Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 220: War Again

Around eleven o'clock in the evening, guard regiment battalion near Amis City.

At a distance of about thirty metres from the command ledge, there is a very ordinary row of camping tents. No one could have imagined that the first successor to the throne of the Kingdom of Orvillas, Grand Prince Hansburg, lived in such a rudimentary tent, which was also the private office of His Royal Highness.

Prince Hansburg has not rested yet, and he is standing in front of a table gauging a firearm placed on it, the precise aim of the new equipment of the Principality of Rimodra soldiers that the guerrilla battalion just delivered this afternoon.

“Captain Scully, what did Master Clerado say?” The great prince asked.

A captain officer standing next to him immediately replied: "Master Crerado thinks this is the product of the Uola Musket Manufacturing Plant in the Kingdom of Siddins, imitating the Obash Type III Musket in our Kingdom for precise targeting. For well-known reasons, they lag far behind our kingdom in the performance of their firearms, so that this gun is only half as accurate and continuous as the Obash III. But if they are equipped in large quantities with such counterfeit guns, perhaps they can use the cover of defensive installations to inflict heavy casualties on our soldiers when our Royal Army launches an offensive…"

If Claude could hear what Captain Scully said, he would surely admire the fact that Master Scullardo and he agree that the hero saw the same thing.

Grand Prince Hansburg nodded and began to circle around the tent with his hands on his chin, all present stood still and made no noise. As servant officers of the Grand Prince, they are all well aware that the Grand Prince is thinking at this moment, and the most frightening thing is what noise will disturb the Grand Prince's thinking.

It took a while for the big prince to stop, whispering and saying clearly: “Looks like we're going to have to attack ahead of schedule, so we can't go on as planned, so maybe we can beat the enemy in no time. Anyway, all our regiments are in place, and the vulture regiments have hidden their whereabouts, changing into second-line regiments' uniforms to come here. Perhaps the generals of the Kingdom of Nasserli never thought that we would set a trap for them in the Principality of Siddins...”

The great prince stopped talking to himself and walked to the table with the gun again, picking up the gun and trying the following weight: “Who caught this gun? ” |

“It was a sergeant named Claude, who took a team to carry out an ambush mission, annihilated a squad scout in the Principality of Kanas, and then was attacked by a squad of soldiers from the Principality of Rimodra, who responded by destroying nine enemies and seizing such guns, who themselves suffered more than half the casualties...”

“Claude? It's a little familiar. Where did you hear that name?” The great prince frowned, pondered, and commanded: “Go get Lieutenant Colonel Rossler of the guerrilla camp. No, bring me Captain Ledfank. ”

Captain Ledfank is the logistics officer in charge of the guerrilla battalion, and he is also a nail buried in the guerrilla battalion by the Grand Prince. Instead of intervening in the day-to-day management of the guerrilla camp, Lieutenant Colonel Rothschild wrote down everything that happened in the camp and handed it over to the Grand Prince, so that the Grand Prince could look at the experimental combat unit from the viewpoint of the bystanders and draw the final conclusions.

More than an hour later, after hearing Captain Ledfank's debrief, the Great Prince remembered who Claude was: "Are you saying that this Sergeant Claude and Rossler had a bad relationship, and that Rossler was too harsh for him to do anything about it, and that Rossler meant to frame him and kill him, often ordering him to perform difficult tasks, and that this Sergeant Claude could do the job perfectly every time? ”

“Yes, Your Highness. Captain Ledfank replied:" In fact, more than a third of the soldiers in the guerrilla barracks were convinced of this Claude and were willing to follow him on an ambush mission. And we, the lieutenants, argued privately that some of his suggestions were reasonable. Lieutenant Colonel Rossler, however, was resistant and refused to accept. We don't understand why Lieutenant Colonel Rossler is suppressing this Claude, not even reporting his combat work.

I have documented that Sergeant Claude has been given the identity plates of nearly seventy enemies, and although he has taken a team out on a mission, no one denies that he is now the shooter in the guerrilla barracks with the highest number of enemies killed. But Lieutenant Colonel Rossler refused to acknowledge his battle merit. Every time, he assigned his identity plate to the soldiers he attacked. In fact, with Claude's battle merit, he should have been promoted to lieutenant... "

“Do you think Lieutenant Colonel Rossler is right or wrong?” The great prince asked with interest.

Captain Ledfank shook his head: "I don't know, Your Highness, you let me go to the parade camp, just let me bring my eyes and ears, not my mouth. So I just report what I see and hear to you, not comment. ”

The Grand Prince laughed dumbly: "You did well and I am satisfied. In fact, I entrusted Lieutenant Colonel Rossler with the responsibility of this barracks because of his loyalty, his unbroken and wholehearted execution of my orders and the tasks entrusted to him. As you all know, I also set up a guerrilla battalion to explore a way to use the Obash 3-type fireline gun on the battlefield. It seems that Lieutenant Colonel Rossler is doing a good job at the very least by completing the task I entrusted him with, which has prevented enemy scouts from easily entering our area to detect spying intelligence.

But, as you know, Lieutenant Colonel Rossler is a civilian, so he has no aristocratic personality, and he does not understand that his subordinates' excellence is what qualifies him as a leader. It's simple, but unfortunately he doesn't understand. He just wanted to be good and didn't want his subordinates to cover up his scenery, maybe that's why he's been suppressing that Claude. To put it differently, the birth of a civilian prevented him from changing his personality and jealousy prevented him from becoming a true nobleman.

