Chapter five hundred and eighty-eight of the attack on Mount Weirds seaport
Chapter 588: Mount Wade Harbor Attack
By mid-May, Claude had some free time and no longer had trivial official duties, so he turned his attention to the colonies on the west coast. At present, the colonies on the west coast have become a deadlock.
After the news spread that the Migal National Republic had formed an alliance and sent the Thunder Legion to garrison, the colonial countries on the west coast understood that they had no reason to intervene in the Pamigal territory.
To launch an attack on the Pamigal National Republic at this time is simply to declare war on the Dominion Military District. No one would do such a stupid thing. So the colonial countries on the west coast have put away their minions and no longer look covetously at other countries' colonies.
, instead began to build defensive fronts and defensive positions in their own colonies, acting as if they were harmless to humans and animals and were defending themselves, as if they had transported two or three standing legions to the colonies just for defense.
In February, Mr. Veblen organized an economic and trade delegation to go to the colonies on the west coast to discuss the issues of tariffs and trade bans on the dominion's goods entering these colonies. However, this economic and trade delegation spent three months in
The colonies of various countries on the West Coast went around and received warm hospitality from the colonial authorities. However, the issue of the trade ban was still not lifted, and the goods and goods produced by the overseas autonomous territories were still unable to officially and openly enter the markets of the colonies on the West Coast.
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A colonial governor made it clear to Mr. Veblen that entertaining you is a personal relationship and we are friends. However, the ban on trade is a principle of the kingdom. Once the ban on trade is lifted against you, then the handicrafts of our kingdom will
The workshops and those monopolized by the kingdom's nobles will suffer disaster. The goods produced by the kingdom will not be able to reap huge profits from the colonies. No one can afford such consequences, so we would rather risk offending your Dominion.
To enforce the ban on trade, your goods will be refused entry to the colonial markets...
Well, the economic and trade delegation organized by Mr. Veblen visited the colonies on the west coast and only gained the personal friendship of the responsible officials of these colonial authorities. He wanted to lift the embargo on goods from the overseas dominions, but he hit a snag.
After returning, Mr. Veblen spoke in parliament, believing that unless these west coast colonial countries were completely defeated militarily, they would never lift the embargo and open their colonial markets to overseas autonomous territories.
Claude also hopes to defeat these west coast colonial countries militarily. But the problem is that the Dominion Military Region has to find a suitable excuse before going to war. With just a ban on trade, the Dominion Military Region has no reason to send troops because of the ban on trade.
The order is to protect the goods produced in their own kingdom. It was issued in order to avoid competition with goods produced in overseas autonomous territories. It is reasonable and reasonable. The autonomous military region cannot knock on the door just because its own goods cannot be sold at other people's homes. This will not be done by the autonomous military region yet.
So domineering...
No one is a fool, and the same is true for the colonial countries on the west coast. When the Dominion Military District formed an alliance with the Pamigal people, leased its military port, and sent the Thunder Legion to garrison its borders, it acted as the backend to support the indigenous peoples' rebellion and support the indigenous peoples' independent establishment of the country.
The Black Hand Dominion Military District came to the forefront. Everyone knew it, but no one loudly criticized the Dominion Military District. That's what the saying goes, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.
The only ones who were unlucky were the Kingdom of Morosik, the Kingdom of Resnia and the Principality of Vasilko that lost their colonies. Other colonial countries on the west coast have accepted the lessons of these three countries and strengthened the supervision and control of the indigenous peoples in their colonies.
Of course, some benefits were also distributed to appease the indigenous peoples. At the same time, the colonial garrison was also allowed to prepare border defenses and set up complete defensive fronts and defensive positions to prevent sneak attacks by the enemy...
Claude and the senior staff officers of the Dominion Military Region took a look around and found that the colonies on the west coast really had nothing to take advantage of. They were all very careful about the Dominion Military Region, so they stopped thinking about doing something. Anyway,
The most important thing for the Dominion Military Region this year is to settle the internal affairs. The eight Hicks Returning Divisions will be reduced and deorganized when they return, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of Hicks military dependents and immigrants will have to be resettled. Therefore, the Dominion Military Region can wait until next year to make arrangements with the West Coast.
