"Hold it! Don't panic! Aim and fire!" A second lieutenant of the Thunder Legion directed a dozen soldiers to line up, raised the matchlock gun in his hand, pointed it at the dozen Hicks veterans who rushed forward, and fired.
The trigger.
The gunshots were fired one after another, and a cloud of white gunpowder smoke rose up. It was a pity that only four or five of the Hicks veterans who rushed up fell down. The worst thing was that Hicks who rushed at the front was the most miserable.
Veteran Si, he was shot five or six times, and fell to the sky without a word. It was obvious that the meaning of rescuing had been lost. Veteran Hicks behind him roared angrily, and accelerated his sprint with a fierce expression.
...
"Mount your bayonet, don't panic, go up and kill these Hicks bastards..." The older second lieutenant was the first to go up to him, using his bayonet to deflect the rapid sprint of a Hicks veteran, and used his backhand to
The butt of the matchlock hit the opponent's face hard. There was a sound of bone breaking, and the Hicks veteran covered his bloody face and screamed and fell to the ground, his body twitching and shrinking into a ball.
The second lieutenant didn't even look at the victim lying on the ground beside him. He had already faced the two Hicks veterans who were rushing towards him again. As a veteran who has experienced hundreds of battles, he has experienced a lot of the scenes before him. Do
Although the two Hicks veterans who were opponents were fierce, their bayonet skills were not very good. After two or three rounds, the two Hicks veterans were stabbed to the ground one after another, and the older second lieutenant became the victor.
who.
Just as he was about to turn around to see how his soldiers were stabbing, he heard a gunshot. The second lieutenant turned around with difficulty, clutching his chest, and looked at Xi, who was busy loading the matchlock gun opposite him.
The soldier Kes fell to the ground unwillingly, and the last thing he heard was the panicked shouts of his soldiers...
"Send the Hicks back to their hometown!" In another place, twenty or thirty soldiers of the Thunder Legion raised their bayonet-mounted matchlocks and surrounded the last six or seven Hicks veterans. They were lying on the ground.
There were nearly a hundred corpses and wounded. The corpses of soldiers wearing dark blue Hicks uniforms and the red uniforms of the Kingdom of Overas were intertwined. Some even died together in the fight. But the current result is that the soldiers of the Thunder Legion accounted for
They had the upper hand, and the six or seven Hicks veterans surrounded in the middle were all wounded and looked like they could no longer hold on.
Although the soldiers of the Thunder Legion shouted loudly for the surrounded Hicks veterans to surrender their weapons, none of the Hicks veterans were willing to put down their weapons. Instead, they held on tighter. It seemed that their final outcome was already inevitable.
Yue. No one noticed that a Hicks veteran who was forty or fifty meters away was struggling to use his injured body to push a light infantry field artillery, pointed the muzzle at the crowd here, and then bent over while gasping for breath.
He picked up the torch from the brazier on the ground and inserted it into the cannon door...
There was a thunderous roar, and the shotgun spray from the muzzle covered the space. Whether it was the Thunder Legion soldiers outside or the Hicks veterans trapped inside, they were all wiped out by this cannon. The dying gunner looked at
He laughed crazily while looking at his masterpiece, and then choked to death on the blood he spat out. He was soon freed, and a Thunder Legion soldier who saw the tragedy and rushed over hated him with a bayonet to vent his anger.
My own anger...
"Who knows how to use a cannon? Who knows how to fire a cannon?" This soldier of the Thunder Legion almost stabbed the gunner's chest into a honeycomb shape, but the cannon just now gave him inspiration, and he loudly greeted his companions and prepared to use this cannon.
The Hicks' light infantry field artillery came to deal with the crazy Hicks. However, the soldier had not yet received a response from his companions, and his shouting had attracted the enemy's attention. The gunfire rang out, and the soldier fell to the ground.
On top of the artillery.
"I need reinforcements! General, our group will be wiped out in another hour..." Belklin rushed to Claude's side with blood on his body and begged loudly.
Claude looked at the battlefield hundreds of meters away with a monocular, motionless: "Colonel, you shouldn't be here, you should be directing your soldiers from the front to resist the enemy's attack.
Gemie, you bring my guards up to reinforce and help the colonel stabilize his defense line. Now is the last madness of the Hicks. If we can withstand this wave, we will win!"
