Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 252 is ready

The next afternoon, Claude received a letter from the battalion sent by the battalion. The battalion commander of the 1st Battalion, Major Lederfonte, did not make any decision on Claude’s report. He only handed over the enemy situation encountered in the squirrel village to Claude, and whether it was retreat or defense, it was handled by Claude. At the same time, he told Crowd about the situation in some of the southern three counties of Claude and the current difficulties faced by the battalion. Claude can easily conclude that Major Ledfangk hopes that he can hold the squirrel village here. An important frontline checkpoint, don't let the private soldiers of the territories of the territories enter the southern three counties.

Before the arrival of March, the troops of the Kingdom of Ovilas competed against each other, and a mountain road was built in the Peak District to temporarily transport heavy artillery and transport heavy materials. The Blue Feather Legion and the two second-line corps were arranged in Eski. The three southern counties of the Principality of the Principality spent the rainy season peacefully. When the month of April arrived, the Blue Feather Legion took a second-line army to set up a line of defense on the border between the three southern counties and the Principality of Rimondra, blocking the retreat of the hundreds of thousands of anti-Austrian coalition forces deployed in the Principality of Rimondra.

Another second-line legion is placed in the area bordering the eastern part of the Eskilin Principality, guarding against the counterattack of the remaining forces of the Eskilin Principality against the three southern counties. Originally, according to the plan of the frontline headquarters, after the rainy season, more than ten local police battalions will be deployed to enter the southern three counties through the temporary mountain road in the Peak District, responsible for honouring the policing and raising materials. But the bad luck is that the heavy rain in the rainy season will wash the temporary passage in the Peak District. No matter whether it is personnel or materials, it is impossible to enter the three southern counties. It takes an hour and a half to repair and restore the temporary mountain road. .

Therefore, all the troops currently deployed in the Kingdom of Ovilas in the three southern counties have become de facto orphans. There is no way to provide them with supplies and reserve forces unless they can persist for two months. The time, or the destruction of all anti-Austrian coalition forces in the Principality of Rimondra. However, the current situation is that the anti-Austrian army of the Principality of Rimondra has been eager to move. In the near future, it has been conducting fire reconnaissance on the front line and conducting a tentative attack on the defensive front of the Blue Feather Legion.

And the Principality of Eskilin in the east did not sit still, they knew very well that once the hundreds of thousands of coalition forces deployed in the Principality of Rimondra were destroyed by the army of the kings of the Ovilas, the demise of the Principality of Eskilin It is imminent. So they also gathered all the local garrisons, and vigorously recruited new recruits, formed two temporary legions, ready to counter the southern three counties. The second-line corps deployed in the east has already been inseparable from the enemies who have swooped over. The current situation is that the defensive front can still maintain...

Due to the deployment of the Blue Feather Legion and the two second-line corps on the front line, the three southern counties in the south were under-defended, lacking the armed forces to suppress and maintain law and order. Before the rainy season in March, the youths of the three southern counties were vigorously recruited to build temporary mountain roads in the Peak District and caused some casualties. The people in the three southern counties were extremely dissatisfied with the occupation forces of the Ovilas Kingdom.

After the arrival of April, the Principality of Eskilin sent a large number of secret agents to sneak into the three southern counties, inciting and organizing many people to secretly oppose the occupation and material mobilization of the army of the Kingdom of Ovilas. The situation of the chaos in the three southern counties in the south, local riots occurred frequently, the garrison forces of several large towns were exhausted, and the repression of the four places could not calm the rebellion.

The same is true of the battalion of the squadron in Luosha Town. Thanks to Major Lederink’s prior abolition of some less important checkpoints, the battalion also has three squadrons to deal with the endless rebellion and local riots. . Major Lederfonteer told Claude in the letter that now less than one squadron's strength can't go out to suppress local resistance. In short, the three southern counties are now like a volcano that is accumulating explosive power, but I don’t know when it will erupt.

Although Major Lederfonteer decided to hand over the enemy situation in Squirrel Village to Claude, the letter between the lines still indicates that he does not want Claude to retreat, and adopts the advice of the Chief of Marks to concentrate on guarding the entrance of the mountain road. There, there is a strategy of setting up a defensive position and sticking to the enemy's logistics supply.

