Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter XX Chapter Bokeal's Legend

Claude did not expect Bok Al to accompany the Nikkan people's messenger group to the port of Caubicus to find himself and settle the messenger group of the Nikkan. After telling the old man of Zaracarson to cooperate with them to mobilize the relocation of the Nikkan people who were under the direct control, Crowder made time to chat with Bokal for an afternoon.

Now Crowd is counting on why General Albert has threw Bokal’s liaison with the Nikkan people. To put it bluntly, in the Nikkan country, Bokal is the representative of the theater, even General Bologna. No Bok Alna is worthy of the trust of the Nekka people, and any agreement they have reached with the theater will be guaranteed by Bocker's signature guarantee.

"How did you do it?" Claude was very curious and very satisfied with watching Bocker, and now Bocker is not as fat as before. Although there is still a lot of meat on his body, he can already be called It is strong. The colonel's military uniform was worn on him, but he had a few military ceremonies, and he could no longer see the look of a greedy corrupt official.

"Hey, don't mention it, it's born and died, it's hard to be ridiculous!" Bocker also didn't have a politeness with Claude. He chose a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet and opened it to drink. After drinking a cup, he took it. More than a year of experience told Crowder.

Before the war zone did not capture the port of Vibator, Bokal was very open in the city. The guardian of the Hicks Kingdom in the port of Vibator was trapped in the city, sitting in the area outside the city became the vertical and horizontal land of the Thunder Legion Light Cavalry. For a long time, although eating and drinking, other materials are gradually getting nervous, especially luxury consumables, and so on, there is no money and no place to buy.

In the name of Buffalo, Bokal smuggled high-end goods from the war zone to the port of Vibator, living luxury goods, and satisfying the living needs of those who were trapped in the city. At the same time, he also made himself the most popular person in the city. The local officials of the port of Vibatato and the guests of the nobility could almost walk across the city.

According to Bocker's description, that time was the most comfortable period of his life. The local officials of the port of Vabato greeted him with a smile, and the lady lady sent her arms, because he could get countless Luxury living goods. Then the port of Vibator was captured by the war zone, and Bokal made a great contribution in guiding the attack in the battle. After the war, he returned to the Intelligence Department of the Theater Command because he had nothing to do after the end of the colonial war.

As a result of the Buffalo business, Bokal returned to the port of Vibator and found that there was no business to go hunting with several military friends, just in time to encounter a team of patrols to expel the Nikkan. When Bok Al Ling took the opportunity, he decided to go to the Nikkan people to find business opportunities. So Bokal went to the Nikhanda country in the north in the name of the head of the Bison business.

Next, Bocker's experience is like a legendary novel. He spent half a year wandering around the country of Nikkan, knowing all kinds of Nikkan people and gradually gaining their trust. During the period, he encountered several dangers, and even accidentally was involved in a battle of the Nikkan people attacking an inland colonial mining base of the Hicks Kingdom, almost killed.

For the fighting power of the Nikkan people, Bokal said that braveness is brave, but without a brain, the **** ones will not be the same as the launch of the 3721, the musket is not as useful as a spear in their hands. Like the battle that attacked the mining base, more than a thousand Nikkan people attacked only one hundred and thirty of the stone buildings defended by the Hicks, a ten-to-one strength advantage, of which more than seven hundred were firearms. The advantage is very obvious.

As a result, the Nikkan people in this fight were defeated and killed and injured more than 400 people. The reason is that there is no brain. It is good to slam on the ground or hide it and attack the enemies in the stone building. The slower time will always suppress the enemy and consume it. But the rifle shot for more than half an hour, there was a silly cargo impatient, and the rifle rushed up in one fell swoop, and then more silly goods rushed up. Bokal said that he was watching at the time and didn't understand what these Nikkan people wanted to do...

The enemy is hidden in a stone building. There is no window on the first floor. The gate is also a thick iron gate. After those silly goods rushed up, they could only use stone guns or spears to beat stone walls and iron gates. There was no way to rush into the building. They could only be surrounded by stone buildings and screaming intent to intimidate the enemy and automatically surrender.

As a result, the Hicks carried out two rounds of rapid shooting through the windows on the second floor, which was almost aimed at the head. Nearly one hundred guns were placed in two rounds. The Nikkan people who were surrounded immediately fell down one hundred and fifty-six. This casualty finally made these Nikkan people wake up and screamed and turned to escape. Can't live.

