Chapter four hundred and forty-ninth fierce battle camp
Chapter 449 Fierce Battle in the Camp
Although General Albert commanded the Second Division of the Thunder Legion to attack the defensive camps of the three Hicks divisions on the northern mountainous border, they failed and suffered heavy casualties. But for Claude, he still found a fighter. It is simple, the first
The Second Division suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and even the Nikanchas suffered equally heavy casualties. So how many troops would the Hicks lose?
Why did the Hicks drive the second division commanded by General Albert out of the front occupied position regardless of casualties when the first division of the Thunder Legion approached the camp? Claude thought it was the Hicks
The troops were insufficient and unable to deal with the flanking attack from both front and rear directions. They could only severely damage the second division first, regain the lost ground, and then turn around to deal with Claude's first division...
According to General Albert's estimate, Claude believed that the Hicks casualties in the camp should be as many as one division, which proved to be the more than 8,000 Hicks collected by the Second Division in three days of offensive and defensive battles.
The soldier cards of the Hicks veterans were collected from the corpses. According to the calculation of casualties of two to one, one division of the Hicks in the camp had been disabled.
If there are still two legions and four divisions of Hicks veterans in the camp, then Claude may have to consider whether to command the first division to launch a strong attack, but it is estimated that there is only one legion of Hicks left in the camp now.
With the strength of two divisions, there was nothing to worry about. Claude decided to follow the original plan and annihilate the Hicks veterans here first.
As General Albert said, the first wall defense line easily fell into the control of the First Division, along with the first and second trenches in front.
Only in the third trench did they encounter the stubborn resistance of the Hicks. Those Hicks veterans always lurked silently in the tunnels of the trenches. It was not until the soldiers of the Thunder Legion approached that they suddenly rushed out and engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
war......
In addition, the Hicks also mounted a dozen light infantry field artillery pieces on top of the third trench, and also made elaborate camouflage. Due to the height difference, most of the third trench can be seen from the
The second trench, the two trenches are about fifty meters apart. General Albert said that the Hicks once took advantage of the height difference in the trenches to pose a great threat to the officers and soldiers of the Second Division with precise aiming and shooting.
The officers and soldiers of the Second Division solved the problem of the enemy being able to hit us but not being able to hit the enemy by placing soil beneath their feet.
Claude was prepared for this and asked the attacking soldiers to bring planks of wood directly into the trenches to build stepping boards. However, he did not expect that the Hicks did not use a defensive method of shooting. The soldiers who were coming and going in the trenches for a while
They also forgot about this danger. As a result, when the troops were massing in the second trench and preparing to continue the attack on the third trench, several light infantry field artillery pieces hidden by the Hicks on the third trench were directed at the assembled troops.
The troops fired shotgun shells, and Belklin's first regiment was immediately wiped out with a group of more than 200 officers and soldiers...
After receiving the report of the setback of the attack, Claude could only lament that the enemy was also making progress and they were also improving their deficiencies in defense. Claude immediately ordered the troops to stop attacking the third trench and instead securely defend the second trench.
.Since the enemy regarded this area as the main battlefield of the defensive battle, they must have made careful preparations. There was no need for the First Division to waste its troops in order to occupy the third trench.
Claude asked Belklin's first regiment to attack to the left, and Murield's second regiment to attack to the right. They first occupied the entire camp's first wall defense line and the two trenches in front, so as to avoid being attacked on the left and right flanks.
to the danger of an enemy surprise attack. This can also allow the Second Division on the front to join the attack. Although General Albert's Second Division can only have two regiments on the battlefield now, these 10,000 people will join the attack.
The battlefield can bring a lot of help to Claude's first division.
In addition, Claude also wanted to test the strength of the Hicks people. This defensive camp was very large. Even if Claude commanded the Thunder Legion to occupy the entire first wall defense line and the two trenches in front,
It is also equivalent to spreading the troops in hand to all occupied positions, allowing the Hicks to find an opportunity to gather troops to launch a surprise attack in a certain area.
But this is Claude's purpose. It is to switch from offense to defense, to give up entangled with the Hicks in the third trench area that they have prepared and consume troops, but to use the second trench or even the first trench.
