"I will take the 131st Thunder Battalion and the 1303rd Thunder Regiment, as well as the local garrison regiment stationed at Monknade Castle to set off first, and rush to the front line now. You wait a few days for the Rock Legion regiment to change its equipment.
After a short period of training with a new rifle, he led a large force over. Remember to let Belklin's regiment carry all the mines made by the Blackstone Gun Manufacturing Workshop. The actual effect of this weapon still needs to be tested on the battlefield.
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Claude gave instructions to General Eberron, and then sent a falcon message to General Bichlin, asking him to find a way to persist for seven days, and he would be able to reach the front line within ten days. Eberron, on the other hand,
General Te had some objections to Claude's intention to bring the local garrison, and believed that bringing these veterans into battle would be better than bringing more troops from the Thunder Legion.
Claude could only explain to him hastily that the officers and soldiers of the local garrison stationed at Monkenard Castle were all transferred from veterans of the Rock Legion in the late military service. They were brought to the front mainly because they were good at position defense.
In combat, they are the old subordinates of General Buchiklin. Returning to the front line is equivalent to returning to the old troops of the Rock Army. I believe that they will play a greater role in position defense and are more trustworthy than the new recruits recruited.
Traveling day and night, in only nine days, Claude led his troops to the front line, and then met the somewhat anxious General Beach Kerin. He learned two pieces of news, one good and one bad. There were three bad news.
The defensive front, after only two days of fierce attack by the Hicks, lost the first defensive front. The good news is that after four consecutive days of fierce fighting, the battle situation was finally stabilized at the second defensive front, even though both sides suffered some casualties.
big......
"Our Rock Army defeated nearly one regiment, and the Nikancha casualties were close to 20,000." General Beachlin said with great regret: "We were fooled. The enemy's commander-in-chief is named Norburyton.
The general of Pompeo Belondi is a cunning and scheming fox. His main attack direction is the eastern mountainous area, not the northern coastal mountainous area as we think. The three standing armies attacking us used rotation tactics.
, the attacks continued one after another, and when we first came into contact, we had no way of resisting this wave-like attack."
"Did he also invest the two standing legions that he just transported into the attack?" Claude asked. If the main force of the attack launched by the Hicks in the eastern mountainous area was the two standing legions that had just arrived, then
Obviously, troops that have not gone through a period of rest cannot maintain a strong offensive momentum and their combat effectiveness cannot be sustained. Perhaps this is a good opportunity to defeat the enemy.
"No," General Beach Kerin shook his head and said, "These three standing armies are the first three standing armies to arrive at Rodex Bay Colony. They have been resting for three months. We thought that the Hicks
Two of the standing corps are deployed on the border of the northern coastal mountainous area, and there is only one standing corps on the eastern mountainous border.
But we didn't expect that the Hicks would secretly replace these two legions with the two standing legions that had just arrived, and secretly dispatched these two standing legions to the eastern mountainous area, catching us by surprise as soon as the war started.
We thought that the standing corps deployed by the Hicks on the eastern mountainous border was responsible for feigning attacks and involving our defensive forces. However, we did not expect that as soon as Hicks launched the attack, the standing corps on the eastern mountainous border marched straight in and deployed in the forward mountainous area.
Those Nikancha camps were vulnerable to a single blow and collapsed one after another.
At that time, I thought that the Hicks only had one standing corps in the eastern mountainous area, and we could withstand it even if they hit the defensive line. But I didn’t expect that the retreating staff officer reported that the enemy had three standing corps, and I realized that I was on the ground.
Got it!"
"Then why are the Nikancha battalions deployed in the mountainous areas so vulnerable that they haven't even completed a decent defense?" This is what Claude feels most confused about, even if the Nikancha people's combat effectiveness is really
Damn it, but the defensive positions set up in the frontier mountainous areas are very complete and standard. They occupy key areas and use the terrain to make it easy to defend but difficult to attack, but they can't even successfully resist the attack of the Hicks.
