Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 351 Battle of Bering Ghana (top)

The Rodman Hill is named after the first colonial adventurer to arrive here, a small hill on the easternmost side of the Bailinganese administration consisting of more than a dozen hills two or three hundred metres above sea level.

The Tanya Regiment of the Kingdom of the Hicks encountered the tenacious resistance of the Guardians of the Kingdom of Ovilas, who set up strong defensive positions on these hills with the intention of blocking the impenetrable strongholds of the Tanya Regiment. But in front of the powerful Tanya Corps, the enemy's intransigence was like a castle on the beach. Soon it was destroyed by the brave Tanya Corps officers. In just one day, seven hills were lost...

A Tanya Legion fielder has penetrated the Rodman Hills, while another fielder has fallen behind to protect logistically heavy armaments and set up a camp outside the hills. In fact, so far the Tanya Legion has suffered heavy casualties, losing almost seven battalions, and one more regiment has been sent to the towns captured by the rear guards, which has now reduced the strength of almost three regiments.

But for the senior commanding officers of the Tanya Legion, it's all worth it. Once they break through the Rodman Hills, their legions will be able to reach the Dolinibara River immediately, which means that they are the first legions on the road to open up the Bailingana, the first legions of the four armies to drink the Madolinibara River, which is an unquestionable first feat.

Senior officers of the Tanya regiment then set up a feast in the rear battalion in preparation for breaking through the three frontal enemy defenses in the early morning, so that they could reach the banks of the Dolinibara River in the afternoon. As for the hills on the outskirts of Rodman Hill, nobody cares. The enemy guards of the hills that have been breached in the center will naturally withdraw. Otherwise, none of them will escape until the army rotates...

When the wine was hot, I suddenly found the cup plate on the wine table beating. A few officers laughed. I can't, I can't drink anymore. I'm really getting drunk. Look at the cup and plate bowl on this table all dancing...

Finally, an officer who drank less and remained sober returned to God, and he shouted in panic: "Enemy, enemy attack! ”

It was the dawn of a surprise attack by the Rangers against the rear battalion of the Tanya Legion, where more than 20,000 horses trampled the red soil of the Nubian continent, rushed towards the enemy's camp, broke into the camp and pulled out their knives and slaughtered every Tanya Legion officer and soldier they saw. The Tanya legions woke up from their sleep and the officers and soldiers didn't even organize an effective counterattack. They threw their armor out of the battalion and ran deep into Rodman Hill, because at this moment all the escapees knew that they could only save their lives if they fled to the former camp...

The Rangers did not go after these fleeing enemy soldiers, who cleaned up the surviving soldiers in the camp behind them, captured nearly 5,000 more surrenderers, then fortified the camp and completely surrounded the Rodman Hills.

One of the features of Rodman Hill that the Tanya Legion officers and soldiers didn't understand was that there was no water in the hills, and there was a small river next to the camp in the rear. This is bad news for the 30,000 troops of the Tanya Legion surrounded by the Rodman Hills, who did not find a drop of water three metres into the earth, but made themselves tired and thirsty.

Officers of the Tanya Legion who mustered Yu Yong commanded the soldiers to launch a special attack on the three hills directly ahead, with the intention of breaking through the defensive positions of the three enemies and rushing to the banks of the river Dorinibara, where you can drink as much water as you want...

It was only then that they realized that the defensive positions of the two hills in front of them were so untenable that no matter how many strikes they launched, they failed. Unlike the positions of the hills that were easily captured yesterday, they could not even reach the first 50 meters of the defensive position, leaving only the bodies of soldiers stacked over the entire front of the position...

For the first time in more than four decades, the soldiers of the Kingdom of Hicks, who had not experienced war, understood how intense the war was today, completely subverting the tactics of offense and defense they had learned in their books. Like the way they arranged a neat array for each of the warring parties, marched in line, and fired until they were several dozen meters apart, and launched a blade raid, which did not appear on the battlefield at all.

Soldiers of the Tanya Legion proceeded in a neat line towards the enemy's defensive positions, but all the way they were bombarded by artillery, close to the defensive position by 200 meters, and then became targets for those enemies hiding in the trenches. When the enemy was about to launch an attack 100 meters away, the enemy covered the entire forward position with shotguns fired by four light infantry field artillery, and no soldier could rush to the enemy's defensive position...

Five or six attacks were repeated, and no Tanya Legion soldier was willing to queue up to die. Instead, the officers who urged the soldiers to line up again to launch the attack felt cold in the back, as the soldiers looked at them with red eyes. The bodies of the thousands of soldiers who fell on the hill were so striking to everyone, it was not an attack, it was a massacre carried out in a slaughterhouse...

