The four overseas territories were merged into one war zone, and the military and political power was placed in one person's hands. This was something that had never happened in the Kingdom of Ovilas since its founding. But for the kingdom, this is also a forced choice. The two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana were abandoned, while the two direct jurisdictions of Robistoe and Amphiston were. The bottom line of defense in this war, even if the Robisto Territory falls, the Rangers must stick to the Claude Defense Line and protect the Amphiston Territory.
Perhaps from the beginning of this war, the two warring parties were in a state of inequality. The Kingdom of Hicks has almost the power of the whole country, and can increase its troops to Nubisia Continent without any scruples and start a big fight. However, the Kingdom of Overas could only send out a ranger regiment, recruit and form an overseas direct-administered regiment to fight this war. Whether in terms of military strength or rear support, the Kingdom of Ovilas is at an extreme disadvantage.
As General Michelich said, compared to King Hicks' army, which has not experienced the baptism of war for more than 40 years, the only advantage the Rangers have is in its advanced weapons and equipment, new tactics and tactics, and The soldiers have extensive battlefield experience. The enemy is constantly sending reinforcements, but the Rangers are unable to obtain domestic military support. This is not because the Kingdom of Orvelas does not want to send reinforcements, but because it is powerless and has more than enough ambition.
The five-year war in the eastern part of the mainland exhausted the kingdom's wealth accumulation for more than two decades, leaving the treasury empty. Although they won the war, the situation they faced was still very serious. The sworn enemies, the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karrnath, were close friends. Even though a peace agreement was signed, half of the kingdom's military strength was still involved in the defense.
On the other hand, the territories of the three newly occupied principalities were reduced to rubble during the war. The kingdom needs to increase investment to restore people's livelihood, and it will take a long time to heal the wounds of the war. At the same time, the kingdom also needs to form a new standing army to guard the local area, which increases the kingdom's military expenditure and puts a heavy financial burden on the kingdom.
This is still external, and the internal situation in the kingdom is not calm. Sterling X is ill in bed and unable to handle state affairs. The emerging commercial aristocracy and the established aristocratic families competed for the interests of the newly occupied territories, and both councils were at loggerheads. During the war, everyone can exercise restraint and unite for victory. But after the war, everyone wanted to share the war dividends, and conflicts arose. However, the only gain for the Kingdom of Overas from this war was the territory of the three principalities, which could not allow everyone to obtain satisfactory war dividends.
Amid internal and external troubles, a colonial war broke out with the Kingdom of Hicks on the continent of Nubisia, which made the Kingdom of Overas even worse. The seven overseas territories have been providing the kingdom with resources and minerals to restore its vitality. This is the reason why the kingdom cannot reach a compromise with the Kingdom of Hicks. After all, the Hicks Kingdom's ambitions are too great. It wants to swallow up the kingdom's three overseas territories in one go, which has already touched the kingdom's bottom line.
Rather than saying that the Ranger Regiment went to the Overseas Territory of Nubicia Continent to resist the invasion of the colonial garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks, it was what everyone expected, and it was an unfavorable conspiracy by the nobles and powerful figures in the kingdom to attack this Sterling royal guard force. Saying that the Kingdom of Ovelas has no choice, there is no troop more suitable to send than the Rangers.
The kingdom's four major field ace legions, the Red Dragon and Griffin legions, were deployed around the mortal enemy the Kingdom of Nasseri, unable to move easily. The Blue Feather Legion has just been reorganized and is tasked with defending the light cavalry of the Principality of Karnas. As for the Guards Corps, it is the guarantee of the peace of the royal capital. If the Guards Corps is sent to the Nubisia continent, if it is severely damaged, it will only intensify the ambition and greed of the Kingdom of Hicks and turn its attention to the remaining members of the Kingdom. Overseas territories directly under the Central Government.
The three newly formed standing corps need to guard the newly occupied territories of the three principalities and cannot be deployed. Although the Ranger Division is not a legion, it is indeed composed of elite soldiers and strong generals. It is recognized that its combat power is not weaker than the four major field ace legions. Even the military exercise of the Guards Corps, which pitted two battalions against one reinforced battalion of the Ranger Division, ended early with the defeat of all four field confrontation exercises. At this critical moment that the kingdom is facing, how can it be justified if the Rangers, who have no place to guard their duties, don't step forward
It only took more than half a year for the Rangers who arrived on the Nubisian continent to live up to the kingdom's expectations. They neatly annihilated the two standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom, annihilated the squadron of the Sea King fleet, and recovered All lost ground. The Kingdom of Overas believed that this finally made the Kingdom of Hicks recognize the reality, so it sent a special envoy, willing to cede an overseas territory directly under its jurisdiction and reach a peace agreement between the two countries.
