Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 452: The Weird Nikantha

“Reportedly, the Wolftooth Squadron returned, destroying three Hicks Reconnaissance Light Riding Squads, bringing back 31 soldiers' nameplates and capturing 26 horses, only one of whom was slightly injured..." Captain Mason Hughes brought Claude the Wolftooth Squadron's results report.

Claude was not angry: “Bring me Lieutenant Blovik. I asked the 3rd regiment to ambush the enemy's light mounted reconnaissance team. He took the Wolftooth Squadron to gather something lively and strike without a warrant. Does he see me as the leader of the regiment?" ”

Browick, his younger brother, soon appeared before Claude, and was scolded by a dog's blood, who ended up in solitary confinement for five days. Only then did Lieutenant Blovik's mistake in taking out the Wolftooth Squadron without an order be reversed and no one else could be held accountable for it.

In fact, Claude understood that his brother Browick led the Wolftooth Squadron without order this time at the instigation of Diavid. Since the third regiment of Diavid was resupplied by the rear delivery of bullets, Claude ordered his three regiments to strike at the size of squadrons, annihilating police posts and reconnaissance light mounting squadrons and patrol squadrons deployed by the Hicks outside the northern mountain border, turning the Hicks blind and deaf.

But Colonel Diaved, the man who executed the order, was the one who didn't like to move his mind when he followed Claude and others in the barracks. With Claude in charge, all he has to do is do what Claude says. Turns out Claude didn't learn how to analyze the enemy's whereabouts through ambush and hiding.

Now Claude makes him send squadrons to ambush enemy LMR squadrons again, like he did at the guerrilla camp, and he doesn't even know where to start. Interested in consulting with Berklin, Muried and others, afraid of being ridiculed by them. Finally, we simply called four battalion commanders, asked them to send two squadrons per battalion to the mountain border to carry out this task, and told them that the pits were hidden with weeds, leaving it to the four battalion commanders to play.

There were only some problems with the completion of the mission. Eight teams were dispatched, four of which did not meet the enemy a day, and the other four teams, although they did, were not optimistic about the outcome. Even though the soldiers of the four teams were equipped with new rifles and had a hundred rounds of fresh supplies, they were not only easily spotted by the enemy when they ambushed the enemy's light mounted reconnaissance team, but also ended up crushing the enemy, paying the price of two deaths and 14 injuries themselves.

So Diavid was brutally reprimanded by Claude for having to train the generals of the three regiments to be familiar with the tactics of ambush warfare and covert ambush, and to hand over satisfactory results. Berklin was even more fortunate to say that the third regiment of new-style rifles was equipped with the wrong kind of acid. And finally, Muriel, for the sake of his old friend's friendship, reminds me, is there anything more familiar with these ambush covert tactics in the entire regiment than the Wolftooth Squadron?

If Diavid had invited Browick to take the Wolftooth Squadron as instructor to train the soldiers of the three regiments in these ambush covert tactics, it would have been fine. But Diavid remembered that Claude had said 10 training sessions that were no match for a real battle, and had Brovid take the Wolftooth Squadron straight up to the mountain border to ambush the enemy's light-mounted reconnaissance team, allowing the three soldiers selected to prepare for training to witness first-hand how they fought.

However, most of the ambush points did not wait for the enemy, and one day they came down and met three Hicks reconnaissance scouts, all of whom were killed unexpectedly. All but five of the Hicks were killed because their horses were stuck on the stables and their bodies were dragged away, and the remaining 31 Hicks cavalry nameplates were seized. And the only wounded soldier in the Wolftooth Squadron was suddenly stuck by a fierce horse when he went to retrieve those enemies...

Although the battle was good, Blovik made the big mistake of launching an undocumented attack and ended up being sentenced by Claude to five days in solitary confinement, which was a revelation of the page. Claude then gave orders to the Lyceum Teeth Squadron to teach the 1303 Regiment soldiers and to master the tactics of ambushing covert ambushes over the next half-month period, while allowing the Lyceum Teeth Squadron to conduct field teaching exercises by taking the three Regiments directly to the mountain border to ambush enemies and clear police posts.

