Chapter 451: Falling short of success, teaching a lesson to the idiot Nikancha people
Claude sat down slowly, his face becoming more and more gloomy, like a volcano about to erupt. General Albert looked at him uneasily: "Are you okay?"
Slowly letting out the tight breath in his chest, Claude gritted his teeth and replied: "It's okay..."
How could it be okay? Claude felt like he was about to explode. The two pieces of news brought by General Albert couldn't be any worse. As long as Claude is given five more days, no, three days,
Claude promised to annihilate the more than 10,000 Hicks remaining in the camp.
It's a pity that he can no longer do this. Claude must calm down and arrange for the Thunder Legion to evacuate as soon as possible. Otherwise, instead of him annihilating the remaining Hicks troops, the Thunder Legion will be surrounded by the Hicks on three sides and face the entire army.
The dilemma of overthrown.
Claude couldn't blame anyone for this. No one knew that the third group of troops from the Kingdom of Hicks arrived at Rodex Bay Colony at this critical moment, and one of the two standing legions that came happened to be a light cavalry legion.
It takes five days to walk from Rodex Bay Colony to the northern mountainous border, but the light cavalry can reach it in only two days, or even a day and a half.
As for General Bichklin on the eastern front, he only brought one division of the Rock Army, plus the 131st Battalion of the Thunder Army sent to him by Claude, as well as those Nikanchas, who could defeat the Hicks.
The two standing legions with more than 100,000 troops have done their best by dragging them on the eastern mountain front for such a long time. Now that all the Hicks have withdrawn from the eastern mountainous area, only one and a half standing legions remain, which can be regarded as
suffered a huge defeat.
More than half a day has passed since the secret agent lurking in Rodex Bay Colony sent a hawk message to the war zone, and then the war zone was forwarded to his side, leaving Claude with only one day at most. Fortunately, this place is in the right place.
At the northern mountainous border, it only took two or three hours to enter the mountainous area to escape the enemy's pursuit and interception. Claude still had time to clean up the battlefield and bring back the bodies and wounded of all the dead officers and soldiers.
The Hicks remnants in the attack camp, and the Thunder Legion still have some strength left. The more than 10,000 Hicks remnants occupying the small mound are already more disabled than the Thunder Legion. With more than 4,000 iron pumpkins left in their hands, they can still defeat the Thunder Legion.
Coupled with the civil engineering work, Claude guarantees that he can blow up the entire small mound and wipe out the more than 10,000 Hicks remnants. But with this Hicks camp, he can resist the two Hicks forces.
Despite the siege and the attack with more than 200,000 troops, Claude did not have the confidence.
If the Thunder Legion had not experienced the previous big melee, and if there were enough bullets, Claude would not mind staying in this camp and clearing out the remaining 10,000 Hicks soldiers in the camp, while fighting with Lai
The two groups of enemies that attacked had a duel, and maybe they could give the Hicks some more blood.
It's very simple. The light cavalry army came over as soon as they got off the ship. Claude gave up when he could still maintain 30% of his combat effectiveness. The journey on the sea for more than a month was too much for humans and horses. The light cavalry army could still have enough strength without their mounts.
Combat capability? Perhaps Claude could counterattack and capture a large number of war horses that the Hicks had worked hard to transport.
On the other hand, Claude was more concerned about the semi-standing corps that withdrew from the eastern mountain front and rushed to the northern mountain border for rescue. Because this one and a half standing corps were formed by those Hicks veterans, even if the company
The defeated warriors were demoralized, but when it was time to fight, these Hicks veterans would rush forward without hesitation. Even if they were tired when they arrived after a long march, it would be difficult to get rid of the Thunder Legion if they were entangled with them.
Claude has seen the fighting will of these Hicks veterans...
Who said that the third regiment equipped with new rifles was out of bullets, and the remaining seven main field regiments were now not even able to make up the strength of three regiments. Let the Thunder Legion in this situation meet the enemy's two and a half reinforcements.
The standing army has a strength of 150,000 to 60,000 soldiers. As long as Claude is not crazy, he will not do such a stupid thing.
After his mood calmed down, Claude gave the order: "Clean the battlefield, pack up, send our brave warriors home, take away everything that can be taken away, and burn everything that cannot be taken away..."
..."
In the evening, Claude was riding on his horse and turned to look back at the burning Hicks Camp. The outermost log wall was splashed with kerosene, like a bonfire surrounding the entire camp, with black smoke.
