Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 281: Shooting

Count Krillause Castle is a flat castle, so its walls are relatively tall, five or six metres tall, or are built from rocks that have been mined from the mountains. The entire castle is divided into the former Central and Posterior Sectors, which are barracks, arsenals, stables and training grounds. The Central District is the location of the warehouse or the Lord's office, where the former Count Lord used to deal with the territory, invite guests, etc. The rear area is a residential area for the original lord's family and is strictly off-limits, with a small garden and pond.

It is said that the three generations of the original lord's ancestors spent countless fortunes and energies and decades building the castle as a basis for future generations to live happily ever after. It sounds really dramatic that they could never have imagined that their descendants would have so easily abandoned their family territory and this sturdy castle as a stronghold for their enemies and then mercenaries would attack it.

Honestly, if it weren't for Lord Roycade... Count Ba Krillaus, when he attacked Squirrel Village, buried most of his own regiment of family members in the fire, so he would never give up his territory and the castle. The castle was still strong, but without the strength of defense, the Earl of Roycade finally walked away.

Now Count Lloyd Cade is back, because the Grand Duke of Kanas told their abandoned nobles that they would go and recover their family lands themselves. The enemy was merely a battalion of troops, stationed in four castles each, and he could send a regiment of light cavalry to assist the nobles of those territories, but they would have to recruit their own troops to attack the castles. If the territories are not recovered, they are disqualified from titles and territorial succession by the nobles of those territories.

Although Grand Duke Kanas did not respond to the request of the nobles of these territories to send troops to help them recover their territory, at least one regiment of light cavalry was sent to assist them, and they were not tasked with the task of attacking the city, but reconnaissance, cover and sweep the area were their internal affairs, and from this point of view, with the assistance of this group of light cavalry, the rest of the life of the nobles of the territory was to attack the castle.

For these aristocrats who have abandoned their family territory, what is needed now is to raise money to recruit an armed force to reclaim their family territory. According to the light cavalry returning to reconnaissance, their family territory is now invisible even to ghosts, which makes all the territorial nobles breathe a long breath, at least they will no longer be held accountable for the useless families of the colonists when they return to their homeland.

The bad news, however, is that the enemy has gathered its forces and is trapped in the most rugged Castle of Count Cleveland. All the lords here know the strength of this castle, as Count Roycade has shown before, and this castle of their family, as long as its own family is armed, the enemy will not be able to attack ten times as much unless the enemy employs offensive artillery.

Though this is bullshit, the Castle of Count Krillause is hard to beat for the territorial nobility of the area. Decades ago Count Leucade's father fought a territorial war with the surrounding territorial nobles, who gathered more than a dozen times as many men and horses and besieged Count Clerus' castle for six months. Instead of attacking him, the casualties would be heavy, and eventually had to shake hands and reconcile with the mediation of other territorial nobles.

Of course, the noblemen of those territories are very poor in fighting power, and the family of Count Roycade is not strong enough to go anywhere, only that they have a strong castle to rely on, which is a great deal cheaper. The castle is now guarded by the regular army of the kingdom of Ovilas in the eastern part of the Hung mainland, the strength of a battalion, not knowing how many men and horses the nobles of these territories have to recruit to win...

Don't look at the anti-Olympic coalition that just wiped out three legions of the kingdom of Ovilas on the prairie, including the Blue Feather Legion, one of the four great field aces of the kingdom of Ovilas, known as the Kanas Daejet. But the nobles of these territories are well informed. The main focus of this battle was two regiments of the Kingdom of Nasri and seven corps of light cavalry of the Principality of Kanas. Although they won a great victory, they also suffered heavy casualties on this side. Their energy was badly damaged and they were no longer able to fight. The fact that Grand Duke Kanas is sending two corps of light cavalry troops to flaunt the border between the prairies and the former Duchy of Eskirin is a bluff. Instead, the private order is for the enemy to withdraw immediately if there are signs of a counterattack and never engage the enemy.

