Black Iron’s Glory

The 255th chapter

The private armed forces of the aristocrats of the Cannes of the Cannes were blocked on the mountain road for four days. The night attack planned on the first night thought that 100% could be won, but no one expected the enemy to be prepared. . They broke the mountain road, dug a big pit, and put more than two hundred elites in it and fell into the valley. When the heavens and aristocrats sent people to the valley to look for it, they only saved forty or fifty survivors who fell into serious injuries.

This was the first time that the aristocrats of the Kanas Principality, who had been robbed and made a fortune, finally woke up. They understood that if they wanted to go to the southern three counties, they had to go through the front corners and fight the enemies of the Squirrel Village. But unfortunately, they spent a lot of time in these four days, still can not get close to the squirrel defensive position, in addition to the increase of five or six hundred casualties, the only gain is to find out more than one big pit trap on the front of the mountain.

There is no way to fill the big pit on the road. Let's not say that the bottom of the big pit is empty. It leads to the valley next to it. The earth and stone thrown in will fall into the valley along the channel at the bottom of the pit. Just want to fill the pit, there is no way to send people to work, as long as you cross the corner, people who carry the earth and stone will become the target of the enemy, and the gunshots of the defensive positions will be knocked down to the ground one by one...

The time that can be used is night, and the darkness can reduce the aiming accuracy of enemy musket shooting. But the pain of the aristocrats in the territory is that they must ignite the torch lighting at night, otherwise they will not be able to see it clearly. But igniting the torch is equivalent to guiding the enemy in the direction of the shooting. Under the light of the torch, the enemies to be seen here are clear.

The mountain roads are inherently narrow, especially at the corners of the bends. They want to be bundled into wooden rafts and lay on top of the big pits. Many people need to carry them. However, when the corners were turned and transported, they were immediately bombarded by enemy artillery. The logs that had been painstakingly cut down from behind were thrown into the valley by artillery, and the casualties of the people who were carrying them were dozens of casualties. people.

The second handling of the wooden raft did not ignite the torch lighting and touched the black. As a result, the first few porters stepped on the corner when they turned corners. Even the people rolled the logs into the valley, and the several aristocrats in charge of supervision were half dead. They were busy all night. But they can't do anything. The people responsible for handling these things can be eaten without the rich nutrition of the territories and nobles. It is very good to fill the stomach. Most of the people have night blindness at night, and they can't see the road in the dark. It is a very normal phenomenon.

Finally, the baron of Quinna, who was born in the march, had an idea. Instead of using logs, he recruited woodworkers to make light ladders, climbed up from the ground, and laid ladders on the big pits. Go up, so you can go from above. Although it is not as good as a log to the top of the log, it is not easy to make people pass.

The Earl of Leukade once again organized a night attack, picking one hundred elites from his own people and guards, and another aristocrat of the territory also made a hundred. Two hundred warriors who could see the road at night had once again charged the defensive positions of the squirrel village enemy. Only they have just ran less than forty steps, the road in front has collapsed, and another big pit appeared on the mountain road.

However, this time the luck was good, and the number of people who fell into the big pit was 30. The latter fell in and was simply hit by people who couldn't stop behind. Even more gratifying is that this big pit is not connected to the valley on the side of the mountain road, it is a real big pit. It’s just that the bottom of the trap is densely packed with sharp-edged branches and wooden spears. The people who fall are not dead or hurt, the screams and the cry for help are intertwined, and the blood is scented...

The silver moon is very nice to reveal the face from the clouds, and the pale moonlight shows the scene in the trap in front of the warriors at the edge of the pit. Thirty of the unlucky people who fell in the piled up at the bottom of the trap, they were interspersed with long sharp branches and wooden spears, and even a wooden spear penetrated the body of three or four people, it looks like Like those dead fish waiting for a barbecue. A few dying hapless squirming on the branches and wooden spears, trying to pull out the wooden spears, but they can't do it...

The smell of blood is getting heavier and heavier, and the screams and cry for help are getting lighter and lighter. I don’t know which scimitar warrior was stunned by the sight he saw. In short, some people screamed and turned and fled, the rest of the people. All turned and followed. The soldiers on the defensive positions fired desperately on the people of their squad, leaving only twenty of them.

