Black Iron’s Glory

The forty-fourth chapter of the night attacker

As the battalion commander of the local garrison of the Rocks Bay City, Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando is very satisfied with his position. It is indeed a good place to care for the elderly, with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. He even planned to write to his relatives, so that they would move from their hometown to here, where they would set up a manor farm and make the family a local celebrity in this colony.

Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando is forty-three years old. He has served in the fleet of the Virgin Goddess of the Fox Islands in the United Kingdom for twenty-five years. From a small trainee sailor to become a naval major officer of the kingdom, became the captain of the fat head ocean transport ship. For a civilian naval officer, it is already a great achievement. In his hometown, a small fishing village, Mr. Le Mando has become a legend.

However, Mr. Le Mando had a bad luck. In a small-scale battle in a pirate attack two years ago, his left wrist was cut off and he had to retire from the Navy. In order to appease the naval major who has been quietly dedicated to the hard work, the Admiral of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands transferred him to the local garrison and appointed Mr. Le Mando as the battalion commander of the local garrison in the Bay of Lodz Bay. , promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

It is only that Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans does not understand why the Fox Islands United Kingdom is going to intervene in this colonial war between the Hicks Kingdom and the Kingdom of Ovilas. The Hicks Kingdom is a regional powerhouse in the northern part of the Faurea continent, and the Kingdom of Ovilas is also a regional power in the eastern part of the continent. Even though the kingdom of Ovilas was ruined by a five-year war in the eastern region, it was a big country for the Fox Islands, but it was not easy to offend.

Perhaps it can only be blamed for the golden light of the Hicks Shield in the Hicks Kingdom, and the Fox Islands has opened the precedent for renting the entire colony. Fortunately, it is understood in the lease agreement that except for the Rockex Bay City, it is not subject to the Hicks’s jurisdiction. Otherwise, the captain of the local garrison of Le Mansour’s lieutenant battalion has to be unemployed in less than a year.

Because renting a colony is a precedent, Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans also had to deal with the Hicks every day, just like other local administrative officials. Although the Rocky Bay City is also under the jurisdiction of the Fox Islands, most of the residents of the city are outside the city, and it is inevitable that there will be an intersection with the Hicks Kingdom. The disputes between the two sides are endless, and local administrative officials Mediation of these contradictions is exhausting...

The difference between Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans is much simpler. He is only responsible for the security of the city and the protection of the Rocky Bay City. Even if he encounters a Hicks drunk in the city, he just needs to throw these drunken uniforms into the carriage and send them back to the base camp. In his opinion, these Hicks are very good Kay, and there is money around them. Since they came, the land of the wind and moon in the city of Rodex is even more lively, and the price level has improved.

Today, for Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando, it is still a very ordinary night. He used to go to the city wall to patrol before going to sleep, this is the habit of his warship. In the hustle and bustle of the sea, the captain’s night patrol will make the night shift soldiers feel energetic and dare not to be numb, but also bring courage and confidence to the vigils in the face of this endless sea night.

When the patrol was almost the same time, Le Mans had to correct the wall and suddenly heard the gunshots. The sound was not loud. Which Hicks soldiers should drink more guns and fire. This kind of thing happened several times before. Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando looked at the general logistics base of the Hicks in the distance, and then he was there...

The guns and explosions of the Hicks’ general logistics base, which has always been brightly lit, have been heard. Under the fire of the campfire, you can clearly see the people who have fallen to the ground and fled. There seem to be countless black shadows in the dark wilderness outside the camp, which are approaching the big camp. Gunshots, explosions, crying and screams are constantly coming from the camp.

What surprised Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando was that the attackers’ assaults were untouched. With the bonfire at the gate of the big camp, you can see a strong figure rushing into the big camp, they kneel down on the ground to shoot, or use a shiny bayonet to assassinate the fleeing figure. The Hicks in the big camp did not seem to have organized an effective counterattack, only to see the sound of gunshots and explosions from the periphery to the depths of the camp.

Night attack! I actually saw a real night attack... The body of Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans trembled on the wall. It was not fear, but excitement. Nothing was more shocking than witnessing a real battle. It’s not a drill. The big camp over there is a real war. Countless lives are dying, blood is flowing on the ground...

"Lt. Lieutenant Colonel, I, what should we do? Will it be attacked by those people?" A screaming voice next to me suddenly made Lieutenant Colonel Le Mansou wake up.

"Fast! Close the door! Don't let anyone enter the city, don't let anyone go out!" Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans yelled: "The city head immediately ignited more bonfires, no firewood? Then don't hurry to collect Put more of our flag of the Fox Islands in the United Kingdom, so that people can see it in the next city! Why, stupid, I am protecting everyone's life, don't forget that we are neutral, do not participate in any party to this war! Faster!"

