On October 7, 586th year of the Holy Light Calendar, Claude finally received the order from General Michelci. There were only two large characters on the Falcon message, and then there were the signature of General Michelci and The official seal of the division headquarters.
"McJack, pass the order and have the four directly-affiliated field battalions act according to the plan, and all the regiment commanders will set off with me." Claude ordered.
"Yes, sir." Michael stood at attention and saluted. He is now a captain. After returning from half-year leave, he was promoted to another level. He still serves as Claude's personal adjutant.
"By the way, let the big man Gimi keep that box of treasures and don't leak them out. That's our secret weapon, understand," Claude warned McJack.
McJack nodded and left the office.
The box of treasures Claude was talking about was the result of Michael and his sister Anna's vacation when they went back to visit relatives. A box of hand grenades with long wooden handles. This was the only result of the two weapon design drawings that Claude gave his sister. The development of the grenade went very smoothly. Only the problems of pulling the trigger and delayed explosion were solved to complete the production of the sample.
This box of grenades was all made by my sister Anna in the alchemical magic talisman array, twenty-four of them. The only shortcoming is that the power of the explosion is not too great, but this is a problem with the gunpowder, not an error in design and manufacturing. However, when it is thrown into a fire and explodes, it is enough to split the outer iron shell into more than twenty pieces, posing a sufficient threat of killing the target within a three-meter range. This is what my sisters Anna and Mike found through experiments with a group of sheep. in conclusion.
Along with the arrival of a box of grenades was a production drawing hand-drawn by her sister Anna. Based on the process of making grenades in the alchemical magic talisman, she deduced the equipment and steps required for actual mass production, as well as how to improve product quality. Inspection procedures. In other words, with this production drawing, Claude only needs to purchase equipment and raw materials, and he can manufacture weapons such as grenades on a large scale according to this production drawing.
Claude just told McJack to keep this production drawing carefully. He did not want to produce any grenades in the short term. The imitation of this thing is very simple. When he does not have enough strength to keep the production rights of grenades, Claude does not want to cause more trouble to himself. Entrusting his sister Anna to make hand grenade samples was just some private preparation made by Claude for the upcoming war. Perhaps it was to save his life, or perhaps it was to meritorious service.
There is also a drawing of a revolver that is still being developed. According to the report from McJack when he came back, sister Anna believes that the rest of the revolver's parts can be made in the alchemy magic array. The only difficulty is the primer of the bullet. Among them, the pointed lead bullet and the cartridge case are very simple. What is the raw material for the primer is a big problem. It is said that sisters Anna and Mike have tried many methods, but the misfire rate is still too high.
Claude can understand this. After all, his sister Anna is a pharmacist, not a chemist. There are no courses of chemistry and physics in this world. Some knowledge about chemistry and physics is said to be classified as mysterious alchemy and is not disseminated to the outside world. It is in the hands of the royal family and magicians. Because of this It's been more than 600 years since they were still using matchlocks.
Take your time, Claude himself was a scumbag in chemistry in his previous life. When he was in college, he majored in computer applications. After graduation, he also took a technical route. After joining his boss, he was also responsible for logistics and technical management. It wasn't until he traveled to this different world that he realized that not learning the most basic knowledge of applied chemistry and physics was his biggest mistake.
As news from the frontline came, Claude quickly learned about the latest battle situation. Two days ago, the two standing armies deployed by the Kingdom of Hicks on the border, the Tanya Army and the Wickron Army, crossed the border and marched towards the Cromwell Territory. Behind these two legions, hundreds of miles apart, were the three standing legions of Sebok, Kuzoya and Fibot.
Perhaps they learned the lesson from the previous two standing legions that were completely annihilated. This time, the Hicks Kingdom adopted a strategy of pressing the territory with heavy troops, attacking steadily, and echoing back and forth. All five standing legions are committed to the attack. As long as they encounter stubborn resistance from the defenders of the Kingdom of Ovelas, the five standing legions will surround them and kill the chicken with a knife, annihilating the enemy's defenders, which is better than the previous time. The two standing legions that were completely wiped out breathed a sigh of relief.
