Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 279 is withdrawn

"You are lucky," Claude said.

Major Scurry had three squadron soldiers out of the castle to rescue the old and weak women and children who had been slaughtered. There were three main reasons why they could fight the enemy in the village for one day and one night. First, the light cavalry of the Cannes of the Cannes did not expect that the defenders who had been huddled in the castle would take the initiative. They had been eliminated from a small team at the beginning, and the two sides were not much different in terms of strength.

The second is the original lord, the name of the Earl of Leukade Barr. Claus should be a caring person. He built the village less than a hundred meters away from the castle. It is likely to be prepared to put the castle and The villages are connected and upgraded to the city. Therefore, the enemy light cavalry could not use the speed to intersperse between the village and the castle, cutting off the retreat of Major Scree. Because of this distance, just within the precise aiming range of the city wall guards, I tried to give up the plan by throwing four or five dead bodies twice.

The last reason is that the original lord of the count was the most powerful of the territories of the territories here, so as a facade, the villages under the castle are not broken houses and shacks like other territories, but some planning, along the street On both sides of the house are relatively good houses with a neat stone structure.

After they rushed into the village, Major Scurry raided the light cavalry who were carrying out the atrocities, and then launched a street battle with them in the village, using these houses to make the enemy’s light riding raids lose their effect. I have been persisting until now, and I have also saved a lot of old and weak women and children.

Claude They saw the black smoke here in Landes Castle yesterday afternoon. The light cavalry found that they had no way for Major Scree to set fire to the houses in the village and the farmland outside. The sound of the gunfire was naturally heard by the two sides, and the sound of the artillery was the guards on the wall in order to cope with the rescued old and weak women who broke into the castle and launched a ballistic blockade from the village to the castle on both sides of the road to prevent the enemy. The light cavalry slammed the castle at this time.

"Actually, you are really adventurous this time. The enemy can't break the castle, but there is nothing wrong with entanglement in the village. Those who can rush in the house can burn in a house until you have nowhere to hide. When you are ready to withdraw from the castle, you will suddenly smash it out and gather with you, you can scrap the artillery on the wall to meet your guns..." Claude looked at the corpses all over the village, with the Cannes Principality The cavalry, the soldiers who have a battalion, are more headless bodies that have been cut off their heads and dressed in civilian clothes. These are the old and weak women and children who were slaughtered.

"I know that I did impulsively." Major Scurry said with a wry smile: "But I really can't stand the fact that the beasts will kill the old and the weak women and bully the women in front of us. You know that these are all of their own duchy. People, how can they get down? Together with those young pleadings, the soldiers are fighting, and we are not much different from the enemy. How can I endure hiding in the castle as a tortoise? ......"

If Claude encounters such a situation, he will also play, otherwise he will not be able to command the soldiers below, especially under the conditions of equal strength. If he refuses to play, he will only bear the timid and weak title. The prestige is lost. Even after this incident, the crimes of sitting and watching the enemy slaughtering their own people will be investigated. Therefore, Major Scree can only take the soldiers out of the castle.

Fortunately, Major Scree’s mind was still sober. After rushing into the village, there was no rash to let the soldiers attack the enemy. Instead, they occupied the houses on both sides of the street for the first time, using windows and doors to attack the enemy light cavalry on the street. Forcing the enemy to build up a force on the street to launch a charge, and at the same time set up a roadblock on the street, driving the enemy out of the street with a dense row of guns.

The enemy did not expect the defenders in the castle to take the initiative, they can only withdraw from the village. The light cavalry is not good in the village, and it will only be a target in street fighting. Around the open space behind the village, I was shot by the guards on the wall. In desperation, I could only dismount in the village and the Major Scree. They competed in one room and one lane. To put it bluntly, they shot each other across the distance, but in the weapon. They ate a lot of losses, and finally set fire to the house...

"It's all my fault. I shouldn't recommend dispersing the four castles. If we gather together, the enemy's strength will not dare to let us go." Claude is very honest. The facts have proved that the defensive strategy of his four brigades stationed in the four castles is wrong. The enemy can ignore the three castles and attack the castle of Earl of Crawance here.

However, when Crowder sent out reinforcements, he gave the enemy a chance to fight for help. The most troublesome thing was that the battalion of the squadron could not match the enemy. The terrain here is flat and it is the place where the light cavalry is used. This time the enemy is just a squad of a brigade, so the battalion of the battalion is so embarrassing, if it is also a battalion of troops, I am afraid that everyone has no good results this time.

If it is in the mountains, perhaps the strategy of Crowder's division of troops is correct. The enemy will be countered by four castles regardless of the attack. But here is the grassland. The enemy only needs a small team to ride the garrison of a castle. If it wasn't for Claude's night raid that wiped out the squad of the Rands Castle, then when he sent troops to the rescue camp, the enemy could completely assemble the light squad to deal with the unit that Claude had reinforced. Even if Claude brought four light infantry artillery pieces, the enemy could only destroy them with a certain price of casualties, and the light cavalry would be as serious as long as it could break into the infantry.

This is actually a stranger to Claude. After all, he has never attended a military school and received a complete military education, either in his previous life or in his life. He was only the most basic non-commissioned officer training when he joined the Blue Feather Legion. The defensive strategy of this division's four castles was only his own consideration. If there is an old military officer with more than a decade of experience in the military, it will naturally be understood that this garrison plan is an undesirable strategy for the troops without machine power on the grassland.

