As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Never before has the royal capital responded so efficiently to overseas war zones. On January 8, the theater command sent a falcon message about the secret order of the Grand Prince to the seaport communications department of the Tiersim Direct Territory, and then sent it to the White Deer City in the Kingdom's mainland by the fast cruise warship of the Storm Fleet, and then from Bailu City. Lucheng's communications department used a falcon to send the message to the royal capital and handed it over to the Kingdom's Army Department.
Now I have received a reply from the Kingdom's Ministry of War on March 2nd. This is already very fast. It takes less than two months. After all, they are two continents separated by a vast ocean of silence. What the generals in the war zone didn't expect was that they only responded with one sentence of "I know it" in reply to the prince's secret order...
There was no intention to appease him, but instead there were some words of reprimand. It seemed that he was telling the generals in charge of the theater headquarters to stay calm and not to have any thoughts that they shouldn't have. The civil war in the kingdom will soon be settled. Under the wise leadership of Sterling XI, Prince Wedelek, the Kingdom's Ministry of War is confident that the rebels will be wiped out.
It wouldn't matter if these words were the only words in the reply. It seemed that Claude and the others were asking for trouble by reporting the secret order from the eldest prince. Perhaps in the eyes of the big guys in the royal capital, the generals in charge of the overseas war zones were unwilling to be left alone and wanted to come out to make a splash during the civil war in the kingdom, so they made up such absurd things as the secret orders of the great prince. lie.
The big guys in the royal capital simply don’t believe that Prince Hansback wants to cooperate with the Kingdom of Hicks. Why should the prince return the Port of Vibato and cede the two direct jurisdictions of Cromwell and Beringana? Just to let the Sea King Fleet and the United Fleet of the Kingdom of Hicks transport the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion back to the Kingdom.
That is really a big joke. You must know that Prince Hansback now has the Blue Feather Legion and three standing legions, with a strength of more than 200,000. What he wants to do is to break through the defense line of the Odin Mountains, not to go to the distant place. To transport two local second-line legions from the Nubisia continent, he had to pay high freight costs for the territory of three direct-administered territories. He was not a Kaizi...
Therefore, the prince's secret order that Claude and his gang reported to the Kingdom's Army Department was seen as a fabricated lie by the big guys in the royal capital. The purpose was to get the royal capital to allocate funds to them for local development and construction. Spending money to appease them is a disguised way of asking for money and is not worth advocating.
In addition to scolding him for causing trouble for nothing, the reply from the royal capital also said that the kingdom was currently in financial difficulty and had no money to allocate. The next step is the key issue. Even if you are far away in an overseas territorial war zone, you should share the difficulties of the kingdom. Now that the colonial war has ended, the Ministry of War of the Kingdom believes that it is not necessary to maintain the strength of more than 130,000 troops in two legions in overseas directly controlled theaters, and requires disarmament to reduce the burden of military expenditures...
At this moment, the generals in the war zone all felt as if they had been fed a mouthful of soybean. Instead of being loyal to the royal capital, they received instructions to disarm. As generals, no one was willing to lay off the troops under his command. The meaning of Wangdu is very simple. Don’t you want funds for local development and construction? Then disarmament. If you save military expenses, wouldn’t you have development funds...
Fortunately, the Kingdom's Ministry of War also knew that the Overseas Directly Administered Territory War Zone was far away on the mainland of Nubisia, and the Kingdom of Hicks was still evil, so they did not plan to reduce the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion into real local second-line empty-frame legions, but gave them A figure to the effect of disarmament. Each legion maintains a strength of 40,000 people. In this way, the two legions can reduce the number of troops by 50,000 and save military expenditures of 150,000 to 60,000 gold crowns every year.
It was self-defeating. Claude swore that he would never do these tricks again. You can never guess what a big shot is thinking. What you show is often the opposite of what he thinks. Just like the secret order from the eldest prince this time, Claude and the others reported to the capital to show their loyalty, but in the eyes of the big guys in the capital, it became a threat, so they conveniently gave it to one Slap, let the overseas directly-administered territorial war zones stay in peace...
General Bolognik was really frowning now. Unexpectedly, the reply from the royal capital gave an order to disarm. To put it bluntly, among the more than two million immigrants from the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana, there were more than 100,000 young men suitable for recruitment. These are still young people who are about 20 years old who are recruiting. If you add in the young people who are over 20 to 30 years old, there will be even more. They are now eagerly waiting for the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion to recruit soldiers, and they want to sign up to join the army to get a piece of land and property for their families.
If 100,000 new soldiers were recruited in the war zone now, then 500,000 to 600,000 immigrants would be resettled. Because as the direct family members of these recruits, they can take care of the thirty acres of farmland or three hundred acres of pasture under the recruits' names, and at the same time, it also greatly reduces the burden of daily work for the relatives of these legion officers and soldiers in the war zone. Of course, it is impossible to recruit 100,000 new soldiers in the war zone. We only plan to retire more than 10,000 veterans who have expired in the second half of the year, and at the same time recruit more than 10,000 new soldiers to fill the vacancies.
