Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 507: Heading to the Royal City of Polyvoria

“Boom," another projectile landed not far away exploding, black smoke and fire flashing, several small sparks hanging from the surrounding bushes...

“Colonel, let's go back a little bit. It's too dangerous here.” Lieutenant Vidalek, the deputy, immediately stepped forward, blocked Colonel Derivique and turned back to persuade him.

Colonel Derivique stayed motionless and continued to look closely at the enemy fire point on the hill in front with a single telescope: “Have I got my new infantry field artillery? ”

“They said they'd be here in half an hour.” Lieutenant Vidalek replied.

“Let the 11 attacking battalions continue to maintain pressure on enemy positions, paying attention to secrecy and not letting the enemy throw projectiles over their heads. When the artillery arrives for a cooperative battle, attack this hill.” Colonel Derivique pointed to a hilltop position where the enemy in front was throwing rounds everywhere.

A short while later, three new infantry field artillery were dragged over by six horses, and the captain of the artillery squadron reported to Colonel Derivique and then commanded his own soldiers to quickly arrange the artillery positions, shouting at the Nasri hilltop position.

The battle to capture the hilltop position was very simple, with only three artillery rounds fired by each of the three new artillery cannons, overturning the seven projectile throwers deployed at the hilltop position. The enemy guarded on the hill turned to flee in panic, and the soldiers of the 11th Battalion rushed to the hilltop position and could only shoot at the back of the fleeing enemy. This is yet another defensive arm of the local county of the kingdom of Nasserli, about 800 men in a small battalion, who left more than a hundred bodies and wounded at the position...

“Colonel, we found this at the position..." Captain Wesley, captain of the 11th Battalion, came to Colonel Derivique and handed over a black briefcase.

This black leather briefcase should have been left behind by the battalion commander who was defending the hilltop position. Running away is important, and these things can't be taken. It was filled with official circulars and routine administrative processing documents for the local guard battalion, although Colonel Derivique's gaze focused on one of them.

“Lieutenant Widderlake, go check with some of the wounded, see if this is true.” Colonel Derivique ordered.

Soon, this black briefcase and the prisoner interrogation report came before Claude.

“Prince Vedalio, gather his troops in the city of Tulawelli, prepare to fight back against the city of Polovicia and save his father and his family...” Claude grabbed his head: “Who is this prince? What happened to the 18th Regiment in the papers? ”

Major Mason Hughes, standing next to Claude, was prepared, and he quickly found the information Claude needed from a stack of folders on the table: "General, Prince Vedalio is the seventh son of Nasseri VII, 23 years old this year, and his biological mother is Princess Polmana. Princess Bormana is most adored by Nasseri VII, who has a second concubine, so her son Prince Vedalio is also the most adored of all Nasseri VII's children.

Prince Vedalio is said to have been very clever since he was a child, but unfortunately he was born too late, otherwise he would most likely be the first heir to the throne. This time he was ordered to serve as Superintendent of the Eighteenth Standing Army of the Kingdom of Nasseri, marching on our kingdom, so he was not in the Royal City of Polyvisia and fortunately fell into the hands of General Berklin. As for the Eighteenth Standing Army, it is a new legion just formed by the Kingdom of Nasseri, equivalent to the second-line legion of our kingdom... "

Claude understood that the Eighteenth Standing Army was supposed to be a newly formed regiment preparing for reinforcements to the kingdom itself, and that now the Royal City of Polyvisia in the Kingdom of Nasserli had been raided by the Thunder Division, and that Prince Vedalio had immediately suspended his reinforcements to the kingdom itself in preparation for a counter-attack against the Royal City of Polyvisia. As a result, his summons went to the local guard battalion, which happened to be hit by Colonel Derivique's 7th regiment...

“Town of Tulawelli...” Claude looked up on the map of the kingdom of Nasseri.

