Baron Tompster is a well-known defense expert in the Kingdom of Hicks and a rising star in the Association of Construction Engineers. He is now forty-one years old. This time he was sent to the Kingdom of Breot by King Mechid III to help the Breot people build a solid defensive front in the border mountains to resist possible attacks by the Overseas Dominion Army of the Kingdom of Ovilas.
Baron Tompster's father was a court nobleman who belonged to the Hicks royal family. In terms of blood relationship, he was indirectly related to the Hicks royal family. The so-called court nobles refer to nobles who exclusively serve the royal family. They have no territory, but hold a certain position in the palace and receive salary. They can be said to be the most trusted minions of the royal family.
Baron Tompster's father hoped that his child would grow up to become an outstanding exploration expert, so that he might be able to find a valuable mineral resource for the family, provide the family with a steady stream of wealth, and be able to support the family in acquiring a piece of land. Hereditary territory. So when Baron Tompster came of age, he was thrown into the Royal School of Mining and Engineering to study exploration and mining.
What disappointed Baron Tompster's father was that while his son was studying at the college, he became crazy about architectural engineering design and lost interest in his main major. When Baron Tompster graduated from the academy three years later, he had become a well-known architect, but his knowledge of exploration and mining could only be said to be average or barely qualified.
What made Baron Tompster stand out was the set of simple defensive camp blueprints he designed for a classmate's mining base. A nobleman's gold mining base also purchased the blueprints and constructed them according to the drawings. Four months later, the gold mining base was attacked by bandits. Seventeen miners hid in the warehouse facilities of this defensive camp and repelled the attacks of nearly a hundred bandits. They held on for half a month and only suffered one death and four injuries. The cost was waited until reinforcements arrived.
This incident caused a sensation throughout the Hicks Kingdom, and the defensive camp drawings designed by Baron Tompster also attracted the attention of many people. Many mining industry owners suddenly discovered that if they built a mining base according to this defense camp blueprint, the safety and security performance could be improved several times. In the event of being attacked by bandits, it would be really difficult to attack the various solid defense facilities in the defensive camp without powerful artillery. As a result, the defensive camp blueprint designed by Baron Tompster became the standard equipment of various mining bases...
It's just that Baron Tompster is a little angry now because the Breault laborers under him who came to build the defensive front are really lazy. This time Baron Tompster wanted to test the effectiveness of his newly designed anti-gunfire trenches, so he was very strict with the Breault laborers who were constructing them. But these workers did not take him, a famous defense expert in the Kingdom of Hicks, seriously, and they only dug one trench and it was considered complete.
Even though Baron Tompster told these workers earnestly that construction according to his newly designed drawings would ensure that the casualties of the defenders would be reduced after the war broke out. But even the Breault official who was responsible for managing these laborers didn't care much. He told Baron Tompster that a trench was enough. The brave Breault soldiers would not cower in the trenches and be a coward. They would rather rush out and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy than hide in a thick bunker and fire cold shots through small openings. That is not the behavior of a warrior.
Baron Tompster was annoyed, but could not convince these stubborn Breaults. He actually wanted to lay a thick layer of earth and stone bunkers over the trenches to prevent enemy explosive shells from harming the soldiers in the trenches. But the Breaults were unwilling. They believed that the trenches with no roof above their heads would make it easier for them to charge and counterattack. However, after putting up bunkers, the air in the entire trenches would be turbid, making people breathless, and it would also feel very depressing. ... ...
Baron Tompster was so angry that he decided to go to the Chief Inspector of Engineering of the Breault Kingdom to complain, but he was stopped by his companions halfway. This companion was Captain Rexis who came with him to the front line of Breault Kingdom. Baron Tompster found that Captain Rexis was covered in mud, even his face was stained with mud, but he looked very excited. Baron Thompson asked him curiously what he had done and why he was in such a mess.
Captain Resis said excitedly that he went to the border of Menbamark Kingdom for reconnaissance and hid in a mud puddle. He stayed there for more than two hours and evaded the patrols from the Ovilas Kingdom camp on the opposite side. Finally, he found two The vast and endless enemy garrison camp on the national border is an empty camp. The enemy garrison staying in the camp is only the coalition of territorial nobles, not the Thunder Legion of the overseas autonomous territories. He found that most of the campsites in front of him were empty tents, with no signs of habitation.