Roaring in the sky above the camp, the camp like a flaming mountain can be seen from miles away.
It is a pity that the Hicks set fire to their camping and warehouse areas and other living facilities prematurely. Otherwise, if they were burned together now, the smoke might be able to kill the tens of thousands of remaining soldiers trapped on the small mound.
Smoked to death. The entire camp will be burning, but the territory is too big and the space left is huge. Although the Hicks remnants suffered a lot on the small mound, they can still survive if there is enough backup water. Count them
Great destiny!
"Let's go!" Claude said to General Albert beside him, turned his horse's head, and led the guards towards the northern mountains.
Fires have been burning everywhere in the valley for three days and three nights, and they will continue to burn for several more days. The remains of more than 18,000 Thunder Legion officers and soldiers who died in the battle will all be burned to ashes and put into urns to take back.
Buried in the Legion's Mount Heroes Cemetery.
It was a small hill near Lanhu Town under the direct jurisdiction of Anphiston. The war zone classified it as a military cemetery and renamed it Heroic Mountain. Whether it was the Thunder Legion or the Rock Legion, as well as the officers and soldiers of the local garrison, as long as they were for the direct jurisdiction
All martyrs who died heroically in the war zone will be buried in this military cemetery for future generations to pay tribute to.
Needless to say, this was Claude's idea, and of course it was unanimously approved. However, Claude did not expect that so many martyrs from the Thunder Legion would stay at the Heroes' Mountain this time, and it was the first time that General Albert commanded the troops.
The Second Division lost more than 6,000 people in attacking the camp, and a total of nearly 25,000 soldiers died.
The Thunder Legion's attack this time was equivalent to the loss of a division of troops, and there were more than 20,000 lightly and seriously wounded people, of which more than a thousand had to retire due to disability. This was almost a crippling injury to the Thunder Legion.
To the point where he would kill ten thousand enemies and lose three thousand to himself. But it was too late for Claude to regret it now. If he had known that there would be such a big melee after capturing the second protective wall position, maybe he would have let go
Get past those Hicks.
No one expected that the Hicks would be so crazy and charge forward to fight, and the battlefield was open. Soldiers from both sides were just like the traditional war mode. They fired guns face to face at a distance of more than ten or twenty meters, and then fixed their bayonets to fight.
together...
More than 18,000 soldiers died heroically, and nearly 16,000 people fell in the melee at the second protective wall position. However, in the previous seven days and seven nights of trench warfare, the Thunder Legion only sacrificed more than 2,000 soldiers.
sacrifice.
Of course, the Hicks people are not having it easy either. There are more than 44,000 soldier nameplates collected from the scene of the melee. It is conceivable that after the Thunder Legion captured the second protective wall position, Hicks
The Si people had invested all their remaining troops in the subsequent counterattack, but they ultimately failed.
The lesson Claude learned in this war is that he must ensure the supply of bullets for new rifles. A new rifle without bullets is worse than a fire stick. In fact, this cannot be blamed on his carelessness and carelessness, but on the long-term use of matchlock guns.
Claude's habit made him forget that the new rifle was a completely different weapon from the matchlock gun, and common sense could not be used to infer the bullet consumption of the new rifle in a battle.
When Claude went to join the Blue Feather Legion, the war in the eastern region broke out in the following five years. The soldiers who participated in the war at that time were equipped with matchlock guns, each equipped with gunpowder and matchlocks that could be fired one hundred and fifty times. In fact, many soldiers besides
There is no need to replenish guns and gunpowder outside the matchlock for three years, because it is impossible to fire ten or twenty guns in one battle.
In most battles, a soldier can only fire one or two shots before entering into face-to-face hand-to-hand combat. Only soldiers equipped with the Obash Type III standard matchlock gun that can accurately aim and shoot can shoot several more times in the battle.
Claude led the troops to attack this time. The 1303rd Regiment, which is the third regiment, was equipped with new rifles. In addition to the 100 bullets each person carried, the Legion Logistics Department also reserved a batch of bullets.
, each of these soldiers equipped with new rifles can be replenished with three more bullets. Claude believes that these many bullets are enough to supply this attack.
