Claude did not expect that Bockar would accompany the Nikancha envoy to the Port of Copicius to find him and settle the Nikancha envoy. After instructing old man Zacharasen to cooperate with them in mobilizing and relocating the Nikancha settlement in the direct territory, Claude found time to have a good chat with Bokhar all afternoon.
Now Claude finally understands why General Albert left the matter of contacting the Nikancha country to Bokoal. To put it bluntly, in that Nikancha country, Bokoal is the representative of the war zone, and even General Bolognik There is no Nikancha people who are as trustworthy as Bokoar. Any agreement they reach with the war zone must be signed and guaranteed by Bokoar before they can be believed.
"How did you do it?" Claude looked at Bok'ar with curiosity and satisfaction. Now Bok'ar is no longer as fat as before. Although there is still a lot of meat on his body, he can already be called a fat man. Stronger. The colonel's military uniform gave him a bit of military dignity, and he no longer looked like a corrupt logistics official with a big belly.
"Oh, don't mention it. It's hard to explain the hardships of life and death." Bockar didn't show politeness to Claude. He chose a bottle of good wine from the wine cabinet, opened the lid and poured it for himself. After drinking a glass, he said this to him. Tell Claude about his many years of experience.
Before the war zone captured the port of Vibato, Bockaar was very happy in the city. The Hicks Kingdom defenders at Vibato Port were trapped in the city, watching as the area outside the city became a place dominated by the Thunder Legion's light cavalry. As time went by, although I had no worries about food and drink, other supplies gradually became tense, especially luxury consumables, which I had no place to buy even if I had money.
In the name of Bison Trading Company, Bockal continuously smuggled high-end goods and luxuries from the war zone to Vibato Port to meet the living needs of the dignitaries trapped in the city. At the same time, he also used this to become the most popular person in the city. He was a guest of local officials and nobles in Vibato Port, and could almost walk around the city.
According to Bockar's description, that period was the most comfortable period of his life. The local officials in Vibato Port welcomed him with smiles and the ladies threw themselves into their arms, just because he could get countless people. Luxury lifestyle products. Then the port of Vibato was captured in the war zone, and Bockal made a great contribution by leading the way and guiding the attack during the battle. After the war, he returned to work in the intelligence department of the theater command, because there was nothing to do for a while after the colonial war.
Due to the incident at the Bison Trading Company, Bokoar returned to Vibato Port and found that there was no business, so he went hunting with a few military friends and happened to encounter a group of patrols expelling the Nikancha people who had entered the country. Bokhar had an idea and decided to look for business opportunities among the Nikancha people. So Bokhar went to the Nikancha country in the north in the name of the director of the Buffalo Trading Company.
The next experience of Bokoar was like a legend. He spent more than half a year wandering around the country of the Nikancha people, getting to know all kinds of Nikancha people, and gradually gaining their trust. During this period, he encountered several dangers, and was even accidentally involved in a battle where the Nikancha people attacked a mining base in an inland colony of the Hicks Kingdom, and almost died.
Regarding the fighting power of the Nikancha people, Bokoar said that they are brave, but they are not brainless, and they will charge regardless of the situation when they are bloody. The musket is not as useful as a spear in their hands. Just like the battle to attack the mining base, more than a thousand Kanchas attacked a stone building defended by only about 130 Hicks. They had a ten to one strength advantage, including more than 700 muskets. , the advantages are very obvious.
As a result, the Nikancha people were severely defeated in such a battle, and more than 400 people were killed or wounded. The reason is that I am brainless. If I were to lie down on the ground or hide and snipe the enemies in the stone building, if the time is slow, the enemies will be suppressed and consumed. But after more than half an hour of musket shooting, one idiot got impatient and charged forward with a raised musket, and then more idiots followed suit. Bokoar said that he was stunned at the time and did not understand what these Nikancha people wanted to do...
The enemy was hiding in a stone building. There were no windows on the first floor, and the front door was also a thick iron door. After those idiots rushed up, they could only use muskets or spears to knock on the stone walls and iron doors. They had no way to rush into the building. They could only crowd around the stone building and roar in an attempt to intimidate the enemy to come out and surrender.
As a result, the Hicks fired two rapid rounds through the window of the two-story building, almost aiming at the head. Nearly a hundred muskets were fired twice in a row, and one hundred and fifty-six of the Nikancha people surrounding them fell immediately. Such casualties finally made these Nikancha people wake up, screamed, turned around and ran away. Can't live.
As soon as they escaped, the rest of the people followed them, and the Hicks who were hiding in the stone building took the opportunity to rush out of the building and launch a counterattack. This was how the defeat was formed. Those Hicks were like turkeys in a hunting pen, loading, aiming, and shooting with ease. One by one, the fleeing Nikanchas were shot in the back and fell to the ground to fight for their lives. Even before they died, they never thought about using the muskets in their hands to fight back...