In less than ten days, the Hicks couldn't stand the beating, losing an average of three light riding squads a day, more than one. Now it's the turn of the patrol reconnaissance team to camp out every day, like a dead man, a crying face, just near the camp to make a fool of Dae Gil, can't wait to get back to the camp when the time comes. Ask about the dynamics of the surrounding area and the mountain boundary and shake your head to say you don't know anything...

The Hicks had no intention of clearing these fly-like ambush squads around the barracks, but the barracks were too close to the mountain border, and their large squads could easily evacuate the ambush squads as soon as they noticed the movement.

On one occasion, a large group of Hicks Light Cavalry caught up with an ambush squad, trapped them in a small dirt post and were looking for a Marta ambush squad. As a result, two ambush squads came next to each other and more than three dozen new rifles fired together. Within five minutes, the battalion of two hundred men fell by seventy or eighty, scaring the rest of the Hicks Light Cavalry to escape. None of them wanted to rush up...

Finally, the two semi-alerts of Hicks assembled in the camp, which had been burned by the fire, could not help but to retreat and rebuild a defensive camp 10 miles later. Claude also took it as soon as he saw it and ordered the ambush teams of the three regiments not to cross a distance of 10 miles from the mountain boundary, with the abandoned Hicks camp on each side.

Claude was well aware that if he ordered the ambush team to ambush the enemy for another 10 miles, he would have been plotted by the Hicks. Ten miles from the mountain boundary can guarantee the return of the attacking team, but 20 miles won't be easy to say. The Hicks mounted a lightweight team and sent a Hicks veteran to clear the ambush team. Then the attacking team went nowhere.

Another half month or so later, General Bitchklin arrived and he told Claude that the Nikanchas guarded by the Eastern Mountain Front had also withdrawn on the pretext of returning to their new territories and families for New Year's Eve. General Bitchklin said that in this war with the Hicks, the Nikancas suffered heavy casualties, 100,000 young men and strong men were handed over to theatre commanders, and now the withdrawal of the new territory would be around 40,000 people, with more than 60,000 casualties, which no one had expected.

Those Nikanca camps, which had just begun to guard the eastern frontier hills, were jumped by chicken dogs fried with iron pumpkins by the Hicks, who abandoned their positions and lost three or four thousand people. Then, when the first defensive front on the eastern front collapsed, more than 10,000 people were lost. Ideally, all Nikancas who fell into the hands of the Hicks were armed and young, with or without injury, and were executed. Perhaps the Hicks thought that the Nikantha, who had taken up their weapons, were no longer good slaves, rather they had killed them all.

By defeating the second defensive front on the eastern front, the Hicks had become powerless, and Claude led the Thunderbolt 131 battalion to infiltrate their backtracks, annihilating two major field regiments. So the Hicks' attack on the second defensive front was also a lightning storm, and even the Nikanchas could easily defeat the Hicks' small unit of offensive troops. The number of casualties among the Nikancas during that period was very low, at around 1,000.

It was then that Claude led the Thunder Corps into the Hicks General Logistics Base battalion in the Rodex Bay colony, and the two standing Hicks regiments on the eastern front who received the news quietly began the evacuation. The departure was preceded by a deliberate and fierce attack that succeeded in seducing General Bitchcline. It wasn't until a day later that General Beechlin realized he had fallen for it, that the Hicks had evacuated and that their camp was empty.

General Bitchklin decided to pursue and drag the Hicks to the eastern frontier mountains. At this time, the Nikantha disobeyed the command, and one thought victory was on the horizon, and the Hicks fled, which was a good opportunity to beat down the water dog. So everyone fought ahead, ignoring General Beechlin's pursuit deployment, a swarm of bees...

The Nikancas thought the victory chase was too simple for them to think that catching up with the enemy's evacuated troops would be a painful retribution, and waiting for these Nikancas was a tragic experience of ambush. More than 30,000 Nikancas, young and strong, hit an ambush circle of troops after the Hicks broke off, a huge valley, the exit route was sealed, the iron pumpkin fell like a rain spot, combined with shotguns from light infantry field artillery and precise shooting by veterans of the Hicks over time, and these Nikancas suffered a nightmarish massacre.

