MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 559 Strategic deception
Chapter 559 Strategic Deception
Baron Thompster is a well-known defense expert in the Hicks Kingdom and a rising star of the Society of Architectural Engineers. He is now 41 years old. This time he was sent by King McKid III to the Kingdom of Breot to help the Breots build a sturdy defensive front in the border mountains to withstand a possible offensive by the Kingdom of Ovilas's Overseas Autonomous Army.
Baron Thompst's father was a court aristocrat who belonged to the Hicks royal family. If he was related to blood, he had a tortuous relationship with the Hicks royal family. The so-called palace aristocracy refers to the aristocracy who specializes in serving the royal family. They have no territory and instead hold a certain position in the palace and receive salary. It can be said that they are the most trusted minions of the royal family.
The father of Baron Thompstead hopes that his child will become an outstanding exploration expert when he grows up, so that he may find a valuable mineral resource for the family, provide the family with a steady stream of wealth, and have the ability to support the family to obtain a piece of Hereditary territory. So Baron Thompster threw him into the Wangjia Institute of Mining and Engineering when he was an adult to study exploration and mining.
What disappointed Baron Thompst's father was that his child was crazy about architectural engineering design while he was studying at the college, but lost interest in his major. Three years after Baron Thompstead graduated from the college, he had become a well-known architectural designer, and the knowledge of exploration and mining can only be said to be ordinary or barely qualified.
What made Baron Thompsite stand out was a set of simple defensive camp maps designed for a fellow mining base, and a noble gold mining base also bought this drawing and constructed it according to the drawing. Four months later, the gold mining base was attacked by gangsters. Seventeen miners hid in the warehouse facilities of this defensive camp. They repelled nearly a hundred gangsters' attacks and held on for half a month, paying only one death and four injuries. The price of waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.
This incident caused a sensation throughout the Hicks Kingdom, and the map paper designed by Baron Thompstead also attracted a lot of attention. Many owners of the mining industry suddenly discovered that the construction of a mining base in accordance with the map paper of this defensive camp would improve the security performance several times. In the event of an attack by a gangster, it is really difficult to obtain strong defense facilities in the defense camp without powerful artillery. As a result, the map paper designed by Baron Thompstead became the standard equipment of various mineral bases ...
It's just that Baron Thompster is a little angry now, because the Breaux laborers who came to build the defensive front are really lazy. This time, Baron Thompst wanted to test the effect of his newly designed anti-fire gun trenches, so he was very strict with those Breaux laborers who worked on it. However, these laborers did not take his famous defense expert of the Hicks Kingdom into consideration and only dug a trench to complete it.
Even Baron Thompst told these workers bitterly that construction in accordance with his newly designed drawings would ensure that guardian casualties were reduced after the outbreak of the war. But even the Breot officer who was in charge of managing these labors didn't care much. He told Baron Thompter that a trench was enough, and the heroic Breot soldiers would not shrink into the trenches as head turtles. They would rather rush out and engage in hand-to-hand combat with their enemies, rather than hiding in thick bunkers and putting cold guns through small openings, that is not the behavior of the warriors.
Baron Thompst was annoyed, but was unable to persuade these stubborn Breots. He actually wanted to cover a thick layer of earth and stone bunkers on the trenches, so as to prevent the enemy's explosive shells from harming the soldiers in the trenches. But the Bretts were unwilling. They thought that the top trenches were more convenient for them to charge and counterattack, and the air in the entire trenches was cloudy after putting in the cover, making people breathless and feeling very depressed. ...
Baron Thompster's desperate decision to sue the Chief Engineering Inspector of the Kingdom of Breot, but he was stopped by his companions halfway. This companion was Captain Richis, who came with him to the frontline of the Kingdom of Breot. Baron Thompst found Captain Richis muddy and covered his face with mud, but his expression was very excited. Baron Thompster was curious to ask what he had done, and how to make such a wolf.