Belklin stomped his feet bitterly, turned around and rushed out of the headquarters set up in the third trench. He knew Claude's difficulties and was looking for reinforcements everywhere, but he only had so many troops, and no one could
Unexpectedly, the Hicks would rush forward like crazy and fight tooth and nail. Now it was up to them to see who could withstand it. Whoever persisted to the end would win. Claude even sent his own guards to the front line.
This melee happened because the second protective wall of nearly a kilometer was captured by the Thunder Legion. Claude used a thrower produced by the Hicks to throw grenades produced in the war zone, which indeed made the Hicks suffer.
A heavy sap. Fifteen hundred projectile bombs blew up the Hicks hiding behind the second protective wall, causing heavy losses. Then the third regiment, equipped with new rifles, launched an attack.
, and successfully occupied the fourth and fifth trenches and the second protective wall position of nearly one kilometer.
But something happened that Claude didn't expect. The third regiment was running out of bullets. Many soldiers had already fired their last bullets. The new rifles without bullets were not even as good as matchlock guns. Claude had to dispatch them.
Belklin's first regiment and Murield's second regiment were sent up. By this time, the Hicks had come to their senses, and they immediately gathered their forces to attack the second line of defense that had fallen nearly a kilometer away.
The wall position launched a crazy counterattack, and the melee began...
When Claude led the Thunder Legion on the expedition, in addition to each soldier of the third regiment equipped with new rifles carrying a hundred rounds of ammunition, he also prepared a batch of supply bullets and handed them over to General Albert for safekeeping. Attack
After returning from the General Logistics Base Camp of the Hicks, the soldiers of the Third Regiment had already been resupplied. However, they did not expect that these seven days of trench warfare would consume so many bullets. The Third Regiment, equipped with new rifles, has been
Fighting on the front lines...
When the officers and soldiers of the third regiment rushed to the nearly kilometer-long second protective wall position, cleared away the remaining Hicks on the position, and prepared to build a temporary defensive front, the bullets were gone. There were still more than 4,000 people.
A regiment of men had less than three to four hundred bullets in total. The regiment leader, Colonel Diavid, angrily asked for bullets to be sent up immediately. Only then did he realize that there was no ammunition reserve in the rear to replenish.
Claude had no choice but to withdraw the third regiment and replace the fourth regiment to take care of the prisoners. Then he sent the first and second regiments up to prepare to consolidate the defense line. They went back and forth for more than an hour, which was precious time.
Just like this, time passed in vain. As a result, the Hicks had already launched a counterattack as soon as the first and second regiments had gained a foothold. The nearly kilometer long second protective wall position was like boiling porridge.
Just the same, there are fierce battles and killings everywhere.
For the Hicks, the second protective wall is open to the outside but not inward. Behind the wall are artillery and projectile positions, which are all flat places. After being attacked by Claude's projectile, it is equivalent to
A knife was inserted into their vital parts. If the nearly one kilometer lost position was not recaptured, it would be equivalent to opening a big hole in the entire defensive front. The enemy would directly occupy the living facilities such as campsites and warehouses behind the protective wall. Then
It would be a catastrophe for the Hicks. Besides surrendering, the only other option was to annihilate the whole army and kill them all...
For the Thunder Legion that captured the second protective wall, the area behind the protective wall was flat, without any protective facilities, not even the simplest soil sacks, and they couldn't find a bunker. As for the second protective wall,
The protective wall could not be used because the side facing the Thunder Legion was artificially cut into a steep slope. If you wanted to use the second protective wall as a cover, everyone would have to walk on stilts. The third regiment rushed up and cleared out the remaining enemies.
Later, they ran out of bullets and had to withdraw. The first and second regiments had no time to build bunkers and defensive facilities.
The Hicks people rushed forward in waves, preparing to retake the position of nearly a kilometer. Both sides almost opened fire face to face, and then there were charges, bayonet fights, hand-to-hand combat, and the melee became an inextricable mess. Hicks
The people of Sri Lanka invested their troops in waves, and Claude gritted his teeth and filled in more people. After a day and a night, both sides were exhausted, and it was difficult for them to hold on...
The big man Germi went up quickly and came down quickly. The guard squadron equipped with new rifles stabilized the defense line of the first regiment and pushed back the crazy Hicks, making it rare for the officers and soldiers of the first regiment.
They got a period of rest. The big man Germi was injured by an iron pumpkin. He was a Hicks veteran. Twenty meters away from the big man Germi ignited the iron pumpkin in his arms.
A flying piece of iron hit the big man Germi in the abdomen, and he was lifted off.
