MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 580 Bokal and Erikson
Chapter 580 Bokal and Eriksson
Claude got upset very angry, especially last night and Sheila tossed in the middle of the night, can be said to fall asleep at dawn. Coupled with just returning to the overseas dominion, followed by a half-day military meeting, she returned to the mansion late at night and was entangled by the excited Sheila to discuss the issues related to the promotion of the magician. After finally lying down, Sheila, who was in a happy mood, took the initiative to climb up again. After Claude did her best to satisfy Sheila's strong desire, she felt that she had been hollowed out and could not move a finger ... ...
If possible, Claude hopes to sleep in bed for two days and three nights to recover his energy. Anyway, he has a three-day holiday next, and does not need to go to the military headquarters office. But he only slept for four or five hours without thinking. General Bokal broke into the manor uninvited. Sheila naturally knew the relationship between the two of them, so he didn't stop him, so he went directly to the bedroom to force him. Lord pulled from the bed.
Claude stared at General Bokal with a murderous look. If possible, Claude hoped to unload the abominable fat man in front of him as much as he could imagine. There is nothing more irritating than waking up in doze, except that the fat man in front of himself has no self-knowledge and does not know that his arrival has disturbed the good dreams of the master, and still caressing his ass. Looking for the fruit wine he likes in the wine cabinet ...
Holding back his anger, Claude washed his face, finally waking up the drowsy mind: "What's the matter when you come over early in the morning?"
General Bokal didn't notice the repressed anger in the Klodish atmosphere, relying on his relationship with Claude as a young friend, he had become accustomed to Claude casually, and he was used to being no big or small in the barracks. Not to mention the private occasion of the two at home. He finally picked a bottle of fruit wine from the wine cabinet that satisfied him, opened the lid very skillfully, poured himself a glass, and drank it before answering in a ridiculous tone: "I heard you right, Claude It's already over ten o'clock, do you say it's early in the morning? You can have lunch after another little hour ... "
Claude rubbed his temples with two thumbs to make himself more awake and calmer: "I'm not you. I go home to sleep. I have a lot of things to do. I slept late last night and went to bed. It's almost going to light up. So if you don't tell me why I came here so early to disturb my dreams, I don't mind using you as a sandbag to exercise. "
Bokal froze, took a closer look at Crowd's face, and then realized that he was guilty. Crowd wasn't joking now, and he immediately persuaded: "Boss, you still have sleep, but I was yesterday I didn't sleep all night. I didn't think about it all night. Why did the proposal I proposed at a military meeting meet with so many people?
In my opinion, using the pirate forces to suppress the maritime fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands is obviously a very cost-effective thing for our autonomous region. Our autonomous region has paid only a small amount of money. As much as we have collected so much in the Hicks Kingdom this time, it's the best of both worlds to get some compensation as a pirate force ... "
Claude sighed deeply. At a military meeting yesterday, Bokal's proposal to use or buy off pirate forces to suppress the United Kingdom Navy Fleet in the Fox Islands was refuted by most of the senior officers present. good idea. This gave Bokal, who had just been promoted to Major-General of the Kingdom, a face-to-face blow, and he was entangled in the heart, tangled for one night, and then came to Claude early in the morning to discuss it.
"How should I make it clear to you? My general ..." Claude waved his hands tiredly: "Boa, you have the shrewd and precise vision of a businessman, and you can make a wildfire plan like this. Long-term vision of implementable strategic planning, this is your strength. But you are not of orthodox military background, do not understand the code of conduct and stubbornness of soldiers. From the perspective of our soldiers, pirates are not accessible and unbelievable, let alone with pirates. The forces united and fought side by side.
As a businessman, you believe in the spirit of the contract. For example, if you sign an agreement with a pirate force and ask them to protect your merchant ship from reaching its destination safely, it will not be attacked by other pirate groups. Generally speaking, the safety of your merchant ship will be guaranteed after paying the money. It is calculated that some credible pirate forces will even pay for the losses of the merchants at their own expense. So for some merchants, pirates are also trustworthy, at least paying money can provide security and insurance.
But as soldiers, they naturally treat pirates differently from merchants. Pirates are enemies. They are robbers on the sea. They do business without capital and do not contact or trust pirates. They are the most basic code of conduct for military personnel. Just like General Beechklin said at the meeting yesterday, the pirate forces are basically bully and scary. It is easy for them to attack the merchant fleet, but let them take the initiative to provoke or launch an attack on a regular kingdom naval fleet. Very difficult.
Even if we could contact pirate groups that are powerful enough to compete with the naval fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, and pay a high price for them to promise to attack, the results will not be satisfactory. No pirate force is willing to head-on with a powerful kingdom naval fleet to damage their own strength. At most, they can just take a naval battle and sink two or three warships to finish the job and explain to us.
