Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 342 Fire Strategy

Continent of Nubicia, under the direct authority of Bering Ghana in the Kingdom of Ovilas.

On November 7, 584, the Holy Lights led a cruise to the 131st battalion to reclaim the town of Fallu and to destroy a guard regiment of the Colonial Garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks, the Carado Regiment.

On 15 November, Claude led a tour of the 131th Battalion, attacking an enemy security camp at the Dolinibara River Float Bridge at night, burning down two float bridges and cutting off logistical supply routes for the army of the enemy Claude. After annihilating one of the enemy's battalions stationed in the security camp, an ambush was laid and a reinforced enemy mobile battalion was again surrounded, capturing large numbers of horses and four-wheeled wagons.

As a result of these two tremendous shocks, Claude led a high-morale cruise at 11 p.m. on the night of November 19, when the 131st battalion attacked the town of Ginko, home to the logistical armaments base of the enemy's army of Claudeau, in an attempt to seize or burn the enemy's stores. Only that the enemy was well prepared and that the fierce battle lasted almost eight hours, when it was known that the Corps of Enemy Claudo had sent reinforcements to arrive and Claude had to lead the Cruise Ride 131 battalion out of the battlefield.

Although the operation was unsuccessful, the Enemy guarding the town of Jiinko continued to be severely hit by the Ranger Battalion, which killed and injured about one regiment of troops, broke three of the four lines of defence and burned five warehouses containing all kinds of armaments. Forced the enemy to draw two regiments to the town of Jiinko to lay a heavy guard in case of another raid...

Claude regretted that, in his view, the operation had been unpaid, killing and injuring three hundred and fifty-second soldiers in the battalion of Mount 131, almost losing one and a half battalions. Captain Diaved, the captain of the second battalion in the field, was badly injured by a shotgun fired by an enemy defensive artillery, and was rescued.

As the saying goes, war is the best teacher in the military, and Claude admits that he underestimated the enemy because of his first two shortcuts, underestimating the enemy's fighting power. But the facts slapped him, the enemy was not stupid and was well aware of the difference in power between the two sides. They set up four lines of defense in the town of Giinko, like a decoy, attracting the constant depth of the Rangers' Battalion 113, intertwined with their defensive fire and successfully delayed the arrival of reinforcements.

Claude reflected after the war, during which he made several command errors. Claude and his men were still blind to the enemy's fighting power, even if the enemy was the strength of two guard regiments, because the assault on the enemy's perimeter line was so smooth that he and the troops of the 131th Battalion were underestimating it.

Nobody expected that the enemy would concentrate most of the artillery used as a defensive fire support point on the last line of defense. The first three lines of defense were equipped with only a small number of artillery, and they hid the artillery in residential houses, which accidentally caused great casualties to the officers and soldiers of the attacking Ranger 1, 3, 1 battalion...

When the first three lines of defense were breached, soldiers and soldiers riding the 131st battalion thought that the enemy was the only one to do so. When attacking the fourth line of defense, they suppressed the enemy's artillery positions on the bright surface with a gun and immediately launched an assault. But who could have guessed that there was still a cannon in the residential room next to the artillery position, and the suddenly fired shotgun caused more than a dozen assaulted soldiers to fall, and Diavid was wounded, and he was lucky enough to get only two shotguns.

Every time it's like this, it makes you feel like you can break the line and rush into the warehouse, but every time there's an unexpected point of fire. When Claude returned for a battle replay, he found that the enemy's fire on the fourth defensive front was very hierarchical and that the shotgun coverage of all defensive artillery was carefully calculated. Even if the defensive artillery in front is suppressed or destroyed, the shotgun coverage hidden behind the side can immediately compensate for this area...

Fortunately, the officers and soldiers riding the 131th Battalion were trained long enough to understand the point of not crowding into groups during the assault, which minimized casualties, and the wounded officers and soldiers were robbed for the first time to provide first-aid in the field, saving the lives of most of the injured. But as the casualties of his companions soared, all the Rangers at Battalion 131 killed their eyes, which led Claude to know that enemy reinforcements were about to arrive and order them to retreat, and many more wanted to persevere and launch another attack...

Sacrificial fighters were incinerated into ashes and placed in ash altars, while the wounded were sent to Amphiston for rear care. Claude regained his mood after reflection, but he had an idea in his heart. Without 100% certainty, he would never take the Ranger 113 Battalion with him to attack the enemy's heavy defensive stronghold.