No one of the territories of the Territory proposed any night attack. From the corner of the bend to the enemy's defensive position in the Squirrel Village, it is estimated that the total length of the mountain road is two or three hundred meters. It has now been found that there are two large pit traps on the mountain road nearly 100 meters in front. Then there are at least three or four pits waiting for everyone in the remaining 178-80 meters. In the scope of the firepower of artillery and firearms, if you want to fill a pit or lay a wooden row of ladders on it, I don’t know how much casualty costs to pay. Perhaps the more than 4,000 people have to fill in at least half of them. The most painful thing is that they can only be beaten and cannot fight back.

In four days, the aristocrats of the Cannes of the Cannes have paid seven or eight hundred casualties, which is almost the result of their total strength. If you add another 10% of casualties, then the rest of the rabble will be destroyed. After all, the recruits are also preparing to go to the three southern counties to make a fortune. They did not expect the squirrel village to come to die.

On the one hand, the aristocrats of the territory of the Principality of Cannes squashed their own troops and tried to appease them so that the people under their hands would not flee in the middle of the night. On the other hand, pinning their hopes on the aristocrats of the parliament of the Eskilin, I hope that they will reach the defensive positions of the enemy who captured the squirrel village early, so as to rescue themselves. The secret agent who sent it to contact immediately came back and reported that the aristocrats of the Eskilin territory had been ambushed by the enemy and suffered heavy casualties. They were also dragged on the mountain road.

There are only a thousand people on the road to the aristocrats of the Principality of Eskilin. They are delayed by one day after the road to the Principality of Cannes. However, it is worth noting that more than a thousand people are basically composed of family armed private soldiers of various territories and aristocrats. The weapons are mostly firearms, and they carry four light-weight live-fire artillery pieces, and Major Lederfonteer once gave The artillery that Lord brought is the same, and the combat power should be good.

Unlike the aristocrats of the Cannes of the Cannes, the aristocrats of the Principality of Eskilin strictly followed the marching regulations and sent a scouting squad as a striker, about three miles away from the big forces. So according to Claude's order, Diavid, who moved the cordon, pushed his mind to the scouting squad and set up an ambush to destroy the scouting squad.

When the large forces of the aristocrats of the Principality of the Eskilin arrived, the ten soldiers who were scouts were already in the wild, and the muskets and valuable things around them had been cleaned up. Although the territorial nobles were very angry, they also knew that the enemy did not retreat as they expected, but instead took the initiative to attack. This made them more cautious.

After packing up the bodies, they sent a squadron to be a scout, and the distance from the big forces was kept around a mile to meet. Diavid saw the enemy change the way of marching, and also actively changed the way of ambush, let the three soldiers of the group as a group, lurking beside the road, and immediately retreat after a round, never give the enemy a chance to retaliate.

This way of stealing cold guns makes the aristocrats of the Eskilin Principality miserable, because the enemy is no longer only for the scouts in front, but sometimes the large forces behind the scouts. A relatively unlucky territory of the aristocrats was more fancy because of riding on the horse, and the result became the target of the enemy's sneak attack. The three muskets were aimed at him, and the two guns in the unlucky aristocrats fell from the horse immediately.

The three sneak attackers jumped away from each other in a distance of about 100 meters. The two sides of the territory had two guns, but they were not prepared because they were not prepared. Under the anger, a squadron was sent to pursue the killing. As a result, the three soldiers who were escaping from the squadron were given an ambush circle set by Diavid, and were almost beaten by the three squads. If the aristocrats in the territory did not feel the gunshots, they sent two squadrons to force Diavid to retreat. I am afraid that the poor squadron can survive even ten soldiers. Not enough...

As a result, at the time of camping in the evening, the aristocrats of the Principality of Eskilin found that they had suffered seventy or eighty casualties this day, and the enemy’s casualties were estimated to be less than four or five. This gave them the feeling of kicking the iron plate. The other aristocrat who was sneaked and killed also gave them lessons. They must not be too prominent and become the target of ambushing sneak attackers. So the next day, all the aristocrats in the territory were replaced with old military uniforms, and they worked hard to mingle with the soldiers.

