As the battalion commander of the local garrison camp in Rodex Bay City, Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando is very satisfied with his position. It is indeed a good place to retire, with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. He even plans to write a letter to himself
They moved their relatives here from their hometowns and set up manors and farms here, making the family a local celebrity in the colony.
Lieutenant Colonel Lemando is forty-three years old. He has served diligently in the Verona Fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands for twenty-five years. From a small trainee sailor to a naval lieutenant commander in the Kingdom, he became
The captain of the ocean transport ship Fathead is already a very remarkable achievement for a civilian-born naval officer. In his hometown, a small fishing village, Mr. Le Mando has become a legend.
However, Mr. Le Mando was unlucky. Two years ago, his left wrist was severed in a small battle during a pirate attack and he had to retire from the navy. The Admiralty of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands tried to appease this man.
The navy lieutenant commander, who had always been hardworking and dedicated, transferred him to the local garrison, appointed Mr. Le Mando as the battalion commander of the local garrison battalion in Rodex Bay City, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
It’s just that Lieutenant Colonel Lemando doesn’t understand why the United Kingdom of Fox Islands wants to intervene in this colonial war between the Kingdom of Hicks and the Kingdom of Overas. The Kingdom of Hicks is the regional hegemonic power in the northern part of the Farea continent.
The Kingdom of Ovelas is also a regional power in the eastern part of the mainland. Even though the Kingdom of Ovelas has become decadent and unable to recover due to a five-year war in the eastern region, the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands is a big country that cannot be easily offended.
Perhaps it can only be blamed on the fact that the golden light of the Hicks Kingdom's Golden Kup Shield was so dazzling that the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands set a precedent of leasing the entire colony. Fortunately, the lease agreement clearly stated that, except for Rodex Bay City, no
Under the jurisdiction of the Hicks, otherwise Lieutenant Colonel Lemando, the commander of the local garrison battalion, would be unemployed less than a year after taking office.
Precisely because the lease of the colony was a precedent, Lieutenant Colonel Lemando had to deal with the Hicks every day like other local administrators. Although Rodex Bay City is still under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, the residents of the city have
Most of the livelihood is outside the city, and it is inevitable to interact with the soldiers of the Hicks Kingdom. There are endless disputes between the two sides, and local administrative officials are struggling to mediate these conflicts...
Lieutenant Colonel Lemando's mission is much simpler. He is only responsible for the security of the city and the protection of Rodex Bay City. Even if the Hicks are drunk and causing trouble in the city, he only needs to throw away the uniforms of these drunkards.
Just get on the carriage and take them back to the base camp. In his opinion, these Hicks are all very good men with a lot of money around them. Since they came, the romantic people in Rodex Bay City have
The place is much more lively and the prices have improved.
Today is still a very ordinary night for Lieutenant Colonel Lemando. He is used to going to the city wall to inspect the city wall before going to bed. This is a habit developed on his battleship. On the vast sea, the captain
Night patrols will keep the soldiers on night duty in high spirits and prevent them from becoming careless. At the same time, they can also bring courage and confidence to the night watch soldiers to face the endless night at sea.
At the end of the inspection, Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando wanted to walk down the city wall. Suddenly he heard the sound of gunshots. The sound was not loud. It must have been a Hicks soldier who drank too much and the gun went off. This kind of thing has happened several times before. Le Mando
Lieutenant Colonel Mundo looked towards the Hicks general logistics base camp in the distance, and then he froze there...
Gunshots and explosions rang out in the Hicks general logistics base camp, which was always brightly lit. Under the light of the campfire, one could clearly see figures falling to the ground one after another and running away in panic. It was dark outside the camp.
There seemed to be countless black shadows approaching the camp in the wilderness. Gunshots, explosions, cries and screams kept coming from the camp.
What surprised Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando was that the attacker's attack was like entering an uninhabited land. With the help of the bonfire at the gate of the camp, one could see strong figures rushing into the camp, and they knelt down on one knee.
