Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 451: Lessons Learned and Idiots of the Nikantha

Claude slowly sat down and his face grew shady, like a volcano about to erupt. General Albert looked at him anxiously, “Are you all right? ”

Slowly breathing out a breath in his chest, Claude chewed his teeth and said, “It's okay..."

Claude feels like he's about to explode. These two messages from General Albert are really bad and cannot be broken anymore. Just give Claude another five days, no, three days, and Claude promises to wipe out the more than 10,000 Hicks left in the camp.

Unfortunately, this cannot be done now. Claude must calm down and arrange for the Thunder Regiment to withdraw as soon as possible. Otherwise, he will not exterminate the Hicks' remnants, but the Thunder Regiment will be surrounded by the three sides of the Hicks in a state of total armament.

Claude could not blame anyone for this, and no one knew that the third group of men and horses of the Hicks Kingdom had arrived in the Rodex Bay colony at this critical juncture, and that one of the two standing legions had happened to be the Light Rider Corps. It takes five days to walk from the Rodex Bay colony to the northern mountain border, but the light cavalry takes only two days, or even a day and a half.

And General Bitchklin of the Eastern Front, who brought only one division of the Rock Legion, plus Claude's 131th Battalion of the Thunder Legion, and the Nikancas, who dragged hundreds of thousands of men and women from the Hicks' two standing regiments to the Eastern Mountain Front for so long, had done their best. Now that the Hicks have all withdrawn from the eastern mountains, with only one and a half standing legions left, it has been a huge defeat.

More than half a day has elapsed since the covert scouts of the Rodex Bay colony sent the Eagle to the theatre and the theatre was transferred to their own side, leaving Claude only one day at most. It's a good thing we're on the northern mountain border, and it only takes two or three hours to get into the mountains to get rid of the enemy's tail chase. Claude still has time to pack up the battlefield and bring back all the bodies and wounded from the battle.

The Hicks remnants of the offensive camp, the Legion of Thunder, have more than 10,000 Hicks remnants that occupy the hills than the Legion of Thunder. With more than 4,000 iron pumpkins left in their hands, coupled with civil work, Claude promised to blow the hills flat and smoke out the more than 10,000 Hicks remnants. But with this Hicks camp, Claude didn't have the confidence to resist the two-way siege of the Hicks and the attack of more than 200,000 troops.

If the Legion of Thunder hadn't gone through the previous mixed battle, plus enough bullets, Claude wouldn't mind staying in this camp and clearing out the remaining 10,000 Hicks remnants of the camp, and maybe giving more blood to the Hicks on one side and on the other.

Simply put, the Light Rider just got off the boat, and Claude admitted to losing by maintaining 30% of his fighting power. For more than a month at sea, people can't stand horses. Can the LMV have enough fighting power without riding? Perhaps Claude could fight back and capture a large number of Hicks' hard-working horses.

Instead, Claude was more concerned about the semi-alerts who had withdrawn from the Eastern Mountain Front and rushed to the northern mountain border for rescue. Because this one-and-a-half standing legion is made up of veterans of Hicks, and even if defeated soldiers are demoralized, these Hicks veterans will come up unambiguously when it's time for desperation. Even when they arrive from a long march, it's hard to get rid of them if they get caught up in the Thunder Corps. These Hicks veterans' will to fight has been seen by Claude.....

Who told the third regiment equipped with the new rifle to run out of ammunition, and the remaining seven major field regiments are now not even full of three regiments, letting the thunderous regiment in this condition go against the enemy's two-way reinforcements two and a half standing regiments 150,000 troops, Claude would not do such a stupid thing as long as he wasn't mad.

When the mood had subsided, Claude gave the order: "Clean the battlefield, pack your bags, send our bravely sacrificed warriors home, take away everything you can and burn everything you can't..."

In the evening, Claude rode on horseback and turned around to look back at the burning Hicks camp. The outermost log camp walls were poured with fire oil, like a campfire surrounding the entire camp, black smoke flickered over the camp, and you could see the camp like Flame Mountain a few miles away.

