Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 460 chapter chat and coming

Time passed quickly, and it was in mid-April.

Claude has now placed and patrolled defensive positions in the northern coastal mountains. Since he had given the three Nikkan special envoys the conditions for the slashing of the land more than a month ago, the Nikkan special envoys said back. There was no more information under negotiation.

However, Claude is not in a hurry. The first thing after returning to the front line is to withdraw the three local garrisons that were originally deployed in the critical positions in the eastern frontier mountains, so that the eastern mountainous borders to the Nikkan people. The territory is unimpeded.

In addition, Claude also ordered General Beechklin to continue with the defensive fronts of the northern mountainous region with the strength of the three removed local garrisons and a division’s meteorite corps. The construction of three defensive fronts in the direction of the land almost separates the large areas of the eastern mountainous areas from the inland territories of the Nikkan people, and provides a strong wall of iron wall-like defense to the immediate headquarters of the port of Vibatato.

During this period, it was not that no neighboring Nikkan people came to protest to discuss what was cheap, but General Beechlin’s attitude towards the friendly tolerance of the Nikkan people in the last war, ordered all Nikans near the defensive front. The inspectors were expelled away, and no Nikancans were allowed to stay within two hundred meters of the perimeter of the defensive line.

The first shot was fired, the second shot on the ground, and the third shot directly. There is a nearby Nikkan people settlement that probably cost a lot of cheapness in the logistics of logistics. This time is no exception. I want to rely on the slapsticks, or I want to gamble that General Beechklin did not dare to shoot. More than 100 young men and women gathered in the name of protest to the defensive positions.

The man shouted that this is the land where we settled. You can't build things here! The woman’s decapitation poses and seduce the soldiers in the trenches. Only after the first two shots, no one was injured, so these Nikkan people and men mistakenly thought that it was just scaring them, and the arrogance was even more arrogant. Then, then they really can't go back...

...... We want to declare war... We want to take revenge... Hand over the murderer... The Nikkan people really want to explode, they have assembled well. Seeing thousands of Nepalese people in a settlement, I was very embarrassed to stay at two hundred meters, and even used lime powder to draw a line, so as not to accidentally cross the border when emotionally excited. Then they stood outside the white line and shouted slogans to protest against the garrison soldiers on the defensive positions slaughtering their brothers and sisters.

The leaders and elders of the settlements, in order to avoid recurrence of conflict with the troops in the theater, are not allowed to carry any weapons, whether they are muskets or their original bows and spears, or short-handed axe. The Nikancha people who are angry with the angry, unarmed protesters can only grab the stone branches from the ground and throw them away...

"General, our Nikkan people's country has offered you the most severe protest! You not only forcibly occupied our territory, but also shot and killed our innocent people! You must make the most sincere to our Nikkan people. Apologize, compensate for the loss, punish the murderer! Otherwise, our Nikkan people will retain the right to retaliate and disarm the ally with your direct jurisdiction!"

Two Nikkan elders who rushed in for the tragedy in front of Crowder screamed in front of Crowd, waving their arms in anger and venting their indignation.

"Wait, are you mistaken?" Claude was amazed: "When did we maintain an ally relationship between the territorial war zone and your Nikkan? I don't know, not after the last war. Is it lifted? This time it is indeed that we deliberately encroached on your territory to build the defensive front, but we are active defenses, to resist the upcoming Hicks, and have nothing to do with your Nikkan.

If you come to declare war, I am very happy, do not have to retain any right of revenge, you can directly organize tens of thousands of people to attack our defensive front to see if there are still deficiencies. I promise not to take the initiative to counterattack, and will not capture more sites. I believe that you also know that it is useless to occupy more of your sites. We only need the area of ​​the defensive front. You don't have to be close. ”

"That is our land, you have let your soldiers kill us hundreds of people!" Claude's understatement of the attitude of one thing completely angered two Nikancan elders, the body is short The elders of Nikancha were screaming loudly.

"Hey!" Crowder also angered the palm of his hand on the table: "Nonsense! Where are the hundreds of people, obviously only eighty-four! Are you Nikkan people counted this way? Next time Is it necessary to rise to a few thousand, and next time I am killing you tens of thousands of Nikkan people? We have not mentioned the warning, but they just do not listen, it is deserved to be killed!

I know that it is the land of your Nikkan people, but our territorial war zone is only temporarily borrowed. Anyway, it will be useless for two or three months for your Nikkan people. There is no one in the large area of ​​the eastern frontier mountainous area. Since you gave up the land there, why bother with us to consider the land that we have seized.

