Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 344 Burning the Town of Modo River

From January of the New Year, Claude led a cruise battalion under Robisto's command. The reason was simple and helpless: to attack the Corps of Krado, which had garrisoned the colony of the Kingdom of Hicks under the direct authority of Ghana, behaved like a turtle. Since the last time the fleet brought them the cold clothes and large supplies they needed, they spent the winter in the town of Ginko, where they refused to come out.

In such circumstances, Claude was also unable to lead the ranks of the 131th Battalion in an attack on a well-guarded enemy cantonment camp, leaving a large group of men and horses responsible for monitoring the movement of the enemy and leading three battalions to the direct command of Robisto in search of fighter jets.

Robisto is in a much better position than Bering Ghana, thanks to the city's top-setting of the capital, Port Patres, one of the seven overseas chiefs of the Kingdom of Ovieras. Until the new route from White Deer City to Tirshim was opened, Port Patres was the destination of the Kingdom's fearless fleet eastward, with all the specialty goods delivered to the Kingdom from overseas territories concentrated. Thus, in order to prevent pirate attacks and looting, the Kingdom spent a great deal of capital in Port Patres to build the most powerful urban defence facilities and firepower.

No pirate group would have taken the idea of Port Patres until the Kingdom of Hicks declared war on the Kingdom of Ovillas, and after the invasion of the Kingdom's overseas territories by the Nubian mainland, its Pancrat regiment hit a city defensive position in Port Patres, not only with a bloody head, but was also half maimed and killed and injured. Although it is currently a state of confrontation, it is in fact only the Pancrats who occupy the crossing landing point, setting up cantonment sites and defensive positions, awaiting subsequent reinforcements and reinforcements...

In contrast, the Pancrat Corps and the area of Port Patrez were not armed at all. But in terms of combat power, the area of Port Patrez is armed only to guard the city pool and defensive positions, and the battle in the field is not at all an opponent of the Pancrats. So even though the Pancrats lost a third of their strength by attacking the port of Patres, the battlefield initiative remains in their hands. Their reconnaissance cavalry teams spread throughout Robisto's territory and from time to time entered the adjacent Amphiston territory to loot the property of the inhabitants of the Kingdom.

Since Claude's arrival at Amphiston's command of the 131th Battalion, the Pancrat Regiment's reconnaissance ride has been unable to enter Amphiston's command. Anyway, there was no return, and the Pancrats knew that the enemy had come to reinforce them, and several scout riders who had occasionally fled had made them realize that their scout cavalry was not the enemy's opponent.

But then Claude led the cruise to Battalion 131, where Colonel Sevichit, who took over the task of guarding Amphiston, was more secure, less insane than Claude and the officers and soldiers of Battalion 131, and the scout cavalry who chased the enemy away could chase him to the enemy's cantonment camp. Colonel Sevicht ordered only the 034th regiment to close the border between the two jurisdictions and to deny the reconnaissance cavalry team of the Pancrat Regiment the freedom to enter the Amphiston area for reconnaissance.

Now Claude comes back with the Ranger Battalion 113. The scouting riders of the Pancrat Regiment, who crossed Robisto's line, have lost eight lifetimes of luck. They have to write a suicide note before going out on a mission. No one knows if they can come back. After losing nearly a battalion of men and horses, they finally found their base, the town of Modo River.

The Modo River, a small tributary of the Dolinibara River, originates in the Mosiraga Mountains, at the border between the direct Bailinganese and Amphistonic territories, from which streams converge into small rivers and flow into the Dolinibara River. The town of the Modo River is situated in the Mosilaga Mountains and next to the Modo River, where the inhabitants are predominantly wood processing and agro-pastoralism, about 10,000 inhabitants of the Kingdom and more than 1,300 households. There are more than 70,000 indigenous hybrid labourers employed, or Nikancas, and the capital, Port Patres, is one thing, more than 300 miles away.

There was a local guard battalion in the town of Modo, and when the Pancrats invaded, they were supposed to assemble in the capital, Port Patres, but did not expect the enemy to move too quickly, landing directly in Port Patres, surrounding the city. Thus, the local guard battalion in the town of Modo River could only be turned around, while the Pancrat Corps targeted the port of Patres, taking over the remaining two towns with no time to spare, so that the town of Modo River was still under the control of the Kingdom.

