For Claude, the Hicks Kingdom strategy has been completed, and the remaining military affairs are trivial and boring things. General Albert is presiding over the transfer of the ten western counties, which is to transfer the ten local counties in the west.
The ownership and jurisdiction were transferred to the three surrounding countries. While suppressing the resistance of the local people, the Storm Legion assisted the officers and soldiers of the Hicks Returning Division to find their families and relatives. Another thing was to arrest local officials.
, the territorial nobles and wealthy merchants and gentry, ransacked their homes and robbed their wealth...
General Siegfeldt, the head of the logistics department, is responsible for all affairs of the Patkara Port leased from the Breault Kingdom, and Claude is reassured. General Siegfeldt is currently making ambitious plans to use sufficient human resources to reclaim Patkara.
The wasteland outside the city of Tekara Port has become the future granary, vegetable garden and pasture of Patkara Port. Everything here does not require Claude to worry about it, and Claude is very satisfied.
The only war-related matter was also taken over by the Ministry of Military Intelligence. Colonel Boker personally went to the Grand Duke's military camp at Sunset River to act as a hostage to increase mutual trust between the two parties. However, the battlefield confrontation will continue for another two to three months.
During this period of time, the two sides harassed each other's camps, wasting a lot of ammunition in petty fights, and the gunfire and bombardment were loud but there were few casualties. However, the Grand Duke of Sunset River preached everywhere that he was resolutely resisting and taking precautions.
An attack by the invading enemy on the defensive lines of his legions...
The Red Dragon Legion has packed their bags and is ready to return home. Claude still needs to send a division of the Thunder Legion to escort in name, but actually to monitor. This is because Claude has instructed the Breault Kingdom to send the Red Dragon
The legion issued a note, preparing to close the passage from the Menbarmark Kingdom to the Hicks Kingdom, forcing the Red Dragon Legion to end its trip to the Hicks Kingdom and leave as soon as possible. This notice made the officers and soldiers of the Red Dragon Legion very dissatisfied.
A division of the Thunder Legion was sent to escort the Red Dragon Legion out. Claude also wanted to take precautions, lest the Red Dragon Legion, which was unwilling to be forced to evacuate, cause any uncontrollable disputes when passing through the Kingdom of Breault.
Fortunately, the Red Dragon Legion, which conquered the four local counties in the central part of the Kingdom of Hicks, also reaped a bountiful harvest. There were more than 600 horse-drawn and ox-carts of various types, piled high with the trophies they captured and looted. There were
With these gains, the soldiers of the Red Dragon Legion behaved quite honestly on the way back and did not harass local towns much...
The Grand Duke of the Northland is very trustworthy. Since the Ministry of Military Intelligence sent all the people on the list he requested and their relatives who were arrested to the Northland, the eleven counties of the Northland have only strengthened their border defenses and sent some western counties to the Northland.
The refugees who had escaped were taken in, but there was no sign of mobilizing local defense forces or sending troops to the North. The spies' reports made Claude put down his guard...
This is not because Claude is afraid of facing off against the Archduke of the North, but because he feels that the attack on the Kingdom of Hicks is nearing the end and there is no need for any further setbacks. Fortunately, the Archduke of the North is a smart man and does not want to waste his time on the Dominion Military Region.
The two sides maintained a tacit understanding of military strength. Claude believed that once the Dominion Military District began to evacuate, the Grand Duke of the North would immediately launch war mobilization in order to obtain maximum post-war benefits.
However, this has nothing to do with the Dominion Military District. The rest depends on whether the National Army can withstand the attack of the Grand Duke of the North. At present, the commander of the National Defense Army, Earl Murides Jay Kleist, has demolished
The Faklin Army was divided, and young men and women were recruited from the local areas to form the First Army and the Second Army of the National Defense Army. Veterans led the new soldiers, and the local social order was maintained immediately. For more than half a year, it was enough to protect the country.
The national army firmly controls its ten local counties.
With the withdrawal of the Red Dragon Legion, the remaining ten local counties in the central region have also handed over local jurisdiction to small teams formed by the leading parties. Even the Hicks Returning Division is facing off against the Sunset River Grand Duke Legion.