But what disappointed King Hicks was that the army of the Overas Kingdom had no intention of guarding the Cromwell Territory. They almost all retreated with one blow, giving up the prestige of the capital of the Cromwell Territory. Kem Castle and its four towns. When the five standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks occupied the entire Cromwell Territory, they discovered that there was not a single civilian from the Kingdom of Overas still living in the capital, Wickham Castle, and the four towns. All you see are Nikanchas wandering around the town houses
The murder occurred quickly, and the soldiers of the Kingdom of Hicks were ordered to drive these dirty Nikancha people out of the town and back to their slums. This order was resisted by the Nikancha people who occupied the abandoned residences of the relocated Kingdom residents. They believed that the houses and fields abandoned by the Kingdom residents had become their own property, so they surrounded the execution of the task. The Hicks Kingdom soldiers begged loudly, shouted injustice, and surrounded them, unwilling to leave these places until they died.
The impatient officers of the Hicks Kingdom ordered shots to be fired as a warning to these shameless Nikancha people. As soon as the gunshots were fired, many Hicks Kingdom soldiers who heard the gunshots thought they could shoot at those who refused to leave. The Nikanchas opened fire on the houses. So a massacre occurred. Almost all the Nikancha people who could be seen became the shooting targets of the new occupiers. Only young women were spared, but they became the targets of those bestial Hicks Kingdom. The soldiers' plunder was brought into the military camp and became the object of ravage.
The massacre at Wickham Castle soon spread throughout the Nubisian continent through word of mouth from the fleeing Nikancha people. In fact, there were not many victims in the murder, nearly a thousand people were killed or injured, and more than two hundred young women were abducted into the military camp. The perpetrators of the murder did not know that the time of the massacre cut them off from another source of information besides the scouts and Qingqi reconnaissance. After this incident, no Nikancha people in the overseas territories were willing to cooperate with the Hicks Kingdom. Cooperate with the military to deliver intelligence and collect news for them.
The main purpose of the Hicks Kingdom's legion to drive away the Nikancha people from the capital, Wickham Castle, is to prepare to use Wickham Castle as the general logistics supply base for the five standing legions, and the remaining four towns will also be used. It is an important supply station on the logistics material transportation channel. Those Nikancha people were unwilling to leave the houses they occupied because they wanted to be compensated with some property or food. But they didn't expect that the soldiers of Hicks Kingdom, the new occupiers, actually opened fire on them.
Nikancha people have always been regarded as mixed-blood mongrels. They are greedy, smart-alecky, liars, thick-skinned, lazy, stingy, thieves, and scoundrels. Almost any bad adjective can be applied to them. But the only undeniable advantage is that the Nikancha people are relatively united. They look the same to outsiders, but they take great care of their own people.
To a certain extent, the overseas territories directly under the Kingdom of Ovilas are relatively fair in their treatment of the Nikancha people. Although they are not recognized as residents of the kingdom, at least in the overseas territories, as long as they work hard, they can still earn enough to feed their family. And as long as various taxes are paid, safety and freedom within the country can still be guaranteed.
Just like those Kingdom residents who immigrated to the overseas territories, although they are civilians, in the overseas territories, whether they are opening mines, starting farms, ranches, or opening shops and taverns, they will hire Nikancha people as basic labor, and their own family members will do the work. Most of the supervisors can get along well with the Nikancha people and earn a good fortune for their families. This is also the main reason why the basic industries of the seven overseas territories of the Kingdom of Ovilas are well developed.
Most of the colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks are in the inland areas of the Nubisian continent. The Nikancha people who like to hang out in coastal areas rarely go to the inland areas to make a living. In addition, most of the colonists from the Kingdom of Hicks were engaged in mineral development and rarely engaged in low-income industries such as starting farms and pastures. They are known as gold diggers, exploring various mineral resources in order to make a fortune.
