Chapter four hundred and sixty third attack and help
Chapter 463: Attack and Call for Help
On September 3rd, the Hicks finally took action. They dispatched a legion of troops to launch an attack on the eastern mountainous border. They also used the new weapon they had just delivered, a huge cantilever thrower.
It's just like the huge trebuchet in ancient times. However, this cantilevered thrower can throw a projectile twice the size of an iron pumpkin to a distance of 350 meters, and the explosive power is extremely amazing.
Although the first defensive position in contact with the enemy in the forward mountainous area immediately concentrated the three light infantry field artillery on the position to bombard the huge thrower and successfully destroyed one of them. But the Hicks also
Reacting quickly, they used more than thirty wooden platoon vehicles to surround the remaining four hurlers so tightly that the light infantry field artillery lost its effect unless the solid projectile could hit the huge cantilever.
, but that requires luck. At a distance of 600 meters, the cantilever is not much thicker than a chopstick in the eyes of the gunner...
Perhaps the only drawback of this huge cantilever thrower is that it is very bulky and moves very slowly. It took the Hicks a whole day to move the four throwers to the front of the first defensive position and try to
Several huge projectiles were thrown.
The veterans of a battalion on the defensive position looked livid when the grenades fell on the mountainside and made huge craters. Everyone knew that when the Hicks moved the four grenades to their positions tomorrow,
Then the defensive position will attract indiscriminate bombing from the enemy. The most painful thing is that the defenders on the position have no way to fight back and can only passively withstand the bombing...
The veterans on the defensive position were originally preparing to carry out a night attack and take the initiative to destroy these four giant hurlers. However, the Hicks had already been prepared and the security circle was very tight. As soon as they approached the outer defense area, they were attacked by Hicks.
They were discovered. A fierce exchange of fire ensued, with both sides using their own grenades. With the arrival of Hicks reinforcements, the veterans of the night attack returned in vain with half of their casualties.
At noon the next day, after the first moved and adjusted throwing bomb hit the defensive position, the officers on the defensive position had no choice but to give the order to retreat. This news
Immediately being sent to the defensive front headquarters, Claude immediately set off for the frontier mountainous area, preparing to see with his own eyes the enemy's giant thrower...
After receiving the report of the attack by the Hicks, Claude, General Beachlin, and General Albert Lund finally felt relieved. Then the Hicks dispatched five huge cantilevered throwers.
When the news came, Claude and others agreed that the reason why the Hicks people had not launched an attack was because they were waiting for the delivery of such throwers to arrive...
Then the report of the loss of the first defensive position in the frontier mountainous area came in. When I saw it, it was said that the Hicks' giant thrower could throw a projectile twice as large as an iron pumpkin more than 300 meters away.
Lord wanted to scold him. The Hicks seemed to focus on the development and research of new weapons. According to the game, this had already maxed out the technology points of the grenade.
It can throw projectiles twice as large as the Iron Pumpkin more than 300 meters away, which makes Claude hate his toothache. He finally completed the research on the defensive thrower and can only throw the lightest projectile.
to three hundred meters away. Compared with the giant thrower of the Hicks, the throwing distance is still far behind. It is conceivable that if the Hicks use this giant thrower to throw
The throwing distance of the Iron Pumpkin can be increased, so the defensive position can only be bombed unilaterally.
There was only one piece of good news that made Claude feel slightly better, that is, the moving distance and speed of the giant thrower of the Hicks were really difficult. It took Claude three days to rush to the frontier mountainous area and found Hicks.
Three days have passed since the Si people captured the first defensive position and they have not yet reached the front of the second defensive position. It is estimated that it will take another day.
The reason is that these Hicks have to build roads first before they can move the four Big Mac throwers to the front of the position. Otherwise, the throwers cannot be moved up, and the Hicks will lose a weapon to attack the enemy, and they will inevitably launch an attack again.
They were beaten to death in front of the heavily fortified defensive position. For the sake of their own lives, these Hicks soldiers threw themselves into the road construction project.
Claude suddenly wanted to laugh when he saw this scene. It seemed that these Hicks soldiers came to learn how to do good deeds and help the territorial war zone build a national highway to the Rodex Bay Colony in the eastern mountainous area. According to them
At this construction speed, it is estimated that it will take more than three months to reach the three defensive lines set up by General Beach Kerin in the central mountainous area. By then, this rugged mountain road will be able to pass four-wheel freight carriages, which will greatly facilitate logistics.
Transportation and people's travel...
Or we can also use this time to build a road leading to the municipality of Vibato Port, and then connect the two roads together after this war is over... This is what Claude had in mind
Thinking of this, he pulled over a captain who was accompanying him and asked: "The Hicks built the road honestly like this, and then dragged the four throwers over little by little, without making any surprise attacks or lurking.
Send troops to launch a small exploratory attack on the defensive positions?"
"Report to General, no." The captain replied: "In addition to building roads and moving those giant hurlers, the Hicks then deployed very tight security defenses around the road construction site.
Circle. We have launched several night raids, but we have been unable to get close to its three hundred meter range. Because as long as our whereabouts are exposed, the Hicks will control those throwers to throw those kinds of weapons in the direction where we are lurking.
