Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 333 Exercise Tasks

“… in the wild, you must distinguish between food and water that sustain your life. Grass roots, bark can fill your stomach, those disgusting bugs, and you can regain the strength to persevere. As for how to get clean water, you need to remember that if there is no living water or fish and shrimp in the water, then clean water should not be an easy entrance, which can pose a fatal threat to your body...

What we're going to learn next is how to get stuffed food and clean drinking water in the event of a dietary breakdown, and you're going to have to learn to distinguish between grass roots and bark, and bugs that can rejuvenate us. You have to learn to observe, see what kind of water you can drink, understand how to find drinking water if you can't start a fire. If it is a difficult situation, I would suggest that you choose to drink your own urine to quench your thirst and not touch unknown liquids... "

In fact, Claude suddenly discovered that if a team of magical soldiers were to form an elite special force, he would not have had to work so hard to teach them how to adapt to wild extreme survival training. At the very least, magicians do not have to rush for drinking water in the wild, they only need spells to get clean drinking water, and even more threatening in reconnaissance sabotage raids.

The Kingdom of Orvillas brings together magically gifted children to learn magic and then enter special departments to deal with foreign magicians and magicians in the kingdom, which is actually a means of control. Claude was thinking that maybe he could learn from it, but not yet, and he didn't have the energy and time to do it.

At the end of November, Mount 131 battalion ended a three-month long pull exercise, and Claude again said goodbye to his family and returned with his troops to the cantonment camp near Castle Christo. Three days later, Claude was again summoned by General Michelch.

“I've seen your training and field record for this long distance exercise, well done. Next, we will conduct a three-month field exercise with the IGN in April to test the operational capability of our Rangers. I've decided to send the Troop One Battalion to conduct military manoeuvres with the Guardian Corps troops. Do you have the confidence to lead the Troop One Battalion to victory? ”

When we first met General Michel, he threw in a big life, and Claude almost flashed his back: “No, General, we've just been in the cavalry for less than six months. How did the Guardians come to expect us to do field drills? Isn't that bullying? ”

Indeed, it was bullying, and the SS returned to Wang Du at the end of the war and was the fastest regiment in all regiments to fill the casualty gap. Now that the war is almost three years old, they have long regained their fighting power. The Rangers, however, took more than two years to complete their formation, although they were all veterans of the war, but the previous two years of scattered camp life had deprived the veterans of sharpness and only three months of retraining.

Now the Guardianship Corps is looking for the Rangers to conduct field drills. All they want to do is to come and abuse the vegetables and hang the Rangers, demonstrating the strength of the Guardianship Corps, the kingdom's number one field corps. Claude had no idea why General Michelch had agreed to this request from the Jailguard Corps, which was confusing the Rangers. It will take another year and a half for the military exercises to be conducted. We will wait for the troops of the Rangers to regain their fighting power...

General Michel shook his head with a grin and told Claude that the arrows were on the strings and had to be fired. Originally the Guardian Regiment was not only the kingdom's first army of field aces, but also known as the Royal Sterling Royal Forest Army. But now the Rangers have become a close guard of the Sterling royal family, which can be said to have surpassed the Guardianship Corps and become the most trusted royal force of His Majesty King Sterling X, making the Guardianship Corps very uncomfortable.

In particular, Royal Sterling paid to support the formation of the Rangers' Regiment, as well as the presence of a military camp at Castle Christo, which was also forced by the Royal Guard Corps to give way. So three years ago, when the camp was set aside for Castle Christo, the Injunctions offered to conduct field combat exercises with the Rangers, hoping to win the military exercises so that the royal family could understand who was the most reliable Royal Guard. And Prince Hansburg promised to come down, and now it's almost time.

