Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 516 Battle of Polyviria (IV)

“Pfft! Pfft!” With two gunshots fired, two Hicks soldiers, one on the ground, twitched his body a few times and stopped moving. After a while, the soldiers of the three Legion of Thunder cautiously crossed the broken wall and first searched the surrounding area to find no danger, which appeared next to the body. A sergeant bowed down and examined the two bodies, then ripped off a cloth bag on the back of a body and opened it, but it was several pieces of gold and silver tableware.

“Another two idiots trying to escape for a little bit of money...” the sergeant muttered: “I don't want to know where the whole West End is blocked, surrender early to save lives...”

The entire battle in the western district of Royal Polyvisia entered the rhythm of control of the Legion of Thunder and the Rock Legion after that fierce artillery fire that was about to gather in Royal Nasserley Square the other night with more than 100,000 Allied troops bombing their souls and fears. The half-hour shelling directly plowed the entire square three or four times, with no fewer than 56,000 Allied troops estimated to have been killed and injured on the spot, with only one and a half fleeing the day of birth.

The third prince of the kingdom of Nasserli, who was to become the new king of Nasserli when he recovered the city of Polovisia, was sent to heaven by a shell that fell next to him. Had it not been for the gorgeous uniform on his body, he would not have found the remains of only half his head and half his shoulder, the noble prince. Nearly a large group of captured and surrendered Nasserli officers came to confirm the identity of the half of the body and found the prince very unlucky to have been killed at the beginning of the shelling.

It took almost half a month to clean up the square, mainly because the winners, captured or surrendered losers, were not thrown up when they were first ordered to clean the square. Too bad, that's the real flesh swamp, the kind where the whole girl trapped herself on one foot, broken arms, broken bodies, mud, a real hell of a view...

The only thing that's lucky is that it's cold in late November, and the corpse of the flesh in this square won't rot so fast for now. But also because of this, these flesh and blood congeal together and present the whole tragedy to the cleaners and cleaners. At the end of the day, both the winner and the loser regard the task of cleaning up the square as the most important means of punishing the disciplined soldiers, and anyone who goes there once will be honest for a while.

General Albert went there once and after coming back he couldn't eat for three days. He insisted on eating vegetables for the next six months, and when he saw the meat, he was sick to the stomach...

Bad luck not only to the noble Prince Ducklind, but also to the head of the Light Cavalry Corps of the Principality of Kanas, Ackerberg. Marquis Williams Charles was similarly shelled and wounded, more tragically than Prince Ducklind. Because he was rescued by loyal men, he was then taken by loyal soldiers to hide east of the western district of Wangcheng for the next eight days, with the intention of breaking through the heavy siege and escaping from Wangcheng.

But the entire West Side was sealed off, and the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps responded the following morning by cleaning up the remnants of the Allied forces in the West Side. The more than 100,000 Hicks and Nasserley kingdoms that have entered the city, as well as the General of the Principality of Kanas, are like headless flies that simply cannot organize effective resistance. Especially under heavy artillery shelling, even when grass-roots officers organized their defenses, they were quickly eliminated, and the rest of the soldiers were either killed running around or lost their souls laying down their weapons and surrendering with their hands up...

Archibald. Marquis Charles is unlucky to be too loyal to his men, and if he surrenders early, he will also receive good treatment in his capacity with the Legion of Thunder. But his loyal subordinates wanted to take him out of King's City. Unfortunately, the entire West Side was sealed off and the walls and gates of the West Side were recaptured by the Thunder Legion.

Archibald. Without success, Marquis Charles' men struck the gate twice, attracting the attention of the Legion of Thunder, sending a large group of soldiers to chase and beat him to death behind, forcing Marquis' men to flee with the seriously wounded Marquis. By the eighth day, the last faithful of the inescapable Marquis had died beside his stretcher. The winning Thunder Legion soldier lifted the blanket on the Marquis before realizing that the Marquis had long died of excessive blood loss...

