Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 382 Attack

“Can we go back now?” General Albert rushed into Claude's big Chinese account. Though the Thunder Division did not catch up with the Duchy of Kanas Volunteer Light Rider Regiment, the Rock III Division also figured strength in the battle to surround the Kingdom of Nasserley Volunteer Field Regiment at Castle Wickham, and Claude endorsed the conversion of his division into the Thunder II Division. So General Albert has been quite satisfied and in a good mood for more than a decade. Now all he wants to do is escort the prisoner back with his capture and show off in front of General Bolognick and others...

Claude shook his head: "No, it's another month..."

General Albert said, “Another month? Didn't we take care of everything here? Why do we have to stay here so long? ”

In the more than a decade since the capture of Wickham Castle, all the prisoners, all the materials seized, the wounded on both sides have been accounted for and, in the view of General Albert, there is nothing left to deal with but a triumphant return.

Claude handed him a folder: "Look at this. ”

General Albert picked up the folder and opened it up. It was all statements made by senior officers of the Voluntary Field Corps of the Kingdom of Nasserley. After a quick look, he didn't notice any special circumstances. He asked curiously: "Claude, do you think there are any halls of fame in these statements? ”

“Oh, there's nothing famous about fame. Look at page 14.” Claude replied.

“Page 14?” General Albert hurriedly turned to page fourteen and looked carefully, but was somewhat disappointed. Because what is recorded here is the confession of a captured officer, which is also a routine statement of the Voluntary Field Corps. Among them, mention was made of frequent fights and fights between soldiers of the Voluntary Field Corps and those of the two Standing Army Regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks, all of which were controversies over small, garlic matters. The only thing of some value was the appraisal by this captive officer of the combat power of the two newly formed Standing Army Regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks, which was said to be of its own form and without divinity.

“Take a look at page 21.” Claude said.

Page 21 is also the testimony of a captive officer, except that the captive captain officer of the Kingdom of Nasserli once served as a training instructor for the newly formed Standing Army of the Kingdom of Hicks. In his statement, he believed that the soldiers of the Kingdom of Hicks were a very good source and that a little training would make them a qualified soldier. It's just never been to the battlefield, and there's still a big gap between becoming an elite fighter.

As for the officers at the grassroots level, in the statement of this captive officer, they were considered courageous and barbaric, less calm and prone to bloodbaths, but they were willing to shoulder their burdens without fear of sacrifice. But the high ranking officers of the Hicks kingdom are underrated, old-fashioned, proud, insisting on so-called noble dignity, not judging the times, emphasizing superiority and inferiority, and preferring to shirk their responsibilities. In a way, they are more like politicians or bureaucrats than just a soldier.

Finally, the assessment of the combat power of the two newly formed Standing Legions of the Kingdom of Hicks, so summed up by the captured middle-ranking officer of the Kingdom of Nasserley, argues that the Kingdom of Hicks has first-class bottom soldiers, second-ranking base officers and third-ranking high-ranking commanders. Without a radical military change, the Kingdom of Hicks will always be a muddy giant...

“Mudfoot giant? Ha ha ha ha...” General Albert laughs: “I've never really seen this metaphor before, just associating myself with the performance of those standing regiments in the Hicks kingdom of the previous two colonial wars, and I think it's really very relevant. ”

“Oh, that's what I thought.” Claude nods: “The metaphor is appropriate, but what do you see from these statements? ”

General Albert's face became serious: “I feel you should be fighting these two Standing Regiments..."

“Nice, you're feeling very sharp.” Claude laughed: “If you look at page 28, you'll see why this volunteer field corps in the Kingdom of Nasserley is running to Wickham Castle to build a logistics base. ”

General Albert hastily turned the documents at his disposal to page 28, which contained statements by the Logistics Supervisor of the Voluntary Field Corps, documenting a number of rivalries between the two mercenary corps, the Voluntary Field Corps and the Voluntary Light Mounted Corps, and the two senior ranks of the Standing Corps of the Kingdom of Hicks who arrived later, as well as disputes over the interests of discord between senior officers of the Corps. There are also the main reasons why two mercenary groups were forced into Cromwell territory during this military operation, occupying Wickham Castle and constructing a logistics base.

After the failure of the Second Colonial War, the Hicks employing retired soldiers from the Kingdom of Nasserley and the Principality of Kanas to form two voluntary regiments stabilized the situation in the entire Colonial County of Vibato, and it had to be said that it was a magical move. This initiative compelled a vigorous group of rangers to abandon their intention to seize the port of Vibato and preserve the Kingdom of Hicks as the only excellent seaport on the continent.

