Chapter 461 The bombing of the camp by the Nikanchais
Chapter 461: The bombing of the camp by the Nikancha people
"...the general logistics base camp of the Hicks people is still set up near Rodex Bay City. It is the original site of the camp that was attacked and burned by you. The garrison strength is only one regiment plus two troops.
A logistics and baggage transport battalion. However, they built a defensive front here at Fombix Hill, blocking all the transportation routes to Rodex Bay, and deployed a standing army to guard..."
Claude watched General Albert place a small blue flag on the sand table, and recalled that he had been to this place called Fombix Hill, where he commanded the First Division of the Thunder Legion to attack the enemy in the last war.
After setting up camp at the General Logistics Base near Rodex Bay City, the 1302nd Regiment of Muriel and the 1303rd Regiment of Diaverde were ordered to rush to the place where they were preparing to ambush the enemy reinforcements overnight. What a pity.
It was a waste of five days of waiting, as no reinforcements from the enemy came.
Although the name is Fombix Hill, it is not a real hill. It is just five small mounds connected together with a height of no more than thirty or forty meters. These small mounds can be regarded as the only highlands on this plain.
There are several sparse woods growing on it. However, the last time Claude camped there to rest, most of these woods were cut down for firewood.
Obviously, the Hicks people set up a defensive line at Fombix Hill to prevent the General Logistics Base Camp behind them from being attacked again by troops from the territorial theater. This is indeed a strategic location on the plain, leading to the north.
It is the intersection of the transportation thoroughfares on the mountainous border and the eastern mountainous border. The Hicks have a pretty good eye. If they send troops to infiltrate again, as long as they are discovered, the Hicks will attack from three sides and the infiltrating troops will be unable to escape.
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As the chief of staff of the Thunder Legion, General Albert continued to introduce the intelligence sent by the spies who infiltrated Rodex Bay City in the theater: "The standing army deployed at Fombix Hill is designated as the Third Expeditionary Army.
It is understood that this legion is composed of the private armies of several noble territories that rebelled against Melchid III during the civil strife in the Kingdom of Hicks, and a large number of young men who were forcibly recruited from these noble territories. Its internal evaluation is that the response is slow and the military discipline is lax.
, low combat effectiveness.
In the first three days after arriving at Rodex Bay Colony, the soldiers of this regiment caused numerous disputes with the residents of the city. They blocked roads and robbed people, got into fights, ate and drank for free without paying, and got drunk and injured people.
It was a minor incident. The worst incident was when a small group of patrol soldiers encountered a lady from the city taking two Nikancha maids to a farm outside the city. The small group of patrol soldiers actually dragged the three women to
He was forced to take turns having sex with them in the woods.
After the incident, the Hicks military, under pressure from the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, shot the two leading soldiers. The remaining ten soldiers were escorted to Rodex Bay City and whipped eighty times in public before they were slightly suppressed.
The residents living in the city were angry. Then the regiment received orders to set up defensive fronts at Fombix Hill, and dozens of military judges were sent to the regiment to rectify military discipline, improve combat effectiveness, and prepare for war."
Claude marked the Third Expeditionary Legion in his notebook. This is a soft persimmon. You can pinch it if you have the opportunity. From these disciplinary incidents, it can be seen that the standing army has a low combat effectiveness.
Appropriately, although the military discipline of some legions is also very lax and there are many incidents of disciplinary violations by soldiers, their combat effectiveness is very strong.
However, the Third Expeditionary Corps is obviously not among them. Robbery and freeloading are rogue behaviors without a sense of honor. The patrol incident reflects that the soldiers of this regiment have no sense of responsibility and can commit such crimes during patrols.
, clearly did not take their responsibilities to heart. The combat effectiveness of such a legion can only be regarded as rubbish.
"The Third Expeditionary Corps is one of the three standing regiments that arrived at Rodex Bay Colony this time. There are also two standing regiments numbered as the Second and Fourth Expeditionary Corps. The two Hicks who arrived last time
One of the standing corps of the kingdom is the First Expeditionary Legion, and the other is the Royal Knights Reserve Legion. The four legions named for the expedition were all forcibly recruited from the private armies and territories of the Kingdom of Hicks who rebelled against the noble territories last time.
Made up of young and strong people.”