Unlike the Orvilas Kingdom, which immigrated civilians to overseas territories for development and construction, the gold diggers from the Hicks Kingdom were basically employed by nobles and powerful people. They could find a rare mineral resource in the colony. Earn a huge fee. Then those nobles and powerful people will take over the development of that mineral resource to obtain a steady stream of profits.
Because developing minerals requires a lot of labor, the nobles and powerful people have their thoughts on the indigenous tribes. They organize mercenaries to attack the indigenous tribes, capture the laborers, and put them into dark mines to provide They mine endless wealth. This is almost a lucrative slave trade, and they don't have to pay any wages at all. This is also the reason why indigenous rebellions continue to occur in the Hicks Kingdom colony. Anyway, in the eyes of gold diggers, an indigenous tribe and mineral resources are of equal value.
If it had not obtained the Vibato Colonial County from the Nasseri Kingdom, perhaps the Hicks Kingdom would not have had much interaction with the Nikancha people. Compared with the pure-blooded indigenous Etat people, the Nikancha people are more civilized. They live in slums next to those towns and are willing to use their own labor to obtain food. At the same time, they also let young Nikancha women sell their skin and flesh to obtain food. remuneration.
The first batch of soldiers from the Panklei and Crado legions who came to the mainland of Nubisia learned how to deal with the Nikancha people, so their scout cavalry would use food and money from the Nikancha people when they could not find any clues about the enemy. Obtaining some information from the inspectors was like learning that the two regiments they went to conquer the enemy were wiped out because the Modo River town was burned down by fire.
But the officers and soldiers of the five standing legions did not learn how to get along with the Nikancha people, and they did not care about the massacre at Wickham Castle. On the contrary, some noble officers felt that perhaps the slave owners who developed those minerals could turn their targets to these Nikancha people, because compared with the aggressive Etat people, the Nikancha people were more docile.
The five standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks spent a month occupying the entire Cromwellian Territory, and then they blocked four routes and marched towards the Beringana Territory. What they had to do was because the Beringana Direct Territory was too big. If they adopted the original steady and steady strategy, they would have to spend at least twice as long to occupy the entire territory.
When the enemy has no intention of defending and has almost given up all the towns, it is simply a fool's errand to use such a slow speed to capture places without any defensive force. Under the unanimous advice of all the army staff officers, the five armies of the Hicks Kingdom no longer huddled together, but stretched out like four arrows towards the Beringana Direct Territory, intending to occupy the entire Beringana in the shortest possible time. Directly administering the entire territory, they also left a standing corps on the back road to prevent the logistics supply channels from being attacked and destroyed by the enemy.
The Beringana Direct Territory is not as undefended as the Cromwell Direct Territory. In some dangerous areas, there is always a battalion or regiment of the Ovilas Kingdom guarding there. They resisted tenaciously and always retreated at critical moments when the enemy gathered to encircle them. Although the four standing armies of the Hicks Kingdom suffered some casualties during the attack, this made it appear that their victory was genuine.
A senior officer who once again captured the enemy's defensive position proudly ordered his subordinates to report to the regiment headquarters: "The enemy is vulnerable, and our army is invincible."
The senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom, who had not experienced a war for more than 40 years, were indeed bewildered by the victories they had achieved. They forgot to check the ratio of casualties and losses between the enemy and ourselves. There were often few dead soldiers on captured enemy defensive positions, and the casualties of their attacking troops were often calculated based on battalion strength.
They successfully captured the enemy's defensive position, and the enemy fled in panic, but they lost one combat battalion after another. This situation was considered by the senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom to be normal casualties, and they did not care much. A standing army has twenty combat battalions. As long as it can continue to win and capture the enemy's territory, it is normal to lose half of the combat battalions.
It's just that the senior officers of these standing legions in the Kingdom of Hicks don't know that they have been lured away from their original goals by the Rangers and are falling into the enemy's traps one by one. The Ranger Regiment used small defensive positions to make every standing legion in the Kingdom of Hicks think that the enemy's main force was in front of them, and set up new defensive positions to wait for their attack. So they were all moving forward bravely, unintentionally neglecting to take care of each other, and the distance between the various legions became increasingly distant.
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