Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 505: Ambridge County Dajie

“Forty-five giant throwers in total.” General Bolognick dropped the single binoculars in his hand: “We are more than 800 meters from the line of defense and it is estimated that it will take at least two hours to reach their farthest throwing distance...”

Ambrizeshire's topography was divided by hills and pebbles and several streams, so that the Alliance of Nations forces in the Eastern Region could not invest more troops in the offensive, and the Hicks' one-time deployment of two standing regiments to launch the offensive had reached its limits, and there was no place left. I have to say, the Rock Corps picked a good terrain to set up a line of defense.

Forty-five giant single-arm leveraged throwers have risen to a height of twelve or three metres, plus thick pedestals and thick components, making each giant thrower a giant object. Countless soldiers run beneath them, looking as if a bunch of worker ants were busy surrounding a chicken wing that fell on the floor. A dozen bulls dragged the thick hemp rope, moving the giant thrower one step at a time and hard...

In front of the giant thrower, three rows and a dozen wooden platoons and shield cars surround the front, which is used to resist solid iron bullets from the cannon. These giant wooden platoons and shield cars, propelled by soldiers, keep their distance from giant throwers and move forward one step at a time.

“The Hicks have developed their thrower research to the extreme!” General Bitchklin exclaimed, “I now know how the first line of defense was lost. The last time General Lindnock of the NDA told me that the Hicks' giant throwers would throw the projectiles at 600 meters, 100 meters more than the furthest throw we had provided them with heavy throwers. I didn't believe it at the time, and now that I see such a huge thrower, I believe what he said. ”

General Bolognick nodded: "It is no wonder that those regiments in the kingdom did their utmost to die in spite of the fact that they could last half a month under the blast of the Hicks. But the Hicks want to do it again, all they can say is that they are so unlucky, they don't know who will bomb who..."

“In front of our new infantry field artillery and white phosphorous bombs, these giant throwers will only become torches that burn bears.” General Bitchicklin said proudly.

White phosphorus bombs actually add white phosphorus to the shell, and the white phosphorus that burns after the shell hits the target explodes spills around, making it difficult to extinguish once it burns. This is primarily the request made by the fleet Governor General Muried to Mrs. Sonia. Normal naval warfare attempts to burn the enemy's warships will first burn solid iron bullets into red in a fire basin and then fire them onto the enemy's wind sail warships with burning solid iron bullets at high temperatures to ignite the wind sail rope boards or something.

Ironclad warships now employ new types of guns and ground-breaking shotguns. Instead, they pose less of a threat to sailboats than solid iron bullets and serve only as anti-personnel. Unless it happens to hit the enemy warship's feeding line and make a big hole in the boat board. But targeting enemy warships with naked eyes on fast-moving warships is not a very high chance of hitting them. So Muriel had to ask Lady Sonia to make this white phosphorous bomb again.

The Rock Corps was naturally equipped with a number of white phosphorous bombs, which were intended to counter the threat from the sea from the King's fleet in the Kingdom of Hicks. But upon arriving in White Deer City, it was discovered that the Neptune fleet had never swept through the south-western waters, so these white phosphorous shells could be used against these giant throwers in the Kingdom of the Hicks.

More than two hours later, two standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks finally pushed the giant thrower to its intended position, while the formation was complete. At the front are two huge rows of wooden platoons and shields, followed by giant throwers lined up with one word. Next to and behind the throwers are countless small squares, all of which measure more than two hundred people at the brigade level. They will attack when giant throwers throw bombs at the defensive front, forcing throwers and artillery on the defensive front to attack them at the risk of being bombed in order to extinguish the firepower placed on these defensive positions...

“Distance is five hundred and forty meters.” A Rock Corps staff officer reported an accurate observation distance. It's a chicken thief, five hundred and forty meters, and the lightest projectiles produced by the overseas autonomous territories are the furthest distance of 500 meters. Together with the distance of the positions, there is a distance of 60 metres from the enemy's giant throwers, which puts the entire defensive front in a state of bare hands.