Captain Richis said with excitement that he went to the border of the Monbamac Kingdom to reconnaissance, hid in a mud dwelling, stayed for more than two hours, and escaped the patrol of the camp in the Kingdom of Ovilas opposite, and finally found that The vast and endless enemy garrison camp at the border of the country is an air battalion. The enemy garrison staying in the camp is only those territorial aristocratic coalition forces, not the Thunder Corps of the overseas autonomous territory. He found that most of the camps in front were empty tents and showed no signs of occupancy.
It can be seen that the enemy will not launch an attack on the Kingdom of Breot at all. The Thunder Corps attacked the Kingdom of Mambamac. It is likely that the troops of the Hicks Kingdom in the coastal zone were reassigned to the Kingdom of Breot to reduce the pressure and resistance of their landing. In fact, it is easier and more convenient to capture a seaport and then land than to open the path of the Kingdom of Breaux to the Kingdom of Hicks ...
Baron Thompster was a little disappointed. If Captain Richis's reconnaissance result was true, then no matter how he designed and built that defensive front, it was useless and useless. Maybe those Breots have already detected the same situation as Captain Richis, so it feels like they're a little bit lax and don't want to bother to build that defensive front. It's easy to understand that they are probably hiding this opportunity to get a lot of free arms assistance from Hicks Kingdom ...
In fact, the Hicks Kingdom War Department was also very concerned about the overseas autonomous territories. When it was learned that the Thunder Corps swept the Monbamark Kingdom, the coalition of the nobles wiped out the Nasri Kingdom and the Principality of Kannas in one fell swoop After the resurrection of the National Army, King Hicks set off alarm bells and improved combat readiness. After all, they are still in a state of war with the Kingdom of Ovilas. No matter when they are attacked by the Thunder Corps, it is not an accident. .
This is why McKid III generously provided arms assistance after receiving a letter of request from King Avitre I of the Kingdom of Breot. The Hicks Kingdom has always been very wary of the vassals of these vassal states, especially the Breaux Kingdom. This is the strongest of all vassals. Moreover, the Hicks Kingdom has never really conquered this country. Over the past few decades, with its strong national strength, it has subdued this unruly little brother and obediently obediently.
But compared to the Thunder Corps of the Overseas Dominion, the Kingdom of Breot is less of a threat. Since Avitele I voluntarily jumped out to resist the invasion of overseas dominions, the Kingdom of Hicks naturally encouraged and supported it. In fact, McKid III could not wait for the loss of both the Kingdom of Breaux and the Overseas Autonomous Territory, which would really solve the two major problems in the Kingdom of Hicks.
The high-ranking officers of the Hicks Kingdom Army Department are not all rice buckets. The Second Eastern War has already made the high-ranking officers of the Hicks Kingdom well aware of the capabilities of the Thunder Corps. They believed that even in a head-on field battle, a division of the Thunder Corps was enough to defeat a standing army of them. It is best for Hicks to sign a truce peace agreement with the Kingdom of Ovilas to end the war. Only in this way can we concentrate our manpower and material resources, develop the latest weapons and equipment, and wait for the opportunity to seek revenge from the Kingdom of Ovilas and overseas dominions.
It is a pity that this wise proposal was opposed by the paranoid King McKid III. He believed that the Kingdom of Hicks and Ovilas were two countries separated by land and could only transport one or two legions at a time by sea. As long as the Autonomous Regional Command dared to send the Thunder Corps ashore, then he dared to concentrate the military power of the whole country and fight the enemy ashore.
McKid III didn't believe it. The eight standing legions of the kingdom were still unable to defeat the Thunder and Rock Legions sent ashore by the Dominion Territory. They could be piled to death by the people alone. As long as the enemy dares to land, if the eight standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom are not enough to pile up the two legions, then they can still recruit new recruits to form ten or twenty reserve legions ...
I hope those senior officers of the Navy Department of the Kingdom of the Turks are helpless, and they can only blame their bad luck when encountering such a king. However, Her Majesty insisted that they would not be against the will of McKid III, so they had to make up for the deficiency and launched defense facilities in five seaports in the coastal zone, striving to build a copper wall and iron wall facing the threat of the sea.