As a result, the three standing legions of the Hicks arrived at the defensive front in only fifteen or sixteen days, and quickly captured the first defensive front within two days. What on earth did the enemy do?
How could this be achieved? Didn’t the staff officers of the Rock Corps who were sent as officers in charge of the Nikancha battalion teach the Nikanchas to hide in trenches and shoot concealed? This should be impossible to happen.
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General Beachlin smiled bitterly: "Claude, I can only blame you for this. The main reason for the loss of those defensive positions in the forward mountainous areas was that the Hicks were equipped with the grenade you invented. In addition, they also improved the throwing device.
It can be thrown from 130 to 40 meters away. This is beyond the range of our precise aiming and shooting with muskets. We can only stay in the position and get bombed in vain. These Nikancha people have not been trained in anti-throwing grenades.
Once it gets bombed, everything will be in chaos..."
No wonder the Hicks were invincible all the way, and the reason for this was the emergence of grenades. Claude now began to regret that he gave the production license of grenades to the military industry of the old noble families in the kingdom. The grenades they produced
He helped the second prince Widelek defeat the eldest prince Hansback and regain the royal capital. But at the same time, it also caused all countries in the Farea continent to imitate grenades, and the Kingdom of Hicks was no exception.
"Are the grenades they produce the same as those we equip in the theater?" Claude asked.
"It's different. It's similar to what we found on the Nasseri Kingdom's smuggling ship last time. It looks like a pumpkin. It's also lit by a match rope, not like the one we're equipped with that relies on pulling strings to ignite internal friction.
They can't use it on rainy days, but ours can, but it's been sunny for half a month..." General Beachlin introduced to Claude: "I asked someone to get a Hicks
Let me show you the thrower, which we just seized in the past two days."
Soon, four tall soldiers carried a hurling device that was as tall as one person with difficulty. Claude understood at a glance that this was a simplified structure of an ancient trebuchet, except that spring steel sheets were used instead of wood.
The slinging connecting rod. My sister Anna and Mrs. Sonia once conducted experiments and were able to throw the projectile two hundred meters away. However, Claude thought that this thing was too heavy and heavy and could not be flexibly maneuvered. It required many people to carry it.
It was easy to become the target of artillery fire on the battlefield, so this throwing mode was abandoned.
Then another soldier came over with a captured grenade produced by the Hicks. However, the Hicks did not call it a grenade, but called it an iron pumpkin, because the grenade was clearly engraved with
The words "Iron Pumpkin". This iron pumpkin is three times heavier than the projectiles equipped in the war zone, but because it contains more gunpowder and iron sheets, the power of the explosion is also greater. It seems that the Hicks chose this trebuchet.
The same thrower can't help it. A thrower like Claude that can be operated by two people can't throw this kind of iron pumpkin more than a hundred meters away.
"This kind of trebuchet-like thrower should be easy to deal with..." Claude said. Even if it is beyond the 100-meter range of the Aubash Type III standard matchlock gun, but then
A large group of people gathered together to operate this thrower. There was no need for artillery to focus fire. A squadron of soldiers was directly summoned to focus fire on the area where they were located.
Not to mention the 380-meter total range of the Obas III standard matchlock gun, even the Hicks Kingdom muskets equipped by the Nikancha people also have a total range of 320 meters. Against these Hicks people
When shooting, you don't need to aim accurately. No matter how far the bullet floats, it cannot be too far away from the target. With so many muskets, there will always be a time when a blind cat encounters a dead mouse. As long as a few people around you fall down, the remaining people will either panic or panic.
Get down and avoid the gun...
Or several light infantry field artillery aim and directly fire solid projectiles. For example, the gunners of the two legions' light infantry field artillery can hit a target like this with a large number of people gathered within 200 meters, not to mention eighty-nine times out of ten. Ten rounds can basically hit it.
Five or six hits. As long as two or three light infantry field artillery are aimed at a target and fired, these Hicks grenade groups can only end in tragedy.
