MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 553 Travel to the Kingdom
Chapter 553 Going to the Kingdom
Hicks Kingdom is not easy to play, Crowd knows it. But he now felt compelled to fight because the kingdom was really disgusting. It's like a badger dog, staring at you, you give it a few feet, and beat it away. But after a while it ran over again, far away, still staring at you, making you restless. Maybe for a moment, you will be bitten by it, and it will be too late to cry.
This is a rogue country, especially the King of King Hicks III, who is also a lunatic and paranoid. You can't say that he has no way of governing the country. He alone is dealing with the aristocrats of the Hicks Kingdom. The four colonial wars consumed all the power of the nobles of the territories. Except for the defeat of the Royal Family, who was laughed at, the power of the Hicks family was not damaged.
In the northern part of Valeria, the Kingdom of Hicks can be regarded as a giant country. The area is almost the same as that of the Kingdom of Ovilas plus the area of Nasseri. It has a population of nearly 30 million, eight standing legions, and neighboring countries are tributaries. The Kingdom is rich in mineral resources and the refining and forging industry is very developed. It can be said that the Hicks are best at exploring minerals and mining. They are natural miners.
This is why on the mainland of Nubia, other countries like to develop colonies along the coast, but the Hicks Kingdom only knows how to develop inland mountains. They like to mine, especially the gold and silver mineral resources, and they can become a huge wealth at hand. Decades of mining and excavation in the inland colonies of the mainland of Nubia have brought countless gold and silver mineral resources into the Kingdom of Hicks.
If other countries spent so much military funds, lost seventeen or eighty legions, and lost such four colonial wars, then the state's financial bankruptcy and the people's riots and royal families would perish. But the Hicks Kingdom has not changed much. Instead, the Hicks family has expanded its influence in the Kingdom, and the reasons for the failure of the colonial war have been pushed to the nobles of the Kingdom Territory. They have become the best scapegoats.
Then the Kingdom of Hicks intervened in the eastern part of Farea, in the name of helping the Principality of Seedings and the reinstatement of the Principality of Rimodera. Acquired an enclave and reaped a wave of prestige. Then formed the Eastern Union National Alliance, aiming at the Kingdom of Ovilas, preparing to avenge the defeat of the colonial war on the land of the Kingdom of Ovilas ...
Through the debt war between the kingdoms of Nasri and Ovilas, Hicks successfully formed the Alliance of Eastern Nations Alliance, invaded the Kingdom of Ovilas, and occupied the capital. The capital, held a grand military parade, announced the annihilation of the Kingdom of Ovilas, and settled thoroughly the place where war and peace in the eastern part of the Farea continent could not be achieved.
In fact, McKid III's speech almost became a reality. If the Kingdom of Ovilas could not receive reinforcements from overseas dominions, then the Kingdom of Ovilas may not really exist. It was only after the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion of the Overseas Dominion returned to the realm of the kingdom that the scales of war turned to the side of the Kingdom of Ovilas.
The Rock Legion obtained the big eyebrows of Ambrize County, and the troops of the Kingdom of Nasseri and Hicks were severely damaged, and they retreated a hundred miles at a stretch to hold their ground, while the Thunder Legion from Froric in the Principality of Rimodera The harbour landed, sweeping through the Eskilin region of the Hicks Kingdom's enclave in the eastern part of the mainland, as well as the Principalities of Rimodera and the Principality of Sideins. The two principalities that were able to regain their reliance on the Hicks Kingdom were completely destroyed. The grand dukes and their families of the two principalities were all caught in the net, and none of them ran away.
Immediately after that, the Thunder Corps plunged into the King of Polyssia in the Nasser Kingdom, broke the city, and captured the Nasser Royal family. A series of combined punches made the Alliance army dizzy and turn, and the crisis in the rear made the frontline army unstable, helpless The Alliance army had to withdraw from the Kingdom of Ovilas, and the soldiers headed towards the Royal City of Polynesia, intent on solving the enemies behind them, the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps of the Overseas Dominion ...
Finally, the Battle of Polynesia, the two armies of the Union Army and the Overseas Dominion launched a deadly decisive battle in the Royal City of Polynesia. As a result, although the Alliance army was crowded, it unfortunately fell into the trap set by the enemy, and the soldiers of the Alliance were driven by greed to perish. Only the commander of the Alliance Army, Marshal Pillag Hieliot, Duke of the North of the Hicks Kingdom, keenly aware of the unsatisfactory situation, fled back to the Hicks Kingdom with more than 100,000 remnants.
It can be said that the Alliance of Eastern Continental Countries formed by the Kingdom of Hicks became the loser again in the Second Eastern Regional War with the Kingdom of Ovilas. The Principality of Seedings and the Principality of Rimodera are completely extinct. The Kingdom of Nasseri has also become the territory of the Kingdom of Ovilas. The Kannas prairie is occupied by the Thunder Corps. The Grand Duchy of Kannas runs fast and flees with his family. By the Hicks Kingdom, the entire eastern region was included in the territory of the Kingdom of Ovilas.
