Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 515 Battle of Polyviria (3)

“It's day three, and the enemy's offense is starting to diminish, and I think we can let them go and get into town. Otherwise, their siege without attack would create great confusion for us, and all previous preparations could be in vain.” General Bitchicklin said.

Claude stood in front of the city's sandbox and shook his head helplessly: "No, the commander of the Allied forces was very smart, and the offense he had launched for the past three days seemed huge, but it was all an assault. In fact, most of the casualties in front of our defensive lines were armed by the families of the Nasserly kingdom's local guards and territorial nobles who voluntarily came to recover the Imperial City, while those five standing regiments of the Hicks kingdom have been watching behind...

I was deliberately counted on the walls of the city, where very few soldiers died in Hicks uniform in front of our defensive front for the last three days, and where the three positions add up to less than 1,000. I suspect that the enemy, knowing that our defenses are weak, is still spending three days trying to pull us out of the city. That is why only three directions have been sieged, leaving us with a way back to evacuate so that he can achieve his goal of recovering the Imperial City without war.

We can only continue now, because we are prepared to use the defensive advantage of the Imperial City against these five standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks, and only by destroying them will we be able to destroy the Kingdom of Nasri and march into the Duchy of Kanas, the eastern part of the united continent. If the enemy wants to delay, then we will stay with him. Only if the five Hicks Standing Legions launch a massive offensive will we be able to make a fake move and pull back gradually, without any suspicion from the enemy. ”

“What do we do if the five standing legions of the Hicks kingdom remain immobile?” General Albert asked with some hesitation.

“Then we shall be escorted.” Claude ordered some Amis City on the map: "I've sent a message to Bonnie the Eagle, and to McJackie, asking the Third Division to pull out a major field regiment to get to Amis City. Bonnie will also draw men from the Rock 1st Division, pretending to be reinforcements of a division. If the enemy wants to reclaim the Imperial City, he will surely launch a fierce attack on us in the hope of crushing it before the reinforcements arrive or expelling us from the Imperial City of Polyvoria..."

Only unexpectedly, Claude's army launched a fierce offensive the following day, using five Hicks Standing Regiments. It appears that the first three days were marked by artillery ashes armed with the local guard forces of the Kingdom of Nasri and the families of the aristocracy of the territory, which voluntarily entered the war, to test the falsity of the guard forces on the defensive front. So all of a sudden they invested in it, using waves that lasted two days and one night like an attack, forcing the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps, which guarded the forward positions, to abandon all defensive positions in front of the city walls.

“We have nearly 10,000 casualties, and the Six Kingdoms' war damage should be five or six times greater than ours...” General Bitchclin seriously handed over the casualty statistics report to Claude.

Claude took the report and found that most of the wounds were minor and that the names of the soldiers who died in the war had drawn a circle on it with a black pen. Less than 2,000 people were finally relieved. These wounded soldiers have been sent to treatment camps in the Royal City, and the bodies of war dead officers and soldiers have been restrained, waiting for free time before burning ashes into cans to be taken back to the overseas autonomous territories.

More than 10,000 casualties cost almost two regiments, while enemy casualties, though five or six times greater, cost almost one regiment. Claude was not satisfied with this swap ratio and felt he had suffered too much. But think about it. Forward defensive positions are just seven trenches within a hundred meters of the wall, and they can only hold depression in their hearts.

“Today the enemy used a lightweight thrower on a large scale while attacking, allowing the attacking soldier to carry it with him and to throw a projectile in front of the trench, hitting us with a surprise. We did not expect the enemy to do so, and the loss of the first two trenches was due to this, too many casualties. We then immediately returned the tooth and threw the projectiles into the two trenches occupied by the enemy with a lightweight thrower as well, paying constant attention to the enemy's firing group, which was only stalled with the enemy until the afternoon when it was found to have been killed. ”

General Albert, who commands at the forefront, also reported on today's battle process, finding it more difficult to engage primarily the enemy, and the strength of the five Hicks Standing Regiments did stand out in the coalition army, with more mature dispersal lines and waves that seemed to attack tactical exercises and more intransigent operational will. But that is why the withdrawal of the forward positions would seem reasonable to the enemy, after all the defenders are at an extreme military disadvantage.

The enemy may then attack the city wall, which can be abandoned to the west, but the south and north walls must be maintained. Even if the western walls are plunged by the enemy, the enemy is simply entering Claude's pre-set urban battlefield. Originally the prison camp and custodial area where more than 100,000 prisoners and more than 200,000 of their families were located, the prisoners and their families have now been transferred, an area that covers one third of the size of the Imperial City, making it the final battlefield for the city alley battle that Claude is preparing for a duel.

Only the commanders of the Allied forces seemed insistent on forcing the Legion of Thunder and the Rock Legion to voluntarily renounce the withdrawal of the Royal City of Polyvisia. Instead of launching an attack immediately after occupying the frontier position in front of the city wall, it took five days to collect the remains of the deceased soldiers while excavating more than a dozen trenches leading to the frontier position for the mobilization of troops during the attack.

