Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 448 Offensive Failure

After learning about the current situation from the messenger, Claude can only smile. Obviously, the general commander of the Hicks’s name has already seen through his own plot, so the Hicks troops on the east line will withdraw completely and give up all the occupied eastern frontier mountains. The Hicks of the three divisions on the northern mountainous border are recalling the reinforcements, and now they must be sticking to the camp.

And Claude is now faced with two choices, one is to carry out the original plan, and the generals of General Albert, the Hicks who sandwiched the three divisions on the northern mountain border. The second is to split the troops, send a regiment of troops to **** more than 20,000 Hicks prisoners to continue, and led the three regiments to turn east, attacking the Hicks who are evacuating from the eastern mountains.

Choosing a comparison insurance point, at least the winning fruit won't be discarded. It is very risky to choose the second. No one knows whether the Hicks of the three divisions on the northern mountainous border will take the initiative to rescue the prisoners. It is difficult to smoothly send the prisoners to join the General Albert with a regiment. In addition, even if Claude led the three regiments to attack the Hicks who were evacuated from the Eastern Front, there was a great possibility that the enemy could not be blocked in the mountains.

Since the Hicks general commander has already seen through his own planning, he should be prepared, and Claude suspects that he can't ask for anything with the troops to the east. At the northern mountainous border, there is only one division in the hands of General Albert, and it is difficult to form a repressive situation for the Hicks of the three divisions. If you bring troops to the east line, perhaps the Hicks of the three divisions can still draw troops out of their own hands, so that for Claude who cut off the logistics and replenishment, the threat will be even bigger..... .

Another unfavorable factor was that Murray Ed’s second regiment and Diavid’s three regiments, the more than 9,000 officers and men who went to ambush the enemy’s reinforcements, were emptied, and in vain for five days in the wild. Although the morale of the two days has improved a lot, but Claude suspects that if they take them to the east line, can their body persist?

Forget it, the bird is not as good as a bird, and Claude dismissed the idea of ​​going to the Eastern Front. He decided to attack the Hicks of the three divisions in the northern mountainous area according to the original plan. As long as the Hicks of these three divisions are annihilated, and the garrison force of the division, which is the headquarters of the total logistics base, it means that the two army’s standing army is eliminated, and the impetuous Hicks It is also a heavy blow.

After making up his mind, Crowder sent a letter to General Albert, asking him to command the troops to attack the Hicks camp and involve the Hicks. At the same time, more than a dozen Nepali camps deployed in strategic locations in the forefront of the northern coastal mountains will be able to pull the momentum, so that the Hicks who hold the camp will think that the theater has launched a comprehensive counterattack.

However, three days later, Claude discovered that the progress of the war was not satisfactory after the meeting between the Hicks camp and the General Aberant from the dry river ditch. General Albert, commanding the second division of the Thunder Corps and the sixteen Nikkan camps to break the Hicks’ first camp defense, but the Hicks used the advantage of the force to launch a white-knife battle. The attackers who occupied the first line of defense were rushed out.

"The casualties of our offensive forces are somewhat large." General Eblonte said bitterly: "The second division has invested four regiments in rotation, but only three of them have been withdrawn, including the wounded. The Nikancha camp also lost seven, and now those Nikancha people have refused to follow us to attack. In addition, our throwing bombs are very expensive, and the current reserves can no longer support us to launch a big offensive. ""

The offense was not the fault of General Albert. He commanded the troops to launch a night attack and used the toss to cover the Hicks’ first camp defense. The Hicks were caught off guard and captured with a slight casualty. The first line of defense for the Hicks camp. Whether it is command or tactical choices are ridiculous and blameless.

But General Albert has underestimated the fighting resilience and revenge of the Hicks veterans, and the defensive camp set by the Hicks to the advantage of the first line of defense. When I attacked the Hicks’ first camp defense line from the periphery, I couldn’t see any abnormality. However, after occupying the first camp defense line, I discovered that the enemy’s second defensive line was the first line of defense. The average height is three meters, which limits the attack path of the first line of defense to the second line of defense. At the same time, it is condescending and can cover all areas of the first line of defense with artillery.

The general camps are divided into two types: permanent and temporary. The permanent camps refer to the places where the troops are stationed for a long time and for a period of time. The temporary camps are basically camps for short periods of time during the march and during the war. Resident camps need to set up wall walls and trenches, as well as defense towers and sentry posts and other defense facilities, while the temporary camps are not so particular, basically a simple trench, or a fence around the wood or something... ...

The resident camps and the temporary camps are all set up with defensive warning lines on the periphery. Most of them are built as tents for the officers and men, and separate areas to distinguish the different units. The defensive camps are actually one of the resident camps. The only difference is that their area is several times larger than most of the resident camps. This is to combine the defensive positions and the camps to stay strategically, and to assign troops to be responsible. The garrison of each region.

From the outside, the defensive camps where the three divisions of the Hicks are stationed are no different from the general resident camps except for the large area. The outer periphery is also the base of the log wall and the dirt piled up behind the original wooden wall. One hundred meters away from the warning tower, three trenches were excavated outside the log wall.