“It's ready to go. The enemy is waiting to be beaten.” General Bolognick said.

General Bitchklin nodded: “Order artillery positions to fire, attack enemy giant throwers, use white phosphorous bombs, destroy targets, and then launch three rounds of flash fire against enemy infantry squares with blossoms, attack freely..."

The sharp copper sounded, and more than two dozen artillery positions, already arranged, made thunderous gunfire, sparking dense white smoke. The tremendous whistle swept over more than 600 metres into the square of the two standing regiments of the Hicks Kingdom of the Black Crow, just as the stones fell to the calm lake and the black waves swept up.

In General Bolognick's single-barrel telescope, you can clearly see the sparks flashing on those giant throwers on the front, quickly turning into flames, torches. And the ensuing explosion sent countless little black dots halfway into the air and dropped, and those well-lined wooden platoons and shield cars had gone upside down, some of them sparking black smoke. The hidden screams and shouts of panic and panic in the wind reveal that some Hicks officers tried to suppress the disturbances and panic of the troops, but the shells that immediately fell next to them quickly rendered their efforts useless...

There is nothing more intoxicating and wonderful than watching your enemies stand there foolishly bombarded with the screams of a Rock Regiment general on defensive positions. The artillery observers in front of them continued to wave the flag in the rear, informing them that the artillery positions for which they were responsible had destroyed the main target and could turn to a second artillery mission.

More violently, the Rock Corps' 568 new infantry field artillery fired three rounds of rapid fire each, firing 36 blossoms at the enemy's infantry squares in the shortest possible time. A total of 17,000 rounds of artillery were about to fall on the heads of two standing regiments in the Kingdom of the Hicks, and even the light cavalry division of the last Duchy of Kanas was in range of attack.

The furthest range of artillery fire from the new infantry field artillery was about 1,200 metres, while the two standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks were arranged more than 500 metres from the defensive front where the Rock Regiment was located, with the smaller arrays behind them, one after the other, in the range of artillery attacks. When the Rock Corps artillery fired to destroy those 45 giant throwers, the riots and fluctuations were still at the front end of the entire army formation. The soldiers in the rear of the small square still stood silly and watched the noise, not knowing what was going on in front of them...

After destroying the forty-five giant throwers and turning them into forty-five torches, the Rock Regiment's more than twenty artillery positions targeted the infantry squares and began three rounds of rapid fire. It is worth noting that this time they began with the furthest range, that is, attacking the end of the entire army formation set up by the two Standing Regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks.

When the white phosphorous bomb hit the location of the giant thrower and exploded, senior officers of the Alliance of Nations forces in the eastern region, far from the rear, were a little dazed.

“What is that thing? How can you throw so far?” A high-ranking officer of the Kingdom of Nasseri asked puzzlingly. Now the farthest throwers manufactured in the countries of the Farea continent are those produced by the Kingdom of the Hicks, which, despite its enormous weight, can throw projectiles at a distance of 600 metres, which is why the army of the Kingdom of the Hicks is the first in its ranks in the alliance. Had it not been for this giant thrower, the Allied forces would have had to pay at least two corps casualties and more time to break the first defensive front in the Kingdom of Orvilas.

“They, they fired with artillery!” A high-ranking officer with an eye saw the white smoke soaring from a distant artillery position and his face suddenly grew miserable: “They, they turned iron bullets into explosive projectiles...”

Almost at the same time, the senior officers of the Alliance army present turned to the Alliance Commander-in-Chief and several senior officers of the Kingdom of the Hicks, who had always bragged in the Alliance that the giant throwers of the Kingdom of the Hicks were the vehicle of an invincible siege. Now, the Kingdom of Orvillas has invented shells that will explode, which means that all the money that the Kingdom of Hicks has invested in giant throwers has been wasted. Everyone understands that the throwing distance of the thrower is too short, let alone maneuverability and agility, compared to the range of the artillery...

