Chapter two hundred and sixteenth paratrooper battalion
Chapter 216 Ranger Camp
Claude slowly poked his head out of the mud puddle, looked around, and found that there was no movement in the distance. He breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and said to the young man Michael Jack and the big man Gemie who were following him: "
That's it. Take a rest, put the gun away, and stay hidden. Don't be exposed. Mike, go to the back and tell Murder and Baker to hide on our left and right. The ambush point is here.
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Two months ago, Claude received an order again, requiring him to take the garrison squadron to report to the ranger camp. Unlike what Captain Wardloff, the acting battalion commander of the garrison battalion, had imagined, Claude was not affected by Hansback.
Because of the prince's favor and his rapid rise, he was sent to the experimental temporary combat unit newly established by Prince Hansback, the Ranger Battalion.
What this experimental ranger battalion formed by Prince Hansback is to use the accuracy of aiming and shooting of the Obash III standard matchlock gun to achieve the purpose of covering the battlefield. To put it bluntly, it is to deal with the five anti-Austrian countries.
The scouts and reconnaissance combat teams dispatched by the Allied Forces prevent the enemy from knowing the enemy's troop movements, artillery placement, and other information.
In normal battlefield reconnaissance, most of the battlefield reconnaissance of both sides is to send light cavalry as scouts to spy on the enemy's troop movements, firepower configuration of defensive positions and other information. When the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry is discovered, their own combat reconnaissance teams are sent to hunt down. Sometimes the reconnaissance of both sides
Soldiers will fight when they encounter each other, but these methods are not very effective. The most common situation is that the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry is running in front, and your own combat reconnaissance team is chasing behind, and then your own reconnaissance cavalry will follow after a while.
On the run, the enemy's combat reconnaissance team is chasing after him.
Therefore, in a war, when both sides concentrate their forces and set up positions for confrontation, the entire battlefield is a stage for reconnaissance cavalry. Generally speaking, reconnaissance cavalry are in groups of three or four. A team is divided into three to four groups. When conducting reconnaissance,
They cooperate with each other, and are often followed by a combat reconnaissance team to provide cover or support.
When the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry comes to reconnoiter the position, our side generally has no good way to protect it. The main reason is simple. The opponent is light cavalry and has high maneuverability. As long as it is not close to the position, artillery is useless.
Shotguns don't have enough distance, so you need a lot of luck to hit the live ammunition accurately. But if soldiers line up and fire in unison, they don't have the shooting accuracy or large coverage area. The opponent only has three or four cavalry, so if you fire in unison, you'll have to hit a few more targets.
This is a waste of gunpowder and guns, so the best way is to use scout cavalry to deal with the enemy's scout cavalry.
However, compared to the scout cavalry of the Kingdom of Ovilas, the scout cavalry of the anti-Austrian Five-Nation Alliance appeared to be more skilled. They had rich battlefield experience and had a great advantage in seduction, guerrillas, and immediate killing. A group of scout cavalry from both sides
When encountering an immediate kill, the victor is often the scout cavalry of the Five Anti-Austrian Alliance. For nearly five months since the confrontation, the Kingdom of Overas has lost more than 500 scout cavalry, which is equivalent to half a battalion.
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After Prince Hansback arrived in Ames City, he put a stop to this ineffective reconnaissance behavior. The battlefield where the two sides are currently facing each other has become a world dominated by the anti-Austrian Five-Nation Alliance reconnaissance cavalry. They often boldly penetrate with three or four cavalry.
Going to the back of the Kingdom's defensive position is like entering an uninhabited land. Lure or provoke the Kingdom's reconnaissance cavalry to attack. If there are more people, they will run away. If there are less people, they will kill them immediately. After winning, they will leave in a swaggering manner...
"In terms of personal bravery and horsemanship skills, we can't compare with the light cavalry of the Principality of Karrnath. They are natural cavalry. The late king Sterling IX once said, one against one, or ten against each other.
Ten, our cavalry is no match for the light cavalry of the Principality of Karrnath, but one hundred against one hundred, we can tie them. If it is one thousand against one thousand, we can crush them and defeat them.
They were killed in a bloody manner." This is what Prince Hansbach said to his officers.
