Marshal Michelich smiled bitterly and pointed at Claude with his finger: "It seems that I have to make my words clear today before you will take over the position of supreme commander of this theater, right?"
Claude spread his hands in a rogue manner: "General, please go back to the capital and leave us here. No one has any confidence in this. In the past, when you were here, we had nothing to fear. We only knew how to charge into battle and win." Anyway, you are strategizing everything from behind. We don’t have to think too much, we just need to follow your instructions.
Now you have to leave and put this burden on me. My small body cannot bear it. The senior generals of the kingdom are not willing to take your place. Even they all understand that this position is not only a fire pit, but also a sitting duck. On the tip of the knife, if you are not careful, you will hurt yourself. General, please show mercy and let me go, and find a more suitable candidate than me in the legion."
"You are not the only one who bears this pressure. I have also found two deputies for you to share some responsibilities with you. Colonel Bolonik and Colonel Sevicit were both seniors in the advanced seminar during your military academy training. They will Two people to help you, I believe you will adapt to this new position soon." Marshal Michelich smiled and comforted Claude.
Claude was overjoyed: "General, you can choose one of them to replace me as the supreme commander of this theater. No matter who these two seniors are, they are more suitable than me, whether it is military rank or talent."
Marshal Michelic shook his head: "I don't think so, Claude. Why should I choose you over one of them? It's because you have more honorary titles than them. You are the baron of the kingdom. , is a noble. As the supreme commander of this overseas territory, you will inevitably deal with those local people. For those local people, the honorary baron of a kingdom is more worthy of their respect and intimacy than the rank and position in the military.
The most important point is that your two seniors' strengths lie in defense, and unlike you, they are good at offense. Good defense can increase the casualties paid by the enemy's attack, consume its troops and morale, delay the duration of the war, and continuously increase the enemy's war costs. It's like cutting a wound on the enemy's body, causing him to continuously lose blood, and ultimately making the enemy unable to bear the price of war and leading to the armistice negotiation table.
Just defending will also cost us a lot of casualties. After all, we are in a passive position and the initiative on the battlefield is in the hands of the enemy. We can only act according to the opportunity to deal with the enemy's attack. To win the war, we must learn to initiate the attack. Even if the enemy is stronger than us, we still have to rely on offense to seize the initiative on the battlefield.
Before the Battle of Beringana, no one thought highly of our Ranger Regiment. We have more than 30,000 people, plus a newly formed overseas field corps with low combat power. We can deal with the enemy's five standing corps with more than 300,000 troops. But we took the initiative on the battlefield, cut off the enemy's logistics supply channels, and covered the entire battlefield, making it impossible for the enemy to detect the real battle situation, making them suspicious. In the end, the logistics supplies could not keep up and the entire army was annihilated.
This is active offensive defense, seizing the initiative on the battlefield, covering the enemy's reconnaissance capabilities on the battlefield, and allowing the enemy to be led by our noses and follow our pace. The enemy is like a slow-moving giant. It looks huge, but it poses no threat to us. It's just a pity that your two seniors have been too deeply influenced by the orthodox military school education they have experienced since childhood. They cannot learn this kind of active offensive defense. As soon as there is a battle, it will transform into a traditional positional offensive and defensive battle. Their characters are steady and cautious. , you will never risk an attack if you are not sure.
But you are different from the two of them. Your talent lies in offense. This is an instinct that is integrated into your blood. Your ability to capture fighter planes and your sensitivity on the battlefield amaze me. You will always choose the most favorable situation for you and launch a fatal attack at the moment when the enemy least expects it, and quickly win at the greatest cost. Just like how you led the 131st Ranger Regiment to capture Wickham Castle, I originally thought that just relying on a secret passage would make it difficult for you to complete the task of burning down all the supply warehouses, which was related to the outcome of the entire Beringana Battle. The essential
The enemy's strength is twice that of yours. With two garrison regiments, you can still rely on the strong castle for defense. As a result, you used secret passages to cooperate inside and outside, causing the enemy's confusion, seizing the castle gate, commanding the 131st Ranger Regiment to quickly annihilate the enemy's headquarters, forcing the enemies of the two regiments to surrender, and captured the entire city with very slight casualties. The castle and all its supply warehouses were burned down. The 180,000 enemies who finally arrived at Wickham Castle had to surrender to us in despair because they had no logistical supplies, allowing us to win the entire battle.