The colonial countries slowly competed...
However, sometimes accidents happen very suddenly. One night at the end of May, the Weeds Mountain Harbor Colony of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands was suddenly attacked and robbed by numerous pirate gangs. A group of pirates from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands who had just arrived and stayed in the harbor
A sailing fleet was robbed and divided up by the pirates in advance. When most of the sailors and sailors went ashore to spend a cheerful night, these large sailing battleships without much defense soon fell into the swarm.
In the hands of a pirate gang...
About fifty or sixty sailing warships in relatively good condition fell into the hands of these pirate gangs, and the remaining forty or so transport ships were all set on fire by these pirate gangs that came to attack. In other words, the United Kingdom of Fox Islands
One of the four prestigious naval fleets was inexplicably lost to the pirates, and even the Wedes Mountain Seaport Colony, which they planned to build into a shipbuilding base, was plundered by the pirates...
The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands is very angry, as if they were slapped in the face by pirates. The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, which has always been known as a maritime power, has four powerful sailing fleets. No pirate dares to offend them easily at sea.
Strength and dignity. Generally speaking, ocean-going merchant ships flying the flag of the Fox Islands United Kingdom Navy Fleet are rarely intercepted and attacked by pirate gangs.
But no one expected that this time the pirate gangs would unite to attack a sailing fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands. Not only did they successfully carve up the sailing warships in their fleet, but they also robbed the shipbuilding base of their kingdom. United Kingdom of Fox Islands
The losses were so huge that they immediately sent two powerful sailing fleets to the waters of the Nubari Islands to look for trouble with the pirate gang and try to find out who was the culprit who planned the attack and robbery...
Claude never imagined that he would face such a trouble. At that time, he was just talking about it, thinking that the other party would not dare to take action. Unexpectedly, he underestimated the other party. After cutting off contact with the other party, the other party actually planned such a conspiracy.
The shocking attack destroyed a naval fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, which was regarded as fulfilling the conditions they set forth. Now the other party requires that they fulfill their promise and transfer six armored battleships to them...
"Is this really an attack planned by Erikson?" Claude asked General Boquear standing in front of him with a wry smile.
General Boker nodded |: "This is the third time you have asked this question, Claude. I am sure for the third time that it must be Erikson's Black Sails pirates who have gathered the other thirteen pirate gangs to carry out the
The attack on the Mount Guards Harbor Colony. For those pirate gangs, obtaining regular sailing warships is a good thing they dream of. And the sailing fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands has given these pirates a godsend.
Chance......
Erikson said that he has been paying attention to the Mount Weeds Harbor Colony in the United Kingdom of Fox Islands since the year before last, because this colony is a relatively rare gathering place rich in mineral resources on the west coast. If a mineral can be hijacked here,
A transport ship loaded with gold, silver and precious minerals means that all pirates involved in the operation will make a fortune.
However, Erikson soon discovered that the minerals mined in this colony were no longer transported to the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, but were stored in warehouses. At the same time, the colonial authorities also recruited manpower for harbor construction, town construction and other planning. With Airy
He quickly found out that the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands was planning to vigorously develop the Mount Guards seaport colony and build it into their armored warship production base...
Since then, Erikson has invested a lot of energy in the Weeds Mountain seaport colony and ambushed many of his men. Even the colonial authorities of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands did not know about this well-known man in the seaport town.
The captain of the smuggling ship was actually Ericson, the leader of the famous Black Sail Pirates, and they were all successfully concealed.
Then Erikson noticed that the biggest defensive weakness of the Mount Guards seaport colony was that it was tight on the outside and loose on the inside. Especially on the night when a sailing fleet from the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands arrived at the colony and anchored in the harbor, almost half of the
Sailors and sailors would go ashore to party with women and strong drinks to reward themselves for their loneliness on the warship.