In the letter, Major Ledecink pointed out the fact that a total of three squadrons were guarded in this mountain battalion. The front is Claude, followed by Murray Ed's squadron in Blackstone Village, and finally a squadron at the entrance to the mountain. If Claude decides to retreat, then this mountain road is not necessary for garrison.

If Claude decides to retreat, then Murray Ed’s squadron in Blackstone Village can’t be defensive because his terrain is less suitable for defense, and it’s not as dangerous as Squirrel Village. The attacking enemy can easily attack from the hillside. It is necessary to know that Murray Ed’s squadron is mainly responsible for the response in the Blackstone Village. After the enemy is attacked by Claude, the mountain road is broken, and the enemy is quickly prevented from passing the squirrel. The mountain road in front of the village, from the rear, made the Claude department a lone army.

As for the entrance to the mountain road in the southern three counties, although a squadron is deployed, the terrain on the side of the mountain entrance is less suitable for setting defensive positions. Because the terrain of the mountain entrance is also not dangerous, even if the front side blocks the enemy's attack, the enemy can completely open a new road from the side to bypass the defensive position into the southern three counties. At the entrance to the mountain road are sparse woods and small mounds. Even if Claude concentrated the strength of the three squadrons, they could not guard the defensive front.

If you want to block the entrance of the mountain road, you need a force from the battalion to be allocated. At present, the battalion of the battalion is divided and split, and it is dismantled at each level to be responsible for the garrison. Major Lederfontein is powerless. He does not have many people on his own hands, but he also needs to be responsible for the defense of the town of Rocha.

Therefore, Major Ledecek hoped that Claude could resist the invasion of the invading private army in the squirrel village. Of course, he did not want Claude's vain sacrifice. He asked Claude to make his own decision, whether to fight or withdraw. If it is best to stick to it, he can bite out the strength of a squadron and send a lot of logistics and heavy materials such as ammunition and grain to Claude. The only regret is that the battalion can only provide Claude with a light infantry artillery. The two can't make it.

The letter from the battalion was placed on the table, and Claude tapped the table and said, "I decided to fight here and block the enemy's intrusion. The communications officer immediately sent the pigeon to the camp, informed me of the decision, requested The battalion will send out support as soon as possible. The Chief of Marks, you are in charge of the first squad, dispatch personnel to conduct reconnaissance, find out the strength and equipment of the two enemies, and determine the date of their attack.

The second squad and the third squad are responsible for the construction and reinforcement of the defensive positions. I ask you to dig the mountain road ahead and temporarily lay the rafts for passage. This way, even if the enemy comes to attack, they can delay their time. Even if they can fill the big pit on these mountain roads, they are within the range of our firepower. I have to look at how much casualty the enemy can pay to build a road.

The fourth squad is responsible for the construction of the wooden barrier between the camp and the squirrel village and excavating the ditch to prevent the enemy from going up the mountain and attacking us from the back of the squirrel village. The artillery squad is responsible for the arrangement of the guns and the defense and concealment of the artillery. McJack, you go to Blackstone Village in the afternoon and let Murray Elders head over. I need to discuss with him the problems of coping and stationing. If we really can't resist the enemy's attack, then I need his squadron to make security for our evacuation line..."

Markie stayed in the end. He looked at Claude desperately: "Sir, do you really decide to retreat?"

After all, it is more than 2,000 enemies, and the squadron with the support of the battalion on its own side is less than one hundred and twenty. This is almost a twenty-one-one comparison of strength. In the view of Mark's veteran oil, Claude's decision to insist on defending here is self-defeating, and the countdown to the life of all people has begun...

Crowder smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Even if it is a retreat, the next mountain road until the entrance to the mountain road, is there a more dangerous place than the terrain here? No. Since it is inevitable, it is here, at least. We also account for a cheap terrain. Although there are many enemies, they are all aristocrats in the territory, and their combat power is not strong. I think there is a great possibility that we can resist the enemy's attack. Perhaps after the victory, your epaulette will follow me. The same."

