Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 341: Night Assault, Night Assault

“Sir, the colonial garrison of the Hicks kingdom stationed in the town of Fallu is a regiment with poor discipline, and the officers do not live in the barracks, but in the residential house next to the town hall, as does the colonel's commander, who lives in his mistress's house in the town. The soldiers stayed in the barracks, but came and went without taboo and the guards were false…" Muriel reported to Claude on what he had detected.

The town of Ferru, under the direct authority of Bering Ghana, is the southernmost colonial town, some 200 miles from the direct authority of Amphiston, with more than 17,000 inhabitants of the Kingdom engaged in agriculture and pastoralism. After the war broke out and the town of Fallu fell, one third of the inhabitants of the kingdom fled, estimated to remain in the town at about 12,000.

These remaining inhabitants of the kingdom in the town of Fallu are those who cannot afford to abandon their property. The colonial garrison in the Kingdom of Hicks is also guided by the subordinate rules of all the colonial Powers of the continent of Nubian, and even the warring parties will not harm these civilians from the continent of Farea. Of course, robbery and extortion are inevitable, and for the residents of the kingdom who have fallen into enemy hands, they can only destroy money.

Claude chose the first offensive to target the town of Fallu, simply because he had to find a suitable temporary position for the Range One, Three and One battalion, and there was no better place than Fallu. Once you take the town of Fallu, you can hit the rear of the enemy from here. Once the enemy forces arrive, Claude can use his power to evacuate Amphiston. Unless enemy forces are stationed here, the Range One, Three, One Battalion can be completely reclaimed.

“Let's move, each acting according to plan, first arrest the officers and then force the soldiers in the barracks to lay down their weapons. Captain Berklin, your task is paramount, and it is imperative that the Light Cavalry Corps seal off all entrances and exits throughout the town of Fallu and not allow an enemy to escape…" Claude commanded.

“Yes, sir.” Officers from all the squadrons under them stood up to salute each other.

The strength of a battalion attacked a township guarded by a regiment, even if it was a reinforcement battalion on its own side. The enemy was a disgruntled field regiment, and the enemy was more than twice as strong as the Ranger One, Three, One Battalion. But in the eyes of the Rangers of Battalion 113, it was a very easy battle, for the simple reason that they were elite divisions and the enemies were unanimous.

Berklin changed his uniform for the Kingdom of Hicks, and many of these enemies were stripped from their captives anyway. Pretending to be a scout cavalry of an enemy squadron, passing through the town of Fallu on the pretext of carrying out a mission to prepare for a night's rest. The enemies of the town guard had no doubt at all, and then the town entrance fell under the control of the Range One, Three, One Battalion.

A squad of patrol soldiers then left, taking over all the town entrances and exits in just one hour. The artillery battalion arrived immediately, placing four light infantry artillery guns at each entrance and exit point, with the guns facing in unison.

It was about 10 p.m., and most of the town's inhabitants had begun to fall asleep, with the exception of the town's military barracks, taverns and candle fires in the homes of a few residents. This is very convenient for the officers and soldiers of the 131th Battalion to carry out their operations. A message of success continued to reach Claude, and most officers of the enemy group stationed in the town had been captured, with the next focus on enemy barracks.

Things are not always perfect, and there are a few crisp gunshots coming from the tavern, which must be something wrong. When Claude arrived, he immediately took the remaining two artillery squadrons to the town's barracks.

The sound of the gunfire quickly sounded, and the town of Fallu was like a hot pot of oil, and suddenly it was noisy, the most lively was over at the military camp. Claude arrived just in time to order the artillery to pack shotguns and seal the barracks' gates. After the two gunshots, the original head of Jiji's gate bled into a river, and the screaming and screaming became one, no more enemies wanted to rush out of the military camp door...

“Sorry, sir, when we went to the tavern to catch the enemy officers, a few drunk enemy officers fought to resist, and we had to shoot them in the end to save our soldiers…" Diaved rushed over to Claude to report the reason for the shooting.

Claude couldn't cry. The enemy officers were drunk and had no fear of dying. What can you do? They would have surrendered with their hands raised at the top of their chests. But these drunken enemy officers were not scared at all. Instead, they grabbed the barrel and Diervid's soldiers for a physical battle, which also prevailed. In the end, Diavid had to shoot them, or his men would either be strangled or smashed to death by something...