The Principality of Karrnath is located on the Karrnath Prairie, the only one in the eastern part of the Farea continent. The young people there are all natural horsemen. The cavalry of the Kingdom of Ovilas are cuirassiers, and the charge formations march with strict discipline.
The wall charge is famous for its fearless sacrifice and enjoys a high reputation in the eastern part of the continent. However, it is indeed not as good as the light cavalry of the Principality of Karnars in terms of horse-mounted killing skills.
The establishment of a ranger camp was an idea that Prince Hansback had when he was the supervisor of the Red Dragon Legion and the Griffin Legion on the Western Front. He keenly noticed that although the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun was disliked by many soldiers,
There are still many veterans who like to use this gun.
According to them, this gun does have unique advantages in aiming and precise shooting. A veteran of the Red Dragon Legion once used this gun to attack at close range and knocked out an artillery firing group on the enemy's wall.
The artillery was rendered ineffective. In the end, the attacking force took advantage of the firepower gap left by the inability of the artillery to capture the castle, leaving a deep impression on Prince Hansback who was watching the battle.
So on the first day after arriving in Ames City, the eldest prince heard at the military meeting that it was impossible to carry out reconnaissance against the enemy. The enemy's reconnaissance cavalry came out in all directions and dominated the large battlefield between the opposing sides. His Royal Highness remembered
On the way here, I saw the precision shooting drill of the guard squadron at the entrance of the mountain road, so I decided to form an experimental combat unit Ranger Battalion, and asked the attendant to grab Captain Wardlov from the bed in the middle of the night and ask him to guard the guards.
Check out the files of the security squadron at the entrance of the mountain road.
Claude just arrived at the temporary experimental combat unit of the Ranger Camp. If there were regret medicine available, Claude would definitely buy a lot of it and swallow it. Why was he so full on the mountain road?
He trained his own garrison during the war, couldn't he just watch the excitement? He insisted on doing some training there, but he was attracted by the eldest prince. Captain Wardloff thought he would become famous, and he would be so successful that he would go to the battlefield.
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On the first day of entering the Ranger Camp, Claude learned from the stern-faced Lieutenant Colonel with a mustache that the mission of the Ranger Battalion was to ambush the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry on the battlefield and cover one's own defensive positions from the enemy's attack.
The reconnaissance cavalry enters and makes their position become an intelligence black spot for the enemy. Whether it is the mobilization of troops or the allocation of firepower, it must be prevented from being detected by the enemy...
To put it lightly, is it so easy for infantry to deal with cavalry? Although the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun in hand is the only musket in the kingdom that can accurately aim and shoot, the shooting distance with certainty is only one
One hundred meters. For the light cavalry, it only takes ten seconds to rush in front of you at one hundred meters. You only have one chance to fire...
Claude very much doubted whether Prince Hansbach had adopted the strategy of setting up this ranger battalion by using the infantry to exchange the enemy's light cavalry scouts. Even if an infantryman fired a shot and killed a scout, then he would
Being hacked to death by other scouts, in terms of exchange ratio, the kingdom still made a huge profit. After all, it is very simple to master the precise shooting and aiming of the Obash Type III matchlock gun. Three points and one line, stay calm and hide until you are discovered.
When the enemy comes, just aim and shoot, but the enemy needs to spend a lot of money to train an excellent scout.
But Claude had already arrived at the Ranger Camp and there was nothing he could do about it. Fortunately, the rainy season in March was coming soon. Claude still had time to make some preparations, increase the training intensity of his guard squadron, and tell his team members
We learned some key points that we need to pay attention to when concealing and retreating on the battlefield. The commander in charge of the ranger battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Roessler, who always had a straight face with a mustache, competed with the second-line regiments one by one, and compared the soldiers with good shooting scores.
They were all transferred into the ranger camp, preparing to wait for the weather to clear before letting them go to the battlefield to fight for the enemy's reconnaissance riders...
In terms of battlefield effectiveness, the purpose of Prince Hansback's formation and establishment of this ranger camp has been achieved. The enemy's reconnaissance cavalry's action range is limited to their own position, and they can no longer rush to the kingdom's position unscrupulously.
They were conducting reconnaissance from behind. They were very afraid of the sudden sound of muskets, which meant that another enemy was aiming their muskets at them. It is very likely that the sound of gunshots meant that they would lose another brother.