If we can control the twelve coastal artillery positions on the hills outside the harbor at this time, control the lighthouse from sounding the bell warning of pirate attacks, and let the pirate ships from outside enter. Then there is no need to guess the result.
The sailing fleet was finished. It was not clear whether the guards they left on the ship could gather the sailors of a ship. They were no match for those wolf-like pirates.
The seaport towns and shipbuilding bases are like plucked turkeys. In the face of warships with a large number of artillery, any resistance cannot last long. Erikson believes that the attack he planned will bring him
Extraordinary profits. Because he saw with his own eyes that people from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands brought two armored warships into the shipbuilding base and began to imitate four more armored warships. In other words, there were six armored warships in this shipbuilding base.
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"Then what? Did Erikson obtain these six armored battleships?" Claude asked.
General Bokoal nodded: "Yes, I got it, but Erikson found that what he got was only the hulls of six iron-clad warships, which were not equipped with steam-powered machinery. Experts from the Fox Islands United Kingdom's shipbuilding base and several
A rune mage admitted that they were also stumped by the material of this marine steam-powered machine. They were experimenting with replicating it, but had no results yet. Ericson had no choice but to drag away these experts and the hulls of six armored battleships.
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Now Erikson sent someone to come to me and asked me to tell you to fulfill your previous promise to him. You once said that if Erikson's black sail pirates take the initiative to attack and destroy a group of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands,
If you want to build a sailing fleet, you will transfer the six first-generation iron-clad battleships staying in the military port to the Black Sail Pirates. Now Ericson's Black Sailing Pirates teamed up with other pirate groups to destroy a sailing fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands.
So when will your armored battleship be handed over to them?"
Claude hesitated for a moment: "Boa, do you think it is appropriate to hand over the armored battleship to Erikson? I am worried that our Dominion Military District will be attacked by pirates and cause losses..."
General Boker nodded: "I didn't speak for Erikson, but I think the current situation, allowing Erikson's Black Sails Pirates to join, may bring great unexpected changes to the west coast, which will be very important to us.
It is gratifying for the Dominion Military District, and it is better than this stalemate continuing. The armored battleships can be transferred to Erikson, but we need to find a way to let the Black Sails Pirates cleverly obtain these six armored battleships. We cannot let anyone
The misunderstanding was that our Dominion Military Region took the initiative to hand it over to the Heifan pirates..."
Claude tapped his fingers on the table and pondered for a while: "Okay, let me think about it first. You ask Erikson to wait patiently for three days, and by the way, ask about the six ships he got from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands.
Does the hull of the armored battleship need to be modified? If possible, we can help it be modified into a practical armored battleship..."
The Black Sail Pirates led by Ericson gathered other pirate gangs to successfully attack and plunder the Weeds Mountain Port Colony of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, and destroyed and divided up a full sailing fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands.
This achievement indeed made Ericson and the Black Sail Pirates famous at once. Two sailing fleets from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands went to the waters of the Nubari Islands to find trouble with pirates, hoping to find the traces and whereabouts of the Black Sails Pirates.
The officers at the Dominion Military District Headquarters who were qualified to participate in the discussion of this incident had different opinions on whether to transfer the six obsolete first-generation ironclad battleships to the Black Sails pirates. In the end, it was General Beachlin who persuaded the senior officers present and made the final decision.
decision.
General Beachlin believes that Erikson and the Black Sail Pirates have now become the mortal enemies of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands. Two sailing fleets are searching for their whereabouts. The rest of the pirate gangs whose own safety has been affected also hate Airi.
Kesen and the Black Sail Pirates are deeply rooted in their hearts. If there is any news about them, they will be handed over to the Navy of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands without hesitation.
