Macho Wars

Charles stood at the forefront of the team, looking up at the new battleship that was newly launched this year, and happened to meet a person standing on the side of the ship.

The two sides looked at each other from a distance, Charles was expressionless, and the people on the boat showed triumphant smiles.

The battleship quickly came to a halt, and the military band just started to play the next song-the Wieland National Anthem.

Accompanied by the cadence of the drum, a young man in a gorgeous uniform stepped off the boat.It was the person who stared at Charles before, Muratou, the fourth prince of the Kingdom of Wieland.

The other party is here to take over Charles's seat and take charge of this colony that Charles has painstakingly managed for eight years.So it seems to be arrogant, like an unearned winner.

Seeing Mulato walking on the escalator, he deliberately slowed down, just to look down at himself for a while.Charles just smiled at this, and looked at the other side indifferently.Until he walked in front of him, he slowly greeted him.

"Long time no see, my smart brother!"

Chapter 157

On the evening of his arrival in Kanswia, the fourth prince Murat was warmly welcomed by the local aristocrats and merchants. They held a grand welcome dinner for the new governor.

Unlike Charles, who was hardworking and conscientious in school, and famous for his simple life after entering politics, Mulatou, the fourth prince who grew up in the prosperous capital city, has often participated in various social dances in high society since he was a teenager.Relying on his noble status and humorous conversation, he quickly became acquainted with the local nobles, and by the way, he sprung up the heart of the noble ladies who dream of becoming princesses.

On the other hand, the "former" Governor Charles, who was also invited to the banquet, was surrounded by only a few people, vividly interpreting what it means to be in the world.

After all, in the eyes of these nobles, Charles has lost power now, and it is almost impossible to participate in the throne competition in the future. For their own interests, these nobles naturally have to respect him and cater to other more capable candidates for the throne.Only those cronies whom Charles pulled up with one hand still persisted in him.

After the dinner, Charles wanted to talk to Muratou alone and hand over the work at hand.The king asked him to return to the country within a limited time, so he had to set off early the next morning, leaving him very limited time.

But Charles's kindness, Mulato didn't appreciate it at all.He refused to talk to Charles on the excuse that he was tired from the journey and was unwell and needed to rest.

In desperation, Charles had to leave angrily and boarded the warship returning home the next day.

And Mulatou, who didn't go to the farewell ceremony on the pretext of being unwell, was sitting in the governor's office at this time, looking at the "Overview of the Colonies" left by Charles.

To Muratou's expectation, Charles did not deliberately trip, leaving him with a messy and troublesome mess.But before he arrived in the colony, he handled everything in advance, and compiled a large book of "Colony Overview", as if he was afraid that Mulatou would be slow to learn, which would affect the stability and development of the colony.

Especially in the second half of the overview, Charles described his plan for the future of the colony in detail.He also said that for this plan, he has appointed a propaganda department to conduct public propaganda throughout the colonies, hoping to arouse the enthusiasm of the colonial people and jointly build a beautiful new home.

However, after reading the report, Muratou was not greatly moved by his brother's "enthusiasm". Instead, he felt a burst of displeasure from the bottom of his heart and felt that he was being scorned by Charles.

"Huh! This Charles is still as annoying as before. Who does he think he is? Will the future King Wirante? He even wants to point fingers at me, it's a horror!"

Mulatou, with a cold face, threw this most of his head aside in disgust.He turned his head and ordered the beautiful female secretary he had brought from the mainland to prepare her vehicles for the afternoon. He was going to inspect the Colonial Corps headquarters.

So in the afternoon, Mulatou drove to the legion command, which was only three kilometers away from the Governor's Palace.

When the generals learned that the new governor was coming to inspect, they lined up at the door early to meet them.When they saw the mighty convoy of as many as twelve cars approaching the headquarters, everyone couldn't help but be dumbfounded.You must know that when Charles was still there, he had never engaged in such a big battle when he came to the headquarters to inspect.At most, there are two or three cars, with no more than ten people.

At this time, Mulatou got out of the car. He was wearing a gorgeous and unusual military uniform, white gloves, black cloak, and shiny high boots. The commanding knife and scabbard on his waist was gleaming, as if someone was preparing to ask Marshal attending the ceremony.

Like the stars holding the moon, Mulatou entered the headquarters surrounded by a bunch of generals and entourage.

As Mulato walked, he looked at the interior decoration of the headquarters. As expected, it was like the Governor's Mansion, revealing something shabby and crude.Muratou, who likes to be gorgeous and grand by nature, hates this style extremely, because it reminds him of Charles who would not even change his clothes to welcome him.

