"Bang" a stream of white gunpowder smoke came out from the muzzle. The last light cavalryman from the Principality of Karrnath turned his horse and prepared to escape. A stream of blood spurted out from the back of his blue military uniform, and he slowly fell to the ground from his horse's back.
The horse below also whined and raised its legs in the air, kicking its two front hooves in mid-air, and then lay prone on the ground struggling.
The big man Gemi couldn't help but ran over to take a look out of curiosity, and quickly ran back: "Sir, that shot you just made was really amazing. It penetrated the enemy's body and hit the back of the horse's head, knocking down one person with one shot."
One horse."
This was probably just a coincidence. Claude didn't expect to hit the enemy's horse. However, it was only forty or fifty meters away and with the power of the Obash Type III musket, it was natural to penetrate the enemy's body.
All the soldiers were nervously loading their muskets, while McJack was responsible for Claude's muskets. The three of them brought five muskets, and the big man Gimi usually carried three muskets on his back when going into battle.
Allows Claude to shoot three times in a row.
After the soldiers reloaded their muskets with ammunition, Claude ordered the battlefield to be cleaned. He had just ambushed a small group of reconnaissance scouts from the Principality of Karrnath, and his own small group was unscathed. This pair of ranger battalions
It is a rare achievement. In the past half month, the Ranger Battalion has suffered a lot of casualties in order to ambush these light cavalry scouts from the Principality of Karrnus.
This is actually not Claude's fault. The main casualties occurred in the second, third, and fourth brigades. The reason is very simple. Most of the soldiers who make up these three brigades are recruits, and the officers have also been redeployed. They have not experienced
The battle to ambush the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry when the Ranger Battalion was first formed. From the Ranger Battalion of that period to the present, the only ones who still remain in the 1st Ranger Battalion are Claude, Michael Jack, Big Germi, Murray Ed, and Diawi.
Germany and Markchi six people.
The only thing to blame is the battle to capture Wilf Hill. Almost all the soldiers who followed Claude and participated in the battle to ambush the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry were forced by that damn Lieutenant Colonel Rosler to form a neat first row, and then
Walking towards the enemy's position. He suffered heavy casualties, and only a small part of them survived. After the war, Hansback ordered the formation of the second, third, and fourth battalions of the Rangers and were dispatched. If it weren't for Murray Ed, Diavid and Mark
If Qi Du was injured and in the treatment center, they would not be able to stay in the 1st Ranger Battalion.
There are also several soldiers who followed Claude and stayed in the 1st Ranger Battalion due to injuries. But last time the frontline command dispatched a group of grassroots officers and veterans to the Blue Feather Legion, these soldiers were all transferred. So.
Now in the first ranger battalion, only Claude can lead the soldiers to set up an ambush to snipe the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry. Mark Qi is not qualified. This veteran oil man did not follow the enemy in the ranger battalion.
Lord had ambushed the enemy, and he just relied on luck to kill two enemy scouts who were alone on the battlefield.
There is no other way, Claude can only assign Murray Ed and Diaverde to serve as ambush instructors for the second and third battalions. As for the fourth battalion, they can only wait. Because the second battalion
After the Third Battalion and the Third Battalion received Major Skerry's request that they take the initiative to ambush the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry, the two brigades obeyed the order and sent out soldiers. However, the effect of the ambush was not very good, and the enemy did not kill many.
However, they suffered heavy casualties. The second battalion made four sorties, but was ambushed by enemy reconnaissance cavalry. The casualties were close to a squadron.
Claude could only shake his head and lament that Captain Heimkling, the captain of the second battalion, had a wooden head and did not know how to adapt. He thought that an ambush was to find a place for the soldiers to hide and wait for the enemy to appear before shooting. If it was really that simple, then
The previous ranger battalions would not always recruit soldiers into the camp. Now the people who come out to perform reconnaissance missions in the Principality of Karnas are veterans who have been fighting for several years and have very rich battlefield experience. As a reconnaissance cavalry, if something is slightly wrong, it will be very serious.
It is easy for them to find and ambush them, not to mention the bright red military uniforms of the Overas Kingdom army. They can be spotted by the enemy from a long distance when ambush in the grass...
For Claude, every time he goes out to ambush the enemy, he needs to make a very detailed plan. Where will the enemy be interested, where is the terrain suitable for ambush, how to disguise the enemy so that they cannot detect the hidden soldiers, and how to deal with them.
