Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 281

The Earl of Clarence Castle is a flat castle, so its walls are relatively tall, with a height of five or six meters, or a large piece of rock from the mountains. The entire castle is divided into the former three districts, the former district is the barracks, arsenal, stables and training grounds. The Central District is the location of the warehouse, or the place where the lord is working. The former lord of the Earl was here to deal with the territory, to entertain guests and so on. The back area is a residential area of ​​the original family, and no one is allowed to enter. There is also a small garden and a small pond.

It is said that the three generations of the original lord ancestors spent countless wealth and energy, and decades later built the castle as a reliance on future generations. They never imagined that their offspring would easily give up the family territory and this sturdy castle, making it a stronghold for the enemy, and then their descendants hired an army to attack the castle, which sounds really dramatic.

To be honest, if the head of the original lord, Loyked Bark, was ruined in the fire when he attacked the squirrel village, he would never give up his territory. And this castle. The castle is still sturdy, but it is useless without the strength of the defensive. The Earl of Leukade is finally gone.

Now the Earl of Loikad is back, because the Grand Duke Kannas said to the nobles who abandoned them, asking them to recover the family territory themselves. The enemy is only a battalion of troops, and they are also stationed in four castles. He can send a group of light cavalry to assist these territories, but attack the castle to recruit themselves. If the territories are not recovered, they will be disqualified from the titles and territories of the nobles in these territories.

Although Grands Kanas did not promise to send troops to help them recover the territory, at least they also sent a group of light cavalry to assist them. They did not undertake the task of siege, but they were reconnaissance, cover, and sweeping places. In this regard, from this point of view, with the assistance of this light cavalry regiment, the remaining life of the territorial aristocracy is to attack the castle.

For those aristocrats who gave up their family territory, what they need to do now is to raise money to recruit an armed person to recapture their family territory. According to the return of the light cavalry who went to reconnaissance, now their family territory can't even see a ghost, which makes all the territories of the territories grow a sigh of relief, at least they will not need to be used for those who are useless. The family is responsible.

But the bad news is that the enemy gathered together and was trapped in the most sturdy castle of Earl of Claurus. All the lords here know the sturdiness of this castle. The former Earl of Loyked has shown off. The castle of their family, as long as the family of this squad is armed, the enemy is ten times more powerful and can’t attack, unless The enemy used siege artillery.

Although this is bragging, the castle of Earl of Claurus is indeed difficult to overcome for the territories of the region. Decades ago, the father of Earl of Leukade had a territorial war with the surrounding aristocrats. The seven or eight territories of the aristocrats gathered more than a dozen times and besieged the castle of Earl of Clarence for half a year. Not only did not attack, but the loss of soldiers will be heavy casualties, and finally had to shake hands in the mediation of other territories.

Of course, the heroes of the territories of the territories are very scum, and the family armies of Earl Leukade are not strong enough to go, but they have a strong castle to rely on, which is a big bargain. Now, according to the castle, it is the regular army of the kingdom of Ovilas in the eastern part of the mainland, the strength of a battalion. I don’t know how many people in these territories will be recruited to win...

Don't look at the anti-Austrian coalition forces who have just annihilated the three legions of the Ovilas Kingdom on the prairie. One of them is the Blue Feather Legion, one of the four major trump cards of the Kingdom of Ovilas. Nas Dajie. But these territories and nobles are well-informed people. The main force of this battle is the two legions of the Nasri Kingdom and the seven light cavalry regiments of the Cannes Principality. Although they have won a big victory, this is also a heavy casualty. It’s a big injury and it’s already incapable of fighting again. Now the Grand Cannes’s two light cavalry regiments are arrogant in the prairie and the borders of the former Eskilin Principality. The private order is that if the enemy has a harbinger of counterattack, he will immediately retreat and never entangle with the enemy.

This is also the reason why Grands Cannes only sent a regiment of light cavalry to assist these aristocrats to regain lost ground. He also could not extract more troops. On the prairie, ambushing the three legions of the kingdom of Ovilas, the Cannes Principality found out that he had almost lost four legions. The three temporarily formed regiments did not have to care. They were originally sent to die, but the elite light cavalry who had been besieged by the Blue Feathers and lost a legion was the most heart-wrenching thing for Canas.