This is not the first time that this has happened. Claude has seen this scene more than once in the monocular. Those Hicks veterans are the most unafraid of death that Claude has ever seen.
Pumpkin, holding a torch, rushed into the crowd and pressed the torch to the bottom of Iron Pumpkin's match rope. Soon there was a loud explosion. Veteran Hicks and the surrounding crowd, whether it was the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion or themselves.
All the fighting comrades died together...
The first and second regiments of the first division of the Thunder Legion only held out for half a day before they began to ask for reinforcements. Then the fifth and eighth regiments of the second division came to fill in. They persisted until midnight and were almost exhausted. Crowe
Germany sent the fourth regiment up, and General Albert also organized the remaining troops of the sixth and seventh regiments of the second division and the combat-effective personnel of the headquarters, and reorganized them into three temporary combat battalions.
He pushed it up and held on until dawn.
Now even the guard squadron next to Claude was sent up, and finally withstood the crazy counterattack of the Hicks. Soon after the battle on the left position held by the first regiment of Belklin subsided, the second regiment of Murield
The sound of fighting on the right side of the position gradually disappeared, and only the Thunder Legion's battle flag was still seen flying on the protective wall...
According to the report of the soldiers who escorted the big man down, the Hicks people could not hold on any longer. In the last battle, it was no longer the Hicks veterans who rushed up. It felt like they were the corps' logistics support personnel, such as cooks, clerks, and officers.
Servants and the like. They lacked the sense of fighting, and only pounced on them with fierce force, but lacked stamina. The officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion on the position repelled them with only minor casualties.
As the wounded were being sent down one after another, Claude finally breathed a sigh of relief. The Hicks had not attacked again for an hour and a half. It seemed that they really couldn't hold on. Claude changed into a soldier.
Wearing military uniforms, we walked towards the protective wall position. When we reached the position, we were shocked. All we saw were corpses in dark blue military uniforms, covering almost all the ground. The blood flowing on the ground had accumulated into red puddles.
, the smell of blood is tangy...
In the distance, there were soldiers from the Thunder Legion clearing the battlefield. They held bayonet-mounted muskets and stabbed all the Hicks corpses on the ground first. From time to time, the miserable howls of dying people could be heard. Only those who were cleared by them
Afterwards, some soldiers went over to collect the military tags on the Hicks corpses on the ground, and checked the condition of the corpses of their comrades who had fallen on the ground to see if there was still hope of rescue. Those who were still breathing immediately called the medical soldiers
Come and provide treatment.
Murray Ed came over shirtless and bandaged. He was so tired that he didn't even want to stand, so he sat directly on the body of a Hicks veteran.
"Are you okay?" Claude asked with concern.
"It's okay. I accidentally stepped on the body and slipped. As a result, there was a cut under the ribs. The medicine has stopped the bleeding. It will be better in five or six days." Murray said nonchalantly.
He answered that he knew the purpose of Claude coming to him: "Don't worry, boss, little Booker is fine. The little guy is more ruthless than me. He killed a small group of Hicks veterans by himself without any harm. Now he brings
A small team went to the front to reconnoiter the enemy’s campsite..."
Claude was relieved to learn that his brother Brovik was fine. He looked at the corpses spread out several hundred meters away and asked, "How many troops do you have here?"
Murray Ed's face darkened: "There should be one battalion of our Second Regiment that can still move. This includes those with minor injuries, like me, who can still continue to fight. The seriously injured ones have been transported.
Go down. The rest are from other regiments. The fourth, fifth and eighth regiments are mixed together. There should be five or six thousand people. The Hicks are really crazy. Look at so many dead.
People, at least there is one division. From here to there, the ground for hundreds of meters is full of corpses..."
Compared with Colonel Jed Walker, the commander of the Fourth Regiment, Murray Ed was very lucky to have only suffered this injury. Because the old injury on the foot of the original commander of the Fourth Regiment, Colonel Andre Walker, recurred, he suffered
Suffering from severe rheumatism, he had no choice but to transfer from the Thunder Legion to the local garrison. He served as the head of the local garrison at the Port of Corpicus and the security commander of the Tiersim Territory. Therefore, Colonel Jedwork was transferred from the theater command.
Come over and become the leader of the fourth regiment.
Last night Claude sent the Fourth Regiment up for reinforcements, but as soon as the Fourth Regiment went up, they encountered the Hicks who launched the most violent counterattack. Colonel Jed Walker was beaten by the Hicks veteran because his school officer uniform was too conspicuous.
