Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 376: The Second Camp

Muried and Diaved stood in front of Claude, frustrated by their greed, and commanded the last tent area of the camp, where the enemy resisted under their command during the final sweep phase. As a result, a shotgun fired by two light infantry artillery guns, which the enemy had not known where to get from, was swept straight away, killing and injuring nearly 100 people, adding one third to the human cost of this battle, which could be counted as a victory.

Beggars and outrages from enemies on the verge of death came from afar, but nothing could change their fate. The last recalcitrant demobilized soldiers of the Duchy of Kanas, who had laid down their arms and surrendered with bare hands, could only watch themselves and their companions slaughtered in the face of the guns and bayonets of the angry victors. Apart from protests, pleading and cursing, there is no way for them to stop them from moving towards death.

Claude gave the order, and the last of the surrenders were executed locally. This is not retaliation for the heavy casualties of the Thunder Division soldiers caused by their last intransigence. The primary aim is to kill the monkeys and not to execute the more than 5,000 ex-combatants who have nothing to do with deterring the surrendered Duchy of Kanas.

Because Claude is about to lead a large army and continue to attack the camp east of the tail of the buffalo, the other two regiments of the Voluntary Light Mounted Regiment formed by retired soldiers from the Principality of Kanas, there is no way to keep too many people here to watch over the prisoners. That is why it is necessary to kill those prisoners who are most willing to fight and resist in order to ensure that there is no chaos after the departure of the large forces.

If the kingdom of Nasserli is the first dead enemy of the kingdom of Ovilas, then the Principality of Kanas is the second dead enemy. As can be seen from this offensive war, after the defensive front and camp gate, which decided to win, were lost to the camp fence, if it were the soldiers of those standing regiments in the Hicks kingdom, they would have surrendered with their good hands in order to preserve their lives.

However, the troops of the so-called Voluntary Light Cavalry Corps, made up of retired soldiers from the Principality of Kanas, even though they were overwhelmed by the Thunder Division with projectiles, and the casualties surrounding the wall were severely shocked, the former soldiers from the Principality of Kanas continued to resist as the soldiers from the Thunder Division rushed into the camp, causing more than two hundred casualties among the attackers.

In particular, the resistance and casualties were spontaneously caused in the camp tent area, either individually or in small groups, without the orders of a superior officer. Of course, Claude has ordered that all the rebels be executed even if they surrender. And the last of the veterans who used two lightweight infantry artillery guns in the tent area to lay down Murray Ed, Diavid's two commanding forces, were given a clean order by Claude the first time they surrendered and laid down their weapons!

More than 12,000 members of both regiments, and more than 5400 prisoners by the end of the fighting, can imagine how fierce their resistance is. In addition to the more than 700 recalcitrant enemies massacred, more than 2,000 wounded former soldiers of the Principality of Kanas were ordered by Claude to take them on a journey, with no need or effort for the Thunder Division to heal them. As for the more than 5,000 captives frightened by the massacre, Claude was prepared to send them back to Langhu Town as a free construction labor force.

“Lieutenant Colonel Andrews.” Claude gently spit out a name.

“To, please, the general instructs!” Standing behind Muried and Diaved, without the head of the 1304 Legion of the Battled Thunder Division, Lieutenant Colonel Androuk hurriedly took two steps forward and immediately saluted him. In fact, Claude's massacre order not only scared more than 5,000 enemies into captivity, but most of the Thunder Division's officers and soldiers were scared by Claude's heartbeat...

Gunshots are still echoing, especially as the dead end up in the ears. But Lieutenant Colonel Andrews heard Claude's orders very clearly: "Your regiment will draw two battalions together with a logistics battalion, escort the prisoners and escort the wounded back to Robisto's command, and hand over the prisoners and wounded to Major General Bolonik of the Rock First Division. And then you take my warrant to Mr. Viberon and tell him to give you all the projectiles that the iron ore factory has produced and bring them to the front line. ”

“Yes, I get it.” Colonel Andrews answered aloud.

Lieutenant Colonel Anders, next to him, immediately took the pen and paper out of the briefcase, and Claude wrote a warrant directly on the briefcase, signed it, stamped it with an official seal and then stamped it with a ring, which was handed over to Lieutenant Colonel Andrews.