Now it's better. Not to mention the retirement of more than 10,000 veterans, another 40,000 troops have to be laid off. You must know that many immigrants are eyeing the quota of 10,000 retired veterans, waiting for an adult child in their family to become a member of the recruits and contribute to their family's personal industry. If they knew that the number of places to enlist in the army was gone, they don't know how much trouble these immigrants, who had no livelihood and could only work in public fields to earn a living, would cause a commotion...
"Let's talk about how we should disarmament..." General Bolognik asked feebly. The royal capital has sent disarmament instructions, so you must obey the order. It doesn't mean that they can ignore the overseas territories as far away as Nubisia continent. That would be tantamount to rebellion.
General Albert touched his chin and said: "With the establishment of 40,000 troops, the royal capital's intention is very clear, that is, each of our legions will retain a fully-staffed division, and the other division will maintain an empty structure. When there is one in the future, The war will continue to expand."
In fact, it goes without saying that several generals present knew it very well. The local second-line armies in the Kingdom are basically empty armies in peacetime. For example, a division has four regiments, each regiment retains only one full field battalion, and the remaining three regiments have no soldiers except officers. In case of local emergencies, only the fully-staffed field battalion is dispatched. The other three battalions are just supporting roles and can only watch the excitement and shout "6666"...
The problem is that it would be easier to handle if both the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion were empty armies. Now there are two divisions in one legion, and one division is fully staffed and the other is empty. Then the grassroots officers and the officers in charge who are assigned to the empty arm divisions will feel uncomfortable. The feeling of being abandoned. It seems that once you become an empty-handed teacher, you will never be able to get ahead, and it is easy to give up on yourself. The legion commander's attention will basically be on the fully-staffed division and will not pay attention to the empty division. This will have a very negative impact on the unity within the legion.
In the past, when he was in the advanced seminar of the military academy, Marshal Michelich commented on this empty-frame model. He believed that the most unfavorable thing is the situation where one unit is fully staffed and the other is empty-framed. Because as the commander-in-chief of the army, he often assigns the most elite soldiers and the best officers to the fully-staffed troops, while assigning the lower-level soldiers and officers to the empty troops, artificially creating a class difference between the two armies. .
As time goes by, fully-staffed troops will receive more and more attention from their commanders, and resources and attention will be tilted toward them. Empty troops will be increasingly ignored, and even the officers left behind will become discouraged and have no ambition to make progress. Even if the empty troops are expanded after a war breaks out, their combat effectiveness will be very different from that of the fully-staffed troops. They will often become a hindrance and even cause more serious harm...
"Forget it, let's not talk about how to adapt it for now. Think about what to do with the 50,000 people who were laid off. Are you just going to let them retire and go home?" General Bolognik began to have a headache with the problem of the laid off soldiers. To put it bluntly, these soldiers are all members of the immigrant families of the 100,000 retired soldiers. When they moved to the war zone, Amphiston Territory, one was to covet the property worth ten acres of land, and the other was to continue serving in order to improve their national status. one's own social status.
If disarmament begins now, these soldiers who have returned to service will become the first batch of targets to be laid off. Although they can still obtain thirty acres of land in the two direct territories of Cromwell and Beringana or personal property of three hundred acres of pasture if they are laid off, they will no longer be able to obtain national status, which can easily happen. Cause trouble.
General Beachlin did not care about the 50,000 soldiers who were about to be reduced. He believed that these reduced soldiers could continue to serve. It's very simple. Anyway, the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion belong to the kingdom's local second-line troops, so serving in the two legions is no different from serving in the local garrison. The war zone can completely transfer the reduced soldiers to the local garrison. For example, the five fortress-type castles such as Vibato Port, Patrese Port, and Wickham Castle do not have local garrison troops. The Silver City Monkenard City, which is about to be built, also needs to deploy at least one local garrison group.
General Beachlin believed that, in addition to the local garrison forces formed by General Chazolac in the Amphiston Direct Territory, the theater also had areas such as Robistoe, Beringana, Cromwell and Vibato Port. None of the four directly governed territories deployed local defense forces. The strategic locations of these four directly-administered territories are currently guarded by the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion. To a certain extent, this has also greatly dispersed the strength of the two legions, making it impossible to assemble a strong counterattack force.
Now that the royal capital has ordered the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion to disarm in order to reduce military expenditures, then these reduced soldiers can be transferred to local garrison forces. The two legions can also assign the tasks of garrisoning strategic locations in the four directly governed territories to these local garrison forces. . Gathering the strength of the legion will be better able to cope with future wars launched by the Kingdom of Hicks in overseas war zones directly under the jurisdiction of the country.
