Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 235 Concealment

A few days after Major Ledfank's departure, pedestrians on the highway gradually became scarce. The escape is almost over. Occasionally, several people are small businessmen risking the cold to earn some hard money. They led the donkey with two large bamboo baskets filled with various small commodities, stopped along the hillside to market the goods they brought, and tried to earn a few copper plates in the hands of the villagers...

In Squirrel Village, however, they prefer to trade their own goods for a kind of cream owned by the villagers, a dark green rice paste. This cream is said to be extremely effective in treating colds in children with headache fever, which Claude believes may be a soil bias. The villagers here did not have pharmacists to provide treatment services when they were ill, and in their long lives they had learned their own experience of using mountain herbs to treat these common diseases and treat the herbs into this cream.

It's mid-February, and it's snowmelting season, and the frozen, hard snow on the highway starts to melt, and it's wet everywhere, and you can step on the road with a slip of mud. This is very annoying weather, obviously feels colder and colder, but the earth heats up, melts ice and snow, the humidity is heavy, and it's easy to catch a fever without paying attention.

Claude had no choice but to reduce the number of soldiers on duty outside. For some time, Marks had taken his squadron with him to set up a card on the highway, which was costly. In addition to the percentage of the handed over battalion, Claude could be divided into two private gold kroners, and the squadron's soldiers would each receive a polysilver tower. Claude naturally did not see the money and ordered his share to be put into the public accounts to buy several sheep and casks of rye wine to feed the soldiers.

Remembering what Major Ledfank said about the sack, Claude told Michael to call the village elder and tell him about it. I thought this would make the village elder happy, but I didn't expect the village elder to tell Claude that the village was poor enough not to have enough linen to weave a sack. But the village elder suggested that maybe they could go to the mountains and find some old vine braided vine baskets to replace the sack, and Claude thought about it.

The ammunition and food reserves promised by Major Ledfank were soon transported and Claude was accompanied by a lightweight live artillery, an infantry field artillery produced by the Principality of Eskilin, which can only be used to fire fist-sized solid bullets, with a maximum range of only 300 meters, which is incapable of firing shotguns, belonging to light artillery that has been eliminated. The only advantage is that it is lightweight and can be broken up into pieces and placed on horses to follow the team.

The Blue Feather Regiment did not see such a light artillery with a short range of solid bullets, and Major Ledfank sent Claude a message with the idea of being safe. Muried was responsible for delivering these logistical supplies, and the squadron he led was instructed to set up a cantonment camp on the back road of Claude, more than 20 miles from Blackstone Village, another village on the hillside of Squirrel Village, to be responsible for reinforcements and pick-up after the fighting on Claude's side.

As soon as I saw Claude, Muried called it bitter. The mountain path was too difficult to walk, and the mud and pits were not to say, mainly the horse's hooves and wheels had to be muddied after a short walk. Fortunately, most of the pavement is quite solid in the snow, but the two carriages barely make it through.

This shipment of heavy supplies, Claude, is estimated to be sufficient for more than two months for the more than 60 individuals of his own, and even if enemies attack him, they can persist for a long time with land benefits and ample ammunition, combined with the support of a squadron of Muriel in the rear, to seal off the hillside and ensure that the enemy is not allowed to cross the hillside into the three southern counties.

Major Muried said that, after inspecting all road traffic checkpoints maintained by the first Battalion of Rangers, Major Ledfank had ordered the dismantling of more than a dozen less important posts and the reconfiguration of the cantonment sites, and that the Battalion now had two additional squadron reserves. Even the post he had previously guarded was dismantled, and his squadron was instructed to deploy to Blackstone Village as a backup for Claude and to set up a second line of defense in Blackstone Village.

There is also information that the transport roads in the Picklet Mountains have been preliminarily repaired and that the various types of large artillery required by the Blue Feathers Corps have been continuously transported. The Blue Feather Regiment is currently deploying all its human and material resources to build a defensive front in the southern three counties at the border risk with the Principality of Rimodra, and has recruited countless civilian workers in the southern three counties to force them to help build defensive installations…

The anti-Olympic coalition forces of the Principality of Rimodra have been informed of the failure of the three counties in the southern part of the Principality of Eskirin. The military mind is somewhat unstable and several lines of defense have been broken through by the army of the Kingdom of Ovilas. They had drawn a light rider from the Principality of Kanas to the three southern counties to see what was really happening, but were ambushed by the Blue Feathers Corps in the border Krombo Valley, almost completely defeated and fled back to hundreds of rides. So much so that senior Allied forces believed that they had been surrounded by heavy troops, shrunk in the Principality of Rimodra and gave Blue Feathers time to build a defensive front.

The Blue Feather Regiment's overthrow of the Picklet Mountains and the arrival of strange soldiers in the southern three counties of the Principality of Eskirin were arguably the greatest highlights of the war that swept all the countries of the eastern part of the continent. The kingdom of Ovilas occupies heaven, time and land, and in the cold winter season overturns the Picklet Mountains, regarded as skyy, to its unexpected effect.

Especially in winter, the general custom is not to go out. Like the anti-Olympic coalition forces of the Principality of Rimodra, most countries, with the exception of preserving the defensive force at the front line, are sheltered in camps and have not responded in a timely and effective manner. When we first received information that the enemy had appeared in the three southern counties, we thought it was a joke who was drunk.

More than a month has passed since it was determined that the three southern counties of the Principality of Eskirin had been captured by the enemy, giving the Blue Feather Regiment ample response time. At that time, the coalition's senior ranks also continued to believe that it was likely that the Kingdom of Ovilas had sent a small group of people into the three southern counties to harass them, reluctant to use most of them to mount counter-attacks in the winter, fearing that they would drag their troops into it.