Fortunately, General Beechlin's troops arrived quickly and attacked from behind. Hicks was invincible in evacuating, finally saving more than 10,000 disillusioned Nikantha lucky children and thousands of wounded. Only this ambush defeated the courage of all Nikancha men and women, and the remaining 30,000 Nikanchas were frightened. A slight breeze shocked them and feared another similar ambush.

General Beechcrin had no choice but to put the Nikancas behind him and take charge of the logistical transport of heavy goods. Continue your pursuit with your Rock Corps troops.

At this time, only three regiments under General Birchclin plus one division's direct battalion's main field strength, combined with Claude's thunderbolt 131 reinforcement battalion led by Major Jack, were responsible for the subsequent pursuit against the Hicks in the eastern frontier mountains. The Nikancas became the Soy Sauce Party for the whole time, not to mention the loss of part of the logistical supplies responsible for transportation, on the grounds that they accidentally fell under the cliff...

In fact, the Nikancas have had the idea of new rifles and bullets, and General Beechlin knows it. Having seen the power of the new rifles, the Nikancas sent several of their elders to demand new rifles from the theatre and even offered to buy a new rifle at an exorbitant price of 200 gold kroner, which was rejected without hesitation by the theatre.

However, in view of the fact that, during the war, the forces on the front line needed the cooperation of the Nikans, General Bolognick and General Skrin, after consulting each other, allowed Master Byrd to perform a play for the Nikanca elders. It took Master Byrd a day to assemble a new rifle and ten rounds of ammunition in a seemingly mysterious room in the vicinity of theatre headquarters, refining barrels and accessories in the presence of these Nikanca elders.

General Bolonik and General Skerry told the Nikanca elders that this was how all the new rifles in the theatre were refined from the Alchemist Character Array. If it weren't for the Hicks' offense, they wouldn't have equipped the troops with such precious magical objects. This is the result of the hard work of the magicians in the war zone these past few years. Now even half of the troops directly in the war zone can't be equipped. The Nikancas don't say two hundred gold kroons, that is two thousand gold kroons. Well, this price war zone needs to be considered...

Though the Nikan elders were fooled away, General Bolonik and General Scully were well aware of the integrity of the Nikans and that they would not give up so easily, so they deliberately sent a hawk message to warn General Claude and General Bitchclin on the front line of what tricks the Nikans were secretly using to obtain new rifles from troops equipped with new rifles.

The Claude Thunder Legion is naturally fine. Apart from General Albert, who attacked the Hicks camp together with the Second Division, the battalion of the Third Regiment, under General Albert's command, equipped with a new rifle, was taken as the root of General Albert's life and the Nikans couldn't stand it.

General Beechcrin, on the other hand, was a little more complicated, all on a defensive front, and the Nikancas particularly liked to circle around the regiment equipped with the new rifle. What's wrong with camping, finding people, giving gifts to friends and all sorts of other reasons, and finally forcing General Beechlin to learn from McJackie. The 131th Battalion of the Legion of Thunder, also equipped with new rifles, refused to deal with the Nikanchas, and any Nikancha who approached the 131th Battalion received the same treatment, three warnings, continued to approach the immediate shooting wounds before being arrested...

All soldiers equipped with new rifles were given severe warnings, sleeping with new rifles, more intensive night patrols, new rifles even if they were convenient, or handed over to comrades for safekeeping. Such harsh measures have at last averted the bad news of the inexplicable disappearance of the new rifle, having spent a month on the second defensive front and capturing several times more alleged unaltered Nikantha thieves from the cantonment camp of the regiment equipped with the new rifle.

After the start of the pursuit, the regiment equipped with the new rifles was moved to the forefront, finally avoiding the Nikancha entanglement and controlling the new rifles equipped with these casualties for the first time, even if there were casualties in the fighting. Even those ammunition supplies were handed over to Rock Corps troops to escort them personally so they wouldn't fall off a cliff like this...

