In March 605 of the Holy Light Calendar, Claude received three pieces of news, two good and one bad. The good news was that the two standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom stationed at the entrance to the Manoli Plain were the Dahli Legion and the French Legion.
The Klin Army laid down their weapons and handed over the three local counties of Coona Seaport, Patkara Port and Manoli Plain. This means that the eight local counties along the southern coast of the Hicks Kingdom have been firmly controlled.
In the hands of the Dominion Military District.
After the eight counties on the southern coast were occupied by the Thunder Division and the coalition forces of the Breault Kingdom, it meant that the five seaport towns had opened their doors to the ocean-going transport fleets of the overseas autonomous territories. The eight Hicks gathered in the royal capital returned home.
Relatives and family members of the division officers and soldiers will have a safe and direct channel to the seaport. They will take the ships of the ocean transport fleet to the Beibu Gulf, and then be transported to the mainland of Nubisia to become official immigrants of the overseas autonomous territories...
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According to the agreement reached between the Dominion Military Region and the Kingdom of Breout, the three local counties of Coona Seaport, Patkara Port and Manoli Plain were forcibly separated from the Kingdom of Breout by the Kingdom of Hicks more than 30 years ago.
The occupied land will be transferred back to the Breault Kingdom after recovering these three local counties. Claude chose Patkara Port as the port for the relatives of officers and soldiers of the Hicks Returning Division to board the ship because it is safer.
Assure.
The king of the Kingdom of Breout, Avitley I, was very helpful in persuading the Dahli Army and the Faklin Army to lay down their arms and surrender to the Dominion Military District. The Dahli Army was originally the three armies of the Manori Plain.
A local regiment formed by the county. Most of the officers and soldiers of this regiment are local people. Their fathers still remember that they are from the Kingdom of Breault. Because of this, the envoys sent by Avitley I had very smooth contact with them.
In the end, Avitley I took the risk to go there in person and persuaded most of the officers and soldiers of the Dahli Army to return to their homeland.
The Faklin Army was unable to support itself. After the Daheli Army returned to the Breault Kingdom, it was left alone. It was shocked by the three mountain legions of the Thunder Army and the Breault Kingdom that swept across the Buckler Army and the Bruce Army.
The powerful combat strength of the 350,000-strong army, and because there is now only one standing army of more than 60,000 people left. Coupled with the good relationship between the two army commanders, under the persuasion and introduction of the commander of the Dahli Army, things went smoothly.
He laid down his weapons as if to save the lives of the entire legion of officers and soldiers...
The second good news came from General Albert, who was guarding Wangjing. After three and a half months of inventory operations, the soldiers of the Storm Legion and the four Hicks Returning Divisions were all at Wangjing Saint Hippoly.
270,000 so-called hostile resisters and suspected rebels were captured in the Anseong and Wanggyeong areas. During this process, more than 41,000 resistors were shot or stabbed on the spot because they were armed with weapons and engaged in hostile resistance.
died. The officers and soldiers of the Storm Legion and Hicks Homecoming Division suffered nearly 6,000 casualties during the capture and investigation operations.
The end of the inventory operation means that Wangjing St. Hyprian City and the Wangjing area have indeed been controlled by the Dominion Military District, and the local and city security order has been restored. There may still be resistance organizations secretly. But at least openly, there will be no
There was another attack on the occupiers with guns in broad daylight. The officers and soldiers of the Storm Legion and Hicks Homecoming Division no longer had to worry about their lives being in danger by having fun in the tavern near the military camp.
On the surface, this good news means that the Dominion Military Region has completely controlled the situation in St. Hyprian City and the Wangjing area, but the good news secretly is that in the process of tracking down and arresting those resistance elements, the total value of property seized
Already nearly 30 million gold crowns.
Worthy of being the dominant power in the North, the wealth of the people of the Hicks Kingdom has exceeded Claude's imagination. Just the property currently looted from Wangjing Saint Hyprian City and the Wangjing area plus the seizures from the Hicks royal family's inner treasury.
, it has already met the goal that the Dominion Military Region hoped to achieve before sending troops, a financial gain of 50 million gold crowns. General Albert even thought that he might as well let go and rob the city of Saint Hyprian in Wangjing and the Wangjing area.
