The private armed forces of the nobles of the Principality of Karnas were blocked on the mountain road for four days, unable to move forward. The night attack planned on the first night was thought to be 100% successful, but no one expected that the enemy was already prepared.
.They cut off the mountain road, dug a big pit, trapped more than two hundred elites in it, and fell into the valley. When daybreak, the territorial nobles sent people down to the valley to search, but only four or five were rescued.
Ten survivors were seriously injured after falling.
This blow finally made the nobles of the Principality of Karnas, who were full of thoughts of robbery and making money, wake up. They understood that if they wanted to rob the three southern counties, they had to pass through the bend in front and defeat the enemies guarding Squirrel Village. But it was a pity.
Despite all their efforts in the past four days, they still could not get close to the defensive position of Squirrel Village. In addition to the additional casualties of five to six hundred people, the only gain was to find out that there was more than one big pit and trap on the mountain road ahead.
There is no way to fill a big hole in the road. Not to mention that the bottom of the big hole is empty and leads to the valley next to it. The soil and rocks thrown in will fall into the valley along the passage at the bottom of the hole. Even if you want to fill the hole, you can't.
The method is to send people to work. As long as they rush through the bend, the people carrying earth and rocks will become the targets of the enemy. With the sound of gunfire from the defensive position, they will be knocked to the ground one by one...
The time that can be used is night. Under the cover of darkness, the aiming accuracy of the enemy's musket shooting can be reduced. But what makes the territorial nobles miserable is that they must light torches for lighting when working at night, otherwise they will not be able to see clearly. But
Lighting the torch is equivalent to guiding the enemy in the direction of shooting. Under the light of the torch, the enemy can clearly see what is going to happen here.
The mountain road is a bit narrow, especially at the bend. If you want to bundle it into wooden rafts and lay it on the big pit in front, you need a lot of people to carry it. But when you turn around and carry it at the bend, you will immediately be violently bombarded by enemy artillery. Xin
The rows of logs that had been painstakingly cut and transported from far behind were scattered by artillery fire and fell into the valley. Dozens of people were injured or killed while transporting the logs.
The second time the raft was transported without lighting the torch, it was carried out in the dark. As a result, the porters in front of them lost their footing when they turned the corner, and they rolled down the valley with the raft of logs. The several porters in charge of supervision were
The territorial nobles were so angry that they worked most of the night in vain. But they had nothing to do. The food that the territorial people responsible for transporting were not as nutritious as the territorial nobles. It was good to fill their stomachs. Most of them
The local residents have some night blindness at night, and it is normal for them to be unable to see the road in the dark.
In the end, Baron Quinluana, who had a background in marching, came up with an idea. Instead of using rows of logs, he recruited carpenters to make some lightweight ladders. He crawled over on the ground at night, laid the ladders on the big pit, and then covered it with wooden boards.
Go up, so that you can pass from above. Although it is not as solid as laying the logs on top, it is not easy to let people pass.
Count Leucade once again organized a night attack, selecting a hundred elites from his own subjects and guards, and other territorial nobles also gathered a hundred people. Two hundred scimitar warriors who could see the road clearly at night once again
They launched a charge towards the enemy's defensive position in Squirrel Village. However, they had just run less than forty steps when the road ahead collapsed again and another big hole appeared on the mountain road.
But we were lucky this time. Only about thirty people fell into the big pit. The next few people who fell in were simply knocked in by people behind them who couldn't stop. What's even more fortunate is that this big pit
The pit is not connected to the valley beside the mountain road. It is a real big pit. However, the bottom of this pit is densely covered with sharpened branches and wooden spears. Those who fall in are either dead or injured, and screams and pleas for help are heard.
The sounds intertwined, and the smell of blood hit your nose...
Silver Moon's face emerged from the clouds just in time, and the pale moonlight showed the scene in the trap to the warriors at the edge of the pit. About thirty unlucky ghosts who had fallen in were piled up at the bottom of the trap, and they were interspersed with
Those long sharp branches and wooden spears, and even one wooden spear penetrated the bodies of three or four people, looking like dead fish waiting for barbecue. A few dying unlucky people were twisting on the branches and wooden spears.
They moved their bodies and struggled to pull out the wooden spear, but they couldn't...
The smell of blood became stronger and stronger, and the screams and calls for help became lighter and lighter. I don’t know which scimitar warrior was so stimulated by the sight he saw that he collapsed. In short, some people turned around and ran away first, while the rest
They all turned around and followed. The soldiers on the defensive position fired desperately at their group, but only about twenty of them were left.