But I didn't expect that in the end, I suffered such a big loss because of the lack of bullet supply and the Thunder Legion paid such a heavy price in casualties. If the third regiment had enough bullets and did not need to retreat, then even if
With only more than an hour to prepare, they could simply set up a bunker, and then use the continuous fire capabilities of the new rifles to teach those Hicks who were madly counterattacking a harsh lesson...
Claude believed that if his imagination could come true, then the Thunder Legion would not need to pay such a high price of casualties. For the Hicks, it would be a massacre. The harder they charged,
The more troops you gather, the faster they will die.
Loading the matchlock gun is troublesome, and the enemy can use this time to rush straight in front of you, forcing you to give up the idea of shooting again and engage in hand-to-hand combat with him. But the new rifle can fire six rounds in a row, and after each shot,
Just pull the bolt and pull the trigger again to kill the enemy, as quickly and naturally as breathing.
Perhaps it can be said that the process and time of loading the charge after a matchlock gun is fired are enough for a new rifle to fire six times and then reload a magazine. If the matchlock gun fails to hit the target once, it will wait until the charge is loaded again.
When aiming and shooting, the target in the first shot disappeared without knowing where it was.
The new rifles can miss the target once and fire again until they hit the target. This may be the biggest reason why soldiers equipped with new rifles consume bullets very quickly. No one will watch the target they aim at escape.
Everyone has the mentality of not admitting defeat, so they often waste several bullets on a dynamic target...
It's a pity that there is no regret in buying medicine. It is the same whether it is Claude's past life or this life. The only thing Claude can do is to keep this lesson in mind to avoid making the same mistake in the future. Maybe he will be equipped with a new rifle in the future.
The supply of bullets for soldiers needs to be doubled. After all, it is too simple and convenient to pull the bolt and pull the trigger to aim and shoot.
"General, the leaders of the Nikancha battalion are here again. They still hope that you will distribute the captured Hicks throwers and iron pumpkins to them, so that they can have the confidence to defend the forward mountainous positions...
.." Captain Mason Hughes, the newly promoted adjutant, walked quickly to Claude's side and interrupted his meditation.
Claude's original adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Anders, was arranged by Claude to become the acting commander of the 1304th Regiment, replacing the tragic death of Colonel Jed Walker.
A sarcastic smile appeared on Claude's lips: "Tell them to get lost. I really don't understand where they got the courage to get the Throwing Cavalry and the Iron Pumpkin from me for free. Tell them to come over and buy them with real money.
Or get away, so as not to upset others."
It’s just that the newly appointed adjutant, Captain Mason Hughes, hasn’t figured out Claude’s temper yet: “But general, those Nikancha leaders said that if the throwers and pumpkins captured by our legion are not distributed to them, then they will
They will be unable to withstand the Hicks' imminent attack. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, they can only retreat and abandon the important mountainous areas in the northern frontier, and can no longer provide cover for our regiment..."
"Hahaha..." Claude was so angry that he laughed. Have the leaders of the Nikancha people figured out that the Thunder Legion did not enter the mountains to escape and avoid the Hicks? Otherwise, how could it be possible?
Will stay here. When those Nikancha people saw that the Thunder Legion had killed so many officers and soldiers, they thought that the Thunder Legion had escaped from a great defeat.
Then these Nikancha people discovered that more than two standing legions of Hicks troops had arrived outside the mountainous border, and they complained that Claude commanded the Thunder Legion to attack the Hicks camp and attracted more enemies to them. They
Little did they know that the Thunder Legion had already wiped out nearly two hundred thousand Hicks from two standing legions, leaving only more than 10,000 remaining soldiers.
When these Nikancha people discovered that the Thunder Legion, which they thought was retreating, was escorting more than 20,000 Hicks prisoners and nearly a hundred carriages filled with iron pumpkins, they attacked these Hicks Kingdom products.
In the name of defending the northern frontier mountainous position, the Thunder Legion was asked to hand over the captured throwers and iron pumpkins to them to resist the upcoming attack of the Hicks...
...
There is no way to communicate with these idiots, and these Nikancha people don't even think about whether the Thunder Legion can escort so many prisoners and transport back so many trophies if they lose the battle? Claude did not hesitate to let them have it
Get as far as you can. Unexpectedly, these idiots persisted. After being rejected three times, they still came to ask for the thrower and the iron pumpkin, but this time they threatened to abandon the forward position and not provide cover for the Thunder Legion.