Unfortunately, the Hicks burned down their camp and warehouse areas and other living facilities prematurely, or else they would burn together now, perhaps smoking could smoke the remnants of the 10,000 soldiers trapped in the hills. This will burn the entire camp, but it will leave a lot of space. The Hicks' men, though they are guilty on the hills, will survive if they have enough spare water!

“Let's go!” Claude said to General Albert around him, turning his horse and taking the guards to the northern mountains.

A fire pile in the valley has been burning for three days and three nights, and will continue to burn for several more days. The remains of more than 18,000 Thunder Legion officers and soldiers who died in the war will all be burned to ashes in urns of ashes and taken back to the Legion's Mountain Cemetery.

It is a small hill near the town of Lake Lang, under Amphiston, which was assigned to the military cemetery, renamed Mount Elite. Both the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps, as well as the officers and soldiers of the local guard corps, will be buried in this military cemetery as long as they are martyrs who have fought valiantly for the war zone under their direct authority, for the sacrifice of future generations.

Needless to say, it was Claude's idea, which of course enjoyed unanimous approval. It's just that Claude didn't expect the Thunder Regiment to have so many martyrs on Mount Elite this time, combined with the loss of more than 6,000 people from General Albert's first command of the 2nd Division offensive camp, which totalled nearly 25,000 dead generals.

This attack by the Legion of Thunder was tantamount to the loss of the strength of a division and more than 20,000 lightly wounded, of whom more than 1,000 were to be decommissioned due to disability. This is almost to the point where the Thunder Legion is wounded, killing 10,000 enemies and damaging 3,000 themselves. It's just too late for Claude to regret that if he knew there was going to be such a big battle after he took over the second fence position, maybe he'd let the Hicks go.

No one expected the Hicks to rush up so wild and desperate, and the battlefield was unstoppable. Soldiers from both sides, like traditional war patterns, fired face-to-face shots over a dozen or twenty meters away, then stabbed together...

More than 18,000 bravely sacrificed warriors fell close to 16,000 in the midst of the Second Defensive Wall position, while the trench battle Thunder Corps of the previous seven days and seven nights had only sacrificed more than 2,000 warriors.

Of course, the Hicks are no better than the more than 44,000 soldiers' nameplates collected from the scene of the Great Mixed Wars alone. It is conceivable that the Hicks have invested all their remaining troops in the ensuing counter-insurgency after the Legion of Thunder seized the second defensive wall position, even though they eventually failed.

The lesson that Claude learned during this war was that it was important to ensure the replenishment of new rifles, which did not have bullets, and that new rifles were no better than firecrackers. In fact, this is not to blame for his carelessness and carelessness, but the long-standing habit of using a fireline gun has led Claude to forget that a new rifle is a completely different weapon from a fireline gun, and that it cannot be inferred from common sense how much ammunition the new rifle consumes in a war.

When Claude went to join the Blue Feather Regiment and five years of war broke out in the eastern region, the combatants were armed with firerope guns, each equipped with gunpowder and firerope that could be fired 150 times. In fact, many soldiers do not have to supply guns and gunpowder for three years, except for the fire rope, because it is simply impossible to put 10 or 20 guns in a single battle.

In most fights, one soldier can enter a face-to-face close physical battle with at most one or two shots, and only a soldier equipped with an Obash 3 type fireline gun that can be accurately targeted can fire more than a few shots in battle.

Claude led the attack and equipped the 1303rd regiment of the new rifles, that is, the soldiers of the 3rd regiment, in addition to the 100 bullets each carrying, the regiment's Logistics Department stockpiled a shipment of bullets that would allow the soldiers equipped with the new rifles to replenish three more bullets each. Claude believed that so many bullets were sufficient to supply the launch.

But it didn't occur to me that the Thunder Army paid such a heavy casualty cost because the bullets were not supplied enough to make themselves eat such a huge loss. If the third bullet is plentiful and doesn't need to be retreated, even if they have more than an hour to prepare, they can simply lay out a bunker and use the new rifle's recurring power to teach those crazy Hicks a harsh lesson...