This is a very good method. The downsized soldiers also have a place to go, and it is more comfortable to serve in local garrison armed forces. This is very attractive to the older soldiers in their thirties. If a local garrison regiment is deployed in each of the strategic locations reported by General Bi Chiklin just now, the reduction quota of 50,000 people may not be enough...
However, this brings another problem. Even local garrison forces require military expenditures and weapons and equipment. The question is whether the war zone can come up with the military expenditures, firearms and ammunition to form local garrison forces. According to General Skerry's calculations, several generals in the war zone suddenly discovered that if the local garrison forces of these four directly-administered territories were deployed first, then the war zone would not be reducing troops but expanding them.
The four directly governed territories need to form nine local garrison regiments. If the forces of these nine local garrison regiments are all converted from veterans of the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion, plus the more than 10,000 veterans who will retire in the second half of the year after serving, two The legion still needs to recruit more than 20,000 new soldiers to fill the vacancies in the army. This makes General Bolonik relieved. The young immigrants finally have hope.
Over the next month or so, the war zone was busy with disarmament matters. Which soldiers should be transferred to the local garrison, and which officers should become the chief officers of the local garrison, all need to be considered by several generals in the theater. This will neither affect the combat effectiveness of the legion nor allow the local garrison to become a mob. In the plan of General Bolognik, Claude and others, the local garrison forces need to become the reserve force of the two legions and can play an assisting and supplementary role in future wars...
When the war zone was about to start forming nine local garrison regiments in May, a shocking news came from the Kingdom itself, and everyone who heard the news was stunned.
In late February of the 592nd year of the Holy Light Calendar, Prince Hansback united with the Sea King Fleet and the United Fleet of the Kingdom of Hicks to blockade the Dreadnought Fleet of the Kingdom of Overas at the two seaports of the former Kingdom of Sidings. In the city. This was a sudden disaster for the Dreadnaught Fleet. When Prince Hansback rebelled, he led his army along the land route to the Odin Mountains and ignored the coastal cities. As a result, the Dreadnought Fleet relaxed its vigilance and was completely unprepared. The eldest prince would suddenly come up with their idea.
Under attack from two sides, the entire Dauntless fleet was wiped out, and not even a small sampan escaped to report the news. The following March is the rainy season in the Falea continent. Under normal circumstances, the Dreadnought Fleet stays in the base and does not go out for patrols. In addition, the land and sea are tightly blockaded, so the Navy Department in the Royal Capital is not alert.
As a result, after the rainy season in March, Prince Hansback led the Blue Feather Legion and a standing legion to board the transport ships of the Sea King Fleet and the United Fleet and penetrated into the eastern waters of the kingdom. On April 5th, at a shallow sea beach less than two hundred miles away from the Ibiniste Plain, Prince Hansback ordered a landing. The leading soldiers of the two legions rowed ashore in small sampans, and then blocked the large area of the sea. area.
The supporters of Prince Hansbach, who had long been plotting, placed hundreds of large sealed empty wooden boxes near the beach. When the fleet arrived, they pushed the empty wooden boxes to the sea and connected them with iron rings. Several pontoons floating on the sea surface and extending into the sea were quickly built. When these long pontoons of empty wooden boxes were connected to the transport ships, the large-scale landing began.
From April 5th to April 11th, for six full days, the Blue Feather Legion and the standing legion disembarked with almost no damage. The entire landing operation only lost three light infantry artillery pieces and six soldiers. No one discovered that Prince Hansback led two legions from the sea to bypass the Odin Mountains and appeared in the hinterland of the kingdom.
On April 16, when Prince Hansback's troops entered the Ibiniste Plain in two groups, less than two days' journey from the royal capital, the royal capital, which had confirmed the news of the enemy attack, was like boiling water. It was an uncontrollable mess.
No one would have thought that Prince Hansback would descend like this from the sky. In order to block him on the other side of the Odin Mountains, the royal capital sent all the Guards there. Currently, the only troops left to garrison in the royal capital are less than one division of the Guards Corps. Facing the enemies of the two legions, they have no power to fight back.
Prince Widrick, also known as Sterling XI, once again took advantage of his long legs and quick reaction. Before the big guys in the royal capital made a decision to hold on or evacuate, he had already taken his cronies with him overnight. He fled to Bertalnia County with a dozen carriages of treasure. That is where the King's ace field army, the Red Dragon Army, is stationed. His father-in-law, Marshal Siegfried, is the current head of the Red Dragon Army. His safety can be guaranteed there...
On April 17, the 592nd year of the Holy Light Calendar, the forwards of the Blue Feather Legion arrived at the royal capital. On April 18, Prince Hansback arrived in the royal capital. On April 21st, the eldest prince entered the royal capital, and the Blue Feather Legion proudly held a military parade in the royal capital...