During the three days, the aristocrats in the territory only honed less than eighty miles on the mountain road. Those savior stalkers who were ghosts were really odious. They had caused the private armed forces of the territories in the past three days. Nearly two hundred casualties. The territorial nobles did not think of ways to retaliate, but the firearms in their hands were a big difference in performance and practicality. If you want to pose a threat to the enemy, you must organize your own soldiers to line up for a volley, but this often makes your soldiers a target for the enemy to target.

The maximum range of the Obash three-type musket can reach a distance of 380 meters, and the 244 meters is the effective damage range, which means that the damage is the most powerful in this distance. The precise aiming distance is from 100 meters to 120 meters, and the gun is easy to float.

Therefore, if the aristocrats of the Principality of Eskilin ordered the soldiers in their ranks to be queued to deal with the sneak attackers, then Diavid’s calculations were in the middle. Because he asked his soldiers to ambush the enemy in groups of three, each group ambushed another group or two groups of responders. The first group immediately retreated after the sneak attack. When the enemy was queued for fire, it just became the target of the other two groups. As long as it can hold down the muzzle, there are more than 50% hit rate on fires two hundred meters away...

For the nobles of these territories in the Principality of Eskilin, they are now in a very embarrassing and dangerous situation. They are not incapable of dealing with the small enemy who harassed the sneak attack. In fact, as long as they are willing to be killed or wounded, let the soldiers under their quest to pursue the squadron's preparations. At the same time, they will attack each other and support each other. If they do not achieve the goal, they will not give up, even if the casualties are bigger. It can also eliminate these flea-like enemies.

But no one is willing to make this idea, because the thousands of others are privately armed by the aristocrats of various territories, and the family’s force is reliant. No one of the territories is willing to consume their own private soldiers. Everyone is looking forward to the self-confidence of others, and everyone wants to save their family. So these three days became very difficult. All the aristocrats in the territory hoped that the aristocrats of the Cannes of the Cannes would first capture the squirrel village, so that the harassment of the enemy who attacked them would retreat on their own...

Diavid, their squadron is also tired enough, these three days they are full of mountains and chaos, more laborious than the enemy. Fortunately, their actions effectively delayed the enemy's march and harvested good results. Their casualties were not great. They only sacrificed one unlucky soldier. They were injured in seven or eight. They are now in full state. There are also three teams. Therefore, he decided to take a day off, monitor the enemy far away, and let the soldiers under his arm resume their physical strength and spirit and then insist on ambushing.

Just what Diavid did not expect was that the enemy did not leave, and stayed in the camp that was tied yesterday. Waiting for the day, the same is true the next day. This made him feel strange, so he sent someone to inform Crowder to see what the enemy was doing.

Claude was just woken up by McJack when he fell asleep. In the past few days, he stayed up late to cope with the enemy's attack and took time to sleep. The people of the Cannes of the Commonwealth of Cannes are attacking at night. They only occasionally try to test several times during the day. They know that launching the attack during the day will only make the soldiers a target. However, it is now found that there are big pit traps on the front of the mountain road, and they stop tossing at night.

McJack awakened Claude because the aristocrats of the Cannes Principality withdrew their troops, and when they opened the window, they could find that the brigade on the mountain road in the distance was going back. As can be seen from the monoculars, the farmers and herders who are wearing tattered weapons and all kinds of weapons are dejected and move their footsteps on the mountain road...

The cheers of the soldiers came from the camp. When I saw the enemy of the brigade on the distant mountain road, all the soldiers were holding a sweat, and the number of enemies was quite different. No one expected that these enemies could be blocked at the corner, and they Did not die alone.

Claude did not agree with the news sent by Diavid. This is probably because the aristocrats in the Principality of Eskilin received the withdrawal of the aristocrats in the territory of the Cannes, so they did not If you continue to march, you should be discussing countermeasures. If they are lucky, they may also withdraw, and they will hold the important level of Squirrel Village.

However, the next day, Diavid again sent someone to send new news, everyone jumped up in surprise. Because Diavid reported that the aristocrats of the Cannes of the Cannes were not withdrawing troops, but on the mountain road of the Principality of Eskilin, the aristocrats of the two principalities had joined together...