Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 541 Decision Meeting

Finally, Claude made a controversial speech on the war. He said a lot. The Thunder Army has never experienced such a heavy casualty since its inception, and almost half of its troops have suffered damage. However, they can withstand the Hicks' counterattack and win the final victory. They have already qualified to grow into a strong army. Such a battle damage will become the glorious history of the Legion and the honorary inheritance of the **** soul.

Claude talked about the difference between the tossing and the defense, and also talked about the bullet replenishment of the new rifle. For the emergence of sniper rifles and mines, it is simply mentioned. These two new weapons are not in the The real proof in this war is that the main reason is that the number is too small and the scope of use is not extensive.

The most talked about by Claude was about the process of the big melee and **** battles, all of which were his personal experience and witnessed. When I was excited, I even screamed at the meeting. I was a little **** off, and General Bollonic was so confused and unable to compare with Claude.

Because Claude is all about the facts, General Bologna understands the sorrowful feelings of Claude's heavy casualties, especially afterwards that he found the kind of regret that the heavy casualties could have avoided...

Claude said that if the theater can be equipped with a revolver for all the grassroots officers of the two legions before the war, then the Thunder Army can at least kill thousands of officers and men in that big melee. So many excellent grassroots officers sacrificed to make Claude feel very sad. If there are revolvers, many of them can be sacrificed...

Before the war, General Bologna only opened the price of five gold krona revolvers. This price could not even reach the cost price. At least doubled to ten gold krona, so the theater. I canceled the order for this revolver...

Is it so difficult to increase the expenditure of 50,000 krona compared to the 20,000-30,000 wounded and disabled soldiers and the pensions they have to pay in the war zone? This is also the reason why Claude patted the table and slammed General Bologna. General Bologna was indeed speechless.

In fact, it was not General Bologna who was stingy, but he did not realize that the revolver could play an important role in the close combat. He believes that with a new rifle, the enemy can be destroyed at a distance, so the revolver at close range becomes an optional accessory. In the case of military tensions in the theater, he did not realize the huge gains that the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom could obtain. A copper coin was used as the two to cancel the revolver order...

Crowder then talked about the performance of the various forces of the Thunder Corps. He agreed with General Beechklin. When recruiting troops, he should recruit a group of veterans to return to play the role of the grassroots backbone and better help the new recruits to grow up. On the battlefield, the presence of veterans will allow the recruits to play better, and they will learn more combat experience from the veterans.

After Claude finished speaking, General Bologna said a few more words, that is, let the senior officers in the theater who participated in the meeting do their own things in the following days, and the tasks assigned to them in the theater will be disbanded. It is. It’s just that Claude can’t go, and then it’s the decision-making meeting of the five giants in the theater to discuss the succession of this colonial war.

Or to a certain extent, what this decision-making conference really wants to discuss is whether the cooperation between the theater and the Nikkan people to resist the Hicks will continue. At the beginning of the meeting, Claude, General Albert and General Beechklin all said in unison that there was no way to cooperate.

General Beechklin complained that when he was against the Hicks attack, he put more energy on the Nikkan people than the Hicks, and even went to watch out for those Nikkan people to find their own troubles. trouble. It is not trivial to disobey orders to violate the military discipline. The most important thing is that the Nikkan people have always been eyeing the troops equipped with new rifles in the theater, which is the most intolerable against General Chiklin. .....

General Alberton has been swaying at the Nikkan camps where the northern frontier mountains are stationed, especially for the refusal to participate in the attack on the Hicks camp during the big melee. He also believes that the cooperation with the Nikkan people is not good for the war zone, but it has dragged down the theater, and even in the next war, the troops in the theater will suffer greater losses, especially in the transportation of logistics materials.

Claude was discouraged by the ignorance of the Nikkan people. He asked himself to be kind to the Nikkan people, otherwise he would not send troops to help the Nikkan people clean up and occupy the entire Hicks Kingdom. The inland colony, and also distributed the spoils to the 30% of the Nikkan people who watched the soy sauce. After the war, the 30% of the gold and silver ingots worth more than four million gold krona, the generals of the sergey who knew the news were half dead, and the great crest was a loser.

