Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 395 Attack Warfare Rehearsal

This is a very well-equipped and robust defensive position that, in the eyes of the new commander in chief of the theatre, General Algers, he has seen more, five years of Eastern Regional Warfare, the brutal position of the Principality of Rimodra, and many of the enemy's defensive positions are worse than this, but still inflict heavy casualties on the Corps.

“Such positions, defended by a battalion of troops, are sufficient against an attacker of a regiment. How many men are you going to send in this drill, and how many casualties are you expected to take?” General Algers' very good assessment was that he turned to General Bolognick and General Sevicht, who were with him.

Early this morning, General Algers, accompanied by a large number of his entourage, travelled to General Sevicht's Rock II Division for an inspection and asked General Sevicht's command unit to conduct a field position offensive drill to assess the offensive strength of the Rock II Division. and personally took people to defensive positions to see if there were any omissions.

A number of soldiers were placing a scarecrow in trenches and beside a dirt barrier, while eight wooden artillery models were erected at the position. A battalion of thousands of individuals will certainly not place more than a thousand scarecrows on the position, but a scarecrow will replace a team of twelve, so that only a hundred scarecrows will be needed on the defensive position.

“I intend to launch an attack with a large team…” replied General Sevicht.

General Algers nodded: “Well, you're doing something steady and the tactics are legitimate, which is an advantage. Initially launch a probe attack with a large team of troops enough to test out most of the enemy's fire deployment locations in the defensive position, then a second attack can avoid artillery firing areas in the defensive position, reduce soldiers' casualties, find weaknesses in enemy positions and concentrate on launching a raid, it is indeed possible to break through the enemy's defensive positions with minimal casualties..."

General Sevicht looked at General Bolognick next to General Algers and seemed to be refuting something. General Bolognick shook his head slightly and General Sevicht took a deep breath and nodded to General Algers: “General, I went first to command you to watch our offensive drills here and to coach and evaluate our soldiers after the war. By the way, General, when do we launch our offensive? ”

“Actually, the best time to launch an offensive is at night, because the attackers can use the cover of the night to get closer to the defensive position, while the attention of one of the defensive sentries can be reduced by the lighting of the bonfire in front of the position. Sometimes on windy nights, the flashes of fire can even distract sentries and guards, making them more suitable for raids by attackers. ”

General Algers said very professionally: "But since General Sevicht is preparing to launch a convoy of probationary attacks first, the evening is not a good time to record clearly the fire points on the defensive positions. Let's set the time for the attack to be around 2pm during the day, we can delay it to night with a probationary attack and two forgeries, then we can launch a truly decisive raid..."

General Sevicht turned his head and General Bolognick was briefed by his deputy and left General Argers. So a couple of school officers from the guard regiment who came with General Algers were surrounded by the general, and a lieutenant colonel officer laughed: "General, the head of the second division of the rock seems to be a little uncomfortable with your point, very uncomfortable..."

Another colonel officer of the guard regiment shook his head: "They are also defensive second-line troops, who are unaware of the difficulties of attacking positions on the battlefield. I suspect that they will not conduct offensive drills in their daily training, and this offensive battle for positions is likely to turn into a farce. Perhaps they believe that just one strike is needed to make it to the defensive position, even if the victory occupies the defensive position..."

General Algers did not stop his officers from making a messy mockery, and it was not long before he said: "Okay, shut up and watch the drill. If you're going to accuse others, you have to find conclusive evidence, not blank teeth. ”

A lieutenant colonel from the Rock 2nd Division came and stood up in front of General Algers, reporting aloud: "General, following your instructions, the Rock 2nd Division is scheduled to attack the enemy's defensive positions at 2 p.m. and is now two minutes away from attack time. Lieutenant Colonel Pomberg, Chief of Staff, Division Command, may I explain the offensive drill for this position? ”

General Algers smiled and waved: “No need to explain, we can see clearly here in such a small offensive exercise, there is no need to explain anything. ”

“Yes.” Now that General Algers said there was no need to explain, the Colonel named Pomberg was also very simple, so he withdrew after another salute.

It's about 10: 00 in the morning, but assuming the attack time is exactly 2: 00 in the afternoon, it's certainly not possible to really wait until 2: 00. Soon a sharp copper whistle was heard, which meant that the attack had begun.