Tukurasm County, the capital city of Tulawelli, is three counties away from the Royal City of Polyvisia, in the plains, and only one county away from where Claude is now located.

“General Diaved was ordered to lead the Sixth Regiment of the Fifth Regiment towards Tukulasm County, and the Eighth Regiment of the Seventh Regiment approached me and independently reinforced the battalion on both sides of the perimeter. We will go ahead and defeat the Eighteenth Regiment.” Claude gave the order to change the itinerary without first meeting the first division of the Royal City of Polyvisia and Berlin.

Being in an enemy country at this time must not be left to the enemy to assemble their troops to warm up, even the people of Uyghe will gather in a loud way. More people will be bold, it is better to launch an attack when the enemy is assembled, click on the crash to finish early, save the time when the Royal City of Polovicia will be armed by these hard-working places to leak water.

Sometimes the plan is good, but the reality is unexpected for everyone. Claude also wanted to fight the Eighteenth Standing Army Legion, led by Prince Vedario, in Tuculasm County, or something, and when Claude arrived in Tulawelli City, he found the lightning flag of the Thunder Legion flying in the city, and Diavid was greeting himself with a horse.

“So unbeaten, we fired only two rounds of artillery and then mounted a light-handed raid, all the enemies collapsed, turned around and fled, leaving our backs to us...” Diaved complained.

Nor did he himself think that a standing army of enemies, together with those places that guarded some 100,000 men and horses, opposed his two regiments to more than 10,000 troops. He just wants to launch a probationary attack to see what the enemy has left. As a result, the enemy was bombed by two rounds of artillery, and then saw the light cavalry platoon descend into the sea, all turning and fleeing. So, as a matter of fact, Diaved's assault became a decisive one...

“We have cut down 10,000 people and captured more than 50,000 prisoners, and this 18th Standing Army can be dismantled. The only pity is that the prince is the fastest to escape, and we didn't catch him.” Diavid was proud to say: “The question now is what should we do with so many prisoners? They can't cut their hands off, they can't let go and feel inappropriate. As long as they have weapons, they will be recruited and become our enemies..."

“I want to be quiet.” Claude thought he should reflect first, whether the more he fought the more daring he got, the more reckless he was than Diavid, the stunned young man, regardless of the wave of three, seven, 21. More than 10,000 people also dare to strike ten times their enemies. He also wanted to fight in a tournament, and the two regiments collapsed more than 100,000 enemy men and horses.

Claude thinks he overestimated the enemy and underestimated the power of the party. Imagine, the Thunder Corps, equipped with new rifles and new artillery, has no idea how many times the power of its enemies in this era.

Two hundred new types of artillery in two regiments, two rounds fired rapidly, amounting to 4,800 rounds of artillery shells that exploded in enemy groups, and then more than 10,000 lightly mounted assaults where the armed and second-line regiments were trained for only three months. As a result, one person fled to lead a group of people to flee, and eventually the whole army collapsed and turned around to flee, which was normal.

“Did you clean up the city?” Claude asked.

“No, we only took control of the gates and were busy capturing the prisoners and keeping them under guard.” Diavid answered honestly.

Claude nodded: "The old rules, nobility and officials raided homes, and the rebels killed without pardon. As for the prisoners, they were selected from among the ranks and above, formed prisoner camps, placed in the custody of heavy transport battalions and security brigades attached to the Logistics Department of the division, and placed in charge of transporting supplies to the grass, carrying out company seating and shooting a fleeing unit.

The rest of the soldiers cut a knife in their left thigh, and we wrapped them up to heal their wounds, and we gave them a little dry food to let them go home. Remember to tell them that if we catch them again and we find a scar on their left thigh, we'll have to cut off their right thumb unless they don't shoot at us and become our enemies... "

“Boss, I don't understand. Why is it so complicated?” Diavid grabbed his head with confusion: "Cut a knife on the captive's thighs to prevent them from becoming our enemies again. I understand, but why heal them and wrap them up. Just cut off their thumbs like I said, so they won't have guns anymore. ”

Claude slapped Diavid in the back of the head and said, "Do as I say. How many families would hate us to cripple their families by cutting off so many captive right thumbs? Help them deal with the wounds and bandage them so they can cut you willingly, without having to send our own troops to capture them and even heal the wounds and bandage them so they can do it without our effort.