Most of our brothers who were injured or killed were lost in this way due to the powerful explosive projectiles..."
Claude once again picked up the monocular and carefully observed the Hicks soldiers building roads in the distance. He found that their protective measures were indeed very complete.
Throwers and road-building soldiers were surrounded inside. There were two light infantry field artillery on the hilltop not far away from me, and they were firing at the throwers, but they were more than 600 meters apart, and the solid projectiles were not
When I landed on the wooden cart, I just brushed against the cantilever...
"Is it useful?" Claude pointed to the two light infantry field artillery fires.
The second lieutenant was a little shocked and shook his head: "It's useless. It just adds a little trouble to the enemy and causes very few casualties. It's not as good as the grenades thrown at the enemy during night attacks. And destroying these wooden platoon trucks has no effect."
, destroying ten wooden carts at night, and they would drag over twenty or thirty more during the next day.
We couldn't get close to those hurlers. The enemy used these wooden platoon trucks and shield trucks as cover to deal with our night attack troops. This prevented us from breaking through the outer security range and entering. When the battle was fierce, they also used old-fashioned hurlers to throw iron.
Pumpkins were used to cover the attacked area, causing heavy casualties among our night raiders..."
"Have you tried other methods?" Claude asked.
The second lieutenant nodded: "We used landmines. The enemy suffered some losses in the first two times. There were more than a dozen casualties and two wooden platoon trucks were blown up. But the enemy quickly came up with countermeasures. General, you
Look over there, that's a minesweeper truck made by the enemy."
Claude curiously raised his monocular and looked in the direction the lieutenant was pointing, and then saw the so-called minesweeper. This was actually a wooden truck with three-meter-long wooden arms extending out from both sides.
A log segment is lying on the ground. When the Hicks soldiers push forward behind the wooden cart, the log segment in front of the wooden cart will roll on the ground first, detonating the buried mine. The fragments generated by the mine explosion will be absorbed by the wood.
The queue of cars blocked...
This should be regarded as the ancestor of the minesweeper. It is very crude and primitive, but it is enough to deal with the first-generation mines produced in the territorial theater. Although it is a one-time minesweeper, if it is blown up by a mine, it will have to be replaced. But now I hope
The Hicks people did not pursue attack speed, and this thing was very suitable for their needs. Claude had to admire the wisdom of the Hicks soldiers for coming up with a way to deal with mines so easily.
Although these Hicks soldiers were here to build roads, Claude was not willing to let them continue doing good things like this. He issued an order to have various defensive positions in the frontier mountainous areas carry out normal blocking until Hicks
The Hicks can evacuate to the rear position only when their giant thrower threatens the defensive position. Claude will not let his officers and soldiers be bombed in vain on the defensive position, but he is also not willing to let the Hicks attack
In this way, the troops successfully broke into the defensive front in the central mountainous area.
Although the defensive positions in the forward mountainous areas cannot block the enemy's attack, they can delay the enemy's progress and time. The Hicks must use their huge throwers to threaten the defensive positions in order to force the defenders to evacuate, which will cost them more.
It took a lot of time and energy to build the road, so that the defensive positions along the way could be removed one by one.
Claude needs to find a more suitable location to eliminate the threat of the Hicks' giant cantilever throwers. The Hicks also know that the key to their victory lies in these new throwers.
Therefore, they paid great attention to the hills along the way. Every time they removed a defensive position, they sent people to guard it. At the same time, they deployed old-fashioned throwers and iron pumpkins, as well as three or four light infantry field artillery...
It's just that while Claude was looking for a suitable place to ambush the Hicks' throwers, he couldn't help but feel a little confused. It wasn't the newly appointed frontline commander of the Hicks Kingdom, the young Clary.
Is Marquis O. de Xirios known for being the best at attacking? Is this his offensive method?
Pinning our hopes on these new throwers, we will slowly and steadily attack forward. That's why we reserve three months' worth of food, grass and military supplies in the camp on the mountainous border. Fighting a war is time-consuming and costly.
A war of attrition? This seems to be more like the work of the old man who was the previous frontline commander who was said to have been dismissed and returned to China. It is quite contradictory to the style of this so-called cutting-edge young general of the Kingdom of Hicks who is best at attacking.
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"I think it's okay here." General Albert pointed to the surrounding terrain and said: "It's a valley surrounded by three mountains, and the mountain road goes around the bottom of the valley. The tops of these three mountains are connected high and low, and a chain defense can be set up.
positions. And we can dig trenches from the mountainside to the top of the mountain. Even the huge throwers of the Hicks will never be able to throw the grenades onto the defensive positions on the top of the mountain. On the contrary, our grenades can use the height
The gap covers the mountain roads in the entire valley. Unless the Hicks capture these three mountains in one fell swoop, they will never be able to pass through the defense line here..."
This terrain is very good, easy to defend and difficult to attack. In the past, it was not taken seriously because it was too close to the defensive line in the central mountainous area. But now to deal with the Hicks' giant-like throwers, the valleys here and the surrounding mountains are indeed
is the best choice.