Claude waved his hand, and these accidents were expected, just as the enemy's large army was blocked in the barracks, and most officers were captured, and the dragons were in chaos and confusion: "Bring the captured officer and the captain and let them order the soldiers to lay down their weapons and come out with their hands up and surrender. If any officer fails to do so directly and locally, the soldiers will shell the barracks if they do not surrender. In addition, let our soldiers strictly guard the fence of the barracks, and if there are enemies standing up to fire...”

The enemy in the barracks stalled for more than two hours, and finally laid down his arms and surrendered with his hands up. Because they don't know how many enemies surround them, and their hearts scare the soldiers so hard. One of the captured officers tried to encourage the soldiers to resist without retreating at the main entrance of the barracks. As a result, the gun fired directly on his head, lifting half his back head. The rest of the officers were all frightened and shouted out loudly, belonging to their own men. Come out and surrender quickly.

Soldiers in the barracks also tried to ascertain the surrounding situation from the four-way fence, but all the soldiers who were looking out were either shot in the head or wounded, while the perimeter was dark and it was not known how many enemies surrounded the barracks. In addition, artillery at the main entrance of the barracks sounded from time to time, with at least eight artillery firing. Occasionally, a fist-sized shell would hit some bad luck. The camp was filled with screaming and crying wolves...

The soldiers, who persisted in the barracks for about two hours, finally collapsed and walked out of the barracks with their arms down. The 133rd Battalion took over the town of Fallu, captured more than 3,300 enemies and killed and wounded more than 500, with no more than 17 casualties themselves.

The inhabitants of the kingdom of Fallu had no idea that they would ever see the arrival of the Royal Army again, and that World War I had wiped out the enemies of a regiment that had overrun the town. They were pleased to send a variety of Labor Army items to the Mounted One, Three and One battalions, and young people in the town had volunteered to join the army. Claude then ordered Major Schneck to form a local guard battalion in the town of Fallu to relieve his concerns, while ordering the Muried Brigade to escort all prisoners back to Amphiston.

Since no enemy escaped from the capture of the town of Fallu, Claude then targeted the town of Ginko, which is about two hundred and seventy miles from the town of Fallu but only eighty and ninety miles from the capital city of Brickaman. The Colonial Garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks, the Carado Regiment, besieged the town of Brickaman for about three months, and the warehouse of the Regiment's logistical supplies was located in the town of Giinko.

Claude entered the town of Ginko disguised as an officer of the Kingdom of Hicks, and found that the enemy in charge of guarding was heavily guarded and that there were two regiments or so. At the same time, they expelled the inhabitants of the kingdom of the town to the south of the town, which was requisitioned as a warehouse for armaments storage. Large quantities of supplies are delivered daily by wagons to the Corps of Carados besieged under Brickaman City, and countless wagons come from the north to transport supplies to the town of Giinko.

After leaving town, Claude made another reconnaissance to the north, this time with a small group of patrol cavalry dressed as enemies, marking his way north along the road. It was found more than 30 miles from the town of Giinko, on the banks of the Dolinibara River, the largest river on the continent of Nubicia, where the enemy built two floating bridges and set up a perimeter camp at the point of disembarkation. Claude was pleased that the alert camp was modest and that, depending on the circumstances, no more than one battalion had been deployed.

Claude hates only too little of his own strength at this moment, and if there's one more battalion, he can totally lure the snake out of the hole and fight back. Attack the buoyancy camp first. The enemy of the town of Ginko must come to the rescue. The enemy cannot abandon the two buoyancy bridges. The enemy in the town of Giinko has two regiments of troops, most likely coming out of one regiment to rescue the floating bridge. You can drag the regiment with the Range One, Three, One battalion and even beat them.

Then if you have one more battalion, you can attack the town of Ginko, even at the cost of some casualties. As long as the town of Giinko is seized, the Krado regiment that besieged Brickaman City will be miserable, without logistical supplies of heavy grain, and they will have no choice but to defend themselves, perhaps a thousand miles to go. By then, the siege crisis in Brickaman was lifted.