They can feed themselves for three months by cutting this knife and go home without having to worry about being forcibly recruited again so they can thank us instead. Tell them the next time they get caught again, they're going to chop off their thumbs, unless they shoot at us and become our enemies, which means they're going to run away even if they fight us again. Imagine the consequences of their escape on the battlefield, just like this one, one with one group, one with all, all the enemies will turn around and flee, and we will be relaxed... "

The purpose of cutting a knife for three months is to prevent these short-trained prisoners from becoming soldiers again. The ammunition on my side should arrive in three months' time, when more enemies would simply become cannon dust, not to worry. Of course, this is just one insurance policy, the other is a prisoner camp, where soldiers can return home, but the officers at the grassroots level cannot be released. Without the grassroots officers, no one can organize and suppress the lower soldiers to flee during the battle, and gather more men and horses will eventually become the only people...

“Let's get to work, we can only stay here for two days and leave in two days.” Claude said, "Then we split up into two regiments, your 2nd Division, two regiments each, sweep here to the 14 local counties around the king, defeat all the resistance forces, and dispose of all the prisoners as I say. Understand? ”

“Hey, I get it, boss, I'm on my way.” Diavid sneaks off.

Claude just remembered that the kingdom of Nasserley has already been badly wounded. Since the beginning of the debt war, it has been rubbed to the ground by the Kingdom of Ovilas and invaded the mainland of the Kingdom by four standing legions. As a result, it has been hit head-on by two divisions of the Red Dragon Legion and the Guardian Legion, running back to only one and a half legions and losing 160,000 horses. It was even counter-attacked by the garrison, which gave the Association of Eastern States the pretext for a joint invasion of the Kingdom of Auveras.

In a major war in Frontier County, the Kingdom of Nasri lost once again a great deal, killing and injuring more than 100,000 people. The first defensive position attacked the defensive battle and lost more than 100,000 horses. Then to Ambrizeshire Daejet of the Rock Regiment, the Army of the Kingdom of Nasseri threw away its armor, and the people who fled together were less than one and a half legions. By the time the war began, the Kingdom of Nasri had lost at least 400,000 troops.

In five years of Eastern Wars, more than a million people were killed and injured in the Kingdom of Ovilas. With a total population of just over 16 million, the Kingdom of Nasri has lost more than 400,000 troops and at least seven legions in less than two years of war, which can already be said to have seriously damaged its energy. Of course, this has a lot to do with the large-scale application of projectiles on the battlefield. Particularly heavy casualties were caused by positions attacking and defensively throwing bombs at each other.

Had it not been for the imminent demise of the Kingdom of Ovieras, the Kingdom of Nasseri would not have persisted in this way and the poor continued to forcibly recruit in the country, relying on the arms support of the Kingdom of Hicks to bring a newly formed legion to the front line. Now that Diavid has led two major field regiments to crush the newly formed 18th Standing Army, all that remains in the kingdom of Nasserley are two newly formed regiments said to be waiting for the support of the Hicks...

In this calculation, the seven legions lost by the Kingdom of Nasserley in its invasion of the mainland of the Kingdom of Auvellas, together with the eighteenth standing legion now lost, and the Royal Neighbourhood Guard Corps of Nasserley, which was destroyed by the Berlin raid on the Royal City of Polyvoria, can be said to have lost nine legions. Now there are only three standing legions in the Kingdom of Auvellas and two new legions waiting to be backed by the Hicks. Those three standing legions in the Kingdom of Auvellas are unlikely to make it back in half a month, or they won't even know if they can make it back...