Likewise, the annihilation of the five Standing Legions has stripped the Kingdom of Hicks from the guise of a powerful army in front of the countries of the Farea continent, and the army of the Kingdom of Hicks, which has not experienced war for more than four decades, is no longer an armed force that frightens its neighbours. Thus, the wise men of the Kingdom of Hicks proposed to hire instructors from the kingdoms of Nasseri and Kanas, just after the five-year war in the eastern region, to train the 10 standing regiments to be formed in preparation for the third colonial war.

Instructors from both countries who had travelled to the Kingdom of Hicks to help train their soldiers found their treatment somewhat strange. Their training and tactical tactics are very welcome in front of the soldiers and officers at the bottom, after all, as a means of preserving their lives on the battlefield, and no one will fail to take them seriously. But their tactical tactics and training have always been questioned and criticized in the presence of high-ranking officers and regimental commanders in the Kingdom of Hicks. A number of high-ranking officers blamed their tactics bluntly and lacked the courage of a warrior to take charge. He would rather his soldiers face death with their heads up than let them shrink in the trenches like a mouse...

As a result, their mission came to an end when the instructors trained soldiers and grass-roots officers of the two newly formed Standing Regiments. Then, as the two standing regiments were transported to Port Vibato, they joined the volunteer regiments of the two countries. And with the arrival of these instructors, those silly jokes about the high ranks of the Hicks Army spread to the two regiments, and the retired soldiers of these hired volunteer regiments more belittled the strength of the Hicks Army, and none of them liked the two newly formed standing regiments.

Originally guarded by the voluntary field corps of the Kingdom of Nasri, the border guard of the Colonial County of Vibato was carried out by the Voluntary Light Rider Corps of the Principality of Kanas. Two new Standing Regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks have now been formed, first bringing a food crisis to the colony, and when the food crisis has passed, the two Standing Regiments have been ordered to capture the Nikantha in large numbers along the coast of the colony.

They gave some of that youth to the mining owners of the colony as slaves to mining, and drove the rest of the Nikanchas to grow potatoes outside the port of Vibato in reclaimed wasteland, where nearly 10,000 Nikanchas were killed and exhausted in just six months by soldiers of the two Standing Legions.

For the retired soldiers employed in the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kanas, they do not treat the Nikanchas so cruelly as slaves, although they despise them, especially as they like to vent their extra energy on those Nikancha women.

It is only with the arrival of these two Standing Armies of the Kingdom of Hicks that everything has changed: the Nikanca community, which belongs to the coast of the colony of the Kingdom of Hicks, has been destroyed, and all Nikancas have been arrested, whether they are colonized elders, chiefs or hard-working labourers, as long as the red skin is the inexcusable sinner. They were captured and enslaved, while the official propaganda of the Kingdom of Hicks was to purify the colonial race and build a new home for the white people of the Farea continent...

So the soldiers of the two standing legions who were the executioners were stigmatized and ridiculed by two soldiers who hired volunteer legions, because no regular army would do something so damaging. Two soldiers who hired volunteer corps scolded the soldiers of these Hicks kingdoms as slave masters, believing that what they did tarnished the honor of regular soldiers of a kingdom, and did the vile things only local guards would do, not despise the recognition of their military identity...

As a result, the port of Vibato entered the autumn of events, and a street fight was inevitable as long as soldiers from both sides met. As a result, the soldiers of the two Standing Legions of the Kingdom of Hicks were not opponents of those who hired the oil of the veterans of the Voluntary Legion, and for three days they were stuck in the barracks, unable to resist the soldiers who preferred to provoke them outside the barracks.

Things got worse, and some of the higher-ranking members of the Hicks Army couldn't get off the stage, so they decided to move the two volunteer regiments to the front line. Anyway, they were the owners of the money, and no two volunteer corps could be hired to disobey them, and they ordered the Voluntary Field Corps of the Kingdom of Nasserley and the Voluntary Light Ride Corps of the Principality of Kanas to attack Cromwell and take possession of the adjacent part of the Vibato Colony County as a front-line barrier for the protection of Vibato Colony County.

If both of these volunteer regiments obey the orders of the Hicks Army and stay under Cromwell's command, that would put Claude in a lot of trouble. The supportive field regiment of the Kingdom of Nasseri adheres to the castle of Wickham and the volunteer light rider regiment of the Principality of Kanas guerrillas and echoes, then let alone the Thunder Division, and Claude brings in all five divisions of the theatre and fails to annihilate the two employing volunteer regiments, perhaps with two defeats.