As for your later credit for building a large camp with materials transported from Wickham Castle and resolving the plight of nearly 200,000 prisoners who were short of food and clothing, I won’t mention it. Although the higher-ups refused to give you credit, I remember that you gave it I was a big help. Considering these aspects, I think that if you want to win this colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks, you are the most suitable candidate to succeed me in this position. Only by attacking can we win.”
Claude grinned with joy. No matter who it was, if Marshal Michele, known as the King of Kings, praised him like this, he would be very happy. Now that Marshal Michelich has analyzed it like this, Claude also feels that he is indeed the most suitable successor among the Rangers.
"Most of the officers and soldiers transferred from the Ranger Corps this time will be the backbone of the three reinforced divisions." Marshal Michelich continued: "I pulled out two of your seniors as your deputies. , is to prepare to hand over the heavy responsibility of defense to the two of them. Colonel Bolognik will be the division commander of the first division of the Rock, while Colonel Sevicit will be the division commander of the second division of the Rock. These two are known as the Panshi The named divisions will be responsible for the Dolinibara River Defense Line in the Robisto Municipality and the Claude Line in the Amphiston Municipality.
With the two of them as your backing, you can avoid the worry of defense in the rear. In the vast battlefield space of Cromwell and Beringana, the two direct jurisdictions, you can capture fighter planes and use your offensive methods to attack them. Strike the enemy and inflict fatal damage to the enemy. Therefore, the division you lead will be named Thunder. All its configurations are the same as the previous Ranger Division. It is a mobile battlefield offensive force. Do you understand the meaning of my name Thunder?"
Claude nodded, sat up straight, and replied seriously: "General, I guarantee that no enemy can resist the attack of our Thunder Division in the future. It moves like a thunderbolt and is as powerful as thunder. When we launch an attack, there will be no If any enemy can withstand our thunderous blows, we will make them terrified and defeated."
"It moves like a thunderbolt and is as powerful as thunder. That's right. Claude, I hope you can do what you said." Marshal Michelich recalled what Claude said with appreciation: "About me letting the Ranger Legion Most of the personnel were transferred to the local garrison and all the weapons, military equipment and horses were left here for you. Don’t worry about it. In fact, the royal nobles were happier when I did this.
First, they have the opportunity to place their close subordinates in the Ranger Corps.
Second, there are enough shortages of soldiers for senior officers with royal blood ties to earn some free wages in their subordinate units openly.
Third, the lack of equipment allowed the royal nobles to use it to reorganize their armaments and make a fortune from it.
And the Kingdom’s Army Ministry is also happy to see this happen. Anyway, the money spent is the royal family’s property, and they don’t have to pay a single copper coin from the Kingdom’s Army’s military expenses. On the contrary, they can cooperate with the royal family and nobles to share a profit from it.”
Well, Claude found out today that the secrets he heard about the Kingdom's Army Department and the royal nobles above really refreshed his horizons again and again. In his impression, the Royal Army is a violent gang that is highly organized, highly disciplined and has strong combat effectiveness. He had fully experienced and seen this during the war, and he himself was one of them. But I didn't expect that there were also various interests colluding above to compete for power and gain and plot against each other.
"You don't have to think so wisely about the decisions above. Sometimes the principles and policies conveyed are more of a compromise to take into account the interests of all parties." Marshal Michelich said with a see-through attitude. Tell Claude: "Just like this time you took over my position as the supreme commander of the war zone. It seems to be a high-level position. You are responsible for four overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction, and you have five reinforced divisions with a total of 150,000 to 60,000 troops. .
But if the people above think that what the Kingdom of Hicks said about preparing to form ten standing legions to fight this colonial war is true, and not a threat to the kingdom, then you simply cannot be the supreme commander of this war zone. Sir. Even my recommendation is not enough, there are many people competing for this position. It is precisely because this position is a pit of fire, as you just said, sitting on the edge of a knife, that it falls on your head.
However, I believe that as long as you can defeat the standing legions sent by the Kingdom of Hicks to the Nubisia continent again, then no one can expel you from this position. Of course, if we win again, I believe that the Kingdom of Hicks will not be able to persist. After peace comes, the Kingdom will cancel this war zone establishment. At that time, you will also become famous and become a banner among the kings, a legendary hero of the kingdom."
After encouraging Claude, Marshal Michelich continued to talk about business: "I have helped you solve the issue of troop replenishment you just mentioned. I have worked with the emerging business aristocrats in the kingdom. This deal was supported by senior figures in the kingdom. The deal was very simple, which was to hand over to them the nearly half a million Hicks Kingdom prisoners of war captured in the two colonial wars, and they were responsible for relocating 100,000 to us. The household kingdom immigrated to the war zone.