The two legions of the Nasri Kingdom were also very casual, the second-line army was half-disabled, and the standing army lost one-third of its combat power. The nine legions ambushed the three legions of the enemy, and they were still on the infinitely flat prairie. The enemy could not rely on the terrain to defend the defense. As a result, although the enemy was destroyed, they found that the casualties they paid were greater than the enemy. It is also a joke.

The aristocrats who know these inner conditions can not recruit themselves to recover the territory and attack the castle of Earl of Krirus. They had a big loss in the squirrel village. They knew that the rabble they had recruited was not the opponent of the well-trained Orvies kingdom. Even if the enemy could not have any intrigues, they occupied the sturdy castle of Earl of Claurus and was still a battalion. This is not a territorial war between the territories of the territories. Everyone is worse than each other. The only thing that can be dealt with by the regular army is the regular army.

Therefore, the aristocrats of these territories turned their minds and took their minds to the newly formed troops of the Eskilin Army and Rimondra. They said that these were also the regular army of the two former Principalities, let them deal with the castle. The army of the Kingdom of Ovilas is not only justified, but also relatively reliable in terms of combat power.

However, Rimondra’s grand prince was asking for a high price. The grand prince who lost his own principality gave a feeling of being insane and crazy, and opened a sky-high price. He said that he could pull over the strength of his three regiments, but their logistics supply would require these territorial nobles to take responsibility.

The faces of the aristocrats in the territory are all white. If they are counted, they will almost let them go bankrupt. The strength of the three regiments is not a small amount. If you drag it for a long time, then everyone will not want to recover any territory. I have to go to dinner. It is obvious that this Rimondra grandfather is not good, this is purely a wish to cook.

So everyone went to the head of the Eskilin army, this time it is more reliable. It is said that the days of the Eskilin Legion are also uncomfortable. The treatment under the fence is very poor. Although the Anti-Australian League has promised to pay half of the military expenses, it is still not interested in this exiled armed army that cannot be held in its own hands.

Although the war has been going on for nearly four years now, the Nasri Kingdom and the Cannes Principality need troops, but the nobles of the former Eskilin Principality are not fools. They know that this army is already their lost country. The only reliance, so unwilling to accept the task of being a cannon fodder, led to the status of this legion in the eyes of the anti-Austrian coalition high-level leaders is getting lower and lower, and the treatment is getting worse.

Both sides are a hit, and the aristocrats of the Cannes Principality need a combative armed force to recover the territory for them and attack the castle of Earl of Krirus. The nobles of the Principality of Eskilin need to find some ally for themselves, and earn some extra money, so that the squadron can get some extra support. So the two sides quickly negotiated the deal, and the Eskilin army sent an infantry regiment to help the territories of the territories regain lost ground.

For the combat power of this infantry regiment, these aristocratic commanders of the Eskilin Principality are very confident. Whatever they say is that they are at the forefront of the Principality of Rimondra and the regular army of the Ovilas Kingdom. Killed. Although it was at the time of defense, it also caused a major casualty of the offensive forces of the Kingdom of Ovilas, which can be regarded as a veteran of the war. Now that the enemy has only one defensive force in the battalion, it is quite affordable to attack the enemy by dispatching an infantry regiment.

Therefore, the aristocratic officers of the Eskilin Army are very optimistic that they can kill the enemy's castles by paying up to two battalions of casualties. This is an overestimation of the fighting power of the enemy and the firmness of the castle.

This is the second day of the enemy soldiers coming to the city. After the enemies of the two regiments came to the castle of Earl of Clarence yesterday afternoon, the light cavalry regiment of the Cannes is divided into four battalions. The three battalions are stationed on three sides of the castle and are responsible for surveillance. The other three sides of the castle. The other battalion rushed to the entrance of the mountain road, apparently trying to close the connection between the mountain road and the castle. They don't need to attack the defensive position that Murray Ed's squadron deployed at the entrance to the mountain. They only need to prevent the reinforcements on the side of the mountain or transport the supplies to the castle.

