When there was a mutiny in White Deer City, most of the storm fleet stationed there defected to Prince Hansback. The remaining naval officers and soldiers who were unwilling to fight a civil war took more than a dozen warships and took refuge in overseas territories directly under the jurisdiction of the navy. Claude originally wanted to organize these dozen warships into an offshore cruise fleet directly under the jurisdiction of the war zone, as the first barrier to guard against pirate attacks and harassment by the Hicks Kingdom's navy in the coastal areas of the overseas war zone. However, he was opposed by these naval officers and soldiers. reject.
These former naval officers of the Storm Fleet declared arrogantly that they were the Royal Navy, under the direct jurisdiction of the Navy Ministry, and accepted the king's orders. Your direct territorial war zone is only responsible for local defense. What qualifications do you have to ask them to obey your orders? You also want to take advantage of their distress to coerce them and demote them from the kingdom's navy to a local cruise fleet. This is simply a treasonous act committed by the following, and they will never allow it
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than that these naval officers and soldiers who came to seek refuge disliked the poverty and lack of money in the directly-administered war zone. If they are converted into a cruise fleet directly under the jurisdiction of a war zone, their salary or welfare subsidies will be much lower than when they were in the Storm Fleet. Especially since they are cut off from maritime transportation and trade with the kingdom, it means that they cannot bring private interests into this ocean shipping. The goods are used for personal gain.
Since the good intentions of the war zone were rejected by these naval officers and soldiers, the war zone could only let them stay at the Port of Corpicius in the Tiersim Direct Territory. Apart from being responsible for their daily food supplies, they had nothing else to do. These naval officers and soldiers once asked the war zone to pay them salaries, but General Skerry refused. The reason was also stated by themselves. They were the Royal Navy and were not under the jurisdiction of the war zone. They could not do anything suspicious in the war zone.
Although they had no worries about eating and drinking in the port, these naval officers and soldiers were also short of money. After the war zone refused to pay them, they were forced to rely on themselves, such as fishing in territorial waters, transporting goods, setting up offshore shipping, or accepting employment from merchants. Its offshore cargo fleet provides escort, and sometimes accepts commissions from war zones to patrol coastal waters, forcing these kingdom navies to become mercenary fleets.
However, after the Overseas Minsheng Bank was established in the war zone last year to issue low-denomination banknotes, the economy finally became more affluent in the second half of the year. These remaining naval officers and soldiers of the Storm Fleet actually wrote an application report, requesting the theater to allocate funds to them to reorganize a Storm Fleet squadron size. General Skerry once again refused, replying that the Royal Navy was not under the jurisdiction of the war zone and the war zone had no right to allocate funds to them. The two sides began to have conflicts.
Now that Claude said that the remaining battleships of the Storm Fleet should be returned to the Kingdom, General Skerry was of course very happy. He wished to send these uncles away as soon as possible. It's interesting enough that the war zone is responsible for providing them with free military rations, but they also want the war zone to provide them with alcohol and fresh meat. Originally, these were purchased by the fleet personnel themselves. If they had no money, the war zone would be responsible for them.
General Skerry never accommodated them, and he still refused those who should refuse, and was only willing to assume the obligations owed to him in the war zone. Anyway, they are not troops directly under the jurisdiction of the war zone. It doesn't matter whether they live or die. As a result, there were more and more conflicts between the two sides, and there were even several fights between naval officers and soldiers of the Rock Legion stationed at Corpicius Port.
Seeing what Claude said, General Bolognik agreed to the suggestion after thinking about it for a while. However, he could not always decide on a suitable candidate when sending him as a messenger in the war zone to the royal capital. At this time, Bock'ar volunteered to stand up and expressed his willingness to serve as a messenger back to the kingdom. With Claude's recommendation, the matter was decided.
Claude knew in his heart that Bok'ar was eager to go back because he wanted to go find his family. Unlike other officers and soldiers in the war zone who brought their families and relatives to the war zone directly under their jurisdiction, Bok'ar's home was in Bailu Town, and his father was also considered a local celebrity and a big businessman, having founded all the capitals of the three southwest counties. A branch of a large trading house.
Therefore, Bok'ar's family members are not in the directly-administered war zone. Now that the war has subsided, Bok'ar certainly wants to return to White Deer City to find his relatives as soon as possible. He doesn't know if they have survived. Newspapers from the colonies on the west coast stated that the troops of the eldest prince and the second prince had been engaged in a fierce war around Bailu City for more than a year, and that Bailu City had been reduced to ruins.
As General Albert said, the life and death of Prince Hansback and whether he was assassinated or not has nothing to do with the directly-administered war zone. He is just an acquaintance in everyone's memory. Seriously investigate both sides. In reality, the relationship is still hostile. What really concerned the dozen or so senior officers in the conference room was that the kingdom had not sent an envoy to contact them for five months, which made everyone feel very uncomfortable.
