Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 379 Victory 3

“We failed...” The commander's face was very pale, and after one night he seemed to be 20 years old, like an old man who was seventy or eighty years old with a candle: “From the beginning we were counted, and the commander of the enemy was a plotter with tactics. He forced us to abandon our strengths with defensive positions that had just begun to mount raids on us, while digging trenches with our captured prisoners of war, drawing our attention and letting us also dig trenches to fight off horses, which led us to unwittingly step into the trap.

I have not figured out until now that the enemy has invested so much force in trench defense circles for more than half a month, even at such a high casualty cost, that it is hoped that we mistakenly believe that with so much effort we can take them down and take over the camp, thus putting all our strategic forces into this trench war, no longer paying attention to the defenses of the main battalion and creating opportunities for ambushes outside their ambushes to attack. I have to admit that the enemy was perfectly arranged, and we had no idea, but had always thought that all the enemy's forces were in this camp.

We have captured the enemy's camp, and we have come to a complete collapse. Is there a more ridiculous victory? It's not that our soldiers are not brave or that our officers are not decisive, it's just that all of this is expected by the enemy, who abandoned their positions and simply evacuated without a corpse and a wounded person. The entire camp was cleared, except for the tent, which left nothing useful. While our soldiers hailed for taking over this empty camp, the enemy turned to take over the main battalion of our stockpile.

Admit it! We are now completely out of food and ammunition, and all the warriors who are unwilling to be prisoners have died in battle in front of the trench earth walls of our battalion. Unfortunately, they did not achieve their final wish to reclaim our stockpiles in the counter-insurgency camp... the rest of the children have been hungry all day and all night, and the guns and artillery in their hands are out of ammunition. Send someone to surrender, as long as you can save your life, even a few years of hard labour will always have hope of returning to your homeland... Living, better than dying here, it is my fault that the incompetent army leader took them to this point... "

The Legion Leader finally looked at the depressed officers around him and turned around and walked down the fence. There was an atmosphere of sadness and despair throughout the camp, and wounded soldiers were placed in the corner with bandages wrapped around their wounds, but the cries and screams continued to echo over the camp. They can only pray for the blessings of the gods of war, because they have no cure, no cure.

A few minutes later, a faint gunshot sounded in the camp. Shortly afterwards, the commander's squadron ran to the fence in horror and told the officers who had been staying on the fence of unfortunate news. Just a few minutes ago, the captain of the regiment who returned to the Big Book stuffed his own beloved ivory handle into the entrance and pulled the trigger...

The senior officers of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps who learned of this unfortunate news did not agree to relieve themselves. In fact, when the leader of the Corps left the fence, everyone understood, but no one was willing to come out to dissuade him. Now that the Legion Leader has committed suicide and has been perfectly targeted by the entire army, then surrendering to the enemy Thunder Division can be said to be the death of the Legion Leader, without the rest of the Legion Officers being held responsible for this crime of greed and fear of death and surrender.

On August 23, 589, after a month of battle, the Thunder Division of the Overseas Territories Overseas Territories of the Kingdom of Ovieras, commander in chief of the war zone, Major General of the Kingdom, Claude. Led by Baron Emeritus Han Fields, the Third World War, employs more than 62,000 volunteer light horseman regiments made up of retired soldiers from the Principality of Kanas employed by the entire Hicks kingdom of the Albatross Plains.

Note: More than 3,000 of them are employed servants, not counting their military strength.

This was documented in the history of the Battle of Faslan: this victory, known as the Battle of the Buffalo, demonstrated General Claude's military talent and proved the correctness of Marshal Michel's recommendation to replace himself as the commander in chief of the theatre.

At the beginning of the battle, General Claude commanded the Thunder Division to destroy and capture more than 24,000 horses from the four main Field Regiments of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps by taking down two camps set up by the enemy for hunting the migratory buffaloes of the Albatross with minor casualties.

At the same time, however, the large units that followed the arrival of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps blocked the camp to the east carrying large quantities of spoils and 7,000 prisoners of Thunder Division. At that time, the strength of the two sides was 37,000 to 22,000, and the Volunteer Light Rider Corps prevailed.

General Claude commanded the Thunder Division to set up trench defensive positions with cantonment sites as defensive centers, and made special defensive arrangements for the light mount assault tactics of the Principality of Kanas, rendering the first light cavalry probationary offensive launched by the Volunteer Light Rider Corps ineffective and returning with heavy casualties. Subsequently, a large number of prisoners were dispatched to dig trenches, stimulating the commanders of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps to make the decision to step down and dig trenches forward.