“All right, I'll leave you to it. If there is anything wrong with the prisoner during the escort, I give you the power to decide on an ad hoc basis.” Claude said to Lieutenant Colonel Andrews, then turned around and looked down at Muriel and Diaveed, one of them giving a foot: “Go back and pack up your troops, give you half an hour, we'll leave immediately and go to the camp on the east side of the confession, this time be careful! ”

“Yes, General, we will not let you down again this time.” Muried and Diavid were both very happy after Claude had beaten them, because Claude had forgiven them for doing so, and immediately after the ceremony he slipped a cigarette and went to assemble his troops.

The Duchy of Kanas, the two regiments deployed on the east side of the Voluntary Light Ride Corps, did not know that the forces of the two regiments on the west side had been completely wiped out by the Thunder Division Corps, which would also be busy hunting bison. When McJackie, the leading force, led the guerrilla camp in their field of view, the enemy thought it was a small unit that accidentally touched them in the reconnaissance cavalry squad of the Overseas Territories of the Kingdom of Orvilas conducting reconnaissance.

While some wonder how these enemy LMR teams crossed the blockade line of the western allies, they still did not recall those hunting the buffalo, just stormed out of the camp a large group of LMR soldiers and stormed viciously at McJackie and others in an attempt to drive away the scourge of Lord McJackie's guerrilla camp.

McJackie was very agile at the moment, and he immediately turned around with a dozen light-handed scouts, luring the Duchy of Kanas's army of light-handed cavalry to follow him.

When that light-mounted battalion in the Principality of Kanas chased the fastest dozens of soldiers and soldiers and rushed the slow slope in front of them, everything in front of them made them stiff all at once. Just below the slow slope, more than a thousand people are lined up in a neat army formation, and everyone's gunpoint is pointed at them, and the distance between them is less than 40 meters...

And in the distance, there's a big army coming, looking at the size of the long team, not less than 20,000 people...

“Enemy. Enemy attack...” An officer from the Duchy of Kanas, headed on a slow slope, howled from his throat, thinking he was very loud, but could actually be heard by just a few soldiers next to him.

The light cavalry chased in the back had washed up a bunch of bees, but the sight had left them almost as stunned as their counterparts in the front.

“Put it down!" Mike waved.

Gunshots burst, flashing and white smoke soared from a well-lined army formation. The light cavalry of the Duchy of Kanas, crowded on the slow slope, was almost swept away. The slow slope was suddenly filled with human horses' bodies, as well as wounded and wounded horses. The screams and hissing of horses were connected, leaving only a few lucky people to react and turn their heads and run back.

“Catch up!” Mike ordered it.

The soldiers in the first second and third platoons, who had already released their guns, carried the guns behind their backs and immediately pulled out the horse knife and chased them. And the soldiers in the fourth and fifth platoons followed Michael slowly up the hill, and the enemy casualties on the ground were naturally dealt with, but most of them gave a pleasure.

A lightweight battalion in the Principality of Kanas is also more than two hundred men, more than a hundred have been shot down the slow slope, the remaining fifty or sixty riding desperately toward their camp, running and yelling: “Enemy attack! Hostile attack!”

The movement was huge, even the light cavalry hunting the buffalo stopped hunting, turned to look at the fleeing soldiers, and finally figured out what they had learned from their hand and foot dance moves, couldn't even take the buffalo body on the ground, rushed straight to the camp...

By the time Claude had arrived, the two enemy regiments had shrunk into the camp and were ready to defend themselves. Fortunately, this corps of volunteer light riders came to hunt the buffalo and did not bring a lot of artillery. According to the seizure statistics in the camp already attacked on the west side, the two regiments also had 24 light infantry artillery, about half less than normal artillery.

“Attack according to plan, and we'll have up to half a day to take over the enemy's camp.” Claude said.

It is daytime now, when the enemy sees the Thunder Division attack them, it is certain that the Eagle will send a message and follow up with the large army that is on its way. If the camp is not available for half a day, then Berklin will have to try to stall or block the subsequent stroke and time of reinforcements.

The entire camp has been surrounded, artillery has been laid in place, an hour of offensive readiness has been completed, and Claude waves and signals the beginning of the offensive.

First, lightweight infantry field artillery equipped by the Thunder Division fired at a distance of 800 metres, smashing fist-sized solid iron bullets into the walls of enemy camps. Compared to the enemy's light infantry artillery, this type of artillery made by the Kingdom of Orvillas should be the most powerful and farthest of all light infantry artillery. Just as it can now hit the enemy camp fence 800 metres outside, the Duchy of Kanas is equipped with light infantry artillery with a maximum range of only 700 metres, which can only result in passive beatings.

