"Report to the general, we have just received a hawk message from Lieutenant Colonel Murray Ed of the 1302nd Regiment. Their reconnaissance cavalry has discovered traces of the enemy and is currently under secret surveillance. We are requesting instructions from the division headquarters." Adjutant An
Major Des came in and reported.
"Oh, have you finally found it..." Claude cheered up. It had been a week since he found the bison herd, and it was only now that he found traces of the enemy. It seems that the retired soldier from the Principality of Karnas
The volunteer light cavalry regiment formed really wanted money rather than life. They knew that several of their reconnaissance cavalry teams were missing and were very likely to be captured, revealing their whereabouts of hunting bison. But they came anyway. This was considered a disregard for Austria.
The five reinforced divisions formed in the new theater of the Kingdom of Vilas are still stuck in the eyes of money and cannot get out...
"Where is the enemy? How big is it?" Claude was about to take a nap, but he didn't expect that as soon as he lay down, Major Anders came in and reported the whereabouts of the enemy. He immediately jumped up from the sleeping mat on the ground, while
He asked while adjusting his military uniform.
While Major Anders stepped forward to help Claude put on his armed belt, he replied: "The letter didn't say it, but it is estimated to be quite large. Because Lieutenant Colonel Murray Ed said in the Falcon Message that the reconnaissance team they sent
The cavalry discovered traces of the enemy because the light cavalry from the Principality of Karrnath were massacring the wolves following the buffalo herds and making a lot of noise."
Slaughter the wolves? Claude nodded. It was obvious that the enemy had at least dispatched a regiment of troops, so they would first kill the thousands of wild wolves following the buffalo herd. They first dealt with those before preparing to hunt the buffalo.
Disgusting wolves, then you don’t have to worry about the wolves watching eagerly when the official hunting begins. Only with the large scale and strength of the army, you don’t need to worry about the wolves’ revenge. Maybe they also regard the wolves as prey...
...
"Blow the trumpet and let the troops prepare for departure. In half an hour we will break camp and march towards the camp of the 1302nd Regiment." Claude ordered.
Along the periphery of the bison herd's migration route, we marched for another two days before arriving at the camp of the 1302nd Regiment of the Thunder Division. This is a small mounded depression nearly 4,000 meters away from the bison herd.
Looking everywhere, I couldn't find a military camp hidden among these small mounds. Claude was very satisfied, this guy Muriel had finally made some progress, and this camp was chosen well.
After learning that Claude had arrived with a large force, Murield had ordered the soldiers to expand the camp, which was enough to accommodate the division headquarters and the two accompanying regiments. At the same time, he also greeted him early and immediately reported to Claude.
Lord gave a battle report.
Nearly a million migrating bison are distributed on the grassland, which is nearly ten miles wide. The enemy discovered by the 1302nd Thunder Regiment led by Murray Ed is on the west side of the tail of the bison herd, about two regiments wide.
After killing nearly a thousand prairie blue wolves and red wolves, they have begun hunting bison in the past two days. Based on the secret observations in the past two days, Muriel deduced that the enemy might be divided into two groups.
Road, each road has two regiments of troops, one on the west side of the tail of the bison herd, and one on the east side. This can speed up the efficiency of hunting bison and obtain more benefits...
Claude also sent two regiments of the Thunder Division as the vanguard to search for the enemy's whereabouts on the prairie. Now that the 1302nd Regiment of Muriel had discovered the enemy's whereabouts, Claude immediately used a falcon to send a signal.
The letter instructs Belklin's 1301st Regiment to penetrate directly behind the enemy. First, it uses the 1301st Regiment to cut off the enemy's retreat, and secondly, it prepares to outflank the enemy.
This volunteer light cavalry regiment composed of retired soldiers from the Principality of Karrnus only sent one division to hunt bison. Claude was confident that he would command the Thunder Division on the Albato prairie to completely wipe out this enemy division and win the battle.
Let an enemy escape and report back...
However, before commanding the troops to launch an attack, Claude still needed to conduct further observations.
It can be seen from the monocular that these retired soldiers from the Principality of Karrnus are very skilled in riding. They rode their horses to quickly separate dozens of bison from the tail of the herd and hunted them down easily.
A hunt took less than half an hour from start to finish, and then the transport convoy that followed carried the bison carcasses to the car and sent them to a camp not far away for processing. The cycle continued like this, and it looked like the whole process.
A very smooth running bison slaughter line.
No wonder the captured scout cavalry from the Principality of Karrnath confessed that last year, the same division of troops hunted more than 30,000 bison and earned profits worth 700,000 to 80,000 gold crowns. No wonder this year's volunteer light cavalry regiment
Even though they knew that the capture of their scout cavalry might reveal their whereabouts to hunt the buffalo, they still sent a division of troops to hunt the buffalo. This is a very impressive amount of money. Seventy or eighty thousand gold crowns is indeed a lot of money.
