Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 221: On the Front

Several of the newly formed regiments, fully mobilized by the Principality of Siddins, could not compete at all with the Guardianship Corps of the Kingdom of Ovilas, whose defences had almost collapsed. And the six corps sent by the Duchy of Eskirin, the Duchy of Rimodra and the Duchy of Kanas could not resist the fierce strength of the Royal Auvellas Army. The festival retreated and a defensive position was lost.

Obviously, the Royal Oberas Army, commanded by Grand Prince Hansburg, wanted to repeat the strategy of the last Blue Feathers Regiment, to attack the Principality of Questionnaires, all of which loved Fort Ivanos, to destroy the Principality of Questionnaires and to defy the battle. At least that's what the senior commanders of the Allied Coalition of Five Against the Olympics think...

According to information obtained during the defensive warfare on the front line, the Kingdom of Ovilas is now approaching Fort Ivanos one step at a time, with four second-line regiments taking turns, mainly in the defensive regiment. So there are seven corps plus some miscellaneous battalions of the Royal Corps of Ovillas, and it looks like two second-line corps were left behind to guard against the three corps of the flanking Kingdom of Nasseri. So as long as the front stretches, if the three Legions of the Kingdom of Nasseri can break through the defensive positions of the two Legions, then the Army of the Kingdom of Auvellas will repeat the old pattern of three Legions trapped, such as the Blue Feathers Legion, once again besieged by the Allied Coalition of the Anti-Olympic Five in the Amelia Plains.

Therefore, the Kingdom of Siddins once again made a major effort to build and improve the defensive installations and positions of the nation's capital, Fort Ivana, and called on the nation's people to work together to resist the aggression of the aggressors in Fort Ivana. The regiments of the other three principalities also essentially withdrew after a slight resistance, abandoning their defensive positions to lengthen the logistical supply line of the Royal Auvellas Army, while allowing the main forces of the Royal Auvellas to move forward, leaving an opportunity for a surprise attack by the rear Royal Nasri Army.

Only no one expected that the goal of the Kingdom of Ovieras was not for the Principality of Siddins to love Fort Fannas, but for the reinforcements of the three Legions of the Kingdom of Nasseri. The commanders of the flanking Royal Nasseri Army believed that the time had come, as promised, to launch an offensive against a defensive position of a second-line regiment in the Kingdom of Auvellas in front of them when the vanguard had arrived at the last Blue Feather Army defensive line more than forty miles from Avenasburg.

Everything was unexpected by the commander of the Royal Nasri Army, and the second-line regiment of the kingdom of Auvilas, which was defended ahead, could not resist the surprise of two standing regiments and a second-line regiment of the kingdom of Nasri, and the line of defence was quickly broken. The three Legions of the Kingdom of Nasseri began to drive past the rear of the Kingdom of Auvellas, preparing to enclose and besiege once again the five Legions of Auvellas that had broken into the front line.

Only when the three Legions of the Kingdom of Nasseri passed the defensive line of the Second Line Corps of the Kingdom of Orvilas, which they thought had been defeated, the Second Line Corps had regained its strength. With the cooperation of the other Second Line Corps, they seized the line of defense again and made an effort to build a more complete defensive position in civil society. The strange thing about this defensive front was that it was not defensive inside.

At the same time, two second-line regiments of tailgating guard regiments were sent by the Hawk, immediately retreating from the past, and the thunderous wind moved to the right line, occupying the main road and strategic location between the two seaport cities along the coast of the Principality of Siddins and the Amelia Plains, setting up a defensive line. Instead, the three regiments that had been pushing forward, leaving one second-line regiment out of its field defense, turned back, together with another second-line regiment, and forced it into the three regiments of the Kingdom of Nasri that surrounded its rear path.

It was not until the regiments of the three kingdoms of Nasserly discovered the presence of the reconnaissance cavalry of the Royal Auvellas Army, both in front of them and on the left and right sides, that some of the situation felt bad. We rushed to send troops to try and attack a few times and discovered that the enemy had set up a defensive front on all sides. We were supposed to surround the enemy ourselves and have fallen into the enemy's perimeter...

Without mentioning the plight of the three Legions of the Kingdom of Nasserli, it is unlikely that they would expect allies to rescue them anyway, and that the four principalities might be able to resist several rounds of defensive warfare, allowing them to launch an offensive against the army of the Kingdom of Ovilas, otherwise they would not have confronted each other for nearly six months under Amis City.

Claude's guerrilla battalion lost its ambush mission after the Great War began, and they were not scouting cavalry and did not need to be on the front line. The orders received were to follow Prince Hansburg's major Chinese military operations. Prince Hansburg, on the other hand, sits in the town of Amis, which gives Claude some time to train his own new fully staffed squadron.

However, when the three legions of the Kingdom of Nasri began to fall into the trap set by the Great Prince of Hansburg, the Great Prince of Hansburg insisted on moving the Chinese army in front of the large accounts and commanded the strength of more than 50 battalions to block the retreat path of the army of the Kingdom of Nasri. The servants persuaded the Grand Prince to instruct others to direct and carry out this task, but the Grand Prince could only laugh bitterly, he was on the front line, these battalions would listen, if someone else were to go, the result would be difficult to say.

Don't look at the strength of more than 50 battalions under the Grand Prince, which are also close to one regiment, but with the exception of the two battalions drawn from the seven regiments on the front line and the battalions formed by the Grand Prince himself, which are more combatant, the remaining 30 battalions are all guard battalions rushing to the front line from all over the kingdom. These local forces are usually qualified to guard and escort heavy logistical items, and if they are allowed to go to the front line and fight the enemy with real knives, they need strict supervision and cannot be stopped without the Grand Prince himself.