Although Major Scurry graduated from the junior military school, the profession was not a strategic command, but an administration and management. Later, he went to the Hansback Prince for six years as a deputy, and was responsible for information and personnel information consultation. aspect. Although it is a qualified soldier, the strategic vision is not much stronger than Claude. In addition, because of the fact that the battalion commander had a slap in the heart of Claude, he also thought that he could not match Claude in combat command, so the advice to Claude was almost obedient, and he did not hesitate to adopt the gram. Lord's suggestion.

Until now, the two people understand that the strategy of this division is not correct, but they still have the opportunity to correct this mistake.

"It doesn't blame you, I haven't found this mistake." Major Scurry sighed: "Now the real light cavalry of the Canas Principality is found to have seen the descriptions previously seen in the report not the exaggerated description of the officers and men below. But on the top we are too self-righteous, thinking of the enemy too simple and too stupid, thinking about it too much..."

Claude smiled bitterly: "This light cavalry squad sent by the enemy is a veteran, very elite, and should have been transferred from the Principality of Rimondra. I really can’t think of why the enemy pays so much attention to this remote area. I used such an elite to carry out reconnaissance..."

The captain of the fourth brigade came, and Claude remembered that he was transferred from the rear, called Cod Walker, as if he were a nobleman. He is here to report the casualties.

The old and weak women and children living in the village were slaughtered in half, leaving only 460 people, and the young women were taken away by twenty. Major Scurry had attacked three squadrons yesterday afternoon, killing 61 people, forty-three in the dead, and two in the disabled. The rest is light and serious. It is worth noting that, except for a dozen of casualties who were killed and wounded in melee combat, the rest were all casualties in the room-to-house confrontation with the enemy.

The enemy left eighty-nine bodies, including the 27 of them who were found to have been attacked by Claude when they were recruited by Claude. The body. In other words, Major Scree and the light cavalry fought in the village for a day and night, the casualty ratio is almost one to one. This proves that Claude is right, the enemy of this brigade is all elite veterans.

Fortunately, in the village, there is a house to cover, and it is a street fight. If you encounter the light cavalry of this squad in the wild, they are afraid that no one can return from the Scrian Major who attacked the castle. Fortunately, the enemy has only one brigade. If there is another brigade, the result can be imagined.

"I don't want to understand why such an elite light cavalry would be so embarrassed about the people of their own Principality. How can they kill these old and weak women without any scruples..." Major Scurry muttered.

Claude did not understand, but the captain of the fourth brigade, Captain Cod Walker answered this question: "Sir, I used to like to read a book, and I have read a travelogue about the Cannes Principality. There are some very interesting chapters. The book says that the Cannes is not the same as other countries. It is dominated by the tribes of the territories, but by the tribal leaders. Really speaking, Canas is only the largest nomad. The tribal leader, only later he passed the war between the tribes, won the most fertile Beibu Gulf area after winning, and began to settle down and establish a country, only to have the Canas.

After the establishment of the Principality, Canas Grand Duke introduced some policies of neighboring countries, prepared to reform the Principality, and divided the territories of the territories to quell the war between the nomadic tribes. However, his actions were unanimously opposed by many nomadic tribe leaders who believed that the Canas Prairie was a treasure given to all nomadic tribes and could not be divided. Therefore, Canas Grand Duke can't do anything. It can only divide the area under the foot of the Daqing Mountain where we are now, and divide it into the territories of the tribal leaders who are willing to settle, and give them the title.

The rest of the nomadic tribes still graze on the prairie for a living. The small-scale wars between the tribes and the tribes often compete for the pastures. The winners will plunder the young animals and kill the old and weak because they think the old and the weak are useless. Living is just a waste of food. So they are very embarrassed about the old and weak of other tribes..."

Perhaps this is the custom of Kanas's nationals. Claude and Major Scurry face each other. This is the most savage folk custom they have ever heard. After a long time, Major Scree asked: "What should we do next?"

Claude considered this question: "We have to gather the four brigades here and give up the three castles that are stationed. The castle of Earl of Claurus is large enough to accommodate the strength of our entire camp. But I I think it is best to send a squadron to defend the entrance to the mountain road. That is our retreat. It is also the channel for us to obtain rear reinforcements. It must be in our hands.

I have seen the terrain on the side of the mountain road. It is very dangerous. The mountain road is also very narrow. An infantry squadron plus four light infantry artillery pieces is enough to resist the enemy's intrusion. The only trouble is that there is still a barren hill, and we need to build a defensive facility. I don’t know if the enemy will give us this time. As long as you keep the entrance to the mountain road and the castle, we don't have to worry about the enemy of a group.

Another problem is that we need to send these captives and the young and the young and the old and the weak, and we can no longer leave them here. If the enemy returns, they will only increase our material consumption, and at the same time become an unstable factor in our defense. Another one who stays here is also very insecure. ”

"Okay, just do it." Major Scurry nodded and said: "First dispatch the reconnaissance cavalry to confirm that the enemy's light-riding brigade has left. If the enemy has already left, then we will hurry up, first gather the troops, but also put those three The grain reserves and ammunition in the castle reserve are shipped back. Yes, Claude, you think it is better to let the squadron to defend the entrance to the mountain."

"Let Meridian go to the squadron. He is safer to do things. He led a squadron to station in Blackstone Village alone. This time he can be equipped with four guns." Claude thought about it and thought it was still Give your younger brother more peace of mind. If you let Markie, the veteran oil, lead the team, maybe he will sneak away when he sees the enemy. As for the second, third and fourth brigades, to be honest, Claude did not understand the newly transferred squadron leaders, and at most it was a familiar one.

Soon, the reconnaissance cavalry came back and the enemy did indeed go.

Claude said to Major Scurry: "You must first withdraw everyone to the castle, and then give me a squadron. How many horses do I have? I will immediately set off to the second brigade and withdraw the personnel and supplies there. ......"