On 7 November 2000, under the Royal City of Polovisia, the Allied army forces comprised five standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks, a light rider regiment of the Principality of Kanas and two regiments of the Kingdom of Nasri, with a total strength of more than 500,000 troops. In addition, there are a number of places where the Kingdom of Nasri has come to the King of Diligence to guard its armaments and private aristocratic armaments, as well as some remnants of the regular forces of the Kingdom of Nasri defeated by the Legion of Thunder, which, taken together, amount to around 45,000.

After three days of rest, Lord Duke of the Kingdom of Hicks, Commander-in-Chief of the Alliance Army, Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot gave the commander of the local guard force and the noble private armies of the Orvillas kingdom to the defensive front sent to attack the Legion of Thunder on the outskirts of the Royal City and used the Hicks Legion's Law Enforcement Force as a supervisory team to order the retreatees to kill.

Three days of probationary assault, causing heavy casualties and bitterness in these squadrons, and no one else in Pilag. Marshal Hill Ferriot spoke loudly in front of him. Because the Marshal will take your bullshit seriously, send you to the battlefield to serve your country's allegiance, and if you step back without order or desert, the Marshal will directly order you to be shot in order to kill the Chicken Monkey...

Forty-five thousand miscellaneous troops lost more than 30,000 in three days of war, and more than a thousand people were killed and injured by even the warring Hicks Military Enforcement Team. The price they pay is for Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot uncovered the false power of the Legion of Thunder in its forward positions and, in the ensuing offensive, invested in five standing regiments of the Kingdom of Hicks. After two days and one night of fighting, he severely damaged the guarded Legion of Thunder, forcing it to abandon its forward defensive positions and retreat to the Imperial City.

Next up, Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot deliberately delayed five days in the hope that the Thunder Corps and the Rock Corps in King's City would withdraw on their own initiative. He did not want to fight the two regiments to the last two defeats. The Allied forces, although dominant, were far less powerful than their enemies. Two days and one night at the forefront of the offensive, the five Hicks Standing Regiments fought, paying 67,000 casualties, equating to the defeat of a Standing Regiment.

Therefore, in the case of the refusal of the Legion of Thunder and Rock in the Imperial City to withdraw, it is inevitable that the damage will be severe to break through the Imperial City. After all, the enemy has a defensive boost of the city wall and the protective facilities above it. Delaying or using refueling tactics will only cause more casualties to the horses and horses involved in the attack...

Pilag. After some reflection, Marshal Hi-Feliot finally resolved to devote all his offensive forces to breaking the city on the first day. He simply asked the Principality of Kanas' Light Rider Corps to serve as a reserve in case the enemy dog jumped off the wall and started a counter-attack to disrupt the attack. At the same time, a death order was issued, no one was allowed to retreat, and the retreaters directly executed the wartime military law without asking questions!

Fortunately, the Allied forces relied on their strength to capture and occupy the walls west of the Imperial City on the first day, and the enemy was powerless to retreat, as can be seen from their subsequent struggles. The enemy attempted to retake the western wall by launching counter-attacks from the north and south walls, but was repelled by soldiers of the coalition forces at great sacrifice, regardless of life or death.

Even without statistics, Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot, also aware of the enormous toll of casualties in the attack, was ordered by him to launch an attack in the first wave against the two Nasserly regiments that served as cannon ashes. After breaking down King's City, all of them withdrew from the coalition camp, but only a little more than one regiment, almost half the battle, and Prince Ducklind was very dissatisfied. But the Hicks kingdom also suffered heavy casualties, estimated to have cost no less than one legion, so that Prince Ducklind's grievances would have to be held hostage only on the pretext that the casualties were too unwilling to enter the city again.

The three remaining Hicks Standing Army regiments took over the city walls and entered the western district of Wangcheng before it was discovered that the city's enemies continued to resist. The Pilag who got the message. Marshal Hi-Feliot felt strange that he did not know why the Legion of Thunder and the Legion of the Rock were still fighting, an era in which, basically, as long as the walls were broken into the city, the guards would not withdraw and surrender, admitting failure, instead of continuing to resist in the city as the enemy did.

Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot is actually well aware that, through reconnaissance, as well as casualty assessments on the battlefield, and undercover intelligence reports from the Kingdom of Nasserley, he believes that the enemy still has less than one regiment to fight. The Legion of Thunder has been entangled from Durmel County and the Allied armies until now, and there is only one division or so that can fight. Combined with the reinforcements of a division of the Rock Regiment, they also suffered many casualties after a front-line offensive against the defensive positions and city walls, insisting on resistance of up to 30,000 horses...

Now that the walls have been breached, the Hicks army, which enters the city, has 160,000 men, nearly four or five times the strength, and no matter how resistant the enemy is, it is powerless. So even a little uneasy in my heart, Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot remains confident in the forces of his kingdom and patiently awaits detailed warfare in the city in the coalition battalion.

It's just Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot has focused his attention on the enemy's new rifles and new artillery, ignoring the enemy's most obscure steel helmet. He was also bewildered by why the Thunder Corps officers and soldiers were holding on to a heavy helmet, but soon a Nasserley agent's report gave him the impression that the enemy was equipped with an iron helmet.

Agent Nasserli reported that he had seen soldiers of the Thunder Corps put dry food and water in their iron helmets during the lunch break and put them on a fire pile, quickly cooking a bowl of hot porridge. So Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot suddenly realized that it was obvious that the enemy had penetrated the territory of the Kingdom of Nasseri, knowing that it was enemy territory and that it was difficult to guarantee a sound logistical meal for every meal, and that it was difficult to maintain a lasting morale by simply feeding the generals on dry military food.

For the sake of the health and morale of the soldier, the iron helmet is mainly equipped so that the soldier can eat the hot meal himself at any time, anywhere, to reduce injuries and illness and low morale. An iron helmet is the equivalent of a person's iron pot, convenient to carry and easy to clean. As long as there is a clean source of water to ignite, you can eat hot food or drink hot water at any time during the break.

So Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot neglected the other role of the Iron Helmet, and in calculating his enemy's casualties, he multiplied it by three based on the loss of normal combat power, believing that the enemy was three times as powerful as the Hicks Regiment, and that the casualties were the same, so that the remaining combatable strength of the Legion of Thunder and Rock in the Imperial City was less than 34,000.

And the truth is, Claude's got over 70,000 men, more than Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot estimated it to be more than double. The civilian officers of the Logistics Department were also organized to fight and kill in order to seduce the enemy and lure him into the urn. In both regiments of Overseas Autonomous Territories, administrative and logistical civilian officers are similarly required to learn military skills. Claude has always believed that soldiers are soldiers, that there is no distinction between civilian and military duties, and that critical moments must come to the top.

When Pilag... When Marshal Ferriot discovered that the enemy's death was due to the accumulation of the property they had scratched in the Imperial City, he also adjusted his assessment of the enemy downward several steps at the outset. Considering that the enemy's strength depends mainly on new weapons, it is not strategically feasible and too greedy to abandon and retreat.

Later, the Kanas Light Riders disembarked and entered the Imperial City to say that it was an attack, in fact, to seize the warehouses. This behavior led Prince Ducklind to enter the city with the rest of his regiment, after Pilag. Marshal Hill Ferriot has sent in a few summonses to bring in Archibald. The Marquis of Charles and Prince Ducklind presided over the offensive and command of the Allied forces in the Royal City.

However, the previous summons was never returned. Only the last summons was unlucky, and it took more than an hour before he could find any chance of wealth in the city. The report said that the city was too chaotic to find anybody at all, or even to ask others. Many soldiers can't even find their own officers, some become bareback commanders, and they don't know where their own men are.

The city's enemies are still resisting, but the gunfire is getting thinner, with corpses on the roads and on both sides of the street, as well as a number of their own wounded. It's just too dark at night to see if the bodies on the ground are Allied soldiers or enemies, I guess both. Because the Alliance forces are gaining control, even many soldiers are running to places where gunfire is intense...

Listen to this subpoena, Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot finally let go of his mind and thought the big picture was settled. Now the men and horses entering the Imperial City, together with Prince Ducklind's regiment and the Kanas Light Rider Regiment, totaled more than 200,000 horses in the Imperial City. With so many troops, even if the enemy is dying, it won't be able to turn over...