The people who fled the rest of them fled, and the Hicks who hid in the stone building took the opportunity to rush out of the building to launch a counterattack. The defeat was formed in this way. The Hicks are like turkeys hunting in the fence, easily loading, aiming, and shooting. The Nikkan people who fled one by one fell to the ground and earned their lives. They didn’t even think about counterattacking with their own guns...

Bok Alna will also escape, but he is not lucky, but he has to escape and slammed into the leader and elder who commanded the Nikkan people to attack. They were enemies because of the special dress of their clothes. I stared at it, knowing that the two of them might be leading the team and they have been chasing them both. I want to catch these two...

At the time, there were only three people in Bokal. He himself, a guard and a serviceman, had no guns around him. The three men were all armed with cold weapons. There were only two short swords and a dagger. But Bokal still decided to save the two Nikkan people's leaders and elders. They smashed three muskets and two ammunition bags on the ground. They hid in the grass and shot and killed two Hicks. The Slaves fled to a cliff with the leaders and elders of the two Nikkan people.

Then Bokal, five of them were trapped on the cliff for more than half a month. If there was only a rugged path up the mountain, the Hicks would have rushed up. They have broken the corpse. They launched three attacks, but they were beaten by both Bok Al and the guards. The two Nikkan people's leaders and elders also got some weapons that the hills and trunks piled up to defend, and the Hicks dropped four or five bodies and never launched any offensive.

Bokal feels that he is lucky. Because there are not many Hicks, they are probably not willing to consume their lives on this cliff, so they will not attack but become a siege. They want to put Bocker in them. The mountain is starving to death, and they know that there is no water on this cliff.

In the past half a month, Bokal did not know how he came over. If it wasn't for his serviceman who took the bag when he went up the mountain, maybe they couldn't keep going for three or four days. There are three days of dry food and three sheepskin kettles in the bag of the three people of Bok Al, and five people may have five or six days if they have fewer points.

At this time, the two Nikkan people's leaders and elders finally showed their ability. They collected all kinds of edible wild vegetables and vine roots on the cliffs, and used the sheepskin film in their leather jackets to collect dew. The water filter cloth collects half a pot of water in the shadow of the cliff every morning and night, and can barely be used to quench the thirst.

In this way, the five of them spent more than half a month on the cliff. Bokal said that he would be hungry and thirsty, and he was somewhat awake. He only knew that he was very thin during that time. During the period, the Hicks in the mountains thought they were finished. In the past ten days, they sent people to go up the mountain to see them. After they were ambushed, they died and then rolled down...

Bokal said that he would kneel on the cliff and watch the body below want to climb down and take a sip, but did not have the strength to go down the mountain, so he was half-awake. In this way, after another six or seven days, when the Nikkan people were no longer able to go down, the Hicksmen reluctantly withdrew their mining base, and the five people of Bokal were finally saved.

That is, after this incident, Bocker was regarded by Nikancan as his own person. He obtained exclusive trading rights in the Nikkan people's country, and the resources and materials owned by the Nikancha people were all open to the Buffalo business. At the same time, Bocker also became an agent of the Nikkan people's country, helping them to buy all kinds of supplies from the theater.

According to Bocker's observation, this Nikkan people's country should actually be regarded as a settlement alliance, not a unified country. They are used to distributing the site according to the size of the settlement. The more the number of settlements, the larger the market. At present, there are more than 70,000 people in the largest settlement, and there are also more than a dozen vassal tribes. It is impossible for such large settlements to be directly under the jurisdiction of overseas jurisdictions. For example, the largest Nikancan settlements in the three directly-administered tribes such as Tilsim are only over 5,000.

Today, the Nikkan people have a total of six large settlements, followed by their respective vassal settlements, and these collateral settlements also have their vassal settlements, so that the first-level vassals come down. Bokal has been to the smallest Nikancha settlement, with only a dozen people, all of whom are living together.

When Claude asked about how the Nikkan people’s war against the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom was going on, Bocker’s answer was to shake his head and smile. He said that the war is actually over. Only the frontiers of the Nikkan people’s settlements will organize their personnel to attack because the existence of the Hicks’s mineral base makes them insecure. The purpose is only to prevent the enemy from appearing. Near your own border.

According to estimates by Bocker, the entire Nikkan people's country is only about two million people. The land they occupy now is too big for them to live happily. In addition, after they set up the country to attack the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom, they began to get tired of not wanting to continue their attacks.

The biggest gathering leaders are very awake, knowing that they and the Hicks can't coexist, but first, the firearms are very expensive, they don't know how to maintain and they can't get supplies, plus the loss on the battlefield, now holding the guns and ammunition. There are not many, and I don't want to waste it on the battlefield.

