Chapter 507: Heading to the Royal City of Polyvisia
With a "boom", another grenade landed not far away and exploded. Black smoke and fire flashed, and a few small sparks hung on the surrounding bushes...
"Colonel, let's move back a little. It's too dangerous here." The adjutant, Lieutenant Wedalek, took a few steps forward on his horse, blocked in front of Colonel Derivick, and turned around to persuade.
Colonel Derivic remained unmoved and continued to use the monocular to carefully examine the enemy's firepower points on the hill in front: "Has the new infantry field artillery I requested arrived?"
"I have already applied, and they said they will be here within half an hour." Lieutenant Wedalek replied.
"Let the attacking Group 11 continue to maintain pressure on the enemy's position, pay attention to concealment, and don't let the enemy throw grenades over their heads. Wait for the artillery to arrive for cooperative operations, and conquer this hill in one fell swoop." Colonel Derivic pointed.
The enemy was still throwing grenades everywhere in the hilltop position in front.
After a while, three new infantry field artillery were dragged over by six pack horses. After the artillery squadron leader reported to Colonel Drivick, he directed his soldiers to quickly arrange the artillery positions and gave loud orders to move the guns.
The mouth was aimed at the Nasseri's hilltop position.
The battle process to capture the hilltop position was very simple. The three new artillery fires only fired three shells each, overturning the seven grenade throwers deployed on the hilltop position. The enemies guarding the hilltop turned around and fled in panic.
After a large group of soldiers rushed to the hilltop position, they could only shoot at the backs of the fleeing enemies. This was another garrison force from a local county in the Kingdom of Nasseri that overestimated its capabilities. There were about 800 people in a small battalion. They were in
More than a hundred corpses and wounded were left on the position...
"Colonel, we found this on the battlefield..." Captain Wesley, the captain of the 11th Brigade, came to Colonel Drivick and handed over a black leather briefcase.
This black leather briefcase should have been left behind by the battalion commander of the local garrison camp defending the hilltop position. It was important to escape, so he didn't care about taking these extraneous belongings. It contained some official documents and announcements as well as the daily administrative processing of the local garrison camp.
documents, but Colonel Derivic's eyes were focused on one of the official documents.
"Lieutenant Wedalek, go find a few wounded people to interrogate whether this situation is true?" Colonel Derivick ordered.
Soon, the black briefcase and the prisoner interrogation report were delivered to Claude.
"Prince Vedario is gathering troops in the city of Tula Weili, preparing to counterattack the Royal City of Polivisia and rescue his father and relatives..." Claude scratched his head: "This prince is
Who? What is the situation of the 18th Standing Corps in the official document?"
Major Mason Hughes, who was standing next to Claude, was well prepared. He quickly found the information Claude needed from a stack of folders on the table: "General, Prince Vedario is Nasseri VII.
His seventh son is 23 years old this year. His biological mother is Princess Permanna. Nasseri VII had two concubines. Princess Permanna was the most favored by Nasseri VII, so her
His son, Prince Vedario, was also the most favored of all the children of Nasseri VII.
It is said that Prince Vedario has been very smart since he was a child. It is a pity that he was born too late, otherwise he would probably be established as the first heir to the throne. This time he was appointed to serve as the supervisor of the 18th Standing Army of the Kingdom of Nasseri and set out to conquer our kingdom.
So it was not in the Royal City of Polyvisia, and it was very lucky that it fell into the hands of General Belklin. As for the 18th Standing Army, it is a new army just formed by the Kingdom of Nasseri, which is equivalent to the second-line army of our kingdom...
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Claude understood that this 18th Standing Legion should be the new legion that was preparing to go to the kingdom for reinforcements. Now that the Royal City of Polyvisia in the Kingdom of Nasseri was raided and occupied by the Thunder Division, Prince Vedario immediately stopped going to the kingdom.
The action of local reinforcements was to gather troops to counterattack the Royal City of Polyvisia. As a result, his summons was sent to the local garrison camp, and that local garrison camp happened to be hit by Colonel Derivic's 7th Regiment...
"Turaweili City..." Claude looked up and searched on the map of the Kingdom of Nasseri.
Tulaveli City, the capital of Tuculasim County, is three local counties away from the Royal City of Polyvisia. It is a plain area and only one local county away from where Claude is now.