I sometimes don't understand what you think about the Nikkan people. To be honest, the three standing Legion of the Hicks will arrive in a few days. How do you still have the mind and we care about this little thing. If I were you, I would let those energetic protesters go to the mountains in the eastern front to prepare for the Hicks' offense, and maybe let you live for ten days and a half.

Let's go, we did occupy your territory, but this is to protect the direct control behind us from the Hicks, so we don't care if this is wrong or not, will we become your enemy? . If you want to declare war, declare war, look at the past friendship, I am also a friend, and will avenge you in the future. ”

The two Nekancan elders left in vain, did not declare war, and did not say anything about revenge. They also know very well that the territory behind this defensive front occupied by the theater does not want to be brought back. Claude does not care whether there is one more enemy, but the Nikkan people know that if they declare war with the theater, they will even have one. Allies are gone...

"The conditions you have given to the Nikkan people are too harsh." General Beechklin, next to him, said with some emotion: "Not only do they want to slash such a large piece of land, but also let them lick two million gold krona. If I It’s their command, I’d rather be with the Hicks, and I won’t agree with your request. There are five million Nikkan people, even if they are ten to one, they can kill the Hicks...”

"They don't have the courage." General Albert, sitting in a chair, commented on the head: "Otherwise, they would not propose to deliver the two sites in the northern coastal mountainous region and the eastern frontier mountainous region to our theater. Isn't that the idea of ​​playing the battlefield for us to withstand the Hicks' offense? Even if there is no courage to fight against the enemy, don't put a big tail wolf in front of us.

In fact, I was praying that the Nikkan people would not agree to Claude's condition. If they did not agree to it at the last moment, it would be the most favorable for the theater. As Claude said, the Hicks drove straight from the eastern mountains to the inland territory of the Nikkan, burned and robbed, did not do evil, and finally let the Hicks destroy the Nikkan country. We will send troops again to eliminate the land where the Hicks occupied the Nikkan, and we are called the real one..."

Claude smiled bitterly: "I was flickering and scaring the people of Nikkan. It is really a bad situation for us. It is only our infatuation and ignorance of what is wrong with us. Five million Nikkan people, Greek. As long as they can break through the settlements of the Nikkan people, they can harvest enough rations, even if they are simmering potatoes, so that the Hicks can be eaten by the enemy and do not need to be transported in the rear.

The other is that the inland territory occupied by the Nikkan people is too big. Once the Hicks enter, we lose the initiative of the battlefield. The advantage of the Hicks is that they are several times more powerful than ours. Plus such a large site is enough for them to make strategic arrangements and adjustments to deal with the assault night attack launched by our dispatched troops.

The large site is both an advantage and a disadvantage for us. The advantage is that our sneak troops have enough space to move and are not easily surrounded by enemies. The disadvantage is that we can't occupy the enemy's base for rest. This large area of ​​land is really barren hills and mountains. We need clean drinking water sources, soldiers who need to relax and relax, and need to protect logistics and military supplies. Supply...

If I were a Hicks, then it would be enough to defend the troops we sneaked in as long as we held the settlements of the Nikkan people and the mining development bases of the former Hicks. Because the more troops we enter, the more difficulties we encounter. The troops are less able to capture the enemy’s camps, and the problems brought by the troops are even more. This natural environment can completely drag our morale and the health of the soldiers, which adds a lot of trouble to us. ”

General Albert and General Beechklin fully understand the meaning of Claude's remarks. No army can fight against the harsh natural environment and fight with the enemy who is ready to fight. of. Of course, the legendary army that carried out the 25,000-mile long march in Claude’s past history cannot be counted. It is an army that has never appeared in human history. It is the greatest army. How to boast Not too much.

Of course, the two generals did not know what Crowder was thinking at the moment. What they lamented was that the inland territory of the Nikkan people’s country was too big and too remote. However, the Hicks have enough superior strength to fully occupy the key points and occupy an important source of water. If the troops sneak into the assault night attack can not have a clean water source, it will bring inexplicable disease damage reduction to the troops, and finding the available water source in the wild will reduce the soldiers' energy, increase the fatigue and affect the combat efficiency. .....