In the trench warfare that followed for more than half a month, Claude insisted on investing heavily in trench warfare, convincing the commanders of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps that the entire army of the Thunder Division was here in front of him with brutal mixing and heavy casualties. In order to win and eventually destroy the Thunder Division, the Volunteer Light Rider Corps step-by-step put its reserves in the offensive and step-by-step toward the camp occupied by the Thunder Division Corps. At that time, all officers of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps were convinced that the battle was close to victory.

It's just that the commanders of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps inadvertently relaxed their home battalion when they put all their strategic forces into the attack. And by that time, General Claude was ready for all pre-strike preparations. He ordered the hidden Thunder 131st Regiment to attack the enemy's camp with the guerrilla 131th Battalion of the most elite commando forces of the division. Instead, he stayed in the camp to direct defensive operations and buy time for the Division's Logistics Department to transfer all excess logistics, the wounded and the captives.

Two days later, Claude commanded the defensive forces to take the wounded and the bodies of the soldiers who had lost their lives, and went on horseback to evacuate the camp, leaving the defensive position, which had been in place for half a month. And the officers and soldiers who succeeded in climbing the camp walls of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps did not know that they had occupied only one empty camp as they celebrated their victory in this battle, which had resulted in heavy casualties.

Just as the Volunteer Light Rider Corps generals on all battlefields flocked to the camp to celebrate the victory, the ambushes lurking in the Thunder Division stormed the main battalion of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps. They dispatched squadrons to disguise themselves as scouting volunteer LMV scouts, successfully infiltrated enemy barracks, easily cleared outposts and patrol squads in the rear battalion, and opened battalion doors to follow troops into the barracks.

As a result, the entire battalion's rear battalion was occupied by the ambushes of the Thunder Division, while the remaining troops of the former Central Battalion's Voluntary Light Rider Corps were unaware of it, so that when the ambushes of the Thunder Division were integrated to launch raids on the former Central Battalion, the remaining troops were surprised and without any resistance, it was easy to occupy the entire battalion and leave all their reserves of supplies, grass, ammunition and horses to the Thunder Division.

The loss of the main battalion meant that the victory won by the Volunteer Light Rider Corps had become a complete joke, because nothing useful could be found in the camp they occupied except the tent had not been demolished. The logistics department of the Thunder Division cleaned up the entire camp at the time of the evacuation and could not find a broken jar.

So much so that the next morning, when the Volunteer Light Rider Regiment was ready to launch a counter-attack against the camp in an attempt to reclaim the main battalion, those brave soldiers who were ready to fight could not even drink a horse broth, they could barbecue it on a cow dung bonfire with only one slice of horse meat and stuffed it in their mouths, drank a few more groundwater mats and went to the battlefield, and eventually fell in front of the camp.

The best part of the battle was when General Claude chose to evacuate the camp and seize the enemy camp at 3 p.m. At this time, for an attacker who fought all day, it was like a barrel of stimulants, and the enemy fled, finally seizing the enemy's position and winning. For the generals of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps, they cared nothing but to celebrate and cheer on the ground, so they flocked to the camp.

But the celebration was followed by extreme physical exhaustion, and the bad news that the main battalion had been captured by the enemy was like a blow to them, easily plunging the generals into a very low morale state of frustration. In such cases, even if the commander of the regiment wanted to organize an immediate counterattack, there were not many soldiers whose bodies could be eaten, and they needed a good rest in order to regain energy and strength.

However, there was no grass or ammunition at the camp of the Thunder Division that was captured, but the number of * * * camps was not contaminated in any way, even barrels for water battering. Unfortunately, a pot and a jar could not be found throughout the camp and the soldiers could only drink some cold water to sleep.

The Thunder Division, which took over the main battalion of the Volunteer Light Rider Regiment, avoided the first time being attacked by the enemy, thus allowing enough time to set up night defenses and clean up the entire battalion to clear out the hidden dangers. With the remaining troops of the Thunder Division shifting overnight to the battalion, the entire battalion's defenses were tightened, and the overall battle balance was already tending towards the Thunder Division.

In the early morning of the following day, only small units of the Enterprise Thunder Division attacked the commanders of the Volunteer Light Riding Corps who occupied the main battalion, slaughtered more than 100 of their horses, assembled more than 3,000 of the most elite soldiers and basic officers, each divided a piece of horse meat, burned a little down his stomach on the bonfire, and attacked the main battalion occupied by the Thunder Division. But their hopes were dashed, and most of the more than 3,000 sergeants fell in front of the barracks, and no one could rush in.