Soon, Mulato came to the command hall, and as soon as he entered the room, he was startled by a giant sand table the size of a basketball court.

The general next to him stepped forward and introduced that this was a panoramic sand table of the colony that was completed by a large number of surveying and mapping personnel when Charles was the governor.The mountains, rivers, roads and towns above are all made in scale according to the actual objects, which is more intuitive than the map.

Looking at this huge and exquisite sand table, Mulatou couldn't help nodding, and finally there was something in his sight.

"General, point me to where are our troops deployed?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

In front of Mulatul, the commander of the legion pointed out the deployment position of each division under his command one by one.

Not counting the local third-line security forces, the current Virant Colony Corps has nine divisions, all of which participated in the original invasion of the Imperial colony.

Because Charles revoked the 7th Division's designation after the division was completely wiped out after the war, and dispersed the remaining forces of the division to supplement several other divisions.Therefore, the staffing of these nine divisions is very sufficient, with complete combat effectiveness.

But after seeing the current garrison area of ​​each division, Mulatul couldn't help but frowned, pointed to the three divisions located on the east side of the colony, and asked the commander.

"General, what's the matter with these three divisions? You just said that the army on the empire has been moving abnormally recently and may launch attacks on us. Shouldn't the troops be deployed to the fortresses on the front?"

"That's it, Lord Governor. The front-line fortress group does not need so many troops to garrison, and the Imperial Army may carry out landing operations from behind us, so we deployed three divisions here to prepare for unexpected events. His Royal Highness Charles specially told him before leaving."

"What Charles wants you to do?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

The commander lowered his head and did not notice the cold light flashing in Muratou's eyes when he heard the words "Charles."

Mulatou silently circled the huge sand table, then suddenly drew out the command knife, pointed to the small flags on the east side of the sand table and said.

"Master Commander, as the governor of the colony, I now order you to mobilize these two divisions in the rear to this area of ​​the southwest mountainous area for garrison."

"Your Excellency, what do you want?"

"Don't understand? I hate passive defense. Since you said that the Imperial Army will invade our territory in the near future, the Governor will naturally teach these arrogant Sidneys a lesson."

Chapter 158

Muratu’s plan was to transfer the garrison forces originally used to guard the coastline side to the inland border. With these two divisions as flanks, during the attack of the fortress group by the main force of the Imperial Army, they would detour back to carry out a pincer attack.

The imperial military and labor divisions expedition, once they find that they have been surrounded, the military will inevitably fluctuate.At that time, as long as the Serbian defenders take the initiative to attack and the two divisions behind them block the enemy's retreat, they can completely wipe out the enemy in the future.

Mulatou wants to use a landslide victory to prove his ability is far above Charles.

The generals on the scene looked at each other. The old and steady commander also tried to persuade the new governor, who seemed quite conceited, that even if they had a great advantage in this battle, it would be better not to fight a tailwind.

It's a pity that Mulatou couldn't listen to these advices.He coldly warned the commander that if he did not follow his order, he could only be removed and replaced by a commander who could obey the order.

In desperation, Wieland's colonial military could only move the two rear divisions inland according to the orders of Governor Muratou.

At the same time, on the other side, the strike brigade still in the Zhibodan Islands is still conducting an amphibious landing exercise.

They found a local area similar to the terrain of Harvey Beach and conducted an exercise in advance. As a result, many problems were exposed during the exercise.

The number one problem that bears the brunt is that the amphibious tanks equipped with floating ferry equipment can resist wind and waves in the water much worse than they had previously expected.

At the beginning, the engineers patted their chests to ensure that the tanks they had modified were sufficient to maintain stability under Level 4 sea conditions. However, in the first exercise, the first two tanks that were launched into the water were overturned by small waves less than Level 3, almost making trouble. Killed.

It turns out that for the sake of confidentiality, the engineers previously tested the amphibious tank in a large indoor swimming pool.Naturally, the artificially simulated wind and waves cannot be compared with the real sea.

Therefore, Dragun, who was in charge of commanding the first commando team, had to drag the engineers to make assault improvements to the tanks on hand, and the technical witches of Dragon Palace Island gave them great assistance.

Akashi provided a design drawing of the amphibious chariot left by the traversers that year. Dragon took a look at it. It turned out to be a small "famous" fireboat in the Pacific War.

Although this amphibious tank designed and built by the Japanese Navy was thinly armored and weak in firepower, it was slinged in various fancy ways by the U.S. Fourth and others in actual combat, but it unexpectedly received praise from its opponents in terms of creativity.

Imperial engineers also got inspiration from the design of its ship-shaped pontoon and proceeded to make corresponding modifications.