The second reason is that there are a lot of casualties. So far, there have been about 10,000 people. Most of them have been trained by officers sent by the Thunder Division. Without these Nikkan soldiers who had undergone junior military training, the combat effectiveness dropped greatly. Therefore, the more than a thousand people who Bokal saw had besieged the mining base of more than 100 people, but they were killed and wounded by more than 400. The situation in which the entire army is defeated.

Although the Nikkan people's country is a settlement alliance, the highest right is the elders' meeting composed of the elders of the various settlements. All the political affairs of the Nikancha people are decided by this elders meeting. The leader of the settlement is actually the military chief, who holds the military command of the settlement and directs the armed forces of the settlement.

Interestingly, half of the armed forces of the large settlements are provided by the following vassal tribes, while the armed forces of the vassal tribes are composed of half of the tribes that the vassal of the tribes provide. The first level is pressed down. When an external war broke out, the chiefs of the big settlements sent people to send orders. The following tribes and the vassal tribes of the vassals must bring the people to participate in the war. Just like the feudal lords of the Faurea continent...

In the Nikkan people's country, Bokal has been mixing for half a year. After returning, he wrote a detailed report on this neighboring country. The theater was very pleasantly surprised. This report helped to understand this Nikkan people's country, so it gave Bok Alge a great achievement. Bokal was promoted to a colonel by the lieutenant colonel.

This time, Bokal ran to see Claude. One was to show himself as a colonel officer, and the other was about the affairs of the three directly-administered migrating Nepali people. The difference between the Nikkan people that Claude imagined and the refusal to accept them is that the Nikkan people are happy to have so many compatriots on their sites. Because according to the tradition of their settlements, the three million Nikkan people really migrated to the past, and soon they will let those large settlements increase their vassals, greatly enhancing their strength.

Therefore, Bocker strongly stated that the more than three million Nikkan people migrated to the past difficulties and problems caused by the war zone, nothing more than the cost and transportation expenses and the consumption of food. As a result, the Nischacha Elders Conference waved a large amount of money and was willing to pay millions of gold francs of mineral resources and gold and silver reserves as compensation for the theater.

However, in order to get the millions of gold and silver reserves and mineral resources, the Niekhanda countries still need the war zone to trade a batch of arms and materials. They demand 100,000 guns and corresponding ammunition reserves, and at the same time assist a large amount of food. A group of grassroots officers were dispatched to help their young and strong soldiers to conduct military training for another six months. If the theater agrees to these conditions, the Nikhanda country is willing to pay another million gold and silver reserves...

This is not something that Bock Al can take the lead. He can only go to the town of Lanhu with the special envoy of the Nikhanda country to see General Bologna. General Bologna agreed with the requirements of the Nikkan people in the negotiations with several generals in the theater. Claude also received a letter from the eagle on this matter, and General Scree agreed very much.

Anyway, more than 300,000 muskets were seized from the prisoners' army and the reserve munitions warehouse in the Hicks Kingdom. The ammunition is even more numerous. It is less advanced than the Obash three-type arquebus equipped by the Thunder Division, and can only be piled up in the warehouse to rust. It can be sold to the Nikkan people in exchange for gold and silver reserves, armed them to continue to die with the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom.

As for the military instructors, General Bocker has ordered General Albert to select more than 100 grassroots officers to carry out primary military training for soldiers in the Nikkan State. In addition to food aid, Bokal said that it is nominally aiding military food. In fact, they are asking for fine wheat flour for the enjoyment of high-level people in the Nikkancha country.

This is mainly because the Nikkan people's staple foods are potatoes, tapioca and oats, which are easy to grow in the mountains. On the contrary, there are very few barleys that Nikancha people are willing to plant. They are too tired to plant barley. They need to open up the fields and compost the grass. They are taken care of by the people of Nikkan, and they are too lazy to threaten them without the whip. Spend this effort...

Bokal said that he could use this and Nikkan people to trade gold and silver from their hands.

It is strange that Claude is a lot of gold and silver in the hands of the Nikancha people? Where is it...

a lot of. Bokal is very sure to answer. He explained that Hicks had more than a dozen small and medium-sized gold and silver mines on the site of the inland colony of the third-half of the Hicks Kingdom occupied by the Nicks. The Nikkan people wiped out the mining of the Hicks and seized a lot of gold and silver ingots that had been refined. Now they in turn drove the Hicks and the Etat to dig them for gold and silver. ....