Shooting on the ground, or stabbing the fleeing figures with shining bayonets. However, the Hicks in the camp seemed to have never organized an effective counterattack. They only saw gunshots and explosions quickly coming from the periphery to the camp.
Go deep.
Night attack! I actually saw a real night attack battle... Lieutenant Colonel Lemando's body was shaking on the city wall. This was not fear, but excitement. There is nothing more exciting than witnessing a real actual battle.
It's shocking. It's not a drill. What's going on in the camp over there is a real war. Countless lives are disappearing and blood is flowing on the ground...
"Lieutenant Colonel, what should we do? Will we also be attacked by those people?" A trembling voice next to him suddenly woke up Lieutenant Colonel Lemando.
"Quick! Close the gate quickly! Don't let anyone into the city, and don't let anyone out!" Lieutenant Colonel Lemando shouted: "More bonfires will be lit immediately at the top of the city. No firewood? Why don't you hurry up and collect it?
!Place more flags of our United Kingdom of Fox Islands so that people can see them clearly at a glance outside the city! Why, idiot, I am protecting everyone's lives. Don't forget that we are neutral and will not participate in any party in this war!
hurry up!"
Under the urging of Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando, the soldiers of the local garrison on the city wall had arranged everything in less than an hour. Then all the soldiers of the local garrison who were resting in the military camp were woken up and held muskets.
He hurriedly climbed up the city wall and prepared various defensive artillery on the wall, finally calming down Lieutenant Colonel Lemando.
I wonder if these local garrison camps that deal with pirate attacks can withstand the attacks of those night raiders... Lieutenant Colonel Lemando was thinking about this life-and-death issue in his mind. At this time, two thousand meters away,
In addition to cries and screams, there were only occasional gunshots and explosions in the camp. It was obvious that the Hicks' general logistics base camp had been captured by the attackers and was currently in the mopping up stage.
.....
It was really fast. It only took more than an hour to capture such a large camp. There was also a division of Hicks defending it... Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando had to fight for the night raiders' combat power.
Exclaimed, are those the so-called troops in the Overseas Directly Administered Territory War Zone of the Kingdom of Overas? Doesn’t it mean that they only have two local second-line legions? If the combat effectiveness of the two second-line local legions of the Kingdom of Overas is so strong
, so it is really difficult to determine the winner of this colonial war between the Kingdom of Hicks and the Kingdom of Overas.
It is not that Lieutenant Colonel Lemando has never seen the Hicks Legion. In his eyes, the Hicks officers are not worth mentioning. Those logistics officials and senior officers of the Legion are all vulgar people who are greedy for money and lust.
Generations, they are even using this colonial war to enrich their own pockets. Don’t think that Lieutenant Colonel Lemando doesn’t know that all they spend in the city every night is public funds, and they also cleverly create a name to increase the expenses so that they can get it.
Get a profit.
Sometimes Lieutenant Colonel Lemando thought that the residents in the city had offered exorbitantly high prices for selling goods to the Hicks. But what he didn't expect was that the Hicks in charge of purchasing went even further.
The price increased by one or two times as their rebate. As a result, one sheep was sold for the same price as one cow...
Even though he despised the senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom in his heart, Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando still had to admire the strong combat power of those Hicks veterans. In his opinion, these soldiers of the Hicks Kingdom were all
The best soldiers are just a little older, more gloomy and not talkative. But they obey orders very well and perform very well in tactical training exercises. No matter which country they are in, such soldiers can be called elite soldiers...
...
Therefore, Lieutenant Colonel Lemando believes that no matter how incompetent Hicks' senior officers are, with such strong and elite soldiers, they can still easily win this colonial war. After all, the Hicks Kingdom has prepared ten
A standing legion, more than 600,000 troops, this is already a powerful army in the Farea continent, enough to destroy some small kingdoms and principalities.
But tonight's night attack with his own eyes made Lieutenant Colonel Lemando understand that the news about the setback of the frontline war revealed by senior Hicks officers at the banquet a few days ago was true, and they were not making up mysteries.