Another way is for the outstanding shooters of the two legions to take the initiative, jump out of the trenches and crawl forward to within the 100-meter range of the accurately aimed fire of the Obas III standard matchlock gun, and kill the enemies operating the throwers by roll call.
It can eliminate the threat of enemy grenades to defensive positions. These are the anti-throw grenade solutions trained by the Thunder Legion and the Rock Legion. With the new rifle, its two-hundred-meter precision aiming range is enough to suppress the enemy.
The threat posed by the projectiles to attacking or defending troops.
General Beachlin smiled helplessly: "Do you think I haven't used these methods? Do you know how the first defensive line was lost? I can only say that these Hicks veterans are crazy, they are not afraid of death
, and are even willing to die. It is our tragedy to encounter such enemies. They hate us very much and would rather die than be our prisoners again.
So far we have not caught an enemy who surrendered voluntarily, but we have caught some soldiers who were injured and unconscious. But after we rescued them, their request was that we give them a good time. Anyway, we don't want them to recover after they recover.
Went to do hard labor.
I don’t know how badly they suffered as laborers after they were taken away by the emerging business aristocrats in the kingdom, but they blame all of this on us. It was we who captured them and transferred them to the emerging business nobles in the kingdom.
Business aristocracy.
Before you set off, you sent me a falcon letter. According to what you said in your letter, I carried out punishment measures of killing one out of ten Nikancha people who had retreated from the frontier mountainous area. I executed nearly two people in public at one go.
Thousands of Nikanchas finally shocked the armies of the Nikanchas who were training with our soldiers.
I told them that they could not escape death. Even if they escaped back to the settlement, the Hicks army would soon kill them. Their parents and children would be killed by the Hicks, and their brothers and sisters would be captured.
Live as a slave...
Among them, there was a Nikancha man named Dowu who made me sigh and felt that it was a pity that he died. Although he also retreated from the frontier mountainous area, he was very brave. He acted as the rear guard and rescued the Hicks.
The thrown bomb seriously injured the staff officer.
At the same time, he also organized a manpower to ambush a small group of Hicks scouts, and fought in close combat with several Hicks veterans. He received two bayonets, but he annihilated the small group of Hicks veterans.
epaulets as evidence. However, they also retreated from the front, so they also had to accept the punishment of killing one out of ten.
As a result, Duowu got the sure-kill lottery, and the Nikancha people in his team cried bitterly, thinking that he was so brave and should not receive such a punishment. He was not a deserter, but a warrior who killed the enemy. And his
The story spread to the ears of the Nikancha people, and almost all the Nikancha people came to request that they die on his behalf.
I sent someone to investigate and found that this Nikancha man was indeed different from his cowardly compatriots. Moreover, he also led a team to eliminate a small group of Hicks scouts. He was also wounded, so I was ready to pardon him.
Him, exempt him from the death penalty.
But I didn't expect that the pardon order I issued was rejected by this Duowu. He was willing to accept the punishment and die. Otherwise, it would be unfair to the other Nikancha people who were drawn to be killed. No matter if he was only pardoned, he would be spared.
No matter how brave he was on the way back, he could not deny the fact that he was indeed a deserter.
Because his position was originally in the forward mountainous area, not the defensive front where he is now. All the Nikancha armed forces with status and reputation who got the news tried to persuade him, but he refused.
of wishing for death.
I felt very strange, so I went to visit him and invited him to have a drink. Duowu asked me to execute him in public on the same day as the rest of the Nikancha people who were drawn to death, so that all the people would be punished.
The Nikancha people were armed with shock, letting them understand that the Nikancha people had indeed reached the most critical point of life and death.
I felt sorry for his knowledge, but I could only comply with his wishes. He was the first to be executed that day, and I specially went to toast him with a large bowl of wine. After drinking the wine, Duowu said a few words
, he said to the Nikancha people who were watching the execution, this time when the Hicks came, we in the war zone would help them resist the Hicks invasion.
