Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 354: General's Negligence

The tent is raining...

“How did you know to seize Wickham Castle, move grass, burn down those stores, and then evacuate here to set up camp?” General Michelch looked comfortably at Claude standing before him and asked.

Nearly 180,000 people in the three Legions of the Kingdom of Hicks, Vikron, Seiburg and Fabert, desperately laid down their weapons in front of the ruins of Castle Wickham and surrendered to the following Rangers for a living.

General Michel was relieved by this result, and the unblemished resolution of the three standing regiments meant that the five standing regiments sent by the Kingdom of Hicks to the continent of Nubian for this colonial war had been completely overthrown and the Kingdom of Hicks had once again suffered a shameful failure. Not only did it lose more than 300,000 so-called elite standing armaments, but it also compensated for the famous Neptune fleet in the northern waters of Farea, which was again hit in the face...

As for the reaction of General Michelch to the news of another defeat in the Kingdom of Hicks, he does not care. He is a soldier in the Kingdom, and it is his duty to destroy the enemies of the Kingdom. It was only then that he realized that he had neglected a great deal, namely, that he was only trying to force down the three standing regiments of enemies, but had forgotten that the most needed for tired and thirsty enemies was sustenance and rest, as well as the treatment of the wounded and sick. Now, as soon as they surrendered, the burden of supplying these 180,000 people with mild supplies fell on him.

It is the rainy season in March, and there is heavy rain in the sky. If there is no place to cover the rain and fill the belly of the 180,000 prisoners and treat the sick soldiers, it is certain that a large number of prisoners will fall and will never rise again. The consequences are unthinkable.

They are enemies, so if the battle dies in the sandbox, it is a courageous act of truth, but now they are prisoners, but they die after surrendering to the Rangers, which will have a very negative impact on the reputation of the Kingdom of Ovilas, killing prisoners, mistreating prisoners. As long as rumors spread, neither the Rangers nor General Michelchi can carry this pot...

At that time, General Michelch had some regret ordering Claude to burn down Wickham Castle so thoroughly that there was no place for a rain shade. He can only order the Rangers to take out the dry food they carry with them, so that each of the 180,000 prisoners can eat a few bites of rain and fill their stomachs, and the rest can only pray to the Goddess of Destiny so that everyone can survive this level.

Then he saw Captain McJackie, the deputy Claude sent to debrief.

McJackie reported to General Michelch that Claude had set up a camp in a hill highland 10 miles from Wickham Castle, enough to keep the Rangers and 180,000 prisoners out of the camp for a rain-fed burning season in March. And the boiling water has been cooked and the porridge has been prepared, waiting for the general to take us there.

General Michelch rejoiced and immediately ordered the Rangers to escort all prisoners to the camp set up by Claude. After a short wash into the camp, he summoned Claude and asked him how he had settled his camp here without a prophet.

Claudette was immediately answering: “General, I was actually forced to...”

This is the truth, and the main reason is to blame the exit for the secret passage in the trenches. Claude and his men came up with a lot of ideas and found it easy to sneak into the city through a secret tunnel, but burning down those stores and coming out of that secret tunnel would be dangerous.

Not to mention the question of whether unexpected circumstances will be encountered in the course of the execution of the order, even if several material warehouses are set on fire, they will soon be discovered by the enemy. Nearly a hundred warehouses of supplies inside Wickham Castle, sneaking in on a squad to set fire to try to burn them all down, is simply not something that can be done. Moreover, when the enemy discovers that someone has infiltrated the city and set fire to it, it will definitely increase the security on the city wall. When the person entering the city comes out of the secret lane, he will soon be discovered as a target by the enemy guard on the city wall. After all, that distance is too close, the enemy is not blind...

So Claude remembered what his men had said, and what a pity it was to burn so many stockpiles of military supplies inside Wickham Castle. The enemy's defensive force is two regiments, and they have called us to the Horsemen's Regiment to ensure that it can be captured. As long as we can hold on to so much military materiel inside Wickham Castle, it will be ours.