Unexpected situations occur on the battlefield. Whoever fires first after the enemy appears has to pay attention to it. If the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry reinforcements are encountered in the battle, are there any countermeasures? How to ensure the safety of yourself and your soldiers, etc. are all matters as a commander.
issues that should be taken into consideration.
To Claude's surprise, the more they were ambushed by a battalion of rangers on the border between this area and the prairie, the more interested the principality's reconnaissance cavalry became in this area. Come to reconnoiter.
There were more and more enemy light cavalry, from a group of three or four at first to a small group of scout cavalry at the end. After being ambushed several times by Claude and others and losing two or three squadrons of scout cavalry, Kan
The Principality of Nas finally sent a light cavalry brigade to conduct reconnaissance. They were divided into four light cavalry squadrons and entered the area from four directions.
Under such circumstances, Claude had no choice but to go out and ambush the enemy. He could only let the two to three hundred enemy light cavalry explore around the area. If the terrain here was dangerous, Claude might fight with him.
These enemies were engaged in a field battle. However, the terrain in this area was flat and the light cavalry could come and go freely. A battalion of rangers could only occupy the castle to defend itself.
It only took two days for the light cavalry brigade of the Principality of Karnas to find out that the garrison strength in this area was only one battalion. They sent a light cavalry squad to monitor Claude from a distance.
Landes Castle, Viscount Victor's Castle where the second brigade was located, and Baron Kraft's Castle where the third brigade was located, and the rest of the brigade turned to sweep the castle of Count Crelaus where the battalion headquarters was located.
Then Claude saw black smoke rising into the sky from a distance, and fierce gunfire and the roar of artillery could be heard from time to time. Claude was not worried about whether the enemy could capture the castle where the battalion headquarters was located.
How can we say that the fourth battalion is stationed in the castle, and it is really weird to let the enemy with less than one battalion attack the strong castle with light cavalry. As long as the enemy is not so stupid, he will not ask for trouble to attack the castle, but now it is said that
What's going on with the sound of musketry and artillery?
In September, Claude led his soldiers out to ambush the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry, but he captured about thirty war horses. With all the original war horses, he could barely organize a squadron of cavalry. However, the enemy currently sent a small group of light cavalry far away.
Monitoring the movements of Landes Castle, Claude will be discovered by the enemy if he goes out. If he encounters a large group of enemy light cavalry on the way to the battalion for reinforcements, Claude is not sure that he can escape. No matter what
, these are all field infantry under my command, and horse warfare is no match for the light cavalry of the Principality of Karrnath.
Only then did Claude realize his mistake in advocating that four brigades be stationed in four castles in a diamond shape to defend the area. First, the Rangers and the first battalion were field infantry and did not have strong maneuverability. There was no way to attack the enemy before they attacked.
One of the castles can provide effective reinforcements to the other three castles. This is mainly due to insufficient troops. Without gathering together to form a powerful fist, there is no way to pose a threat to the enemy.
The second is that the four brigades are stationed in four castles. It seems that they control a large area of ​​territory, but it also disperses their own strength. In fact, they and the second and third brigades are stationed in uninhabited territory, and there is no need to defend these castles.
At that time, Claude was thinking that the four castles were stationed separately. When the enemy came to attack, he would need to disperse his forces to attack the four castles. However, he forgot that the enemies were not fools. They could completely ignore the three castles here and just need to
It is enough to attack the castle of Count Crelaus where the camp headquarters is located.
Now the enemy only has two to three hundred light cavalry, and they only use good mobility to limit the reinforcements on their side, so that they have no way to figure out what happened at the battalion headquarters. What if something unexpected happens at the battalion headquarters?
The situation is that losing the castle of Count Crelaus is equivalent to cutting off the retreat of the three brigades of his own. All that awaits him is surrender and destruction.
The more Claude thought about it as he stayed on the city wall, the more annoyed he became. He wished he could give himself a slap in the face. But he had no choice now. He stared at the place where the enemy's small group of light cavalry was moving, and waited anxiously for darkness.
As expected by Claude, the enemy's small group of light cavalry did not leave even after dark. They just lit a bonfire in the distance. Every half an hour, two or three cavalry came riding around from a distance.
He ran around the small mound where Randers Castle was located, obviously to check what was going on in the castle. Claude knew that the enemy's main focus was on the log suspension bridge on the moat. The people in the castle wanted to figure out what was going on.
Passing the suspension bridge, and lowering the suspension bridge will make a lot of noise, and they can spot it from a distance.
