Black Iron’s Glory

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Chapter Five hundred and eighty-eight Wade Mountain Harbor Attack

 

By mid-May, Claude had some spare time and no trivial duties, so he turned his mind to the colonies on the West Coast. At present, the colonies of the West Coast countries have become a deadlock. When the autonomous region commanded an alliance with the Pamigar National Republic and sent thunderbolt Legion to the garrison, the few colonies in the West Coast knew that they had not stepped in. The reason for the Migals.

 

At this time, the offensive against the Pamigar National Republic was a declaration of war against the Autonomous Military Command. No one would do such a stupid thing. As a result, these colonial nations on the West Coast have stolen their minions and no longer glare like a tiger watching his prey on the colonies of other countries. Instead, they have begun to build defensive fronts and construct defensive positions in their colonies. Deputy harmless to human and animals, defending themselves, as if they transported two or three standing Legions to the colony for defense and defense.

 

In February, Mr. Wilbur set up an economic and trade mission to the colonies of the West Coast countries, ready to discuss issues concerning customs duties and bans on the entry of goods of autonomous territories into these colonies. It took only three months for this economic and trade group to make a round in the colonies of the West Coast countries and received a warm welcome from the colonial authorities. However, the issue of the ban on trade was still not lifted. The goods and goods produced by the Overseas Dominion Still unable to officially enter the colonial markets of the West Coast …

 

As a governor of a colonial province, Mr. Wilbern said to him explicitly, “The hospitality is a personal friendship, we are friends. However, the business ban is a principle of Kingdom. Once the business ban is lifted to you, our hand workshops and those monopolized by Kingdom nobility will be destroyed. Kingdom-produced goods will not be able to reap huge profits from the colony, and no one can afford such consequences, so we would rather risk the offense of your self-governing territories, but also implement a ban on commerce and refuse your goods and commodities to enter the colonial market. Outside …

 

Well, Mr. Wyberon’s organization’s economic and trade group visited the colonies of the West Coast countries and only gained the personal friendship of these colonial authorities in charge of the Commanding officer. He wanted to lift the ban on the goods of the Overseas Dominion. Touched the nail. After returning, Mr. Wilbur spoke in Parliament, believing that unless the West Coast colonial countries were completely defeated by the military, they would never lift the ban on trade and open the colonial market to the Overseas Dominion.

 

Claude hopes to do the same for the West Coast colonial nations. The problem is that the autonomous region must find the right excuses before it can go to war. There is no reason for the Dominion to send troops based on a ban on trade, because the ban on trade protects the goods produced by their own Kingdom. It is reasonable to issue a ban in order to avoid competition with the goods produced by the Overseas Dominion. The autonomous region cannot come in because its own items cannot be sold in other people’s homes. This will not be so overbearing …

 

No one is a fool, as are the colonial nations of the West Coast. When the Autonomous Leadership Area allied with the Pamigars, leased its naval port, and sent Thunderbolt Legion to its borders, the secret mastermind Autonomous Leadership Area came to the stage as a support for the indigenous riots and the independence of the indigenous peoples. Everyone knew it, but no one shouted loudly to blame the autonomous region. The so-called winner is the king, loser is the villain.

 

The only bad luck was the loss of the colonies of Morossik Kingdom, Resna Kingdom and Vasilico Dukedom. Other West Coast colonial countries have accepted the lessons of these three countries, strengthened the supervision and control of indigenous peoples in their colonies, and of course, also issued some benefits to appease the indigenous peoples, and at the same time allowed the colonial garrison troops to make borders Preparedness, set up a complete defensive front and defensive positions, in case the enemy’s sneak attack …

 

Claude and the senior staff of the autonomous region commanded a look around, and found that the colonies in the West Coast countries did not have much opportunity to take advantage of it. All of them were very tightly guarded against the autonomous region, and they stopped thinking about something. Anyway, the most important thing for the autonomous command zone this year is to settle inside. Eight Hicks returned to the hometown division to cut down and requisition. The remaining hundreds of Hunks immigrants must be resettled. Therefore, the autonomous command zone can wait until next year to slowly compete with the West Coast colonial countries …

 

But sometimes it happened unexpectedly. One night at the end of May, the Wedd Mountain Harbour Colony of the Fux Islands United Kingdom was suddenly attacked and plundered by countless pirate groups. The Fux Islands United that had just arrived and stayed in the harbour A sailing fleet of the Kingdom was robbed and divided by the pirates for a long time. When most of the seamen and sailors landed a happy night, these large sail battleships without much defense force soon fell into the hands of these swarming pirate groups …

 

There were probably fifty-sixty sailships in good condition that fell into the hands of these pirate gangs, and the remaining forty transport ships were all set alight by these pirate gangs who came to attack. In other words, the four prestigious naval fleets of the Fux Islands and Kingdom were so unfathomable mystery that the pirates lost one of them, and even the Wade Mountain harbor colony that they were preparing to build into a shipbuilding base was also pirates. Sweeping away …

 

Fux Islands United Kingdom is very annoyed, as if they were slapped in the face by pirates. The Fux Islands United Kingdom, which has always been known as a maritime power, has four powerful sail fleets, and no pirate dares easily offend their maritime strength and dignity. Generally speaking, the ocean-going merchant ship that usually flies to the United Kingdom Navy fleet banner of the Fux Islands will rarely be intercepted and attacked by pirate groups.