In particular, when we actively contact the pirate forces and ask them to launch an offensive against the naval fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, it is tantamount to automatically handing over the handle of the autonomous command zone to the pirate forces. This is simply a scandal for our overseas dominions. Once exposed, no one can afford this responsibility. So, your speech at the military conference yesterday is a very bad proposal, and it is taken for granted that everyone refuted it ...
However, you are mainly responsible for the investigation of enemy sentiment and linking local indigenous forces. It is not surprising that you have such an idea. No one will blame your proposal. At the meeting, we just discussed the right and wrong of the plan, and it was not right. What is your opinion? Besides, you have just been promoted to Major-General of the Kingdom. You should show yourself a few more days in front of your father and relatives. Anyway, like me, you have a three-day vacation, so don't worry about these specific military implementations ... "
Claude couldn't wait for Bokal to get out early so he could go to bed and sleep again. But Bokal was still unwilling to give up, and he drank another glass of fruit wine and drank: "The other pirate forces are unbelievable, but what about the black sail pirates? Erikson is our teenage friend, if he would promise to help us If so, I believe he will do it. As long as we are willing to give him funding, such as the transfer of several armored ships ... "
Claude suddenly realized that at the military meeting yesterday, Bokal proposed the use of pirate forces to attack the United Kingdom Navy fleet in the Fox Islands. He smiled and shook his head with a bitter smile: "No, although Eriksson is our teenage friend, he is still a pirate now, and he is still the leader of a black sail pirate gang. For us soldiers, pirates cannot believe of......"
Bokal was anxious: "Claude, don't forget that we grew up together. I believe Erikson. Although he is a pirate, he is still our friend. For the simplest example, the black led by him Pirates of the sails have always maintained friendly relations with our autonomous region. Just as in the years when our overseas dominions did not establish a navy and have an iron armored fleet, he did not allow the black sails to rob us of our coastal areas, and even expelled others. The pirate gangs that entered our Dominion's territorial waters have maintained the safety of our Dominion's offshore shipping routes ... "
Claude stood up, walked to the window and looked into the distance, and asked quietly after a while: "Boa, has Erikson been in communication with you all the time ..."
Bockal snorted and drank another glass of wine: "So what? I didn't sell any military secrets from the Dominion Command. He and I only came to you in a letter and greetings for a few months, talking about piecemeal things, Recalling the good times of our teenage years and the friendship between each other, as well as those adventures. He did not ask me to do anything for him, this time I went with you to attack the Hicks Kingdom, only to find that he had already Four letters were written to me. Because I didn't reply, he was still worried about what happened to me and asked if I could help ... "
Claude laughed. "Why did Erickson just write to you and I never received one?"
"That's your noble work, Ericson dare not disturb you. Besides, you are now in a high position, the first person in the autonomous region, Marshal of the Kingdom, hereditary Count, how dare Erickson have a relationship with you? Besides, he also If you want to lose face, he will feel embarrassed if he writes to you dismissively ... "Bockal spit at Claude like a spit.
Claude shook his head with a smile: "No, Boa, Eriksson is a smart man, you know very well that writing to me will certainly not result in a response. Even if I do, I persuade him to surrender to the kingdom, or Ask him to give up his career as a pirate and spend the rest of his life quietly in an overseas dominion. With my protection, no one will pursue his past. But he is very ambitious, hoping to become the king of pirates and establish a pirate kingdom, so he will not give me It's boring to ask for a letter ... "
Bockal was furious: "Claude, how do you know that Eriksson is ambitious, to become the king of pirates and build a pirate nation or something? You can't guess wildly what Eriksson thinks and thinks, he has several The letter told me that I wanted to find a peaceful place to be an ordinary person, no longer a pirate. I advised him to come to live in the Dominion. He is only dragged down by so many men now, all working together at sea He can't let go of his partner ... "
Claude looked at Bokal quietly, and asked calmly until he stopped his mouth: "Do you remember the first time you saw Eriksson at sea? How did he tell you that? Did you forget it? "
Bokal was speechless, remembering the moment he first met the Blacksail Pirate at sea and recognized Eriksson. At that time, his father was a cheap seller, and with the employees and family members in the family business, and the exiles along the way, he bought a broken sea boat, set up a fleet, and ventured out of the sea to prepare for the overseas dominion with a little coarse grains. , And then encountered the ship of the Blacksail Pirate led by Eriksson at sea ...
At that time, Eriksson was so spirited that he even wanted to bring this immigrant fleet to his old nest, a small archipelago deep in the ocean. He also asked Bok'ar to follow him, promising to give him a duke when he established the pirate kingdom. Fortunately, at the time, Bokal was anxious, and using this immigration fleet would bring a heavy food burden to Eriksson, and the reason for messing up his nest would persuade him to let go of the immigration fleet ...
