MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 573 Two letters and the Patriotic Front
Chapter 573 Two Letters and the Patriotic Front
"... I don't know what to say, but I believe that God of War must be in the blessing of our autonomous territory. Claude, you know why the duke of the North, Pillag. The news that I just got from the North, that the Duke Pilag H. Ferriot has stayed in his family estate for the past six months to heal ... "Colonel Bokal said.
"Healing?" Claude looked at his teenage friend in confusion, perhaps that was the real reason for the archduke Pilar H. Ferriot to sit and watch the fall of Hicks Kingdom.
"Yes." Colonel Bokal nodded, he knew Claude's taboo on the Duke of Pillag H. Feriot, after all, the North Grand Duke had served as the Supreme Commander of the Union Army, and he was in Boricia. Claude's scheme was seen through later in the battle. Withdrawing early, Crowd lost ground. In Crowder's mind, the Hicks Northland Duke with such keen intuition on the battlefield was his real opponent for this Hicks Kingdom strategy.
What Crowd didn't expect was that the Thunder and Stormwind Corps ravaged the Hicks Kingdom, captured Wang Jingsheng's Hiprian City, swept the eight counties in the south and nine counties in the east, and provoked the neighboring vassal nations to scorn the Hicks Kingdom. . It's been more than half a year, but the Hicks Northland Duke is like a tortoise, and hasn't been moving in the Northland. The autonomous region has no secret agents deployed in the northern highlands of the Hicks Kingdom. It can only be dispatched on an ad hoc basis, and until now there has been verifiable news.
"The news that the Duke Pilag Hieliot was injured is believed to be unclear even to the vast majority of the nobles of the Hicks Kingdom. It is said that the Feriot family immediately took measures to block the news to prevent it. Found by that McKid III. Because this MacKid III had dealt with an old noble who had contradictions with him, summoned him to Wang Jing during this old noble's illness, and ran back and forth to make him dead ... ..
Now that the North Grand Duke has been wounded for half a year and has almost recovered, so the talents of their family have relaxed a bit. In addition, the Hicks Kingdom has been attacked by our autonomous region. It does not exist in the future. It is difficult to say. It was a lot loose, and accidentally revealed the secret of the North Grand Duke who had been injured for more than six months. Our agent spied on a maid in the Feriot's family estate, and the maid told him the secret when they were in love.
The maid said that the North Grand Duke had been deprived of his kingdom by the mad McKid III since the last withdrawal, and even the rank of Field Marshal was lost, leaving the Grand Duke of the North to go home and miss it. On the eve of the autonomous region's preparations to attack the Hicks Kingdom, civil struck broke out in a barbarian country around the Northland. The North Grand Duke led the family's frontier corps to peace and unrest. He was sought out by a hidden barbarian before the war ended. Hit the right chest ...
Because the lead bullets used by these barbarian gunmen were soaked in venom and dung water, the wounded North Duke's wound also quickly became inflamed and almost did not come back. Later, a mysterious doctor came and swallowed the rotten meat around the wound with a strange meat worm. The worm spit out water to form a mucous membrane to seal the bleeding wound. This rescued the Duke of the North. Because the suffering is too severe, it takes more than six months to recover from injuries ... "
No wonder the North Grand Duke hasn't been moving much. The two Hicks kingdoms who fled to his standing legion just stick to the North to choose a place. What's that name? The Grand Duke of the Sunset River was able to gather hundreds of thousands of civilian militants, claiming to be 300,000 transferred to the ten counties in the west to compete for the site and set up the king. If the North Grand Duke is okay, maybe he would have suppressed the Grand Duke of the Sunset River long ago, and he would not let him escape from the eleven counties in the north ...
Of course, this may be the result of the deliberate laissez-faire of the Grand Duke of the Northland. He asked the Grand Duke of the Sunset River to go to the ten counties in the west to try to test the bottom line of the Autonomous Leadership Zone. Is that still the end of the Hicks Kingdom? After recovering from a half-year injury, he should almost think about the current situation, which is related to the future of his grandfather family in the north ...