However, this kindness of the war zone did not change the Nikkan people's wholehearted assistance during the war. At the beginning, they began to mobilize 100,000 Nekka people, and the armed forces were handed over to the theater command, and they cooperated with the theater to carry out the battle. The tremendous pressure exerted by the Sergeant’s large-scale attack. Not to mention the escape and poor performance at the beginning of the war, it was hard to make a heroic character voluntarily went to the death to boost the morale, and in the middle and late period, he relapsed and became awkward.

If you don’t listen to the command and violate the military order, you will not say these small things. Anyway, they are themselves. The transportation of logistics materials is inexplicable, and so many of them fall to the cliffs without any reason. But the idea of ​​playing the new rifles of the two regiments exceeded the scope of allies and cooperation, and these Nikkan people have crossed the border.

The most angry thing for Claude was that he took the Thunder Legion back to the northern mountainous area, and the Nikhanda camps stationed in the forefront of the mountainous area dared to coerce him to hand over the seized Hicks kingdom's iron pumpkin and thrower. give them. After Claude refused their request three times and five times, these Nikkan people gave up the frontier mountainous areas and thought that they would force Claude to submit, and I really don't know where they came from.

Claude was really angered by these ignorant Nikkan people. He directly ordered the Thunder Army to occupy the entire northern mountainous region. No matter whether it was the front or the rear, no Nikkan people would be allowed to enter. Since you give up on your own, don't say we don't take it. The order under Claude is clear. From the day when the Nikkan people were quietly evacuated, the whole northern coastal mountainous region was the site that belonged to the theater of war...

General Beechklin believes that it would be easier for the Nikkan people to become enemies in the theater than to become allies in the theater. To become an enemy, you only need a local garrison to watch these Nikkan people and become allies. Each time you deploy a plan for defensive operations, you need to consider sending several groups to protect these Nikkan people. Otherwise, if they collapse on the battlefield, it will affect the defensive operations of the entire front.

General Ablond hated these Nikandians who disobeyed the order. He believed that if he was an ally of the territorial war zone, the Nekka people must learn to obey orders. You don't need to be brave in their battles, but at the very least they must become a qualified cannon fodder. If even a qualified cannon fodder can't act, then the theater does not need such an ally...

Claude's meaning is very simple, regardless of whether the theater continues to cooperate with the Nikkan people, or with the Nikkan people turning their faces into enemies, anyway, the northern coastal mountains occupied by the Thunder Legion do not want to return to the Nikkan, where there It has become the territory of the war zone, no longer the territory of the Nikhanda country.

General Bologna smiled bitterly. He thought that even if he had to turn his face with the Nikkan, he would at least wait for the end of the colonial war. It was only after a small half of the war that he would end his cooperation with his allies. It will take another half a year for the Hicks to launch the attack. He is ready to wait for Colonel Bock Al to return from the colony of Rodex Bay, and then send him as a special envoy to the Nikkanese country to see what is going on. The issue is now shelved for the time being.

Among the five giants in the theater, General Scrim was the most contradictory. He agreed with the views of the three Claude and he was reluctant to give up his allies with the Nikkan. After all, it’s not easy to catch a big man in the war zone. Before the war, half of the time, half of the military supplies produced in the war zone were sold to the Nikkan people. The previously seized Hicks kingdom's junk weapons were packaged and sold twice to the price, and they earned nearly two million kronor from these Nikancans.

Such a Nikkan Kay's big client war zone should enshrine them all, especially Claude, the ruined son, who sent troops to help them clean up the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom and gave them to these Nikkanas. 30% spoils. At the beginning, General Bologna and General Scree did not care much. They thought that the so-called spoils were nothing more than mining tools. They didn’t matter to the Nikkan people...