General Albert continued his introduction: "According to the observations of our spies lurking in Rodex Bay City, among the four standing legions of the Hicks expedition, the third legion has the worst military discipline and the lowest combat effectiveness.
The remaining three legions are only slightly stronger than the third legion. As for the royal knight reserve legion, it is the light cavalry legion. It was the meritorious legion when Melchid III put down the rebellion of the domestic nobles last time. It is said that in this colonial war, it can
If they achieve military exploits, they will receive a formal name and become a regular legion..."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Claude was a little confused: "Isn't this Royal Knights Reserve Army the standing army of the Kingdom of Hicks?"
General Albert knew very well that Claude was not very interested in some knowledge about royal etiquette and was not very willing to learn about it. He explained: "That's it, the royal knight corps of the Kingdom of Hicks is to put it bluntly.
In fact, it is an honor guard corps, responsible for the ceremonial etiquette and guarding tasks for court meetings and royal trips. The members who can enter this royal knight corps are all the children of the nobles in their country, and their treatment and status are second to none in the Hicks Kingdom army.
It's just that many of the noble children who entered the Royal Knights Legion did not meet the requirements of soldiers and were unable to perform travel security tasks. However, every noble child who could enter this legion had a favor behind him, and the relationship was extremely complicated. For more than a hundred years,
, this royal knight corps has become the territory of countless noble children who mix seniority to build relationships, and its combat effectiveness has been abolished. At best, it can only be a showpiece, and it cannot even perform the security mission of the royal family well.
As a last resort, the Hicks royal family formed this reserve army, selecting brave and innocent men from the royal army and civilians to replace the noble children in performing various security tasks related to the royal court. It was up to them to do so with honor.
The kind of coolie stand-in role that the noble children came to receive. After a long time, they naturally became reluctant, so they took advantage of the meritorious service of Melchid III during the domestic rebellion and requested to be independent as a legion with a formal name...
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Claude understood, but after thinking about it, he was still a little strange: "The combat effectiveness of this Royal Knights Reserve Corps is not very good. Didn't we interact with it when we first came here? Diavid's third regiment accepted the order to go
The patrol team that ambushed them, in addition to suffering some losses the first time, later beat them so that they did not dare to stray too far from the military camp. They felt that they were not much stronger than the light cavalry of the Principality of Karrnath, so it can be considered that the Hicks Kingdom is very powerful.
A combat-effective light cavalry regiment?”
General Albert could only smile bitterly. How can I put it this way? If you have seen the cavalry training of the Thunder Legion, you will indeed look down on the combat effectiveness of other light cavalry regiments. What's more, the ones who went to ambush the patrol team of the Royal Knights Reserve Corps were members of the Wolf Fang Squadron.
The leader, who is the most elite combat unit among the more than 200,000 troops in the entire war zone, the king of soldiers in the legion, the elite among the elite, can he suffer a loss against these patrol teams...
What's more, all members of Diaverde's 1303rd Regiment are equipped with new rifles. In terms of weapons and equipment, the Hicks hands are like fire sticks, and they are led by members of the Wolf Fang Squadron who are responsible for teaching ambush, ambush and concealment.
Waiting for tactical tactics, can those ordinary Hicks Kingdom light cavalry squads get a better deal when they go out to patrol? Even if they are members of the Royal Knights Reserve Corps, they will be dead in an ambush.
Not wanting to get entangled with Claude on the strength of the Hicks, the royal knight reserve army, General Albert skipped the topic and continued to introduce the intelligence sent by the spies: "The five veterans of the Hicks
In the last war, we annihilated the three semi-permanent legions of the Avenging Legion. This time they were replenished and reorganized into two fully-staffed Avenging Legions. Among them, the First Avenging Legion was deployed to the eastern mountainous border, and the Second Avenging Legion was deployed to the eastern mountainous border.
The Second Corps is still in the new camp on the northern mountainous border."
After placing two small blue flags on the sand table, General Albert continued to introduce: "Currently, the Hicks have resettled their camp on the eastern mountainous border and deployed four standing legions, namely the First Legion of Avenging Humiliation.
, the First and Second Expeditionary Corps, and the Royal Knights Reserve Corps. The two standing armies on the northern mountainous border are the Second Expeditionary Corps and the Fourth Expeditionary Corps. They have re-set up three defensive lines along the new military camp.
