MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 519 Captives and expansions

Chapter 519 Captives and Expansion

Crowd didn't think there were so many troubles. He originally thought that the kingdom of Nasiri and the Principality of Kanas had been destroyed, the war had ended, and the kingdom of Ovilas had unified the eastern part of Farea. The next step is to rest and restore vitality. Nothing happens to him. After the kingdom has given off the two military regiments of the Overseas Autonomous Leadership Area, everyone can pack up and pack their luggage and take the trophy to the hovering overseas autonomy to lead their own small days.

As a result, he is now being towed in the Nasseri area and has become the interim acting governor. Dealing with countless documents and administrative chores all day is a painful torture for Claude. If he had known such troubles earlier, Claude regretted that he should not perish the Nasser Kingdom, and even made himself and the two legions in such an awkward situation.

To put it bluntly, Claude, General Beechlin, and General Albert, as well as the Thunder and the Rock Corps, are now working for Frederick I. The original two autonomous regiments of the Overseas Autonomous Region participated in the war. The agreement reached was that the two regiments would immediately return to the overseas autonomous regime after the war and no longer participate in the affairs of the kingdom.

But now, the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps have become the garrison garrison in the Nasseri and Kannas areas to maintain local order and law and order. Without the name of military management, it was a military management job, and even before Wang Ting did not send the local administrative officer in charge, Crowd and others had to stay here to perform the duties of acting interim governor.

This is not a matter of Wang Ting trusting or distrusting Claude. Don't look at Claude as interim acting governor, but his responsibilities and powers are not so great. He is only acting Governor, and is temporary, so he has no power to govern. Careful analysis, he just replaced the royal court and the Sterling royal family, collected taxes and tribute in these two areas, and maintained the public order in these two areas, which is equivalent to the collection of tax collectors and patrol chiefs. Roles.

In fact, it was Wang Ting who used the combat power of the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps to suppress the localities. He first collected taxes in these two areas to enrich the state treasury. Because the military expenses of the two autonomous regiments of the Overseas Autonomous Region do not need to be paid by the Kingdom, the agreement has already stated that the Overseas Autonomous Region should pay for itself. Therefore, Wang Ting's move was equivalent to using two powerful armies for free, which was a big advantage.

Crowd began to wonder if the so-called administrative officers had come to take office in the Nasseri and Kannas districts, and whether the boycott of the elected officials was an excuse for Wang Ting to use the two legions for free. Fortunately, more than two months have passed, basically the Nasseri region has been settled, and the Kannas region has also been entrusted to General Albert. All that remains now is collecting taxes and sending troops to suppress local riots and rebellions.

General Bolognik arrived in the royal city of Borisia after the end of the rainy season at the end of March. He spent half a year in the city of Emily, and finally took more than 100,000 captives of the Naseri Guard Corps, grass-roots officers, administrative officers and local nobles, With more than 200,000 family members, he was successfully transported to the sea port of Froric in the Rimodera region and boarded an ocean carrier. Later, these captives and their families had to settle down in the Rocky Mountain State of the Overseas Dominion and make a living by mining.

After sending away the captives, General Bolognik arrived with the first division of the Rock Corps and the headquarters of the Corps at the Royal City of Polydivia to join Claude. Claude was glad that he had all the business affairs left to him, ready to relax for a while. However, General Bolonick held Claude, saying that this time he came to fight the idea of ​​the 200,000 captives on the King City side, and also wanted to transport them to overseas dominions to enrich the population.

General Bolognik told Claude that more than 300,000 captives who had previously been shipped to overseas dominions caught the attention of many Dominion members, just like Mr. Henderman, the chairman of the Mining and Business Association, made it public in Parliament. In his speech, he believed that the captured captives from the ongoing war in the eastern region of the Vale continent was the best opportunity to fill the labor gap of the overseas dominion. These more than 300,000 captives just filled the lack of mining manpower in Rocky Mountain Region.