The weather is warmer in the Nubian continent than in the Farea, and it's almost December and it's not snowing yet. The weather is getting cold, especially with the cold winds that swept through the wilderness, with a feeling of cold bones, going out to reconnaissance on horseback is easily frozen, which creates a lot of trouble for the officers and soldiers of the Ranger Battalion.

“Sir, the Carado regiment under Brickaman has slowed down the siege, which should be related to the fact that we burned the pontoon bridge and cut off his logistics supplies. Ammunition grass, I assume, is not too scarce for the enemy, and the logistics base in the town of Ginko is stockpiled. But I noticed that their soldiers were still on guard duty in single clothes, and I think they probably lacked their clothes to protect them from the cold. In addition, all the herding flocks of the inhabitants of the kingdom in the town of Ginko were slaughtered by them, and the nitrous sheepskin was hung on the empty land of the town...”

Berklin reported his reconnaissance to Claude: "The enemy sent a regiment of troops over the pontoon bridge to re-dig trenches around the original security camp, erect a half-height fence and strengthen its defences. There were five or six ferries on the river, and I saw from the telescope that they were supposed to be fixing the two floating bridges that we burned. Because there's a lot of wood rope on the other side, and a lot of carpenters are making something...”

Want to fix the pontoon bridge? Dreaming...

Claude would never allow the Krado Corps to resume its logistical supply route, and winter had arrived and the weather had gotten cold. There are grass enemies who are still hungry, thirsty by the river, well-stocked ammunition and battle power, but without cold clothing the enemy cannot go out and lose his mobility. In Claude's eyes, he stays immobile and the target is beaten, and the battlefield takes its initiative into his own hands.

There are some things that are simple: without cold clothes, enemies have to reserve more fuel for their firewood right now to keep their soldiers warm while the snow hits. Claude has ordered Muried to lead three direct squadron soldiers into cold-gun operations, specifically targeting enemies who go out to cut wood. Even after eating a few times, the enemy now has to go out to cut trees with a regiment of troops to guard them. Forgive me, dozens more have to be killed and wounded each time, while the soldiers of the Ranger 1, 3 and 1 battalions are beaten and run. The enemy often chases them into traps as soon as they chase them, and the deaths and injuries are severe.

Dozens of casualties a day can accumulate more than a thousand in a month. Claude is not in a hurry, he has accumulated a lot, and slowly, in this manner of attack, he can fully exploit the combat and mobility capabilities of the battalion, and the casualties are very minor...

But now that the enemy is ready to repair the two floating bridges, Claude is categorically refusing. If the pontoon bridge is repaired, the efforts of Claude and the Ranger Camp will be in vain. Take advantage of the cold weather to reduce the enemy's combat power, and perhaps swallow this Corps of Clados once the succeeding division arrives.

McJackie walked in: “Sir, more than a hundred residents of the town refused to move. Besides, our covert followers found that they had a close connection with the officers of the Hicks kingdom. More or less young women in their homes became lovers of enemy officers or something. I think our move to persuade the residents of the town to move out has been discovered by the enemies of the town, and they have increased their defensive alert...”

Claude nodded: "Forget it, we don't have to worry about the people who are dying, and their actions already constitute evidence of treason, and we don't have to worry about their safety and their lives. ”

What Claude asked McJackie to do was to persuade the inhabitants of the kingdom who had not yet been evacuated from the town of Ginko to leave the town of Fallu or the rear administration, on the simple pretext that the Royal Army was about to launch another attack on the town of Ginko. Considering that the attack was stronger and more intense than the previous night attack, it was advisable to inform the inhabitants of the town in advance to leave the theatre to keep their families and property safe from accidental injuries...

The remaining inhabitants of the kingdom in the town of Giinko are also more than 3,000 people and more than 500 families. Half of the population fled to the capital city of Brickaman after the outbreak of the war, while the remaining half went to the rear administration to surrender to close friends and relatives, and some left after the Klad Regiment in the Kingdom of Hicks occupied the town. At present, all that remains in the town is the big family business, because their property is the real estate in the town, and once they leave, they can all be wiped out...

Claude convinced McJackie to persuade the surviving residents to leave the town of Ginko not to launch another offensive, but to prevent enemies who lacked winter clothing after the snow hit the residents of those kingdoms, thereby causing harm to them.