The most important condition for this deal is that each of the 100,000 immigrant families has a young soldier who retired and returned home after the five-year war in the eastern region. All relocation and settlement costs are paid by the emerging business aristocracy, and all we need to do is arrange an industry for these 100,000 immigrant families. In addition, in order to support our theater in preparing for the next colonial war, the Kingdom's Ministry of War has not been able to dispatch a single regiment, but it has promised to dispatch twenty local guards with battlefield experience in the five-year war in the eastern region. Camp over.
You see, now you don’t have to worry about replenishing the troops. One hundred thousand immigrant families equals one hundred thousand troops. Including twenty local guard battalions, there are 20,000 veterans who have been on the battlefield. There are already 120,000 service-age candidates here, as well as most of the personnel transferred from the Ranger Corps, as well as two overseas field regiments, enough for you to reorganize the establishment of five reinforced divisions, and even have sufficient reserves. Replenishment of troops”
Claude opened his eyes in surprise: "General, are those emerging business aristocrats crazy? They actually exchanged 100,000 immigrant families for 500,000 captives. You know that we are in a war zone, so they don't worry about these 100,000 families." Is the safety of immigrant families at risk?”
Marshal Michelich laughed playfully: "Claude, you don't understand, those people above don't care about the safety of these 100,000 immigrant families, they are more concerned about the 500,000 prisoners of war they have obtained, which is free of charge. They only need to feed and drink half a million young and strong laborers. The territory of the emerging commercial aristocrats is in the newly occupied territory of the kingdom, the twenty-nine counties of the first three principalities. Because of the five years of war in the eastern region, there are There is an extreme shortage of young labor.
You may have heard that they were struggling in the past few years, hoping to bring in mixed-race indigenous people from the seven overseas territories, that is, nearly one million young and strong Nikancha people to fill the labor vacancies in the newly occupied territories. However, the matter was disrupted by those temples. The residence of Deputy Speaker Obinite, who proposed the immigration plan in the National Assembly, was smashed by the protestors in the royal capital. Therefore, this immigration plan came to nothing, which led to the emerging business aristocrats to take an interest in our half a million captives.
Those 100,000 immigrant families may seem like a lot, but when they are allocated to the thirty-two counties in Wangguolao, each county only has more than 3,000 families. For those local counties, relocating these civilian families to overseas jurisdictions has reduced their troubles, and they have to thank us. Do you know why? It's simple. These civilian families all have young men who were drafted into the army and participated in the five-year war in the eastern region. After the armistice, they were forced to retire and go home.
Due to insufficient merit and unexpired service period, these retired soldiers cannot obtain national status. However, because they have participated in the war, they have more experience than the local civilians, so these retired soldiers can easily become a factor of local instability. As civilians, most of them were from poor families, and the kingdom's regulations on civilian migration were very strict, so they were unable to move their families to the newly occupied areas.
However, those emerging business nobles found loopholes in the kingdom's regulations on civilian migration restrictions. The migration of civilians between local counties was very strict, which was related to the amount of conscription for each local county during the war. However, the kingdom has always encouraged civilian families to move to overseas territories, and the restrictions on civilians in overseas territories are also very loose. They can have the rights of citizens here and earn a family business more easily.
In fact, nearly a million immigrants from the kingdom in the seven overseas territories came here this way, and they immigrated after every war. If it hadn't been for the colonial war with the Kingdom of Hicks this time, there might have been a lot of new immigrants in the overseas territories. For those local counties, relocating these retired soldiers and their families to overseas territories not only stabilized the local stability and harmony, but also supported the kingdom's immigration policy. It can be said that it added to their political achievements.
For those civilian families who migrated, the emerging business aristocracy paid for their travel and settlement expenses, reducing their financial burden. Our war zone has given them another property, and the retired soldiers in their families can continue to serve in the army and obtain national status. This is a happy situation for everyone, and everyone is very satisfied. As for war and the risk of losing loved ones, it is inevitable. They must pay such a price if they agree to migrate.
As for the twenty local security battalions, they are the basic base of the emerging business aristocrats. They are naturally capable of coordinating everything. We just need to accept them and prepare for war. You see, the most important issue of troop replenishment has been solved by me, the outgoing former commander, for you. The next thing you need to do is to reorganize and reorganize the five divisions, step up preparations for war, and strengthen and improve the defensive front. Remember, you only have two to three years at most.”
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