When everything was complete, it was only after seeing signs that the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of Rock had not withdrawn from the Imperial City of Polyvisia that the Allied forces launched an attack on the Imperial City. It was also a three-pronged attack, with only six legions thrown in at once. To the west and north, there is a Nasserli Legion and a Hicks Legion, while to the south there are two Hicks Standing Legions. It appears that the commanders of the Allied forces are trying to use their strength to defeat the defenders' defensive confidence in the fiercest offensive.

For Claude, the enemy commander was very brilliant and well aware of the weakness of the Legion of Thunder and the Rock Legion. The three walls of the city, each of which is defended by about two regiments of soldiers. Even with the boost of the walls and defense facilities, the enemy's former servants can't resist one wave after another...

When the walls are full of enemy infantry, climbing and shooting at the walls, inevitably attracting all the attention of the guards on the walls, saying that there is no need to target the bad points, and shooting at the walls will hit the enemy, no one will notice the artillery and huge throwers that are moving one step at a time from the far enemy.

When defenders on the walls find artillery and throwers in the distance approaching the walls, it is impossible to suppress attackers under the walls by climbing the walls if the artillery is turned to fire. In particular, the walls of the Royal City of Polyvisia are also five or six metres high, and the dense and lined ladders on the walls make it easy for attacking soldiers to climb the walls and engage in physical combat with the guards. General Claude and General Beachcline had to organize the logistical and civilian officers of the division and regiment headquarters as reserves to support the city walls...

When the first enemy dropped a bomb on the western wall and delivered my conflicted soldier's body into mid-air, General Albert could only command the garrison to withdraw at the side of the battle and relinquish the defense of the entire wall. Soon after, the western walls were stamped with the flags of the Allied armies of the kingdoms of Nasserly and Hicks, and countless excited Allied army soldiers cheered on the walls to celebrate the difficult and costly victory.

Breaking down the walls in this era means that the attackers have won and the defenders have either surrendered or withdrawn. But what surprises the coalition forces is that, even though the western walls have been overrun, resistance to the northern and southern walls remains unusually fierce and even more intense. And the attackers have no morale and warfare to attack. It's very simple. The city is broken to the west. You can go from there to the city. Why are you still dying here?

Shots fired from the north and south walls quickly calmed down, and the guards on both walls even countered the west walls, but were repelled by coalition forces. However, there were exchanges of fire between the two sides on the border walls. The coalition forces eventually partitioned the walls with sandbags and defended them with heavy soldiers, while the defenders' side seemed to be unable to catch some artillery ammunition, firing only a short distance apart and no longer as fierce as it had been at the time of the war.

Immediately after entering the Imperial City through the western gate, however, troops were attacked by defenders, hiding in houses, alleyways, behind the barricades, shooting at enemies entering the city, making it difficult for Allied soldiers entering the city, almost covered with corpses and wounded people. The Allied forces, however, rely on people to move forward step by step, except that these resistant enemies are cunning, they retreat as they fight, and all that remains of the position is empty shells...

Pilag. The Duke of Hi-Friot was very disturbed, and he always felt that it seemed wrong to break through the walls so easily, and that it was strange that the city's enemies were still resolutely resisting. Under normal circumstances, breaking the city means victory for the attacking party, and the defenders should withdraw or surrender. He deliberately kept the eastern retreat and the city's enemies could withdraw from the east, so that everyone would rejoice without further casualties.

Soon, however, the city sent the latest news explaining why the enemy had not retreated. A Hicks grassroots officer ran to headquarters with a bag and poured the contents of the bag onto the table, and the gold and silver appliances glistened in the light of the candle fire...

“Marshal, we found a warehouse in the city where these belongings were stored, three of them, all filled with these pieces of gold and silver. Our officers and soldiers are going crazy, and everyone rushes into the warehouse and grabs these things. Soldiers in the city now claim that tens of millions of kilograms of shields were scratched and stored in the Royal City by two enemy regiments in the Kingdom of Nasri. There are still more than a dozen warehouses that store gold and silver equipment like this, and the reason the enemy won't leave is because of these things, they don't have carriages to transport so many things..."

Unfortunately, Pilag. The late arrival of information from the Duke of Hi-Friot will not only bring troops from the city, but even from outside the city, either hurrying from the west gate to the city or seeking his own initiative to apply to the city to attack the enemy.

Prince Ducklind of the kingdom of Nasserley rushed to Pilag. The Duke of Hi-Feliot protested, arguing that the possessions belonged to the Kingdom of Nasri, the king of the new Nasri kingdom to which he was about to ascend. But Pilag. Lord Hi-Feliot said he could not help, because at this time he could not order the confiscation of the seized loot from the soldiers, which would greatly damage the morale of the soldiers who were attacking the front line.

