Rodman Hills is named after the first colonial adventurer to arrive here. It is a small mountain range in the easternmost part of the Beringana Territory. It consists of only a dozen small hills with an altitude of two to three hundred meters.
Here, the Tanya Army of the Kingdom of Hicks encountered stubborn resistance from the defenders of the Kingdom of Ovelas. The enemy set up strong defensive positions on these hills in order to block the invincible front of the Tanya Army. However,
In front of the powerful Tanya Legion, the enemy's stubborn resistance was like a castle on the beach. It was quickly destroyed by the brave officers and soldiers of the Tanya Legion. It only took one day to lose seven hills.
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One field division of the Tanya Army has penetrated deep into the Rodman Hills, and another field division is behind to protect logistics and other military supplies, and is camped outside the hills. In fact, so far the Tanya Army
The casualties were also very heavy. Almost seven combat battalions were lost. In addition, one regiment was sent to the rear to defend the captured towns. The current army's strength was reduced by almost three regiments.
But for the senior command officers of the Tanya Army, all these efforts are worth it. As long as they break through the Rodman Hills, their army will be able to reach the Dolinibara River immediately, which means that they will reach the Dolinibara River for the first time along the way.
One of them opened up the Beringana Direct Territory and was the first of the four armies to drink from the Madolinibara River. This was the undoubted first achievement.
So these senior officers of the Tanya Army held a celebration banquet in the camp in the rear, preparing to break through the three enemy-defended hills on the front early tomorrow morning, so that they could reach the banks of the Dolinibara River in the afternoon.
.As for the few hills outside Rodman Hill, no one cares about it. If the center is broken through, the enemy defenders on the hills on the outside will naturally evacuate, otherwise none of them will be able to escape if the army turns back...
When the wine was in full swing, I suddenly noticed that the cups and plates on the table were beating. Several officers who had measured their weight laughed. "No, I can't drink anymore. I'm really getting drunk. Look at the cups and plates on the table."
Dancing...
Finally, an officer who had drunk less and was still sober came to his senses. He shouted in panic: "Enemy, enemy attack!"
This was a sudden attack by the Ranger Division on the rear camp of the Tanya Army in the early morning. More than 20,000 war horses trampled the red soil of the Nubisian continent, rushed towards the enemy's camp, broke into the camp, and pulled out.
Drawing their sabers, they fought hard to kill every officer and soldier of the Tanya Legion they saw. The officers and soldiers of the Tanya Legion who woke up from their sleep did not organize an effective counterattack at all. They rushed out of the camp and ran towards
Deep in the Rodman Hills, because at this moment all those who escaped knew that they could only save their lives by escaping to the former military camp...
The Rangers did not pursue these fleeing enemy officers and soldiers. They cleared out the surviving soldiers in the enemy's rear camp, captured nearly 5,000 surrenderers, and then reinforced the camp, completely surrounding the enemy at Rodman Hill.
within.
There is a feature of Rodman Hills that the officers and soldiers of the Tanya Army do not understand, that is, there is no water source in the hills, and there is a small river next to the rear camp. This pair of Tanya soldiers surrounded in Rodman Hills
This was bad news for the 30,000 officers and soldiers of the legion. They dug three meters into the ground without finding a drop of water. Instead, they made themselves tired and thirsty.
The officers of the Tanya Army, who mustered up their courage, commanded the soldiers to launch a desperate charge towards the three hills directly ahead, intending to break through the three enemy defensive positions and rush to the edge of the Dolinibara River in one breath.
, you can drink as much water as you want then...
It was only then that they discovered that the defensive positions on the two hills in front of them were so impregnable. No matter how many times they launched charges, they failed. They were completely different from the easily captured positions on the hills yesterday.
They couldn't even reach the fifty meters in front of the defensive position, leaving only layers of corpses of soldiers covering the entire front of the position...
This is the first time that King Hicks, who have not experienced war for more than 40 years, understands how intense the war is now. This completely subverts the offensive and defensive tactics they learned in books. It is just like what they thought.
The warring parties formed neat square formations and marched in formation. They did not open fire until they were tens of meters apart, and then launched a hand-to-hand assault. The tactics did not appear on the battlefield at all.
The soldiers of the Tanya Army formed a neat line and marched towards the enemy's defensive position. However, they were bombarded by artillery along the way. When they were two hundred meters away from the defensive position, they became targets for the enemies hiding in the trenches.
When they were about to launch a charge at a distance of 100 meters, the enemy covered the entire forward position with shotgun shells fired by four light infantry field artillery pieces. No soldier could rush to the enemy's defensive position...
After repeated attacks five or six times, no soldier of the Tanya Army was willing to line up and die. On the contrary, the officers who urged the soldiers to line up to attack again felt cold on their backs because the soldiers looked at them.