, you can retreat...
Of course, this is nonsense. Looting property from the Kingdom of Hicks to make up for the future financial expenditure of the Overseas Dominion Military Region. Although this is a reason to send troops to the Kingdom of Hicks, it is not the main reason. The biggest problem at present is to gather the
The families and relatives of the eight Hicks Returning Division officers and soldiers were transported to overseas autonomous territories, and then the local administrative offices of the autonomous territories were responsible for giving these immigrant families a share of land and other properties so that they could integrate into the autonomous territories.
Before the troops were dispatched, the Dominion Military Region estimated that if the number of relatives of a returning division soldier was five to six, the overseas Dominion would receive more than three million new immigrants. But now it seems that this number will far exceed the initial number.
It is an estimate, because the five or six hundred thousand military relatives gathered in Wangjing Saint Cyprian City total only less than 40,000 family members and relatives of the returning division officers and soldiers. The number of relatives of almost every soldier who gathered exceeded the expected number.
More than double.
Originally, these soldiers who participated in the Hicks Kingdom Expeditionary Force were serfs and subjects with the lowest social status. If the colonial war was victorious, these soldiers would still be serfs and subjects after they retired and returned home, and their status would not change. But now Hicks
The kingdom failed in the colonial war, and these soldiers were taken as prisoners and served in the overseas autonomous territories. Now the overseas autonomous territories agreed to let them immigrate with their families, which was the best opportunity to change their social status.
Even though they are all small people, they can still think and seize the best opportunity. When they find their families, they bring all their relatives and friends with them. They just change their names and become cousins. Some even have their wives.
After getting married, they bring their wife and family with them openly, and their relatives suddenly increase. This situation has happened to the overseas autonomous territories once. At that time, in order to obtain the free land given by the immigrants, the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion
In this way, the officers and soldiers brought more than two million so-called relatives from the kingdom.
It's just that the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion combined only had more than 100,000 people back then. Now there are eight Hicks Returning Divisions with nearly 300,000 troops. There are still more than 200,000 failed Hicks prisoners in the overseas autonomous territories.
Although he could not join the returning division, he dragged his comrades back to their families and relatives, and a roster of them had been compiled.
If this is the case, it is estimated that the number of people immigrating to the overseas autonomous territories will more than double. For the overseas autonomous territories, transportation capacity will become the biggest difficulty. After all, from the Kingdom of Hicks to White Deer City and then to the Port of Corbichus in the overseas autonomous territories.
, the sea voyage is almost twice as far.
Back then, the journey from White Deer Port on the mainland of the Kingdom to Corbicius Port took about once every two months. The overseas autonomous territories mobilized all transport ships, and with the help of the Kingdom's Storm Fleet, it was completed in one and a half years.
This huge transportation task has been accomplished. The ocean-going transport fleet of the overseas autonomous territories now has more than 400 large-scale ocean-going sail transport ships, as well as armored fleet escorts, and can transport 4 to 50 million people at a time. It seems that the transportation capacity has been greatly increased, but the same
The sea voyage has been lengthened. Even if it takes one trip every three months, it can only make four trips a year, and can only transport two million people at most.
Therefore, the increase in the relatives of the officers and soldiers of the Hicks Returning Division means that while the number of immigrants to the overseas autonomous territories is increasing, it also brings more problems. The two legions of the overseas autonomous territories need to stay in the Hicks Kingdom for a longer period of time.
Time, more costs need to be spent on these immigrants, more war expenditures are needed, and more shipping capacity is needed...
Bad news from the Noble Alliance. Four months have passed since the Thunder Legion and Storm Legion of the Dominion Military Region made a surprise attack on Saint Hyprian City, the royal capital of the Hicks Kingdom. The local counties of the Hicks Kingdom have already responded.
After arriving, they gathered young men to form local garrison forces. Under the leadership of territorial nobles or local officials, they launched a people's war against the invasion of the Kingdom of Ovelas and the overseas autonomous territories.
Since the beginning of the new year, the noble coalition has suffered a lot. They have obtained the right to capture the ten western counties from Claude, which is actually the right to plunder property. This territory belongs to you. Whatever you can plunder is your own gain.