Claude didn't care much about the Claude Legion that besieged Brickaman. The reason is simple: the Krado Corps is an infantry corps, with two legs that can't keep up with the four legs of the 131th Battalion. Although the Corps of Carado is also staffed with two Light Cavalry Regiments, those captured by the extermination of the Rangers of Claude at Battalion One and Three One come from these two Light Cavalry Regiments, and together with more than 2,000 Light Cavalry Prisoners, and those killed, it can be said that one of these two Light Cavalry Regiments has been abandoned, so that very few enemy reconnaissance cavalries have been seen coming out today.

Of course, the Corps of Carado has also learned that Bering Ghana has come to the aid of the Kingdom of Orvilas, and that so many light cavalry troops sent out for reconnaissance have lost their lives. The problem, however, is that they do not know how many reinforcements from the Kingdom of Ovieras have entered Bering Ghana. The reconnaissance cavalry teams they send out always go nowhere, and occasionally run back a few times when asked, they don't see the enemy's large forces at all, but when they encounter the same reconnaissance teams on their own side, they get beaten up and run back.

The Krado regiment, which besieged Brickaman City, could only strengthen the escorts of the logistical heavy convoys, while warning the stationed forces everywhere to guard against attacks by the Royal Auveras Reinforcements, and the rest were left to their orders. After all, a very real situation is ahead of them. The light cavalry of the Kingdom of Orvillas is much more powerful than its own. Now sending its own light cavalry out for reconnaissance is like sending a dead man. No one knows if they can come back.

Claude started thinking about the two floating bridges, and the officers who rode the 131st battalion agreed that it would be better to take them off, which would cut off the back of the Claudeau regiment. After repeated consideration, Claude decided to take everyone's view and first raid the security camp on the side of the pontoon bridge and burn down the two pontoons. Ambush the enemy who came to the town of Ginko and finally see if there is a chance to raid the town of Ginko and burn down the logistics warehouse where the enemy has accumulated...

Four nights later, the 131th Battalion mounted a nocturnal raid on a security camp on the side of the pontoon bridge. Despite its intransigent resistance, the enemy was soon broken through the camp, causing serious death and injury, and more than 300 surrendered.

Claude asked the soldiers to throw oil and light on the pontoon, then lit two pontoon bridges and the fire went off. Claude is confident that the enemies of the town of Ginko will come to the rescue immediately. Claude had to use the camp to defend himself for a period of time, severely traumatizing the enemy forces that had come to rescue him and then rushing off.

The first to arrive at the security camp was a horseback camp where the enemy had gathered their horses in pull, followed by dozens of four-wheeled wagons full of soldiers. Probably overly concerned about the two floating bridges that were burning, the enemies crashed into the security camp without warning and were soon surrounded by a Range One, Three, One battalion.

The reaction to the ambush of these enemies was also rapid, as can be seen from their well-trained and perhaps elite nature. They disembarked in agile motion and queued under the whistle of an officer to begin counter-attacks with full fire. Unfortunately, they collapsed after only two rounds, because they didn't see where the enemy was lined up, they knew that their companions should fall when gunshots were fired around them, and the officers who commanded them were killed...

Without the command of those whistle-blowing officers, the enemy soldiers performed better. They learned to hide behind the carriage without division, lay down with dead bodies on board, and fired guns across the street in the darkness, causing casualties to some careless Rangers, Battalions and Battalions.

However, all of this ended after the artillery battalion cleared the field with shotguns, using only four shotguns, and the remaining enemy soldiers surrendered with their hands raised. The ambush lasted more than half an hour, killing and injuring nearly fifty or sixty people at Camp 131. Enemy casualties reached more than 300, more than 600 were captured and large numbers of horses and four-wheeled wagons were seized.

Claude learned from the captives that reinforcements were coming from a regiment in the town of Ginko. Since it's walking, it'll take a little while. After learning that the enemy's infantry regiment did not carry artillery, Claude decided to ambush them again, believing that he could use artillery as a firepower support point on his side to guard this security camp...

But Claude unexpectedly waited an hour before the enemy arrived. A reconnaissance cavalry was dispatched to discover that the enemy had retreated to the town of Jiinko and was unable to leave. Claude was disappointed that the sound of shotguns could have raised suspicion that the enemy would not be able to save the pontoon bridge if they arrived, so he retreated back to the town of Ginko.