The defense line of the Daozhai wall was waiting for work, waiting for the Hicks to come to the door. Although the troops were scattered, and many of the second trench areas had only one small team guarding them, it was a big net, and the Hicks only needed to launch a surprise attack.
Don't even think about going back.
The Hicks were really confused by Claude's move. They didn't understand why Claude spread his troops across these positions. Did he want to trap them? So they launched several tests.
The sudden attack was just a surprise to them. The soldiers of the Thunder Legion defending in the second trench saw that they did not resolutely resist when they launched the attack, but resolutely withdrew, and the position fell into their hands.
So the Hicks continued to attack the first trench, and found that the same situation was true in the first trench. They continued to attack the first wall defense line, and the first wall defense line was easily occupied by them.
It's just that the enemy didn't realize that they couldn't go back. The soldiers of the Thunder Legion on the left and right wings of the area occupied by the second trench had already launched a counterattack and quickly regained their position, thus occupying the first trench and the first wall.
The Hicks veterans on the defense line became the turtles in the urn. They resisted bravely and tenaciously, and in the end they all became martyrs.
At first, the Hicks thought that too few troops were put into the attack, and the Thunder Legion counterattacked too quickly, so they increased the number of troops put into the attack and prepared to expand along both sides of the attack area to cover up the attack area.
So far, the entire occupation. It's just that the Hicks veterans are completely unable to resist the soldiers of the Thunder Legion who are outflanking them from the left and right wings. The area they occupy will always fall under the control of the Thunder Legion again soon.
It wasn't until a battalion of Hicks veterans were also surrounded and annihilated in the area between the first trench and the first wall of defense that Hicks realized that this was a trap set by the Thunder Legion.
They never took the initiative to attack again. Just to learn this lesson, they lost nearly a regiment of troops.
"The Hicks are indeed out of strength, otherwise they wouldn't have invested only one battalion in their last attack. If they could invest a regiment of Hicks veterans, then they would be able to withdraw at least half of their troops," Claude said.
General Albert said.
General Albert nodded, thinking that Claude's analysis made sense. If the Hicks had enough troops, they really wouldn't need to be so petty, and would even directly invest a regiment of troops in the first attack.
Then when attacked by the two wings of the Thunder Legion, the troops occupying the first wall defense line and the first trench can be evacuated more quickly, or put into resistance, and they will not be surrounded so quickly.
Maybe once the soldiers who fled back told the story of the attack, Commander Hicks would be able to understand the trap set by the Thunder Legion.
All Thunder Legion troops attacking on both wings were Diavid's three regiments equipped with new rifles. The three regiments were divided into four battalions, each occupying four key points. Which area between these four key points
When attacked by the enemy, the two battalions on both sides immediately attacked from both wings and surrounded the enemy inside.
Compared with the matchlock gun that can only fire one gun and has to be loaded with tedious charges, the six-shot burst of the new rifle has an advantage in this kind of trench offensive battle. The four battalions of the Third Regiment are in
In two days of fighting, less than 400 casualties were lost, and nearly 5,000 Hicks troops were annihilated. Especially the Hicks veterans, they were prepared for desperate hand-to-hand combat, but they were suddenly fired by the new rifles.
One by one, they were knocked to the ground and died with their eyes open...
Since the Hicks no longer attacked the position occupied by the Thunder Legion, Claude commanded Diavid's third regiment soldiers to launch a sniper battle with new rifles. All those within two hundred meters who showed their heads for observation
The Hicks have all become targets of shooting. The ten sniper rifles that were successfully developed before the war have become the main force of sniping. The Hicks observation posts exposed outside the position three to four hundred meters apart can be shot by one shot.
Killed.
While using new rifles and sniper rifles to make the Hicks blind, Claude asked the Fourth Thunder Regiment to escort a large number of prisoners into the position, and drastically remodeled and expanded the first and second trenches.
The excavated soil was piled on top of the trenches to build a half-height wall, completely blocking the Hicks' condescending observation line of sight, so that they could no longer see the situation in the second and first trenches.