Though Claude rebutted his men's proposal, telling them that it was unnecessary to sacrifice the lives of the fighters to hold on to Wickham Castle in exchange for those stocks of military materiel. But then think about why it's so unreasonable that the enemy is not strong enough to send their own men from the secret passage into the city. Why must they come out of the secret passage and open the gates to the entire regiment to capture Wickham Castle? It will be easier to complete the task and burn as many material warehouses as you want, without fear of being obstructed by the enemy.

With the idea, Claude summoned four direct field battalions to the towns where the enemy was being monitored by Eagle Messenger under Bering Ghana's direct administration. That is also why Claude delayed personally taking the team into Wickhamburg until 25 February to carry out the order.

Because they either set fire to it or ran, Claude and others in Hicks uniform sparked several grass warehouses in the castle, followed by creating chaos in the castle in the name of fire fighting, while ordering several patrols near the castle gate to fire quickly, easily controlling the castle gate.

Claude et al. then climbed the wall again, quickly clearing the enemy sentry guarded above the wall. After sending the signal, a group of horsemen ambushed outside the gates of the castle entered the castle, rushing towards the barracks and enemy clubs, respectively, as planned, killing the commanders of the enemy, forcing the remaining enemy officers to surrender and ordering the panicked enemy to lay down its arms and cease its resistance. By morning, the entire castle of Wickham had fallen into the hands of a group of Rangers, and more than 7,000 enemy soldiers had been captured.

More than a hundred warehouses now open their doors to Claude and the Rangers, who can burn as many as they want. The enemy was unable to deliver supplies to the three standing regiments on the front line due to the disconnection of the logistics corridor from the three groups. As a result, more than 600 four-wheeled wagons accumulating in the square, as well as more than 2,000 horses in the stables, were discovered at Wickham Castle.

Now there's nothing else to say, just one word, move, pick it up. So the Rangers watched more than 7,000 hard-won prisoners pile up more than six hundred four-wheeled wagons and freed more than two hundred four-wheeled wagons from their regiment to carry these logistical supplies. When it could not be loaded, more than 7,000 captives were allowed to pick a burden or carry large packages filled with daily items, which set fire to all the warehouses and evacuated Wickham Castle.

Claude, they hauled all the grass, clothing, therapeutic drugs, military logistics, ammunition, guns and guns, which were not matched by Kingdom equipment, so they didn't take them. That's why the ammunition exploded after the fireworks warehouse, leaving Castle Wickham in ruins.

After leaving Wickham Castle a few miles away, some of the prisoners who were regarded as labor could not bear to ask for a break. One or three groups of soldiers who were escorting them next to each other felt that the prisoners were deliberately delaying their journey and wanted to teach them a harsh lesson.

As a result, Claude saw them, stopped them and asked them why they had to lecture the prisoners. Soldiers replied that the prisoners were deliberately tired to delay the entire group's journey and wait for the enemy's pursuits to come after them...

Claude suddenly figured out one thing, and he laughed. It's no wonder you left Wickham Castle and felt something wrong. Now the soldiers' answers make it clear that they were afraid of enemy pursuits. With nearly 800 wagons full of supplies, everyone has the feeling of being a thief, afraid that enemy soldiers will catch up to take back these wagons full of materials...

The question is, where did the enemy come from? The Kingdom of Hicks sent five standing regiments to wage this colonial war, and the Tanya and Kudzoya regiments have been exterminated. The remaining three regiments, Vikron, Seiburg and Fabert, are said to have pulled their battalions directly to the castle of Wickham after receiving news of the great defeat of the King's fleet and are now nearly half a mile away.

The Rangers' reconnaissance cavalry has captured thousands of fallen Hicks kingdom soldiers. According to these prisoners' confessions, the food supply of the three Standing Regiments is already very strained. Apart from the fact that the officers can have some more food, soldiers like them only have one very thin bowl of porridge a day, and even those horses are slaughtered to supply the main forces with broth to ensure that they still have some fighting power...

Why bring yourself to the Rangers with your Rangers so nervous... in fact, destroy the two enemies of Wickham Castle, there can be no more enemies within a thousand miles. Instead, the closer we get to the Rangers, the closer we get to the three standing legions of the enemy.