But to a certain extent, the formation of the Ranger Battalion was also a failure, because Prince Hansback appointed an unqualified officer as the director of the Ranger Battalion, and failed to explore and develop the greater combat effectiveness of the Ranger Battalion. Even to the
In the end, the ranger camp was turned into a punishment camp, and all the officers and soldiers who joined the ranger camp were officers and soldiers who had made mistakes. Their purpose of entering the ranger camp was to go to the battlefield with the Obash Type III matchlock gun, kill three enemies and retrieve the enemy's weapons.
Only with the identity plate can you leave the ranger camp and return to your original army.
The reason for this is that the casualty rate in the Ranger Battalion was too high, just as Claude was worried. Without any training or planning, when the weather cleared up after the rainy season in April, Ross with a mustache and a straight face
Lieutenant Colonel Le couldn't wait to rush the soldiers of the Ranger Battalion to the battlefield to ambush the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry. In one April, the Ranger Battalion lost one-third of its soldiers. Although the treatment was good, there were no more soldiers who asked to join.
, so much so that Lieutenant Colonel Rosler recruited those soldiers who had made mistakes in order to supplement his manpower.
Claude's security squadron also lost nearly half of its personnel in April. The original sixty-member security squadron now has only twenty-seven people. There are still eight people lying in the treatment center in Ames City. Three of them are still alive.
One of them was already disabled. Their arm was cut off by the enemy's cavalry. They were very lucky to be rescued.
Fortunately, the four aristocratic children were all intact. First, they listened to Claude's words, and second, they were clever by nature. Claude has become the biggest ace shooter in the ranger camp, and he is also the most popular in the camp.
, no matter who asked him what to do on the battlefield, Claude would take the trouble to tell them what to pay attention to, what to do and what not to do. Many soldiers returned to the camp safely because they listened to Claude's warnings, and even
Claude is very popular in the ranger camp and is also the most prestigious sergeant in the ranger camp.
But at the same time, Claude also became a thorn in the side of Lieutenant Colonel Rosler, because Claude and him had three conflicts. If Claude hadn't killed the most enemies and ranked first in the military merits of the ranger camp, Lieutenant Colonel Rosler might have really
On the spot, he ordered the soldiers to arrest Claude and conduct a military trial. Maybe he would kill the chicken to scare the monkeys or something.
The first conflict was about military uniforms. Claude believed that the bright red tops and red straight military caps worn by soldiers now were not conducive to ambush operations on the battlefield, and would be discovered and taken away by the enemy's scout cavalry from a distance.
If it is dangerous, it is best to change it to grass green or camouflage color, and suggest Lieutenant Colonel Rossiter to write to Prince Hansback to rectify the color of the military uniforms of the ranger camp.
For Claude, this was a very reasonable suggestion. He was also thinking about the safety of the soldiers in the Ranger Camp. But he did not expect Lieutenant Colonel Rosler to be furious. He said that the colors of the army uniforms of the Kingdom of Ovelas have been the same since the founding of the country.
It has been settled that the big red color represents the heroic and invincible military spirit. What right do you, Claude, a petty sergeant chief, have to propose changing the color of military uniforms? Do you want to betray the kingdom?
The second conflict was when Claude suggested that the soldiers who went out to ambush should work together in a group, and that each person should bring an extra gun so that they could shoot twice in a row. But Lieutenant Colonel Rosler had already told Claude
De became prejudiced. He believed that Claude's suggestion was simply to support the enemy. The enemy could capture two muskets as long as they eliminated one soldier in the guerrilla battalion.
In the third conflict, Lieutenant Colonel Roessler believed that many soldiers were being lazy. Instead of ambushing the enemy on the battlefield, they hid and waited until night before returning to camp. Therefore, he required the soldiers who went to the battlefield to bring an identity of the enemy with them every time they came back.
Nameplate, so that you can get the rest time for the next two days, otherwise you will continue to go to the battlefield to ambush the enemy.
Claude believed that this suggestion was impractical. Obtaining the enemy's identity plate would add more danger to the ambush soldiers. Sometimes they needed to evacuate immediately after the attack. Obtaining the enemy's identity plate was a very impractical idea.
As a result, Lieutenant Colonel Rosler was furious, yelling and demanding that Claude must obtain at least ten enemy identity plates in the next week, otherwise he would not be able to get the right to rest...