Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 461: The Nikancha Bombing Camp

“... the General Logistics Base battalion of the Hicks is still located in the vicinity of Rodex Bay City, the original site of the battalion that you attacked and burned, with only one regiment plus two logistical heavy transport battalions. But here they built a defensive front at Fombix Post, blocked all traffic routes to Rodex Bay, and deployed a standing army to guard..."

Claude looked at General Albert and put a small blue flag on the sand plate, recalling that this place called Fombix Post, where he had been, the last time he commanded the First Division of the Legion of Thunder to raid the enemy's General Logistics Base camp near Rodex Bay City, ordered the 1302 regiment of Muried and the 1303 regiment of Diavid to drive overnight to prepare for the ambush of enemy reinforcements. Unfortunately, after five days of waiting for nothing, no enemy reinforcements arrived.

Although the name is Fombix Post, it is not a real hill post, it is just five small hills connected by a height of not more than 30 to 40 metres. These hills are also the only highlands on this plain with sparse patches of jungle trees. But the last time Claude camped there, most of the groves were cut for firewood.

It is clear that the Hicks set up a defensive front at Fombix Post in preparation for the rear battalion of the General Logistics Base being attacked again by forces from the immediate area of operations. This is indeed a strategic location on the plain and a crossroads to the northern mountain border and the eastern mountain border. The Hicks have a pretty good view. If they send troops in again, they can't escape if they find out that the Hicks are triple-sided...

As Chief of General Staff of the Thunder Regiment, General Albert continued to share information from undercover agents in Rodex Bay: "The standing regiment deployed at Fombix Post, known as the Expeditionary Third Regiment, is a private army of several noble territories rebellious against McKid III during the civil unrest in the Kingdom of Hicks, as well as a large number of young men forcibly recruited from those noble territories. Its internal evaluation was slow response, relaxed military discipline and low combat strength.

In the three days immediately following his arrival in the colony of Rodex Bay, the soldiers of this regiment had numerous disputes with the inhabitants of the city, roadblocks, robberies, fights, drinking for nothing and getting drunk and wounded. One of the worst incidents was when a squad of patrol soldiers ran into a woman in the city and took two Nikancha maids to a field outside the city, where the squad patrol soldiers dragged the three women into the woods and forced them to have sex on a rotational basis.

In the aftermath of the incident, under pressure from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Hicks army shot two soldiers in the head, while the remaining 10 soldiers were escorted to Rodex Bay City, where they fired eighty lashes in public, which slightly suppressed the anger of the city's inhabitants. The regiment was then ordered to set up a defensive front at Fombeks post, and dozens of military judges were sent to the regiment for discipline in order to improve combat readiness. ”

Claude made a mark on his notebook for this Expeditionary Third Corps, a soft persimmon who could pinch it if he had the chance. It is pertinent to note from these violations that the Standing Regiment's low level of combat power has been evaluated, although some regiments have been similarly lax in discipline.

However, it is clear that this third expeditionary regiment is not among them, and roadblocking and drinking for nothing is a rogue act with no sense of honour. The patrol incident, on the other hand, reflected a lack of responsibility on the part of the soldiers of the regiment to commit such crimes on the way to the patrol, clearly failing to take their responsibilities into account. For an army like this, combat power can only count as garbage.

“This Expeditionary Third Regiment is one of the three standing regiments that arrived in the colony of the Gulf of Rodex, and the two standing regiments are numbered Expeditionary Second and Fourth Regiments. The last two standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks arrived were the Expeditionary First Regiment and the Royal Cavalier Reserve Regiment. The four regiments in the name of the expedition were all made up of young men who had been forcibly recruited in the private armies and territories of the last rebel aristocratic lands of the Kingdom of Hicks. ”

General Albert continued his introduction: "According to our undercover agents in Rodex Bay City, the third legion of the four standing Hicks expedition regiments has the lowest discipline and the remaining three regiments are a little stronger than the third. As for the Royal Cavalier Reserve Corps, the Light Cavalry Corps, it was the last Legion of Merit of Machid III to pinpoint the rebellion of the nobles in the country. They are said to be officially named legions if they can make war in this colonial war..."

“Well, what do you mean?” Claude has some confusion: "Isn't this Royal Cavalier Reserve a standing legion of the Hicks kingdom? ”

General Albert was well aware that Claude was less interested and willing to learn about some of the royal rituals, explaining: "Well, this Royal Knights Corps in the Kingdom of the Hicks is truly an instrument corps responsible for the rituals and vigilance of the royal court and royal family. All members of the Royal Knights Army are noble children of their country and are treated and ranked first among the ranks of the Hicks Royal Army.

However, many of these noble brothers who entered the Royal Knights Corps did not meet the requirements of the military and were unable to carry out travel guard duties. But every noble son who can enter this regiment has a human face, and the relationship is extremely complicated. Over a hundred years later, the Royal Knights Army became the territory of countless noble sons and brothers with mixed qualifications, and their fighting power was abandoned. At most, flower racks can only be placed, and even royal security tasks are poorly executed.