Under normal circumstances, the Kingdom of Hicks should sign a truce peace agreement with the Kingdom of Ovilas, no matter how the two countries are not adjacent, there are two kingdoms in the middle. From the colonial war to the Second Eastern War, the Hicks Kingdom was a losing party, and there is no need to continue to entangle with the Kingdom of Ovilas. As long as they are willing to admit defeat, the Kingdom of Ovilas will not make excessive demands, and the two countries will easily end the state of war and reach a peace agreement.
But the Hicks Kingdom has a paranoid king, McKid III. He refused to admit that he was a loser. Even if he lost three or four standing legions, a powerful sailing fleet, he was still reluctant to send messengers. The kingdom of Ovilas seeks peace, preferring that the state of war between the two countries continue, and this stalemate continues.
In addition to refusing to admit defeat, McKid III also supported the only escaped prince Vedario from the deceased kingdom of Nasseri to become the new king of Nasseri, and Kanner who fled to the kingdom of Hicks The Archduke together established the exile, and declared that the Second Eastern War was not over. The Kingdom of Hicks would help his allies to regain their country and perish the Kingdom of Ovilas ...
I have to admit that this feeling is really disgusting. Just like whatever you are doing, there is an unscrupulous gaze behind your back or in the shadow staring at your back, it seems to be looking for opportunities to give you cruelty Come on hard. Claude received some news about the Kingdom of Hicks in the overseas dominion. The hereditary family territory of the kingdom aristocrats who had been sealed in the Nasseri region was often attacked and robbed by gangsters from the Kingdom of Mombak. Behind them All have Hicks agents.
Claude had some gloating feelings at first, thinking that it would not be a bad thing for a Hicks kingdom to add some trouble to the king, lest the kings of Wang Ting always focus on the overseas dominions. In particular, King Frederick I used the method of conferring hereditary family territories to obtain a huge amount of gold crowns from the nobles of the kingdom with the promotion fee and land selection fee, which resolved the financial crisis of the kingdom in one fell swoop. envy, jealousy, hate.
Not to mention, just the cash of 30 million kronor collected from overseas dominions, 400,000 new rifles, 30 million rounds of bullets, and 16 iron armored ships made Crowd feel abnormal pain. . It was just that he was not able to express his opposition. After all, all members of the Overseas Autonomous Leadership Council, honorary nobles, and generals of Jinjue expressed satisfaction with this. Money and materials can be exchanged for a hereditary family territory, which can be said to be the pinnacle of their lives and worth the infinite admiration of future generations ...
Now the situation in the Kingdom is very good, and there is a booming scene. With sufficient funds, and without the involvement of the kingdom's old aristocratic family forces in the royal court, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, Marquis Blanchard, has carried out his economic revival plan in the Kingdom. One year has passed, and it has also begun to bear fruit. The kingdom has a revival.
Therefore, Claude was pleased with the various small-scale armed conflicts that occurred on the border between the Nasseri region and the Kingdom of Mombak. Although the Nasseri region has been confiscated to the kingdom's territories, it is entirely possible for these territories to form a family to respond to these gangster attacks. But as a king, Frederick I also had to decide for his kingdom's aristocrats, and it was his obligation to send a special envoy to negotiate with the Kingdom of Mambamac.
What Claude didn't expect was that the wildfire plan carried out by the autonomous region in the eight-nation colony on the west coast caught the attention of the paranoid king of the Hicks kingdom, McKid III, and sent a special envoy to contact the Hicks volunteer division. . This was by no means tolerable for Claude. He could only order the two Hicks divisions to quietly withdraw the Dominion.
As Claude said to General Drivek and General Hibilos, in the event that the agents of those Hicks kingdoms lurk into overseas dominions, contact those Hicks released prisoners, use the conditions of returning to reunite with their families, The use of family safety to coerce these Hicks' released prisoners will really bring chaos to overseas dominions ...
If these two Hicks volunteer divisions continue to implement the wildfire plan on the west coast, if the envoys sent by the Hicks Kingdom follow up, the combat strength of the two Hicks volunteer divisions will still be very good. Easy to get a colony from an indigenous people. Then it was the Hicks Kingdom that once again sent troops to the mainland of Nubia. With the nature of the paranoid king McKid III, the overseas dominion said that it would not be necessary to fight the fifth colonial war again.
This is the main reason why Claude is determined to settle the Hicks Kingdom once and for all. He must lay down this rogue state completely and step on one foot so that it can never be troubled behind. Only in this way can the kingdom's homeland be assured of economic construction, and overseas dominions can continue to implement the wildfire plan without worries.
For Claude, now is the best time to defeat the Hicks Kingdom. The first is that the Hicks Kingdom has just retreated from the Second Eastern Regional War. No matter how hard McKid III uttered, it will not change the East. The regional alliance of nations overthrew the fact that the participating nations were destroyed. Even though there are still two exiled kings in the Hicks Kingdom, trying hard to maintain the shelf of the alliance, they have lost the territory of the eastern region and are currently at a low tide.