A pair of Rock II soldiers appeared in front of the crowd watching the offensive drill, but they were too divided. Many officers of the Guardianship Corps have begun to shake their heads, at such a distance that the Defender punches you into the position, and you will also be in a position of widowhood because you do not have a cooperating companion, which is a gift to the enemy. The second-line unit is definitely the second-line unit, which is a terrible match for battle...

These soldiers are also more than a hundred individuals, divided into fifty groups, one in a row and one in a row. Their running posture is strange, bending over, pressing their heads down and running forward on the sides. Immediately an officer saw it and took a breath: “Huh, this is a good run, the font is hard to aim at, so you can't hit it with a cannon unless you shoot it all over it. But that will also deal with two enemies, no one will do this...”

It's just that these soldiers lay down 150 meters from the defensive position and started to crawl forward, pulling the shovel out of their backs around 100 meters and digging a hole on the ground and burying their entire bodies in the pit, which in turn allowed the officers of the NDA who watched this offensive drill to see the misty water on one side: "What do they want? ”

Soon the officers of these corps knew what they were doing, and the soldiers dug the pits quickly, and the pits of the two men took minutes to complete. In addition to the fact that half of the pits continue to be dug, soldiers who have dug the pits have poked their guns out of the pits and started firing at the scarecrows and wooden targets in the defensive positions.

Scarecrow and wooden targets placed in defensive positions can be seen clearly from a single binoculars with the swing amplitude of the gunshot and the bullet marks left behind. Officers of the Guardian Corps suddenly realized that the soldiers were shooters, and that they were digging holes to set up firing positions to suppress the guards in the defensive positions.

I've never seen such a fight before. The first wave of offense sent so many shooters. In the Guardian Regiment's offensive mode, it is essentially an ordinary soldier assault to cover the shooter's proximity to the enemy's defensive position and to find a good hidden position before firing to suppress the enemy in the defensive position. These shooters are scattered across squadrons or squadrons, no one has ever thought of using them together...

“As it turns out, these hundred shooters have basically suppressed the guards in the defensive position, and any guard who is going to fire back would need to risk his life to be shot.” An officer of the Guardian Corps lamented that such a marksman tactically exploited the superior performance of the Obash Type III firerope gun equipped by the Royal Army and, frankly, bullied the enemy with an effective range of 100 metres of precise targeting.

Another sharp copper whistle, this time attacking fewer soldiers, more than sixty, also in two groups. Officers of the guard regiment with their eyes found the soldier behind him carrying a strange iron shelf on his back.

This second group of more than thirty attacking soldiers, like the first, crawled on the ground about 150 metres from the defensive position, twisting forward like earthworms. They just climbed past the pit 100 meters away from the shooter and kept moving forward until it stopped at a distance of 60 or 70 meters from the position. They also took out the shovel of iron on the ground and stacked the excavated soil in front of them to cover both of them...

“What are they doing?” The officers of the Guardianship Corps have no idea. How dare anyone in this Rock II Division get addicted to digging? Or are they going to dig the pit into the defensive position at a distance of 30 to 40 meters, and no one can imagine what it would do to dig a pit this big in the attack?

“If I were the Guardian Commander, I would prepare the soldiers in the trenches on the front line for a physical battle, hidden away in the trenches. Ordered the artillery to retract by twenty or thirty meters, lengthened the depth of the defensive position, rendered ineffective the precise aim of the enemy shooter 100 meters away, and then directed the artillery at the pits in front of those positions for a nominal shooting...” An officer of a guard regiment touched the beard of his chin.

Another guard officer shook his head: "It's no use. Didn't you see the soldiers digging the pits and piling all the excavated dirt in front of them? Besides, the artillery is not a gun, it can be aimed precisely, like this big pit, I think you are firing ten times before you can hit once or twice, and the attacker digs 35 big pits in front of the position, you have to hit until when... weird, why are you digging..."

In the single binoculars of the guard officers watching this offensive drill, they can see that soil is still rising out of the pit, which is only 60 or 70 meters away from the position. That pit is enough to hide the next three or four people. What good is it for these soldiers to dig a pit this big?