, the autonomous military region was ignored. The aristocratic coalition of nearly 100,000 troops captured three local counties in the west from the beginning, burned, killed, looted, and did whatever they wanted. It can be said that they did all kinds of evil...
As news of the unlucky three local counties spread, other local counties became vigilant and began to form local garrison forces to fight against these evil bandits and robbers. After the aristocratic coalition forces wiped out the three unlucky local counties.
, when they were preparing to attack the neighboring local counties, they encountered resolute resistance. After a fierce battle, they finally captured a local county, only to find that the local county had long been fortified and clear of the country. There were guerrilla fighting teams everywhere. The noble coalition suffered some casualties for a while.
Da, had no choice but to send a messenger to the Thunder Legion, hoping that Claude could help them.
Claude also wrote a reply directly, rejecting the request to help the coalition of nobles. In fact, the coalition of 100,000 nobles is already a very powerful force. The problem is that these coalition of nobles have captured everyone in the first three western counties.
They have full pockets, and now they are afraid of death when encountering a tough battle. They hope that the Thunder Legion will come to act as their villain. Let the Thunder Legion do the charging and charge, and it is up to them to rob and make money. They really regard the Dominion Military Region as a role at their disposal.
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Claude had long expected that the noble coalition encountered local resistance, let alone the noble coalition, from the reports of the troops sent by the Hicks Returning Division to various local counties to find the families and relatives of the officers and soldiers.
It can be seen how serious the situation is. In the first three months, officers and soldiers of a battalion of the Hicks Returning Division were able to penetrate into various local counties, whether it was aristocratic territory or a town directly under the royal family. Their operations were very smooth and progressed
very nice.
The people who went to search were all officers and soldiers of the Hicks Returning Division. They pretended to be soldiers of the Hicks Kingdom to find the families of the expeditionary officers and soldiers, and they also received assistance and hospitality from the local government. At first, local officials and
The territorial nobles also hope to obtain information about the current situation from their mouths. They have questions about the families of these expeditionary officers and soldiers who they inquired about and took away, and they were also used by these officers and soldiers of the returning division as hostages and in exchange for prisoners.
Fool the past...
As time passed, these returning division troops who went to various local counties to search for the families of expeditionary officers and soldiers also encountered more and more difficulties. Not only were they subject to interrogation by local officials and territorial nobles, they were also subjected to local garrison attacks.
There was an armed siege. Some well-informed territorial nobles even sent people to take the families of the expeditionary troops as hostages, so that the returning division had to give up the plan of sending small groups of troops to go deep into the local counties to bring back the families of the officers and soldiers.
Even the Red Dragon Legion of the Overas Kingdom, which entered the Kingdom of Hicks to sweep the central counties, reported that they encountered stubborn resistance when they occupied two local counties. However, the Red Dragon Legion was equipped with new rifles.
The combat power was relatively strong, and they easily crushed the local garrison forces that resisted. The only shortcoming was the excessive consumption of bullets. They originally brought three million rounds of bullets before the expedition, thinking that they could last until the end of the war, but unexpectedly
Just occupying two local counties consumed one-third of the new rifle bullets...
For this reason, Prime Minister Blancart specially sent a falcon message to Claude, asking the Dominion Military Region to bear the ammunition consumption of the Red Dragon Legion. Claude also rejected this unreasonable request and wrote back saying that he wants bullets to be bought with money. To paralyze you.
He robbed a local county and made at least nearly a million gold crowns. He also asked me for a few bullets and supplies. How could he have the nerve to tell me...
Now Claude has many headaches, the most important ones are the reunion of the eight Hicks Homecoming Division officers and soldiers with their families and relatives, and the transportation problem. At present, only the eight southern counties and the overseas autonomous military regions, the noble coalition forces and the red
In the local counties that the Dragon Army has occupied, the number of military dependents gathered is close to 700,000 to 800,000, which has had a great impact on the material supply of the autonomous military region.
Although the supplies seized from the Kingdom of Hicks are still sufficient, if more military members are gathered and the time is longer, the supplies that need to be consumed will be an astronomical amount of expenditure. Therefore, Claude must let him go as soon as possible.