Knowing that there was only one light cavalry battalion for reinforcements from the Kingdom of Ovillas, the Pancrat Regiment considered the Ranger 113 battalion to be light cavalry battalions, who told them all to be equipped with horses of war. Moreover, there was only one place in Mordor River Town to guard the battalion's strength, so the Pancrat Corps decided to remove Mordor River Town's poison tumor first. Anyway, they can't attack Port Patres now, so why not destroy the Flea that Ranger 113 Battalion is looking for trouble for their scout cavalry...

From this point of view, the Pancrats are much more courageous than the Krado Corps that attacked Bering Ghana, and at the very least they have a sense of aggressiveness, instead of being tortoised in the town of Ginko like the Krado Corps, and not dying.

The Pancrat Corps has launched a Light Cavalry Regiment plus an Infantry Field Regiment to Modo River Town, which, in their view, may have quadrupled the enemy's strength enough to eliminate the Ranger 113 Battalion and its local guard battalion in Modo River Town...

After five days of heavy snow, two regiments of the Pancrat Legion in Modo River Town found themselves a little late, and none of the soldiers and residents of the kingdom of Orvilas were found in the town except the Nikancas, who were raving and smashing. A few Nikanchas were captured and questioned before the enemy learned of the arrival of two regiments from the Pancrat Regiment, which, together with the town's inhabitants, evacuated to Stone Bear Town, more than 160 miles away.

Stone Bear is another town that has not fallen into the hands of the Pancrat Legion, situated at the border between Robisto and Amphiston and at the foot of the Mosiraga Mountains. The town is famous for a giant, giant-like stone, so much so that it is named after a stone bear. Stone Bear Town produces several valuable stones for high-end decoration and sculpture.

Knowing that all the enemies had evacuated the town of Modo River, the two commanders who had been instructed to attack could not help, so they decided to stay there first, then listen to the commands of the Legion Command, whether they wanted to continue attacking Stone Bear Town...

As the inhabitants of the town were evacuated, their vacant houses and timber mills became carnival sites for the Nikanchas, who were not invited to move into the houses. So much so that the soldiers of the two regiments of the Pancrat Legion had to expel the Nikancas and roll back to their former slums in the western part of the town so that the soldiers of the two regiments could settle in the homes of the inhabitants.

Residents' homes are filled with dry wood, which should have been harvested by the original inhabitants for winter fuel, even the streets filled with broken furniture and wood chips. The soldiers of the Pancrats thought it was the Nikans, and that's how the Nikans behaved. But because of the exhaustion of the road, with these vacant and abandoned residential dwellings, the soldiers were also lazy to clean up and went into the residential dwellings and decided to rest.

The officers of the two Light Cavalry Regiments and Infantry Regiments, who had been instructed to attack the town of Modo, were also exhausted and went to rest in a hurry with their lower sentries and patrols. They were disappointed that the enemy had fled so quickly, and Stone Bear was more than 160 miles away, and if the regiment ordered them to continue their pursuit, they would have to travel three days on a snow-covered road. So everyone needs to be sharp enough to handle the rest of the trip. At this moment, they have no guard at all. In front of the dominant forces, they don't think the enemy has the guts to attack them proactively...

The sentries and patrols were then attacked by the enemy around 10 p.m. Bulks of damaged furniture and messy waste wood burned on the streets, followed by houses and timber processing plants on the outskirts of the town, and the fire quickly broke into flames. Towards the inside of the town began to spread. When the soldiers in the residential homes woke up and rushed out of the house, they realized that the fire had become a fusion, and there was no way to run...

Gunshots were most frequent at the stables in the southern part of town, where the horses of that light cavalry regiment of the Pancrat Regiment, as well as the infantry regiment carriage carrying artillery and heavy supplies, were concentrated. This is also an area of focus attack by the 131th Battalion, and Claude is determined to seize these horses and ponies as a trophy for this battle.

Claude's intentions were soon discovered by that light cavalry regiment of the Pancrats, who also assembled a large number of soldiers at the stables in a fierce battle against the Ranger 113 Battalion. But they were just in a hurry, unprepared, using a toothpaste filler, and ordered the soldiers to rush into the stables and drive the enemy out of town to reclaim his horseback.

But all the efforts and sacrifices were made after the four light infantry field artillery were sent to the Range One Battalion, the soldiers could not rush up. The shotgun fire of the four artillery covered the two entrances to the stables. The soldiers died when they went in as many as they could. They could only watch the Range One Battalion break down the wall and enter to take the surviving horseback riding and horseback from the stables and ignite the stables again...