But no matter how much, this Northland Grand Duke has also lost his first opportunity, and he is in a situation where he is more than self-protected. Claude didn't want to provoke the Northern Grand Duke, but he had to decide a victory with him. In his opinion, the last six counties in the west were finally attacked, and the last batch of officers and soldiers of the Hicks Returning Division reunited with the immigrant overseas dominion. Then this Hicks Kingdom strategy can end perfectly. There is no need to sacrifice the valuable lives of the soldiers to meet the duke of the Northland.
"So, I write two letters, and you look for two reliable people as messengers, and send these two letters to the Archduke of the North and the Archduke of the Sunset River that occupies the western region." Said the Colonel. If he could, he was even reluctant to attack the remaining six local counties in the west. What's more, that Grand Duke of the Sunset River also has 100,000 horses. In addition to the garrison of six local counties, there are still more than 300,000 troops. To storm down, you need to pay a lot of casualties ... ..
Colonel Bokal nodded, while slowly tasting the fruit wine in the glass while waiting for Claude to write his two letters. Claude's letter to the Duke Pillag Hieliotte was nothing but a long-awaited remark, and then told about his painstaking efforts to attack the Hicks Kingdom, which meant that he encountered such a paranoia as McKid III The king had to do this. Otherwise, for the next few decades, the kingdom of Ovilas and the overseas dominion will not be peaceful, and peace can only be achieved by solving this McKid III.
Just now Colonel Bokal said that the news that the North Grand Duke was injured must be concealed from McKid III, so Claude believed that the North Grand Duke should not be a loyal member of the Hicks royal family, and he was very clear Is Germany honest? It is true that such a paranoid king would cause a headache for the courtiers below. It should be said that this McKid III was self-sustaining. If he had earlier acknowledged that Claude would not have thought of the Hicks Kingdom if he failed to sign a truce peace agreement, then this flight to the Hicks Kingdom would have been avoided.
Claude stated in the letter that he would not send troops to the northern 11 counties, because the officers and men of the Hicks Homecoming Division who wanted to emigrate to the overseas dominion did not come from the northern region. The rebellious lords of that year were mostly in the west, central, eastern and southern regions. After their failure, McKid III punitively recruited young people from their territories to form the Nubian West Expeditionary Force to go to that field and the autonomous territory. Colonial war.
If the Hicks Kingdom allowed the Hicks prisoners released by the autonomous region a few years ago to return to visit their relatives, then this war may not happen. But McKid III declared that the captives who came back to visit their relatives were kingdom rebellions, and they were hanged when caught. Eventually, they provoked the anger of more than 500,000 Hicks captives living in the overseas dominion.
The previous year, McKid III saw that the Hicks Volunteer Division formed by the autonomous region commanded an extraordinary performance in the war on the West Coast, and had a bad idea. He wanted to use these two Hicks Volunteer Divisions to seek for the Hicks Kingdom on the West Coast. The colony sent special envoys to persuade them to fight against Georgia, which forced Claude to decide to implement the Hicks Kingdom Raiders plan and annihilated this confidant.
In the letter, Claude said in a straightforward manner the reasons why the autonomous region commanded the Hicks kingdom. He promised that the autonomous region would not occupy an inch of the Hicks kingdom. He would complete the Hicks return home division to join the reunion of immigrants. He will evacuate after his mission, so he hopes not to have any misunderstanding with the Feriot family. The autonomous region will not attack the 11th Northland County. At the same time, it is hoped that the Grand Duke of the Northland will not go out of the 11th Northland County. Otherwise, there will be a misunderstanding that conflicts will not be expected by everyone ...
Seal the envelope, put a stamp on the wax cover, and finish writing the letter. Then there was another letter to the Archduke of the Sunset River. In this letter, Claude said nothing nonsense. He only proposed an exchange condition, stating that the remaining six local counties in the west are the next target of the autonomous region. If the Archbishop of the Sunset River does not resist surrender, then Claude can hand over Wang Jing Saint-Hiprian City and Wang Jing area to his management before evacuating ...