No territorial nobles have proposed night attacks anymore. From the bend to the enemy's defensive position in Squirrel Village, the total length of the mountain road is estimated to be two to three hundred meters. Now it has been discovered that there are two large pits and traps on the mountain road nearly 100 meters ahead.
Then there are at least three or four large pits waiting for everyone in the remaining 1,780 meters. Within the range of artillery and musket fire, if you want to fill the pits or lay wooden rafts and ladders on them, you don't know how much it will cost.
The cost of casualties. Perhaps at least half of the more than 4,000 people had to be filled in. The most painful thing was that they could only be beaten and unable to fight back.
In four days, the territorial nobles of the Principality of Karnas have suffered seven to eight hundred casualties, which is almost 20% of their total strength. If there are another 10% casualties, it is guaranteed that the remaining rabble will collapse. After all,
The citizens who applied for the conscription were also planning to go to the three southern counties to make a fortune, but they did not expect to die here in Squirrel Village.
Now, the territorial nobles of the Principality of Karnas are suppressing their own troops and trying to appease their men to prevent their men from fleeing in the middle of the night. On the other hand, they are placing their hopes on the territorial nobles of the Eskilen Principality, hoping that they can get there sooner.
Arriving at the enemy's defensive position to capture Squirrel Village, he was able to rescue his side. However, the spies sent to contact him rushed back overnight and reported that the nobles in the territory of the Eskiline Principality were ambushed by the enemy along the way, and suffered heavy casualties.
He was also dragged along the mountain road.
There were only more than a thousand people from the Eskiline Principality’s territorial nobles on their way, and they set off one day later than the Kannas Principality’s trip. But it’s worth noting that these more than a thousand people were basically armed by the families of the various territorial nobles.
The private soldiers were mostly equipped with muskets, and they also carried four light live ammunition artillery pieces, which were the same as the artillery pieces that Major Lederfunk once brought to Claude. Their combat effectiveness should be pretty good.
Different from the route of the nobles of the Principality of Karnas, the nobles of the Principality of Eskilen strictly followed the marching regulations and sent a scout team as the forward, about three miles away from the main army. So they followed Claude's order
, Diavid, who moved the cordon forward, focused on the scout team, set up an ambush and annihilated the scout team.
By the time the large army of nobles from the Eskiline Principality arrived, the dozen or so soldiers serving as scouts were already lying dead in the field, and all the muskets and valuables around them had been swept away. Although the territorial nobles were very
They were angry, but they also knew that the enemy did not retreat as they expected, but instead took the initiative to attack, which made them more cautious.
After collecting the corpses, they sent a squadron to serve as scouts, keeping a distance of about one mile from the main force to facilitate response. Seeing that the enemy had changed their marching method, Diavid also took the initiative to change the way of ambush, allowing his men to
The soldiers formed a group of three and lurked beside the road. After one round of fighting, they immediately retreated, never giving the enemy a chance to retaliate.
This method of secretly firing cold shots made the territorial nobles of the Eskiline Principality miserable, because the enemy no longer only targeted the scouts in front, but sometimes let the scouts go to sneak attack on the large troops behind. A relatively unlucky territorial nobleman was killed because of his cavalry.
He was dressed more fancyly on the horse, but he became the target of the enemy's sneak attack. Three muskets were aimed at him, causing the unlucky nobleman to be shot twice and fell off the horse to his death.
However, the three sneak attackers jumped up and fled at a distance of about 100 meters. The territorial nobles fired two rows of guns, but due to lack of preparation, none of them hit the target. In anger, they sent a squadron to chase them.
As a result, the squadron was led into the ambush circle set by Diaverde by three fleeing soldiers, and was surrounded by three squads and was almost annihilated. If the territorial nobles hadn't heard the continuous gunshots, they felt something was wrong.
, and two more squadrons were sent to respond and forced Diavid to lead the retreat, I am afraid that not even ten soldiers in this poor squadron could survive...
As a result, when they set up camp at night, the territorial nobles of the Eskiline Principality found that they had suffered seventy or eighty casualties that day, while the enemy's casualties were estimated to be less than four or five. This made them feel like they had kicked an iron plate.
It felt that the other noble who died in a sneak attack also taught them a lesson. They must not stand out too much and become the target of an ambush attacker. So the next day all the territorial nobles put on their old military uniforms and worked hard with their subordinates.
The soldiers mingled.