Targeted, he was attacked again and again. In the end, all the guards around Colonel Jedwalker died in the battle, and he was stabbed seven times and breathed his last.
The death of Colonel Jed Walker almost caused the morale of the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Regiment to plummet and collapse. Fortunately, after hearing the news, Murray Ed arrived and commanded the soldiers to repel the enemy's attack, reorganize the defense line, and move Jed
Colonel Walker's body was transported down, and then he brought the Fourth Regiment under his direct command, which allowed the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Regiment to continue to persevere.
In addition to the unlucky Colonel Jed Walker, the two commanders of the 5th and 7th regiments of the 2nd Division were also seriously injured and sent down. This unexpected melee left the Thunder Legion very injured. Eight
One regiment commander was killed and two were wounded. As for the battalion commanders below, there is no statistics yet, but Claude knows that three of them died in the same battle as Colonel Jedwalker.
After lunch, Claude received a reconnaissance report from the front line. The Hicks abandoned their campsites, logistics warehouse areas, and school fields, barracks, treatment camps, etc., and assembled the remaining troops on a small hill in the east.
.There should be the place where the Hicks' food, grass and arms are stored, where the enemy is prepared to put up a stubborn resistance.
Lieutenant Blovik of the Wolf Fang Squadron reported that there are estimated to be more than 10,000 Hicks on the small mound, most of whom are wounded soldiers with more or less bandages on their bodies. From the monocular
It can be seen that there are more than ten artillery pieces on the mound, but no hurlers are seen. Moreover, the Hicks packed the sacks with soil into the sacks that were originally used to store grain, and piled these sacks filled with soil on top of the earth.
Above the trenches, this is an effective way to protect against shelling and projectiles.
In addition, during the retreat, the Hicks set fire to the logistics warehouse area and dormitory camps filled with blankets and military uniforms. The fire was very fierce. The officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion at the second protective wall position did not have the strength or leisure to do so.
To put out the fire, we simply set up a fire prevention line at the edge of the campsite and let the fire burn inside the camp.
Claude estimated that this was a fire set by the Hicks to prevent the Thunder Legion from pursuing the victory, and to buy time for their defenses on the small mound. However, in Claude's view, this was just a death struggle of the Hicks.
, do they think that they can withstand the attack of the Thunder Legion by setting up defense on the small mound? That is just a wishful thinking. Claude has many ways to wipe out the entire small mound.
But Claude is not in a hurry. After the melee, the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Legion also need time to rest and recuperate. No one is invincible. Moreover, the bodies of the Hicks who died on the position also need to be cleaned up. There is no need to bother with these hard work.
If you have your own soldiers, those Hicks prisoners are the best choice.
Just when Claude was about to order Diavid's third regiment to escort the Hicks prisoners to the front line to clean up the enemy corpses, General Albert came back. He brought bad news to Claude,
The Nikancha battalions in the mountainous areas along the northern coast refused to attack the Hicks camp. They had only one excuse. They were responsible for defense, not offense. It seemed that they were cooperating with the command of General Albert.
The Second Division of the Thunder Legion attacked the Hicks camp, but suffered heavy casualties that made these Nikancha battalions lose their enterprising spirit.
Claude slammed the table with hatred. If these Nikancha battalions could have arrived to join the battle last night, the Thunder Legion would not have suffered such heavy casualties. However, Claude could not blame these Nikanchas for this matter.
After all, the Nikancha people are not stupid. What General Albert has done has made the Nikancha people lose their trust. They will not work for Thunder in vain.
The legions sacrificed their young lives.
Claude knew that the trip was not going well when General Albert didn't come back last night, but finally the Thunder Legion withstood this crucial melee and won. But Claude didn't expect that General Albert would return.
Two pieces of bad news for him...
"The secret agent of Rhodes Bay Colony sent an eagle message to the war zone. The third batch of Hicks' standing regiments has arrived. There are two standing regiments transported this time, one of which is the light cavalry regiment. They arrived at Rhodes
The team set out on the same night as the Bay Colony, presumably to rescue the border camps in the northern mountainous area that were undergoing fighting...
General Beechlin sent a falcon message. All the Hicks in the eastern mountainous area had evacuated from the mountainous areas, and it was estimated that there was still a semi-permanent regiment left. The scouts found that they were rushing to the north, and Beechlin
General Klin is no longer able to stop them from heading north, so we hope we will be careful..."