Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 142, Disarmament Orders and Shocking News

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, the king has never been so efficient to give a reply to the overseas direct jurisdiction. On January 8th, the theater command sent a letter about the prince's secret order to the seaport communication department under the jurisdiction of Tilsim, and then sent by the storm fleet's fast cruise ship to the local white city of White Deer. The communication department of Lucheng was sent to Wangdu by the eagle and sent to the Royal Army Department.

Now on March 2, I received a reply from the Royal Army Department. This is already a very fast speed. It will not be available for two months. It is also a two continents, separated by a vast and innocent silence. It’s just that what the generals in the theater didn’t expect was that replying to the above-mentioned prince’s secret order only approved a sentence and it’s over...

There is no sense of appeasement, but there are still some reprimanding words. It seems that the feeling is to let the generals in charge of the theater headquarters keep their points and keep their minds. The civil war that took place in the kingdom of the kingdom will soon be settled. Under the wise leadership of Sterling XI, the Prince of Weidek, the Royal Army Department has the confidence to wipe out the insurgents.

If the reply is just that these words do not matter, it seems that Claude they reported the big prince secretly, but they are not interested. Perhaps in the eyes of the big men on the king's side, several responsible generals in the overseas territorial war zone should be unwilling to be lonely. They want to come out at the time of the civil war in the kingdom, so they made up the absurdity of the great prince secret. lie.

The kings of the kingdom simply did not believe that the great Prince Hansback had to cooperate with the Hicks kingdom. Why should the great prince return the port of Vibator and cede the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringer Ghana? ? Just to let the Sea King Fleet and the Joint Fleet of the Hicks Kingdom transport the Thunder Legion and the Rocket Legion back to the Kingdom?

That’s a big joke. You know that the Hansback Prince is now with the Blue Feather Legion and three standing corps. The strength is more than 200,000. What he has to do is to break through the Odin Mountains defense, not to go far. The Nubiansia mainland transported two local second-line corps, and had to pay three high-cost freight to the territory of the directly-administered territory. He was not a Kay...

Therefore, Claude’s announcement to the Royal Army Department that the prince’s secret order was in the eyes of Wang Du’s big brothers became a false fabrication of lies. The purpose was to let the kings allocate funds to them for local development and construction. The cost to appease them is a disguised way of asking for money and is not worth promoting.

In addition to reprimanding him for nothing, Wang Duo said that some kingdoms are now financially difficult and have no money to pay. Next is the key issue, even if you are far away from the territorial jurisdiction of overseas jurisdictions, it should be difficult to be with the kingdom. Now that the colonial war has ended, the Royal Army Department believes that there is no need to maintain the strength of more than 13 million horses of the two legions in the overseas direct-attack theater, and demand disarmament to reduce the burden of military spending...

Several of the generals in this theater were fed a sneak peek. They were loyal to the king and received instructions from the army. As a general, no one was willing to lay off his troops. The meaning of Wang Du is very simple. You are not asking for local development and construction funds. If you disarm, will you save your military expenses and develop funds?

Fortunately, the Kingdom Department of the Army also knows that the overseas direct jurisdiction is far from the mainland of Nubsia, and the Hicks Kingdom is not dead, so they did not intend to reduce the Thunder Legion and the Rock Corps into a real local second-line empty shelf army, but gave One figure is to disarm yourself. Each legion maintains 40,000 people, so that the two legions can reduce 50,000 horses and save 156,000 kronor military expenses each year.

Coincidentally, Claude vowed that he would never make these tricks again. You can never guess what the big man’s heart thinks. What you are doing is often the opposite of what he is doing. Just like the prince’s secret order, Claude reported to the king that they wanted to show their allegiance, but in the eyes of the king’s big brothers, they became jealous, so they gave it a hand. Slap, let the overseas direct-collecting territorial zone not be tossed...

General Bologna is now really frowning, and he did not expect the reply from the king to give a command of disarmament. To put it bluntly, more than two million immigrants from Cromwell and Beringer Ghana have migrated, and more than 100,000 are suitable for conscription. This is still the young people who are applying for the age of 20, and if there is more than 20 to 30 years old, there will be more youth. They are now looking forward to the Thunder Army and the Stone Corps recruiting troops, enlisting for enlistment and acquiring a land industry for their families.

If the theater is now recruiting 100,000 new recruits, then five or six hundred thousand immigrants will be resettled. Because they are the immediate family members of these recruits, they can take care of the 30 acres of farmland under the name of the recruits or the three hundred acres of pastures, and at the same time greatly reduce the burden of the daily life of the soldiers and relatives of the army. Of course, it is impossible to recruit 100,000 new recruits in the theater. Only the more than 10,000 veterans with service dues will be retired in the second half of the year, and more than 10,000 new recruits will be recruited to fill the vacancies.