The same is true for Lupsis County. The battlefield is in the mountains and cannot affect the towns. As for the future development prospects of this organization called the Patriotic Front, it depends on the capabilities of each small group. The Autonomous Territory Military District has already invested in them.
, free assistance of grain, grass, weapons, and military supplies, and then just let it go.
All these matters were taken over by the Ministry of Military Intelligence. Claude only presided over the overall strategic layout. The implementation process and steps were not of much concern to Claude. He only needed to achieve the goal. From a big perspective
To put it bluntly, Claude is currently light-hearted. All things have been delegated to various departments and are responsible for completion. But from a small perspective, Claude has become busier, with countless documents that require his signature.
People come in droves and spend the whole day fighting with these trivial and boring official duties...
After once again sending away the ocean-going transport fleet full of immigrants and supplies, Claude returned to the royal city of Saint-Cyprian and received an official document from the Kingdom's Ministry of War and a personal letter from Prime Minister Blancart. The Kingdom's Army
The official document from the ministry stated that the Dominion Military Region needs to report the list of personnel who have made meritorious service in the attack on the Hicks Kingdom so that the Kingdom’s Army Ministry can verify the merits and issue promotions and rewards as soon as possible, without letting the officers of the various combat units in the Dominion Military Region
disappointment.
Claude knew very well the meaning of this official letter sent by the Kingdom's Army Ministry. In fact, the plan to conquer the Kingdom of Hicks was entirely planned and implemented by the Dominion Military Region, completely ignoring the Kingdom of Ovelas.
It can be said that it was a war carried out by the Dominion Military Region alone. After the kingdom learned that the plan was successful, it shamelessly sent the Red Dragon Legion to take a share of the pie, and showed that the kingdom also wanted to participate in the war...
Now the Kingdom's Army Ministry is doing this again, just to take back the initiative to conquer the Hicks Kingdom. This means that the Dominion Military Region carried out the Hicks Kingdom strategy plan under the guidance of the Kingdom's Army Ministry. This is another shame for them.
After all, in name, the Dominion Military Region is a subordinate unit of the Kingdom's Army Ministry. Now the Dominion Military Region has independently launched a war against another kingdom without the Kingdom's Army Ministry, which makes the Kingdom's Army Ministry look bad.
You deserve it, Claude wanted to laugh. Before the plan was implemented, he reminded Prime Minister Blancart that the Dominion Military Region was going to attack the Kingdom of Hicks. But the idiots and idiots in the Kingdom's Army Department did not believe this fact, and they also carried out
The sand table drill believed that the Dominion Military Region would not be able to attack the Kingdom of Hicks, and that the Dominion Military Region would definitely suffer a bloody blow, so they gloated and prepared to watch, but in the end they were slapped in the face by the Dominion Military Region...
So now, even before the Dominion Military District has evacuated from the Hicks Kingdom, the Kingdom's Army Ministry has jumped out and said that it will reward and promote meritorious officers. This is just to show their presence and show their faces. Claude believes that he will reward and promote meritorious officers.
After the list of soldiers is reported, the Kingdom's Army Department will definitely hold a celebration meeting with great fanfare to show the importance of the Kingdom's Army Department in the Hicks Kingdom strategy.
Let them wait for the dust to settle first. At the very least, we have to wait until the entire army of the Autonomous Territory Military Region has evacuated to Patkara Port before we can discuss and implement the merits of all the officers and soldiers in the army. In fact, despite the fact that the Autonomous Territory Military Region wiped out the North
The overlord of the Kingdom of Hicks, the actual merits of all the soldiers in the army are not great. Because they conquered the Kingdom of Hicks, they did not experience any battles with heavy casualties that affected the overall strategic situation.
There were two somewhat decent raids. One was to annihilate the Iron Guard Corps, and the other was to annihilate the two standing legions of that prince. They were both easily won. Even when they conquered the city of Saint Hyprian in Wangjing, they did not encounter any
Very fierce resistance. On the contrary, after the occupation of Wangjing, the endless stream of spontaneous resisters became a big trouble for the autonomous military region...
Even when they raided the local counties of the Hicks Kingdom, the troops of the Dominion Military Region actually fought a security war, wiping out the garrison forces in various places. In terms of military merit evaluation, the criteria for eliminating local garrison forces and annihilating the enemy's standing legions were different.