At the same time, he borrowed the argument that his father wanted to settle in an overseas autonomous territory so that Eriksson no longer required himself to follow him as a pirate. However, Eriksson subsequently asked Bokal to tie up his Blacksail Pirates and the Overseas Dominion, so that the Blacksail Pirate's ships can obtain logistics supplies such as grain and grass, and procurement of weapons and ammunition from the Overseas Dominion, and Blacksail Pirates Then he can take the robbed goods to the overseas dominion for sale. To this end, he is willing to let the black sail pirates maintain the security of the autonomous territorial waters and ensure that they are not invaded by other pirate groups ...
It was only later that the autonomous region used the captured enemy warships to form its own naval fleet, which provided more reliable security for autonomous regions. After a few more years, after the introduction of the iron armored warships in the autonomous region, all the discerning people knew that the method of naval warfare had changed and the sailing warships had fallen behind. In the future, it is bound to be coastal countries with iron armored warships.
This is why the coastal countries of Valeo have spent energy and huge investment in developing iron armored warships, and there are many smart people in the pirate forces. They are very clear that this is the end of the sailing warships finally at sea. In the next ten years or so, these pirate gangs with sailboats will usher in the end. Because of sailboats, they will no longer be able to rob ships at sea, and will only become the target of the fire of iron armored ships. One ship will sink to the bottom. ...
Bokal finally remembered a little soberly, that is, at that time, Eriksson and himself communicated more and more frequently, and the words spoken in the letter became more and more timid. There is no longer the same tone of anger and swagger as before, but it is necessary to become a pirate. He joined the Storm Fleet in order to obtain a navy battleship to find his father. Using the connections left by his father, he successfully set off at sea, and the rebellious kingdom became a pirate captain.
As a child, Erikson is very good. He found his father in the vast sea and asked his mother to reunite with him. As a pirate, Eriksson was also very successful. Not only did he rebellion against the kingdom, he also led the black sail pirates to plunder the kingdom's coastal areas and caused countless human tragedies. Eriksson has always been at the top of the Wanted List in the Kingdom, and he must have a place in the Kingdom's top ten wanted criminals ...
In addition to overseas dominions, the kingdom also has an iron armored fleet. Although not enough to pose a threat to black sail pirates, it is more than enough to protect the coastal zone from attack. Bokal remembers that he had mentioned the principle of iron armored warships in his reply to Eriksson. He only knew about it, not an expert, and then the people sent by Eriksson to purchase supplies and supplies were acquired from the Dominion. Several steam engines went back.
Six months later, Eriksson complained to Bokal in his letter that in order to test that kind of marine power, he rebuilt three sail warships and all failed. Because the result of the test was that he found that the sail ship using a steam engine was acting like a snail at sea, without the original dexterity and speed ...
In response, Bokal laughed, telling Eriksson that marine power is not so simple to buy a few steam engines and can be converted. It took more than two years for the Byrd Master of the Autonomous Leadership Region to try to produce a power steam engine suitable for use on ships, which led to the emergence of iron armored warships. In the development of ironclad warships alone, even with Claude ’s external plug-in, it took more than two years for the autonomous command zone to finally create the first practical ironclad warship.
A pirate force like Eriksson does not even need to imitate an ironclad battleship. According to Claude, this is a systematic project that not only involves the shipbuilding industry, but also has the closest relationship with metal making, forging, and welding. This involves technical cooperation and infrastructure improvements in several industries. . It is very difficult for ordinary coastal powers to develop ironclad warships without continuous investment and technological research for five to six years.
Then Eriksson wrote no more about the armored warship in his letter to Bokal. Instead, he wanted Tobokal to ask if the autonomous region had any intention to sell the armored warship. It seems that he is very clear that only ironclad warships can deal with ironclad warships. To continue his pirate career, he must own ironclad warships. When development is not possible, high-priced acquisitions regardless of cost become the only option ...
At the military conference, Bokal proposed that contacting the pirate forces to attack the maritime fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands may have a mind and intention to make Eriksson achieve his wish. Only if the Blacksail Pirates of Eriksson are allowed to serve the Dominion Commandership, the Dominion Command will fund the Blacksail Pirates and provide several iron armored warships for their use ...
Claude sat down, banged his fingers on the table, and watched Bokal froze there. At last he said, "Boa, I'll give you a chance. You can contact Eriksson and ask him if he wants to work for the autonomous region. Forget it, it should be cooperation, Eriksson. I know him well, and he won't bow his head easily. Just tell him that if he can destroy a maritime fleet in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands, then the autonomous region will be willing to provide him with six iron armored warships ... "