The first batch of military dependents boarded ships and headed to overseas autonomous territories. The top priority was to allow them to return to normal lives as immigrants.
As for the war request reports submitted by the Hicks Returning Division, Claude thought it might as well wait for the time being. Those officers and soldiers of the Returning Division who were eager to reunite with their families and relatives wrote letters to the frontline headquarters of the Dominion Military Region.
, took the initiative to attack their home county and rescue their families and relatives...
Claude instructed his adjutants to respond patiently to these officers and soldiers. When the frontline headquarters has arranged the strategic layout, it will command the troops to sweep across the entire Kingdom of Hicks, and the families and relatives of all officers and soldiers will be sent to their homes.
Rescued. It's just that there are priorities and priorities. Which county to attack first depends on the actual situation and changes in the situation. I just hope everyone can be patient...
Nonsense, attack those local counties now, then the gathered military families of the returning division officers and soldiers will soon become a burden to the frontline headquarters of the autonomous military region and the occupying forces. Before the ocean fleet has returned, the more military families gathered.
, the heavier the burden, it would be better to let them stay in various local counties for a few more months...
People are always forced by practical problems and have to learn to consider practical problems. In addition to the problem of gathering military families, there is another problem that also troubles all senior officers in the frontline command headquarters of the Autonomous Territory Military Region, and that is the problem of prisoners.
So far, the two legions under the Dominion Military Region have captured more than half a million prisoners. There are prisoners of officers and soldiers from the four defeated Hicks standing legions, prisoners of surrender from the local garrison, as well as the Storm Legion and the Hicks Legion.
The Resistance Division captured by the Kess Returning Division carried out clearance operations in the Wangjing area and the city of Saint Hyprian in Wangjing, as well as local officials and territorial nobles, etc. The custody of so many captives has become a big problem.
Killing them all is the most thorough solution, but the problem is that you can't kill them even if you don't do it. Otherwise, once the news of massacre of prisoners spreads, the overseas autonomous territories will become the villains of all countries in Farea, and no one will be responsible.
If you can afford this responsibility, you will die in vain, and no one in the autonomous military region is willing to be a candidate for this butcher.
Transporting them back to overseas autonomous territories for mining? This method is not bad, but you also need to be alert. If you had this shipping capacity, Claude would not worry about the gathering of military dependents. Currently, even those military dependents are being transported back to overseas autonomous territories to become immigrants.
It takes three months, where is the transportation capacity to transport these prisoners...
It is even more impossible to release all of them. Once these prisoners are released, it will ensure that the Hicks Kingdom's war of resistance will be even more intense. It is simply asking for trouble for the next operations of the Dominion Military Region's frontline command. But the problem is that there are so many prisoners.
Being imprisoned together involves a lot of manpower, material resources and energy from the frontline command. Just to look after these prisoners would require a Hicks Returning Division. Fortunately, these prisoners do not need to be fed and clothed, so we can provide them with some wooden sheds.
It is enough to protect them from the wind and rain and let the prisoners huddle together for warmth...
Fortunately, King Avitley I of the Kingdom of Breault was more generous. He decided to select 200,000 prisoners and escort them back after the rainy season for comprehensive development of the Manoli Plain. This is really good news for the frontline headquarters of the Dominion Military Region.
, Claude personally negotiated with Avitelli I, and persuaded him to agree to take away 300,000 young captives.
No matter whether these 300,000 young and strong prisoners are escorted back by the Breault Kingdom to open up wasteland and farm, go into the mountains to mine, or build roads and bridges, etc., it is better than letting the frontline headquarters of the Autonomous Territory Military Region keep these prisoners in vain.
If you want to be strong, at least you can get rid of most of these hot pots, which is a good thing for Claude. As for whether these prisoners live or die in the Kingdom of Breault, it has nothing to do with the Dominion Military Region...
After working for more than half a month, Claude finally remembered that there was a Hicks standing army over there waiting for him to surrender. He hurriedly summoned Colonel Boquear and asked him to compile the information about the Faklin army for himself to see.
, what to do with this surrendered Hicks Standing Corps...