After learning that the Thunder Corps of the Overseas Autonomous Regional Command swept the Monbamark Kingdom, the Hicks Army Department immediately organized senior officers to conduct sand table deductions, hoping to conclude that this is the autonomous region's major attack on the Hicks Kingdom. Symptoms, it was because of the excessive resurgence of the National Army that the Thunder Corps was dispatched to annihilate it.
And for the first time, a letter of help from King Avitelle I of the Kingdom of Breoit caused disputes in the Hicks Army. Many senior Hicks officers believe that the Dominion Territory is likely to launch an offensive against the Kingdom of Breot. They will not attack the Hicks Kingdom until after they have occupied this neighboring country, launching attacks and raids.
The evidence of these Hicks Kingdom senior officers is that the Thunder Corps is a light cavalry corps, good at mobile raids, and only land combat can fully use the combat power of the light cavalry corps. By sea, based on capacity calculations, it is not possible for the Autonomous Territory to carry soldiers on board while transporting soldiers. At most, only a small number of horses can be transported over. Then the Thunder Corps will undoubtedly give up its strengths to fight positional attacks, which is the most unwise choice.
In addition, after the Thunder Corps swept the Kingdom of Menbamac, a large barracks was set up on the border line with the Kingdom of Breot to accommodate four or five legions. Think of the intelligence sent by the undercover agents in Beibu Gulf. The ocean cruise transport fleet of the Overseas Dominion was transported by two or three legions under the protection of the armored fleet during this time. This has already shown that their next offensive target is Breo. Kingdom.
However, insisting that the overseas autonomous command areas would use maritime raids, transporting legions from a seaport city, and then launching offensives, senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom would scoff at the conspiracy of the so-called autonomous command area to attack Hicks Kingdom by land. They believe that the land faction has overlooked the most important point. The border between the Kingdom of Breot and the Kingdom of Mambamac is all mountainous, and the light cavalry is also difficult to use and does not play a large role.
As for the avenue between the mountains, it is easy to be blocked and destroyed. In addition to the defensive positions at the top of the mountain, the Thunder Corps must also dismount, and the avenue in the middle of the mountain can be repaired after the hilltops have been captured. The Breots are brave mountain warriors, and they will not let the enemy pass through their territory easily. Go attack Hicks Kingdom. If the Thunder Corps wants to protect its logistics supply channel, it must first occupy the Kingdom of Breot and eliminate the threat of the Breots in the mountains ...
Compared to the entanglement with the Breots in the mountains, it is more convenient and quick to capture a seaport city along the coast of the Hicks Kingdom, at least without adding an enemy to themselves. Therefore, these high-ranking Hicks officers of the maritime faction determined that the large barracks located on the border of the Kingdom of Breot was likely to be the enemy's suspect. The purpose is nothing more than to divide the kingdom of Hicks or cause domestic confusion ...
For these high-ranking officers of the Hicks Kingdom Army, the most painful is that the initiative of war is not in their own hands, but with the enemy. Now the Thunder Corps just occupied the Kingdom of Menbamac, and set up a large barracks on the border of the Kingdom of Breot to let the birds of the Kingdom of Breot and Hicks jump.
The Kingdom of Breot has entered a state of combat readiness to guard against attacks from the enemy. The Hicks Kingdom also sounded the alarm, the troops took precautions, and the officers racked their brains to imagine how and where the enemy would attack. McKid III also wanted to immediately recruit recruits to set up several reserve legions. Fortunately, the ministers of Wang Ting were sober-minded and prevented his impulse.
Quite simply, if the Thunder Corps of the Autonomous Territory has no intention of launching an offensive, then what use is it for the Hicks Kingdom to recruit recruits to form these reserve legions, just a waste of military expenditure? The current Kingdom of Hicks says that the unpleasant point is that there are no mice left in the bellows and there is no way out. There is no need to mention it at sea. Without the Neptune fleet, the troops cannot be transported, and the sea route has been blocked unless the Hicks Kingdom can build an iron armored fleet that rivals the autonomous command zone.