It's extra money that people can't easily refuse.
Of course, this may have a lot to do with the fact that the enemy believes that the five divisions in the new theater have just been formed and have not yet threatened their strength, or that they are very confident in their combat effectiveness. They may very well think that hunting bison this year is not enough.
It is safe. The five divisions in the new theater of the Overseas Directly Administered Territory of the Overas Kingdom have just been formed. It is impossible to attack them...
Although the enemy has this view, they are indeed a force composed of veterans with rich battlefield experience. The defense of their camp is very good, and a trench with a width of two meters and a depth of three meters was dug around the camp.
The soil was built into a three-meter-high earthen rampart. In addition, the rows of logs transported from the rear were combined with the earthen ramparts to form a protective fence of varying heights, forming a very high safety barrier for the camping site.
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If it were last year's Rangers, they would have to pay a heavy casualty price to capture such a well-protected camp. But now that Claude has the weapon of throwing grenades, he is sure to defeat the enemy's attack.
The wall became a yoke to trap themselves. But before the attack, the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Division still needed to make some preparations, such as climbing over the trench and climbing the ladder on the wall...
"Reporting to General, Lieutenant Colonel Belklin sent a hawk message. They have discovered the enemy's follow-up division. We are still more than two days away..." Adjutant Major Anders handed it to Claude
A latest urgent letter.
"What? The enemy still has follow-up divisions?" Claude grabbed the urgent letter and opened it. Belklin said in the letter that he sent a small team of reconnaissance cavalry to the White Collar Ghana and Cromwell.
I went to the border of your territory directly to have a look. This was just an unconscious assignment. If I were lucky, I might be able to capture a few enemy reconnaissance cavalry, which might be communications troops. But what I didn’t expect was that when the small group of reconnaissance cavalry arrived at the border, they suddenly discovered
There are also most of the enemy's cavalry on the march, estimated to be close to a division in size.
The volunteer light cavalry regiment formed by the retired soldiers of the Principality of Karnars was dispatched in full force? Why? Claude looked at the Falcon Message again. The time when the small scout cavalry discovered the enemy was around ten in the morning. It is now four in the afternoon.
Nearly a day has passed. Then the enemy's follow-up troops are likely to arrive here in a day or a day and a half. There is not much time left for the Thunder Division...
"Send an order to Lieutenant Colonel Belklin to lead the 1301st Regiment to find a suitable location and wait for follow-up notifications. If necessary, resolutely block the enemy's subsequent large forces, so as to delay the division and regiment headquarters' encirclement and annihilation of the enemy's buffalo-hunting forces. In addition,
Send the order, dinner will be brought forward an hour, and all officers and soldiers will rest immediately after eating. The Thunder Division will launch an attack on the enemy's camp in the early morning." Claude made a prompt decision and issued the battle order.
"Yes, General." Major Anders saluted energetically, preparing to go out and deliver the order.
"Wait a minute, have all the battalion-level officers in charge of the division come over immediately and hold a pre-war seminar to determine the tasks and actions of each department." Claude ordered again.
The night was already deep, and a bonfire was burning outside the enemy's camp. They were indeed the elite troops who had experienced the five-year war in the eastern region and suffered the heaviest casualties in the attack and defense of the Rimodra Principality's position. They had taken very good measures to prevent night attacks.
It was perfect. There were piles of bonfires scattered in front of the trench, which was divided into two levels, front and rear, twenty or thirty meters apart. It just covered the fifty-meter-square space in front of the camp wall within the lighting range of the bonfires.
At such a distance, any enemy who wants to launch a sneak attack on the campsite cannot escape the eyes of the sentry on the wall. As long as he enters the lighting range of the campfire, he will be shot by the sentry with precise cold shots.
Claude and others saw from a distance that a spotted cheetah, which was attracted by the smell of blood and bacon coming from the campsite, was attacked by seven or eight gunshots from the wall the moment it approached the trench.
The musket was aimed and fired. As the firelight flashed on the fence and the smoke rose, the spotted cheetah trembled and fell to the ground. After about ten minutes, a small group of men and horses and a carriage galloped out of the camp.
, threw the body of the spotted cheetah into the car and returned to the camp.
All the senior officers who saw this scene began to look stern. It was obvious that the enemy was not a soft persimmon, and their strength should be considered a hard walnut. This is an elite force, not the Xi Jinping with sluggish combat effectiveness in everyone's impression.
The standing army of the Kingdom of Kes.
"Okay, let's go back." Claude put away the monocular: "Everyone knows the enemy's combat effectiveness. It is not much weaker than our Thunder Division. But this time you only need to remember the tasks assigned to you.
, the guerrilla battalion will capture the walls and camp gates as soon as possible. And you will attack the areas you are responsible for according to the layout before the battle, and mop up the remaining enemies."