It can be seen from this that the enemy will not launch an attack on the Breault Kingdom at all. This is just a strategy to attack the east and attack the west. The Thunder Legion's attack on the Monbamark Kingdom was probably to transfer the troops stationed in the coastal areas of the Hicks Kingdom to the Breault Kingdom to reduce the pressure and intensity of resistance for their landing. In fact, it is easier and more convenient to capture a seaport and then land for operations than to first open the road from Breault Kingdom to Hicks Kingdom...
Baron Tompster was a little disappointed. If the results of Captain Reichs' reconnaissance were true, then no matter how he designed and built the defensive front, it would be in vain and of no use. Perhaps those Breaults had also detected the same situation as Captain Resis, so they felt that they had become a little lax during these days and were not willing to bother building that defensive line anymore. The reason why they kept it secret was probably to take this opportunity to get a large amount of free military aid from the Kingdom of Hicks. This is easy to understand...
In fact, the Army Department of the Kingdom of Hicks was also very concerned about the overseas military regions of the autonomous territories. When it learned that the Thunder Legion swept across the Menbarmark Kingdom, it joined forces with the noble coalition to annihilate the Nasseri Kingdom and the Principality of Kannas, which were supported by the Hicks Kingdom. After the Restoration Army, Hicks Royal Court sounded the alarm and increased their combat readiness. After all, they were still in a state of war with the Kingdom of Overas. It was not an accident whenever they were attacked by the Thunder Legion. .
This is also the reason why Melchid III generously provided military assistance after receiving a letter asking for help from King Avitri I of the Kingdom of Breout. Normally, the Kingdom of Hicks has always been wary of the disobedience of these vassal states, especially the Kingdom of Breault, which is the most powerful of all vassal states. Moreover, the Hicks Kingdom has never really conquered this country. In the past few decades, it has used its strong national power to subdue this rebellious little brother and make him obedient.
But compared to the Thunder Legion in the overseas autonomous territories, the Breault Kingdom is not that big of a threat. Since Avitley I volunteered to resist the invasion of overseas autonomous territories, the Kingdom of Hicks naturally wanted to encourage and support him. In fact, Melchid III wished that both the Kingdom of Breault and the Overseas Dominion Military Region would suffer losses, which would truly solve the two major worries of the Kingdom of Hicks.
The senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom's Army Department are not all idiots. The Second Eastern Region War has made the senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom well aware of the combat power of the Thunder Legion. They believed that even in a frontal field battle, one division of the Thunder Legion was enough to defeat one of their standing legions. It would be best for the Kingdom of Hicks to sign an armistice and peace agreement with the Kingdom of Overas to end this war. In this way, we can concentrate manpower and material resources to develop the latest weapons and equipment, and wait for the opportunity to seek revenge from the Kingdom of Ovelas and the overseas autonomous territories in the future.
It is a pity that this wise proposal was opposed by the paranoid King Melchid III. He believed that the Kingdom of Hicks and the Kingdom of Ovilas were separated by two countries by land, and only one or two legions could be transported by sea at a time. As long as the Dominion Military Region dares to send the Thunder Legion ashore, then he will dare to concentrate all the military power of the country and fight to the end with the enemies who come ashore.
King Melchid III did not believe that the kingdom's eight standing legions were no match for the Thunder Legion and Rock Legion sent ashore by the Dominion Military Region. They could kill these two legions just by heaping people on them. As long as the enemy dares to land, if the eight standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom are not enough to kill these two legions, they can immediately recruit new soldiers to form ten or twenty reserve legions...
The senior officers of the Naval Department of the Kingdom of Hope were also helpless. They could only blame their own bad luck for encountering such a king. However, His Majesty the King insisted that they could not disobey the wishes of Melchid III, so they had no choice but to fill in the gaps and start the construction of defense facilities in five seaports along the coast, striving to build an iron wall to face maritime threats.
