Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 375: Attack in the Morning

“Reporting General, we have just received a message from Lieutenant Colonel Muried of the 1302 Regiment that their reconnaissance cavalry has discovered the enemy's whereabouts and is currently undergoing covert surveillance, requesting instructions from the Division.” Lieutenant Colonel Anders came in to report.

“Oh, have you finally found it...” Claude's spirits are vibrating, it's been a week since we found the buffalo, and it's only now that we've found the enemy's trail. It seems that the voluntary corps of light horsemen formed by the retired soldiers of the Principality of Kanas really wants money to die, knowing that several of their scouting teams have disappeared, is likely to be captured and leaked their readiness to hunt buffalo. But here they are, ignoring the five reinforced divisions formed in the new war zone of the kingdom of Orvillas, or they can't get into the money...

“Where is the enemy? How big is it?” Claude was getting ready for a nap, and I didn't expect Major Anders to come in and report on the enemy's whereabouts, and he jumped off the mattress on the ground and asked as he packed his uniform.

Major Anders answered as he went forward to help Claudette secure his belt: "The letter does not say, but it is expected to be on a large scale. Because Lieutenant Colonel Muried, in a message from the Hawk, said that the scout cavalry they had sent was the result of the massacre of the wolves behind the buffalo by those light cavalry soldiers in the Principality of Kanas, and that the noise was so loud that they found traces of the enemy. ”

Slaughtering wolves? Claude nodded and it was clear that the enemy had at least one regiment of troops to slaughter the thousands of wolves that followed the buffalo herd. They deal with the nasty wolves before they prepare to hunt the buffalo, so they don't have to worry about the wolves staring at each other until the official hunt begins. Only the size and strength of the army do not have to worry about revenge from the wolves, maybe they also use them as prey...

“Blow the horn, get the troops ready to go, and in half an hour we'll pull the battalion towards the 1302 Regiment cantonment camp.” Claude ordered.

On the outskirts of the migration route along the bison herd, another two days after the march arrived at the cantonment camp of the 1302 Regiment of the Thunder Division. Nearly 4,000 metres away from the buffalo herd, this is a dimpled area of a small mound where there is no hidden military camp in the distance. Claude was satisfied that Muriel finally grew in, and the camp was a good choice.

It was learned that Muried, led by Claude, had ordered soldiers to expand the camp to accommodate the division and the two regiments accompanying him. He also greeted Claude early in the day, debriefing Claude about the war.

Nearly a million migratory bison are spread over the grasslands, nearly a dozen miles wide. The enemies found by the Muried-led Thunder 1302 regiment were on the west side of the tail of the buffalo herd, and some two regiments, after killing nearly a thousand grassland blue and redhead wolves, had already begun hunting the buffalo for two days. Based on these two days of covert observation, Muried speculated that the enemy could be a soldier divided into two groups, one on the west side of the tail of the buffalo and one on the east side, which would speed up the efficiency of hunting the buffalo and generate more revenue...

Claude similarly dispatched two regiments of the Thunder Division as the lead force to search the plains for the enemy's whereabouts, and now Muried's 1302 regiment has discovered the enemy's whereabouts. Claude immediately sent a hawk message instructing the 1301 regiment in Berlin to stick straight behind the enemy, cutting off the enemy's exit path with the 1301 regiment, and preparing to beat the enemy one by one.

This Voluntary Light Riding Corps of retired soldiers from the Principality of Kanas sent only one division of troops to hunt the buffalo. Claude was confident that he would command this division of the Thunder Division on the Albatross prairie to destroy all enemies, trying not to let an enemy escape to return the message...

However, Claude will need to observe again before the command forces launch their offensive.

As can be seen from the single binoculars, the former soldiers of the Principality of Kanas mounted very well and quickly separated dozens of bison from the tail of the buffalo herd and hunted them with ease. A hunt lasted less than half an hour from start to finish, and the convoys that followed moved the bodies of the bison to the car for disposal in a camp not far from here. It just starts over and over again, and it looks like a very smoothly functioning buffalo slaughter line.

No wonder the captured Duchy of Kanas reconnaissance cavalry confessed that last year it was also a divisional force, killing more than 30,000 bison and earning 780,000 gold kroner. No wonder this year this volunteer corps sent a division of troops to hunt the buffalo, knowing that its reconnaissance cavalry had been captured with the potential to leak their whereabouts to hunt the buffalo. It's a tremendous sum of money, 780,000 gold kroner. It's really an extra fast that can't be easily rejected.