Under the pressure of Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando, less than an hour the soldiers of the local garrison on the wall had already arranged everything, and all the soldiers in the camp at the rest of the barracks were woken up, armed with muskets. I hurried up the wall, prepared all kinds of defensive artillery on the wall, and finally calmed down the mind of Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando.

I don't know if these local garrisons against pirate attacks can resist the attack of those who attacked the night attack... Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans is thinking about this life-and-death problem in his mind. At this time, in addition to the crying and screams in the big camp two kilometers away, only the occasional gunshots and explosions, it is clear that the Hicks’ total logistics base camp has been captured by the attackers. It should be at the end of the sweep...

It’s so fast, it took only over an hour to capture such a large camp. There is also the garrison power of a Hicks division. Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans had to fight for the night attackers. Marvel, is that the so-called forces of the Ovilas Kingdom overseas direct jurisdiction? Doesn't it mean that they only have two local second-line regiments? If the fighting power of the two second-line local corps in the Kingdom of Ovilas is so strong, then the colonial war in the Hicks and the Kingdom of Ovilas is really hard to judge.

Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando was not a corps who had not seen the Hicks. In his eyes, the officers of the Hicks were not worth mentioning. Those logistics executives and senior officers of the legion are all vulgar people who are greedy and greedy. They are even searching for their own pockets to enrich their money through this colonial war. Don't think that Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans doesn't know that they spend all of their money in the city every night, and they add up to the name to increase their expenses so that they can get a profit.

Sometimes Le Mans and Lieutenant Colonel believes that the residents of the city have sold their goods to the Hicks and have already set a very high price. But what he didn't expect was that the Hicks who were in charge of purchasing were even more excessive, and they doubled their purchase price as their rebate. The result was that a sheep sold the price of a cow... ...

Even in the heart of how to despise the senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom, Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando still had to admire the strong fighting power of the Hicks veterans. In his view, the soldiers of the Hicks Kingdom are the best soldiers, but they are older and more sullen than talking. But they are obedient to the command, and the tactical training exercises are very perfect. No matter in which country, such soldiers can be called elite sharp soldiers...

Therefore, Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando believes that no matter how incompetent the senior officers of Hicks, such a strong and capable soldier can still easily win in this colonial war. After all, the Hicks Kingdom prepared 10 standing army and more than 600,000 troops this time. This is already a powerful army in the Faurea continent, enough to destroy some small kingdoms and the Principality.

But this night’s witnessed night attack made Le Mando’s lieutenant colonel understand that the news of the frontline wars that Hicks senior officers revealed at the banquet a few days ago was true, not that they were guilty and Covering the truth, and the troops in the overseas territorial war zone of the Ovilas Kingdom are more powerful than the Hicks.

There was a loud quarrel in the back.

"What happened?" Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando turned around with some anger, only to find that a large group of senior Hicks officers who were happy in the city did not know where they got their main logistics base. The news came to the wall to see if someone was cheating on them and joking with them. A few drunk senior officers are still screaming, let the local garrison soldiers open the door and think of the city to go back to the camp to have a look.

"Take their military uniforms and put them on the wall." Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando thought about it. It is better to give them a face and let them go when they are still in cooperation with the Hicks. The walls, but they can't be allowed to wear the uniforms of the Hicks Kingdom.

"Le Mans! What do you mean by this?" A senior Hicks officer who knew Le Mando was smashed in military uniform before he put him on the wall. He was so angry that he even had the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans. Not to mention, directly called the name, in fact, this is already very rude and insulting nature can even lead to a life and death duel.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans did not care about them, but looked at him with a poor eye: "I am saving your life, stupid! Your enemies have captured your total logistics base camp, if you still wear The uniform of the Hicks kingdom stands on the wall, and I guarantee that the enemies who attacked the big camp will turn to attack our city. You think that our Lodx Bay City, a place with less than a thousand people, can withstand it. Live their attack?"

The senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom who went to the city wall were speechless, they were greedy and greedy, but they were not stupid. They all knew that Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans was telling the truth. They just looked up in the direction of the big camp, and some still Carrying a monocular is even more in front of you.

"I, our big camp was really attacked, attack?" asked an obese Hicks logistics officer, shaking his voice. The current battalion seems to be a bit calm, only occasionally a gunshot, the explosion is gone, but there are crying and screams. The fire in the camp was also brighter. It was not as regular as the original one. Several tents should have been burned, but no one seemed to care, and no one went to the fire...

At a distance of more than two thousand meters, even though the fire in the big camp is very bright, it is still not clear in the monocular. There are a lot of people coming and going at the gate of the big camp. The Hicks senior officers standing on the wall almost inserted the binoculars into their eyes, still can't see what the uniforms worn on those figures are. Look like.