I believe that under such conditions, the Grand Duke of the setting sun will definitely consider again and again. The city of Wangjing Saint-Hiprian and Wangjing has always been the essence of the Hicks Kingdom, but it is not a remote place like the ten counties in the west. In addition, the Grand Duke of the Sunset River is a member of the Hicks royal family. He can claim to be orthodox after occupying Wang Jing Saint Hiprian, and then build the Hicks Kingdom. Of course, other forces are willing to obey him and say otherwise.
Claude put forward such a condition, and there was no other way. He originally planned to transfer the remaining ten local counties in the central region together with Wang Jing's Saint-Hiprian city and Wang Jing area to a separatist force. But the problem is that the local defense armed group called the National Front, selected by the Ministry of Military Intelligence, was a bit out of the table. The organization called the Front of the Patriotic Front is plainly a puppet army organization that is committed to the Autonomous Military Command. The local defensive forces were also established to maintain the social order of local towns.
The Patriotic Front is headed by a Baron of the Territory. Although he is one of the nobles of the Hicks Kingdom, their family belongs to the ruined family of the nobles of the territory. The poor family, young and old, do not even have new clothes, are all patched, and have to go to the field to plant and farm. The soldiers who captured the local nobles went to his house. Looking left and right, he could not see that he was like a nobleman in the territory. He looked poorer than the ordinary urban residents ...
However, the baron named Roux was a clever man. He immediately turned to the Autonomous Command and became a leader party. Starting from the first central local county along the way, Westerman County, he took the officers and men of the Thunder Corps to wipe out all the aristocrats and local officials along the way, as well as rich businessmen and gentry. No one leaked, even these. The amount of property in the arrested home is clear.
A major officer led by the team was curious and asked him how he knew the details of the rich, so the baron of the Territory was in tears. Starting from his father, Shen Min and his dream of going out to explore and make money, and then mortgaged everything in the family and borrowed a debt. In the end, they were cheated. The mountain they bought was a white egg with no mineral resources. They also left their family with a heavy debt ...
Before his father died in anger, the three brothers of his family were modest for this title. No one wants to be the baron of this territory. The territory has been mortgaged, and whoever inherits the title is responsible for the family debt. In this way, he became a Baron of Bare Territory. In addition to this title, he had an unclear debt. The reason why the rich people in these cities and towns along the way is clear is because he borrowed money from these rich people.
Speaking of which, he is a clever one. He knows that the debt owed by his family is too large, and the annual interest is the biggest expenditure for him. So he tried to borrow money from these rich people to collect the huge debt, so that he could repay some other people's debt every year, and he could have a hope of paying off his debts. For example, the original debt of 10,000 was divided into twenty and five hundred. In this way, one is repaid each year. One is to reduce interest and the other is to pay off these debts ...
Now, when the Autonomous Military Command comes, he has become a party leading the way, and has wiped out creditors and has no debt. In addition, when the Thunder officers and soldiers copied the house, he could still fight, throwing those things he didn't care about, and he was considered to be rich. Because he did a good job, he was appointed as the leader of the local defense forces, gathered some leading parties that also rely on the Autonomous Leadership Area, and formed a Patriotic Front to perform legwork for the Autonomous Leadership Area.
Claude really did not understand how Colonel Bokal chose the members of the Patriotic Front to prepare to support them as a separatist force. All of these should be regarded as mischief, loyalty to the autonomous region, but poor ability Already. Claude was very dissatisfied with this, but the MI was screaming injustice. They said how could it be possible to find a hero in such a short period of time. It might as well be cheaper. These seemingly honest and obedient party leaders ... ..
The problem is that these honest and obedient party leaders can't afford it! Even if Colonel Bokal says they have great potential, they will grow up as long as they are given the opportunity and time for development. But where is the time for them to develop slowly. For example, like the Red Dragon Army, because Claude rejected their request for reinforcements, he dropped the three occupied local counties and gathered men and horses into another central county that had not yet been swept. Also prepared to evacuate a large sum ...