Of course, this may have much to do with the enemy's belief that the five divisions in the new war zone have just been formed and have not yet threatened their strength, or are confident in their own combat power. They probably think it's still safe to go hunting for bison this year. Five divisions from the Overseas Territories of the Kingdom of Orvilas have just been formed and are unlikely to attack them...

While the enemy has this view, they deserve an army of veterans with extensive battlefield experience. Their camp was well guarded and a trench measuring two metres wide and three metres deep was dug around the camp. The excavated soil was constructed into a three-metre barrier, combined with logging plates transported from the rear, which, combined with the soil barrier, formed a protective fence consistent with the height of the short and the wrong, forming a very high security barrier for the camp.

In the case of the Rangers last year, such a well-guarded camp would also have to pay a heavy casualty price to take it down. But now that Claude has the weapon to throw bombs, he has the certainty that this wall of the enemy will become a shackle that will trap them. It's just that before attacking, the Thunder Division officers and soldiers need to do some prep work, like crossing trenches and climbing ladders on walls...

“Reporting General, Lieutenant Colonel Berklin sent the Eagle message, they found the enemy's follow-on division, more than two days away from us...” Lieutenant Colonel Anders sent an updated urgent message to Claude.

“What, enemies and follow-ups?” Claude grabbed this urgent letter and opened it, saying in his letter that he had sent a team of reconnaissance cavalry to the border between the white-collar territories of Ghana and Cromwell, which was just an unconscious assignment and that luck might have captured several enemy reconnaissance cavalry, perhaps a correspondent or something. But it was unexpected that the Squad's reconnaissance cavalry arrived at the border and suddenly it was discovered that a large number of enemy cavalry were marching, estimated to be close to a division.

The entire army of the Voluntary Light Rider Regiment formed by the retired soldiers of the Principality of Kanas? Why? Claude looked again at the Squad Reconnaissance Cavalry written above, and it was about 10: 00 a.m., and it was 4: 00 p.m., and almost a day passed. Then the enemy's follow-on army will likely arrive here in a day or a day and a half, leaving little time for the Thunder Division...

“Orders were issued to Lieutenant Colonel Berkelin to lead the 1301 regiment in the search for a suitable location, awaiting subsequent notification and, if necessary, resolutely blocking the enemy's subsequent large forces in order to delay the troops of the division from hunting the buffalo. The order went on, dinner was served an hour in advance, and all troops rested immediately after the meal. The Thunder Division will attack the enemy's camp at dawn.” Claude came to a standstill and gave the order to fight.

“Yes, General.” Major Anders' spiritual courtesy is ready to go out and deliver the order.

“Wait, let all battalion-level officers in charge of the division come immediately and start with a pre-war seminar to define the tasks and actions of the ministries.” Claude said again.

It was late at night and the enemy's camp was lit with fire and bears. After five years of war in the eastern part of the country, the most casualties occurred in the position of the Principality of Rimodra attacking the elite forces in the field of defense, and their measures against night attacks were very well put in place. A pile of bonfires split into two floors in front and two floors at a distance of twenty or thirty meters, enclosing a 50-metre square in front of the camp walls within the lighting range of the bonfire.

At such a distance, any enemy wishing to make a sneak attack on the camp would not escape the eyes of a dark post on the fence and, as long as it entered the lighting range of the bonfire, the sentry would be drawn with precise cold gunfire.

Claude et al. saw from afar that a spotted leopard attracted to the past by the smell of blood and bacon from the camp had been targeted by seventy-eight guns from the fence at a moment near the trench. With the flash of fire on the wall and the rise of smoke, this spotted leopard trembled and fell to the ground. After more than 10 minutes, a small group of horses and a carriage drove out of the camp and threw the body of the spotted leopard onto the car and returned to the camp.

All the high-ranking officers who saw the scene began to glow. Obviously, the enemy was not a persimmon, and their strength should count as hard walnuts. This is an elite force, not a standing legion of the Hicks kingdom that you can all imagine fighting for.

“All right, let's go back.” Claude put away the single binoculars: "The enemy's fighting power is clear to everyone, not much weaker than our Thunder Division. This time, however, all you have to do is remember the tasks assigned to you, and the guerrilla camp will take over the fence and the camp gates in the first place. On the other hand, you attack the area under your responsibility according to the pre-battle arrangement and sweep away the remaining enemies. ”

“General, are you sure the guerrilla camp is sure to take over the enemy's heavily guarded fence and camp gates?” Muried asked with some concern.