However, after deciding to send Colonel Bockal as a war envoy to the kingdom to test the royal capital's reaction, General Bolognik also lost interest in exploring the assassination of the eldest prince, and ordered General Skerry to send people to contact the Port of Corbichus After contacting the evacuated naval officers and soldiers of the Storm Fleet and telling them that they could return to the kingdom, they gave Bokoar seven days to prepare and clean up, and then announced that the meeting was adjourned.
Claude took Bockar back to his new manor, letting Bockar stay here for the next seven nights without going to the military camp. Although Bokhar is a colonel, he belongs to the Theater Intelligence Office and does not lead troops. He only has a small dormitory assigned to him in the security troop camp of the theater command. Normally, Bockal seldom stayed there, and only used the small dormitory as a utility room.
Claude decided to write a letter to Madam Maria and asked Bockar to use the name of delivering the letter to inquire about the royal capital's views on the overseas war zone. Although he and Mrs. Maria have not been in contact for several years, Claude believes that with his current status as the Kingdom's Lieutenant General, he can regain the relationship between master and disciple with Mrs. Maria. So he wrote a lot about the situation of his family and his sister in the letter, and asked Kaifani to pick out a few gorgeous and exquisite gifts for Boker to bring to Madam Maria.
It took half a month before Bok'ar set off for the kingdom's mainland. He brought a squadron of soldiers as escorts. The main reason for this was that he carried too many things. In addition to a group of precious gifts collected in the war zone dedicated to Prince Widrik, who was Sterling XI, the five generals also asked Colonel Tobok Al to send letters and gifts to their connections in the royal capital so that he could In the king, you can successfully open up the situation and build relationships.
Another reason is that the communication between General Skerry and the evacuated naval officers and soldiers of the Storm Fleet was not very smooth. When those guys heard that White Deer City had been recaptured by the Kingdom's Red Dragon Army, they did not rush to pull anchor and set sail, but turned around. Come to blackmail the war zone, saying that the warship has not been used for three years and needs to be renovated, and requires the war zone to provide them with a large amount of funds and supplies.
General Skerry rejected their request without hesitation and warned them that they would not be provided with free food supplies next month. If they continued to stay here, they would have to wait to be accepted into the war zone because they were no longer worthy of being a warship. A kingdom's navy. The war zone no longer recognizes them as the kingdom's storm fleet, but treats them as deserters.
In the end, General Bolognik came out to smooth things over and asked the Theater Finance Office to allocate a sum of money to them, and also mobilized food and water for the voyage, as well as supplies needed for the voyage. These naval officers and soldiers of the Storm Fleet turned around and used the money to purchase a large number of local specialties from various trading houses in the direct territory, and then set sail back to the kingdom.
Claude once again went to the military camp in the direct jurisdiction of Port Vibato to train new recruits. Unexpectedly, just over half a month later, he received an urgent Falcon message from the war zone, asking Claude to return to the war zone headquarters. Only this time it was not the war zone that received any news, but a special envoy from the Nikancha people. They put forward a proposal to hand over all the northern coastal mountainous area and eastern mountainous area to the war zone, but required the war zone to exchange for 3,000 new rifles.
General Bolognik and General Skerry were unable to make the decision, so they had to send another eagle message to Claude and others to return to Lanhu City for discussion.
The paralyzed Nikancha people have their own thoughts again. General Albert, who came back with Claude, has been scolding the Nikancha people all the way, and has never stopped talking. Ever since he saw the message from the theater command After the harrier sent the message, he became furious and refused to allow the war zone to hand over to the Nikancha people new rifles that his own troops were not fully equipped for the sake of territory.
After returning to the theater headquarters, Claude found that General Bolognik seemed to want to agree to the Nikancha people's conditions, General Bichklin said nothing, and General Skerry was ambiguous. General Bolonik believed that handing over the new rifles to the Nikancha people in exchange for this large area of land would add another direct jurisdiction to the war zone. This was a very advantageous deal.
And Claude said before that the new rifle is not important, the important thing is the supply of bullets. Even if a new rifle is equipped with a hundred rounds of bullets, those Nikancha people will eventually have to pay for it from the war zone after they use up the bullets. Buy, then the war zone can use bullets to control these Nikancha people, and sell the bullets at a high price to get a lot of profits from the Nikancha people.
Perhaps General Bolognik used this reason to persuade General Skerry in exchange for General Skerry's attitude of not supporting or opposing. At the same time, for General Bolognik, this transaction means the meritorious service of opening up territory for the kingdom. Even if the royal capital has to punish the five generals in the war zone in the future, he can get better treatment for this meritorious service. No one can The kingdom will treat its generals who expand its territory poorly, otherwise it will be called a weak king and its name will be left in the history books.
It's just that General Bolognik chose a wrong method, because Claude said coldly: "I object to letting those Nikancha special envoys go wherever they come from."