The position is a few hundred meters from the battlefield and about a thousand and five hundred meters from the defensive front of the Rock Regiment. This far is mainly to protect against enemy artillery attacks. If the enemy finds that so many high-ranking officers are concentrated here and shoots several solid iron bullets, let alone hit people, it is not good to scare the adults. As a result, senior officers were deliberately placed outside the range of medium-infantry field artillery.

Because it was too far away from the battlefield, the senior officers of these watches did not react for a moment, but just stunned and watched the 45 giant throwers on the battlefield burn into 45 giant torches. Then he looks at the enemy's gunfire, and the bombardment lines up the entire army waiting on the battlefield...

A thunderbolt and explosion, sparks and nitrous smoke rose from those little squares on the battlefield, countless little black dots flew up into the sky and fell again, the whole army formation was turned into a vortex, the last squares and the troops in front all ran towards the middle, like headless flies to the right, squeezed apart in a bunch, would meet, then collapse in the explosion...

“Quick, blow the horn to withdraw them...” General Commander of the Alliance Army, some elderly Marquis of the Kingdom of Hicks pointed to the battlefield and grabbed his chest with one hand, it seemed like a heart attack, he woke up at this time, if he didn't withdraw two more Hicks Standing Army, it would be over...

The horn of whimpering sounded, and all the Hicks soldiers on the battlefield, relieved of their burdens, turned around and threw their legs back, this time they couldn't care less, even throwing guns on the ground, like a receding sea water. The pursuit of the artillery only took place in time to fire two flowering bullets again. There was no longer a living and jumping enemy on the battlefield. There were countless broken arms and bodies, as well as the sound of the wounded crying for help, blood flowing quietly on the battlefield...

“I have to admit that the army of the Kingdom of Hicks surprised me once again.” General Bolognick put down the single-barrel binoculars and spoke loudly to General Bitchicklin. No loud noise, and the rumbling of the artillery fire echoed in my ear.

“What are you talking about?” General Bitchcline shouted.

General Bolonik shook his head and waited half a day to feel better before saying to General Chicklin, "Don't you think the Hicks Army here is more disciplined than the Hicks Army in the colonial war? They were hard hit on the battlefield before the retreat was blown, not backwards..."

General Bitchicklin laughed, “Did you not notice that half of our artillery positions started firing behind their military formations, and they had to run to the middle of the battlefield because there were no artillery shells landing there? Oh, but we can steal the camp at night, all we have to do is shell and fire a barrel of rockets into their camp and the enemy will collapse...”

In spite of another failed attack, the Alliance of Eastern States forces left two standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks on the battlefield severely shelled and lost forty-five giant throwers that were used as weapons of attack against the Ace. But only 34,000 people were killed or injured after cleaning the battlefield, losing only one division, although the morale of the entire coalition army was very low.

Upon returning to the camp, the Alliance's senior officers were also prepared to prepare for a rock regiment raid. Two platoons of early warning posts were arranged at a distance of 500 metres in front of the battalion, each guarded by a team, whose task was to alert the battalion when the enemy was discovered to have attacked them, which was also a very common situation for military night guards.

Night raids on enemy battalions, especially such large camps of hundreds of thousands of people over a hundred miles away, must first be confronted with such night warning posts in front of the battalions. But these posts are essentially triangulated, 10 metres apart, and bonfires are lit in the middle of the three posts, clearly visible from each other.

And the perimeter of each post also lit a pile of bonfires, and it was easy for the sentry to spot movement within 100 metres of the post. Apart from this, the posts are basically erected at high altitudes or at traffic roads and trenches are excavated next to them. The outpost, on the other hand, was constructed of logs and stones, three stories tall and protected from solid iron bullets fired by light infantry artillery. Thus, the response to such a group of outposts was essentially to send skilful personnel to carry out sneak attacks and assassinations to control or replace enemy outposts. Only in this way can large forces be organized to attack enemy battalions at night through this outpost.