The Hicks Royal Family was compelled to form this reserve corps, selecting from among the Royal Army and from among the civilian children brave and innocent men to replace those noble children in various security tasks concerning the Royal Court, belonging to the kind of hard-won alternate role that they were working in honor of led by the noble children. After a long time, naturally a little reluctant, he asked for independence as a legion with a proper name, thanks to the merits of Machid III's rebellion in the country... "

Claude understood, but he thought about it a little strange: "This Royal Cavalier Reserve isn't very good at fighting. Didn't we deal with each other when we first got here? The third regiment in Diavid accepted orders to ambush their patrol teams and, except for the first time, beat them too far from the barracks. Feels like nothing stronger than the Duchy of Kanas' Light Cavalry, so it's a combative Light Cavalry Corps in the Hicks Kingdom? ”

General Albert can only smile bitterly, how can I say that if you have seen the cavalry training of the Thunder Corps, you will indeed look down on the fighting power of other Light Riders. Not to mention, the patrol team that went to ambush the Royal Cavalier Reserve Corps was led by members of the Wolftooth Squadron, the most elite battle unit of the more than 200,000 horses in the entire theatre, the King of the Legion, the elite among the elite, can you afford to deal with these patrol teams...

Besides, Diavid's 1303 regiment is all equipped with new rifles. In terms of weapons and equipment, the Hicks have firecrackers in their hands, and members of the Wolftooth Squadron are in charge of teaching tactical tactics such as ambush and concealment. Can the average Hicks Light Cavalry team come out to patrol? Even if they are members of the Royal Cavalier Reserve Corps, it is a dead end when ambushed.

Without wishing to engage Claude on the issue of the strength and weakness of the Hicks, the Royal Cavalier Reserve Corps, General Albert skipped the subject and continued to introduce the intelligence sent by the agents: “The Hicks' five veterans, the Shame Corps, were exterminated by us in the last war by three and a half standing corps, this time replenished and reconstituted into two full Shame Corps. Among them, the First Legion of Xueshan was deployed to the eastern mountain border and the Second Legion of Xueshan was also in a new battalion on the northern mountain border. ”

After placing two small blue flags on the sand tray, General Albert continued his introduction: "At present, the Hicks have resettled their battalion along the eastern mountain border, deploying four standing regiments, the First Legion of Xueshan, the Second Legion of Expedition and the Royal Cavalier Reserve Corps. The two standing regiments on the northern mountain border were the Second Legion of Shame and the Fourth Legion of Expeditionary Expeditions, which re-established three defensive fronts along the new barracks.

It is noteworthy that the Second Legion of Xenophobia and the Fourth Legion of Expeditionary Expeditions were not stationed together, but that a smaller cantonment camp was again built on a hill post five or six miles from the Forces nouvelles camp. The two cantonment camps and the three defensive fronts have completely blocked all routes and directions leading to the rear, and we can no longer pass through the three defensive fronts without being spotted by the enemy.

From the layout of the enemies on the sand tray, the two standing regiments at the northern mountain border, the battalion at the eastern mountain border, and the traffic main defensive positions and checkpoints at Fombix Post form an inverted triangular defensive formation. Plus that Royal Knight or whatever, the Light Rider Corps can quickly surround the pickup, and we'll never be able to storm the General Logistics Base battalion of the Hicks again to win... "

General Albert had some regrets about putting down the folder in his hand, which Claude didn't care about. The Hicks were not stupid. He had already lost a fortune last time. It was only idiots who had to be more vigilant and more vigilant this time.

"This is probably the only good news," General Albert said with a grin, picking up a hawk message. "Over the past month, the Hicks, apart from building their cantonment and defensive front, have not sent a reconnaissance team to reconnaissance the eastern and northern mountains, except for the patrol of the Light Rider Corps, which is getting closer and closer to the mountain border. On the northern mountain border, they were again ambushed and retreated.

And the eastern mountain border, because of our indulgence, they have recently been stationed at the mouth of Ma Shan to view the mountains. You read Captain Blovik's report more than half a month ago that more than a hundred and twenty Nikanths were armed and young and should have been instructed to visit the Hicks' military situation and sway around and walk together. Shortly after the eastern mountain border crossing was discovered by a Hicks patrol team, the two sides made a brief comparison... "

Claude nodded, of course he read the report submitted by his brother Browick. Throughout the eastern frontier mountains to the Central Defense Front, and now to the Nikancha hinterland territory, there is no guarded soldier stationed in the theatre, and the road is unimpeded in order to put pressure on the Nikanchas and force them to agree to Claude's terms. If the Hicks knew about this information, they would immediately launch an attack at the regimental level, guaranteeing direct access to the heartland of the Niça nation.

The Hicks, however, would not have taken the liberty of sending a large number of reconnaissance teams into the mountains for reconnaissance before attacking. Claude, on the other hand, had long ago sent a Wolftooth Squadron to the eastern mountain border in order to snipe a Hicks reconnaissance team. Pressure on the Nikancas is one thing, but those critical positions in the eastern frontier mountains cannot easily be abandoned, so the Hicks cannot be allowed to discover the truth about the current defensive void in the eastern mountains.