In three days, the territorial nobles only traveled less than eighty miles on the mountain road. Those elusive ambush attackers were really abominable. In these three days, they had already caused damage to the private armed forces of the territorial nobles.
There were nearly two hundred casualties. It was not that the territorial nobles had not thought of ways to retaliate, but the performance and practicality of the muskets in their hands were far inferior to that of the enemy's equipment. If they wanted to pose a threat to the enemy, they had to organize their own soldiers into a formation.
They queue up to fire volleys, but this often makes their own soldiers a target for the enemy.
The maximum range of the Obas III standard musket can reach a distance of 380 meters, and 240 meters is the effective damage range, which means that the damage is greatest within this distance. The effective range of accurate aiming and shooting is 100 meters to one
About a hundred and twenty meters, any further away and the gun will easily drift away.
Therefore, if the territorial nobles of the Principality of Esquiline ordered their soldiers to line up and shoot with volleys of fire to deal with the sneak attackers, it would be exactly Diavid's plan. Because he asked his soldiers to go in groups of three.
To ambush and attack the enemy, each group is surrounded by another group or two groups of responders. The first group shoots and makes a sneak attack and immediately retreats. When the enemies line up and prepare to fire in unison, they become the target of the other two groups.
Target. As long as the muzzle of the gun can be suppressed, the hit rate is more than 50% when fired from 200 meters away...
For these territorial nobles of the Eskiline Principality, they are now in a very embarrassing and dangerous situation. It's not that they can't deal with these small groups of enemies who harass and attack. In fact, as long as they are willing to sacrifice casualties, they can let their soldiers fight in squadrons.
We should form a formation to pursue them, attack in several groups at the same time, look after and support each other, and never give up until we achieve our goal. Even if the casualties are greater, we can still eliminate these flea-like enemies.
But no one is willing to come up with this idea, because these thousands of remaining soldiers are the private armed forces of the nobles in various territories, and the family relies on their military force. No territorial noble is willing to waste his private soldiers like this, and everyone expects others to come forward.
Stand up, everyone wants to preserve their family's armed forces. So these three days have become very difficult. All the territorial nobles hope that the territorial nobles of the Principality of Karnas can capture Squirrel Village first, so that they can harass and attack them.
The enemy will retreat on its own...
Diavid and his squadron were also very tired. In the past three days, they had been running all over the mountains, exerting more effort than the enemy. Fortunately, their actions effectively delayed the enemy's march and achieved good results, and their
The casualties were not large, only one unlucky soldier was sacrificed, and seven or eight were injured. There are still three squads at full strength. So he decided to rest for a day, monitor the enemy from a distance, and let his soldiers
Recover some physical strength and energy before persisting in the ambush and sneak attack.
What Diavid didn't expect was that the enemy didn't leave, but stayed in the camp where they set up yesterday. After waiting for a day, the same situation happened the next day. This made him feel strange, so he sent someone to notify Claude.
, see what the enemy is up to.
Claude was woken up by Michael as soon as he fell asleep. In the past few days, he stayed up late at night to deal with the enemy's attacks, and took time to sleep during the day. The nobles of the Principality of Karnas all attacked at night, and only attacked during the day.
After occasional testing, they knew that launching an attack during the day would only make the soldiers a target. However, now that they discovered that there were large pits and traps on the mountain road ahead, they stopped trying at night.
Maijack woke up Claude because the nobles of the Principality of Karnas had withdrawn their troops. When you open the window, you can see a large group of people walking back on the mountain road in the distance. From the monocular, you can see that those wearing rags and holding
Farmers and herdsmen armed with various weapons moved their footsteps on the mountain road dejectedly...
The cheers of the soldiers came from the camp. When they saw the enemy approaching in large groups on the mountain road in the distance, all the soldiers were sweating in their hearts. The difference in the numbers of the enemy and ourselves was so big that no one expected that they could really fight.
These enemies were blocked at the corner, and not a single one of them died.
Claude didn't take it seriously when he received the news sent by Diavid. It was probably because the nobles in the Eskiline Principality had received the news of the withdrawal of troops from the nobles in the Principality of Kannas, so they didn't take it seriously either.
If they continue to march, they should be discussing countermeasures. If they are lucky, they may also withdraw their troops, and then they will have defended the important checkpoint of Squirrel Village.
But the next day, Diavid once again sent someone urgently to deliver new news, and everyone jumped in surprise. Because Diavid reported that the territorial nobles of the Principality of Karnas were not withdrawing their troops, but
On the mountain road here in the Eskiline Principality, the territorial nobles of the two principalities have joined forces...