"Order General Diavid to lead the 6th Regiment of the 5th Regiment to march towards Tuculasim County. The 8th Regiment of the 7th Regiment will move closer to me. The independent reinforced battalions will be on guard on both sides. We will first defeat the 18th Standing Regiment.
Let’s talk.” Claude issued the order and decided to change his itinerary and not go to the Royal City of Polyvisia to join Belklin’s First Division.
If you are in the enemy's country at this time, you must not allow the enemy to gather their troops to stay warm. Even if they are just a mob, they will be huge when gathered together. More people will make you bolder, so it is better to attack when the enemy is gathering, defeat them early, finish the job early, and save time.
The royal city of Polyvisia was completely surrounded by the local armed forces of these kings.
Sometimes the plan is good, but the reality is beyond everyone's expectation. Claude also wanted to have a big battle with the 18th Standing Legion led by Prince Vedario in Tuculasmu County, but the result was...
When Claude arrived at the city of Tulaweili, he found the lightning flag of the Thunder Legion flying on the city, and Diavid and his troops were welcoming him.
"It was too rough. We only fired two rounds of artillery, and then launched a light cavalry assault. The enemy all collapsed, turned around and fled, leaving us with their backs..." Diavid complained.
He himself did not expect that the enemy's standing army and the local garrison forces of about 100,000 troops would face his two regiments of more than 10,000 troops. He just wanted to launch a tentative feint attack first to see if the enemy still had more troops.
What a trump card. As a result, the enemy suffered two rounds of artillery bombardment, and then saw the light cavalry rushing in like an overwhelming force. They all turned and fled. So naturally, the feint attack commanded by Diavid turned into a decisive charge...
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"We killed thousands of people and captured more than 50,000 prisoners. The 18th Standing Army can be abolished. The only pity is that the bullshit prince escaped the fastest and we didn't catch him." Diavid said proudly.
He said proudly: "The problem now is what should we do with so many prisoners. We can't cut them off, but it feels inappropriate to release them all. As long as they have weapons, they will become our enemies if they are recruited.
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"I want to be quiet." Claude felt that he should reflect on himself first. The more wars he fought, the less courage he became. It would be better for a stupid young guy like Diavid to act recklessly first.
. Ten thousand men dared to charge against an enemy ten times their size. I wanted to have a big battle, but Diavid's two regiments defeated the enemy's more than 100,000 men and collapsed.
Claude felt that he had overestimated the enemy and underestimated his own combat power. Thinking about it, the Thunder Legion, equipped with new rifles and new artillery, was already far ahead of those armed with matchlock guns in this era.
How many times the enemy.
Two regiments of two hundred new artillery pieces fired two rounds rapidly, which was equivalent to 4,800 shells exploding in the enemy group. Then more than 10,000 light cavalry launched a charge. Those local garrison armed forces and second-line regiments had only withstood three months of training.
Who among the enemy soldiers had seen this and didn't want to flee and wait for death? As a result, one person fled and led a group of people to flee. In the end, it was normal for the entire army to collapse and all turn around and flee.
"Has the city been cleaned up?" Claude asked.
"Not yet, we only controlled the city gates, and we are busy capturing and guarding the prisoners." Diaverde answered honestly.
Claude nodded: "The old rules are that the homes of nobles and officials will be ransacked, and those who resist will be killed without mercy. As for the prisoners, we will select all the junior officers and above from them, set up prisoner camps, and hand them over to the baggage transport directly under the division's logistics department.
Under the supervision of the battalion and the garrison brigade, these prisoners were responsible for carrying supplies and escorting food and fodder, and a company system was implemented. If one escaped, the whole team would be shot.
The remaining soldiers all had a cut on their left thigh. We treated their wounds and bandaged them, and then gave them some dry food and sent them home. Remember to tell them that if they are caught by us next time and find a scar on their left thigh,
Then we will chop off their right thumbs, unless they do not shoot at us or become our enemies..."
"Boss, I don't understand why it's so complicated?" Diavid scratched his head in confusion: "I understand how to cut the captives' thighs to prevent them from becoming our enemies again, but why?
They need to be treated for their injuries and bandaged up. Just cut off their thumbs as I say, so that they can no longer hold muskets."
Claude slapped Diaverde on the back of the head: "Do as I say. Are you stupid? Just cut off the right thumbs of so many prisoners. How many families will hate us for killing them?"