Therefore, the Atlasian legislators also hope to obtain more than 100,000 prisoners from the two participating legions as a shortage of labor. As tobacco companies sell so much, wild tobacco in Atulas, the country's main source of tobacco, is no longer available. Many of the richest people in the self-governing territories began to invest in the construction of tobacco farms in Atlas, to grow tobacco on a large scale artificially. It is just that Arturas is one of the less populous areas of the Dominion, and the plantations require a lot of manpower, so they also hit their minds on the captives ...

Although neither the Kingdom of Ovilas nor the Overseas Dominion practiced slavery, the captives were much cheaper than the labor costs hired outside. General Bolognik brought envoys from several state legislators and local people who were willing to pay compensation for the autonomous military area, provided the expenses of captives, provided food, clothing, and shelter, and accepted military area supervision.

Claude smiled bitterly. The taste of the good war seems to have changed. The two regiments of the Overseas Autonomous Territory do not seem to participate in the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Ovilas, but to increase the labor and immigration of the Overseas Autonomous Territory.

I just received a letter from McJack some time ago, in which he said that the officers and soldiers of the Legion that had been under his control and had belonged to the Great Prince Force had always asked to bring their families to overseas dominions. Because they were worried that the old noble family in the Kingdom of Ovilas would calculate their accounts in the future. At that time, they would regret that they were too late, and it would be better to immigrate to the overseas dominion.

At the same time, McJack asked Claude in the letter if he would recruit these officers and soldiers into the autonomous command zone, such as building a fourth Thunder Division. At present, McJack has accommodated nearly 80,000 soldiers and soldiers scattered in the mountains and places in the three shires and the Eskilin region. These soldiers were scattered in the mountains and localities, of which 50,000 or 60,000 were rescued captives, and the rest They were all small troops fleeing into the mountains.

When the Eskilin region became the eastern enclave of the Hicks Kingdom, these small units fleeing into the mountains had been fighting guerrillas with the Hicks army for resistance. The leader of the unit with the largest number was the old boss of Claude. He had not met in the past ten years or so, and was the commander of the battalion, Major Leedfunk.

McJack believes that although these officers and soldiers are the old prince's ministry, the prince is now gone, and they have all become dogs. The Thunder Corps swept through the newly occupied territory, destroyed the Principality of Seedings and the Principality of Rimodera, and recaptured the Eskilin area of ​​the Hicks kingdom. The return of this newly occupied territory to the Kingdom of Ovilas has caused great anxiety to these officers and men.

Although they were also soldiers of the Kingdom of Ovilas, as the old princes of the Grand Prince Hansback, they still wear rebel hats on their heads. During the Kingdom's civil war that year, they fought for the Kingdom and struggled with the old noble family forces. Even if it was Frederick I, not Sterling XI, who was sitting on the throne, these officers and men still feared that they would be retaliated by the old noble family.

During the Kingdom's civil war that year, Prince Hansback had already transferred the families of his officers and men from the kingdom to the newly occupied territory, so these officers and men now have no objection to the immigration of their families to overseas dominions. However, McJack felt that it was a pity to let them go to farm overseas. They are all strong and experienced soldiers. It is better to recruit them again.

Originally, McJack wanted to organize these officers and soldiers into local defense forces to help the Thunder Third Division maintain local order and law and order, but in the end he only organized more than 10,000 people in two garrison groups. The reason is not that these officers and soldiers despise the status of local garrisons, but they are worried that after becoming members of local garrisons, they will only be able to stay in the area and will be liquidated by the kingdom in the future, affecting their families. That's why McJack wanted to organize them into the Fourth Thunder Division, so that they could settle their minds. In addition, these officers and soldiers were envious of the treatment and welfare of the soldiers in the overseas autonomous command zone, and were willing to be part of the Thunder Corps.

In addition, McJack also reported to Claude that the task originally assigned to him was to reintegrate those military industries in the three southern counties, and the plan to first set up a new rifle bullet production line has been completed. The employees recruited are the families of officers and soldiers preparing to emigrate overseas. At present, this production line can produce 500,000 new rifle bullets per month. The only problem is that there is often a shortage of production materials, such as brass skin pressed shells and bottom fire plates, which cannot produce stable production.

