Feeling that something was wrong, he put down all the information about the Kingdom of Hicks and closed his eyes to think. .biquge If the information in hand is true and correct, anyone with a discerning eye can conclude that the Kingdom of Hicks will not be able to provide effective military support to the colony of Nubisia Continent for at least half a year. In other words, the standing army at Vibato Port will still have to defend for half a year, which gives the Nikancha people a good opportunity to riot.
But now it is no longer important whether the Nikancha people are rioting or not. What is important is when the situation in the Hicks Kingdom will calm down, and who can win the struggle between the Hicks royal family and the traditional territorial nobles. When the nobles of the kingdom's traditional territories resisted the compulsory conscription order issued by him and refused to use their own private armies to form new standing legions, it was simply impossible for King Mechid III to dispatch several of the eight elite standing legions controlled by the royal family. Came to the colonies.
At the same time, the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karnas also rejected the request of the Kingdom of Hicks to continue to hire its main army to go to the mainland colony of Nubisia. Claude led the Thunder Division to join the Third Rock Division and annihilated the two in one fell swoop. The hiring of volunteer corps is enough to make these two countries deeply distressed.
Like the Principality of Karrnath, after the five-year war in the eastern region, it only retained three main legions. As a result, one was hired by the Kingdom of Hicks, and then was completely annihilated on the continent of Nubisia. This has made the Principality of Karrnath How could he agree to the Kingdom of Hicks to continue to employ his main army when his vitality was severely damaged
As for the Kingdom of Nasseri, although it still has some remaining strength, its standing main force is twice as large as that of the Principality of Karrnath. However, less than ten years have passed since the peace agreement was signed after the end of the war. It is simply unwilling to risk offending the Kingdom of Overas and allowing the Kingdom of Hicks to continue to employ its main army. If you hire one legion, you can still claim that it is a volunteer legion formed by retired soldiers, but if you continue to hire a second legion, you must be prepared to fall out with the Kingdom of Ovilas. The Kingdom of Nasseri is not willing to fight with Ovilas again. There is a war in the Kingdom of Rath.
Claude now understood why Melchid III of the Hicks Kingdom provoked this colonial war, because originally the colonies of the Hicks Kingdom were all in the inland areas of the Nubisia continent, with high mountains and dense forests, except for minerals. In addition to natural resources and timber resources, it is not suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, and you have to be careful about being attacked by indigenous tribes.
Just like the articles in the Dawn Newspaper of the Kingdom of Breault, they ridiculed Melchid III for his whims and wanted the territorial nobles in the kingdom to transfer their territories to the colonies. Based on the situation of its inland colony, it is impossible for any territorial nobles to be willing to replace their fiefdom there. Even the newly granted territorial nobles would rather have no territory than have their territory granted to a colony.
All this changed a lot after the Hicks Kingdom obtained the Vibato Port Colony County of the Nasseri Kingdom. With the excellent port of Vibato Port, the Hicks Kingdom's inland colonies on the Nubisian continent have a good outlet to the sea, and the mineral resources developed by the colonies are continuously transported to the kingdom. The territorial nobles discovered that investing in the colonies for mineral development had very good returns, and they began to be keen on setting up mining companies to hire people to go to the colonies for exploration and mining.
Melchid III was keenly aware that the resistance of the territorial nobles had loosened, and he did not seem to object to the replacement of the territory and the granting of seals to the colonies. But at this time, there was a new problem with using the colony as a fiefdom. Mineral trading companies with nobles everywhere participating in investment allocated a territory to a new lord, but the minerals on this territory were being used by nobles from other territories. Mining can easily lead to disputes
Therefore, Melchid III turned his attention to the overseas territories directly under the Kingdom of Orvilas. He took a fancy to Cromwell and Beringana, two territories located on the north bank of the Dolinibara River. They have all undergone preliminary development. The land is fertile and the terrain is flat, which is very suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry. In particular, the inland parts of the two direct territories are connected to the Albato Prairie. Among other things, the hunting and migrating buffalo herds alone are a huge fortune every year, and their value is comparable to a large gold mine.
The Dawn News reported that King Mechid III's plan to control the overseas territories directly under the Kingdom of Ovilas was unanimously approved by the ministers of the kingdom and the territorial nobles. Some lords even expressed that after obtaining these two territories, he would be willing to His own territory in the kingdom was transferred to these two directly-administered territories, and he became the pioneer of the kingdom to develop colonies. This also made Melchid III determined to directly claim these two territories from the Kingdom of Ovilas.
At that time, less than three years after the end of the five-year war in the eastern region, the Kingdom of Orvelas was exhausted from its military and financial resources, and its people's livelihood was difficult. However, the Kingdom of Hicks has firmly established itself as the dominant power in the northern region of Farea Continent, surrounded by its younger allies. Melchid III and his ministers originally thought that with their strong national power, they could force the Kingdom of Olvilas to submit and agreed to cede two direct territories to the Kingdom of Hicks. They never expected that the Kingdom of Olvilas would reject them. unreasonable demands.