"You" General Bolognik was very angry, but he still managed to endure it. He sighed, frowned and pondered for a while before asking: "Claude, why do you object?"
Claude strode to the wall where the map of the Nikancha people was hung, patted the map with his hand and said: "You should all understand why the Nikancha people want to hand over the northern coastal mountainous area and the eastern mountainous area to us. Probably because of the war zone.”
General Bichklin laughed: "Isn't it the case that their special envoy came here to complain that our war zone did not regard their armed young men as our own? The 100,000 armed young men of the Nikancha people who were put under our command were wiped out in one battle." Nearly 60,000 people were killed. This casualty has frightened the elders and leaders of the Nikancha people. However, we only eliminated about three legions of Hicks. Next, there are seven more Hicks. A standing army of more than 400,000 troops.
This time the Nikancha special mission asked us to provide an explanation for the nearly 60,000 young Nikancha armed forces who were injured or killed. They believed that continuing to fight the Hicks would give them, the emerging Nikancha country, Bringing catastrophe. Because according to this casualty ratio, if they want to defeat the seven standing legions of the Hicks, they will have to pay at least 200,000 casualties, which will be an unbearable price for them.
So they want to hand over these two mountainous areas to us, and let us in the theater block the next attack of the Hicks for them. Our soldiers in the war zone are bleeding and fighting in the front, while these Nikancha people live a comfortable life in the rear. It's just that they were reluctant to part with the two pieces of land that were handed over to us in the war zone for free, so they came up with a way to let us exchange them with new rifles. "
General Albert sneered: "What a beautiful idea they have. They want us to guard the gate for them and fight the Hicks, and they want us to send them new rifles. Do we in the war zone still have to apologize to them and compensate them for the nearly 60,000 yen?" Pensions and compensation for the casualties of the young men and women of the Kamchat armed forces. Don’t these Nikancha people have any self-awareness? They disobeyed military orders, did not obey orders, acted arbitrarily, and caused us so much trouble."
"Not only that, they also want the war zone to be responsible for the more than two thousand Nikancha deserters who were punished for killing one out of ten, and they demand that I, the commander of the defensive front, be punished," General Bichklin said in a somewhat sinister tone. It seemed that he was very dissatisfied.
General Bolognik smiled bitterly and said: "Bik, I have rejected the request of the Nikancha special envoys, and also explained to them that this is a necessary punishment, otherwise the second defensive line cannot be held."
"Explain, why explain to these Nikancha people." Claude shouted impatiently: "What's the point of explaining? Why should these Nikancha people ask our war zone to give them an explanation? Only then should we ask them for an explanation." An explanation: Alan, tell those Nikancha people that we don’t want their territory and we don’t want to negotiate with them.
By the way, let me tell them that the last three standing legions of the Hicks will arrive at Rodex Bay Colony in more than a month. They will probably launch another attack at the end of May or early June. Let these Nikancha people eat more and have fun, because they only have two or three months left to perish.
In view of the unreliability of their young Nikancha armed forces and the trouble they caused to our troops in the last battle, our theater has decided to suspend cooperation with their country of Nikancha people to avoid being implicated by them and directly under the jurisdiction of the theater collar security. Therefore, our theater is only preparing to defend the northern coastal mountainous area this time, and we will not leave a single soldier in the eastern mountainous area. In other words, we will give up the defensive front in the eastern mountainous area and no longer hold on to it. "
Claude is mainly anti-customer. He is not prepared to accept the Nikancha people's suggestions and demands for the handover of territory. Instead, he wants to abandon the entire eastern mountainous area. It is conceivable that if the Hicks people find that the eastern front is empty, they will definitely march straight in. At that time, the Nikancha people who have retreated to the territory of the original Hicks inland colony will be very lively.
"Okay, I'll tell those Nikancha people to get out of here as soon as possible." General Albert said with a smile, and was about to leave the conference room to find those Nikancha people envoys.
However, he was stopped by General Bolognik: "Claude, don't cause trouble. You have to understand that these two territories were voluntarily handed over to us by the Nikancha people, and they were not snatched by us from the Nikancha people. The total adds up to adding another direct territory to the war zone. And they only ask for 3,000 new rifles. I think this is really a good deal."
Claude shook his head: "I will not hand over a new rifle to them, and they only handed over the northern coastal mountainous area and the eastern mountainous area to our war zone, without any sincerity. Look at the map, there are only two areas in these two areas. There are only one small gold mine and two small silver mines in it. For our war zone, the gain outweighs the loss and it is not worth exchanging the precious lives of our soldiers for these two small pieces of territory."
"If the general wants to open up territory for the kingdom, he can wait until the Hicks capture the territory of the Nikancha people before launching an attack. Anyway, we are at war with the Hicks, and it is reasonable to occupy their territory. As for the Nikancha people, if we refuse to cooperate with them, it means we are no longer allies. Do the Nikancha people still want to take back their territory from our war zone after the war?"