Naturally reluctant to respond to Claude's request, the Hicks thought they should be able to rescue him and sent tens of thousands of armed young men to take over the three defensive fronts originally built in the middle of the eastern mountains abandoned by Claude. At the same time, a hundred warriors were selected to discover the Hicks' falsehoods, and more than 20 more Nikancas voluntarily followed them. All the way to the eastern mountain border, they stepped out of the mountain mouth, and met the Hicks' patrol team...

As a result, the Nikanchas were defeated, which is not a comparable or perhaps even a minor massacre. The Hicks have only two patrol squads with 24 men on board, while the Nikancas have more than 120 men, five or six more who can be formed into 10 full squads. It was at first that both sides discovered each other, and because of the Hicks' horseback riding, the Nikancas chose wisely to occupy a small post not far from here, and soon came down.

It's just that the Nikantha get excited when they see each other with only 24 rides. They shouted loudly, provoked and randomly fired at the Hicks on the hillside. Unfortunately, although the two sides were more than 200 metres apart, the Hicks' light cavalry was indeed within the range of the guns held by the Nikans, who fired dozens of shots and none of them injured the Hicks patrol cavalry.

So their loud curse was to reload the fire rope gun, and a few of them were so hot that they threw the gun on the ground, took off their pants and pissed on the Hicks, which was probably the most insulting way the Nikans thought. The Hicks parked there on the 24th horse, watching these Nikancas perform a farce. After a while, they turned their horses back and disappeared silently between the hills and the woods.

All Nikantha thought they had frightened the Hicks Light Cavalry, they were singing and dancing and celebrating on the hill, waving guns and knives, bragging about their brave behavior, it took them a while to feel tired, sitting or lying on the hill, throwing guns aside, not even a guard...

Then they faced the scourge of extinction, and the two groups of Nikantha thought that the retreating Hicks Light Cavalry had suddenly appeared on the left and right sides of the hill, all of a sudden rushing to the hill. This was followed by the scene of the cup utensils, where the Nikanchas were horsetailed, cut with knives, and miserable. While a handful of Nikanchas have mustered the courage to fight against the Hicks' light cavalry, their panicked compatriots are more likely to find their way out than to help them.

When those struggling Nikancas were cut to the ground, the Hicks' light cavalry welcomed the joy of the harvest. All they had to do was chase the Nikans who had fled so desperately that the knife lying beside them would cut off the Nikans' skulls as easily as fruit. One hundred and twenty-five six so-called Nikantha warriors eventually fled back to the mountains, only seven of them. And the damage they inflicted on 24 Hicks lightweight rides was only two deaths and five injuries...

Browick led a wolf tooth squad around the massacre, then when those two squad Hicks Light Riders were ready to return, zero casualties wiped out the twenty-two riders and captured twenty-four horses.

Another three or four days later, Blovik felt that there were already sixty or seventy captured horses and decided to take these trophies with him to rest. As a result, it was night when the defensive front in the central mountains arrived. Fearing the ruggedness of the mountain path, many more torches were lit on horseback, which looked like large troops marching in the distance.

Seven Nikanca warriors who had managed to escape at that time had already told their compatriots, who were in charge of guarding the front, what had happened to them. This is also a feature of the Nikantha, if they win, they can brag all they want, nobody cares, but if they fail, they like to describe their enemies as powerful. As a result, the guard Nikantha saw so many torches shaking on the distant highway, shouting at the Hicks to chase them!

There were already some frightened Nikancas who bombed the camp as soon as they heard the Hicks arrive. Nearly ten o'clock in the evening, a number of Nikanchas were already asleep. And this wolf tooth squad with Blovette has been lurking on the eastern mountain border for almost twenty days, not knowing that the Nikanchas have taken over the defensive front. At the time of his departure, nobody was available. He was supposed to be able to return to Front Line Command in the middle of the night, when he found something wrong and stopped.

But for the Nikancas on the defensive front, the Hicks came after them, and they stopped, probably preparing to attack...

Those who have the courage to enter positions and prepare for battle, Hysteria has taken up guns and opened fire on the torches in the distant highways, even though they are not within range at all. And what's worse is that those who have fallen asleep, when they wake up, first they hear that the Hicks are coming, then they see the torches on the distant highway, then they hear the gunfire in the position, they think the Hicks have launched an attack, they are scared to run, and they run and they call their friends: “The Hicks are coming, run! ”

As long as one Nikancha escapes, it will not stop all Nikanchas from following. When there were more people fleeing, the Nikanchas who were finally prepared to insist on resistance at the position could not stay and fled the position. Less often than not, tens of thousands of Nikancas on this defensive front are left behind, and the position is full of abandoned guns, ammunition and other materials...

When Browick discovered that there was no movement in front, he snuck up and scouted, and then he looked at the trophy all over the ground and he was stupid...