After learning about the news that the Thunder Legion of the Overseas Dominion Military Region swept across the Monbamark Kingdom, the Army Department of the Kingdom of Hicks immediately organized senior officers to conduct a sand table drill, hoping to conclude that this was a massive attack by the Dominion Military Region on the Kingdom of Hicks. The sign was that the Restoration Army went too far and dispatched the Thunder Legion to annihilate them.
The letter asking for help sent by King Avitley I of the Kingdom of Breault also caused disputes in the Army Department of the Kingdom of Hicks for the first time. Many senior Hicks officers believe that the Dominion Military Region is likely to launch an attack on the Breault Kingdom. After occupying this neighboring country, they will launch attacks and raids on the Hicks Kingdom.
The evidence of these senior officers of the Kingdom of Hicks is that the Thunder Legion is a light cavalry legion and is good at mobile raids. Only land combat can fully utilize the combat power of the light cavalry legion. As for sea transportation, based on transportation capacity calculations, it is impossible for the Dominion Military Region to transport soldiers and put the equipped war horses on the ship at the same time. At most, it can only transport a small part of the war horses. Then the Thunder Legion undoubtedly gave up its own strengths to engage in positional offensive warfare. This was the most unwise choice.
In addition, after the Thunder Legion swept across the Menbamark Kingdom, they set up a large camp on the border with the Breault Kingdom that could accommodate four or five legions. Reminiscent of the intelligence sent by the secret agents lurking in the Beibu Gulf, the two or three legions transported by the ocean-going cruise transport fleet of the overseas dominions under the escort of the armored fleet during this period have already shown that their next target of attack is Breo. special kingdom.
However, the senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom who insisted that the Overseas Dominion Military Region would use sea raids to transport the legion to land at a certain seaport city and then launch an attack scoffed at the so-called conspiracy that the Dominion Military Region would attack the Hicks Kingdom by land. They believed that the overland faction had overlooked the most important point. The border area between the Kingdom of Breault and the Kingdom of Menbamark was entirely mountainous, and the light cavalry was also difficult to use and could not play a big role.
As for the road between the mountainous areas, it is easy to be blocked and destroyed. In addition to the defensive positions on the hilltops, the Thunder Legion also has to dismount and fight on foot. Only after conquering the hills one by one can the road in the middle of the mountainous area be repaired. The Brayote people are brave mountain warriors, and they will not let the enemy pass through their territory easily. Go attack Hicks Kingdom. If the Thunder Legion wants to protect its logistics supply channels, it must first occupy the Breault Kingdom and eliminate the threat of the Breault people in the mountains...
Compared to struggling with the Breault people in the mountains, it would be more convenient and faster to capture a seaport city on the coast of the Hicks Kingdom. At least there would be no need to add another enemy to oneself. Therefore, these senior Hicks officers from the Maritime Faction believed that the large camp deployed on the border of the Kingdom of Breault was most likely a trick by the enemy. The purpose is nothing more than to make the Hicks Kingdom divide its forces or cause domestic panic or something...
For these senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom's Army Department, the most painful thing is that the initiative in the war is not in their own hands, but in the enemy's hands. Now the Thunder Legion only occupied the Monbamark Kingdom, and set up a large camp on the border adjacent to the Breault Kingdom, leaving the Breault Kingdom and the Hicks Kingdom in a state of chaos and no peace.
The Breault Kingdom has entered a state of war readiness to guard against surprise attacks by the enemy. The Kingdom of Hicks also sounded the alarm, the troops took strict precautions, and the officers racked their brains to imagine how and where the enemy would launch an attack. Melchid III also wanted to immediately recruit new soldiers to form several reserve legions. Fortunately, the ministers in the royal court were still clear-headed and stopped his impulse.
Very simply, if the Thunder Legion in the Dominion Military Region has no intention of launching an attack, then what is the use of the Hicks Kingdom recruiting new soldiers to form these reserve legions? It is just a waste of military expenditures? To put it bluntly, the current Hicks Kingdom is like a rat stuck in a bellows, with no way out. Needless to say, there is no need to mention the sea. Without the Sea King Fleet, troops cannot be transported out, and the sea route has been blocked, unless the Hicks Kingdom can build an armored fleet to compete with the Dominion Military District.