Similarly, the combat achievements of public security warfare, field battles, and siege warfare cannot be compared. For example, General Albert led the Storm Legion to sweep six local counties in the west. The sum of these achievements is not as good as his elimination of a regular enemy army.
If we seriously evaluate the merits, most of the senior officers in the Dominion Military District were not able to be promoted in the military ranks during this Hicks Kingdom strategy, and they would only be counted as merits once. After all, Claude's plan was too sophisticated, and no one could
Unexpectedly, the Breault Kingdom would collude with the Dominion Military Region to betray, and open the country wide to allow troops from the Dominion Military Region to enter the Hicks Kingdom. This is equivalent to a key point behind the Hicks Kingdom being stabbed by the Breault Kingdom, and thus being destroyed by the Dominion Military Region.
The military district came up with a decapitation tactic.
The city of Saint Hyprian in Wangjing suddenly fell into the hands of the Dominion Military District. Even King Melchid III and the Hicks royal family, as well as the ministers of the kingdom, became prisoners. As a result, the entire kingdom lost the ability to command and coordinate to resist the invaders. Each individual
The local counties could not recommend any convincing leader. In the end, they still fought on their own, and then they were wiped out by the troops of the autonomous military region...
Originally, the Grand Duke of Northland was a good candidate and had great prestige. But the problem was that King Melchid III did not like it. Therefore, many local county officials and territorial nobles thought of electing the Grand Duke of Northland as their leader and had to consider how to deal with the aftermath, so they lost this opportunity.
Determination. In addition, their luck was not very good. The Grand Duke of the North needed time to recover from his injuries, and was temporarily unable to send troops to the North to fight against the attacks of the troops in the Dominion Military Region. Therefore, in the end, the Kingdom of Hicks was still in disarray.
This is one of the reasons why the soldiers of the two regiments under the Dominion Military Region's attack on the Kingdom of Hicks were unable to obtain great merit. As for the eight Hicks Returning Divisions, their purpose was to reunite with their relatives and go to the overseas Dominion.
When immigrants. After this war is over, the eight Hicks Returning Divisions will most likely be disbanded and cease to exist when they return to the overseas Dominions. The officers of the Dominion Military Region who serve in these eight Hicks Returning Divisions
What we gain is also the merit of management, rather than the great achievements of military exploits...
Contrary to military exploits, the gains gained from conquering Hicks Kingdom this time are the most generous, but this has nothing to do with the Kingdom's Army Department. The so-called promotions and rewards of the Kingdom's Army Department refer to the promotion and promotion of military ranks for soldiers who have made military exploits.
Granted by Lord, the bonus is symbolic. However, the Dominion Military Region has prepared cash rewards for all soldiers in the army. This time, even an ordinary soldier of the Hicks Homecoming Division will receive ten gold crowns.
The bonus is credited.
I have to admit that the Hicks Kingdom is worthy of being the overlord of the Northland. Even though it fought four colonial wars with the Dominion Military Region and failed miserably, the Hicks Kingdom's treasury still has a variety of military supplies and food and sufficient funds.
The gold, silver and cash seized by the Wangjing Saint-Hyprian City and the Wangjing area and the Dominion Military Region is no less than 50 million gold crowns. If you add in various materials and private property confiscated, it will not be a problem to exceed 100 million gold crowns.
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Claude allocated 10 million gold crowns in cash to General Skerry, who was responsible for the construction of the territory in the Beibu Gulf, and prepared 20 million gold crowns for the Dominion Council for immigration funds, and then added 30 million gold crowns to the Dominion Military Region.
Fund reserves. The remaining nearly 30 million gold and silver reserves and property he plans to use to reward the soldiers below. This time, two legions and eight Hicks returning divisions will receive 400,000 soldiers, each of whom will receive
Generous cash rewards.
In addition, there are nearly ten million worth of antiques, jewelry, magic items, etc. that will be divided up among the senior figures in the Dominion Military District and Parliament. Claude himself can obtain hundreds of thousands of property from it, which is also
It can be regarded as war dividends. As he said, there is no more profitable business than robbing a kingdom. Of course, the premise is that the kingdom must be relatively wealthy, otherwise a poor country like Menbamark will not have much to lose.