Their eyes were all red. The corpses of thousands of soldiers who fell on the hill were so shocking to everyone. This was not an attack, this was a massacre that was sent to a slaughterhouse...
The remaining 25,000 to 6,000 Tanya Legions had lost all morale. The officers of the legions released all the messenger eagles and asked for help from the remaining four legions, hoping that they would be able to descend from the sky and save them from the predicament. However,
It wasn't until the evening that they received a reply from the rest of the legions. Except for the farthest Kudraya legion, the replies from the Viklen, Sebok and Febot legions asked them to hold on for another four or five days. They guaranteed that they could
Rush to rescue them from the sea of misery...
A man can persist for seven days without food, but he cannot persist for three days without water. The night attack of the Ranger Regiment the night before yesterday caused the officers and soldiers who fled to the front camp to panic and almost drank up all the water reserves in the front camp.
, even the water to cool the artillery was gone. It was not until the next day that the Tanya Army found themselves in a desperate situation when they dug three meters into the ground and could not find a water source. However, the desperate attack like a cornered animal was in three small buildings
Their heads were bruised and bloody after being hit in front of the hill. All the officers and soldiers had lost their morale and fighting spirit. They knew that they were doomed...
Another day passed, and the remaining 26,000 troops of the Tanian Army who could no longer hold on raised the white flag and surrendered to the Rangers, ending their journey to the Nubisian continent. What awaited them
It will be a ten-year period of various types of labor and public facilities construction in the overseas territories. Before them, the surrendered personnel of the Panclair Army and the Clado Army have already been involved in the construction in full swing.
In the Battle of Rodman Hill, the Hicks Kingdom's Tanya Army, except for a logistics supplementary regiment that stayed in the rear town, suffered more than 60,000 casualties and about 20,000 casualties, and nearly 40,000 troops surrendered to Ovela.
Prisoners of the Hicks Kingdom, this was simply another slap in the face of the Hicks Kingdom who aggressively sent five standing legions to the Nubisian continent to carry out this colonial war.
It took three or four days before they arrived at Rodman Hill. The three legions of Wickron, Seebock and Febot could only find traces of the aftermath of the war. They frantically sent out all their scout light cavalry, hoping to find the enemy's
Traces. After all, it is impossible for a small force to annihilate the Tanya Army. Coupled with the tens of thousands of prisoners of the Tanya Army, the whereabouts of so many people should be able to find out...
But unfortunately, after passing the Rodman Hills, there is the Dolinibara River. On the river beach, the cavalry scouts found the traces left by the large troops boarding the boats. Obviously, the defenders of the Kingdom of Ovelas were like strips.
The poisonous snake was hiding in the shadows. Taking advantage of the relaxed moment when the five standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks were invincible, it suddenly sprang out and bit the unsuspecting Tanni legion. It set an ambush at Rodman Hill and annihilated Tanni.
After defeating the second legion, it retreated to the other side of the Dolinibara River. This was the unanimous conclusion of the senior officers of the three legions.
In the opinion of the commanding officers of the three legions of Viklen, Seebock and Febot, according to the previous battle reports of the Tanya Legion, even if the enemy annihilated the Tanya Legion, it would definitely suffer a lot of casualties.
Even if they win a big victory now, they should return to the other side to lick their wounds and restore their fighting strength. They should not be able to attack again in a short time.
Therefore, these three standing armies simply set up large camps along the Dolinibara River, preparing to wait for the rear to transport river crossing equipment, and sent soldiers everywhere to cut down trees, make boats and pontoons, and prepare to cross the Dolinibara River and continue to the river.
The Robidos Overseas Territory of the Overas Kingdom launched an attack.
After receiving the falcon messages from the three standing legions, the Kuzoya legion, which was deep in the westernmost part of the Beringana Territory, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although the Tanya legion was completely wiped out, the enemy also retreated to the other side of the river. This meant that
As there is no longer any enemy interception or resistance in front of their legion, the Kuzoya legion can safely and boldly go all the way to the Dolinibara River, set up camps and find a suitable crossing point, forcing the enemies on the other side to divide their troops and guard them to the east.
The three standing corps crossed the river to reduce the offensive pressure...
Then, the Kuzoya Army in a marching state was suddenly surrounded and attacked by the light cavalry of the Ranger Division. Countless battles have shown that on the vast and endless grasslands, infantry can never be an opponent of cavalry. Even if the strength is twice that of the enemy, but
The unobstructed terrain, the lack of continuous fire weapons to form a fire barrier, coupled with the relaxed marching state and the lack of vigilance, led to the collapse of the Kuzoya Army in less than a quarter of an hour when it was attacked by the enemy's light cavalry.
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It’s not that there weren’t brave officers who commanded the soldiers to gather and put up a tenacious resistance, intending to gain more time for the defense of the large forces. There were also many artillerymen who were not afraid of death, and braved the threat of being raided by the enemy’s light cavalry, and trained their light artillery.