The Tanya Legion, with its remaining strength of 256,000 troops, has lost all morale, and its officers have released all the messenger eagles and sought help from the remaining four regiments in the hope that they will surrender and rescue them from their plight. However, they did not receive a reply from the rest of the regiment until the evening. Except for the farthest Kudzoya regiment, the replies from the Vikron, Seiburg and Fabert regiments kept them going for another four or five days, and they promised to make it to the sea to save them...

No food man can last seven days, but no water, not three days. And the night before yesterday, the Rangers' night raid frightened the officers and soldiers who had fled to the former battalion and drank almost all the reserve water from the former battalion, so that even the water from the cooling cannon was gone. Until the next day, when three meters of digging ground could not find the water source, the Tanya army found itself in despair. The deadly attack, like a trapped animal, hit the three small hillbillies with a bloodshed. All the officers and soldiers had lost their morale and fighting spirit. They knew that they were finished...

Yet another day later, the remaining 26,000 men and horses of the Tanya Legion, who could not sustain themselves, raised their white flags and surrendered to the Rangers, ending a trip to the Nubian mainland. They will be awaiting a 10-year period of labour and public utility construction in the Overseas Territories, preceded by surrenders from the Pancrat and Clado Legions.

The Battle of Rodman Hills, the Tanya Regiment of the Kingdom of the Hicks, in addition to a logistical supplementary regiment left behind in the rear towns, with more than 60,000 casualties throughout the army and nearly 40,000 horses surrendering to captivity in the Kingdom of Auvellas, was a fierce slap on the face of the Kingdom of the Hicks, who had fiercely dispatched five standing regiments to the continent of Nubicia to wage this colonial war.

It took three or four days to get to Vikron in Rodman Hill, and Seiburg and Fabert found only post-war traces. They sent all the scouts mad to find the enemy's trail. After all, it is impossible to destroy the Tanya Legion as a small force, plus the tens of thousands of prisoners of the Tanya Legion, the whereabouts of so many people should always be found...

Unfortunately, however, beyond Rodman Hill is the Dolinibara River, where the scout cavalry found traces of large troops boarding the boat. Obviously, the guards of the kingdom of Ovilas hid in the shadows like a venomous serpent, while the five standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks were in a desolate and relaxed moment, suddenly they came out and bited the unprepared Tanya regiment, and after setting up an ambush on the Rodman Hills to destroy the Tanya regiment, they retreated to the other bank of the Dolinibara River, which was unanimously agreed by the senior officers of the three regiments.

In Vikron, the commanding officers of the three Legions, Seiburg and Ferbert, believed that, according to the Tanya Legion's previous warfare reports, even if the enemy had wiped out the Tanya Legion, its own casualties would certainly have been considerable. Now, even after a great victory, they should go back to the other shore and lick their wounds, regain their strength, and there should be no way to strike again for a short time.

So the three Standing Regiments simply set up a battalion on the banks of the Dolinibara River, ready to wait for the rear to deliver the river crossing equipment, and sent soldiers to cut down trees, build boats and floating bridges, and prepare to cross the Dolinibara River to continue their attack on the overseas territorial area of Robisto in the Kingdom of Orvilas.

After receiving a message from the Eagles of the three Standing Regiments, deep into the westernmost Kudzoya Regiment of Ghana's direct administration, the Tanya Regiment, although overthrown, retreated across the river, meaning that there was no more enemy interdiction and resistance in front of their regiment. The Kudzoya Regiment can rest assured of a bold journey all the way to the banks of the River Dorinibara, setting up camps to find suitable crossing points, forcing the enemy forces on the other side to guard and relieving the pressure of attack by crossing the river for the three Standing Regiments on the east...

Then, the marching Kudzoya regiment was suddenly surrounded by the Rangers. Numerous examples show that infantry is never an opponent of cavalry on vast grasslands. Even if the force is double the enemy's strength, the unobstructed terrain, the absence of a series of fire-barrier weapons, combined with a relaxed marching state and a lack of vigilance, led to the collapse of the Kudzoya Regiment in less than a moment when it was raided lightly by the enemy...

It is not the lack of courageous officers who command the soldiers to assemble for intransigent resistance in an attempt to gain more time for the defense of the larger forces. There are also many artillery men who are not afraid to die, threatening to be attacked lightly by the enemy, trained to load light artillery and pull the shelves apart ready for launch. They swore that even if they sacrificed their lives, they would pay for the corresponding casualties to their heinous enemies.