“Of course.” Claude laughed: “Because we have secret weapons. ”

At 4: 00 in the morning, the darkest night had passed, and the sky had revealed a hint of fish belly, although the fish belly was quickly dyed brown and red. In the continent of Nubian, red has become a common colour, the sky is red, the earth is red, even the oceans are red...

The safety of the night allowed the sentries operating on the camp walls to relax their guard, and in half a day the sky will shine, and today will be another day of tension and fullness. Hunting for a buffalo can be tiring for everyone, but if you're busy for more than half a month, everyone can get two or three gold loonies. Is there a better deal in the world? The Legion is said to have decided to do its utmost to hunt more buffalo and try to double it compared to last year, so that everyone could double their profits.

(Note: Ginlouni is the legal gold coin of the Principality of Kanas, and the gold krone of the Kingdom of Ovilas is converted into three to two.

Campfires on the outskirts of the camp have largely been extinguished, and these piles of dry cow dung, though burnt, smell less good and have a slight scorching odor. But on the prairie, if cow dung is not used as fuel, there is no way to build up so many bonfires in case of night attacks. Now it's almost dawn, and the extinguished bonfires are still brimming with white smoke, some like morning fog, which is connected to a patch, shielding the periphery of the camp.

This scenario, however, has become commonplace for sentries on the camp wall, and it will not be long before the morning breeze blows away the smoke outside the camp. Even if it seems to be a bit of movement outside, guess which undead beasts are attracted to the fleshy scent of the camp and won't leave. Never mind, when the sun shines, most of the cavalry in the camp will be out, and the beasts outside the camp won't be able to escape...

So when countless smoking black iron canisters landed inside the walls and walls outside the camp, most of the sentries still didn't react. What's going on? They just stuck around and looked at these black iron canisters that landed around and not far away, and there was a soldier trying to pick up one and take a closer look at what it was...

Then there was the fierce explosion, and the walls and walls of the camp became human hell for a time, flesh and blood, and even a small fraction of the walls were destroyed.

“Enemy attack!” Finally, the surviving sentry screamed out loud.

There is no need to remind him that the sound of the explosion has made all this clear. The troops of the retired soldiers of the Principality of Kanas in this camp are truly elite, and when they react, they pick up their guns and rush towards the fence. This is the most robust defensive position in the entire camp, and even if they are raided by the enemy, they will never abandon this line of defense, and the enemy will not take over the wall so easily as long as one person is present.

No soldier was shocked by the sight of heavy casualties around the wall, and even his comrades stopped to help him because of their injuries, a battlefield tragedy that had become common a few years earlier when they attacked positions in the Principality of Rimodra. Soldiers rushing to the fence were well aware that they had time to save their comrades only if they repelled the enemy's attack first. Otherwise, once the fence is captured by the enemy, there will only be more casualties to its comrades, and even the entire force will be destroyed by the enemy, perhaps even itself...

Just as those fearless soldiers rushed against the wall in search of the whereabouts of their attacking enemies, another tank of iron lit with green smoke fell on the wall and beside them, and then exploded, the flames, the smoke, the flying fragments of the human body, the countless sorrows and screams connected.

Together, the iron canisters landed four to five rounds around the fence and the fence, and no soldier from the Principality of Kanas dared rush against the fence. The fence has been blown into pit depths, and logs have collapsed more than a dozen times inside. But it doesn't matter, what's important is that the scene inside the wall is unbearable. The flesh and body cover almost two meters of ground and wall inside the wall. A blood depression of different sizes has appeared on the ground...

As the first Thunder Division soldier stepped on the ladder and protruded from the outside of the wall, driving the gun against the wall and aiming inside the camp, he looked at the tragedy inside the wall and immediately lowered his head on the ladder, he threw up...

The result of the battle was nothing to say, and with the throwing of the bomb, Claude led the Thunder Division to an easy victory in a tough battle. The enemies of both regiments were exterminated, and the hard work they had worked over the past few days had fallen into Claude's hands.

Claude was simply dissatisfied with the fact that even after consuming nearly a thousand projectiles, killing and injuring his enemies, the guerrilla camp easily took over the walls of the enemy camp. But the three regiments rushed into the camp and swept away the remaining remnants of the enemy, while still being severely traumatized by intransigence. More than three hundred and seventy casualties left Claude angry and scolded the two lieutenant-colonels, Muriel and Diaved...