The third sharp copper whistle sounded, and the number of soldiers in this attack was even smaller, with only 30 or 40. Instead of carrying guns, the soldiers, left and right, each carrying a drum bag, crawled 150 metres from the defensive position, like the soldiers who had attacked the previous two times, and quickly climbed to the big pit in front of them, which was still digging.

When the soldier with the satchel entered the pit, the soldier with the strange iron shelf set the iron shelf in the pit, and the soldier with the satchel took a black thing from the bag and placed it on the iron shelf. Another soldier stopped digging pits and took a gun and fired at the defensive position.

When the fourth sharp whistle sounded, more than 30 pits in front of the defensive position had a black object thrown high and thrown at the defensive position. And soon after the landing, the explosion, the fire, the dust, the Scarecrow's debris and the pieces of the wooden target were thrown high on the defensive position and dropped again...

All the officers of the guard corps, including General Algers, stared at the explosion at the defensive position and connected it.

The fifth sharp copper whistle sounded, also more than forty soldiers, one carrying an iron shelf, one carrying two large satchel bags, ran straight to the front line, they didn't even crawl to the ground, but ran like a wind to a distance of fifty meters from the defensive position, then squatted down and took the iron shelf and erected it immediately, while the soldiers next to them also took the black throw from the satchel and placed it on the iron shelf...

When these 20 groups of soldiers started throwing the explosive object deep into the defensive position, the three men who threw it in the pit also stood up and rushed up, and at a distance of 20 meters from the defensive position they began to erect the iron shelf and throw the explosive object deep into the defensive position again...

The defensive position is over and no guard can continue to hold out in such a fierce explosion... General Argers and the officers of the guard regiment around him feel unusually complicated at this moment, turns out the battalion that General Sevicht said meant that it was enough for a human horse to launch an attack, not a probative one, as General Argers thought.

It hurt a little in the face, but General Argers and the officers of the Guardian Corps no longer had to worry about their faces, and this offensive battle drill did not need to be watched anymore. They were led by General Algers and walked straight to the rehearsal site.

“Guys, come here!” General Algers shouted at the two crew members who threw a bomb and waved to them to come forward.

“What kind of weapon is this?” General Algers pointed at that strange iron shelf and asked.

Two soldiers who were drunk by them looked at the iron shelf and said, "This is a throwing device used to throw projectiles. ”

“Throw a bomb?” A guard officer unloaded a satchel on this soldier, and there was a projectile in it: “Is that it? ”

Under the guidance of two soldiers, a group of guard officers tested the force of the projectile on the spot.

“The furthest distance thrown was seventy and eighty meters, no wonder those soldiers continued to dig thirty meters ahead of those shooters, who had entered the shotgun area and the enemy's precise range of fire, had to dig large pits to hide themselves and at the same time allow subsequent personnel carrying ammunition to come up..." General Algers and the guard officers finally understood what these soldiers intended to dig such large pits.

“The explosion took place five to six seconds after the built-in flame rope was lit. The explosion covered five to six meters, and the surface of the projectile had carved cracks, and the explosion was wounded with shell fragments!” Another defensive officer quickly figured out the explosive power of the projectiles.

He hesitated to say, "Actually, I've seen this throw. During the Great War in the Eastern Region, when attacking the Principality of Limodera, the rear equipment department had delivered a round projectile to the front line, about twice as big as the projectile, very heavy, with a fire rope inserted in it, which needed to be lit before the projectile could be thrown, instead of just pulling the trigger wire like this one..."

“I've seen the one you said.” Adjacent to a defensive officer: “That thing is incomparable with this projectile, big and clumsy, and requires a special catapult to throw. Though the distance can be thrown to two or three hundred meters, the stone thrower is targeted by enemy artillery as soon as it is pulled to the front line and quickly destroyed by the enemy. As a result, not a single projectile was thrown out. Instead, many cart soldiers were injured. Soon they were abandoned by all the troops. There was no such projectile at all. It was convenient and practical, and one person could run behind his back..."

And then General Sevicht and General Bolognick came over and said, "General, are you...? ”

General Algers laughed: "This offensive drill doesn't have to go on anymore. I had no idea you guys had such powerful offensive weapons. With such projectiles in hand, I am confident that no enemy can withstand our attack by relying on defensive positions. By the way, General Sevicht, I'd like to ask, where did you get this kind of projectile? ”