To cover up the truth, the troops in the Overseas Territory War Zone of the Overas Kingdom were more powerful than the Hicks...
There was a noisy quarrel from behind.
"What's going on?" Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando turned his head angrily, only to realize that it was a large group of Hicks senior officers who were having fun in the city who somehow got their General Logistics Base Camp under attack.
After hearing the news, they all came to the city wall to see if someone was deceiving them or joking with them. A few drunk senior officers were still yelling and cursing, asking the soldiers from the local garrison camp to open the gate and wanted to go out of the city and return to the camp to have a look.
"Tear off their military uniforms and let them come up to the city wall." Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando thought for a while and felt that he and the Hicks were still in the period of cooperation, so it was best to give them a face and let them go up.
The city wall, but they cannot be allowed to come up wearing the military uniforms of the Kingdom of Hicks.
"Le Mando! What do you mean?" A senior Hicks officer who knew Le Mando was stripped of his uniform before letting him go up the city wall. He was so angry that he almost went crazy. Even the rank of Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando was changed.
Instead of weighing people, call them by their names. In fact, this is very impolite and insulting and can even lead to a life-or-death duel.
However, Lieutenant Colonel Lemando didn't care about them. He just looked at him with pitiful eyes: "I'm saving your lives, idiot! Your enemies have captured your general logistics base camp. If you are still wearing
The military uniforms of the Kingdom of Hicks are standing on the city wall. I guarantee that the enemies who attacked the camp will turn around and attack our city. Do you think a local garrison camp with less than a thousand people like our Rodex Bay City can resist it?
Can you withstand their attack?"
The senior officers of Hicks Kingdom who were on the city wall were speechless. They were greedy for money and lust, but they were not stupid. They all knew that Lieutenant Colonel Lemando was telling the truth. They just raised their eyes and looked in the direction of the camp. Some of them even
Those who brought monoculars held them in front of their eyes and kept looking at them.
"Have our camp really been attacked?" a fat Hicks logistics officer in charge asked with a trembling voice. The camp seemed a little calm now, with only occasional gunfire.
The explosion has disappeared, but there are still cries and screams. The firelight in the camp is also brighter. It is not as regular as before. There should be tents burning in several places, but there seems to be no one.
No one cares, and no one goes to put out the fire...
It was more than two thousand meters away, and even though the firelight of the camp was very bright, it was still not clear through the monocular telescope. There were many figures coming and going at the gate of the camp, but Xi stood on the wall.
The senior military officer almost put the monocular into their eyes, but he still could not clearly see what the military uniforms on those figures looked like.
"Yes, it only took the attackers more than an hour to capture your camp." Lieutenant Colonel Lemando's words made all the senior Hicks officers standing on the city wall feel cold. They knew it very well.
What impact would the loss of the General Logistics Base Camp have on this colonial war? Even they couldn't explain the past to Melchid III...
Suddenly there was a noise in the wasteland in front of the city wall, and it sounded like many people rushing towards the gate of the city wall. Lieutenant Colonel Lemando immediately ordered: "Everyone is ready to extinguish the match ropes, and no one is allowed to do so."
Shoot. The artillerymen on the city wall should also be careful not to light the cannon!"
In the darkness, a large group of people rushed within the range of the firelight on the city wall. Only then did Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando realize that what was rushing over was a large group of broken troops of the Hicks. It seemed that they had all escaped from the camp.
. They were running out of breath, and were in such a state of embarrassment that they threw away their helmets and armor. Some had no hats, some had disheveled military uniforms, some had one foot bare, and most of them had empty hands, not holding anything at all.
What kind of weapons? When they ran to the gate of the city wall, everyone stuck out their tongues, exhaled and inhaled loudly, and relaxed their bodies. Those who still had some strength were already crying and shouting to the superiors to open the door for them quickly and let them enter the city...
.
"Ignore them and don't open the city!" Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando ordered viciously.