The flames on the outskirts of the town became fiercer and the houses inside the town began to burn. Only then did the officers and soldiers of the Pancrat Regiment discover that all the roofs had been spilled with fire oil, with the exception of old furniture and firewood scattered all over the street, a small Mars could ignite a large pile of wood, they were trapped in an empty space in the center of the town with no escape, crying and crying for help...

Fortunately, there was another snowfall in the sky, which suppressed the fire slightly, and some sober officers and soldiers rushed into self-help operations, using various tools to demolish burning houses, use snow and well water to extinguish fire piles in the streets, and busy halfway houses to finally open a passage out of town. When they cheered to leave the burning town outside the town, they were faced with horsemen, muskets and more than a dozen light infantry field artillery from the 131th and 1st battalions.

Almost half of the soldiers and officers of the Pancrat Legion, who were barefoot, could only surrender with their hands raised, and even the most impulsive officers could only be caught at a moment of calm and restraint. The reason is simple, most of their armaments and artillery are still sacrifices of the Fire God in the town, less than a third of the soldiers with weapons, and many of them are not even wearing thick military uniforms and run out of the fire directly in their shirts...

The flames in the town of Modo burned overnight and daylight until afternoon when all the fires were extinguished under heavy snow. The whole town is almost ruined. Nearly described as the Nikanca-populated slums in the western part of the town are still intact, because the slums and towns are already close to 100 metres apart from the town walls. This was originally an initiative of the inhabitants of the town of Modo to prevent riots by the Nikancas, but it became a safety guarantee for slums from the fire.

The soldiers of the Pancrat Regiment, who were really burned by the fire, were less numerous than the heavy fighting that took place at the stables in the southern part of the town, but the fire burned down the logistical supplies and most of the weapons and artillery carried by the two regiments, and even the horseback riding and horseback riding were captured by the 131st Battalion. Soldiers and officers fleeing the fire wanted to survive. They had no choice but to surrender to the Range One, Three, One Battalion. They couldn't make it back to the Regiment cantonment camp for another five days and five nights on an empty stomach...

In the battle to burn the town of Modo River, the 131th Battalion wiped out the forces of two regiments sent by the Pancrats to attack and captured more than 8,000 people. For the Pancrat Corps, it was the result of a harsh beating of a stubborn stick that they had never dreamed of. When the two regiments did not return, there was no news until several lucky reconnaissance cavalry evaded the security blockade of the Battalion, reached outside the town of Modo River, saw the burning ashes and received a definitive answer from the mouths of the Nikanchas, before they knew that the two regiments had been completely overthrown.

So the Pancrats also honestly learned from the Corps of Krados under Bering Ghana, shrunk in the cantonment camps, and waited until the winter had been followed by subsequent reinforcements, both military and material.

Claude will also have to lead a cruise to Battalion One Thirty-One to return to Amphiston for winter rest. From last October to January of the New Year, the Battalion of Mounted 131 has been transformed into two direct jurisdictions, with even rapid warfare and casualties. Now the battalion can only fight more than 1,100 people, while the original strength was a reinforced total of around 1,800...

In February, Robisto and Beringana were calm and the enemy was unable to retreat, and Claude sent only a light mount battalion from Berklin to monitor the Pancrats and Claudeau regiments. The result was that both regiments of the enemy were very secure and remained inactive in their camps.

After the March rainy season, a huge convoy arrived in the Kingdom of Hicks, supplementing the Pancrat Regiment with a division and the Carado Regiment with two infantry regiments. At the same time, several battleships escorting the fleet again shelled the port of Patres, the capital of Robisto. This time, however, they were unlucky and were sunk and wounded by a battleship, which eventually had to flee with a fleet of wolves.

The Punkle and Clado regiments, supplemented by troops, again attacked Port Patres and Brickaman City, and renewed fighting broke out in the direct territories of Robisto and Bering Ghana. Claude led the Cavalry One Battalion to battle in two direct jurisdictions, but this time the enemy was prepared and attached great importance to the safety of the convoy, each time sending a regiment of troops to escort it, so that the Cavalry One One Battalion could not achieve greater results than a reconnaissance cavalry that would destroy some of its enemies.

In early April, Claude finally received good news that the Cavalier Regiment's follow-on troops had arrived under Amphiston and General Michel had sent Claude back to report to Division Command.