Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 216 Marching Battalion

Claude slowly protruded from the mud pit, looked around and found that there was no movement in the distance, which relieved him, turning around and saying to the teenager behind him, Mike and Big Grimes: "Here we are, take a break, put the gun away, do your own hiding, don't expose yourself. McJackie, why don't you go in the back and tell Murder and Baker that they're hiding on our left and right sides, and the ambush point is right here..."

Two months ago Claude was again ordered to report to the guerrilla battalion with a guard squadron. Unlike the acting commander of the guard battalion, Captain Vodlov, Claude was not favoured by the Grand Prince of Hansburg and was sent to the new experimental makeshift battalion of the Grand Prince of Hansburg, the guerrilla camp.

This experimental guerrilla battalion, formed by Grand Prince Hansburg, is designed to shield the battlefield by using the targeting accuracy of the Obash Type III flare gun. To put it bluntly, it is to deal with the scouts and reconnaissance battle squads sent by the coalition forces of the anti-Olympic Five. This information, such as the redeployment of the opposing forces and the laying of artillery, is no longer known to the enemy.

Battlefield reconnaissance on both sides of the usual war is, at best, intelligence such as scouting, spying on enemy troop movements, and defensive position fire allocation. Enemy reconnaissance cavalry was found to be sent to hunt down by already existing combat reconnaissance teams, and sometimes both sides of the reconnaissance force met and killed each other, but these tactics were less effective. The most common scenario is when enemy reconnaissance cavalry runs in the front, and the enemy's combat reconnaissance team chases in the back, and then the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry runs away, and the enemy's combat reconnaissance team chases in the back.

So in war, the battlefield is a stage for reconnaissance cavalry when both sides set up positions to confront each other. Generally, the reconnaissance cavalry is divided into three or four groups, one team is divided into three or four groups, and the reconnaissance team cooperates with each other, and then often acts as a cover or correspondence with a combat reconnaissance team.

In the case of enemy reconnaissance cavalry arrivals to reconnaissance positions, there is generally no good way to protect them. The main reason is simple, the other side is light riding, highly mobile, as long as it is not close to the position, the artillery is useless, the shotgun is not far enough, the live ammunition needs very good luck to target it. Concentrated soldiers line up to fire, but no shooting accuracy and wide coverage. The other side has only three or four horsemen. A few more shootings are a waste of gunpowder and guns, so the best way is to use reconnaissance cavalry against enemy scouts.

But the scouting cavalry of the Allied Coalition of Five Against the Olympic Kingdoms is highly skilled and experienced in the battlefield, with both seduction and guerrilla and imminent killings taking the upper hand. A group of reconnaissance cavalry on both sides met for immediate killings, often victorious by anti-Olympic alliance reconnaissance. Nearly five months into the confrontation, the Kingdom of Ovilas has lost more than 500 reconnaissance cavalry, equivalent to half a battalion of troops.

This ineffective reconnaissance was stopped when Grand Prince Hansburg arrived in Amis City. This battlefield, which is currently confronted by both sides, has become the scene of the anti-Olympic Alliance of Five (A5) scouts, who often dare to penetrate behind defensive positions on this side of the kingdom, such as into unmanned territory. Seduce or provoke the Kingdom's reconnaissance cavalry to attack. If there are more people, they will run away. If there are fewer people, they will kill immediately. After winning, they will tremendously glorify the departure of Wuyangwei...

“In terms of personal bravery and horse skill, we cannot compare them to the light rides of the Principality of Kanas. As Wang Sterling IX once said, one against one, or ten against ten, none of our cavalry is a rival to the Duchy of Kanas, but a hundred against a hundred, and we can tie the line with them. If it's a thousand to a thousand, we can crush them and kill them.” That's what Prince Hansburg said to his officers.

The Principality of Kanas is located on the only Kanas prairie in the eastern part of the Farea continent, where young people are born riders. The cavalry of the kingdom of Orvillas is a chest-armored cavalry, with a disciplined march in an assault trap array and a reputation in the eastern part of the continent, renowned for its walled assault without fear of sacrifice. It is true, however, that the horsemanship technique is worse than that of the light cavalry of the Principality of Kanas.

The establishment of the guerrilla barracks was an idea when Prince Hansburg was overseeing the Red Dragon Regiment and the Lizard Regiment on the western front, and he was acutely aware that the Obash 3-type fireline guns, although disgusted by many soldiers, were still preferred by many veterans.

According to them, the gun did have a unique advantage over targeting and precise shooting, and a veteran of the Red Dragon Corps used it to approach the attack to knock out a firing group above the enemy city praise, rendering the cannon ineffective, and eventually the offensive forces seized the castle with the blank points of fire left by the cannon's ineffectiveness, impressing Grand Prince Hansburg.

So on the first day of his arrival in Amis City, the great prince heard at a military conference that it was impossible to conduct reconnaissance of the enemy, and that the enemy was mounted four times and dominated that vast battlefield between the opposing sides. His Royal Highness remembered the exact firing drill of the guard squadron seen on the way to the entrance of the hill, which led him to set up an experimental battle unit marching camp and to ask the waiter to grab Captain Vodlov out of his bed in the middle of the night so that he could transfer the file of the guard squadron guarding the entrance to the hill.

Claude had just arrived at the guerrilla camp, a temporary experimental battle unit, and if there were any regret pills available, Claude would definitely buy a large swallow. Why did he train his own guard team when he was on the highway to see the noise? What kind of training did he have to carry out there? The great prince showed it to him. Captain Wardroff thought he could fly Wong Teng Ta. Did he fly Wong Teng to the battlefield?