The veteran oil like Mark is purely scared by the strength of the enemy. In his experience, one party with more than one person will definitely win. Now the ratio of enemy to me is twenty to one, so he thinks that this is definitely the end of death. He wants to retreat. It is nothing more than to live a little longer and even earn a little more. In fact, even if the retreat can not avoid the end of the defensive war. Claude made up his mind to fight in the squirrel village. He took a fancy to the terrain here. Even if he finally retreats, he must first give the enemy a slap in the face and try to kill the enemy as much as possible.

Markie bit his teeth: "Forget it, just go crazy with you. I really want to die here, and I am destined to die. I am so foolish when you run into a fool."

Markie took the horse with the first team to carry out the reconnaissance mission.

Crowder smiled and shook his head and said to the big man, Gumi: "Go, go to the squirrel village and meet the old man."

After the war, Claude would not let the villagers of Squirrel Village stay in the village again. He decided to let the village head old man move the village to Heishi Village first, and then return after the battle ended. The head of the village chief is sensible. He promised Claude's request for relocation, but he also offered to force the village's labor to help Claude to build defensive positions. Claude was very happy and decided to provide these villagers with a batch of food and material reserves to compensate.

All things are carried out in a busy and orderly manner. It is only the passing of time. The signs of the so-called aristocratic private soldiers coming to the invasion have not been discovered. The furious and angry Mr. Mark went to the cave in the temporary prison to review the secret agent again and smashed him. The secret agent vowed to say that all he said was true. Before he left, the lord said that he would send troops immediately when he came back. What has happened now is what happened.

Four days later, the squadron supported by the camp arrived at Squirrel Village. What surprised Crowder was that the squad leader who led the team was Diavid. Diavid said that he had volunteered to lead the squadron to support him after receiving news from the battalion.

Now that Claude has nearly two hundred squadrons, the squadron brought by Diavid is not full, only forty-five. His squadron killed and injured nine soldiers in a local riot that suppressed the three southern counties. There are still six in the camp. Mark Qi, a squadron of fifty-four people, is full, plus five guns, fifteen people, Claude, McJack, a big man, Gemy, and a battalion of a battalion, a total of one hundred and eighteen . This gave Claude a confidence in the invasion of the enemy.

Only after all the defensive preparations were completed, they found that the enemy was not coming. After returning to the idea of ​​retreating, Markchi was no longer afraid of death. He sneaked into the territory of the count, Count Earl of Loikad Barr, to spy on the enemy, and was almost seen. When he returned, he brought a good and bad news to Claude.

The good news is that the private soldiers assembled by the Earl of Loyked Barr. Claus are indeed a rabble, except that the armed configuration of the two squadrons is about the same as that of the local garrison, and the combat power is almost the same. Most of the rest are the troops of the farmer and the herdsmen. Their weapons are uneven. If they are good, they will take the old-fashioned fire of the shotgun. If they are poor, they will take the big knife and the spear directly, and even prepare the manure fork. Going into battle...

The bad news is that the man of Earl of Loykides is not just a battalion, but a group of about 4,000 people. This is mainly because some of the nobles of the Cannes of the Cannes are heard that the Earl of Loi Kaide is going to send troops to the three southern counties of the Principality of Eskilin to make a fortune. They are all coming to prepare for a fun, and by the way Spend some extra money on your own. Therefore, the reason why the enemy is not attacking is that some of the territories of the aristocrats have not arrived yet, and it is estimated that they still need to wait for a while.

As for the Principality of Eskilin, it was the territories of the aristocrats and the Principality of the Principality that were arguing and delayed the attack. It is said that the Grand Duke and the military of the Principality of Eskilin demanded that the aristocrats of the Territory hand over the private soldiers in their hands to the Eastern Front, and strive to repel the three southern counties as soon as possible. However, the aristocrats in the territory were reluctant to devote their private arms to the battlefields in the Eastern Front and were consumed in vain. Therefore, they were required to organize themselves to attack the three southern counties from the side of the mountain road to achieve the purpose of involving the army of the Kingdom of Ovilas...

Well, both enemies have delayed the original attack date, and Claude can only continue to wait anxiously for their arrival...