But the firing of four rounds of artillery does not pose a great threat to the enemy's encampment walls, and can only throw a little dirt from the barrier at most. However, the shelling of the artillery was only to cover the proximity of the Thunder Division officers and soldiers. The first soldiers attacked were all scattered and crawled close to the camp in order to avoid being shelled and the guns fired from the camp. They stopped at a distance of about 100 meters, took a shovel from the waist, quickly dug a pit in the grass, hid inside the pit, set up a gun and fired at the guards on the enemy's wall, for a short time the enemy suffered casualties, and did not dare to show their heads on the wall easily.

The Duchy of Kanas Army is also equipped with a firearm with precise targeting performance, and the only difference between them and the Obash Type 3 fireline gun equipped by the Royal Oberas Army lies in the effective range of this precise targeting. Oba, what type three is a hundred meters away, and they have an effective range of just over eighty meters.

Therefore, the main task of the first soldiers of the Thunder Division who launched the attack was to suppress the firepower of the guards on the wall while avoiding shotguns from enemy camps within 100 metres of each other. As the first soldiers began to suppress the fire above the enemy's walls, the second attacking soldiers also set out, as they crawled to the pit where the first soldiers were hiding, then pulled out the shovel and continued digging...

Soon, the second attacking soldiers had dug a shallow tunnel on the grass, stopping more than 70 metres from the walls of the enemy camp. Instead of digging forward, efforts were made to dig down, to the side, and the excavated soil was piled on the side of the position facing the camp.

The enemy above the camp wall also found movement in the second group of attacking soldiers who, although they thought the pits were strange, did not care much. Perhaps they thought that the soldiers who attacked the second group, like the first, wanted to suppress the firepower of the soldiers guarding the fence, and they were just a little closer to the fence.

This second group of attacking soldiers was already within the effective range of the enemy's precise target fire on the fence, and were therefore shot at by the enemy guards in hiding. But most of them were futile, and the bullets were fired into the dirt pile ahead.

The third group of attacking soldiers also set out, all veterans of the guerrilla camps, in groups of three, one carrying a throwing device and the other two carrying a large backpack containing four projectiles. Their goal was the large pit dug by the second offensive soldiers.

A hundred third groups of attacking soldiers mostly succeeded in entering the pit, and more than a dozen soldiers were hit by enemy fire on the way forward. However, soldiers entering the pit also began digging for the first time, allowing the pit to expand to allow people to squat or kneel upright without being hit by enemy fire.

The enemy in the camp seemed to perceive that the pit 70 metres in front of the wall posed a great threat to them and fired two rounds of shotguns at them with light infantry artillery. Only thanks to the accumulation of dirt in front of the pit, the shotgun attacks of the two rounds caused only a small number of casualties among the attacking soldiers. Instead, the artillery crew was heavily sniped by the Thunder Division's first attacking soldiers, killing and injuring dozens of people...

When the second attacking soldiers lay down on the pit and began firing guns at the enemy above the wall, it meant that he was ready to throw the bomb squad in a pit. With a sharp copper whistle coming from behind, a projectile in a large pit flew like rain towards the walls of an enemy camp...

This was almost a reprint of the encampment being attacked on the west side, with rounds of projectiles exploding over and inside the wall, which also sparked several barrels of gunpowder explosions for artillery firing, a loud explosion and vibrating mountains, after which the wall collapsed and a light infantry artillery, which distorted the tubes, was thrown up at height and landed more than 40 metres away.

A sharp copper whistle sounded in the rear, and a team of soldiers rushed up with a ladder, and they ran smoothly across the trench in front of the wall, rushing through the trench, then up the ladder against the wall, climbing up to the top of the wall and shooting at the enemy who could still move inside the camp...

The enemy's failure was inevitable when the walls were heavily lined with guns from Thunder Division soldiers.

Claude took three and a half hours to look at it. Time saved a lot, but dropping bombs was more than attacking the camp on the west side. Nearly a hundred projectile groups, almost all of them using up eight projectiles, were supported by five or six more from the rear as they extended their projectiles into the camp. 3,000 projectiles were brought out before departure, with less than 800 left...

What Claude needs to consider now is whether to go against that big army that the enemy followed...