On the first day of entering the guerrilla camp, Claude learned from the mouth of the faceless Lieutenant Colonel Yahaji that the task of the guerrilla camp was to ambush the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry on the battlefield, shield the defensive position from entry by the enemy's reconnaissance, making the position on his side the enemy's intelligence black spot. Whether it is the movement of troops or the configuration of fire, the enemy must not be reconnaissance...

Is it easy to say that infantry is so good against cavalry? Although the Obash 3 is the only firearm in the kingdom that can be accurately targeted and fired, it is only a hundred meters away with certainty. For light cavalry, a hundred meters can rush in front of you in just a dozen seconds. You only have one shot...

Claude wondered whether Grand Prince Hansburg had set up this guerrilla battalion with a down-to-top strategy to exchange infantry for enemy light-handed scouts. Even if one infantry shot one scout and was then chopped to death by another, the kingdom would still be overrun in exchange. After all, mastering the precise shooting target of the Obash 3 type flaming rope gun is simple. At three o'clock one, just calm down and hide until the enemy is found to be shooting, and the enemy needs a lot of money to train a good scout.

Claude, who has just arrived at the guerrilla battalion, has no choice but to arrive soon in the rainy season of March. Claude still has time to make some preparations to increase the training of his own squadron and to tell his team some of the key points for concealment and retreat on the battlefield. And the commander in charge of the guerrilla battalion, Colonel Rossler, with his beard on his face, will try a second-line regiment to draw all the soldiers with good shooting results into the guerrilla battalion and prepare them to go to battle after sunshine to find the enemy's scouts...

In terms of battlefield effectiveness, the objective of Prince Hansburg to form and establish this guerrilla battalion has been achieved. The enemy scouts are limited to their own positions and can no longer scout behind positions on the Kingdom's side with impunity. They were terrified of the sudden sound of gunfire, which meant that another enemy had targeted itself with a gun, which probably represented the loss of another brother on their side.

To some extent, however, the formation of the guerrilla battalion was also unsuccessful, as Prince Hansburg appointed an unqualified officer to head the guerrilla battalion and failed to tap and develop the greater operational effectiveness of the barracks. Even at the end of the day, the guerrilla battalion was transformed into a correctional camp, joined by the wrong officers, who entered the barracks with the aim of taking the Obash III rifle to the battlefield, killing three enemies and retrieving their identity plates before leaving the barracks and returning to their original forces.

The result was too high a casualty rate in the guerrilla camps, as Claude feared. Without any training and planning arrangements, after the rainy season ended in April, the eight-word Colonel Rossler, with his face on his face, could not wait to drive the soldiers of the guerrilla battalion to the battlefield to ambush the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry. One April, the guerrilla battalion killed and injured one in three soldiers, who, although treated well, had no further subsequent requests to join, so that Lieutenant Colonel Rossler had recruited those who had made mistakes in order to supplement them.

Claude's guard squadron also lost nearly half of its personnel in April, with only 27 remaining in the original 60-member guard squadron and eight still lying in Amis City's treatment facility. Three of them have been maimed, and they have been very lucky to have their arms cut off by the enemy's cavalry.

Fortunately, the four noble sons were intact, first they listened to Claude, and second, they were biologically smart. Claude has become the biggest ace shooter in the guerrilla camp, and he is also the best known in the camp. No matter who asks him what to do on the battlefield, Claude will be tired of telling them what to watch out for and what to do and what not to do. Many soldiers safely followed Claude's precepts in the Return Battalion, so popular that Claude was the most prestigious sergeant in the Ranger Battalion.

But at the same time, Claude also became Lieutenant Colonel Rossler's eyeball, because Claude and he had three clashes, and if Claude hadn't killed his enemies and fought first in the guerrilla barracks at most, Lieutenant Colonel Rossler might have ordered soldiers to arrest Claude on the spot and conduct a military trial, possibly with a chicken monkey or something.

The first clash was about uniforms, and Claude believed that the large red shirt and the red straight cap now worn by soldiers were not conducive to ambush operations on the battlefield and could be spotted and endangered by enemy reconnaissance cavalry far away, preferably in grass green or camouflage colours, and suggested that Lieutenant Colonel Roast should revise the uniform colours of the guerrilla camp.

That was a reasonable suggestion for Claude, who was also looking out for the safety of the soldiers in the guerrilla camps. But I didn't expect Lieutenant Colonel Rossler to be furious. He said that the color of the military uniform in the kingdom of Orvillas had been set since the beginning of the nation. Big red meant courageous, invincible military spirit. What right do you, Claude, a small sergeant, have to propose to change the color of the uniform, do you want to betray the kingdom?

The second clash is that the soldiers Claude suggested to ambush would preferably operate together in small groups, and it would be preferable for each of them to carry an additional gun, so that they could shoot twice in a row. But Lieutenant Colonel Rossler has been biased against Claude, who thinks that Claude's suggestion is simply an enemy, who can capture two guns by destroying soldiers from a guerrilla camp.

The third conflict was between Lieutenant Colonel Rossler, who believed that many soldiers were lazy and went to battlefield not to ambush the enemy, but to hide and wait until the night before returning to the battalion. That's why he asked soldiers on the battlefield to bring an enemy nameplate each time they returned, so they could get a rest period of the next two days, otherwise they would continue to ambush the enemy on the battlefield.

Claude sees this suggestion as impractical, and it would be impractical to get an enemy's identity plate if it were to add more danger to the ambushed soldiers, sometimes requiring immediate evacuation after an attack.

As a result, Lieutenant Colonel Rossler was furious, verbally abusive and demanded that Claude obtain at least ten enemy nameplates in the coming week, otherwise he would not have the right to rest...