"Yes, those attackers only took more than an hour to capture your camp." Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans made all the Hicks senior officers standing on the wall cold. They are very clear about the loss of the general logistics base camp, what impact it will have on this colonial war, and even the past that they could not explain in Marked III.

There was a loud noise in the wasteland in front of the city wall, which sounded like many people rushing toward the gate of the city wall. Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando ordered the first time: "Everyone is prepared to extinguish the fire rope and not to shoot. The artillery on the wall is also careful, don't point the artillery!"

In the darkness, a large group of people rushed into the fire wall of the city. Le Mansour’s lieutenant colonel discovered that a large group of Hicks’ squadrons rushed out. It seems that they all escaped from the camp. . Runn is not angry, lost the helmet like a wolverine, some no hats, some uniforms, some bare feet, more are empty hands, simply did not take anything arms. When I ran to the gate of the city wall, I stretched out my tongue and breathed out, and my body relaxed. I was already crying and shouting at the door, letting them open the door and let them enter the city...

"Don't ignore them, don't open the city!" Commander Le Mansau hated and hated.

A senior Hicks officer rushed over and grabbed the collar of Lieutenant Colonel Le Mans: "Why don't you let them into the city, they just escaped, we still need to get enemies from their mouths. The information, I told them to open the gate!"

The soldiers at the local garrison camp were horrified. They were not the Hicks senior officers who re-ignited the fire rope and pointed their guns at the wall. They used a bayonet to hold the senior officer who seized Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando: "Fast Let go! Release it immediately, back!"

Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando was very calm and waved his left hand. There was no left palm on it. There was only one big iron hook, indicating that his soldiers were not nervous.

"Do you know what these soldiers in front of the wall in the city mean? It means that our Roddakers Bay City Local Camp is standing with your Hicks Kingdom and becoming the enemy of your enemy. And our Fox Islands Union The kingdom has issued a statement that we are neutral in your colonial war with the Kingdom of Ovilas, and will not intervene or interfere in this war. If the enemy does not infringe on the Lodz Bay City, we cannot shoot it. Counterattack, it is also forbidden to challenge the enemy..."

Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando pointed to the Hicks's deserters who were begging under the wall: "If I put them into the city, I would stand on your side and shelter the squad of these battalions. You The enemies can attack the Rodecks Bay City in a right way, and our Fox Islands United Kingdom cannot blame them because it is our first violation of neutrality.

If I meet your requirements, it means putting the entire Rhodes Bay City in a dangerous position. Once the attackers who attacked your battalion attacked the city, it’s not just these squadrons, even you Will die or become a prisoner. And I will also be the biggest sinner in our United Kingdom, because the people of my entire Kingdom of Rodex Bay City have been sent to the hands of your enemies, let them be trampled and plundered and killed..."

The senior Hicks officer who grabbed the collar of Le Mansour’s lieutenant was unable to let go and squatted on the floor, his hands covering his face and weeping. The senior Hicks officers on the wall knew that Lieutenant Colonel Le Mando was right. They could not do anything about this large group of squadrons under the wall, and they could only let them cry and cry under the wall.

Time is just like this. In the past, the large group of soldiers under the wall has changed from crying to crying and gnashing and hateful curses, but the guards on the walls are still indifferent, there is no open door. The meaning of their entry.

"Receive the troops, let Colonel Berklin go to gather these deserters. The chief of the local garrison in the Rocks Bay City is very wise. There is no opening gate to put these soldiers into the city. We can't find a reason to attack this. City, let them put a horse." Claude faintly told.

"But the generals, the senior officers of Hicks are in this city, do we let them go like this?" Murray Ed said a little unwillingly.

"What about that? The Fox Islands has long stated that it is neutral in this colonial war, and renting a colony to the Hicks Kingdom is just a business. We and the Hicks are fighting for their lives in their colonies. Will manage, but our unreasonable offense belongs to their Lodx Bay City, it means to declare war with them, the Hicks will be happy to die, they want our enemy one more...

Although the Army of the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands is not worth mentioning, their naval fleet is indeed very strong, and it is easy to add trouble to the harbours and coastal areas of our direct control zone. It is not necessary for us to add a powerful maritime enemy to ourselves at this time, and let the senior officers of the Hicks Kingdom stay in the city to escape the fate of being captured by us. What is such an incompetent senior officer, I am eager The more Hicks Kingdom, the better..."

Since Claude has made a decision. Murray was no longer persuaded, but arranged for the commander to inform Colonel Berklin who was lying in front of the city wall.

Looking at the soldiers of the Thunder Corps, who suddenly appeared silently in the darkness, surrounded the large group of screaming Hicks in front of the city gate, and took their captives neatly, regardless of their pleading. Colonel Le Mans, on the wall, felt that the back was cold and stretched out and found that the clothes had been soaked by cold sweat...