local counties in the remaining nine counties in the east, eight counties in the south, and fifteen counties in the center that need troops to mop up. The Red Dragon Legion can choose its own targets.
The Thunder Legion commanded by Claude and the three mountain legions of the Bulot Kingdom will next have to deal with several standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom gathered along the coast of the eight southern counties. On the one hand, they will clear out the Hicks Kingdom.
On the other hand, it is to seize several seaport cities. The families and relatives of the eight Hicks Returning Division officers and soldiers want to immigrate to overseas autonomous territories and need safe seaport cities for the transport fleet to dock.
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Since the noble coalition has chosen the ten counties in the west, let the Red Dragon Army choose the eleven counties in the north... Prime Minister Blancart stared at the map for a long time and made a decision. The nine counties in the east and the fifteen counties in the center are all
Two local counties have already been occupied by Claude's Hicks Returning Division, and Claude's next campaign is the eight southern counties. Therefore, Prime Minister Blancart believes that if the Red Dragon Army wants to stand alone, it is better to cooperate with the nobles.
Like the coalition forces, they chose the eleven northern counties that the Dominion Military District did not care about.
Claude hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and told Prime Minister Blancart that it was best not to choose the eleven northern counties. There were too many variables here. If possible, the Dominion Military Region would even abandon the eleven northern counties. Because the ten northern counties were
There is also the Grand Duke of the North, Duke Pyrag Heath Ferriot, sitting in the county, and two Hicks standing legions are heading to the North to join him.
"It is said that the Archduke of the North, Pyrag. Xi Ferriot, also has a border guard regiment of 50,000 people. It is a private armed corps belonging to the Ferriot family. It guards the four counties of the North and fights against the highland barbarians.
, the combat power is very strong." Claude pointed to the eleven counties of Northland on the map and told Prime Minister Blancart.
"Now adding the two Clyde and Jessica troops who have gone to defect, as well as the garrison forces from various local counties, we can easily pull out four to five million troops. In addition, there are eight out of the eleven counties in the North.
The county is located in the highlands, and the terrain is not favorable to us, so we hope that the Grand Duke of the North can defend himself on the ground and not actively participate in the drastic changes in the Kingdom of Hicks."
After listening to Claude's explanation, Prime Minister Blancart finally cleared up his doubts. It must be the Archduke of the North who could make Claude have some scruples. Pirag. Chi. Ferriott has extraordinary abilities and should not be underestimated. Claude
He made no secret of this and told Prime Minister Blancart very clearly that this Grand Duke of the North was the supreme commander of the Alliance Army during the Second Eastern War.
That is to say, when he saw that the situation was not good at the end of the Battle of Polivisia, he took more than 100,000 Hicks wounded and remnant soldiers to take the first step, escaped from the pursuit of the Thunder Legion and fled back to the Kingdom of Hicks, giving Claude a complete victory.
The success fell short. To be honest, Claude is not afraid of facing off against the Northland Archduke again, but now he has no time and energy to tangle with the Northland Archduke. The top priority is to pocket the victory as soon as possible, and wait for everything to come to an end.
After settling down, maybe go and meet the Grand Duke of the North for a while.
"My suggestion is to let the Red Dragon Legion come to sweep the remaining ten or so counties in the central part. The Storm Legion will suppress the city of Saint Cyprian in Wangjing and the Wangjing area. It will not be possible to stabilize the situation in the Wangjing area in less than three months."
.The Red Dragon Legion sweeps away the local counties in the central region that we cannot take care of. If any troublesome situation occurs, we can take care of each other with the Storm Legion..." Claude said.
Prime Minister Blancart thought about it carefully and nodded in agreement to Claude's proposal. But then he asked: "Mechid III is dead, so does the Dominion Military Region have any ideas about the future of the Kingdom of Hicks?"
Claude shook his head. What he was thinking about now was to calm down the situation first and let the eight officers and soldiers of the Hicks Returning Division take their families and relatives to immigrate to the overseas autonomous territories, and then they would return home in Hicks.
The money and supplies plundered by the kingdom were all transported back to the Beibu Gulf, leaving a mess for anyone to clean up. Anyway, after the Hicks Kingdom was messed up like this, it would not be able to recover in twenty or thirty years, and it would never be able to deal with Olvera again.
Threats to the Kingdom and Overseas Dominions.
Prime Minister Blancart laughed instead. He was not Claude's opponent in the military, but he had more experience in politics than Claude. In his opinion, Claude's solution was simply
It's too childish, just like a child who pretends to be a drunkard and messes up everything and doesn't want to clean up and leave, only to be beaten up by his parents before he learns his lesson.
"Why not consider dismembering the Hicks Kingdom?" Prime Minister Blancart said with a smile: "Like the Northland Grand Duke you just mentioned, you can completely encourage him to establish an independent Northland Duke Kingdom or something. There are also those around the Hicks Kingdom.
For those vassal countries, since you can let the Kingdom of Breault regain its lost territory and give it the four eastern counties, you can completely let other vassal countries take back the occupied border counties from the Kingdom of Hicks...
In this way, the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks can be reduced by a large circle, and then in these local counties in the central and southern parts, you can support a few Hicks nobles who have taken refuge with you, and let them occupy the territory of several local counties to establish their own
It can be independent or alliance-based. In this way, even if all the troops in your autonomous region evacuate in the future, there will still be no peace in the territory of the Kingdom of Hicks.
As long as the various forces on this land continue to fight for a long time in the future, they will be less able to pose a threat to our kingdom and your overseas autonomous territories. They will even have to rely on the military deterrence of your autonomous territories to maintain their power. This is better than your fishing.
It's much better to just leave. Doing what you did will only make the overseas dominions the object of hatred for all Hicks people. Doing this like I said, the people of Hicks will only hate those separatist forces...
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Claude patted his forehead with some shame. He had been born in two lives. After staying in the army for a long time, he had forgotten the wisdom of his ancestors in his previous life, such as distant friendship and close attack, division and combined attack, annexation and cannibalization, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Thirty-Six Stratagems, etc.
There are too many examples to deal with the current situation. But in my mind, I simply think of grabbing a handful and leaving. I need Prime Minister Blancart to remind me to wake up...