The second point is that the Overseas Dominion and the Kingdom of Ovilas have maintained their military superiority over the Hicks Kingdom. They are almost ahead of the Hicks Army in terms of advanced performance of weapons and equipment, and in training in tactics and tactics. Decades of gap.
A Thunder Legion can sling two standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom with one enemy and two. If Claude does not show this advantage on the battlefield as soon as possible, but waits for the Hicks Kingdom to slowly catch up on the military side, that is the biggest fool ...
The third advantage is that Claude does not lack a leading party now. The eight Hicks Returning Divisions are the best puppet forces. They are not part of the Hicks royal family, but are opposed to McKid III. Those who belonged to the nobles of the Hicks kingdom. Now they hate McKid III very much, because he regards them as trash, abandoned in the overseas dominion, regardless of their life and death, and even hinders them, and refuses to return to their country to reunite with their family.
In the eyes of Claude, he has taken these more than 500,000 Hicks prisoners as his own, and the only difficulty is how to get them back to heart, and the willing immigrants settle in the overseas dominion. Therefore, taking them back to the Hicks Kingdom and letting them move with their families and relatives to overseas dominions became the only best option.
This is a win-win situation for overseas dominions. There is a shortage of new immigrants in overseas dominions. It is not like the kingdom itself, there are more than a thousand people a year, but millions. If there are more than 500,000 Hicks prisoners, and their families and relatives will also move to overseas dominions, it will be at least two or three million immigrants.
Claude didn't need these eight Hicks Returning Homes as a vanguard and rushed in front as cannon fodder. Even the Hicks prisoners of these Home Returning Divisions hated King McKid III very much. At the same time, the eight Hicks prisoners of the Homecoming Division also hated their original owners. Those nobles of the Hicks Kingdom put their lives and deaths at risk, and they could not return to the country by allowing them to work in overseas autonomous labor, and no one came to visit them. they......
Crowd only needed the eight Hicks Homecoming Divisions to defend the Hicks Kingdom after the Thunder Corps captured them. They were originally Hicks, and would not arouse resistance from Hicks residents, or even use their experience to arouse the sympathy of the Hicks. As long as there are no troubles in the rear, the Thunder Corps in front can naturally attack forward without fear, invincible.
On January 16th of the Holy Light Calendar, Claude boarded the new flag of the Iron Armored Fleet [Piqu Island www.biqudao.vip], the iron armoured cruiser Saint Hugh Linde, and went to the kingdom.
"... For our autonomous command zone, the three elements of an iron armored warship are structure, speed, and artillery. In this era, the Farsland world has not yet had an iron armored warship comparable to our autonomous command zone. Basically, Other countries are still exploring how to use mechanical power to propel ships to sail. We have led them a lot, so for us, the first element is how to design and manufacture ironclad ships that are more suitable for cruising and combat. Improving their voyage performance is the most important.
Regarding maritime operations, I always think that the speed of the armored warship is the most critical, and we can catch up with the enemy at a fast speed. Even if we are in a quantity disadvantage, we can use the sea strike method, and run, or assault, breakthrough The enemy's fleet formation caused them a chaotic situation, and then divided and surrounded and swallowed up the enemy's fleet.
Artillery is also very important, this is the third element. In fact, our ironclad warships do not need to consider defense at this stage, because the enemy's cannon-mounted artillery can hardly pose a threat to our ironclad warships. Unless it is the heavy naval gun that fires a huge solid iron projectile, it will cause some damage to our iron armored warship.
And our naval guns are still not good from the current equipment situation. Look at the six turrets now assembled, one turret and one barrel. When can two turrets of a turret be fired together to pass? Of course, our naval guns are now the best because other countries can't compare with us. What's more, our naval gun range has reached 2,500 meters, which is already a great improvement. ... "
Claude and his younger brother, General Admiral Murray of the Iron Armored Fleet, have been discussing the tactical issues of the Iron Armored Ship in naval battles during this voyage. It was the emptying of all the stock in his stomach that made General Murray let him pass. Twenty years later, the retired General Merried wrote a "naval warfare review," in which he honored Claude as the founder of a new era in naval warfare.
On the sixteen-day voyage, the Iron Armored Fleet appeared in Sharkkou Bay outside the kingdom's native White Deer City. In the distance, two Iron Armored battleships greeted with their whistle. In the binoculars, on the podium deck of the iron armored destroyer on the left, a sailor was waving two small flags of different colors in his hand.
"The semaphore said that the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, Lord Blanchard, had been waiting in White Hart City for a long time, and he welcomed the Kingdom's Field Marshal, Lord Crowd, to return home ..." General Murriet read the meaning of the semaphore.
"Why is Prime Minister Blanchard here?" Claude wondered: "Should the six ironclad warships last transferred this time be taken over by General Prachek, the director of the Kingdom's Naval Department, to take over?"
"Obviously, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom came to the boss, no matter how you are also the Marshal of the Kingdom, he appears to be equal when he appears as the Prime Minister of the Kingdom. As for the idea, you have to meet with him before you know .. .... "General Murray said with a smile.
"Damn, I want to go directly to Beibu Gulf ..." Crow murmured, "Forget it, advanced port. I'll see him and see what he says."