 

But no one didd’t expect that this time the pirate gang will join forces to fight against a sailing fleet of the United Kingdom of Fux Islands, which not only successfully divided up the sailship battleship in its fleet, but also plundered their shipbuilding base in Kingdom . The Fux Islands and Kingdom lost a huge loss, and immediately sent two powerful sailing fleets to the Sea Territory of the Nubari Islands to find the troubles of the pirate gang and try to find out who was the culprit in planning the attack and plunder … [ 19459002]
 

Claude also did not expect that he would face such a trouble. At that time, he was nothing serious and thought that the other party was afraid to accept the move. I didn’t expect to despise the other party. After severing the contact with the other party, the other party planned such an amazing attack that destroyed the Navy fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fux Islands. Now the other party asks himself to fulfill his promise and transfer the six iron armored battleships to them …

 

“Is this really an attack planned by Eriksson?” Claude asked Borkal General standing in front of him with a grin.

 

Borkal General nodded-: “This is the third time you have asked this question, Claude. The third time I have determined, it must be that Eriksson’s Blacksail Pirates brought together the remaining thirteen pirate gangs and conducted them together The attack on the Wade Mountain harbor colony. For those pirate groups, obtaining a regular sail battleship is a good thing they dream of. The Fux Islands combined with the Kingdom ’s sail fleet gave the pirates a god-given opportunity. …

 

Eriksson said that he has been paying attention to this Weedes harbour colony of the Fux Islands and Kingdom since the previous year, because this colony is a rare mineral resource rich collection site on the West Coast. The hijacking of a transport ship full of gold, silver and precious minerals means that all pirates involved will make a big splash.

 

It was only that Eriksson soon discovered that the minerals mined in this colony were no longer shipped to the Union Kingdom of the Fux Islands, but were stored in warehouses. At the same time, the colonial authorities also called for personnel to carry out planning for seaport construction and town construction. With Eriksson’s ability, he soon inquired that the Fux Islands and Kingdom were preparing to vigorously develop this Weddersberg seaport colony and build it into their ironclad battleship production base …

 

Since then, Eriksson has devoted a lot of energy and laid ambush to many men in this Weddshill seaport colony. Even the colonial authority of the Fux Islands and Kingdom did not know that the captain of the smuggling ship, which was somewhat famous in the harbour town, was actually the leader of the black sail pirates named Erikson. They were successfully concealed.

 

Then Eriksson noticed that the biggest defensive weakness of this Wade Mountain harbour colony was tight outer and inner pine, especially the night when a sailing fleet of the Fux Islands and Kingdom arrived at the colony and anchored in the harbor, Almost half of the sailors and sailors will go ashore to use women and spirits to revel in and reward their loneliness on warships.

 

If at this time can control the twelve coastal artillery positions on the hills outside the harbour, and control the lighthouse to not sound a bell alarm for pirate attacks, let the pirate ships outside enter. Then there is no need to guess. The sailing fleet moored in the harbour is finished. It is not clear whether the sailors on the ship can gather the sailors of a ship. They are not the opponents of pirates like wolf-like tigers. .

 

And the harbour towns and shipbuilding bases are like turkeys that have been shaved, and in the face of a battleship with a large number of artillery, any resistance cannot persist for too long. Eriksson was convinced that the attack he planned would bring him unusually rich profits. Because he saw with his own eyes that the people of the Fux Islands and Kingdom had launched two iron armored battleships into the shipbuilding base, and started to imitate four iron armored battleships. In other words, there are six iron armored battleships in this shipbuilding base … “

 

“And then? Did Erickson get these six armored battleships?” Claude asked.

 

Borkal General nodded: “I got it, but Eriksson found that he only got six hulls of the armored battleship, and there were no steam-powered machinery installed on the ship. Fux Islands United Kingdom experts at the shipbuilding base and Several rune mage acknowledged that they were also stumped by the material of this ship’s steam-powered machinery, and are being tested and copied, but no results have been achieved. Eriksson had to tow away these experts and the hull of six ironclad battleships … …

 

Now Eriksson sent me to ask me to tell you to let you fulfill your previous promise to him. You once said that if the Blacksail Pirates of Eriksson actively attacked and destroyed a sail fleet of the United Kingdom of Fux Islands, you would transfer the six generations of iron armored battleships staying in the harbour to the Blacksail Pirates. Now that Eriksson’s Blacksail Pirates and other pirate gangs have overwhelmed a sailing fleet of the Fux Islands United Kingdom, when will your iron armor battleship be transferred to them? “

 

Claude hesitated: “Boa, do you think it is appropriate to hand over the Iron Armor battleship to Eriksson? I worry that our Autonomous Territory will be damaged by pirate backlash …”

 