So the frontline command of the autonomous region commanded the Patriotic Front formed by the Leading Party to receive the three central local counties abandoned by the Red Dragon Army. As a result, these leading parties were savagely rushed back by the local guards formed by the local gentry who had turned to the Red Dragon Army. In the end, the Stormwind Corps sent a Qingqi Field Corps again to sweep away these messy local armed forces, and by the way issued a small fortune to allow these leading parties to gain a foothold.
With such a little ability of the Patriotic Front, how can it achieve the three-legged situation of the Hicks Kingdom after the withdrawal of the entire army planned by the autonomous region? On one side is the Grand Duke of the Northland, who has basic territory and family force. On the one side is the defensive forces. The former corporal leader of the Hicks Falklin Legion, Muredes J. Kleist, is not a simple figure. He has a close relationship. Compared with these two parties, the leading party of the Patriotic Front is useless.
To put it bluntly, in the ten local counties in the central part, let the Patriotic Front take the lead party one person and one local county. Claude believes that when the autonomous region's troops are withdrawn, they will fight each other. Not to mention the resistance to the Grand Duke of the Northern Territory and the Protecting Army. Even if they handed Wang Jing Saint-Hiprian City and Wang Jing area to them, they might die faster. That's why Claude chose another candidate, and fancy the Grand Duke of the setting sun.
The handing over of Wang Jingsheng's Hiprian City and Wang Jing area to this Grand Duke of the Sunset River will make it the nail of the guardian army forces. The Grand Duke of the Guardian Army forces must deal with first. However, there are also hidden dangers in the forces of protecting the country. Behind him is the granddaughter of the Northern Territory. In this way, the forces of the defending country will cast a jeopardy. If there is no way to defeat the Grand Duke of the setting sun, they can only cooperate with the Grand Duke of the North.
And the Grand Duke of the Sunset River who has mastered Wang Jingsheng's Hiprian City and Wangjing area is not as good as the National Guard, so he will inevitably turn the target of annexation to the ten central local counties in charge of the National Front. And if these leading parties of the Patriotic Front do not want to be annexed by the Grand Duke of the Sunset River, they can only cooperate sincerely to resist the Grand Duke of the Sunset River. In this way, the situation in the entire Hicks Kingdom has formed a delicate balance, and no one can grasp it. If you swallow the target, you can only keep it that way.
Claude gave the two letters he had written to Colonel Bokal, and asked him to find two reliable messengers to deliver the letter to the Grand Duke of the North and the Grand Duke of the Sunset. He believed that the Grand Duke of the Northern Territory would not act rashly after reading his letter. When sending troops to the Northern Territory, he would do a battle with the autonomous region. Everyone is a smart person. It is necessary to avoid unnecessary battles. As for how the Grand Sunset Guild chose Claude, it really doesn't matter. If he doesn't agree, it doesn't matter. Under the storm front, he can only be trampled ...
Fifty-three local counties in the Hicks Kingdom and Wangjing area are now gone. Nine counties in the east are gone. Four kingdoms have been annexed by the Breaux Kingdom. The Principality of Cruise and the Kingdom of Castro were swallowed. There are also only five counties in the eight counties along the southern coast, and the three counties in the Manoli Plain have returned to the Kingdom of Breot.
When the ten counties in the west are swept by the Storm Legion, they will be swallowed down by the surrounding three countries, the Kingdom of Monadiro, the Principality of Tumaco and the Kingdom of Isabella, and the remaining territory of the Kingdom of Hicks will be left to the north. Eleven counties and five counties in the south, plus 15 counties in the middle and a Wangjing area.
Such a large area was again occupied by four separatist forces, and the strength of those four forces was not much different from that of an ordinary Principality. In the future, it would no longer be able to make waves and trouble the Kingdom of Ovilas and the Overseas Autonomous Territory. Already. Now Claude only hopes that the four forces can fight for as long as possible in the future, it is best to be old and wasteland ...