Bok Arna had to escape, but he was unlucky. Just as he was about to escape, he bumped into the leader and elder who directed the Nikancha people to attack. They were killed by a group of enemies because of their unique clothes. I was targeted, and knowing that they might be the leaders, I kept chasing them, trying to capture these two alive...
There were only three people in Bock'ar at that time, himself, a guard and an orderly. They didn't bring any guns with them. The three of them carried cold weapons, only two daggers and a dagger. However, Bokoar still decided to save the two Nikancha leaders and elders. They picked up three muskets and two ammunition bags from the corpses on the ground, hid in the grass and shot and killed the two Shiks who were chasing behind them. The Si people fled to a cliff with the two leaders and elders of the Nikancha people.
Then the five of them, Bock Al, were trapped on the cliff for more than half a month. If it hadn't been for the fact that there was only one rugged path up the mountain, and the terrain was difficult for one man to pass, perhaps the Hicks would have rushed up and killed them. They were cut into pieces. They launched three attacks, but were beaten down by Bok al and the guards. The two leaders and elders of the Nikancha people also piled up some rocks and tree trunks to use as defensive weapons. The Hicks abandoned four or five corpses and never launched any more attacks.
Bokoar felt that he was very lucky, because there were not many Hicks people, and they were probably unwilling to waste their lives on this cliff, so they stopped attacking and changed to a siege, hoping that Bokoar and the others would They died of hunger and thirst on the mountain. They knew that there was no water or food on this cliff.
Bok'ar didn't know how he survived that half-month. If his orderly hadn't brought their luggage with him when he went up the mountain, they might not have been able to survive even three or four days. The three men of Bockal carried three days' worth of dry food and three sheepskin water bottles in their luggage. If the five of them had less, they might be able to survive for five or six days.
At this time, the two leaders and elders of the Nikancha people finally showed their abilities. They collected various edible wild vegetables and vine roots on the cliff, and used the sheepskin membranes inside their leather jackets to make a trap to collect dew. With the water filter cloth, half a pot of clean water can be collected in the shadow of the cliff in the morning and evening every year, which can barely be used to quench thirst.
In this way, the five of them stayed on the cliff for more than half a month. Bock'ar said that he was hungry and thirsty at that time, and he was not very conscious. He only knew that he had lost a lot of weight during that time. During this period, the Hicks people at the foot of the mountain thought they were finished. Ten days later, they sent people up the mountain to check, but they were ambushed by them. One of them was killed and the other injured, and then rolled down...
Bockaar said that he was lying on the cliff looking at the corpses below and wanted to climb down to take a bite, but he did not have the strength to go down the mountain, so he just lay there half-conscious. Just like this, another six or seven days passed. When they could no longer endure it, the Nikanchas sent troops again. The Hicks had no choice but to withdraw to their mining base, and the five Bokoal people were finally rescued.
That is to say, after this incident, Bokoal was regarded as one of the Nikancha people. He obtained the exclusive trading rights in that Nikancha country, and all the resources and materials owned by the Nikancha people were opened to the Bison Trading Company. At the same time, Bokoar also became an agent for the Nikancha country, helping them purchase various supplies from the war zone.
According to Bokoal's observation, this Nikancha country should actually be regarded as a settlement alliance rather than a unified country. They are accustomed to allocating territory according to the size of the settlement. The more people in the settlement, the larger the territory. At present, the largest settlement has more than 70,000 people, and it also has more than a dozen vassal tribes. Such large settlements are impossible to appear in overseas direct-administered territories. The largest Nikancha settlement among the three direct-administered territories such as Tiersim only has more than 5,000 people.
Now there are a total of six large settlements in this Nikancha country, followed by their respective vassal settlements, and these vassal settlements also have their own vassal settlements, just like this, one level at a time. Bokoal once visited the smallest Nikancha settlement, with only about thirty people living together because they were all blood relatives.
When Claude asked how the Nikancha country's war against the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom was going, Bokoal's answer was to shake his head and smile bitterly. He said that the war was actually over. Only the Nikancha settlements on the front line, because the presence of the Hicks Kingdom's mineral bases made them insecure, would organize personnel to carry out attacks. The purpose was just to prevent the enemy from showing up. near its own borders.
According to Bokoar's estimate, the entire Nikancha country only has a population of about two million. The territory they currently occupy is too large, enough for them to live a happy life. In addition, after they raised their troops to riot and established a country to launch an attack on the inland colonies of the Kingdom of Hicks, they started to get tired of fighting for so long and did not want to continue the attack.