“Claude, this time let the Ranger One, One, One Battalion represent the Rangers in field combat drills with the IGN, and the entire military drill will not exceed one regiment. Grand Prince Hansburg will be visiting the site of the drill and will be the president of the drill. ”

General Michelch looked at Claude and said, "While I can care less about the victory of the entire military exercise, I hope you will lead the Trip One Battalion to at least a few field battle drills to win, making it less ugly for us to lose. Our Ranger Regiment has been formed so far, the time is too tight, and it is clear that the Great Prince hasn't recovered, so you don't have to bear too much of a burden, as long as you can play half the command capacity in the military academy...”

Claude can only salute orders.

After the rainy season, April soon arrived.

Having determined that the Knights Regiment was to be fought by the 131st battalion, the Knights Guard Corps expressed its unwillingness to bully more and less, limiting itself to the oversized size of the Knights 131st battalion, and the Guard Corps indicated that only two battalions were to be fielded for combat exercises at most once, which appeared to be roughly the same as the 131st battalion in terms of strength. Claude just wants to scold her. Is that what you call it? Together, the two field battalions have outnumbered the 131st battalion by more than two and a half teams of 500...

An outline of the field battle drill project for the military exercises conducted by the Rangers and the Knights Regiment was also issued, with seven field battle exercises to be conducted by the Rangers' 131th Battalion and the troops of the two Knights Regiment field battalions.

The first field rehearsal was flag snatching. Place a blue flag at location A, mount the 131th battalion at location B, two battalions of the IGN at location C, and point B at the same distance from location C. Both parties set out at the same time to point A, seize the blue flag and guard at point A, holding on for three days and three nights or until one of them failed.

This is a routine field combat exercise, in which the two sides are essentially similar in strength, with one light cavalry battalion and one artillery battalion each. Commanders need to think about how to get to location A at the fastest possible speed and take the lead. But the difficulty for both parties conducting field-to-battle exercises is the synergy of the marches of the troops.

Having a small cavalry advance to position A would most likely not be able to hold the position without artillery support, as the disembarked cavalry would not be able to resist enemy infantry attacks. Once the Light Cavalry Battalion has been eliminated by the enemy, the arriving forces will not be able to withstand a surprise attack by the enemy Light Cavalry on the artillery position, and the destruction of the artillery battalion means that this field battle drill will fail.

Everyone knows that defense is always better than offense. You can set up defensive positions first by rushing to point A. When the enemy arrives, you can wait for work. Even if you fight for defense, casualties and losses are cheaper on the defensive side. So the key to this field battle drill is the speed of the artillery battalion's march, and to protect the artillery battalion and get to location A before the enemy, that means victory is in hand.

But the NDA had no idea, Claude did not intend to fight them in any position to attack the defensive battle, three days' march, was commanded by Claude to ride one, three, one battalion abducted a bend, even a night march, rushed in front of the roads of the two NDA field battalions, set up an ambush. And the two barracks of the Guardian Corps, at normal marching speeds, swung into an ambush circle, and then they didn't. The referee following the Ranger Battalion 131 unanimously determined that the two battalions of the Guardian Corps were ambushed and the entire army collapsed...

After the battle drill, the commanding officers of the two barracks of the PLAN shouted out their grievances, accusing Claude of disobeying the rules and clearly claiming the flag for a position defense. How can it be an ambush?

Claude said it would be easier to defeat you and then take the flag, and you don't need to hold the position for three days and three nights. Besides, from the point of departure, it was already the start of the drill, not the taking of the flag before the start of the field combat drill...

Grand Prince Hansburg ruled the Mount One Three One battalion a victory, and the Guardian Corps had to breathe a sigh of strength.

The second field rehearsal project was an encounter, by definition, when two troops suddenly met on the battlefield and fought on the ground, ending in the failure of one unit.

Lessons learned and great caution were exercised in the march by two field battalions of the IGN, while a small cavalry battalion was dispatched to serve as a reconnaissance cavalry, shielding itself from the battlefield on its march route and quickly discovering the reconnaissance cavalry of the Ranger 131 battalion. Another half-day later, the reconnaissance cavalry reported that the Ranger 131 battalion had occupied a small mound and was camping and setting up defensive positions.