Claude nodded: "Okay, let's set up a defensive front here and have a good fight with the Hicks. I just don't know if the Hicks can build the road here in two or three months, and then start again."
They have been struggling with us here for half a year, and I really don’t know if the food they have stored is enough for their consumption.”
As long as there is no battle of casualties in terms of troops, Claude doesn't care much about the consumption of materials. He is definitely eager to fight a war with the Hicks that lasts for two or three years. It is very simple. The direct-administered war zone is now a local battle.
, if the battlefield is controlled in this mountainous area ceded from the Nikancha people, it will not affect the economic stability and development of the other eight overseas territories at all. It will even have an impact on the economy of the territories due to the needs of the war.
to promote.
In comparison, the Hicks Kingdom's military strength is about three times that of the directly-administered territorial war zone. Just renting Rodex Bay Colony paid a high price. The rest, whether it is food, drink, and various military supplies,
All require higher prices to purchase sufficient supplies. The Kingdom of Hicks has spent an astronomical amount of money on this colonial war, and now it is riding a tiger with a hard time and can only hold on.
If these seven standing legions of the Kingdom of Hicks were really entangled with the direct-administered war zone in this mountainous area for two or three years, it is guaranteed that Melchid III would directly eat all the officers on the front line alive.
More than 400,000 horses provide material consumption for two to three years, and the continent of Nubisia is thousands of miles away across a silent ocean. If nothing else, the treasury of the Kingdom of Hicks will soon be starved of rats.
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This is also where Claude always felt that something was wrong with the attack method adopted by the Hicks. If he really wanted to follow the Hicks' method of attacking while repairing the road, wait until they get through this mountainous area and reach the colonial capital of Port Vibato.
I don’t know if it will be until the year of the monkey. But the key is that Claude did not find out what the problem was. The Hicks were not pretending to attack, but actually advancing step by step and occupying the defensive positions on the front line.
General Beach Kerin came over. He brought a Falcon message from the theater command. The letter said that the Hicks Kingdom's Sea King Fleet and the Combined Fleet did not return to the country, but arrived at the offshore waters of the territorial war zone.
, launched a harassing bombardment at Vibato Port, but they did not cause much damage to the port facilities. After the city defense artillery in the dock area counterattacked, the enemy ships did not continue the bombardment, but turned around and left.
The leader of the main field regiment of the Rock Corps stationed at Vibato Port reported that most of the enemy's two fleets were warships, and few ocean-going transport ships were seen. It is estimated that the purpose of this trip should be to harass the coastal areas of the war zone directly under the jurisdiction.
.In addition, their departure direction is to the south, perhaps to the Port of Patres in the Robisto Municipal Territory, to remind the defenders there to avoid being attacked by the Hicks Kingdom's Sea King Fleet and the United Fleet.
Since most of the Hicks Kingdom's two fleets were warships and did not bring a few ocean-going transport ships, it must be a harassing attack. Claude, General Bichlin and General Albert didn't care much about it.
, the three deep-water ports under the direct jurisdiction of the war zone, the Port of Vibato, the Port of Patres in the direct jurisdiction of Robisto, and the Port of Copicius in the direct jurisdiction of Tiersim, all have a main field field battle of the Rock Legion.
The regiment and a local garrison stationed there, coupled with the city defense artillery, can completely withstand the sneak attacks and attacks of the Sea King Fleet and the Combined Fleet.
In addition to these three deep-water ports, the coastal areas of the war zone's direct jurisdiction are shallow seas and reef areas. Warships cannot approach at all, unless they are stranded or use lifeboats to go ashore. However, the war zone headquarters has set up warning sentries in coastal areas.
, if the enemy wants to land from coastal areas, it will attract nearby garrison troops, enough to eliminate the enemy on the beach.
Therefore, the Falcon message sent by the theater command stated that the three generals on the front line did not need to worry about this matter. The theater command had already prepared a plan for the harassment of enemy warships in the coastal areas and would not let the enemy warships attack
What losses and injuries were caused in the territorial war zone?
On September 21, Claude received a report from a spy lurking in the Rodex Bay Colony. The Royal Knights Reserve Corps, which was originally on the eastern mountain border, suddenly returned to the general logistics base camp in the rear and merged into the camp for rest.
It is said that it is normal training and I will go back in two days.
Three days later, I received another report from the spies. The light cavalry regiment in the main camp of the General Logistics Base, that is, the Royal Knights Reserve Corps, disappeared at some point. The spies estimated that they set out overnight to return to the big camp on the eastern mountainous border.
The battalion went, but because the city of Rodex Bay did not allow residents to leave the city at night, the spies did not see the whereabouts of the light cavalry.
Full and full... Claude thought so, but he still took out his notebook and wrote down a note about the light cavalry regiment. Those who can carry out long-distance training are all troops with good combat effectiveness, especially in one night.
It is not easy for the entire legion to complete the preparations for departure and leave quietly.
Two days later, on September 27, Claude received an urgent request for help from the theater command. The Hicks landed in the fishing port town of Amphiston and occupied the entire fishing port town...