The infantry regiment of the Eskilin army, after the camp, went to the abandoned village to collect the wood, went to the fruit forest to cut down the wood, made the city ladder and the wooden row car, busy for half a night, until the middle of the night, the number was blown. rest. Diavid also volunteered and wanted to take people out to attack. However, Claude refused to accept this request after repeated attempts. The enemy had just come, there could not be such a big negligence, either to remain vigilant in secret, or to set up a trap to lure the garrison to attack...

Because the night was too late to rest, the enemy did not launch an attack the next morning until a tentative attack was launched at two in the afternoon. Their purpose should be to explore the firepower of the defense on the castle, dispatch a force of a brigade, push seven or eight wooden row cars, use the cover of the broken walls in the village, rush out from the street, want to put wood Push the car to the bottom of the castle, and then use the cover of the wooden car to suppress the enemy on the wall with a precise aiming fire gun...

The idea was good, and the offensive strategy was also very good. The only mistake was that they didn't expect the defender in the castle to be the first battalion to use a precise aiming firearm.

“Do we need to destroy these wooden rafts with artillery?” asked Major Scrry.

Claude shook his head: "Without this necessity, the enemy will also dispatch a brigade's strength. These seven or eight wooden platoon cars are trying to come and test the firepower of our city. Let them be close, we will shoot with them. Choose some outstanding soldiers, and the rest hide behind the wall to help the charge. The enemy's precision aiming fire guns are not as good as our Aubash three-type arques, and the effective range is shorter. They can only be close. City walls, let us target them as targets."

There is only one gate facing the village in the Earl of Clarence Castle. Although there is a trench in the front, there is no water and it is not deep. The other three walls have only one side door covered with iron on each side, but the side door is not large, only one meter wide, sandwiched between two prominent walls. So from the efficiency point of view, the best choice for the attacker is the front door. As long as you cross the ditch and smash the two doors, you can break into the castle.

The enemies who attacked now did not hold the planks laid on the trenches, nor did they hold the city ladder. They only pushed seven or eight wooden carts to the ditch. It was obvious that they wanted to test the power of the artillery that the garrison had placed on the wall. It was only Claude who did not like them. Instead, he selected twenty or thirty gunmen, and attacked the enemies who pushed the wooden car.

Claude is also shooting, and even if the enemy has a block of wood, it will always reveal a part of the body. Many clever soldiers will aim at the parts of the body exposed by the enemy, and then the enemy will scream and fall to the ground, and be taken away by another gun.

From the village to the dagger of the castle in the short distance of 70 to 80 meters, the enemy dropped twenty or thirty bodies. When the enemy parked the seven or eight wooden row cars in front of the trench, they also raised their muskets and counterattacked the garrison on the wall. For a time, between the wall surface and the wooden row car under the castle, the two sides launched a fierce confrontation. The white smoke spread on the wall and under the castle, adding to the difficulty of aiming...

Across the road of Clued five or six meters away, a soldier who showed half of his body on the wall was shot by a gun shot from below, and fell to the ground like a sack.

Claude Daxie: "Attention to covert, don't expose your body, shoot a shot for a place, don't shoot behind a city!"

There are too many new recruits, even if some of them are good, but the experience on the battlefield is really too little. They don't know how to cover themselves. They often forget to be safe. Just now the soldier wanted to see clearly and traced the entire head out of the wall. As a result, he was found by a side enemy to burst into a shot.

Claude has already found the place where the enemy is hiding. He is kneeling in the middle of the wooden raft and the wheel. He puts the fired gun on the ground and puts it on the ground. Although the movement is very slow, the position he hides is concealed and the facade is positive. The soldiers are hard to find him.

Claude took over the rifle that McGee handed over the drug bomb, changed the next city, and set the gun up to the position. The enemy can slam the gun to the gun, but must be straightened up when launching. Sure enough, the enemy loaded the medicine bomb and relied on the big wheel on the big gun. He squatted on the ground and looked up to find the target on the wall...

"砰" Claude buckled the trigger, the ignited fire rope was pressed into the pill box by the handle, the gun body shook, a white smoke appeared in the muzzle, and the enemy’s left eye was caught by the sight. I took out a blood line. He also fell to the ground with no sound, and the rifle on the wheel slowly slipped down...