But Pilag. The Duke of Hi-Feliot stated that Prince Daklind could enter the city on his own initiative and lead his clan forces in an attack against the defensive enemy, so that the warehouse filled with these belongings could be owned by him. Because Prince Ducklind still has an army under his command, he has been using his own men as a pretext for more than half the casualties while attacking the city. He needs rest and is unwilling to fight in the city...

When a subpoena came and reported that the Duchy of Kanas, Archibald... Marquis Charles also leads the only remaining corps of light riders left in the Alliance army, and Prince Ducklind is no longer able to stay and hastily leaves when he renounces riding into the city to attack the enemy. Soon after, the coalition battalion received news of the nasri kingdom's newly integrated regiment advancing towards the royal city.

And the gunfire in the western region of the Imperial City intensified, and the Hicks officers and soldiers in the city swept at the enemy despite heavy casualties. When the enemy moved away from the blocking position, these Hicks officers and soldiers burst into a joyful cry, not to hunt down the enemy, but to rush into the unmanned houses to search for property...

The entire Alliance army is in disarray, no one cares about the casualties of its comrades, and the warehouses that are found from time to time storing gold and silver equipment make all Alliance troops blush. To rob a house of gold and silver goods, a battalion of Hicks kingdom and a squadron of light cavalry of the Duchy of Kanas also erupted into a gunfight, causing more than a dozen casualties and tragedy, and eventually they were handed over their weapons by the forces of the rear kingdom of Nasri...

At that time, in addition to the last regiment commanded by Prince Ducklind of the Kingdom of Nasserley, the remaining 200,000 Allied troops had become scattered men and women, either searching for property in the houses of those buildings or running to the place where the gunshots were fired. Because the fierce gunfire means that there are warehouses where the enemy is defending his possessions, and warehouses give him the chance to get rich, so much so that these brains are full of rich dreams that they ignore the bodies everywhere, even the screams of the wounded are not in their ears...

Many empty houses in the western district of Wangcheng were set ablaze by the angry soldiers who couldn't find their belongings, and soon there were more and more fireheads. Fortunately, many of the houses here in the Royal City are masonry, and the fires are not connected. In the second half of the night, many gainful soldiers and some tired officers began to find a fire and rest, and many showed off their trophies to their peers.

At this time, a message came that more gold and silver treasures were stored in the palace, small and convenient to carry, such as gold coins and silver coins and jewellery, so that you could go home and live a life of a rich man. So all the officers and soldiers went to the palace spontaneously, and the bodies that fell on the streets were dragged to both sides of the road so as not to delay everyone's journey. Heavy gunshots and artillery have erupted from the palace, but this will not stop the Black Crow crowd from making their way to the palace in search of a chance to make money.

The western neighborhood and the palace are connected by a very wide square, the most famous Royal Nasserli Square in the Royal City of Polyvisia. The Royal House of Nasserli holds a grand celebration ceremony on this square every major festival, as do most of the marching and inspection troops. There is also a four-carriage black stone avenue between the square and the palace, with a garden area more than 100 metres from the avenue and the palace.

The Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion, which guard the Royal City, have laid heavy troops on the walls of the Royal Palace, and the bodies of officers and soldiers of those coalition forces that fell across Blackstone Avenue and the garden area have almost been covered. These unlucky attackers struck the palace with the dream of wealth, and lost their precious lives in the gunfire.

“We need to throw bombs and artillery to break through the enemy's walls..." The first Alliance officers and soldiers to arrive drank loudly at the troops that followed, but no one came with these heavy weapons. They shouted at the crowd afterwards, but no one wanted to go back and get these weapons, all afraid that they would miss the first time they rushed into the Imperial City...

The square, which can accommodate more than 100,000 people, slowly became crowded, and the officers and soldiers scattered with their own troops began to scream at the serial numbers of their units or the names of their officers with the intention of returning to the ranks or gathering them together. More Allied soldiers are crowded into the square, nearly 300 metres from the walls of the palace, and there is no need to worry about being shot by the enemy for the time being.

“This should be what you call human beings dying for wealth, birds dying for food.” Above the walls of the Royal Palace, General Albert looked at the crowd in the distant square and smiled.

Claude nodded and turned to General Birchcling and said, "You can order the fire. I'm sure the 400 guns we've been hiding in our hands will surprise the enemy. Also, Alan, you go to the south wall, direct the artillery to bomb the west wall, seal off the west gate, and don't let the city's enemies escape the city..."

Claude once said that as long as there was enough ammunition, he didn't care how many enemies there were. But after joining the Allied forces, he kept 400 artillery items brought by the Rock II Division hidden in the warehouse without revealing them, in fear that the Allied forces would find out about the information and would not dare attack the city. So what the enemy discovered was that the number of Thunder Regiment artillery was only over 200, and that there were only over a hundred new artillery guns left after the retreat from King's City, and that ammunition appeared to be somewhat inadequate.

Most of the enemies are now jammed, winged, and those heavy weapons have been dumped outside the city to make a fortune. So Claude can pull out his Big Killer and start killing again...