Now, more than 10,000 veterans have retired, and they have to cut another 40,000 horses. To know that many immigrants are eyeing the 10,000 retired veterans, they are waiting to make an adult child in the family a member of the recruits and contribute to the acquisition of a personal industry for their families. If they know that the number of enlisted enlisted troops is gone, I don’t know if these lives are not settled. The immigrants who can only earn a job in the public field will make a big noise...

"Let's talk about it, how can we disarm..." General Bologna asked with incompetence, and the king sent instructions for disarmament, so he had to obey orders. It is not far from the direct jurisdiction of the mainland of Nubbia, and it can be ignored. That would be a rebellion.

General Alberton touched his chin and said: "The establishment of the 40,000 horses, the meaning of Wang Du is very obvious, that is, each of our legions retains a full-fledged division, and the other division maintains an empty shelf structure. The war will be expanded again."

In fact, it goes without saying that several generals present are very clear. The second-line corps of the local kingdoms are basically such empty corps in peacetime, such as a division of four divisions, each group retaining only one full-field field battalion, and the other three groups have no soldiers other than the officers. What is the emergency situation in the local area is the full-fledged field camp, the other three camps are the role of soy sauce, can only watch the lively shouting six six six...

The problem is that if the Thunder Legion and the Rocket Corps are empty shelves, it would be easier to do it. Now that two divisions of one legion, one division is full of another division, the grassroots officers and responsible officers who are assigned to the empty shelf will have a kind of The feeling of being abandoned. It seems that when the empty shelf is no longer in the early days, it is easy to give up. The attention of the commander of the legion will basically be placed in the full division of the division, which will not pay attention to the empty shelf division, which will have a very negative impact on the unity within the regiment.

When he was in the senior seminar of the military academy, Marshal Michelle commented on this empty shelf mode, and thought that the most unfavorable thing was that such a force was full of a space. Because as the chief of the army, the most elite soldiers and the best officers are often assigned to the full-fledged troops, while the soldiers and officers at the next level are assigned to the empty-sector troops, artificially causing the class differences between the two units. .

As time goes by, the full-fledged troops will be more and more valued by the chief executive, and resources and attention will be tilted toward them. The empty shelf troops will be more and more neglected, and even the left-behind officers will be discouraged and have no aggressive heart. After the war broke out, even if the empty shelf troops were expanded, the combat strength after the formation of the army was very different from that of the full-staffed troops. It often became a drag-and-drop role and even caused more serious harm...

"Forget it, let's not talk about how to adapt it. What do you think about the 50,000 people who have been laid off, so let them retire?" General Bologna began to have a headache. It’s hard to say that these soldiers are members of the 100,000 retired soldiers’ immigrant families. They first moved to the theater of Amphitheats, one for the sake of the ten-acre field, and the other for the continued service. Your own social status.

If disarmament is to begin now, then these re-commissioned soldiers will be the first to be cut. Although they are also reduced, they can also get the 30-mu field of Cromwell and Beringer, or the personal industry of three hundred acres of pasture, but they can no longer obtain national identity, which is easy Make trouble.

General Beechklin did not care about the 50,000 soldiers who were about to be laid off. He believed that these cut soldiers could continue to serve. Very simple, anyway, the Thunder Legion and the Rock Corps belong to the local second-line troops of the kingdom. Then there is no difference between serving in the two legions and serving as a soldier in the local garrison. The theater can completely transfer the reduced soldiers into the local garrison. For example, the five fortress fortresses such as the port of Vibator, Port of Patras, and Wickham Castle have no place to guard, and the city of Monknad, the silver city that is about to begin construction, also needs at least one local garrison.

General Beechklin believes that the theater is in addition to the garrison armed with the former General Shazolak in the area of ​​Amphitheatre, in Robisto, Beringa, Cromwell and Porto Vaporto. The four municipalities did not deploy local garrison. The strategic locations of these four directly-administered leaders are currently guarded by the Thunder Legion and the Rock Corps. To a certain extent, this also greatly distracts the strength of the two legions and cannot be assembled into a powerful counterattack force.

Now that the king has ordered the Thunder Army and the Stone Corps to disarm to reduce military expenditures, the soldiers who have been cut into the local garrison will be transferred to the local garrison. The two corps can also hand over the four strategic tasks of the direct administration to these places. . Consolidating the strength of the Legion, it is more able to cope with the future war of the Hicks Kingdom against the overseas direct jurisdiction.