On the other hand, the Royal Auveras Army has stepped up its offensive posture on the front line of the Principality of Rimodra, maintaining considerable pressure on the army. A number of coalition executives consider this likely to be a sounding western tactic by the Royal Auvellas Army in order to prevent the coalition's return trip from regaining its morale in the winter. So after several days of discussion, it was decided to send a light rider from the Principality of Kanas to the three southern counties to see what was going on.

The Blue Feather Corps responded very well, and the scouts on the front line discovered that the enemy had sent only one light rider, and the Blue Feather Corps had left the empty nest, setting up an ambush in the Krombo Valley, a must-see for the three southern counties, almost completely wiped out the light rider. Suspicious at the top of this anti-Olympic coalition, the Blue Feather Regiment appeared in the southern three counties, indicating that the Kingdom of Ovilas was heavily overwhelmed and that it was temporarily unable to send any more counter-attack troops, thus giving the Blue Feather Regiment time to build a defensive front.

Claude was interested in the fact that those two second-line regiments were able to build transportable large artillery roads in the Picklet Mountains in such a short period of time that the first Battalion of Rangers, as explorers and pioneers of the Blue Feathers Regiment, suffered a lot in the search for roads in the Picklet Mountains. Claude knew exactly what the road was like there, and light overturning was the same thing, and transporting the heavy equipment of the large artillery was very difficult for him. A lot of people climbed over, and the four-wheeler wagon couldn't turn over.

Muriel was well-informed, though, and he found a lot of insider tips. He told Claude that the Blue Feather Regiment's surprise soldiers had overrun the Picklet Mountains and built avenues in the Picklet Mountains, and that the Blue Feather Regiment's serpent trap had surrounded the enemy's lightweight riders, all from the plot of a Major General in the kingdom.

The Major General is said to be Michelle Childers. Priest, of civilian origin, now 48 years old, is a lecturer in the history of war at the Sterling Military Academy in Wangdu. This time, as the Grand Prince's staff came to the front, under the stalemate between the Royal Army and the anti-Olympic coalition forces, the strategy of overthrowing the three counties in the south of the Piclett Mountains was appreciated by the Grand Prince, who was promoted to the new Chief of Staff of the Blue Feather Regiment.

After the Picklet Mountains, Michelle... General Priest commanded two second-line corps logging roads, paving a stacked bridge for transporting heavy equipment such as large artillery in the Picklet Mountains for more than two months. After receiving information that the anti-Olympic alliance forces of the Principality of Modra had sent a light rider to the three counties in the south, they rushed back to the Blue Feather Regiment overnight, persuaded all the regiment's high-ranking commanding units to leave the empty nest and set up an ambush in the Valley of Crombo, surrounding the light rider, creating the illusion that the Blue Feather Regiment was preparing to launch an offensive, rushing to reactively defend and buying the Blue Feather Regiment valuable time.

Muried's eyes sparkled with starlight, and his tone was full of admiration: "The latest news is Michelle. General Priest was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General by the Great Prince for these three great achievements. There is also information that the Grand Prince has asked His Majesty the King to make him a Viscount and to give him a grammar. If that's true, then Michelle. General Priest will be the first soldier in the kingdom to receive a title since the beginning of this war...”

Apparently, this Michelle. General Priest was one of the stars that slowly rose in the Great War in the Kingdom of Orvillas. It's just that Claude is a little confused. The original rank of the general is Major General. As usual, the general of the kingdom is noble. How can he still be of civilian origin? Is there a story among the people who deserve a noble seal after promotion to Major General, but he does not?

Unfortunately, Muriel wasn't Berklin, and the guy was very good at snooping, and if he was interested in a person, he could even ask what color pajamas he liked to wear at night. Merried worships this Michelle. General Priest is simply out of the respect that soldiers have for the victorious general, and no soldier wishes to serve under such a victorious general.

Muriel stayed the night and went back with the horses, and Claude became relaxed for the rest of the day. Though intent on organizing troops for training, looking at the weather, there is really nothing for soldiers to torment. Boring Claude, apart from looking at the clouds in the sky, is fine to go to Squirrel Village and see what quality vine baskets the village elders have woven.

Occasionally, when the village elders spoke of a waterfall and a large water pond in the mountains, Claude thought to himself and was ready to go for a walk. Instead, the village elder met Claude and asked about the waterfall and the location of the large water pond. His face became a little panicked, hurried to tell the story of the water monster in the large water pond, the wolf in the mountain, and the vicious black bear. Especially now that it's the end of February, the rainy season is approaching, and many of those black bears who are hibernating have woken up looking for food in the mountain forests, people used to be dangerous, etc.

Anyway, these villagers wanted to dispel Claude's thought of going to the mountains, which made Claude suspicious, as if they were hiding something. Of course, apparently Claude pretended to accept their advice and decided not to go wandering in the mountains, and he found the village elder and the villagers clearly relieved.

“McJackie, keep an eye on the villagers for a few days, I suspect they're hiding something...” Claude called McJackie when he got back to camp and told him to keep an eye on the village.

One day later, McJackie returned with red eyes: "Sir, I noticed last night that the old lady of the village chief's house went out on the hill at 10: 00 p.m., but she didn't go far, she dropped a small basket in her hand at the hillside grove and went down. This morning I found her climbing the mountain again, retrieving the little basket in the woods. But her little basket changed. I remember she took a flat rectangular basket, but it was a round straight basket...”

Claude nodded, and the villagers were hiding something: "You haven't slept all night. Go and rest. Tell Gemmy to rotate with you at night and call me if you find any villagers coming up the hill again. ”

Two days later, Claude just lay down to rest and was called up by Mike: "Sir, the old lady of the village chief's house went up the mountain with her basket...”