Claude believed that if his imagination were true, the Thunder Corps would not have had to pay such a heavy casualty price. And for the Hicks, it would be a massacre, and the harder they rush, the more troops they muster, the faster they die.

Trouble loading a firerope gun, the enemy can take advantage of this time to rush straight into front of you, forcing you to abandon the idea of shooting again and engage in a white-blade close physical battle with him. But with six rounds of a new rifle, you can pull the trigger to kill the enemy again just by pulling down the bolt after each shot, just as quickly as you breathe.

Perhaps it could be said that the process and time of loading a flare gun after a single shot was sufficient to allow the new rifle to fire six times before reloading a magazine. When the firing rope gun missed the target at once, and the loading was finished and the shooting was aimed again, the target at the first shooting did not know where it had gone.

The new rifle, on the other hand, is perfectly capable of not hitting it again at a time until it hits the target. This is probably the biggest reason why soldiers equipped with new rifles run out of bullets quickly, nobody watches their target escape, everyone is unwilling to lose, so they tend to waste several bullets on a dynamic target...

Unfortunately, there are no regrets in the world, either in Claude's past life or in this world. The only thing Claude can do is to keep this lesson in mind and avoid making the same mistake later. Perhaps in the future it will be necessary to double the amount of ammunition supplied by soldiers equipped with new rifles. After all, it is too easy and convenient to pull the bolt trigger and aim at the shooting.

“General, the leaders of those Nikancha camps are here again, and they still want you to distribute the Hicks' throwers and iron pumpkins you captured to them so they can confidently hold the forward mountain position..." Captain Mason Hughes, the newly promoted deputy, quickly walked up to Claude and interrupted his meditation.

Claude's former deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Anders, was placed by Claude as acting head of the 1304 Regiment to replace Colonel Jedwalk, who had unfortunately died.

Claude's mouth curled out a cynical mockery: "Get them out of here. I don't know where they got the courage to get a throw and a pumpkin for nothing from me. Tell them to either bring real gold and silver or get out of the way so people don't get upset. ”

But the new deputy captain, Captain Mason Hughes, has yet to grasp Claude's temper: "But General, those Nikanca chiefs say that they cannot resist the upcoming Hicks offensive if they do not distribute to them the throwers and stickers our regiment captures. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, they had to retreat, abandon the northern frontier mountainous sites and no longer provide cover for our legions..."

“Hahahaha...” Claude was all laughed at. Did the Nikantha leaders understand that the Thunder Corps did not enter the mountains to escape and escape the Hicks, otherwise how could they have stayed here? When the Nikantha saw that the Thunder Regiment had died, they thought that the Thunder Regiment had defeated and fled.

The Nikancas then found two more Hicks standing regiments outside the mountain border, complaining that Claude commanded the Thunder Regiment to attack the Hicks camp and recruit more enemies to them. They had no idea that the Legion of Thunder had wiped out more than 100,000 Hicks from nearly two standing regiments, leaving only more than 10,000 soldiers behind.

When the Nikancas discovered that the Legion of Thunder, which they thought had been defeated, had freed more than 20,000 Hicks prisoners and nearly a hundred carriages full of iron pumpkins. They took the idea of these throwers and iron pumpkins produced by the Kingdom of the Hicks, and in the name of guarding the forward mountain positions in the north, demanded that the Legion of Thunder hand over the seized throwers and iron pumpkins to them to defend against the upcoming Hicks attack or something...

There's no way to communicate with these idiots, and these Nikanths don't want to think if the Legion of Thunder defeats, will it be able to return so many prisoners and return so many trophies? Claude didn't hesitate to let them roll as far as they could. Unexpecting these idiots to persevere, they refused to come to the door three times to ask for throwers and iron pumpkins, although this time they said they would give up the threat of frontier positions not providing cover for the Legion of Thunder.