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It is worth noting that the Second Expeditionary Army and the Fourth Expeditionary Army were not stationed together. Instead, a smaller garrison was built on a hill five or six miles away from the new military camp. These two garrison camps and
The three defensive fronts have completely blocked all routes and directions to the rear. We can no longer pass through these three defensive fronts without being discovered by the enemy.
Judging from the enemy's layout on the sand table, the two standing corps on the northern mountainous border, the large camp on the eastern mountainous border, and the traffic artery defense positions and checkpoints at Fombix Hill formed an inverted triangle defensive formation.
Coupled with the fact that the royal knights and other light cavalry regiments can quickly outflank and respond, we can no longer win by raiding the Hicks general logistics base camp like last time..."
General Albert put down the folder in his hand with some regret. Claude didn't care about this. The Hicks were not fools. They had already suffered a big loss last time, so they would naturally have to be more vigilant this time to make more changes.
If you take careful precautions, you will be an idiot if you make the same mistake again.
Picking up a Falcon letter, General Albert smiled bitterly and said: "This is probably the only good news. In the past month, apart from building their camps and defensive lines, the Hicks have not sent out any reconnaissance.
The small team conducted reconnaissance activities in the eastern mountainous area and the northern mountainous area. Only the patrol of the light cavalry regiment was getting closer and closer to the mountainous border. At the northern mountainous border, they were ambushed by us again and retreated.
As for the eastern mountainous border, because of our laissez-faire, they have recently stopped at the Mashan Pass to look at the mountains. Have you read the report of Captain Blovik more than half a month ago? There are more than 120 Nikancha people.
The armed young men must have been ordered to inquire about the military situation of the Hicks, and they gathered together and walked in a swaggering manner. As a result, they were discovered by the Hicks patrol team shortly after leaving the mountain pass on the border of the eastern mountainous area, and then the two sides had a brief fight.
Contest..."
Claude nodded. Of course he had read the report submitted by his younger brother Blovik. From the eastern frontier mountainous area to the defensive front in the middle, and then to the current inland territory of the Nikancha people, there was not a single garrison soldier deployed in the war zone.
The purpose of unimpeded is to put pressure on the Nikancha people and force them to agree to Claude's conditions. If the Hicks know this information, they will immediately launch a legion-level attack to ensure that they can reach the heart of the Nikancha country.
land.
However, the Hicks will not be so reckless. Before they attack, they will send a large number of reconnaissance teams to sneak into the mountains for reconnaissance. Claude has already sent the Wolf Fang Squadron to the eastern mountain border for the purpose of sniping and killing the Hicks.
A reconnaissance team. It is one thing to put pressure on the Nikanchas, but those key positions in the eastern frontier mountainous areas cannot be given up easily, so the Hicks cannot be allowed to discover the truth about the current empty defenses in the eastern mountainous areas.
Naturally, the Hicks were not willing to just agree to Claude's request. They felt that they could still save it, so they sent tens of thousands of armed young men to take over the building that Claude had abandoned in the middle of the eastern mountainous area.
Three defensive fronts. At the same time, the one hundred warriors were selected to explore the reality of the Hicks. The more than twenty Nikancha people volunteered to follow them. They sang and laughed all the way, like a spring outing.
Generally, we arrived at the border of the eastern mountainous area, exited the mountain pass, and then encountered a Hicks patrol team...
The result was that the Nikanchas were completely defeated. This could not be called a contest, but perhaps more like a small massacre. The Hicks only had two patrol teams with 24 riders, while the Nikanchas had more than 120
people, can form ten full squads and five or six more people. At first, both sides discovered each other. Because the Hicks were riding horses, the Nikancha people made a wise choice and immediately occupied the not far away
A small mound, standing high above the ground.
But when the Nikanchas saw that the other party only had twenty-four riders, they became excited. They yelled loudly on the hills, provoked, and opened fire at the Hicks at will. Unfortunately, although the two sides were two hundred meters apart,
Domi, the Hicks light cavalry was indeed within the range of the muskets held by the Nikanchas, but these Nikanchas fired dozens of shots and none of them caused any damage to the Hicks patrol cavalry.