General Bitchklin, for his part, directly ordered artillery to pull new infantry field artillery in front of these posts at midnight, shelling and destroying them. The cannon openings were then raised directly and the enemy's barracks were bombarded at a maximum range of 500 metres. At the same time, the Rock Regiment's generals were ordered to fire the long-barrelled rockets, targeting the deep end of the enemy battalion. These long-barreled rockets have a maximum range of 1,500 metres and are filled with white phosphorus, which, like white phosphorus bombs, quickly ignited a fire in the enemy's camp.

The forces of the Association of Eastern States had woken up when the Rock Regiment shelled the outpost in front of the battalion with artillery fire, and the guarding of the battalion had been arranged in accordance with the planned night assault prevention programme. Countless soldiers were driven into trenches and defensive installations with their fists and feet kicked by officers, and guns, artillery and throwers were aimed at the open space in front of the camp, only to strike hard when the soldiers of the Rock Regiment attacked at night appeared.

It is also a traditional way of guarding against night attacks, except that the Allied forces had no idea that General Bitchklin was not planning to attack enemy camps at night in the traditional way, but continued to bombard them with the long-range range of the new infantry field artillery and the explosive power of the projectiles. In the meantime, Allied soldiers ambushed in the trenches and defensive installations in front of the battalion were again subjected to heavy artillery fire, blown up on their backs, alarmed and mistaken...

General Beechcrin is not attacking one point of an enemy camp in a concentrated manner, then breaking down the enemy's camp with a little face. He directly ordered both divisions to launch a full-scale attack on a coalition camp of more than a dozen miles by escorting dozens of artillery in a single battle regiment, carrying also long-barreled rockets in the direction of the enemy camp, totalling 5,000.

Fortunately, at the grass-roots level of the coalition forces, combined with trenches and defensive facilities to hide, the gunfire, although intense, was not heavy and the casualties were barely pressed down by the alarmed soldiers. At this time, the night sky heard the whistle of "sex”, a long-barreled rocket dragging a long tail flame over the defensive position of the camp, staring at the Allied army officers and soldiers, landed in the dense and numb tent in the middle of the camp, sparking bright sparks, and a tent began to burn.

Night breezes are a little heavy, windy, with continuous artillery shelling and long-barreled rockets sweeping over your head. The armies of the rightmost Duchy of Siddins and the Duchy of Rimodra collapsed first. The soldiers climbed out of the trenches, abandoned their guns, and even defeated the officers in front of them, shouting at the battalion to break their lives! Crazy backcamp and middle camp escape...

And the field regiment of the rock regiment attacking the right wing of the enemy camp discovered that the enemy in the opposite camp was fleeing, and immediately seized this broken opportunity, the whole army pressed down, chasing behind the enemy to create more pressure and greater influence.

Like a big rock thrown into the river, the collapsed and fleeing enemy is like a wave caused by a big rock swept the entire camp, more fleeing enemies appeared, no one can watch their companions escape and continue to defend themselves in the defensive position, soon, the scene of the deserted enemy's entire army collapse appeared in front of the Rock Corps general...

“Be vigilant and be careful in pursuing your enemies, and when they are found to have broken off, do not let the troops die, waiting for the arrival of the rear artillery units…" General Bitchclin can only give such an order at this time.

After dawn, the Jet reported that the Rock Regiment had defeated the Alliance's three attacks within five days, attacked the enemy camp at night, successfully breaking down the enemy camp, causing the enemy's entire army to collapse and pursuing victoriously. When the Alliance of Eastern States forces returned to the second defensive front in one breath, the loss of checkpoints revealed that seven regiments had entered Ambrize County, returned only four regiments and lost all their weight and armaments.

The service is known as Ambrizeshire Daejet, and the Rock Legion is famous for its World War I.