The reason is simple: the three standing regiments of the enemy come straight to the castle of Wickham, and the Grand Troop of the Rangers follow them next to and behind them, and the Grand Troop of the Rangers is now approaching the Grand Troop of the Division, which is tantamount to marching towards the three standing regiments of the enemy, the closer they are to the enemy. Hood, Claude wakes up at this moment and walks himself to the enemy with these 800 + four-wheeled wagons full of supplies. Isn't this delivery to the door, it's just an act of enmity...

Claude, thinking about his mistakes, immediately ordered the troops, convoys and prisoners to stop and rest before sending light cavalry to scout the surrounding terrain. After the debriefing, he made a direct turn, avoiding the presumed direction of the three standing regiments of the enemy, turned to a small hill height behind Castle Wickham to the left, found clean water and ordered the soldiers and prisoners to set up camp and wait here for the final outcome of the war.

Claude waited so long to anticipate the enemy's journey, and found that by the time the enemy arrived at Wickham Castle, it had already run out of food. Then it is clear that when it is discovered that the castle of Wickham has become ruined, the enemy will surely despair and they will have no alternative but to surrender.

The counting of dates coincides with the rainy season, which is an exacerbation of the snow for the enemy. Needless to speculate, the victory and defeat of this war have been decided, and the Rangers will soon capture nearly 200,000 enemies. With 200,000 captives in mind, Claude suddenly thought that the Rangers were in a lightweight formation, tracking the enemy marching with the three standing regiments, waiting for them to surrender after despair.

So the question is, what should the 200,000 captive rangers feed them? Claude is well aware that the food and dried food that each Ranger Corps officer and soldier carries with him for up to seven days, coupled with their own consumption, is likely to last only three to four days for each soldier.

With just over 30,000 people and nearly 200,000 enemies captured by a group of rangers, they can only feed these prisoners once, or save two days. Even if the logistical heavy convoy arrived, because the logistical heavy convoy transported supplies based on the supplies consumed by the Rangers, they certainly did not expect to have nearly 200,000 more surrendered enemies, nor could they have prepared so many prisoners in advance...

When Claude's eyes fell on the barracks' more than 800 fully loaded four-wheeled wagons, he laughed and immediately ordered the soldiers to escort more than 7,000 prisoners to start expanding the barracks, finally setting up a rudimentary camp for 200,000 people to cover the fire before the March rainy season, while also preparing enough dry wood for fuel.

Claude was unable to inform General Michelch that the camp of the Triads was stationed here because the falcon, which had completed the task of burning down the stocks of military materiel at Wickham Castle, had not returned. He had to send McJackie to lead a reconnaissance team wandering around the area near Wickham Castle, finally waiting for the arrival of the Grand Troop of the Rangers, and at the same time solving the problem of how General Michelchi placed these 180,000 prisoners and how they ate and treated them...

After listening to Claude, General Michelchi laughed, and he was very happy to walk up to Claude and pat him on the shoulder: "Your growth surprises me, really, Claude, you're a natural soldier, and the battlefield is where you play your talent. You were just a brilliant warlord before, but now you have finally taken firm steps on the road to Commander.

The ability to anticipate the consequences of the evolution of the battlefield, taking into account the changes in the plan over the long term, is the basis for the knowledge and skills required by a good commander. You've helped me a lot this time, made up for my ill-considered omissions, made great achievements for the kingdom again, for the Rangers! Thank you, Claude, I've been thinking about how not to fight to force down the three standing legions of enemies, but I forgot the logistical supply pressures that would have to be put on them after they had surrendered, which is indeed my fault... "

Claude hastily humbled himself and said a few words. After seeing General Michel's face tired, he left first.

Bering Ghana Dajie! Destroy the Hicks Kingdom's five Standing Legions and destroy its King's Fleet!

When the news of the victory of the colonial war returned to the kingdom itself, the entire kingdom of Auvellas was in shock, an unexpected triumph. General Michelqi, who planned the entire battle, was hailed as a Royal Army god, even though General Michelqi, in his battle wrap-up report, had committed an omission in logistics that nearly starved all prisoners of war to death, but it still could not conceal the glory and glory of leading a legion of rangers to defeat and defeat their enemies by 300,000...

This is a miraculous battle in the history of the World War in France, and the honor of General Michelchi's military god is true - a unanimous assessment by future war history researchers.