So they cursed loudly and reloaded their matchlocks. Some of the fiery ones even threw their muskets on the ground, took off their pants and urinated on the Hicks. This was probably the worst thing the Nikancha people thought.
What an insult. The twenty-four horses of the Hicks stopped there, watching the farce performed by these Nikancha people. After a while, they turned their horses and retreated, disappearing silently into the hills.
and among the woods.
All the Nikancha people thought that they had scared off these Hicks light cavalry. They celebrated on the hillside with singing and dancing, waving muskets and knives, bragging about their brave behavior just now. After a long time, they felt
When you are tired, you sit or lie on the hill, throwing your musket aside, and there is not even a person on guard...
Then they faced a disaster. The two groups of Hicks light cavalry that the Nikanchas thought had retreated suddenly appeared on the left and right sides of the hill, and rushed up the hill together. What followed was the scene of the cup.
The Nikancha people were trampled by horses and chopped with swords, and it was horrific. Although a few Nikancha people mustered up the courage to fight hard and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Hicks' light cavalry, more of their panicked compatriots were
Look for ways to escape instead of helping them.
When the few Nikanchas who struggled to resist were cut down to the ground, the Hicks' light cavalry ushered in the joy of a good harvest. They only needed to ride their horses to catch up with the Nikanchas who were desperately trying to escape.
As they passed by, the sabers placed horizontally beside them would easily harvest the heads of the Nikancha people like fruits. One hundred and twenty-five six so-called Nikancha warriors finally fled back to the mountains.
There were only seven of them. And the damage they caused to the twenty-four Hicks light cavalry was only two dead and five injured...
Blovik led a team of Wolf Fangs to watch the entire massacre, and then took action when the two teams of Hicks light cavalry were preparing to return. They eliminated the twenty-two enemy cavalry with zero casualties and captured twenty
Four war horses.
After another three or four days, Blovik felt that there were sixty or seventy war horses captured, so he decided to take these trophies back and rest for a while. As a result, it was already night when he arrived at the defensive line in the central mountainous area. Because he was worried about the rugged mountain road, he decided to
So I lit a lot more torches and stuck them on the horses for lighting. From a distance, it looked like a large army marching.
At that time, the seven Nikancha warriors who finally escaped back had told the full story of their experiences to the compatriots who were responsible for guarding the defensive front. This is also a characteristic of the Nikancha people. If they
When you win, you can brag as much as you want, and no one will care, but when you lose, you like to describe the enemy as extremely powerful. As a result, the Nikancha people on guard saw so many torches shaking on the mountain road in the distance, and they were so frightened that they shouted "Hail"
The kes are coming!
The Nikancha people, who were already a little panicked, immediately bombed the camp when they heard that the Hicks were coming. It was almost ten o'clock in the evening, and many Nikancha people had already fallen asleep. And the Wolf Fang brought by Browett
The team had been lurking on the eastern mountainous border for nearly twenty days and did not know that the Nikancha people had already occupied this defensive line. When he set out, there was no one here, and he originally wanted to make the night journey and return at dawn.
At this time, the frontline headquarters realized something was wrong in front and stopped.
But for the Nikanchas on the defensive front, the Hicks were chasing them, and they stopped, probably preparing how to launch an attack...
The brave ones can still enter the position and prepare for battle, but the hysterical ones have already picked up their muskets and fired at the torches on the mountain road in the distance, no matter how far away they are, they are not within range. What's worse is those who have fallen asleep, after being awakened
First I heard that the Hicks were coming, then I saw the torches on the mountain road in the distance, and then I heard the fiery gunfire from the position. I thought the Hicks had launched an attack, so I was so scared that I ran away with my head in my hands, shouting as I ran.
Friend: "The Hicks are coming, run!"
As long as one Nikancha escapes, all the Nikanchas cannot stop him from running away. When more and more people escape, the Nikanchas who are finally on the ground preparing to resist can no longer stay still and fall out of their positions.
They also fled. After a while, not a single one of the tens of thousands of Nikancha people on the defensive front was left. The position was full of discarded muskets, artillery, ammunition and other materials...
When Blovik noticed that there was no movement in front of him, he quietly came over to investigate. As a result, he was dumbfounded when he saw the trophies all over the floor...