It's just that this small group of enemy scouts didn't expect that the river they regarded as a natural chasm was actually the route that Claude had prepared for a long time ago. Seven or eight selected soldiers were already ready, each of them
Holding a fully inflated sheepskin bag, he gently placed it in the moat, lay down on it, and then quietly floated along the bank in the direction of the river towards the bonfire lit by the enemy.
It is best to camp on the grassland next to a water source, so as to facilitate the drinking water needs of herdsmen and livestock. This small group of light cavalry from the Principality of Karnars also found a place next to the river five or six hundred meters away from Randers Castle.
They were veterans and acted very cautiously. Half of them rested and the other half stayed on duty at night. Every twenty or thirty minutes, they sent two people on horseback to approach the castle to check what was going on. The people on duty next to the campfire were always paying attention to the man on the moat.
Suspension bridge, but none of them thought to pay attention to the river on the other side. For these light cavalry on the grassland, who have little water ability, the river is their natural defense barrier.
Claude led this small group of people to land about forty or fifty meters away from the bonfire lit by the enemy. Any noise made any closer might be noticed by the enemy. However, everyone consciously remained silent.
With the help of the cover of weeds on the shore, he slowly checked the musket wrapped in oilcloth on his back, lit the match rope, and was ready to fire.
The sound of galloping horse hooves could be heard in the distance. Two light cavalrymen who rode in a circle came back. They came to the campfire and laughed loudly. The general idea was that there was no movement. The enemy was huddled in the castle. The suspension bridge on the opposite side
There's no one around...
A light cavalryman who was still riding on his mount accidentally looked at where Claude and the others were: "Strange, why are there fireflies on the shore at this time..."
He mistook the matchsticks lit by Claude and others as the light of fireflies.
"Fire!" said Claude.
Gunshots rang out, and six enemy light cavalry standing, sitting, and riding on horses were shot and fell down almost at the same time, while the other six enemy light cavalry who were sleeping woke up and got up one after another.
They had time to grab their own weapons. But they were a step slower. The soldiers who had fired had already jumped up and rushed towards the bonfire with their bayonet-mounted muskets. The distance of forty to fifty meters was only a few seconds, a few seconds.
The enemy was stabbed to the ground before he understood what was going on.
"Bang!" Claude fired again. The last enemy who jumped on his horse and tried to run fell to the ground. This small group of enemy light cavalry had all been wiped out.
"Clean up the battlefield and dry the clothes. Let's go back to the castle and have an early rest. We will go to the battalion headquarters for reinforcements tomorrow morning." Claude breathed a sigh of relief and eliminated the enemy light cavalry team responsible for monitoring him. He will send troops to reinforce the battalion headquarters tomorrow.
Can achieve unexpected results.
This is indeed the case. In the afternoon of the next day, Claude led two squadrons and four large carts and suddenly appeared under the castle of Count Crelaus, catching the light cavalry of the Principality of Karrnas by surprise as they were burning and killing the village.
, the enemy organized two waves of raids, intending to quickly defeat this group of reinforcements with the speed of light cavalry.
But Claude used four large carts to protect his flanks, then launched two light infantry artillery pieces and fired two shotguns to cause the enemy's light cavalry to surprise him, leaving about thirty dead bodies in front of his formation.
Seeing that there was no benefit to be gained, Claude launched two more unfired light infantry artillery pieces, and the two artillery pieces that had been fired were also nervously loading shotguns. The enemy wisely blew the horn to retreat, and in the blink of an eye
They formed a large group and left quickly.
Claude found the injured Major Scree in the village. He was hanging by one arm and said he was scratched by a stray bullet and was not seriously injured.
"Why not defend in the castle?" Claude was very angry.
Major Skerry shook his head, shed tears, and said sadly and angrily: "I can't stand it..."
The thing is very simple. When the enemy's large group of light cavalry attacked, Major Skerry gathered the men, horses and young prisoners of the fourth group of the 1st Ranger Battalion into the castle. However, the old, weak, women and children who were gathered were all in the village.
Major Skerry thought that these were all citizens of the Principality of Karrnath and should be fine. However, he did not expect that this group of light cavalry would actually raise their butcher knives at these old, weak, women and children, killing them indiscriminately.
They also pushed some female refugees on the ground in front of the castle and publicly humiliated them. You must know that some old, weak, women and children were gathered by the young and strong family members. Those young and strong people who entered the castle knelt down and begged Major Skerry to send troops to rescue them.
His own relatives, and the soldiers who could not stand these atrocities were also very angry and asked to go out to fight, so Major Skerry impulsively started a fierce battle with these light cavalry in the village.