Borkal General nodded: “I didn’t speak for Eriksson, but I think the current situation, and the addition of Eriksson’s Blacksail Pirates, may bring a lot of unexpected changes to the West Coast. The autonomous region is gratifying, it is better than such a stalemate. Iron armored battleship can be transferred to Eriksson, but we need to find a way for the black sail pirates to cleverly obtain these six iron armored battleships. The misunderstanding was transferred by the autonomous region to the black pirates … “

 

Claude tapped his finger on the desktop and groaned for a while: “Let ’s think about it first. You have Ericson wait patiently for three days, and by the way ask the six he got from Fux Islands United Kingdom. Does the hull of an iron armored battleship need to be modified? If possible, we can help him transform it into a practical iron armored battleship … “

 

Eriksson Commander’s Blacksail Pirates brought together other pirate groups to successfully attack and plunder the Wedd Mountain Harbour Colony of the Fux Islands United Kingdom, and overthrew and divided up a full series of Fux Islands United Kingdom Sailing fleet, this record really made Eriksson and Blacksail Pirates famous at once. The Fux Islands and Kingdom’s two sailing fleets went to the Sea Territory of the Nubari Islands to find pirates. They wanted to find the trail and whereabouts of the black sail pirates.

 

Whether to transfer the eliminated six generations of iron armored battleships to the Blacksail Pirates, the officers in the autonomous region’s headquarters who are qualified to participate in the discussion of this incident are divided. In the end, Beechklin General convinced the senior officers at the meeting to do The final decision was made.

 

Beechklin General believes that currently, Eriksson and Blacksail Pirates have become the deadly rivals of the Fux Islands and United Kingdom. The two sailing fleets are searching for their whereabouts, and the rest of the pirate groups that have been affected by their own safety are also Hate Eriksson and the Blacksail Pirates, and if they have news, they will surely without the slightest hesitation hand them over to the Navy of the Fux Islands United Kingdom.

 

Under such circumstances, strengthen the power of the Eriksson Commander’s Black Sail Pirates, giving them the ability to compete with the sail fleet of the United Kingdom of the Fux Islands, or to give the sail fleet a major hit again. In this way, the Fux Islands and Kingdom could not continue to dominate the sea. Once their two sail fleets Retreat retreat, their three colonies on the West Coast will be at risk, and they will easily become fat in the eyes of other colonial countries …

 

As to whether Blacksail Pirates will have an ironclad battleship and will pose a threat to the shipping of Dominion ships, Beechklin General believes that there is no need to worry about this. First, the navy of the autonomous region is equipped with updated iron armored battleships, which can completely crush them in quantity and quality. Second, the Blacksail Pirates can only rely on the Autonomous Territory to modify and repair the armored battleship. As long as they are clear-headed, they will not offend the Autonomous Territory for no reason.

 

Claude decided to give Eriksson a chance, he promised to hand over six generations of iron armored battleships to Blacksail Pirates, and said that he could obtain six ironclad battleships for Blacksail Pirates from the Wade Mountain Seaport Shipbuilding Base The shell was remodeled and repaired, but the high price of a hundred thousand kronor was reported. What Claude didn’t expect was that Eriksson agreed to his request and sent over 600,000 kronor worth of jewellery, as well as the six ship-like battleships.

 

The deal with Eriksson came to an end temporarily, after all, six ships of the first-generation iron armor battleship were modified, and the repair of the general battleship of the six ships took some time. At this time, the ocean transportation fleet of the Autonomous Regional Command again transported more than 300,000 Hicks military immigrants and four Hicks return home divisions, and the rest of the trip would be completed. According to the plan, the eight Hicks Homecoming Divisions will all be reduced.

 

“What do you mean?” Claude looked at the blood book in his hand. It should be considered a blood book. At least the name was black and black, and the name was stained with a bloodstain.

 

Think about it, an ordinary soldier of the Hicks Return Home Division returned to Hicks Kingdom, retrieved his family and relatives, and emigrated to the Overseas Dominion. All expenses are reimbursed by the Autonomous Region. , And the soldiers also receive salary and welfare supplements every month. Even if this soldier had not fired a shot in Hicks Kingdom, that is to say, he was performing the normal sentry post, and when he returned, he had ten gold crowns in cash. How could this not be exciting?

 

If in the private workshop, Tianzhuang finds a job, two to three silver-thale wages will be spent in a month’s hard work. Compared with the officers and men of the Hicks Returning Division who had arrested armed resistance elements in Wang Jing, the difference was too great. The reward for each of those officers and soldiers is above thirty-forty gold crowns. The more battles they experience, the higher the reward. So now these Hicks soldiers are also writing blood books to serve the Dominion of the Overseas.

 

Claude considered it and thought about Derwick’s General instructed: “There is also a voluntary Legion quota in the autonomous region, and the eight Hicks hometown divisions will be reduced and retired. They picked it out, selected the best and selected the best, and formed this Hicks Volunteer Legion. The organization is the same as thunderbolt and Panshi Legion, with four divisions and 90,000 horses. You will temporarily assume the post of Legion Chief …