"General, are you sure that the guerrilla battalion is sure to capture the enemy's well-defended walls and camp gates?" Murield asked with some worry.
"Of course." Claude laughed: "Because we have a secret weapon."
At four o'clock in the morning, the darkest night has passed, and a hint of fish-belly white has appeared on the horizon, but this fish-belly white has quickly been dyed brown. In the continent of Nubicia, red has become a common color for people, and the sky is red
, the earth is red, even the ocean is red...
A peaceful night made the sentries on duty on the camp fence relax their vigilance. In half a day it will be dark, and today will be another tense and fulfilling day. Hunting bison will make everyone very tired, but as long as they are busy after this half
For more than a month, everyone can earn two or three gold lunies. Is there any business in the world that is more profitable than this? It is said that the legion has decided to try its best to hunt as many bison as possible and strive to double the number last year. In this way, everyone can
You can get double the benefits.
(Note: The gold runi is the legal gold coin of the Principality of Karrnath, and the exchange with the gold crown of the Kingdom of Ovelas is three for two.)
Most of the bonfires outside the campsite have been extinguished. Although these bonfires piled with dry cow dung have been burned, the smell is not very good, with a faint burnt smell. But on the prairie, if cow dung is not used,
As for fuel, there is no way to pile up so many bonfires to guard against attacks in the dark. Now that it is dawn, those extinguished bonfires are still emitting curls of white smoke, some like morning fog, connecting into one, covering
View from outside the camp.
However, this kind of scene has become accustomed to the sentries on the camp wall. It won't be long before the morning breeze blows away the smoke outside the camp. Even if there seems to be some movement outside, I guess it's probably someone who is determined to give up.
The beasts were attracted by the smell of meat in the camp and refused to leave. It doesn't matter, when it gets dark and most of the cavalry in the camp are dispatched, the beasts outside the camp will be unable to escape even if they want to...
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So when countless smoking black iron cans flew into the outside of the camp and landed on the walls and inside the walls, most of the sentries still didn't realize what was going on. They just stared blankly at these falling around and around them.
There are black iron jars in the distance, and a soldier is trying to pick one up to take a closer look at what it is...
Then there was a violent explosion, and the camp wall and the inside of the wall became a hell on earth for a while, with blood and flesh flying everywhere, and even a small part of the wall was blown down.
"Enemy attack!" Finally the surviving sentry shouted loudly.
In fact, he didn't need to remind him at all, the explosion had already explained it all. The troops composed of retired soldiers from the Principality of Karnars in this camp were indeed elite. After they reacted, they picked up their muskets and rushed towards the wall. This is the whole story.
It is the strongest defensive position of the camp. Even if they are attacked by the enemy, they will never give up this line of defense. As long as there is one person, the enemy will not be able to capture this wall so easily.
No soldier was shocked by the scene of heavy casualties around the wall. Even if his comrade was wailing because of his injuries, no one stopped to help him. Such tragic battlefield conditions occurred during the offensive and defensive battle of the Principality of Rimodra a few years ago.
We are used to it. The soldiers rushing to the wall for reinforcements know very well that only by repelling the enemy's attack can they have time to rescue their comrades. Otherwise, once the wall is captured by the enemy, there will only be more casualties among comrades.
Even the entire army will be annihilated by the enemy, perhaps including yourself...
But when these fearless soldiers rushed to the wall to find the whereabouts of the attacking enemy, another batch of iron cans burning with green smoke fell on the wall and around them, and then exploded, with fire, gunpowder smoke, flying human body fragments, and countless wailings.
It became one with the screams.
These iron cans fell on the wall and around it four to five times in total. No soldier from the Principality of Karrnath dared to rush to the wall anymore. The wall had been cratered by the bombing, and the rows of logs inside had collapsed.
But that's not important. What's important is that the scene inside the wall is horrific. Blood, flesh and corpses almost cover the nearly two meters of ground and walls inside the wall. Blood puddles of different sizes have appeared on the ground...
When the soldier of the First Thunder Division stepped on the ladder and stuck his head out from the outside of the wall, driving his musket on the wall and aiming inside the camp, he took one look at the miserable situation inside the wall and immediately lowered his head on the ladder.
, he vomited...
The result of the battle is nothing to say. With the help of throwing grenades, Claude led the Thunder Division to easily win a critical battle. The enemies of the two regiments were annihilated, and the fruits of their hard work in the past few days were lost.
In the hands of Claude.
What dissatisfied Claude was that even after consuming nearly a thousand grenades and inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy, the guerrilla camp easily captured the wall of the enemy's camp. However, his three regiments rushed into the camp and swept away the enemy.
The remaining remnants of the enemy still suffered heavy losses from the stubborn enemy. The casualties of more than 370 people made Claude angrily curse the two lieutenant colonels Muriel and Diavid who came in bloody.