This is to deceive Captain Mason Hughes, who has just been promoted from the position of civilian officer in the Department of Logistics, to let Claude see and be promoted to replace Lieutenant Colonel Anders, who is also Captain Mason Hughes.

Claude met Captain Mason Hughes on the battlefield after the Great Mixed War when he slept perfectly on the bodies of several Hicks. Claude thought he was a dead officer in the war, and it felt strange that nobody was taking care of him, so he came closer and found him snoring. This is the first time Claude has ever seen an enemy's body as a mattress and thought the captain was a little perverted.

However, the soldiers next to him told Claude that this was the first time that the Captain of the Logistics Department had been on the battlefield, acting very brave and shooting very well. He shot three Hicks veterans with a fire rope and killed an enemy with a bayonet, while also involving covering the rest of the soldiers to destroy the last five Hicks veterans, paying only three deaths and 11 injuries to keep the Legion of Thunder soldiers here hostage to the last attack launched by the Hicks.

Captain Mason Hughes is a civilian, 28 years old. He was enlarged into a regiment by the Rangers after obtaining the Second Colonial War, redeployed from the mainland of the Kingdom to the Overseas Territories war zone. Captain Mason Hughes was assigned to serve as a logistics officer in the National Guard Corps because he graduated from the Royal Military Academy in logistics. At that time, he was a lieutenant, full of ideas to build a successful career.

Lieutenant Mason Hughes had no chance to make a difference because of his civilian origins and the large number of noble brothers in the Corps. Ensign Mason Hughes, inspired by the results of the Rangers' regiment, submitted an application for the redeployment of the Rangers to the mainland of Nubian for service in the Kingdom as the Royal Ministry of the Army recruited new recruits to expand the Rangers' regiment to the area of direct jurisdiction.

Lieutenant Mason Hughes thus arrived in the zone of direct command, and because of his regular military school, a logistics professional officer, was swept away by the heavily talented Marshal Michelle Chi and transferred to five newly formed reinforced divisions. Unsurprisingly, he became a logistical civilian officer of the Second Line Corps, promoted to Lieutenant, and became a subordinate of General Albert.

Then a few years later, Lt. Mason Hughes, who worked diligently in the Department of Logistics, was promoted to captain and served as logistics chief for the 28th Field Battalion of the Second Division of the Legion of Thunder. General Albert organized the first and second logistical civilian officers and immediate service personnel into three battalions, and Captain Mason Hughes volunteered his first battalion.

First to see the blood and see the bodies everywhere, Captain Mason Hughes threw up all over the river. But he was very adaptable, and soon became familiar with the rhythm of fighting on the battlefield. Although as a logistics officer, Captain Mason Hughes had strong military skills and earned the confidence of soldiers on the battlefield. Captain Mason Hughes, the highest-ranking soldier, became the highest commander of that battalion after the officer responsible for defending the area was wounded and sent down.

The commanding soldiers withstood the enemy's last attack and Captain Mason Hughes felt tired and wanted to lie down for a while. But there was no place to lie on the position and there was blood on the ground, so he simply dragged several enemy bodies down and fell asleep without expecting to close his eyes. Claude thus saw the true scene of the sleeping pillow of the enemy...

Captain Mason Hughes didn't know he was in Claude's eyes, and soon General Albert came to him with a transfer order to let him serve as Claude's next of kin. Just because he had just taken office, didn't understand Claude's temper, didn't deal with the Nikans, that's why he would recite the Nikans' threats in front of Claude.

“Let them go, or the guards will drive them away. Tell these idiots that our Legion of Thunder has never needed their cover to stop making love to themselves..." Claude thinks he can't be more real with these idiots. What does that say in previous life, and idiots will really turn themselves into idiots, and then those idiots will beat you with their vast idiot experience...

But Claude had no idea that the Nikancas would really give up their frontier mountain positions and not say goodbye the next night. Claude, who got the news, was really cheerful, and he ordered Captain Mason Hughes: "Let the three regiments of Diavids receive these positions and tell them that this is where we are going to be in the war zone...”