But unexpectedly, the peace intention brought by the special envoy sent was ignored by the Hicks Kingdom. The heavy casualties of the colonial garrison had angered the Hicks Kingdom military. At this time, the Ovelas Kingdom's request to cede an overseas territory to reach a peace agreement was considered by them to be an insult to the Hicks Kingdom. They clamored that what was lost on the battlefield must be regained on the battlefield, and decided to Send five standing legions to the mainland of Nubisia to continue this colonial war.
No one in the Kingdom of Overas is optimistic about the prospects of this war. No matter how brave and skillful the Ranger Division is, the one to ten strength gap between more than 30,000 enemy troops and more than 300,000 enemy troops is an irreparable gap. As for the two overseas field corps that were ordered to be recruited from the local garrison forces of the seven overseas territories directly under the Central Government, they were just cannon fodder and had no combat power at all. The final result of this colonial war for the Kingdom of Olvilas will only be failure.
The four overseas territories were merged into one war zone, and General Michelich of the Ranger Division was responsible for all military and political affairs in the war zone. This unprecedented decentralization actually showed that the Kingdom of Ovelas had given up. For the three overseas territories of Cromwell, Beringana, and Robbins, he only needed the Rangers to guard the territory of Amphiston. This was the bottom line of the kingdom.
Prince Hansback had already stated the kingdom's attitude towards this colonial war in his private meeting with General Michelich. Regardless of the fact that the four overseas territories have been merged into one war zone, and General Michelich has great power, in fact, the two territories of Cromwell and Beringana need to relocate all the residents of the kingdom, fortify the walls and clear the country, and become battlefields, which is nothing at all. There is nothing to say about civil affairs.
The same is true for the Robisto Direct Territory, which needs to rely on the natural dangers of the Dolinibara River to resist the enemy's attack and cause as many casualties to the enemy as possible. When they really couldn't hold on any longer, they would retreat to the Amphiston Direct Territory and use the dangerous terrain and mountains to fortify themselves layer by layer to keep the battle in a stalemate.
Maintaining combat supplies and reinforcements for a ranger regiment in the Overseas Territory of Nubicia Continent is already a difficult task for the Kingdom of Overas. The long distance adds a lot of transportation to all logistical supplies. cost. What is certain is that the Hicks Kingdom will have to pay a greater price to maintain five standing legions fighting on the Nubisia continent. The Kingdom of Overas now hopes that this colonial war can be delayed and the Kingdom of Hicks will continue to lose blood on the Nubisian continent until they can no longer hold on.
Before leaving, Prince Hansback announced the establishment of a firearms repair shop in the Amphiston Territory, which would be responsible for repairing and transforming old-fashioned muskets to make up for the loss of equipment on the battlefield. This is the first finished product workshop established by the Overas Kingdom in an overseas territory. It was set up due to the helplessness of logistical supplies. It is estimated that it will take about half a year to transport a batch of firearms from the Kingdom to the front line.
In the past few decades, since the Kingdom of Orvelas vigorously developed colonies on the Nubicia continent, it has basically regarded overseas territories as the source of resources and minerals for the kingdom, and has strictly prohibited the establishment of finished product workshops related to the national economy and people's livelihood in overseas territories. Mineral resources and materials are transported back from overseas jurisdictions, processed into finished products, and then resold back to overseas jurisdictions. Gun workshops are not allowed to be opened in overseas territories. Every time, the firearms needed for the local defense of overseas territories have to be transported thousands of miles from the mainland of the kingdom.
This time the kingdom decided to establish a firearms repair workshop in the Amphiston Direct Territory, but there was no other way. The 100,000 Obash Type III standard matchlock guns brought by the eldest prince this time were expanded into a legion in the Ranger Division, and at the same time overseas After the direct-administered territory formed the second overseas field corps, there was not much left. If you include the replacement of new equipment for the local garrison forces in each directly-administered territory, plus battlefield losses, then at least 100,000 of the latest precision aiming and shooting muskets will be needed.
This is something that the kingdom cannot do in the short term, and it cannot be transported to the mainland of Nubisia before the war. In the end, we had to decide to temporarily open a firearms repair workshop in the Amphiston Territory. One was to repair the muskets that were lost on the battlefield, and the other was to transform the old matchlock guns originally equipped by the overseas territories to meet the needs of the battlefield as soon as possible. need.
According to reports from spies sneaking into Vibato Port, it will take at least three or four months for the Kingdom of Hicks to transport five standing legions to the mainland of Nubisia to continue the war. The reason is very simple. The material consumption of the five standing legions of more than 300,000 troops is not a small amount. Although the Hicks Kingdom's colony on the Nubisia continent is large, it is not well developed and most of them are predatory resource extraction.