A senior Hicks officer rushed over and grabbed Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando by the collar: "Why don't you let them into the city? They managed to escape. We still need to get the enemy from their mouths."
Please tell them to open the city gate quickly!"
The soldiers in the local garrison camp nearby were shocked. They either lit the match again and pointed their guns at the senior Hicks officers on the wall, or used bayonets to hold the senior officer who grabbed Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando: "Quickly.
Let go! Let go immediately and step back!"
Lieutenant Colonel Lemando calmly waved his left hand, which had no left palm and only a large iron hook, signaling to his soldiers not to be nervous.
"Do you know what it means to let these soldiers in front of the city wall enter the city? It means that our Rodex Bay City local garrison stands with your Hicks Kingdom and becomes the enemy of your enemy. And we, the Fox Islands United
The Kingdom has issued a statement that we will remain neutral in the colonial war between you and the Kingdom of Ovelas and will not intervene or interfere in this war. If the enemy does not invade Rodex Bay City, we cannot shoot.
Counterattack and provocation to the enemy are strictly prohibited..."
Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando pointed with the iron hook of his left hand at the Hicks' deserters who were begging under the city wall: "If I let them into the city, it means that I am on your side and sheltering the defeated soldiers of these large camps. You guys
The enemies of the United Kingdom can launch an attack on Rodex Bay City justifiably, but we, the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, cannot blame them, because we were the first to violate our commitment to neutrality.
If I meet your request, it means putting the entire Rodex Bay City in danger. Once the attackers attacking your camp launch an attack on this city, then not only these defeated troops, but also you will also
I will die in battle or become a prisoner. And I will also become the biggest sinner of our United Kingdom, because I have sent all the residents of my kingdom of Rodex Bay City into the hands of your enemies, allowing them to be trampled, plundered and killed.
..."
The senior Hicks officer who grabbed Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando by the collar weakly let go of his hand, collapsed on the ground, covered his face with his hands and cried. The senior Hicks officers on the city wall all knew that Le Mando
Lieutenant Colonel Mundo was right, they could do nothing to deal with this large group of defeated soldiers under the city wall, they could only let them cry and beg under the city wall.
Time passed like this little by little, and the large group of defeated soldiers under the city wall had changed from begging and crying to loud curses and hateful curses like gnashing of teeth. However, the defenders on the city wall remained indifferent and did not open the city gate to let them go.
They mean to go in.
"Pull back the troops and let Colonel Belklin collect these deserters. The commander in charge of the local garrison in Rodex Bay City was very wise. He did not open the city gate to let these defeated troops enter the city. We can't find any reason to attack this city."
City, just let them go." Claude ordered calmly.
"But General, those senior officers from Hicks are all in this city, are we going to let them go like this?" Murray Ed said reluctantly next to him.
"So what? The United Kingdom of the Fox Islands has long declared that it will remain neutral in this colonial war, and leasing the colony to the Kingdom of Hicks is just a business. We and the Hicks will not care if we fight to the death in their colony.
I will take care of it, but our unreasonable attack on Rodex Bay City, which belongs to them, means declaring war with them. The Hicks will be happy to death. They wish we had one more enemy...
Although the army of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands is not worth mentioning, their naval fleet is indeed very powerful and can easily cause trouble to the seaports and coastal areas of our territorial theater. We do not need to add a powerful maritime force to ourselves at this time.
The enemy, and let those senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom stay in the city to escape the fate of being captured by us, so what, such incompetent senior officers, I just wish that the more Hicks Kingdom, the better...
.”
Now that Claude had made his decision, Muriel stopped persuading him and arranged for messengers to inform Colonel Belclin who was ambushing in front of the city wall.
Watching the soldiers of the Thunder Legion suddenly appear silently in the darkness, they surrounded the large group of scolding Hicks troops in front of the city gate, and quickly took their prisoners away regardless of their pleas. Le Mando on the city wall
The lieutenant colonel felt a cold feeling on his back. When he reached out and touched it, he realized that his clothes were soaked with cold sweat...