The Hicks veterans guarding the camp were very angry because the people working on the position were all their captured compatriots. They had no way to fire or shoot to stop the construction. In addition to yelling and swearing, they could only call on the prisoners to try to escape. During this period, they
They also organized two attacks to rescue some Hicks prisoners, but their attacks failed. Even the prisoners who escaped with them were all killed in the trenches and positions. Since then, all the Hicks prisoners have behaved well.
work instead of trying to escape.
Claude used Hicks prisoners to expand the first and second trenches in order to place the captured throwers produced by Hicks. He planned to use the iron pumpkins produced by the Hicks to bombard the Hicks.
Defensive trenches. Claude planned to use all the 5,000 iron pumpkins captured from the Hicks' general logistics base camp on the Hicks' camp. He didn't believe that he couldn't blow up the Hicks' camp.
turtle shell.
Because the Hicks' observation line of sight was blocked with new rifles and sniper rifles, and a half-man-high mud wall was piled on the trenches, and Claude directly let the Hicks prisoners go from the first trench to the first
Deep traffic trenches were also dug out from the Daozhai wall defense line to the outside, so that the Hicks did not know that the soldiers of the Thunder Legion were pushing more than a hundred heavy trebuchet-style hurlers on the first and second roads.
The trenches are already in place.
When nearly a hundred iron pumpkins were thrown into the air and thrown into the third trench, the Hicks veterans guarding the third trench met their doom. Claude ordered all third trenches to be cleared.
Focused bombing was carried out on the transportation points of the fourth trench, causing the pit walls on both sides to collapse and lose their shielding function. As a result, the Hicks veterans guarding the third trench had to brave the iron pumpkin bombing to evacuate from the transportation trench.
, or climb out of the trench and evacuate from the position.
No matter which one they choose, they will become targets of new rifles and sniper rifles. In fact, there are only a handful of Hicks veterans who can retreat to the fourth trench, and retreating to the fourth trench does not mean that they have escaped.
Because of the danger, Claude then ordered the thrower in the second trench to throw the iron pumpkin into the fourth trench.
The thrower produced by Hicks Kingdom can throw the iron pumpkin 130 meters away, and can even adjust the distance to control the throwing target to 100 meters or so. The visual distance between the third trench and the first trench is
It's more than 110 meters, and it's within the throwing range. Of course, this throw also has a big deviation, and you can't just throw it wherever you want.
, Claude ordered eight rounds of nearly 700 iron pumpkins thrown into the third trench. Only one-third of them actually fell into the trenches, but this third of the iron pumpkins that fell into the trenches was enough to clear them.
Killed most of the Hicks veterans guarding inside. When the twenty-odd hurlers placed in the second trench began to throw iron pumpkins at the fourth trench, the soldiers of the Thunder Legion had already rushed to the third trench.
, and successfully occupied the position. Then a large number of Hicks prisoners were escorted over, and the reconstruction and expansion of the third trench began...
Nearly five thousand corpses of Hicks veterans were removed from the third trench, and together with those who were shot and killed while evacuating the position, it can be concluded that the Hicks lost another regiment of troops. For these Hicks veterans, Ke
Lord admired their tenacity in fighting, but he still believed that it would be better to eliminate such a tenacious enemy.
Because during the process of the Thunder Legion soldiers occupying the third trench, many Hicks veterans who were stunned or injured caused unexpected injuries to the careless Thunder Legion soldiers. Finally, Colonel Murray had to order,
When the soldiers under his command saw the corpse of veteran Hicks lying on the ground in the trench, they all shot or stabbed a bayonet first to prevent them from suddenly violently killing each other...
The Hicks suffered a big loss in the third trench, but they still did not give up. Claude sent a Hicks prisoner to deliver a surrender letter to the Hicks commander in the camp.
.As a result, Claude's request was rejected, and the Hicks prisoner was beaten and released. He was insulted and beaten by the Hicks veterans, who thought he was a traitor and working for the enemy.
, if their commander hadn't needed him to send back the letter, he might not have been able to come back.