But the brave officers and soldiers of these Kudzoya regiments did not realize that the enemy they faced was not a purely light cavalry force. It was discovered that some units of the Kudzoya Legion were ready for defense. Rather than rushing their brains into the enemy's defensive array, the Rangers, who had been slaughtered everywhere, pulled apart and fell on their horses and shot them with guns by name.

The crisp sound of the gunshots formed, the artillery next to the artillery, the well-lined infantry queues, and the officers and soldiers of a Kudzoya regiment fell on the ground in successive shots. The soldiers of the Kudzoya Legion soon collapsed again. They wanted to fight back, but the enemy fell to the ground. They launched an attack against the enemy, but the enemy climbed up from the ground and jumped on the horse and left. When you caught up with them, a few more riding lightly over the horse knife flashed, and you separated your body...

The three standing regiments on the banks of the River Dorinibara received an emergency letter from the Cudzoa Regiment at around 3 p.m., and this raid on the prairie was coming to an end. The three Standing Regiments could only sit by and watch the Kudzoya Regiment walk into the Tanya Regiment. After all, they were too far away and it would take five or six days to get to the battlefield immediately, and the Kudzoya Regiment obviously could not support it for that long...

Another standing army of the Kingdom of Hicks was completely overthrown, with nearly half of the Kudzoya Regiment casualties and more than 40,000 prisoners of the Rangers. The Ranger Corps also paid the cost of a field corps casualty in this raid, but more than 1,000 soldiers were killed and maimed, and more than 3,000 wounded soldiers could still return to the Corps if they received medical treatment.

Although permission for expansion has been granted, the strength of the Rangers, who annihilated the two standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks, is still a division, and the civilian soldiers recruited from the mainland of the Kingdom have not yet arrived on the Nubian mainland. The two battle rangers commanded by General Michelchi were arguably perfectly weak and strong, first luring the Tanya regiment into ambush with defensive positions, then using light-mounted assaults to attack the enemy's rear battalion, trapping the enemy in a water shortage dilemma, then using strong defensive positions to perpetuate the enemy's overwhelming despair, and finally forcing the Tanya regiment to surrender.

Destroyed the Tanya Regiment and attracted three more standing legions of enemies, leaving the westernmost Cutroya Regiment alone. The Rangers, for their part, used the river course of the Dolinibara River to transfer troops to the west of the Bailinganese administration, using the silent power of the aircraft to surround the Kudzoya Regiment, and launched a sudden attack that destroyed the enemy's resistance and annihilated the Kudzoya Regiment.

The overthrow of the two Standing Regiments left the three remaining Regiments with the illusion that they seemed to feel they had fallen into the trap of guarding the Royal Orvillas Army, with the long-driven entry of Cromwell and the pervasive orientation of Bering Ghana, signs of the enemy luring them into the trap. So the three regiments, Vikron, Seiburg and Ferbert, decided to keep the regiment warm and no longer march apart, so that the enemy would not be given a chance to destroy them.

At that time, bad news spread from the rear, almost all logistical supply convoys were attacked by the enemy, and no convoy was able to transport heavy supplies to the battalions of the three regiments on the front line. As a result of the negotiations, the three Standing Regiments sent a fielder's force to prepare for the rear escort, but they were ambushed by the Rangers on their way.

The fielder had two light cavalry regiments in his formation, but they were not rivals of the Rangers. After they had easily killed the rebound, they hurried back to the battalion and the fielder was swallowed up by the Rangers.

What happened to this fielder reinforced the fact that three regiments in the Hicks kingdom had fallen prey to their enemies, and the scouts they had sent to scout for the light-handed had begun to disappear. Even their soldiers find the enemy's light cavalry snooping around the camp. From time to time, they see the enemy's light cavalry in the distance...

Fortunately, the three Standing Regiments themselves carry armaments that can last a month, which, if saved, can last longer. Instead of leaving the Dolinibara River, they placed their hopes in the Neptune fleet, hoping that the fleet would open the course of the Dolinibara River, bring them logistical heavy supplies and then send them across the Dolinibara River to the heartland of the Overseas Direct Administration of the Kingdom of Ovilas.

As long as we cross the river and guard the river, the guards of the kingdom of Ovilas, who remain under the direct authority of Bering Ghana, will have no other way to go but to surrender. The staff officers of the three Standing Regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks believed that most of the enemy was surrounded by their battalions, so crossing the river was their only option to defeat.