Profit comes in...
Putting aside the official documents from the Kingdom's War Department, Claude opened Prime Minister Blancart's personal letters, and was surprised to find something embarrassing for him, or a scandal about him being spread in the royal capital.
Prime Minister Blancart told Claude in the letter that his mother actually sued Claude, his sister Anna, and his brother Blovik to the Kingdom's noble court for unfilial piety because they were unwilling to bear the responsibility.
The Field family paid debts for promotion fees and land selection fees to obtain the territory. They failed to fulfill their responsibilities to their own family and failed to live up to her mother's love for the birth of their three brothers and sisters...
The Kingdom's Noble Court immediately dismissed the mother's lawsuit, believing that the mother's lawsuit was unreasonable. Although the three Claude brothers and sisters are their mother's children, they did not inherit the Thornfield family.
Given the title and family property, there is no reason to bear this debt. If they agree to hear this case, it will cause an uproar among the nobles of the kingdom. This is equivalent to distributing the debt owed by the noble heirs to the children who are not heirs.
This is not fair.
But the mother did not give up, and soon she submitted a second lawsuit. This lawsuit asked the Kingdom's Noble Court to recognize that the Thornfield family was the head of the Hanfield family. Now that the head of the family is in trouble, the division of the family must provide compensation.
Support and help the master's family repay the huge debt of one million gold crowns owed by the family's territory.
However, the Kingdom's Noble Court once again dismissed this second lawsuit because Claude's Han Field family was established before the Thorn Field family. Logically speaking, the Han Field family should be the Thorn Field family.
The head of the family. However, the legal consultant hired by the mother submitted that the title holder of the Thornfield family was the dead father of the three Claude brothers and sisters. This was a posthumous title granted by His Majesty the King. There is no reason for children to become the head of the family of their parents.
, this case of a mother suing her children is still entangled in the Kingdom’s noble court...
It is said that His Majesty the King deeply regretted what he had done and believed that he should not posthumously consecrate Claude's late father. He never thought that Marshal Claude's mother would be such a businesswoman, and that she would cause such a fuss.
The big dispute made Marshal Claude the joke of the kingdom's aristocracy. According to Prime Minister Blancart's investigation, the reason why the mother took the three Claude brothers to court was because she wanted to keep her
There is no other way out for the family territory.
This is mainly because she owed the Queen a loan of one million gold crowns in order to obtain the family territory. The annual interest on this one million gold crown loan is 5%, which means that she has to repay 50,000 gold crowns every year.
Interest. But although the viscount fiefdom obtained by mother and Albert included a town and two villages, the combined annual income was less than ten thousand gold crowns.
Her Majesty the Queen was very considerate and gave her a three-year interest-free period to allow her mother and Albert to develop the territory. However, this year has passed, and there has been little progress in the livelihood of the people in the territory. No matter how much they plunder, they only get a hundred and eighty gold.
On the contrary, due to their harshness, many people in the territory fled, making the territory even more desolate.
If this continues, the income of the past three years may not even be able to repay one year's debt interest. Once the three-year interest-free period is up, the only outcome waiting for mother and Albert is to be deprived of their title and territory...
So the mother could only put her idea on the heads of the three Claude brothers and sisters. The last time Albert went to see Claude, Claude only gave him more than 10,000 gold crowns, which was far from what the mother expected.
She was so angry that she scolded Claude for being unfilial at home. In the end, she listened to someone's idea and actually wrote a lawsuit to the Kingdom's Noble Court to sue the three Claude brothers for being unfilial and refusing to bear family debts.
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Prime Minister Blancart reminded Claude tactfully in the letter to settle the matter with his mother as soon as possible and not to let this incident get worse. It is now a joke in the royal capital and will even spread to the entire Farea continent in the future, becoming a
A joke from other countries, this has a great impact on Claude's reputation. As for how to deal with his mother, it's just Claude paying for it.
Claude sneered. He had had enough. Since his mother wanted to fight a lawsuit, he would accompany her to fight. If he wanted to make a fuss, he would make a bigger fuss, letting everyone know what kind of mother he, the marshal of the kingdom, had. Anyway,
Embarrass everyone together, but you want to see who will laugh at you in front of you...