The leaders of the largest settlements are very sober and know that they and the Hicks cannot coexist. However, firstly, firearms consume a lot of money. They do not know how to maintain and cannot obtain supplies. In addition, coupled with the losses on the battlefield, they now have muskets and ammunition. The number is not large, and I don't want to waste it on the battlefield.
The second reason is that the casualties are very large, about 10,000 people so far, most of whom have been trained by officers sent by the Thunder Division. Without these Nikancha soldiers who have undergone basic military training, their combat effectiveness has dropped greatly. That's why Bok'ar saw more than a thousand people besieging a mining base of more than 100 people. Instead, more than 400 people were killed and wounded. The whole army was defeated.
Although the country of the Nikancha people is an alliance of settlements, the highest power is held by the elders' meeting composed of the elders of each large settlement. All political affairs concerning the Nikancha people are decided by this elders' meeting. The leader of the settlement is actually the military chief, who holds the military command power of the settlement and commands the armed forces of the settlement.
What's interesting is that half of the young men and women in the armed forces of the large settlements are provided by the vassal tribes below, while the armed forces of the vassal tribes are composed of half of the young men and women provided by the tribes that vassal them. That's it. Press down one level. When a foreign war breaks out, the leader of the large settlement sends someone to convey the order, and the vassal tribes below and the vassal tribes below must bring their troops to participate in the war. Just like those feudal lordship countries in the Farea continent...
Bokoal spent more than half a year in this Nikancha country, and after returning, he wrote a detailed report about this neighboring country. The war zone was very surprised by this report. This report helped to understand this Nikancha country, so Bokoal was credited with a great merit, and Bokoar was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel.
This time Bokoal came to see Claude, firstly to show off that he had become a colonel officer, and secondly, about the migration of Nikancha people from these three jurisdictions. Unlike the Nikancha country that Claude imagined refused to accept these compatriots, the Nikancha country was happy to have so many compatriots on their territory. Because according to the tradition of their settlement's vassalage, if these three million Nikancha people really move there, they will soon make those large settlements increase their vassalage, greatly enhancing their strength.
Therefore, Bokoal tried his best to explain that the increased difficulties and problems caused by the migration of more than three million Nikancha people to the war zone were nothing more than the cost of transportation and transportation and the consumption of food. As a result, the Nikancha elders waved their hands and were willing to pay mineral resources and gold and silver reserves worth millions of gold crowns as compensation for the war zone.
However, if they want to obtain these gold and silver reserves and mineral resources worth millions, the Nikancha people country also needs the war zone to trade a batch of arms supplies with them. They require one hundred thousand muskets and corresponding ammunition reserves, as well as a large amount of food assistance, and then A group of grassroots officers were sent to help their young men and soldiers undergo military training for another six months. If the war zone agrees to these conditions, the Nikancha country is willing to pay another million worth of gold and silver reserves...
This is no longer something Bokoar can decide. He can only take the special envoy from the Nikancha country to Lanhu Town to meet General Bolognik. General Bolognik agreed to these requirements of the Nikancha country after conducting discussions with several generals in the war zone. Claude also received an eagle message about this matter, and General Skerry agreed very much.
Anyway, there are more than 300,000 muskets seized from the prisoner regiments and reserve arms warehouses in the Kingdom of Hicks, and there are countless ammunition. It is not as advanced as the Obas III standard matchlock gun equipped by the Thunder Division, and can only be piled in the warehouse to rust. It can just be used to sell it to the Nikancha country in exchange for gold and silver reserves, and arm them to continue fighting against the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom.
As for the military instructors, General Bokoal has ordered General Albert to select more than a hundred grassroots officers to go and be responsible for conducting preliminary military training for the soldiers of the Nikancha country. In addition, regarding food aid, Bokoal said that it was nominally aiding military rations, but in fact what they requested was refined wheat flour for the enjoyment of high-level people in the Nikancha country.
This is mainly because the staple food of the Nikancha people is potatoes, cassava flour and oats. These coarse grains are easy to grow in the mountains. On the contrary, few Nikancha people are willing to plant barley. They think that growing barley is too tiring. It requires cultivating fields, composting, weeding and careful care. According to the habits of the Nikancha people, they are too lazy to do it without the threat of a whip. Spend this effort...
Bokoar said that he could use this to trade with the Nikancha people in the future to obtain gold and silver from them.
But Claude was very surprised. The Nikancha people had a lot of gold and silver and it came from manna...
a lot of. Bockaar answered in the affirmative. He explained that in the one-third of the inland colonies of the Hicks Kingdom occupied by the Nikcha people, there are more than a dozen small and medium-sized gold and silver mines owned by the Hicks people. The Nikanchas wiped out the mining Hicks and seized many gold and silver ingots that had been refined. Now they in turn drove the Hick prisoners and the Etats to dig these gold and silver mines for them... . ...