It is much easier to infiltrate residential areas in the south than in the heavily guarded north of the town. McJackie had been there twice to persuade the inhabitants of the kingdom, and then entrusted the prestigious to persuade the town. Because of a latent post ambushed in the town, an enemy guard in the town was notified, and the enemy sent a team to ambush Mike in the house of the inhabitants of the ventilation letter to grab the door and persuade him. Of course, they only waited two nights for nothing...

Until the inhabitants of those kingdoms of the town had been evacuated, Claude instructed not to engage the enemy in residential areas in the southern part of the town in order to avoid the enemy being ashamed and passing on his injuries to the inhabitants of those kingdoms. While both warring parties on the Nubian continent consciously abide by the divine rule not to harm their own civilians, you can do nothing but retaliate afterwards by really killing the red eye enemies and exasperating civilians.

Snowfall days on the continent are generally between late December and the end of January and are said to be the coldest. The rainy season in March was not as long as that of the Farea continent, with only a dozen days of rain and little precipitation. Between mid-June and early July, however, there was a rainy season of about fifteen days, when the rain was the largest.

Now that all the inhabitants of the kingdom who were willing to evacuate have left the town of Jinko, Claude doesn't care that the hundred families left behind have turned to the inhabitants of the Hicks occupation forces. He thought about saying to McJackie, "Then do the barbecue plan. ”

The barbecue requires fire, and Claude wants to burn the residential area south of the town of Ginko to ashes, so that the enemy cannot use the residential houses of the residents of these kingdoms to keep the fire cold on heavy snow.

Claude also hopes that the fire may lead to the burning of an enemy logistics warehouse in the northern part of the town. If it works, then the Corps of Claudeau, the enemy who lacks clothing and food and has no ammunition reserves and cold clothes, becomes the fish of Claudeau's knife, slaughtering as much as he wants...

At 10 p.m. on the evening of 27 November, McJackie infiltrated residential areas south of the town of Ginko with a large squadron of gemmies and guards, sprayed the oil over the homes of those who had evacuated the military and civilian population, and then set fire to the entire residential area.

Claude ambushed the town north with the remainder of the Ranger Battalion 131 in the hope that the fire would spread to the northern part of the town, causing confusion in enemy preparedness, burning stores of those stockpiles and forcing defensive enemies to evacuate the town. At that time, the Range One, Three, One Battalion could launch a deadly raid on the enemy.

But unfortunately, Claude's hopes are down. The town of Giinko is in the vicinity of the Albato Prairie and the Dolinibara River on the Nubian mainland, where most of the inhabitants use stone and sand to build walls to increase their defensiveness. When the first generation of immigrants built towns here, they were said to be surrounded by many beasts and wolves, so they had to consider the robustness and defensiveness of their houses.

Because of this, the fires in these residential houses do not appear to be as intense, and most of the flames are swallowed up outdoors on roofs and windows, rather than as intense and hot as those built entirely of wood. The stone walls had a very depressing fire protection effect on Claude, and if it hadn't been for the oil poured in advance, it might not have been possible to connect the fires together.

The fire was heavy, and the residents who refused to heed the advice to evacuate were miserable, waking up in their sleep and hurrying away with their families from the flaming homes and neighbourhoods. Although the fire ignited houses throughout the residential area, enemies in the northern part of the town reacted more quickly, with a team of soldiers rushing to the streets to demolish houses and quickly installing a very wide fire isolation zone. At the same time, passing buckets over, water was poured over all the roofs and walls of the storage area...

Claude and the Rangers at Battalion 131 could only stay on the ground and watch as the fire slowly diminished south of the town. What made Claude miserable was that the fire was about to extinguish the southerly wind that he wanted to blow north. If this south wind could take a lot of Mars to the north of town two hours early, the enemy would not be prepared for fire protection at all. As long as a few warehouses are lit, the wind will definitely help Claude fulfill his wishes...

“Back to camp. Looks like it's over.” Claude can only shake his head and tell Berklin next to him: "Go back to the river tomorrow to see if there are any more suitable crossing points. ”

“Sir, do you want to cross the river?” asked Berklin.

“Yes, you did not report that the enemy's security camp on this side of the river is now a regiment guarded and heavily guarded, and we can no longer attack them as we did last time.” Claude thought, "Now that this side is heavily guarded, we can totally cross the river. The enemy thinks we can't cross the Dolinibara, so I think the buoyancy camp on the other side of the river must be very relaxed, not this way, so we can cross the river and attack that camp and burn the pile of material there, which is the same for us and the enemy, and they can't fix the buoyancy bridge."