Are your family members disabled? Help them treat and bandage their wounds, so that they will be willing to cut you, instead of having to send our own troops to catch them and forcefully cut them. We can even let these prisoners do the treatment and bandaging.
, without any effort on our part.
With such a cut, they can recover for three months, and they don't need to worry about being forcibly drafted again when they return home. In this way, they will thank us. Tell them that next time they are caught by us, their thumbs will be chopped off, unless they don't shoot at us.
Guns, not becoming our enemies means that even if they go to the battlefield to confront us again, they will only think about escaping. Think about the consequences if they escape on the battlefield.
Just like the first charge, one person leads a group, and a group leads all, the enemies will all turn around and run away, and we will be relaxed..."
The purpose of being cut and recuperating for three months is to prevent these prisoners who have undergone short-term training from becoming soldiers again. After three months, the ammunition from your side should be delivered. By then, no matter how many enemies there are, they will just become cannon fodder and will not be a concern.
Of course, this is just an insurance. The other insurance is the prisoner camp. Soldiers can be released home, but lower-level officers cannot be released. Without grass-roots officers, no one can organize and suppress the lower-level soldiers to escape during the battle. No matter how many soldiers are gathered,
In the end, the people and horses will only become a mob...
"Let's go do the work. We can only stay here for two days, and we will set off immediately after two days." Claude said: "Then we will divide our troops into two groups. Your second division will have two regiments on each side and sweep across here to
The fourteen local counties surrounding the royal capital have defeated all resistance forces, and all captured prisoners will be dealt with according to my instructions, do you understand?"
"Hey, I understand, boss, I'm going to do something right now." Diaverde fled.
Claude just remembered something, that is, the Kingdom of Nasseri has long been severely weakened. Since the debt war, it has been rubbed on the ground by the Kingdom of Ovelas. Four standing legions invaded the kingdom's mainland, and was eventually defeated by the Red Dragon Legion.
They fought head-on with the two divisions of the Guards Corps, and only managed to return one and a half legions, losing 150,000 to 60,000 horses. They were even counterattacked by the Guards Corps into the territory, which gave the Eastern Region National Alliance an excuse to jointly invade Auvers.
Kingdom of Lars.
In a battle in the border county, the Nasseri Kingdom once again suffered heavy losses, with more than 100,000 casualties. In the subsequent blockade battle on the Ibiniste Plains, the first line of defense battle, another 100,000 casualties were lost. Then to the Rock Army's
After the great victory in Ambriz County, the Nasseri Kingdom's army abandoned their armor, and the total number of troops who fled back was less than one and a half legions. Counting from the beginning of the war to now, the Nasseri Kingdom has lost at least more than 400,000 troops.
In the five-year war in the eastern region, the Kingdom of Ovilas suffered more than one million casualties and was already severely damaged. The Kingdom of Nasseri, with a total population of only 16 million, suffered losses of more than 400,000 within two years of the war.
The strength of the troops, at least seven legions, can be said to have seriously damaged the vitality of the Nasseri Kingdom. Of course, this also has a lot to do with the large-scale application of grenades on the battlefield. Especially in position offensive and defensive battles, grenades are thrown at each other.
, the casualties caused were also particularly heavy.
If it were not for the imminent demise of the Kingdom of Ovilas, the Kingdom of Nasseri would not persist like this. It would continue to forcefully recruit troops in the country and rely on the military support of the Hicks Kingdom to send newly formed legions one after another.
Frontline. Now that Diavid has led two main field regiments to defeat the newly formed 18th Standing Corps, what is left in the Kingdom of Nasseri are two newly formed legions that are said to be waiting for Hicks' military reinforcements.
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Calculated in this way, the seven legions lost by the Kingdom of Nasseri in the invasion of the Kingdom of Orvelas, plus the current loss of the 18th Standing Legion, and the Nasseri annihilated by Belklin's raid on the Royal City of Polyvisia
It can be said that the Kingdom of Nasseri has lost nine legions of the Royal Guards. Now there are only three standing legions in the Kingdom of Overas and two new legions waiting for military reinforcements from the Kingdom of Hicks.
It is impossible for the three standing legions of the kingdom to come back within half a month, or whether they can come back at all is not known...