But next time if the descendants of the Kramer pirates from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands come to burn, kill and loot, then who can the Nikancha people rely on to protect them? Only the Nikancha people can cheer up and learn from the war zone
Only with all the advanced military knowledge and training of the Nikancha people's own armed forces can they have the self-defense capability to protect the Nikancha people's country in the future.
He hoped that the execution punishment of himself and the nearly two thousand deserters would wake up all Nikancha people and would rather die on the battlefield than turn around and become a shameful runaway. You may be able to survive, but maybe
The price you pay is that your relatives are killed and your settlement is destroyed by the enemy.
Now that you have picked up the musket, it means that to become a glorious Nikancha warrior, you must do your part to protect your settlement and the Nikancha country, even if you pay for it with your life.
No matter what...after saying these words, he took the initiative to go to the execution platform and was the first to be hanged..."
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Claude never expected that the punishment measure he gave to General Bichklin to kill one out of ten deserters would involve such a bloody thing. In this way, Duowu became the representative of all Nikans.
He is a national hero in the eyes of the Cha people. After all, with the lazy habits of the Nikan Cha people, confinement in the army can be regarded as a rare rest benefit by them. Failure to implement the policy of killing one out of ten is not enough to deter them.
The lack of punishment for deserters means that all Nikancha people can escape in the face of battle. This Duowu is willing to die because he knows this very well.
"The execution of Duowu and the nearly two thousand Nikancha deserters really shocked the Nikancha armed forces. So two days later, the Hicks appeared in front of the first defensive line, and almost all the Nikancha soldiers
The Kamchat armed forces showed an unusually strong desire to fight.
They were not afraid of the Hicks' attacks. Under the command of our Rock Legion officers and soldiers, they methodically resisted the attacks launched by the Hicks. Even when the Hicks attacked one after another,
In night attacks, I can use hand-to-hand combat to drive the enemy away..."
General Beachlin sighed: "It's just that I didn't expect those Hicks veterans to be so crazy and desperate. During the day, their grenade-throwing group was suppressed by us and suffered heavy casualties, so they chose
A night attack.
First, the artillery bombardment advanced to the front of the position with infantry field artillery attracted counterattacks from the artillery deployed on the defensive position. Then a large number of soldiers swarmed forward and directly launched a hand-to-hand battle. Our defense troops and the Nikancha armed forces were fired after firing muskets.
After the gun, he also attached a bayonet and fought with them.
But we didn't know that the Hicks had secretly pushed their grenade groups in front of the defensive position and directly threw this iron pumpkin onto the position. You must know that there were still those Hicks veterans on the position who were engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
They even bombed their own people.
We were all stunned at the time. No one expected that the Hicks would be so frantic. A battalion of the Rock Legion and more than 2,000 Kancha troops that had just been reinforced were immediately blown to pieces, and the subsequent
The Hicks veterans launched a continuous charge, and with the throwing of grenades, the first defensive line was captured by them..."
Claude finally knew the reason why the first defensive line fell.
"Two days ago, the Hicks wanted to repeat the same trick, but they didn't expect that I deployed our grenade group at the forward position and directly carried out block bombing against their charge. I also equipped the division headquarters with new muskets.
The directly affiliated reinforcement battalion is assigned to the members of the grenade-throwing team who are dispatched to the position to shoot Hicks.
Because their iron pumpkins needed to be ignited with match ropes before throwing them, the bright firelight at night became their fatal flaw. They did not throw a few iron pumpkins at all, and more than a hundred grenade groups were quickly destroyed by our shooters.
Half of them were shot and killed, and the rest fled back."
General Beachlin pointed to the trebuchet-like slinger on the ground with some pride and said: "This and the iron pumpkin next to it were captured two nights ago. There are a total of eighty-six slingers, three hundred and seventy-six
An iron pumpkin. Now I have placed them on the defensive front and become our defensive weapon..."