Fortunately, the Voluntary Light Rider Corps of the Principality of Kanas did not take the orders of the military of the Kingdom of Hicks as a guiding principle, leaving the colonial county of Vibato, and began to release itself to hunt the migrating buffalo herd to earn more. This may also have to do with the inability of the two hired volunteer regiments to achieve unity of command. During the five years of the Eastern War, the Principality of Kanasser was an ally of the Kingdom of Nasser, dominated by the Kingdom of Nasser. But now both countries are equally employed by the Kingdom of Hicks, and the two employing volunteer corps are equal in status.

Perhaps the Principality of Kanas' Volunteer Light Rider Corps left the Cromwell administration just reluctant to follow the orders of the Kingdom of Nasserley's Volunteer Field Corps. It is no longer five years of Eastern Regional Warfare, and no one is willing to remain an unconditional dick, so it is only an excuse to hunt the migrating buffalo to earn some extra money. But it gave Claude a broken fighter jet, and with the throwing of bombs and unintentional planning, both hired volunteer regiments became history of smoke extinction...

Claude spreads a big map on his desk, a map of Vibato Colony County in the Kingdom of Hicks. He said to General Albert: "Come and look at this captured map, which marks the twenty-seven important defensive strongholds of the entire Vibator Colony County border line. Thirteen days ago, I ordered my reconnaissance battalion to infiltrate the enemy into zero, to reconnaissance and verify the authenticity of the defensive front marked on this map. These two days the scout team's hawk sent back confirming that all defensive positions on the map were identical to the signs and were correct.

By the way, this map was taken from the battalion of the Voluntary Light Rider Corps of the Principality of Kanas. As you should know, the original responsibility of the Voluntary Light Ride Corps of the Principality of Kanas was the defensive duties of the Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of Front of the Colony of Vibato, only that they are now replaced by the newly formed Tofid Standing Regiment of the Kingdom of the Hicks. But I'm glad that the Volunteer Light Rider Corps, which left Colony County Vibato, didn't give this defensive stronghold map to the Toffed Regiment to replace them, but let it fall into my hands.

The information received from the reconnaissance battalion currently infiltrating the enemy indicates that the Tofid Standing Regiment of the Kingdom of Hicks took over the defensive tasks of the Border Defense Front of the Voluntary Light Rider Regiment (VLRF) and that no changes were made. Instead, the defensive arrangements of the VLRF were arranged on a systematic basis. And I found one of their biggest negligences, and they forgot that the Volunteer Light Rider Corps, unlike them, was the elite Light Rider Corps of the Principality of Kanas, and they were just an infantry field corps. ”

Claude points to the color markers next to those defensive strongholds on the dot map: "Alan, look, along the border, there are 21 important defensive strongholds, connected to a defensive front. The Voluntary Light Ride Regiment of the Principality of Kanas deployed a main battalion to defend each important defensive position while three Mobile Light Ride Regiments were deployed at the rear of the three positions to carry out mobile reinforcements in accordance with the situation on the front line. The other three blue strongholds are logistics stores to replenish grass ammunition at the 21 key defensive positions on the front line and to treat the wounded who have been evacuated, while the gold stronghold, located in the rear centre, is their command centre.

If the Voluntary Light Rider Corps of the Principality of Kanas were to guard itself on this defensive front, it would indeed cause a great deal of trouble for the attackers. Because no matter which important checkpoint an attacker raids, as long as the guards hold on for a moment, they will receive constant reinforcements and material replenishments from behind. But now the Tofid Standing Army of the Kingdom of Hicks has been replaced to guard the Front de défense du frontier, and they have no mobility. And I don't think one of their battalions will last an hour in our Thunder Division offense.

The biggest drawback of this border defence front is that the rest of the so-called important checkpoint positions will be rendered ineffective as long as one of them is overcome. If the enemy goes around the back of this border defensive front, the guards of these two dozen important defensive strongholds in front of them can only be captured with their backs cut off. For the Voluntary Light Rider Corps of the Kingdom of Kanas, they can compensate for this shortcoming with the engine power of the Light Riders, but for this Tofid Standing Army, taking over the Border Defense Front is automatically jumping into the pit dug by the Voluntary Light Rider Corps! ”

General Albert looked closely at the important defensive positions marked on this map and had to conclude by saying that Claude was quite right, although he had some concerns: “We now have fewer than five main groups to fight, and we have to leave the troops to guard the prisoners and guard the castle of Wickham..."

Claude laughed: "We don't need that many troops. We have a major field regiment with a guerrilla battalion of one, three, one battalion. You can take two more regiments. The rest of the troops remained at Castle Wickham. All we have to deal with is the newly formed Standing Army of the Kingdom of Hicks, not the elite forces of the Kingdom of Nasseri and the Principality of Kanas..."

On October 23, 589, the Holy Light, Claude led the Thunder Division in an attack on Vibator Colony County in the Kingdom of Hicks.