According to the pre-war reconnaissance, it can be seen from the heights that the Hicks built a civil-protected wall, the first log wall, at the distance of two or three hundred meters behind the log wall in front. Five gullies were also excavated on the ground between this protective wall...

After Crowder led the Thunder Masters, General Eblon launched a sweeping attack on the Hicks' perimeter guard post and used one of the three new rifles that Claude left. The battalion of the Zero Third Regiment successfully executed several snipers and ambushes against the units that the Hicks attacked. Forcing the Hicks to retreat to the camp, not to send troops to attack or close to the northern mountain border.

However, since the Hicks had been rushed back in the past, the Hicks had been huddled in the camp, and it seemed that there was no interest in responding to the harassing attack on the camp by General Albert. No matter how the Thunder Army soldiers outside are teasing, they just don’t attack, as if they are ready to stay in this camp.

Then General Eblon received a letter from Claude's eagle, letting him attack the Hicks camp and attract the attention of the Hicks, waiting for Crowder to lead the Thunder Army. When you come later, you can hit the front and back. General Eblonte carefully arranged the offensive plan, and launched a night attack on the second night of receiving the letter from the eagle, which captured the Hicks' first camp defense.

It was only after occupying the first wall defense line that General Albert found that he seemed to be smashing the horse. In the periphery, the Hicks people's first wall-to-wall defense line launched a harassing attack. At that time, the Hicks were like a tortoise, and they didn't attack and lazy, and they didn't even care. However, the first wall-to-wall defense line was lost, and the Hicks suddenly woke up from their dreams, and the violent thunder began to fight back and forth day and night.

Especially when the soldiers of the second division of the Thunder Corps entered the trench behind the first wall defense of the Hicks camp, they found a big problem. There is a height difference of about one and a half feet between the first trench and the second trench. That is to say, in the first trench, shooting outside the wall is no problem. But to shoot in the direction of the second trench, but not enough, you need to pick up your toes or put a wooden stool under your feet.

Looking at the five trenches between the first and third hundred meters between the first wall and the second wall of the Hicks, I really can’t see any problem, that is, I noticed the small slope. No one is a big deal. As a result, the soldiers and the Nikancha people who entered the five trenches suffered a big loss. They can't beat the enemy, but the enemy is very easy to conceal and carry out precise aiming shooting through a trench.

For the officers and men of the well-trained Thunder Legion, this is not a big difficulty. Soon, they used the experience to use the high soil layer to counterattack and appease the Nikkan people who entered the trench. Firmly occupied the first two trenches, and launched a counterattack to the third trench. However, the reason why the Hicks set up these five trenches between the first wall defense line and the second protective wall is to turn the two 300-meter distance into the main battlefield with the attackers. Only here, they can take advantage of the superiority of the force to be passive.

The Hicks placed most of their trebuchet-type throwers at the back of the second protective wall, covering the fourth trench and the fifth trench in the throwing range, even the segmentation, which segment The throwing device of the trench is responsible for which thrower. Without knowing this, the Thunder Corps officers and the Nikkan people suffered a big loss when they entered the last two trenches. The Hicks throwing bombs killed nearly 1,000 people.... .

General Albert was on the front line to direct the attack, but was attacked by the Hicks defensive artillery. He almost screamed. Or the guard captain around him was awake, grabbed him and jumped into the trench next to him, avoiding the fate of one of the five giants in the theater. But the adjutant of General Albert and the two guards were not so lucky. They were killed on the spot by more than a dozen fist-sized solid bullets.

It was also because of this personal experience that General Albert was able to understand that the Hicks monitored all the movements from the first wall to the second wall. When General Albert finally decided to come to the battlefield, his unusual uniform appeared on the first wall defense line and became the attention target of all Hicks Observers. The wall line is about three hundred meters away from the second protective wall, not within the range of the iron pumpkins thrown by the Hicks, otherwise General Albert will be warmly welcomed by the warmth of the sky...

However, the Hicks still mobilized more than a dozen light infantry field guns to carry out a fire bombardment against General Albert, but fortunately, General Albert was blessed and escaped. Only in the battlefield, General Albert found that the frontline warfare was very serious, and the Thunder Corps officers could not occupy the fourth and fifth wars...

In terms of weaponry, the soldiers of the Thunder Legion occupy the range advantage of the precise aiming shot of the Ebash three-type arquebus and the Sonya 591-type new rifle. After overcoming the problem of the height difference between the trenches, The Hicks veterans who defended in the next two trenches formed a deadly threat.

The Hicks did not want to engage in the exchange activities with the soldiers of the Thunder. They simply gave up the fourth and fifth battles, and most of them retreated to the back of the second protective wall, and they simply did not show up. The precise aiming of the Thunder Legionnaires lost their place.

In the case where the fourth and fifth battles were covered by the Hicks' iron pumpkin throw, the Thunder Legionnaires had to occupy the fifth trench before they wanted to attack the second protective wall. Only after occupying the fifth trench can the toss bombs be used to blow up the Hicks throwers placed behind the second protective wall, lifting their threat to the fourth and fifth battles.