That is also why the Grand Duke of Kanas sent only one regiment of light cavalry to assist the nobles of those territories in recovering their lost lands, and he was unable to draw any more troops. After ambushing three Legions of the Kingdom of Ovilas on the prairie, the Principality of Kanas found itself losing almost four Legions on its side only after World War I. Those three temporarily formed regiments did not need to be concerned, but the ultimate siege of the Blue Feather Corps, which had lost an elite number of light cavalry, was what caused the Grand Duke of Kanas the most heartache.

The two regiments of the Kingdom of Nasseri also suffered heavy casualties, the second-line regiments were half-baked and the Standing Army lost one third of its fighting power. Nine legions ambushed the enemy's three legions, or in the endless and flat prairie, the enemy could not defend itself by terrain. As a result, while destroying the enemy, he found that his side paid more casualties than the enemy, a joke to speak of.

Territorial nobles who know these insights will not dare to recruit their own men to reclaim their territory and attack the Castle of Count Krillause. After eating at Squirrel Village, they knew very well that the Uhe people they had recruited were no match at all for the trained regular army of the Kingdom of Orvilas. Even though this time the enemy could not have had any conspiracy, they occupied the rugged Castle of Count Clevelows and remained a battalion. This is not a territorial war between the nobles of a territory. Everyone compares to each other and only the regular army needs to be dealt with.

So the nobles of these territories turned their minds and struck the new army of the Eskirin Legion and Grand Duke Rimodra, and these were the regular armies of the two previous principalities, allowing them to deal with the forces of the Royal Auvellas occupying the castle, not only in good faith, but also in terms of strength.

But Grand Duke Rimodra asked for a high price, and the grand duke who lost his principality gave a crazy feeling of poverty and offered a heavenly price. He indicated that he could pull all three regiments under his command, although their logistical support would be the responsibility of the nobility of those territories.

The noblemen of the territory are all white. In such a way, it almost makes them a loser. The strength to feed the three regiments is not a small number. If the time is delayed, then everyone will have to eat. Obviously, this Grand Duke Rimodra didn't mean it well, it was purely trying to dump the pot.

So we went back to the head of the Eskirin Legion, and this time it was more reliable. Speaking of the days of the Eskirin Legion, the treatment under the fence was poor, and the anti-Olympic coalition, which had promised to pay half of its military expenses, lacked interest in an armed group in exile that could not hold its own.

Although nearly four years after the war, both the Kingdom of Nasri and the Principality of Kanas needed troops, the nobles of the former Principality of Eskirin were not fools, knowing that the regiment was already the only recourse for those who had lost their country, and were therefore reluctant to accept the task of serving as cannon ash, which had led to the regiment's decreasing position in the eyes of the senior ranks of the anti-Olympic coalition and to the worsening treatment accorded.

Both sides meet in one stroke, and the nobles of these territories in the Principality of Kanas need a combat force to reclaim their territory and attack the Castle of Count Clerus. And these aristocrats in the Principality of Eskirin need to find themselves allies and make some extra money so that the regiment under them can get some extra support supplies. So the two sides quickly negotiated a deal, and the Eskirin Corps sent an infantry regiment to help the territorial nobles recover their lost lands.

These noble commanders of the Principality of Eskirin have great confidence in the combat power of their infantry regiment, and they have been killed by real guns in the frontiers of the Principality of Rimodra and in the regular army of the Kingdom of Ovilas. Though defensive at the time, it also caused heavy casualties among the offensive forces of the Kingdom of Ovieras, classified as hundred war veterans. Now that the enemy has only one battalion of defensive force, he can attack with an infantry regiment.

So the noble officers of the Eskirin Legion expressed optimism that paying up to two battalions of casualties would capture the castle the enemy was guarding, which was already overestimating the combat power of the enemy and the strength of the castle.

This was the day after enemy soldiers arrived in the city, yesterday afternoon, after the enemies of the two regiments arrived at the Castle of Count Krillaus, the light cavalry regiment of the Principality of Kanas was divided into four battalions, three battalions stationed on the three sides of the castle to monitor the other three sides of the castle. Another battalion rushed to the entrance to the hill, apparently in an attempt to close the link between the hill and the castle. They do not need to attack the defensive position of Muried's squadron deployed at the entrance to the hillside, they simply need to prevent reinforcements from coming from the hillside or transporting supplies to the castle.