Although it is highly likely that the three regiments of the besieged Kingdom of Nasri will not break backwards, as the breakthrough in this direction can only be one dead end, one on the front and the left and the right, followed by the heavily guarded city of Amis, there is no escape for the Kingdom of Nasri if it breaks in this direction. But Grand Prince Hansburg still had to consider besieging his enemies on the Amelia Plains instead of pushing them under Amis City, which would only prolong the war, at a greater cost to the kingdom.

The goal of this battle, the Kingdom of Ovieras, is to destroy the three regiments of the Kingdom of Nasseri first, so long as the three regiments are eliminated, the remaining three Duchy reinforcements and the armed forces of the Principality of Siddins will not be enough. Among the anti-Olympic alliances, the forces of the Kingdom of Nasri are also more combative, and the remaining four principalities are not sufficiently armed to rival those of the Kingdom of Auveras.

The guerrilla camp followed Prince Hansburg to the front line, along the edges of the Amelia Plains are hilly areas with many short hills. The Grand Prince commanded more than 50 battle battalions under his command, which blocked the back roads of the three legions of the Kingdom of Nasri by placing a tight defensive front in this hilly area.

Claude also received a mission to lead his squadron through all hidden enemies and threats for 30 miles northwest. This is almost searching the northwest side of the hill, because it's so big, it's less than 10 hills. The so-called hidden enemies and threats refer to whether the hills contain deserted or dispersed inhabitants of the State of Siddins, avoiding their proximity to the Grand Prince's cantonment camp.

Claude divided this squadron of his men into four teams, fanned and commanded themselves, with the main goal of searching the caves and woods surrounding the waters of the mountains, the valleys. Because people can hide in the mountains, eat whatever they want, moss and vegetables can fill their stomachs, but clean water sources are essential, and without clean water sources, people cannot survive in the mountain forests.

The first day of the search, Claude, this squadron caught more than a dozen deserters from the country of Siddins. It seems reasonable to order the clearance of this hilly area. Now more than 50 battle battalions under the command of the Grand Prince are arranged in front of it. The last is the Grand Prince's cantonment camp, with only one guard camp next to it, which is easily approached from behind.

In the evening, Claude found a semi-defunct mountain village situated on the back of a rocky hill with only six elderly people and three young children, no one else. Asked people to search and ask again, the reply was this small mountain village called Finnish Village. The villagers used to live by planting herbs. Last year's war broke out, most of the men in the village were forcibly conscripted. Then after the defeat of the war, many deserters came to the mountain village, robbed food and women took away, and now only six elderly people and three children are left in the mountain village to live together.

There is nothing of value in the mountain village, and the elderly and children depend on the digging of vegetables and some cassava left over from the previous mountain fields, although an elderly man said that there was a small water pond in a valley not far from the village, a large water pit where the two streams of the mountain converged. The other day he wanted to go fishing for a few creeks and get some good food for the three kids, and found a group of deserters by the pool and brought a few women, so he wouldn't dare go.

Claude gave the elderly some salt and dried cheese, dried black bread, etc., so the elderly told Claude where the hills could be hidden, along with a simple map to illustrate them in more detail.

Berklin took Abyev to sleep, and Diavid found Claude, and they always suspected the old men of lying. Because a lot of veterans tell them not to trust the inhabitants of any enemy country, and they express friendship and most likely want to send you to die, and as an aggressor, you have to have a mind, you are their enemy, and they can't think of you as a friend.

Claude shook his head with a smile, and the veterans were quite right. The question was what the circumstances were, when they occupied another country's cities and went into the homes of the local population to rob them of their possessions. No one would treat them as friends, but as if they were robbers and aggressors.

And now the only hope for the surviving elderly children in this semi-defunct mountain village is to live well, Claude, and instead of robbing them in this mountain village, they are given dry food and salt. They didn't treat Claude as a friend, but they didn't treat them as enemies. Claude walked away, and the deserters hiding in the hills were more threatening to them. They told Claude about this, and they hoped that Claude would help them eliminate these dangers.

Claude's judgment proved to be correct, after a week of searching, Claude's squadron captured and captured more than a hundred deserters from the Principality of Siddins in this hilly area, and saved more than two dozen women, most of whom were caught in places where the elderly told Claude was fit to hide. Claude wondered if the deserters would have taken the mountain here if the hilly terrain had not been dangerous.

Over the course of the seven days, more than a dozen fights took place, large and small, but the deserters were also capable of fighting, causing only three Claude squadrons to be injured and 20 to 30 killed. Claude lamented that desertion was extremely dangerous for any country, and that the elderly children of that mountain village Claude had met were lucky, and that two other mountain villages in the hillside had been turned into ghost villages by those deserters, and there was no survivor.

When Claude returned with the captured and rescued woman, he heard the bad news that three regiments of the besieged kingdom of Nasri were forced to break out in the rear under the siege of the army of the Kingdom of Ovilas. Though it is known to be a dead end, it is also worth prolonging the asthma for some time. Only a dozen local guard battalions placed at the front of the first line of defense were poorly combated and quickly lost their defensive positions following the deadly impact of the enemy, giving the army of the Kingdom of Nasri a valuable respite opportunity.

Grand Prince Hansburg was very angry and had rushed to the second line of defense to supervise the war and had issued a death warrant, and any soldier who had withdrawn without an order would be arrested and executed on the spot. The shooting order finally maintained the second line of defense, which rocked under the onslaught of the Royal Nasserly Army, and Claude was ordered to report to the Rangers Battalion immediately...