And as for Claude, I admit he's really talented. Unfortunately, he was too young to be twenty years old, so he was arrogant and arrogant, because of the infrequent clashes between ideas and opinions and the outbreak of Rossler, and his personality needed to be polished, otherwise promoting him now would only make him more visible and would become a major prick in the army in the future. So let him endure under Rossler for a while, put aside his success first, and then promote him to his rank after this battle... ”

Claude did not know that the Grand Prince's brief argument had kept his success at the barracks under the pressure of Lieutenant Colonel Rossler. But the squire officers in the tent were all admired and shouted: "Your Highness is wise! ”

The great prince laughed and said to Captain Ledfank: "Go tell Rossler that, while that Claude needs to be polished, his reasonableness proposition must be accepted and implemented in vain. By the way, I remember Claude holding the post of Acting Squadron Leader under the rank of Sergeant Chief, you fill up his squadron tomorrow. Let him continue acting Squadron Leader.

Now that we have the talent, we also need to give him room to tell Rossler that in the future this Claude Squadron will only need to be tasked, without specific guidance, and that it is up to him to carry out all the training and tasks. I would like to see how far he can take this squadron, and perhaps give us an additional idea of how to use the guerrilla camps.

Rossler turned the guerrilla battalion into a mercenary battalion, which I think is probably a curve. On the contrary, I deeply share the assessment of Master Crerado that the Obash 3 type fireline would inflict massive casualties on the attacking enemy in defensive combat under the cover of defensive installations and reduce the number of casualties among soldiers in our defensive forces.

Perhaps we could try to train a legion of recruits to play a defensive role in the battle by specializing in the Obash III. Captain Skerry, you record that tomorrow the Eagles will be sent to the Army Department to pick one of the newly formed second-line regiments, equip them all with Obash 3-type firerope guns, and draw a group of veterans with defensive experience to teach them, most importantly to learn how to target accurately in defensive combat. ”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Captain Scully saluted.

“All right, let's split up. It's late. We'll have a corps meeting every morning to discuss preparations for the attack. Go rest.” The great prince waved his hands and withdrew his servants.

Claude never dreamed that he had been recruited to the battalion headquarters office early in the morning, and in front of Colonel Rossler, who had a dark face, Captain Ledfank, who was in charge of logistics, smiled and gave himself an order to continue to act as squadron leader with the rank of sergeant chief, and to fill the squadron's personnel. Thereafter, the squadron was solely responsible for training and carrying out its tasks, and the materials and equipment needed could be collected by his logistics department.

It is up to Claude to decide who and how the battalion will carry out the tasks assigned to him from then on. The reason for such an order above is that Claude is expected to be a pilot unit in this experimental battle unit, because he ranks first in battle in the Ranger Battalion, so he wants to be able to find an effective way to sum up a suitable training battle for Ranger Battalion soldiers to determine the future operational effectiveness of the Ranger Battalion and its position in the Royal Army...

Claude walked out of the battalion office with some of his head untouched, and the odd thing about this order was that Claude was allowed to pick the soldiers he thought fit in the guerrilla camp to become a member of the full squadron. The question is, Claude's rank is just a sergeant. Is it okay to be squadron leader? What do you mean, acting squadron leader? It doesn't raise its rank, and it's a full squadron, four squadrons in total, not two and a half squadrons of soldiers like the former security squadron...

The only thing I can confirm is that in the future I can bypass the Colonel Rossler, who has been acting in a face-to-face fashion, no longer looking at his face. That's what Captain Ledfank said earlier. Who knows that the guerrilla camp was an experimental combat force organized by the Grand Prince of Hansburg, and that's what the Grand Prince himself ordered?

There are subsequent orders that no longer provide specific guidance. It means that Claude is responsible for what kind of task, like guarding an area or ambushing an ambush, and it's up to Claude to decide how to do it and which team to send. There will be no more ridiculous things like the last time Lieutenant Colonel Rossler ordered Claude to get ten enemy identity plates before he could return to the battalion.

Perhaps this is the greatest benefit, which means that Claude has become the object of attention of Grand Prince Hansburg, and Lieutenant Colonel Rossler can no longer continue to target and oppress Claude. As for the war effort, Claude also didn't understand what the Grand Prince meant, either intentionally ignoring it or giving Lieutenant Colonel Rossler a face, but it would have been very affordable for him to act as Squadron Leader.

Just as Claude was busy forming his squadron in the guerrilla barracks, he had confronted the battlefield for almost six months and resumed fighting. The Revolutionary Army of the Kingdom of Ovilas, under the command of Grand Prince Hansburg, renewed its onslaught against the defensive positions of the anti-Olympic coalition, which, historically, marked the end of the Battle of the Amelia Plains, killing more than a million soldiers on both sides on the Amelia Plains, until after the war the Amelia Plains were described by the survivors of the Battle as a place of blood.

The total force strength of the Kingdom of Orvilas is 460,000, seven legions and more than thirty battalion battalion units. Spearheaded by the Guardian Corps and two second-line regiments, a fierce offensive was launched against the Allied Coalition Forces of the Anti-Olympic Five, with a total strength of nearly 580,000 troops. Under the bombardment of nearly 400 artillery guns, the three main armies of the Principality of Eskirin, the Principality of Rimodra and the Principality of Kanas were successfully torn apart from each other, making great strides towards the country of the Principality of Siddins all advancing to Fort Eiffennesburg...