Not to mention anything else, the colonial food consumption alone had to be purchased from the overseas territories of the Overas Kingdom. This was why the Hicks Kingdom coveted the Overas Kingdom. Cromwell, Beringana, and Robbie The reason why there are three overseas territories directly under the Central Government. As long as these three places are obtained, the Hicks Kingdom colony can be completely self-sufficient in food and meat consumption.
After transporting three standing corps to Vibato Colonial County in one go, the military of the Kingdom of Hicks began to be dumbfounded. People sent supplies and failed to keep up. Let alone fighting a war, it was very difficult to hold on. There was no food and no ammunition. Then why fight? But the Sea King Fleet only transports so much logistical supplies each time. It takes nearly two months to go back and forth. After the second supply of supplies arrives, it is often found that the first supply of supplies has been almost consumed.
This is the shortcoming of the staff officers of the Hicks Kingdom who have not experienced a war for more than 40 years. They have no experience in coordinating a colonial war that took place on another continent thousands of miles away. The mainland colony of Nubisia lacks everything, and any supplies for combat need to be transported from the mainland. Moreover, sea transportation is not safe, and shipwrecks such as storms, pirate attacks, and foggy navigation occur one after another. Even information transmission and exchange between the two places takes up to a month to be delivered.
All the members of the Hicks Military Logistics Department had almost lost all their hair in more than half a year. In the end, they had no choice but to spend a lot of money to hire the combined fleets of the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karnas, and requisitioned the Hicks. Most of the ocean-going ships of the Kingdom of Kes were able to maintain the sea lanes for transporting logistical supplies to the mainland of Nubisia.
The spies who sneaked into the Vibato Port reported that the military supplies in the Vibato Port military base were piled up like mountains. It was estimated that the Kingdom of Hicks would be able to stockpile enough logistical supplies to complete a sustained war with two more deliveries. Coupled with the two standing legions that have not yet arrived, it is likely that war preparations will be completed in four months and the attack will be launched on the Kingdom's Cromwellian Overseas Territory.
The spy asked in the report whether it was necessary to send capable personnel to sneak into the military base in Vibato Port and try to burn and destroy some military supplies in order to delay the war.
But General Michelich refused the spy's request. For him, four months was enough for the Rangers to complete all preparations for war. There is no need to use small means such as sneaking into the enemy's base to burn and destroy military supplies to delay the war. What the Rangers need is to lure the enemy deep, divide and surround them, and annihilate the enemy's legions one by one. Only in this way can we truly defeat the Kingdom of Hicks. The loss of five standing legions may make the Kingdom of Hicks understand that the overseas territories of the Kingdom of Overas are not a target they can covet.
The relocation of the kingdom's residents from the Cromwellian Territory and the Beringana Territory is already proceeding in an orderly manner. The young men of the seven overseas territories have received recruitment orders and will be gradually gathered in the Amphiston Territory to form the first branch of the Kingdom. Two overseas field regiments. General Michelich was not prepared to push the young men of these direct territories to the battlefield to become cannon fodder. He only needed the Second Overseas Field Corps to receive a short military training and then take over the Claude Defense Line and the Dolinibara River Defense Line. .
"Colonel Claude, how is the expansion of your 131st Regiment completed?" General Michelich urgently summoned Claude again.
"Reporting to the general, the expansion of our 131st Ranger Regiment has been completed. All new soldiers are selected from the soldiers of the right age in the local garrison forces of each directly-administered territory. This saves us the time of training new recruits. At present, They are familiar with the precision aiming and shooting training of the newly equipped Obash Type III matchlock gun, and are also receiving training on the new tactics of the Ranger Division." Claude answered at attention.
"Is there any difficulty?" General Michelich asked.
"Report to the general that the supply of war horses is insufficient. At present, our regiment still needs more than 2,000 war horses. However, the Logistics Department said that the next batch of war horses may arrive in half a year. They suggested that we use requisitioned healthy horses to temporarily replace the war horses."
General Michelich pondered for a while and made a decision: "I will order enough war horses to be drawn from the four mobile field regiments directly under the division to supplement yours. Colonel Claude, you only have three months to complete the mission of your regiment. training. Because in three months, the enemy is likely to attack us. I need your 131st Ranger Regiment to move to the Cromwell Territory after the enemy enters the Beringana Territory to cut off the enemy's Logistics supply and transportation channels create conditions for victory for our ranger regiment to encircle and annihilate the enemy's five legions."
Claude stood at attention again: "I understand, General, we will complete the mission." l0ns3v3
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