As for the production of new artillery shells, the current production conditions are not complete, and some large-scale press forging manufacturing machines are lacking. The reason was that during the occupation of the Hicks Kingdom, some large-scale forging parts were transported back to China, which caused the military manufacturing level in the three counties in the south to drop a lot and it was impossible to forge some special large-scale parts. Just like the shell of a shell, three large forging machines are needed to make ...

In fact, Claude did not want to expand the establishment of the Thunder Corps. The Thunder Corps of the three divisions has reached 120,000, while the establishment of one division is only 35,000. Originally, there were two divisions of an army corps, an independent regiment directly under the headquarters of the Canadian Army Corps, and four logistic battalions, with a total strength of nearly 82,000. Before joining the war, a division was expanded, so that the total number of a legion reached more than 125,000. Crowd always felt a little too bloated.

Either an increase in troop strength is a good thing. Correspondingly, military expenditures exceed budget. This is not just to increase the military expenses of a division, but to increase the number of civilian officers and auxiliary personnel, such as logistics and administration, of the headquarters of the division. In the past, the era of firing rifles was lined up. The regiment was adopted in order to use the strength of the army on the battlefield to offset the adverse effects of too many casualties and maintain long-term combat effectiveness.

It is said that before the two sides fought, they basically concentrated their forces and found an open terrain to set off the battlefield. The commanders of the two sides commanded their respective troops to come close and fire, fighting hand-to-hand. The casualties were very large. It's gone. A battle can be divided in three or four days, and hundreds of thousands of casualties are common. Therefore, the greater the strength of a legion, the better. As a result, most countries use about 60,000 people in one legion and two divisions.

In the First Eastern Regional War, the Anti-Austrian League was very aware that field battles like this were not the opponents of the four field legions of the Kingdom of Ovilas at all. Therefore, they adopted a positional offensive and defensive warfare mode, digging trenches and constructing defensive facilities waiting for the army of the Kingdom of Ovilas to attack, which offset the invincible advantage of the kingdom of Ovilas. In the end, the war was dragged to the point where both sides were exhausted and unable to persist, and a truce and a peace agreement were successfully negotiated and signed.

To some extent, the First World War in the Eastern Region has changed the traditional field battle mode in the history of the war on the continent for nearly a thousand years. Even a country with a small primary force knows what kind of play to use when military power is not dominant. Later, the colonial war between the kingdom of Ovilas and Hicks on the mainland of Nubia was a breakthrough in the bottom line of the traditional field battle.

First, the weak ranger regiment used various strategies to induce the enemy to be deceived and won two colonial wars. The five divisions that were later formed in the Overseas Territory directly under the Central Government commanded the four legions of the Hicks Kingdom. They also forcibly occupied the colony of the Port of Vibato in the Hicks Kingdom and turned them into the first of the Overseas Territories. Eight municipalities.

These three colonial wars were an eye-opener for the nations of Valeo, and even two years later the Hicks Kingdom made a big comeback. The high-cost lease of the Fox Island ’s Rodex Bay Colony to continue this colonial war almost attracted It attracted the attention of all the nations of Valeria. At that time, the Kingdom of Ovilas was fighting for the two kings, and there were only two legions in the overseas jurisdiction, but the Hicks kingdom invested ten standing legions, so that basically no one would be optimistic that the overseas jurisdiction would win. .

For the first time, the Thunder Corps sneaked on the Hicks Kingdom Expeditionary Force base, and fortunately won, while the Hicks Kingdom Expeditionary Force lost only two and a half legions, especially in strength. The second Hicks Kingdom Expeditionary Force returned to the fishing port town under the jurisdiction of an overseas jurisdiction, approached Lanhu City, where the leadership battle zone of the jurisdiction was under control, and turned it into ruins.