So don't look at Claude's indifferent appearance in front of the Nikkan people, but after the Hicks came, they didn't need the Nikhanda to cede the site to pay for it. Crowder would still command the troops to stick to the northern coast. Mountainous and eastern mountainous areas. The reason is very simple. There is no more suitable for blocking than the terrain of these two places. The main reason why Crowder is the big opening of the lion is to scare the Nikkan people and see if they can get some benefits.

"If you can occupy the territory of the Nikkan, it is enough to add four direct jurisdictions to our theater, and there are so many gold and silver mines. It is a pity that such resource-rich places are occupied by these Nikkan people. Every year, it can produce seven or eight million gold and silver mines!" General Abrent was unwilling to whisper.

This is just the view of General Albert. Claude doesn't think so. He drank a lipstick tea ceremony: "If our war zone really occupies the territory of the Nikkan, it will become very bad for our theater. There are indeed a lot of gold and silver mines there, but what is really scarce in our theater is not gold and silver, but human resources.

Even though we have moved over the families and relatives of more than two million legionnaires in the two municipalities of Cromwell and Beringer, the total population of the nine overseas direct administrations has surpassed 4.8 million. The other seven directly under the jurisdiction of the Afonso governor, there are 340,000 people, except for those few towns, most of the territory has not been developed.

Now the economic development of the theater is very fast, but it is very lack of manpower. And we are facing the war, and the formation of a reserve army in the theater. The entire age of the war zone has exceeded one-third of the troops recruited into the army. This is actually a dangerous critical figure, and there is a great possibility. Affecting the stable development of the theater economy.

Everyone has a lucky feeling of getting rich overnight. If we occupy the territory of the Nikancan people, then those who want to dig gold and silver mines will come in, no one will plant food to graze cattle and sheep in the war zone, no one Starting a workshop, maybe we are just like the inland colonies of the former Hicks, and all supplies of supplies and military supplies must be imported externally.

At that time, there was no such peace in the war zone. We can do more with gold and silver. We can’t eat and use it. The result of purchasing materials will only lead to soaring prices, and the relationship between our war zone and the kingdom has not been clarified. That is another big trouble. These gold and silver will only bring us disasters, and even become evidence for us to sue.

With the resourceful site of the Nikancha people, we will only attract more wolves. Our Thunder Legion and the Stone Corps will even become the eyes of those powerful people in Wangdu. They will try their best to control these two. The legion escorted their fortune. In the end, the final winner will also force us to capture slaves to mine like the nobles of the Hicks Kingdom, in order to reduce costs and bring more benefits.

Therefore, I would rather have this site in the hands of the Nikkan people. If we need gold and silver, we can use the production of the direct control of our theater to exchange with the Nikkan people. This is tantamount to let the Nikkan people dig for us. Gold and silver mines. If the Nikancha people agreed to the conditions I proposed, then the Nikkan people would only border our war zone.

No matter what transactions the Nikkan people want to trade can only be carried out with our war zone, we can get stable and lucrative benefits from them, which is better than the people we occupy in their own territory or who are directly under the jurisdiction. People who are rich in dreams come to tap gold and silver to save trouble and worry..."

This is Crowder’s sincere thought. The occupation of the Nikkan people’s territory is harmful to the war zone. It is inherently lacking in manpower. If this site is more attractive to those who are under the jurisdiction, they will dig gold and silver mines. Who is going to do it? If you don't want to mine, then you have to eat enough to occupy this site. Keeping these Nikkan people instead of letting the direct control of the theater under the jurisdiction of the theater have a dumping of goods, the theater can also buy and sell it, profitable, and can fully pay all military expenses, why not. .....

Because Claude mentioned the relationship between the territorial war zone and the kingdom, General Eblon and General Beechklin sighed at the same time. If the calculation of the itinerary is bon voyage, Colonel Bock Al, who has already taken the squadron's guards to guard the war zone and present the gift to the king, arrives at the kingdom, and does not know Prince Widrek, oh no, it is Sterling X. What kind of account will the World War I give to the theater.

On the 19th of April, 393th, the Neptune Fleet of the Hicks Kingdom, the Joint Fleet, and the promise to ship a piece of material to the Hicks Kingdom for free during the five-year lease period. Two fleets of fame in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands escorted countless ocean-going seagoing ships and finally arrived at the colony of the Rocks Bay.

The last three standing regiments of the Hicks Kingdom also came, the biggest test of war for all officers and soldiers in the territorial war zone. Because they are faced with more than 400,000 troops of the seven standing regiments of the Hicks Kingdom, this is the enemy with the most troops they have encountered...