As for those two new regiments, without waiting for the support of the Royal Hicks, there would be little threat to Claude's Thunder Regiment with bare hands. So Claude is perfectly capable of a generous detachment to disarm the counties throughout the kingdom of Nasri and diminish the war potential of the entire kingdom of Nasri, without the need for a fearful build-up of troops to travel carefully to the King's City of Polyvisia.

Though the kingdom of Nasserley has always been the enemy of the kingdom of Ovillas, there is no threat posed by a bad dog who can remove his teeth, all Claude has to do is pull out all the remaining teeth of this bad dog in the kingdom of Nasserley.

Two days later, the second division attacked all four sides of the main field regiment, sweeping all local counties within the Kingdom of Nasri. As Claude expected, there was no place to guard against raids by the Thunder Corps generals, and all the towns were plundered. But the Second Division did not occupy any of the towns, they captured officers, cut a knife in the left thigh and released the soldiers, the nobles and officials in the towns were raided, and after doing so, they turned to the next place...

It was just that Claude's divisional command team grew bigger and bigger, with more carriages and prisoners carrying seized goods joining the team, so much so that it attracted a lot of attention.

“Horn honking”, the sound of a fireline gun coming from afar, followed by the sound of a fierce new rifle. Not long ago, a subpoena briefed Claude: “Report General, the scouting squad was ambushed by the enemy, one dead and three wounded, the enemy left more than twenty bodies in our counterattack and fled. According to the tests, it is estimated that it was the self-organized resistance in those places, the scale of this ambush should be around a hundred people..."

This has not been the first time that this has happened, as the looting of noble officials who have been captured in towns and cities has led to an infinite number of self-assembled resistance armed formations in local counties in the Kingdom of Nasri such as this. As in the case of the National Resistance Army, these resistance forces dared not target the four Light Mounted Major Field Regiments of the 2nd Division, but instead targeted Claude's huge logistical heavy transport unit. This is both a soft pinch of persimmon and you may want to get a penny from it.

Unfortunately, these resistance forces don't know what the essence of guerrilla warfare is, and Claude sighs and decides to release the Big Killer. After all, these resistance forces are a little disgusting, like mosquitoes, spinning around you every day, sucking blood while you're not paying attention. Claude decided to shoot the resistance directly, saving himself the trouble.

“Mason Hughes, go tell Browick his Wolftooth Battalion is ready to go. I don't want to hear any more information about the resistance arming our team, he can let go and don't let go as long as the resistance arming...” Claude gave the order.

Then on the next journey, it was a very memorable journey for this transport force and the captives escorted. Because on both sides of the road, from time to time, rows of hanging corpses appear on the trees, and they all have blood on their bodies that says that the resistance is dead. Obviously, it's all the work of the Wolftooth Brigade. So until the Royal City of Polyviria, Claude never heard anything about the resistance.

It really feels like killing chickens with a bull slaughter knife to deal with these folk self-assembled resistance armies. But then again, it was quieter, and the only thing that worried Claude was his brother Browick, because Adele's death made him an extraneous bloodthirsty, even crazier on the battlefield, regardless of life or death. Perhaps when this war is over, he can return to the Overseas Autonomous Territories, go to his sister Anna's ranch, and spend some time with his two dragon and phoenix fetuses to reduce his anger...

Berlin held a welcoming ceremony in the Royal City of Polyvisia to welcome Claude and the Second Division, and he even ordered each of the First Division departments to draw out a battalion and hold a small parade ceremony for Claude to review. This is a red * naked * naked * show off and humiliate the kingdom of Nasseri because, in his opinion, the Eastern League of Nations army held a parade after the occupation of Wangdu, so he has to do the same...

On May 6, 2000, Claude led the Second Division in sweeping 16 local counties of the Kingdom of Nasri, and finally arrived at the Royal City of Polyvisia with the First Division Division Division Division.