"...Prince Wedelek has set August 10th as the day of his coronation, and he is unwilling to delay it any longer. It is said that the last condition he gave to the eldest prince, Hansback, was that The territories of the original Eskiline Principality and the original Limodra Principality were merged into the Princely Territory, which was used as a fiefdom for Prince Hansback in exchange for his consent to Prince Wedelek becoming Sterling XI."
This is the latest news from the royal capital sent by Mr. Veblen. Of course, when this news reaches the hands of several generals on the Nubisian continent, I believe that Prince Hansback over there has already given a reply. It seems that this condition is already very generous, and it also breaks the decree left by Sterling IX that the kingdom will no longer grant noble territories.
However, Prince Hansback is not considered a noble, he is a eldest prince. If Prince Wedelek ascends the throne, he will become a prince. They are all named Sterling. No matter how big the fiefdom is, the meat will rot in the pot. I believe that legal experts will come out to explain that this is not a violation of the order or something...
It is said that countless people who came to persuade the eldest prince Hansback were disgraced, and most of them did not even see the eldest prince's face. The Prime Minister of the Kingdom, Duke Duncan, also made a trip. He was so proud that he met with Prince Hansback for two hours. When he came out, he just smiled bitterly and went back to the capital without saying a word.
Prince Widreko couldn't wait to take the throne. After discussing with the powerful men in the royal capital, he gave a deadline. Regardless of whether Prince Hansback agreed to this final condition or not, he was prepared to take the throne in August. He ascended the throne on the 10th. After all, the throne of the kingdom has been vacant for more than half a year. You can't stop taking the throne just because you are afraid of the eldest prince. Many important things in the kingdom have been delayed.
Claude and several generals in the war zone have made up their minds. Even if the two princes from the kingdom start to fight and fall in love, they will just stay in the war zone of the Overseas Directly Administered Territory of the Nubisia Continent to watch the fun, and they are determined not to get involved in this vortex. inside. Anyway, you only need to express your loyalty to the king. As for which of the two princes becomes the king, it depends on their own abilities...
But before May arrived, several generals in the theater headquarters received an urgent request for help from Wickham Castle, which was directly under the jurisdiction of Cromwell. It was said that because there were too many immigrants, the immigration qualifications were verified at Wickham Castle. And the officer in charge of the logistics department who distributes land swaps for personal properties has become too much. In addition, Wickham Castle needs to urgently transport a large number of food, grass, tents and other supplies from the rear to prevent the families of the officers and soldiers from sleeping in the open.
Claude felt a little strange. He stayed in Lanhu Town and didn't see many immigrants on the road heading to Cromwell and Beringana. Why did Wickham Castle suddenly start to complain. However, now that he had received the request for help, Claude, General Bolognik and General Skerry set out with the guards to Wickham Castle.
After arriving at Wickham Castle, the three generals fainted. Because the area around Wickham Castle is crowded with people at first glance. Countless immigrants carrying large and small bags look like refugees, and the water surrounding Wickham Castle is blocked.
"Why are there so many people?" General Bolognik said naa.
Yes, why are there so many people? Claude asked a second lieutenant in military uniform. The second lieutenant recognized Claude, saluted hurriedly, and then answered Claude's question. It turned out that these grassroots officers knew that immigration admission qualifications and personal property land exchange needed to be registered at Wickham Castle in the Cromwick Territory, so they were not prepared to walk there after disembarking at Tilsim Harbor, as it was too far. , at least for a few months. So I simply found someone to join forces and charter a boat, that is, one of those offshore flat-bottomed transport boats, to go straight to the abandoned fishing village near Cromwell Territory along the coastline, which saves half the time...
The three generals suddenly realized that no wonder they didn't see many immigrants passing by on the road in Lanhu Town. But where did all the people near Wickham Castle come from? At a glance, there were no less than two to three hundred thousand people.
After entering Wickham Castle, I found that it was even more crowded. I finally reached the immigration registration office. The person in charge almost cried when he saw the arrival of the three generals. He introduced the situation in a hoarse voice, whether it was the Grammar Lord was still General Bolognik and General Skerry, and all three of them were dumbfounded.
"He, did they move their entire family here?" Looking at the registration book in his hand, Claude was really stunned. The eldest uncle, second uncle, etc. can tolerate it. What the hell is this eldest aunt, third cousin, and so on? Are these considered relatives...