This can be used to deceive Captain Mason Hughes, who has just been promoted from the position of civilian officer in the Logistics Department, and to make Claude take a fancy to him and promote him to replace the newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel Anders as the adjutant.
Captain Mason Hughes got lucky.
Claude met Captain Mason Hughes on the battlefield after the melee. At that time, he was sleeping soundly on the corpses of several Hicks. Claude thought he was an officer who died in the battle and no one took care of him.
It felt strange, and when I got closer, I found that he was still snoring. This was the first time Claude saw someone using an enemy's corpse as a mattress, and he thought the captain was a bit perverted.
However, the soldiers next to him told Claude that this captain of the logistics department was on the battlefield for the first time. He was very brave and his marksmanship was also very accurate. He killed three Hicks veterans with a matchlock and then killed them with a bayonet.
He killed an enemy and also involved covering the remaining soldiers to eliminate the last five Hicks veterans. At the cost of only three deaths and eleven injuries, the Thunder Legion soldiers here withstood the last attack launched by the Hicks.
attack.
Captain Mason Hughes is a civilian and is twenty-eight years old this year. He was a member of the Ranger Division, which was expanded into a legion after winning the Second Colonial War, and was deployed from the Kingdom to the overseas territorial theater. Because he graduated from the Royal Military Academy Logistics
After graduating from the major, Captain Mason Hughes was assigned to join the Guards Corps as a logistics officer. At that time, he was still a second lieutenant, full of ideas of making achievements.
Because he was born as a civilian and there were many nobles in the Guards Corps, Second Lieutenant Mason Hughes had no chance to stand out. When the Kingdom's Army Ministry recruited recruits to go to the territorial war zone to expand the Ranger Corps, he was inspired by the performance of the Ranger Division.
Second Lieutenant Mason Hughes submitted an application, requesting to be transferred to the Ranger Corps to serve the Kingdom on the Nubisian continent.
So Second Lieutenant Mason Hughes came to the directly-administered theater like this, and because he was born in a regular military school and was a professional logistics officer, he was transferred to the five newly formed reinforced divisions with a stroke of a pen by Marshal Michele, who valued talents. It was inexplicable.
He became a logistics civilian officer of the second-line army, was promoted to lieutenant, and became a subordinate of General Albert.
Then a few years later, Lieutenant Mason Hughes, who worked diligently in the logistics department, was promoted to captain and served as the logistics director of the 28th Field Battalion, 1307th Regiment, 2nd Division of the Thunder Corps. This melee was organized by General Albert
The logistics civilian officers and direct service personnel of the 1st Division and the 2nd Division were temporarily organized into three battalions and went up. Captain Mason Hughes volunteered to go into battle for the first time.
When he first saw blood and corpses on the ground, Captain Mason Hughes was vomiting. But he was very adaptable and quickly became familiar with the rhythm of fighting on the battlefield. Although as a logistics officer, Captain Mason Hughes
Their military skills were very strong and they won the trust of the soldiers on the battlefield. After the officer in charge of the area they were defending was injured and sent off, the highest-ranking Captain Mason Hughes became the supreme commander of that group of soldiers.
After commanding the soldiers to withstand the enemy's last attack, Captain Mason Hughes felt very tired and wanted to lie down for a while. But there was no place to lie down on the position, and the ground was covered in blood, so he simply dragged a few enemy corpses to lay down on them.
Unexpectedly, he fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes. Claude saw the real scene of sleeping with an enemy's corpse on his back...
Captain Mason Hughes didn't know that he had caught the eye of Claude. Soon General Albert came to him with a transfer order and asked him to serve as the personal aide-de-camp of Claude, the commander of the corps. Just because he had just taken office
, did not understand Claude's temper, and had not dealt with the Nikancha people, so he relayed the threatening words of the Nikancha people in front of Claude.
"Let them go away. If they don't leave, let the guards drive them away. Tell these idiots that our Thunder Legion has never needed their cover, and let them stop being sentimental..." Claude
I feel that I can't be serious with these idiots. As the saying goes in the past life, being serious with idiots will turn you into an idiot, and then those idiots will use their rich experience as an idiot to defeat you, a new idiot...
.
But Claude did not expect that these Nikancha people would really abandon their forward mountain positions and leave without saying goodbye the next night. Claude was really angry after receiving the news, and he ordered Captain Mason Hughes
: "Ask Diavid's third regiment to take over these positions and tell them that this will be the territory of our war zone from now on..."