And the Infantry Regiment of the Eskirin Legion, after camping, went to the abandoned village to search for timber, cut timber from the green side, make climbing ladders and wooden platoons, and was busy for half the night until midnight. Diavid was also brave enough to take someone out to attack. However, Claude refused this request after considering it repeatedly. When the enemy arrived, it was unlikely that it would be so negligent, either to remain covertly vigilant or to set a trap to lure the defender into attack...

Because it was too late to rest at night, the enemy did not launch an attack the following morning and did not launch a probationary attack until 2 p.m. Their aim should be to probe the firepower of the castle's defenses, launch a large force, push seven or eight wooden platoons, use the cover of the broken walls in the village, rush out of the street, try to push the wooden platoons underneath the castle, then use the cover of the wooden platoons to suppress the enemies above the city walls with precise fire guns...

The idea was a good one, and the offensive strategy was good, and the only mistake they made was not expecting the castle's guards to be the first Ranger Battalion to use precisely targeted guns.

“Do we need to destroy these wooden platoons with artillery?” Major Skerry asked.

Claude shook his head: "Without this need, the enemy launched a large battalion of troops, and these seven or eight wooden platoons came to test the firepower of our city. Get them close, we'll shoot them, pick some good soldiers, and the rest will hide behind the walls of the city to help load them. Enemy-equipped precise targeting guns do not perform as well as our Obash 3 type rope guns and have a shorter range of effective accuracy. They can only get close to the walls, let's target them. ”

Count Krillause Castle has only one gate facing the village, with a trench dug in front but no water and no depth. The remaining three walls have only one side door wrapped in iron on each side, although the side doors are small and only a metre wide and sandwiched between the two prominent walls. So in terms of efficiency, the best choice for an attacker is the front door. Just cross the trenches and smash two gates and you can break into the castle.

The enemies now attacking did not hold the planks laid over the trenches or climb the stairs, but pushed seven or eight wooden platoons close to the trenches, apparently trying to test the artillery power placed by the guards on the walls of the city. It's just that Claude didn't do what they wanted. Instead, he chose twenty or thirty good shooters to snipe at the enemies who pushed the wooden platoon.

Claude was also shooting, and the enemy accidentally revealed a part of his body, even if it was covered by a wooden trailer. Many intelligent soldiers will aim at these parts of their bodies that are exposed to them, and then the enemy will mourn and fall to the ground and be killed by another gun.

From the village to the trench in front of the castle, a short 70-80 metres away, the enemy abandoned twenty or thirty bodies. When the enemy parked the seven or eight wooden platoons in front of the trenches, they also countered the guards on the walls with guns in their hands. For a while, between the wooden platoon above the city wall and below the castle, the two sides engaged in a fierce confrontation. The white smoke spread over the city wall and below the castle, adding to the difficulty of targeting...

Five or six metres away from Claude, a soldier showing half his body on the city wall was shot in the head by a gun fired from below and fell on the ground like a broken sack.

Claude yelled, "Watch your back, don't expose yourself, shoot anywhere else, don't keep shooting behind a city stack! ”

There are too many recruits, and even if some of them are good shooters, there is really too little experience in the battlefield. They didn't know how to cover themselves. They often beat each other and forgot their safety. The soldier just wanted to see clearly and poke his whole head out of the city wall. He was found shot in the head by the enemy on the side.

Claude had discovered where the enemy was hiding, squatting in the middle of a wooden row and wheel, loading the ground with guns that had been fired upon, and although he was slow to move, he was hiding in a hidden position where soldiers at the front of the city wall had difficulty finding him.

Claude took over the gun that Mike handed over with the ammunition, replaced it with a pallet next to it, and framed it for that position. The enemy can squat to load the gun, but must stand tall when firing. Indeed, the enemy loaded the ammunition and leaned the gun on the big wheel, kneeling up on the ground and looking for the target on the city wall...

“Bang” Claude pulled the trigger, the ignited flame rope was clamped into the medicine box, the body vibrated, a white smoke appeared at the gunpoint, and the left eye of the enemy covered by a sight burst of blood. He also fell to the ground without saying a word, and the gun on the wheel slowly slipped down...