This is a very good method. The soldiers who have been cut down also have a place to go. It is also more comfortable to serve in the armed front, which is very attractive to the older 30-year-old soldiers. Just now, in the strategic locations of General Beechklin’s newspaper, each of them has deployed a local garrison. The reduction of 50,000 people may not be enough...

However, this brings up another problem. Even the local garrison forces require military expenditures and weapons and equipment. The question is whether the theater can make up the military expenditures and firearms and ammunition for the formation of local garrison. According to the calculations of General Scrim, several generals in the theater suddenly discovered that if the four areas under the direct control were first armed and deployed, then the theater would not be a troop but an expansion.

The four municipalities directly need to form nine local garrisons. The strengths of the nine local garrisons are all converted from the veterans of the Thunder Army and the Stone Corps, plus the veterans who have retired in the second half of the service period. The Legion also needed to recruit more than 20,000 new recruits to fill the vacancies, which made General Bologna relieved, and those immigrants were finally looking forward to it.

For more than a month, the battlefields were busy with disarmament. Which soldiers are to be transferred to the local garrison, and which officers are to be the chief officers of the local garrison, need to be considered by several generals in the theater, neither to allow the combat effectiveness of the corps to be affected, nor to allow the local garrison to become a rabble. In the plans of General Bolognic and Claude and others, local garrison armed forces need to be the reserve force of the two legions, and can play an auxiliary and complementary role in future wars...

When the theater was ready to start building nine local garrisons in May, a terrible news came from the kingdom, and everyone who heard the news was shocked.

In late February 592, the Great Prince of Hansback joined the Sea King Fleet and the Joint Fleet of the Hicks Kingdom, blocking the fearless fleet of the Kingdom of Ovilas in the two seaports of the former Kingdom of the West. Among the cities. This is a big disaster for the fearless fleet. When Hansback’s prince rebelled, he led the army to the Odin Mountains along the land, dismissing the coastal city, and the fearless fleet relaxed their vigilance. The big prince will suddenly start their idea.

Under the two sides of the attack, the fearless fleet was completely annihilated, and even the small seesaw did not escape to report. The next March is the rainy season in the Farrea continent. Under normal circumstances, the fearless fleet is not in the base and does not go out for cruising, and the land and sea are tightly blocked, so the admiral of the kingdom is not alert.

As a result, after the rainy season in March, the Hansback Prince led the Blue Feather Legion and a standing army regiment to board the Shanghai King Fleet and the combined fleet of transport ships, directly into the eastern waters of the Kingdom. On April 5th, a shallow sea beach less than two hundred miles from the Ibnister Plain, the Hansback Prince ordered the landing. The soldiers of the two legions marched on the shore and then blocked the large sea. area.

The supporters of the great Hansback prince, who had been plotting, placed hundreds of large sealed wooden boxes near the beach. When the fleet arrived, they pushed the empty wooden boxes to the sea and connected them with iron rings. Set up a few pontoons that floated on the surface of the sea and reached the sea. When these long empty wooden box pontoons were connected to the transport ship, a large-scale landing began.

From April 5th to April 11th, the Blue Feather Legion and the Standing Legion went to shore almost without damage for a full six days. The entire landing operation lost only three light infantry artillery pieces and six soldiers. No one found that the Hansback Prince led two regiments from the sea to bypass the Odin Mountains and appeared in the hinterland of the kingdom.

On April 16th, when the Hansback Grand Prince entered the Ibinister plains in two ways, and the king was not in the two-day trip, it was confirmed that the king of the enemy’s news was like boiled water. The uncontrollable chaos became a mess.

No one would have thought that the Great Prince of Hansback would be so singularly descended. In order to keep him on the other side of the Odin Mountains, the king sent the guards to the past. The only remaining guards in the kingdom are the troops of less than one division. In the face of the enemies of the two regiments, they have no power to fight back.

Prince Wedrek, also known as Sterling XI, once again played the advantage of his long leg reaction. He had already taken his cronies overnight before the decision of the kings had not yet been adhered to or withdrawn. And the fortune of a dozen horse-drawn carriages fled to the county of Berta Arnia. It was the place where the King’s King Field Army Red Dragon Army was stationed. His father-in-law, Marshal Siegfeld, was the head of the current Red Dragon Army, where his safety was guaranteed...

On April 17, 520, the commander of the Blue Feather Legion was under the king. On April 18th, the great Hansback prince arrived at the kingdom. On April 21, the great prince entered the kingdom, and the Blue Feather Legion immediately triumphantly held a military parade in Wangdu...