However, the Thunder Army relied for thousands of miles, and the leading battle zone survived the calamity. The three Hicks Regiments that landed were siege by the backhand. After that, the Thunder Army sneaked into the Hicks Kingdom Expeditionary Base again and succeeded in annihilating the Hicks Kingdom Expeditionary Force together with the Rock Group, and finally won the victory of this colonial war.

In the final battle of this colonial war, the new rifles equipped by the two regiments in the overseas command areas began to attract the attention of the countries of the Faroe continent. The power of this new rifle far exceeded the fire ropes installed by various countries. Guns, but due to the tight guard in overseas jurisdictions, information about new rifles is rarely leaked.

Until then, the Kingdom of Ovilas experienced too many changes, and the overseas territories became autonomous and the theater of operations became a military region. The Kingdom of Hicks raided and occupied the newly occupied territory of the Kingdom of Ovilas in the name of assisting the Grand Duchess of Sidings and the Grand Duchy of Rimodera. King Ovilas both had a mutiny, Frederick I took office, and the Kingdom of Hicos led the formation of the Eastern Union National Alliance. A debt war between the kingdom of Nasseri and the kingdom of Ovilas, the Eastern Regional Alliance stepped in, and formed a coalition to invade the kingdom of Ovilas.

Then two overseas regiments returned to the kingdom to reinforce the country. As a result, the alliance of Eastern Nations was destroyed, 700,000 troops were left, and four nations perished. The Kingdom of Ovilas unified the entire eastern region of Farais. The emergence of new rifles and new artillery, as well as the presence of iron armored fleets in the Second Eastern World War has revolutionized the war mode. The victory of the war no longer depends on the strength of the two sides in the war, but on the power of the new weapons.

With the strength of one division, the Thunder Corps was more than enough to resist the offensive of the four legions of the Alliance army, giving the enemy a large number of injuries while withdrawing while fighting, and enticing the Alliance army below the royal city of Polynesia, laying the foundation for the victory of the battle The foundation. That's why Claude believes that in the future, it is entirely possible to replace the legion with a division. The soldiers are better but not more. There is no need to build up troops and expand into a large legion mode.

However, General Bolognik did not think so. He told Claude an inside information that the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, Marquis Blanchard, privately wrote to tell him that in the next three years, the kingdom will not be able to govern and govern Nasri, Kanner. There are no financial resources to invest in these areas, such as Sri Lanka, Eskilin, Rimodera and Sidings. Therefore, the two regiments of the Overseas Autonomous Leadership Area are required to guard these areas for three years, first accumulate some tax wealth to support the restoration of the Kingdom, and then return the jurisdiction of these areas to Wang Ting ...

This is very surprising news. It is equivalent to the fact that Wang Ting has entrusted overseas dominions to replace the kingdom in administering these areas for three years. It's just that the official commission has not been announced, and this matter is just a private talk. General Bolognik said that this was a reward given by the court to overseas dominions and military regions. The kingdom did not have the financial resources to honour the achievements of the Thunder Army and the Rock Army for the kingdom, so it was compensated in this way in disguise.

Jurisdiction over these areas for three years means that in addition to the taxes and tribute given to Wang Ting, the business income of these areas will be in the hands of overseas autonomous leading areas, which will be a very great wealth. At the same time, it is entirely possible to emigrate from these areas to overseas dominions within three years, while Wang Ting pretends to be invisible. After all, they were all enemy countries before, and more immigrants can alleviate the Kingdom's troubles in managing these areas in the future.

"Well then, the Thunder Corps will expand another division, and select the appropriate soldiers from the old Prince's ministry to fill the vacancies left by the sacrifices of the two legions. Let General Beechklin take a trip and take charge of this. For the second expansion and replenishment, McJack would be his deputy. "Claude made the decision. As General Bolognik said, the Thunder Corps really needed an expansion to guard so many places.

"As for the captives you want, nearly 100,000 soldiers from the former Nasri Kingdom can be taken away with their families and sent to the state of Atullas. Captives, I'm not going to let them go to the overseas dominion, let them build the road here first ... "Crowd continued.