The First Colonial War broke out in this way. The Kingdom of Hicks thought that with the strength of its two elite standing corps, it could defeat the local garrison forces in the Overseas Territory of the Kingdom of Overas. However, the two elite standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks, which had not fought for more than 40 years, did not perform very well. They fought on Wickham Castle alone for about half a year, allowing the Kingdom of Overas to send reinforcements from the Kingdom's mainland. Enough time has come.
Then it was time for the performance of the Rangers who arrived in the Overseas Territory of Nubicia Continent. The two so-called elite standing corps of the Kingdom of Hicks were completely wiped out. Since these two elite standing corps belonged to the traditional territorial nobles, their annihilation made all the territorial nobles of the Kingdom of Hicks very angry, and unanimously demanded revenge on the overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction and the elimination of the Kingdom of Ovelas of the Rangers.
Melchid III immediately followed the trend and ordered five elite standing legions belonging to the territorial nobles to be dispatched to the mainland of Nubisia. At the same time, it was also announced that those who had meritorious service in this battle could be granted territories, and those who had territories would be granted additional titles. The royal family is willing to grant or exchange the land in the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana to the territorial nobles in recognition of their courage and determination to open up colonies for the kingdom.
No territorial noble of the Hicks Kingdom thought they would lose. There were five elite standing legions, with a strength of nearly 300,000. The Kingdom of Overas sent to the overseas territories directly under its jurisdiction only one so-called royal armed ranger division, with more than 32,000 people, a strength gap of almost ten to one. As for the two newly formed overseas field legions, no one took them seriously. Everyone knew that the legions formed by the local garrison armed forces had little combat effectiveness at all.
The territorial nobles of the Kingdom of Hicks, who contributed money and people, quickly raised the logistical supplies and military supplies needed for five elite standing corps, and launched the Second Colonial War. But what was different from the overwhelming and invincible battle situation they imagined was that their five elite standing legions had been led by the Rangers, and even got into trouble. In the end, the logistics base of Wickham Castle was captured. After burning all the logistical supplies and running out of ammunition and food, they had to surrender to the Rangers.
When the news of the disastrous defeat in the Second Colonial War and the annihilation of five elite standing legions reached the Kingdom of Hicks, I believe the only happy person was Melchid III. Without the seven elite standing legions of the territorial noble forces that competed with the royal armed forces, the eight elite standing legions of the royal forces under his control have become unique in the Kingdom of Hicks. The kingdom's army has rarely become his voice. No territorial nobles jumped out to oppose him.
However, Melchid III knew very well that although most of the territorial nobles had suffered greater losses, their background was still there. He was prepared to strike while the iron was hot and let these territorial nobles shed some blood. After the failure of the Second Colonial War, it was not without ministers that they asked Melchid III to immediately dispatch the elite standing army controlled by the royal family to go to the mainland colony of Nubisia to save the crisis. However, these requests were rejected by Melchid III on the excuse of insufficient armament and weak combat effectiveness.
Melchid III began his suffocating operation, hiring two main legions and a combined fleet from the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karrnath to stabilize the situation in the colony. Immediately afterwards, in the name of venting anger on the territorial nobles, he refused the entry of the envoy of the Kingdom of Ovelas, closed the door to peace talks, and humiliated the Kingdom of Ovelas and the Sterling royal family. It also made the territorial nobles' plan to redeem their captive relatives from the Kingdom of Ovelas come to nothing.
Then Melchid III delivered a passionate speech of revenge, supporting the territorial nobles to rebuild their arms and go to the mainland of Nubisia to continue the colonial war. The kingdom will provide money and equipment to help them reorganize ten standing legions. With a stroke of his pen, all the recruitment quotas for these ten standing legions fell into the territory of the nobles.
At this time, some territorial nobles finally came back to their senses. After thinking about it carefully, they realized that these two colonial wars were all contributed by the kingdom's territorial nobles, and King Melchid III stood nearby to watch the fun. Except for some military expenditures, the rest were verbal promises and commendations. However, the consequences of the failure of the two colonial wars were borne entirely by the territorial nobles.
Now the so-called formation of ten standing legions to continue this colonial war is recruiting young and strong laborers from the territories of various nobles. At the same time, the royal family also takes this opportunity to infiltrate its power into the territories of various nobles. Nowadays, the military power of the Kingdom of Hicks is entirely under the control of the royal family. If Melchid III has any bad thoughts or opinions about the territorial nobles, then only the private armies in the hands of the territorial nobles, that is, the local The security forces cannot withstand the attack of the elite standing legions of the royal family, and the consequences will be disastrous.