General Skerry was still calm and quickly understood what was going on: "This is indeed our negligence. We forgot to remind them that immigration admission is only given to immediate relatives. They brought almost all their relatives over, One is to avoid trouble. The eldest prince and the second prince are likely to fight over the throne. They don’t want their relatives to be cannon fodder and be forcibly recruited. The second is to hope that when our Thunder Legion and Rock Legion recruit new recruits, their relatives can get a opportunities to apply, so that their relatives can also own an industry here... "
Originally, the Theater Logistics Department had formulated very detailed regulations, with clear regulations on immigration admission qualifications and personal industrial land replacement. After those registered retired grass-roots officers arrive at Wickham Castle with their relatives, they only need to verify their identity in accordance with the regulations to obtain their personal property, allocate it to fields or farms, and then they can build it with their relatives. Houses, plowing fields, starting planting and grazing etc.
I just didn't expect that they would bring so many relatives. During this period, the people in the immigration registration office were exhausted. They did nothing else but were busy registering the identities of these immigrants' aunts, third cousins, etc. went. In addition, fortunately, the team was led by retired grassroots officers. Although the crowd near Wickham Castle was turbulent, basic order was still maintained. But in order to provide food for so many immigrant relatives, the food stored in Wickham Castle was consumed quickly...
The three generals had no choice but to meet immediately to discuss countermeasures. General Bolognik immediately rushed back to the theater headquarters in Lanhu Town to mobilize grain and grass and additional manpower from the direct territories in the rear. Claude is here to rectify the Thunder Legion and maintain order. As for General Skerry, he will immediately be responsible for the entire immigration admission qualifications and the distribution of personal property here. According to regulations, land will be distributed to retired grassroots officers, allowing them to take away their relatives first.
Immediately afterwards, General Skerry decided to open a recruitment office to recruit relatives of immigrants to build water conservancy projects and cultivate public fields, so as to put people to use instead of leaving them idle. But as a result, the war zone suddenly became strapped for funds, and using so much labor to build public facilities required a large sum of money. Food is still in supply, but funds can only be diverted from military expenditures.
Fortunately, May is here and the annual bison migration on the Albato prairie is about to begin again. Claude sent two light cavalry field regiments from the Thunder Legion to hunt bison, led by Belklin and Muriel. On the one hand, they used beef to supplement food consumption, and on the other hand, they hoped to use bison hides to sell to the outside world. Conduct transactions in exchange for funds as development funds.
Beginning in mid-April of the 591st year of the Holy Light Calendar, relatives of officers and soldiers from the two legions in the war zone continued to arrive as immigrants in the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana until the 500th year of the Holy Light Calendar. March of the ninety-second year ended. This nearly a year was the largest immigration wave in the Kingdom of Ovilas. Nearly two million relatives of officers and soldiers migrated to the Overseas Territory of Nubisia Continent in order to obtain personal and family property, and to escape the civil war that occurred in the kingdom.
According to statistics afterwards, on average, every officer and soldier of the Thunder Legion or the Rock Legion relocated nearly twenty-three of their relatives. This includes not only paternal relatives, but also maternal and wife clans, which has brought huge population pressure and financial constraints to the theater command. Not to mention anything else, just the travel subsidy and preferential treatment made General Skerry almost regret it, because the war zone needs to spend more than 200,000 gold crowns in this regard...
Claude almost lost weight and lost his shape, and all kinds of problems arose one after another when there were more people. In the end, Claude almost forced Mr. Chazolac to come out, half-inviting and half-kidnapping him, and gave him the position of chief patrol officer, making him responsible for the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana. Only by taking the responsibility of leading public security and order can I feel a little more relaxed.
By late October, everything was finally on track. Only then did Claude have time to go home and take a look. At the same time, he also received the latest news from the kingdom. As expected, civil war broke out as two kings of the kingdom fought for the throne.
The news brought by Mr. Veblen said that the conditions offered by Prince Wedelek were ridiculed by the eldest prince Hansback, even though several elders who were related to the Stirling royal family went to persuade the eldest prince to respect the late king. Trin X's successor was chosen, but the eldest prince angrily questioned the authenticity of the will. Because the eldest prince did not see the dying side of Sterling X, he was prohibited from entering or exiting the royal court. Even the decree for Prince Wedelek to inherit the throne came from nowhere. He never heard from the late king. Sterling X mentioned that there was a succession decree passed down...
Therefore, Prince Hansback has always suspected that there is a conspiracy. The simple reason is that if Sterling X had not chosen him to inherit the throne, he would not have been allowed to handle national affairs on his behalf. You must know that Stirling X was bedridden for more than eight years. For more than eight years, Prince Hansback was responsible for acting in the royal court, handling the affairs of the kingdom together with Prime Minister Duke Duncan, and even the administrative officials of the kingdom regarded him as The prince became the regent and the new heir to the throne.