Beechcrin lamented that he actually spent more of his mind and energy on the Nikancas than he did on the Hicks. Just as he had sent the Nikanca battalion to serve as combat staff for the officers in charge, the Nikancas had been obeying orders for some time, but soon they had stopped listening, all under their own leadership. These operational staff officers, who are in charge, then become staff officers, giving advice only to the leaders of the Nikans, who, in the end, prefer to return rather than stay in the Nikans' camps.

Claude gave Thousand Landmines to Battalion Thunder 131 to do a great job in this pursuit. Originally prepared for McJackie to lead Battalion 131 into the back of the Hicks' path to disrupt their logistical transportation, I had no idea the Hicks would pull out of the army. McJackie led the 131th Battalion to the front of the post-Hicks force, successfully stalling their journey by emplaced mines, and eventually General Beechlin led the pursuit to destroy the strength of this post-Hicks division.

The Hicks had also sent troops to rescue the besieged post-mortem forces, but had been devastated by the landmine array planted by Maggie, so they could only shrink back and watched as the troops were wiped out.

But this was General Beechlin's best effort, and if one of his regiments hadn't been equipped with a new rifle and two strikes from McJackie's 131st and 1st battalions, eventually destroying the enemy's tenacious resistance, General Beechlin would have had no choice but to take this division's extremely resilient war will from veteran Hicks. Because his commander-in-chief's pursuit force was even at a disadvantage in strength, he eliminated the post-mortem force formed by veteran Hicks, and the Rock Corps paid the cost of nearly 10,000 casualties...

There was also one incident during this period, when the four boxes of mines entrusted to the Nikancha to be transported to the front line were, of course, included in the list of wear and tear falling into the cliffs during the delivery, as the new type of weapon was less closely guarded than the new type of rifle. Even the Nikanchas who transported them swore they had fallen, and they lost a donkey.

This is clearly a lie, because no donkey ever carries only one case of landmines, and there is no logic for these Nikanths to lie. But General Bitchklin, thinking that landmines are not as secret a weapon as new rifles, decided to leave it alone, lazy enough to compare it to these Nikanchas.

As a result, the Nikanchas immediately suffered and ate themselves, making two loud noises at night in the makeshift camp, scaring almost everyone into thinking that the Hicks had launched a night raid. The inspection revealed that the explosion had come from the Nikancha camp. At first glance, two missing mines were discovered. It was also learned from the mouth of one Nikancha who was injured at the scene, as a result of the explosion of two other mines.

The truth of the matter is simple: after the Nikanchas ignored the box of four mines, several leaders celebrated with pride at a banquet in the evening and took the mines out to admire them. It's just that they treat landmines like projectiles, like Hicks iron pumpkins. The four mines were overpowered, and the Nikanchas did not know that they were searching everywhere for a flame rope or pulling a flame cord, and of course they could not be found.

Several leaders came together to study, and one unintentionally pressed down the spring on the mine, Big Happy, and said the machine was here. Another leader also picked up a mine and pressed it down, leaving it impatiently on the table without finding the rope and pulling the torch. Then, and then the mine exploded, and so did the mine in the hands of another leader...

The two mine explosions reimbursed the seven armed chiefs of the Nikans and a dozen Nikans who had stayed in the tents for a banquet, and the Nikans who had confessed to all of this would have died a long time earlier if they had not stood a little far from the tent door.

Claude was speechless and knew that the Nikanchas were strange, but he was never strange. Because of this, General Beechcrin also had a fight with the four Nikancha elders who came to mend themselves. The four Nikancha elders actually pushed their mistakes to the head of the theatre, believing that such a tragedy would not have happened if the theatre had told them earlier about the weapon of landmines. The deaths of seven tribal leaders have now amply demonstrated that the theatre does not trust them, the collaborating Nikanchas.

“Claude, we were lucky to win this time against the Hicks, but next time I can't stand working with these Nikanths, who deserve more attention than the Hicks. I hope you will support my view that I would rather the Nikanchas be our enemies than our allies after this battle zone command wrap-up meeting...” General Bitchklin said.