With alertness and understanding, the territorial nobles began to use their best method to deal with the royal family and Melchid III, which was secret resistance, non-cooperation and perfunctory, and combined the requirements of Melchid III with the formation of ten standing legions. The matter was delayed, so that in the next more than a year, the Kingdom of Hicks only established and trained two standing legions, and the recruitment quotas for the remaining three legions were never fully filled.
Melchid III also knew that the territorial nobles had discovered his plot, but he did not care. He just sent two already formed and trained standing legions to the colony, and at the same time urged the three standing legions being formed to be fully occupied. ed. As for the other five standing legions, since the territorial nobles are not interested, they can put it on hold for now. When the colonial war on the Nubisian continent progresses, and give these territorial nobles some sweetness, they can be mobilized again. The enthusiasm comes. Melchid III knew very well the virtues of these territorial nobles, that is, they would not let go of eagles when they see rabbits.
In the eyes of King Melchid III and Wang Fang, they still did not take the failures of the first two colonial wars to heart. They believed that the failures were caused by the territorial nobles who were too greedy and eager for quick victory. King Mechid III decided to adopt a steady and steady strategy. After the subsequent three standing legions were formed and trained, they would be transported to the mainland of Nubisia and launch the third colonial war.
By then there will be seven main legions in the colony, with two mercenary volunteer legions as the vanguard and five standing legions as backup. They will first clear out the entire Cromwellian Territory, set up a solid defense line, and then wait for an opportunity to attack the Beringana Territory. collar. In the view of King Mechid III and King Hicks, the battle zone and the five reinforced divisions established by the Kingdom of Ovilas in the overseas territory of Nubisia Continent were simply unable to withstand the heavy pressure from their side. The best defensive strategy is to abandon the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana, retreat to the south bank of the Dolinibara River, and rely on the terrain and rivers for defense.
As long as he obtained the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana, Melchid III could fully fulfill his promise to the territorial nobles. Based on the contribution and losses of these territorial nobles in the first two colonial wars, How much compensation will be given to the fiefdoms of these two direct territories respectively. With these easy benefits, I believe that the kingdom's territorial nobles can abandon their prejudices against him and the royal family and strongly support his request to form another five standing legions.
When these five standing legions are completed and transported to the mainland of Nubisia, the Kingdom of Hicks will have twelve main legions in the colony. Melchid III strongly believed that no one could block the direction of the king's army, and could even sweep through the entire remaining overseas territories of the Kingdom of Ovilas, averting the shame of the failure of the previous two colonial wars.
By then, the Kingdom of Hicks will be even more prestigious in the continent of Farea and Nubisia, and the kingdom’s territorial nobles will not object to replacing their territories with colonies. He, Melchid III, will lay the foundation for the future of history. The kingdom's unbeatable foundation for thousands of years has become another legendary monarch in the history of the kingdom.
It’s just that God’s calculations are not as good as those of humans. King Mechid III never dreamed that the newly appointed supreme commander of the war zone in the Kingdom of Ovelas, Commander Maotou who succeeded Marshal Michelchi, would launch the third colony first. war. He took the initiative to lead his reinforced Thunder Division to attack the two volunteer corps hired by the Kingdom of Hicks. After three battles and three victories, he not only annihilated these two mercenary volunteer corps with powerful fighting capabilities, but also took the newly formed missionaries with them. Feide's standing army also swallowed it in one gulp. The remaining standing army can only huddle in the port city of Vibato and defend it to the death, leaving room for the Kingdom of Hicks to make a comeback.
All of Melchid III's plans came to nothing with the disastrous defeat of the Third Colonial War. When the news came, he angrily smashed all the decorative art in the palace study. Sometimes, no matter how good the plans above are, there is nothing that can be done about the incompetence and delaying behavior of the people below. However, Melchid III wanted to win again and immediately sent special envoys to the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karnas, intending to hire their main legions from these two countries to go to the Nubi Subcontinent to stabilize the colonial situation.
But no matter how hard the envoy tried, the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Karnas refused the Kingdom of Hicks' request to hire their country's main army, and this road was blocked. Melchid III was unwilling to deploy the elite standing legions belonging to the royal family to the colonies, so he made a desperate move and decided to rely on the power of the king and the strength of the army to use compulsory conscription to forcibly recruit the private armies of the territorial nobles. Garrison force, five standing corps were established and sent to the colonies.
The result is very simple. The territorial nobles will not directly raise the flag to rebel, but they can secretly instruct the local police and armed forces below to oppose the compulsory recruitment order of Melchid III. They can go up to the mountain to hide and seek with the standing legion sent by Melchid III to conquer them. . The Kingdom of Hicks fell into civil strife, and Melchid III no longer cared about the colonies on the mainland of Nubisia.