Then Sterling X died, and left a will after his death to let the second prince Wedelek succeed to the throne. How is this possible? The second prince has no experience in governing and is a well-known playboy in the royal capital. How could he suddenly leap over the eldest prince Hansback and become the successor? If Sterling X chooses the second prince, then The eldest prince should be relieved of his responsibilities as early as possible, and the second prince should be allowed to gain some governing experience first, instead of letting the eldest prince act on his behalf until the end...
This is why Prince Hansback doubts the authenticity of the will. He believes that he has been framed and that the will has been changed. If he stays in the royal capital any longer, his life will be in danger. That's why he sneaked out of the royal capital with his personal attendants, secretly went to the eastern border, seized the military power of the Blue Feather Legion, and decided to fight for the throne he deserved.
The royal capital is worried that Prince Wedelek's accession to the throne will irritate the eldest prince Hansback, and hopes to use favorable conditions to persuade the eldest prince to give up the fight for the throne. Therefore, he could only postpone the time of ascending the throne again and again, trying to negotiate good terms with the eldest prince, and even offered generous treatment such as splitting the soil and sealing the territory. However, Prince Hansback had already made up his mind, rejected the olive branch offered by the royal capital, prepared his army, and instigated the rebellion of two standing legions in the three southern counties and the Rimodra region.
Prince Wedelek finally ascended the throne as Sterling XI on August 10th. When the news reached the ears of Prince Hansback, Prince Hansback raised his troops and proclaimed himself king on August 18, declaring that Prince Wedelek's succession was illegal.
Grand Prince Hansback issued a proclamation claiming that Prince Wedelek had colluded with the royal court's conspirators inside and outside to tamper with the decree of the late King Stirling X to ascend the throne. And he, the orthodox successor of the Kingdom of Overas, wants to raise his troops to eliminate the usurpers in the royal capital, so that the people of the kingdom can return to a happy and peaceful life...
The above is all nonsense, but the eldest prince's troops advanced rapidly, and in less than half a month, they arrived at the Fort of Afena in the former Principality of Sidings. A standing regiment stationed here only resisted for an hour or so before mutiny broke out. The soldiers almost shouted the slogan "Long live Prince Hansback" and opened the gate of the castle and joined the ranks of the rebels.
Yes, they were rebels. When Prince Hansback raised his troops and proclaimed himself king, he was declared a traitor by the royal capital, and all the troops who followed him became rebels. It's just that the rebels are now at full strength, and all the newly occupied territory the kingdom has gained in the five-year war in the eastern region has been occupied by the troops under the eldest prince.
But after the great prince's army launched an attack on the Odin Mountains in September, they were held back there by the griffon army urgently dispatched by the kingdom. The Griffin Legion was originally one of the four ace legions of the Kingdom and was best at fighting in the mountains. Prince Hansback first wanted to surrender, but the envoy he sent was killed by the Griffin Legion in the name of a traitor. This angered the prince and led two legions to launch a fierce attack on the defense line of the Odin Mountains.
After half a month of fierce fighting, the prince's side still could not gain the upper hand, and both sides suffered heavy losses. Prince Hansback had to lead his army to retreat to Ames City to rest and wait for the support of follow-up troops. The royal capital also began to assemble local garrison troops, replenish and expand the local second-line army, and dispatch the Guards Division to the Odin Mountains, preparing to block Prince Hansback on the Odin Mountains.
This battle between the two kings has been going on for nearly two months. Both sides have sufficient strength, and it is still unclear who has the upper hand. In terms of military command, the eldest prince's command and command skills are first-class, enough to defeat the commanders of the legions in the royal capital. But the capital's side, both in terms of military strength and armaments, is deeper than the eldest prince's side, and can withstand a war of attrition better. No one is really sure who will win.
What confused several generals at the theater headquarters was that none of the battle reports or news from the royal capital mentioned Marshal Michelci. Logically speaking, Marshal Michelci, as a military general loyal to the prince, should With the eldest prince. However, Marshal Michelchi's name was not found in the list of rebellious officers who followed the eldest prince announced by the royal capital, which made people feel strange. Because the last news about Marshal Micheli was that he was seriously injured after being assassinated the year before and left the royal capital to return to his hometown to live in seclusion and recuperate. It has been two years. No matter how serious the injury was, he should have recovered. How could there be no news? After all, he is also a member of the kingdom. One of the three existing marshals in the army...
Apart from asking Mr. Veblen and the Mining and Business Association's department in the royal capital to investigate and find out the whereabouts and news of Marshal Michelchi, Claude and others had nothing to do. Anyway, they can only watch the fierce fighting in the kingdom's homeland in the overseas direct jurisdiction of Nubicia continent, and sometimes they can't do much except setting up a sand table and conducting a few military deductions. The only thing they worry about is what they will do if Marshal Michelqi joins the prince's side. As students of Marshal Michelqi, this is a big problem.