Under such circumstances, strengthen the strength of the Black Sail Pirates led by Erikson so that they can compete with the sailing fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, or they can inflict heavy damage to the sailing fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands again. In that case, the United Kingdom of Fox Islands will not be able to
If they continue to dominate the sea, once their two sailing fleets retreat and avoid fighting, their three colonies on the west coast will be in danger, and they will easily become the eyes of other colonial countries...
As for whether the black-sail pirates will pose a threat to the Dominion's shipping after they own the iron-clad warships, General Beachlin believes that there is no need to worry about this. First, the Dominion Military District Navy is equipped with newer iron-clad warships, which can completely
They are crushed in terms of quantity and quality. Secondly, the Black Sail Pirates can currently only rely on the Dominion Military Region to refit and repair ironclad warships. As long as they are clear-headed, they will not offend the Dominion Military Region for no reason.
Claude decided to give Erikson a chance. He promised to hand over six first-generation armored battleships to the Black Sail Pirates, and said that he could use the hulls of the six armored battleships that the Black Sail Pirates obtained from the Wedes Mountain Harbor Shipbuilding Base.
They remodeled and repaired the boat, but quoted a high price of 100,000 gold crowns. What Claude didn't expect was that Erikson agreed to his request and sent jewelry worth 600,000 gold crowns.
, and the six hull-like warships.
The deal with Erikson came to an end for the time being. After all, it would take some time to refit six first-generation ironclad battleships and repair six warships with average hulls. At this time, the ocean-going transport fleet of the Dominion Military Region once again transported more than 300,000 Hicks.
The Sri Lankan military immigrants and the four Hicks Returning Divisions have returned, and the rest will be completed after just one more trip. According to the plan, all eight Hicks Returning Divisions will be downsized and deorganized.
"What do you mean?" Claude looked at the blood book in his hand. It should be considered a blood book. At least the names were black and red, and they were signed with blood.
Standing in front of Claude was General Derivic, one of the two commanders-in-chief of the eight Hicks Homecoming Divisions. At this moment, his face was flushed, and he explained with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty Marshal, in this blood book
Those officers and soldiers of the Hicks Homecoming Division signed their names with their own blood. They were unwilling to retire, but instead expressed their willingness to fight on the battlefield for the overseas dominions, even if they sacrificed their own lives. So they signed the blood book with hope.
Don't cut down or disband these Hicks Homecoming Divisions..."
Okay, no need to explain, Claude suddenly understood. It was nothing more than the cash reward issued a few months ago that made these Hickshills red-eyed and enthusiastic. They found that joining the military was also a very lucrative future. Now they are facing layoffs.
He was disbanded and returned to be a civilian, but he was reluctant to part with the generous treatment he received from serving as a soldier for the Dominion.
Think about it, an ordinary soldier of the Hicks Returning Division just went back to the Hicks Kingdom, retrieved his family and relatives, and immigrated to the overseas Dominion together. All expenses were reimbursed by the Dominion Military District.
Soldiers are also paid monthly salary and welfare subsidies. Even if this soldier did not fire a single shot in the Kingdom of Hicks, that is, he performed normal sentry duty, he received a cash reward of ten gold crowns when he came back. How could this be possible?
Not exciting?
If you find a job in a private workshop or farm, you will only be paid two to three silver thalers for a month's hard work. And those of the Hicks Returning Division who captured armed resistance elements in Wangjing
Compared with officers and soldiers, there is a huge difference. The rewards for each of those officers and soldiers are more than thirty or forty gold crowns. The more battles they have experienced, the higher the rewards. So now these Hicks soldiers also write bloody letters to serve overseas
The Dominion served loyally.
Claude thought for a moment and then told General Derivic thoughtfully: "The Dominion Military District still has a quota for volunteer corps. The eight Hicks Returning Divisions will be reduced and demobilized. For those officers and soldiers who are willing to serve the Dominion, please
They selected and recruited the best from them to form this Hicks Volunteer Corps. The organization is the same as the Thunder and Rock Corps, with four divisions and 90,000 troops. You will temporarily serve as the commander of the Corps..."