Looks like this Range One, Three One Battalion is preparing for a positive offensive battle with the two field battalions of the Corps, and the commanders of the Corps are confident to teach the Battalion a lesson in the offensive battle. Then the camp was set up and ready to rest for one night. Tomorrow, one breath will be taken over the enemy's position. Light cavalry will also be arranged to monitor the movement of the enemy's barracks in order to prevent the enemy from sneaking out of the camp overnight.

Claude did prepare for a night raid, but not a large army, but three of the most elite squad soldiers, accompanied by the referees who lagged behind. And the light cavalry and guard soldiers sent by the Guardianship Corps were guarded against sneak attacks by the large troops of the 131th Battalion, only to stare at the front and ignore the movement of the squad horses out of the battalion.

Claude took three squads around a large circle, behind two field battalions of the Jail Corps, and easily blended into the camp. The next thing that happened, the commanding officers of the two field battalions were tied up in a bungalow and stuffed with towels in their mouths. Not without the kidnapping, as the panel has announced that he was killed in a sneak attack. Dead people can't make a scene, so they are tied up well, so there is more dignity for officers...

Then in the early morning, the soldiers of the two field camps wiped their fists and prepared to go to war. As a result, they found several magistrate officers standing in the barracks, announcing that a little over half of them had died in action last night. The officers were also dead, the warehouse was burned, and the canteen was not even cooked, because everything was nominally burned down...

How is this possible, we lost early in the morning, your referee is cheating... it's just that the soldiers can't change the referee's decision if they're not comfortable anymore. This encounter on the ground was still condemned to the practice of the Jailguard Corps. The soldiers below were dissatisfied, but the officers above were eye-catching, and only three elite squad soldiers were dispatched from the 131th and 1st Battalion to join the barracks of the Guardianship Corps. If this is true, then these two battalions can say that a huge defeat is inevitable...

The third and fourth field rehearsal project was an offensive and defensive battle, in which troops from both sides were transferred to a small castle. Claude was lucky enough to draw the defense first, so that the Battalion would have three days to set up defensive positions. In contrast, two battalions of the NDA attacked three days later.

This defensive battle took five days and five nights, and the final defensive Range One, Battalion, won with a slight advantage. One of the more controversial aspects is that Claude ordered soldiers to make a lot of scarecrows out of straw bars to seduce enemies, lure them to fire, expose targets, and then use fire to suppress shooters who used precise targeting to threaten the castle's defensemen. The panel found that the annihilation of the PLA soldiers who had infiltrated the forward positions had provoked protests by PLA officers, but could not change their decision to fail for the third time.

The fourth field rehearsal was conducted by two battalion leaders of the IGN, who mounted the 131th Battalion offensive. This is the key game that the officers of the NDA believe can be defeated. With the demonstrative defensive battalion of the Rangers, the commanding officers of both field battalions were convinced that Dandan's pledge would be victorious, and that their strength alone was more than 500 more than that of the Rangers Battalion, and that there were small castles and defensive positions on which to rely...

Only this time they failed faster and lasted only half a day. Simply, Claude ordered the soldiers to burn straw bars up the wind, add water and leaves, horse shit and shit and roll smoke. None of the Guardian Corps soldiers stayed in the castle and defensive positions, coughed and escaped with smoke, most of them even threw out guns...

The officers of the Guardianship Corps have nothing to say.

While there are still complaints about the chaos of the 131th and 1st Battalion, there is no such thing as a field combat drill. But it is clear to all officers who have experienced the battlefield that it would be fortunate to escape a life back if they really met enemies like the Battalion of Mount 131 on the battlefield.

The entire military exercise consisted of seven field-to-battle exercises, but the 1,31st Battalion had been won four times, and the officers of the Guardianship Corps had lost their will. They didn't expect to run into Claude, a disturbed card-winning commander, who lost face and tried again.

So Prince Hansburg responded well to the heartfelt announcement to end the military manoeuvre, well, Claude took only a month to complete the task of conducting the military manoeuvre with the Guardian Regiment, returning to the cantonment camp with the 131th Battalion.