Who would have thought that the Hicks’ mineral bases in two years would have accumulated gold and silver ingots worth 1,700 gold? It was learned that General Bolognic and General Scree finally understood the financial resources of the Hicks Kingdom. It was there, why did you have the opportunity to form ten standing corps to continue this colonial war after three defeats?

But then they began to regret it, because Claude promised to divide the Nikkan people into a trophy. Fortunately, General Scree bullied the Nikkan people who did not understand mathematics. They ordered the gold and silver ingots worth 17 million kronor to be directly divided into two piles, a pile of 13 million worth of gold kronor, a pile of value. Four million gold krona. Then pointed to the gold and silver ingots worth 4 million gold krona, said to the Nikkan people, this is your 30% income.

The Nikkan people counted that 30% of the 13 million gold krona was 3.9 million gold krona, so the war zone gave more gold and silver ingots worth 100,000 gold krona, so they took it away. The gold and silver ingots worth four million gold krona also think that General Scree is very derogatory, not accounting for these small heads of interest...

Therefore, General Scree did not object to the face of the Nikkan people, but the prerequisite was to wait until the war zone to get the four million gold and silver ingots in the hands of the Nikancha people. During this time, General Scree was organizing a large number of officials from the theater logistics department to sell various living materials to the Nikkan people. Half of the orders placed under the production workshops of the municipalities were prepared for the Nikkan people.

This issue was finally put on hold by General Bologna, and it was decided to see if the Nikkan people gave anything after the welcome night. The next decision was to take over the defense. This will soon be decided. The theater will draw six local garrisons from the direct jurisdictions to the northern coastal mountainous areas and the eastern mountainous areas, to guard against the frontier mountainous areas and the three defensive fronts.

The local garrison formed by the six veterans went to pick up the defense, and the troops deployed by the Thunder Corps and the Rocks Corps in the frontier mountains could be withdrawn for retreat and replenishment. At the very least, the Nischa camps are stationed there to make the theater more reassuring. When the Thunder Legion and the Rock Corps re-enter the team for half a year, the six local guards will also help the two regiments resist the Hicks. attack.

The third issue was the revolver. General Bologna accepted Cred’s criticism with humility and decided to allocate a revolver to all the grassroots officers in the theater’s subordinate units. The price is Clay’s cost price of ten gold. A krona with thirty bullets. However, Claude thought about it or refused to let the Blackstone Gunsmithing Workshop take the order.

Claude explained that the Blackstone Gunsmithing Workshop is working hard to produce a new type of rifle. There is no way to concentrate on building a revolver production line. Claude meant simply re-establishing a military industry that specializes in producing throws and revolvers for the theater. Just as the production and development of the throwing bombs needed to be rectified, Claude decided to separate the workshop of the iron ore workshop that produced the throwing bombs and build a revolver production line. Of course, this military industry welcomes you to buy shares.

Nothing is more intimate than a community of interests, and Claude’s advice is really a joy. The four generals present at the scene each gave out 10,000 gold krona, each occupying 10% of the military industry to be established. Claude is also the inventor of the throwing and revolver, so he also has a 10,000 gold krona, which accounts for 30% of the shares. The remaining 30% is prepared to give Mr. Weibo Jun, who is responsible for production management, 10%. Of course, he also has to pay. He needs 10% of the gold krona.

Another 20% of the shares are ready to be reserved and will be awarded to those who invent new weapons in the future. General Bologna was very worried that the new military industry that was set up was not enough to start the fund, so he gave the interest-free loan guarantee of Claude's overseas Minsheng Bank of 500,000 Jinkelang in the name of the theater. At the same time, when the agreement was signed, the number of revolvers ordered has risen to 20,000, and the price has become an 18 gold krona unconsciously.

After everything was done, everyone went on to discuss and discuss. Now the topic is to discuss the proposal of Colonel Bocker, whether to sell a batch of food to the Rhodes Bay colony in the name of smuggling. The price of food over there has been tenfold, and the sale of a batch of food will give the theater a rich income, which is even more profitable than robbery.