The surrounding countries are also vassal countries, and there is no opponent if they want to start a war. Unless the Kingdom of Breault agrees to open the road to allow the army of the Kingdom of Hicks to pass through to attack the Thunder Legion occupying the Kingdom of Menbamark. However, Melchid III did not have the courage, and his generals did not agree with this. When the combat strength of weapons and equipment was different from that of the enemy, taking the initiative to launch an attack was not called bravery, but risking death. It was adding merit to the enemy. .
At this moment, the Army Department of the Kingdom of Hicks finally received a report from Captain Resis on the front line of the Kingdom of Breault. This was not the result of one person's reconnaissance, but the result of more than a dozen Hicks sent to the Kingdom of Breault. A joint report from the officers.
Under the leadership of Captain Reichs, these Hicks officers continued to conduct repeated reconnaissance of the enemy camps set up on the border in the next half month, and captured several lone enemy soldiers. From their confessions, It was learned that the Thunder Legion had already returned to the Beibu Gulf area. The camps set up on the border are indeed empty camps. The purpose is to deter the Kingdom of Breault from sending troops to intervene in the fact that the Kingdom of Menbamark is occupied by a coalition of nobles...
This was a false alarm, and the maritime faction won a resounding victory. The land faction was so angry that they made a suggestion. They should not allow the kingdom's army to take the initiative to attack the Ovilas Kingdom's noble coalition of the Menbamark Kingdom through the Kingdom of Breault. After winning, they could then attack the Nasseri area and help the exiled Nasseri royal court recover. country... ...
But this suggestion was quickly rejected by Melchid III. As these land factions said, the Thunder Legion was a light cavalry legion. Who knows whether their return to the Gulf of Tonkin was true or false, and the spies there did not send any definite information. If this is a conspiracy to lure the snake out of its hole, then the Hicks army that takes the initiative is likely to fall into the trap set by the enemy and encounter the crisis of destruction.
Nothing is worse than silence. The officers and engineering construction experts sent to the Kingdom of Breault can come back. Thinking of the large amount of military supplies, weapons and ammunition and other assistance delivered to the Kingdom of Breault, Melchid III felt a little distressed again. He was still shameless and had no intention of asking for the aid supplies back, but this did not prevent him from using the Breault Kingdom as cannon fodder.
So Melchid III wrote to Avitli I, requesting the Kingdom of Breout to send troops to assist in resisting the enemy's attack when the Hicks coastal area was attacked by the Dominion Military District. What satisfied Melchid III was that Avitli I said He agreed to his request and promised to send at least two legions to assist in the battle.
On July 23, Hicks' agent lurking in the Beibu Gulf sent intelligence one after another, reporting that the Overseas Dominion Military Region had assembled more than 300 sailing ocean-going transport ships in the Beibu Gulf, as well as nearly a hundred sailing warships, and one A fleet of twenty-eight ironclad battleships. The flags of the Thunder Legion, the newly formed Storm Legion, the Rock Legion and a reserve legion appeared in the Beibu Gulf camp, with an estimated total strength of more than 400,000 troops.
Since the camp was heavily guarded, no one could get close to it, so the spies couldn't get close enough to see what was going on. On the other hand, in the tavern of the capital Canpast City, you will always meet some drunken junior officers of the Dominion Military Region. From the gossip they leaked, it can be judged that the Dominion Military Region has decided to launch a landing operation against the Kingdom of Hicks, but they Which seaport city the destination was for remains unclear...
On August 11, the armored fleet of the Overseas Dominion Military Region appeared in the waters of the Kingdom of Hicks. They sank all Hicks fishing boats, seized merchant ships and freight ships, and bombarded Minslaike Island and Chemback in the Hicks waters. The island was wreaked havoc for three days before leaving.
On August 23, the armored fleet of the Overseas Dominion once again appeared in the waters of the Kingdom of Hicks. This time they dispatched the Marine Corps and occupied Minslaike Island and Chemback Island.