The Hicks also know this very well. The fourth battle can be allowed by the Thunder Legion soldiers. Those who watch the soldiers in the high places, which Thunder Army soldiers or the Nikancha people are assembled in the trenches are a little more armed. The signal was thrown at the Iron Pumpkin, forcing the attackers who occupied the fourth trench to be scattered and unable to gather together...

After General Albert found this, he secretly made a trick to let the Nikkan people go up, hoping to use the Nikkan people to consume more of the Hicks' iron pumpkin reserve. But soon the Hicks understood that they were no longer concerned about the Nikkan people. Instead, more than five Thunder Army soldiers gathered together and inevitably attracted the throwing bombardment of the iron pumpkin.

So General Albert also wanted Nikkan to change into the uniforms of the Thunder Legionnaires. The Cannes surveyors were not all fools. They did not believe that General Albert’s change of military uniforms could show that our attackers were more The great powers refused to replace the military uniforms by shocking the enemy’s ghosts.

This was only the fourth trench. The fifth hurricane, the Hicks, arranged a light infantry field artillery that fired a shot, and blocked the entrance from the fourth trench into the fifth trench. A small number of people can be put in. Many people use several artillery pieces to block the entrance, and throw the iron pumpkin to bomb the surrounding assembly sites, so that the soldiers of the Thunder Legion can not get close to the fifth battle.

General Albert was trying to get the soldiers of the Thunder Corps to rush into the fifth battle, and then use the carried tossile to blow up the thrower behind the second protective wall. But soon found that this road does not work. The Hicks left a small number of veterans in the fifth trench to guard, and the soldiers of the Thunder Army rushed in. It was sending food to the Hicks veterans.

From here, General Albert has to mention the fighting will of the Hicks veterans. He believes that these Hicks veterans fight very stubbornly, especially not afraid of death, and the battle is extremely fierce. This fierceness is not only for the enemy, but also for themselves. In the final battle of the front and the battle of the white-blade battle, General Eblont repeatedly saw that the Hicks veterans held the iron squash with the ignited fire and struck the line of the Thunder Army in order to die together, causing the left-wing Nikkan people to finally collapse. Thus the position was captured by the Hicks...

It's not that the Thunder Legion has captured the Hicks' first wall defense. Entering the first three trenches means taking the initiative on the entire battlefield. The Hicks have been in passive defense. In fact, the second division of the Thunder Corps occupies only a small position on the front of the Hicks defensive camp. While continuing to attack the Hicks’ second protective wall, it also guards against the Hicks. Counterattack initiated by the left and right wings.

General Alberton commanded the second division of the Thunder Corps to occupy only the first front wall defense line for three days. These three days were fighting all the time. The first two days can also use the throwing bombs and new rifles to suppress the Hicks counterattack, but on the third day the Hicks gathered a large number of troops, attacking the left and right wings involved a part of the Thunder Legion defense forces Underneath, suddenly launched a wave-like assault from the front...

Hicks veterans are attacking from a height. They not only marched forward along the connected trenches, but even prepared to board the wooden boards on the trenches, directly launched the charge in the flat, and then jumped into the first three trenches. The officers and men of the Thunder Legion and the Nikkan people fought a white-bladed fighting.

At first, the Thunder Legion was able to withstand the enemy's swoop, but as the casualties grew, Hicks became more and more, and the first three groups began to be unable to stand. When a few Hicks veterans rushed into the crowd with their iron pumpkins ignited with a flaming rope, the collapse of the Nikkan people caused the position to fall completely...

General Albert said that he couldn't figure out at the time why the Hicks would be so crazy to regain their position, even in spite of casualties. It was only when I saw Crowder that I realized that the Hicks had already known that Claude’s troops were close to their camp. In order to avoid the two sides of the attack, they must first regain the frontal position and give General Albert's troops a heavy blow so that they can turn their heads to deal with the rear Claude attack.

"How many casualties?" Claude did not expect to be like this ending, and did not expect the enemy to set such a targeted defensive position as the main battlefield for the defense of the camp.

"The total number of casualties is more than 10,000, almost one-third of the total strength of the second division, of which nearly 6,000 died, so I said that I lost a group." General Albert was somewhat frustrated. It was the biggest defeat after the establishment of the Thunder Corps, and the casualties were lost in such a large position. Now the morale of the second division is somewhat low.

"The number of casualties in Nikkancha is more than 10,000, and there are more than 7,000 in the war. This is mainly because they did not bring back the wounded who stayed on the position when they finally collapsed. The result was all given by the Hicks. Execution." General Alberton can only shake his head:

"Now they blame me for chaos and think that I deliberately commanded them to go to the battlefield and believe that the attacking enemy camp is only the responsibility of our Thunder Army. They were originally responsible for defending the mountainous areas and should not be involved in the offensive. So now The Nikkan people have refused to cooperate with our Thunder Army and are unwilling to continue their attacks..."