General Albert and General Beechklin resolutely opposed this as an enemy. At the same time, they also believe that in order to sell the grain to the enemy for the benefit, in case the Hicks have recovered their vitality and completed the rest, they are likely to launch a raid in the war zone. At that time, the theater is likely to pick up the stone and smash its own. Feet, regret is too late.

General Scree thought it should be sold, but the theater would not provide much food, and small-volume smuggling should be fine. He believes that the sale of food not only can make the theater gain, but also allows the Buffalo firm's secret agent to gain the trust of the Hicks and better collect intelligence.

General Bologna was in a dilemma and felt that everyone said it makes sense. Finally, he asked Claude, should he sell food to the colony of Rodex Bay?

Claude thought about it, Colonel Fleurs of the Intelligence Service mentioned that the colony of the Rhodes Bay is currently in a food shortage, and the Hicks have gone to the colonies of the Western Continents to urgently purchase food, but before It takes time to buy and return, and it is estimated that they will have food back after a month. And this month, whether it is the residents of the Rocks Bay City, or the standing army of the Hicks Kingdom, they can only rely on ale and sea fish seafood to fill their stomachs and spend the month.

Since the Hicks in this month will not be starved to death, then we will sell them a month's worth of food, which is a total of 100,000 residents of the Hicks in the Gulf of Rodex. One person's three pounds of grain a day is also 300,000 kilograms, and a maximum of 10 million kilograms of grain a month. I don't believe that the Hicks have the tens of kilograms of grain to restore their vitality. Can they save half of their savings? The courage of those who have half full and full of food will attack us...

So this matter was decided, let the Buffalo firm sell tens of millions of pounds of food to the colony of Rodex Bay in the name of smuggling. General Scree is very happy, ten times the price, the theater can get 40,000 gold krona income, the 40,000 gold krona looks very inconspicuous, but for the war zone, there is no small supplement, but unfortunately can also sell high prices Just like this...

The next five generals also discussed and decided on some of the pension amount and the disability subsidy, and then encountered the problem of dilemma, that is, how to solve the promotion of the soldiers who have made meritorious deeds in this war. In the past, the list of officers and men who had to be promoted after the end of the war was reported to the Royal Army Department for approval. After verification by the Royal Army Department, the list of officers and men allowed to be promoted was issued.

The reward is not difficult. The theater is financially autonomous and can directly issue the prize amount. At the same time, the funds obtained after the army sells the spoils will be distributed to the officers and men. After the victory of the previous three colonial wars, the promotion of the list, the Kingdom Army Department will also allocate a sum of money as a bonus, so many veterans have no money around, they are looking forward to fighting, winning the natural money.... ..

It is only now that the overseas direct control zone and the kingdom of the kingdom have cut off the sea traffic. It is not clear to what extent the kingdom civil war is going to be directly governed. It is not clear who the two princes can laugh at the end. Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible for this promotion list to be submitted to the Royal Army Department. What should be done for the soldiers who have made this battle? Can they be promoted?

For Claude, the five generals, it does not matter whether they are promoted or promoted, but for the grassroots officers of the legion, promotion is related to their future. If the award is not promoted, it will probably dampen the morale of the troops. However, if the theater decides to promote them, it will appear to be more and more powerful. General Bologna, General Scurry and General Beechklin are hesitant at this time.

In the end, Crowder took the board, promoted, from the non-commissioned officer to the lieutenant colonel, all according to the promotion of the merits of the promotion, the reward of the reward. If the colonel has the merits, then remember, after all, it is impossible to decide from the promotion of the school official to the general theater. It needs the approval of the Royal Army Department and the King. All the rest are handled according to the normal promotion procedure. After the big deal, it is enough to re-submit a reporting procedure after contacting the Kingdom.

During the war, everything that takes victory in war is a priority, and others do not matter for the time being. The other four generals considered it over and over again, and eventually agreed to deal with what Claude said...