They loaded the ammunition, opened the gun mount and prepared for firing. They swore that even if they sacrificed their lives, they would make the hateful enemy pay the corresponding price in casualties.
But these brave officers and soldiers of the Kuzoya Legion did not realize that the enemy they faced was not a pure light cavalry force. They found that some troops of the Kuzoya Legion were ready for defense and were galloping around to kill.
The officers and soldiers of the Ranger Regiment did not rush towards the enemy's defense array in a sudden rush. Instead, they distanced themselves, dismounted and lay down on the ground, and fired at roll call with their muskets.
The crisp sound of gunfire continued. The artillerymen next to the artillery, the neatly lined up infantry, and the officers and soldiers of the Kuzoya Army fell to the ground one after another amidst the gunfire. The soldiers of the Kuzoya Army soon fell to the ground again.
Collapse, they want to fight back, but the enemy is lying on the ground. They charge towards the enemy, but the enemy gets up from the ground, jumps on the horse and runs away. When you catch up, there are several light cavalry passing by and the saber flashes, and you are dead.
Separation…
It was around three o'clock in the afternoon when the three standing legions staying by the Dolinibara River received the urgent request for help from the Kudjoa Army, and the grassland raid was coming to an end. The three standing legions could only sit back and watch Kudjoa.
The Asian Army followed the same path as the Tanya Army. After all, they were too far away. It would take five or six days to reach the battlefield if they set off immediately, and the Kuzoya Army obviously couldn't support it for that long...
Another standing army in the Kingdom of Hicks was completely wiped out. The Kuzoya Army suffered nearly half casualties, and more than 40,000 people became prisoners of the Ranger Army. The Ranger Army also paid the casualties of a field regiment in this raid.
The cost was only over a thousand soldiers who were sacrificed and disabled, and there were more than three thousand injured soldiers who could still return to the army as long as they received medical treatment.
Although permission for expansion has been obtained, the strength of the Ranger Corps that annihilated the two standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom is still the same as the original division. The civilian soldiers recruited from the Kingdom have not yet arrived on the mainland of Nubisia. It can be said that Michelqi
In the two battles commanded by the general, the Ranger Corps completely defeated the strong with the weak. First, they used defensive positions to lure the Tanian Army into an ambush, and then used the light cavalry assault to capture the enemy's rear camp, trapping the enemy in a water shortage dilemma.
The defensive position made the enemy desperate after being unable to attack for a long time, and finally forced the Tanya Army to surrender.
The Tanian Army was annihilated and the enemy's other three standing armies were attracted, leaving the westernmost Kuzoya Army to form a lone army. The Ranger Army used the channel of the Dolinibara River to transfer its troops to the Beringana Direct Territory.
To the west, they used their mobile power to quietly surround the Kudraya Army, launched a sudden attack, defeated the enemy's resistance in one battle, and completely annihilated the Kudraya Army.
The annihilation of the two standing armies gave the remaining three standing armies an illusion. They seemed to feel that they had fallen into the trap of the defenders of the Kingdom of Overas.
The leader's invincibility was a sign that the enemy was luring them into a trap. So the three legions of Viklen, Sebok and Febot decided to stay together and not march separately, so as not to give the enemy opportunities to defeat them individually.
At this time, bad news came one after another from the rear. Almost all logistics supply transport convoys were attacked by the enemy. No more transport convoys could transport heavy materials to the main camps of the three frontline legions. After
After discussion, the three standing armies dispatched a field division to prepare to escort the transportation of supplies to the rear, but then they were ambushed by the Ranger Division during the march.
There were two light cavalry regiments in the force formation of this field division, but they were no match for the Rangers. After finally breaking out of the encirclement, they rushed back to the camp to report the news, and the field division was swallowed up by the Rangers again.
Come down.
The encounter of this field division confirmed the fact that the three legions of the Kingdom of Hicks had fallen into a heavy siege by the enemy, and the light cavalry scouts they sent began to never return. Their soldiers even discovered the enemy's light cavalry.
I was snooping around the camp, and from time to time I saw the figures of these enemy light cavalry appearing in the distance...
Fortunately, the three standing legions themselves carry armaments and supplies that can last for a month. If they save a little, they can last longer. They are unwilling to leave the Dolinibara River, but place their hope on the Sea King Fleet, hoping that the fleet can
Open up the channel of the Dolinibara River, transport them with logistical supplies, and then send them across the Dolinibara River to the hinterland of the Overseas Territory of the Kingdom of Orvelas.
As long as they cross the river and hold on to the river defenses, the defenders of the Overas Kingdom who remain in the Beringana Direct Territory will become rootless and have no other choice but to surrender. Hicks Kingdom III
The staff officers of a standing corps believed that most of the enemies were besieged around their camp, so crossing the river was their only choice to turn defeat into victory.