The tragic defeat of this battle meant the end of the entire Buffalo battle, and the total demise of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps was inevitable. In addition to the lack of grass, their ammunition stockpiles are mostly in their home battalions, with only two guns remaining in the hands of many soldiers. Although there is water, lack of food leaves even the buffalo herd, because the battle for much of the month is long gone, leaving only a muddy plain, rarely even green grass.

The most painful thing is that the Volunteer Light Riding Regiment, in order to attack the camp, moved on, lost its horses, and everyone was trapped in the camp. The Thunder Division, on the other hand, is restored to light cavalry, which can be monitored from afar until the Voluntary Light Cavalry Corps starves to death.

Thus, when the commander of the Voluntary Light Rider Corps committed suicide, the remaining Corps officers led more than 26,000 soldiers to surrender their weapons to the Thunder Division. The battle of the Buffalo ended with the demise of the Volunteer Light Rider Corps, which killed and injured more than 17,000 people, including more than 6,000 and maimed more than 10,000. Whereas the Legion of Thunder has more than 8,000 casualties, more than 3,000 have been killed in the war, and nearly 5,000 have been injured. The ratio of casualties on both sides is 2: 2 to 1.

For Claude, the Thunder Division Corps is also close to energetic damage. Though it is a reinforced division with more than 32,000 troops, the battle force strength is nearly 30,000, six battalions of four regiments, and the remaining 2,000, although military, are civilian and auxiliary, with little fighting power. From the start of the sneak attack on the enemy's camp to the end of the subsequent large forces that forced the enemy to land, the Thunder Division lost nearly 10,000 casualties, almost one third of its fighting power.

However, the harvest is still quite impressive, grass and ammunition, which, needless to say, is an enviably large asset for more than 50,000 horses and ponies alone. If Claude were willing to take these horses and horses out for sale, he would receive an immediate sum of over KK 200,000, which would also meet the needs of civilian capacity throughout the theatre.

Only Claude felt the biggest deficiency in this battle with the Volunteer Light Rider Corps, which was that the strength was very different from that of the former Rangers. It is inevitable that the Rangers were originally formed by the elite forces of the Five Year Eastern War.

And now the Thunder Division, although they have been redeployed as the backbone, most of the followers are age-appropriate soldiers and immigrant retired soldiers selected by the overseas field corps, and even after six months of training, their military qualities are far worse than those of the elites who joined the Rangers.

In serious comparison, Claude thinks the Thunder Division's current strength and the kingdom's four Ace Field Legions are one grade, perhaps a little worse than the Guardian Corps. That's why there are so many casualties in this battle, and there's often a feeling of underpower when commanding defense.

So what Claude is currently thinking is whether to pull another division out of the battlefield and form a second division of Thunder. Previously, when Marshal Michel had a defensive plan for five divisions, it was limited to the equipment of the Rangers, that is, the number of horses in possession could only be equipped with one division. So he named the division Thunder and gave it to Claude because Claude was best at offense.

The Rock 1st and 2nd Legions were used by Marshal Michel to implement the guarantees of position defense to drag down the Kingdom of Hicks, while the 1st and 2nd Legions were used to supplement the reserves of the Front Line Loss. Only the two division leaders changed the names of the reserves to Rock 3rd and 4th Legions, but they were in fact reserves to play the role of soy sauce.

Claude has now captured nearly 50,000 battle horses and horses from the Volunteer Light Riding Corps, and can completely reunite another Thundering 2nd Division to work with himself to make up for the lack of underpower. But first, we need to go back to the four division leaders and discuss which division is more appropriate.

At this point, McJackie came in with a message from the Eagle in his hand: "General, Colonel Andrews is back, bringing 5,000 projectiles, and the Rock Third Division is coming with him. ”

Claude said, “The Rock Third Division? General Albert? What's he doing here? ”

McJackie replied: "The Eagle sent a message that General Albert was leading the Rock III Division here for long distance pull training. ”

Claude leaves his mouth shut: “Fucking pull, this guy just came by to see if there was cheap to pick up and stay in the back bored and want to make a little fuss about the war. ”

McJackie laughed: "General, it's a good thing they're here. We can just hand over the prisoners and take the troops to Crowell. Didn't the senior officers of the Principality of Kanas confess that the volunteer field regiment of the Kingdom of Nasseri had also arrived at the site of Castle Wickham and were ready to re-establish a logistics supply base there? ”