As for the two newly built legions, if they had not waited for the arrival of military reinforcements from the Kingdom of Hicks, they would not have posed any threat to Claude's Thunder Legion with their bare hands. Therefore, Claude could have divided his forces generously to clear out the various forces in the Kingdom of Nasseri.
The garrison of local counties reduced the war potential of the entire Nasseri Kingdom, and there was no need to tremble and gather troops to cautiously go to the Royal City of Polyvisia.
Although the Kingdom of Nasseri has always been the sworn enemy of the Kingdom of Overas, a vicious dog with its teeth removed cannot pose any threat. What Claude has to do is to remove all the remaining teeth of the vicious dog from the Kingdom of Nasseri.
Pull out the light.
Two days later, the four main light cavalry field regiments of the Second Division attacked in all directions and swept through all the local counties in the Kingdom of Nasseri. As Claude expected, no local garrison could withstand the surprise attack of the Thunder Legion soldiers.
All the towns were captured. However, the Second Division did not capture any town. In accordance with Claude's order, they captured the officers, cut their left thighs with a knife and then released the soldiers. The nobles and officials in the towns had their properties searched for.
, after completing these things, they turned to the next place...
It's just that the team at Claude's division headquarters is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more carriages carrying captured supplies and prisoners are joining the team, so much so that this team carrying a large amount of property and escorting prisoners has attracted...
Many caring people have paid attention.
"Bah, bah, bah", the sound of matchlock gunfire came from the distance, followed by the fierce gunshots of new rifles. Not long after, a messenger came from the front to report the situation to Claude: "Report to the general, the scout team
We were ambushed by the enemy, killing one person and wounding three others. During our counterattack, the enemy left more than 20 corpses and fled. According to the inspection, it is estimated that they were self-organized resistance forces in those places. The scale of this ambush should be
There are about a hundred people..."
This is not the first time we have encountered such a situation. Because of the raids on the homes of noble officials in the captured towns, local counties in the Kingdom of Nasseri have formed an endless stream of self-organized resistance armed forces. Just like encountering a nationwide resistance war, these resistance armed forces cannot
They dared to target the four main light cavalry field regiments of the Second Division, but instead targeted Claude, a huge logistics and transportation force. This was not only a case of picking on the weak, but at the same time, they might also want to make a fortune from this.
It's a pity that these resistance armed forces don't understand the essence of guerrilla warfare. Claude sighed and decided to release a big weapon. After all, these resistance armed forces are too disgusting. They are like mosquitoes circling around you every day. They will attack you when you are not paying attention.
Suckling blood, Claude decided to just shoot these resistance fighters to death so as not to be an eyesore in front of him.
"Mason Hughes, go tell Blovik that his Wolf Fang Brigade can be dispatched. I don't want to hear any more information about the resistance armed forces attacking our team. He can do whatever he wants, as long as it is against the resistance armed forces."
Just don't let it go..." Claude ordered.
Then, the rest of the journey was a very unforgettable journey for this transport unit and the escorted prisoners. Because on both sides of the road, rows of corpses hanging on the big trees appeared from time to time. Their bodies were
The words "Death to those who resist" were written in blood on their bodies. Obviously, this was the work of the Wolf Fang Brigade. So until the Royal City of Polyvisia, Claude never heard any news about the resistance forces.
Using the Wolf Fang Brigade to deal with these self-organized resistance forces by the private sector really feels like killing a chicken with a butcher's knife. However, it is quieter this way. The only person who worries Claude is his younger brother Blovik, because
Adele's death made him extremely bloodthirsty, and he became even more crazy on the battlefield, regardless of life and death. Maybe after this war is over, let him return to the overseas dominions, go to his sister Anna's ranch, and be with his two
Staying together for a while between a dragon and a phoenix can reduce the hostility in his heart...
Belklin held a welcoming ceremony in the Royal City of Polyvisia to welcome the arrival of Claude and the Second Division. He even ordered each division of the First Division to detach a battalion and hold a small military parade to invite Claude.
Review. This was a naked display of military exploits and humiliation of the Nasseri Kingdom, because in his opinion, the Eastern Region Alliance Army held a military parade after occupying the royal capital, so he had to do the same.
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On May 6, the first year of the Holy Light Calendar, 600, Claude led the second division to sweep through sixteen local counties of the Kingdom of Nasseri, and finally arrived at the Royal City of Polyvisia to join the first division.