Claude knew very well that the Hicks believed that the only way they could hold on was the second protective wall, and the throwers behind it had not yet been put to use. Now they were waiting for the Thunder Legion to attack and occupy the fourth trench.
By then, the Hicks will be able to severely avenge the defeat in the third trench.
Speaking from a high position, the throwing horse produced by the Kingdom of Hicks can throw the iron pumpkin up to 150 meters away. In other words, ten meters ahead of the third trench, the Hicks people are arranged to throw the iron pumpkin behind the second protective wall.
Within the bombing range of the weapon. But Claude was not that stupid and sent the soldiers of the Thunder Legion to attack and occupy the fourth trench. He bet that the Hicks must have forgotten the most important point. There are also grenades in the territorial war zone.
, and the first user of throwing bombs.
The Hicks knew very well the maximum distance a thrower could throw an iron pumpkin, so they were indifferent to the Thunder Legion soldiers' high-profile behavior of coercing the Hicks prisoners to dig trenches and expand their positions. Even if the Thunder Legion arranged the thrower in the third lane
So what can be done in the trenches? The best they can do is throw them at the fifth trench, which will not damage the second protective wall and the throwers and light infantry field artillery behind them at all...
But Claude planned to place the thrower in the third trench not to throw iron pumpkins, but to throw grenades produced in the war zone. Although the explosive power of the grenades produced in the territorial war zone was not as powerful as the iron pumpkin, it was
It is light and concealed, and does not require igniting the match rope to expose the throwing location like the iron pumpkin. You only need to slightly adjust the fuse inside to one centimeter longer, which is enough to explode after falling to the ground over a distance of 200 meters.
In the second defensive line in the eastern mountainous area, General Beach Kerin used the captured throwers produced by Hicks Kingdom to throw the grenades produced in the theater, which could increase the throwing distance to more than two hundred meters, suppressing the enemy in one fell swoop.
The iron pumpkins thrown by the Hicks reduced the risk of iron pumpkin bombing on the defensive front. It is possible that the Hicks stationed here on the northern mountain border did not understand this, so they allowed Claude to remain in the third trench.
The slinger is installed.
Although in the past three days, the Hicks also launched several night attacks, they were all repelled by the well-prepared soldiers of the Thunder Legion. Perhaps the Hicks really did not have enough troops.
Well, not many troops were invested in these night attacks, and the intensity of the attacks was not violent. They retreated after leaving more than a hundred corpses, allowing Claude to smoothly command the troops in the third trench.
All throwers are deployed.
Although the Hicks did not arrange observation posts on the open positions, secret snooping was still indispensable. Even Claude asked the Hicks prisoners to use the excavated soil to build a half-man-high earth wall above the trench.
Although the situation in the trenches was blocked, the Hicks still sensed that the Thunder Legion was about to launch an attack, so they also made preparations.
There are still more than 1,200 grenades produced in the theater in the reserve of the First Division. In addition to the 300 grenades retained by the Second Division, Claude plans to use all of the more than 1,500 grenades in the front.
The second protective wall within a distance of one thousand meters will open a breach of the second protective wall from here. The Thunder Legion does want to launch an attack, but it does not want to get entangled with the Hicks between the fourth and fifth trenches.
, but to break through the second protective wall in one fell swoop.
As the order was issued, more than a hundred grenades flew into the sky. The Hicks behind the second protective wall were still a little confused, wasn't this a waste of iron pumpkins? There was no one guarding the fifth trench.
Even if you blow them up, it's all in vain. It wasn't until these grenades in the sky fell towards the second protective wall that Hicks woke up. At this moment, they no longer bothered to explore why the Thunder Legion could throw the grenades so far.
Now, the most important thing for them now is to save their lives first...
The soldiers of the Thunder Legion in the third trench kept cheering. Nothing can improve morale more than watching the enemy being bombed. On top of the second protective wall, in front and behind, explosions of fire continued to rise.
and black smoke, and you can vaguely see human body parts and various objects that were blown up into the sky...
"Good job!" General Albert ordered excitedly: "Throw all the grenades over. After the last two rounds of throwing, the troops launched a general attack, defeating the enemy's defense in one fell swoop and wiping out all the Hicks.