The surrounding area is also a vassal brother. There is no opponent who wants to wage war. Unless the Kingdom of Breoit agrees to let go of the avenue for the Hicks Kingdom's army to attack the Thunder Legion occupying the Monbamac Kingdom. However, McKid III did not have the courage, and his generals did not agree to this. In the case of weaponry and equipment combat strength and the enemy's generation difference, taking the initiative to launch an attack is not called bravery but called death, it is to add merits to the enemy .
At this moment, the Hicks Kingdom Army Department finally received a report from Captain Reuss on the frontline of the Kingdom of Breot. This was not the result of a single reconnaissance, but a dozen Hicks sent to the Kingdom of Breot. Joint report of officers.
Under the leadership of Captain Richis, these Hicks officers conducted repeated reconnaissance on the enemy's barracks set up on the border for the next half month, and captured several enemy soldiers who had fallen into their confession. It was learned that the Thunder Corps had already returned to the Beibu Gulf area. The battalion set up on the border is indeed an air battalion, in order to deter the kingdom of Breoit from interfering with the fact that the kingdom of Menbamac was occupied by the noble coalition ...
This was a false alarm, and the maritime faction won. The land faction made a suggestion in anger and anger, or let the kingdom army take the initiative to attack the Ovilas kingdom aristocratic alliance of the Kingdom of Menbamac through the Kingdom of Breaot, and then attack the Nasseri region after the victory to help Nasseri in exile. country......
However, this proposal was quickly rejected by McKid III. As these land factions said, the Thunder Corps was a light riding legion. Who knew whether they returned to Beibu Bay was true or false, and the spies there did not send definitive information. If this is a conspiracy to lead the snake out of the hole, the Hicks army that is actively attacking will likely fall into the trap of the enemy and encounter a crisis of destruction.
It was not as quiet as those officers and engineering experts dispatched to the Kingdom of Breot could return. Thinking of the large amount of armament supplies and weapons and ammunition delivered to the Kingdom of Breot, McKid III was a little distressed again. He's kind of shameful and doesn't plan to collect aid materials, but this doesn't prevent him from thinking of the Kingdom of Breot as cannon fodder.
Therefore, McKid III wrote to Avitre I asking the Kingdom of Breot to send troops to help defend against the enemy's attack when it was attacked by the autonomous command zone in the Hicks coastal area. He agreed to his request and promised that at least two legions would be sent to help.
On July 23, Hicks agents lurking in the Beibu Gulf sent information one after another to inform the Overseas Autonomous Leading Area that more than 300 sailing ocean transport ships had assembled in Beibu Gulf, as well as nearly 100 sailing warships. One A fleet of twenty-eight iron armored warships. The Thunder Corps, the newly formed Storm Corps, as well as the Rock Corps and a reserve corps banner appeared in the Beibu Gulf Camp, with an estimated total strength of more than 400,000 horses.
Because the camp is heavily guarded, idlers and others can't approach, so the agents can't get a glimpse of the truth. However, in the tavern of the capital city of Campastre, there will always be some grass-roots officers in the drunk autonomous autonomous region. From their leaked gossip, it can be determined that the autonomous region has decided to carry out a landing operation on the Hicks kingdom, but they The purpose is to find out which seaport city ...
On August 11th, the Iron Armored Fleet of the Overseas Autonomous Leadership Area appeared in the waters of the Kingdom of Hicks. They sank all Hicks fishing boats, seized merchant and freight ships, and shelled Minsleak and Cembak in the Hicks. The island raged for three days before leaving.
On August 23, the Iron Armored Fleet of the Overseas Dominion reappeared in the waters of the Kingdom of Hicks. This time they mobilized the Marines and occupied Minslake and Cembak Island.