Then, in the middle of the night, near the darkest hour before dawn, the distant Royal City of Polyvisia suddenly burst into fierce fire and explosions. Looking far away, the royal city is like a volcano eruption, smoke, fire, explosion, thunder, even the occupied west wall of the city is ravaged by artillery fire, right in the coalition camp, seems to hear the scream of the unfortunate who was sent into the air by the explosion...

Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot rushed out of his tent, picking up a single telescope and staring at the Royal City of Polyvisia, and didn't even feel Cersei trembling in the cold night wind in her thin pajamas. Even when his deputy sent him a thick cape to help him put it on, the Marshal pushed it away.

The royal royal gunfire lasted half an hour before it subsided, Pilag. Marshal Hill Feliott, the whole man is stuck in a wooden chicken. When his deputy came forward again, he found the marshal's face pale and his forehead sweating, saying only one thing: “We've fallen for it...”

It took half a dozen years for the Marshal to recover and order his own personal servants to go to two places to see if the western walls of the Imperial City were still in the hands of the Allied forces?

Less than a dozen minutes later, only one of the entourage came back and told Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot, the western wall has been reoccupied by the enemy. His companion, because he didn't believe in the marshal's judgment, approached the closed gate first, drank and answered loudly, what he was going into the city, and then a shot was fired on the wall, and the waiter fell in front of the mount...

Pilag. Marshal Hi-Feliot has been speechless for a long time and has become more subdued. After waving the waiter back, after a while, let the deputy get all the Hicks soldiers in the coalition battalion packed up and ready to return to the Kingdom of the Hicks after dawn.

Then there was Pilag in the Allied barracks. Marshal Hill Ferriot reports to a close field regiment, most of which are residents of his own territory, along with the logistics arm of the five Hicks Standing Regiments and the treatment arm of the regiment's immediate guard battalion transport battalion, along with 56,000 horses.

His deputy was shocked to hear the marshal's military order and rushed to dissuade the marshal from issuing such an incredible order against common sense. How can you leave this suddenly when you see the Royal City of Polyvoria coming to be reclaimed? With so many Allied armies in the Imperial City, even if the walls west of the Imperial City are captured by the enemy, Allied armies will surely regain control...

Pilag. Marshal Hi-Friott grinned, saying that if he did not leave for two days, he would never be able to leave again. When the Allied forces in the Imperial City are cleared, it is the Allied Battalion's turn to leak fish. And you have to go fast, or the enemy's light cavalry will still be able to catch up even if the infantry in the barracks leaves for two days.

Therefore, the Marshal also recruited the commander of his own Kingsguard Field Corps, demanding that he lead the army to seize immediately all the grassland horses in the Allied Battalion's Duchy of Licanas' garrison, let the sergeant who withdrew with him ride the horses, let the Mala bike, take the carriage and evacuate with him...

When most of the Allied armies in the Imperial City were either destroyed or surrendered to stabilize the entire battlefield, it was the fifth day that Allied armies entering the Imperial City fell into the trap set by Claude, who drew two regiments and handed them over to General Albert to lead him to attack Allied barracks outside the Imperial City.

It was only when General Albert arrived at the Allied barracks that it was discovered that none of the Hicks had been found in the barracks, apart from the wounded and members of the logistics services of the Kingdom of Nasserley and the Principality of Kanas. The captives were questioned to find out that Pilag, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Coalition Army. Marshal Hi-Feliot had left the battalion four days earlier with all the Hicks and wounded, as well as soldiers from the Kingdom of Nasserly and the Principality of Kanas who wished to evacuate him, to return to the Kingdom of Hicks.

They also forcibly took the rides of nearly 80,000 Kanas Light Riders, even the horses, while they took all the carriages in the camp...

General Albert immediately led the army in a direct chase, but three days later he gave up, because he had been chasing for three days day after day, shortening the journey by day, and this speed could no longer intercept the retreat of these Hicks at the borders of the Kingdom of Nasserley...