Black Iron’s Glory

The forty-fourth chapter of the fierce battle camp

Although General Alberton commanded the second division of the Thunder Corps to attack the defensive camps of the three divisions of the Hicks in the northern mountainous border, the casualties were heavy. But for Claude, he still found the fighter. Very simple, the second division has more than 10,000 casualties, and even the Nikkan people are equally heavy casualties. How many troops will the Hicks lose?

Why the Hicks will drive the second division commanded by General Albert to drive out the front of the occupied position when the first division of the Thunder Corps approaches the camp, regardless of casualties. Claude thinks it is the Hicks. Insufficient strength, unable to cope with the two directions of the front and rear, can only be the first to re-create the second division, regained the lost ground and then turned over to deal with Claude's first division......

According to General Albert's estimate, Claude believes that the Hicks casualties in the camp should also have a division's strength, which proves that the second division collected more than 8,000 in the three-day battlefield. The soldiers of the Vs veterans, this is still collected from the body. According to the calculation of casualty two to one, then the Hicks in the camp has been disabled by a division.

If there are two Hicks veterans of the four divisions in the camp, then Claude may have to consider whether to command the first division to launch a storm, but it is estimated that there is only one leg of the Hicks in the camp. The strength of the two divisions, then there is nothing to worry about, Claude decided to follow the original plan, first annihilate the Hicks veterans here.

As General Albert said, the first wall defense was easily placed in the hands of the first division, with the first and second battles in front, only to continue to attack. Only in the third battle, I met the stubborn resistance of the Hicks. The Hicks veterans were always ambushing in the trenches of the trenches until the soldiers of the Thunder Corps approached and suddenly rushed out to fight the white-bladed fighting...

In addition, the Hicks also placed more than a dozen light infantry field artillery on the third trench, and also made a careful camouflage. Because of the height drop, most of the second battle can be seen from the third battle. The two trenches are about 50 meters apart. General Albert said that the Hicks used the height difference of the trenches to pose a great threat to the officers and men of the second division with precise aiming, until the officers and men of the second division solved the problem by using the soil under the feet. The enemy hit me, but I could not reach the enemy's predicament.

Claude had prepared for this, so that the attacking soldiers directly took the board and entered the trenches to build the footboard. But I didn't expect the Hicks to use the defense against shooting. The soldiers who had been in the trenches for a moment also forgot the danger. As a result, when the troops gathered in the second trench to prepare to continue their attack on the third trench, the Hicks were hidden in the third trench. The light infantry field artillery fired a shot at the assembled unit, and the first group of Berklin was immediately reimbursed for a brigade of more than 200 officers and men...

Received reports of offensive frustration, Claude can only sigh, the enemy is also improving, they are also improving their defenses. Claude immediately ordered the troops to stop attacking the third battle, but to defend the second battle. Since the enemy regards this place as the main battlefield of the defensive war, then it must be well prepared. The first division does not need to lose its own strength in order to occupy the third battle.

Claude let Berkelin's first regiment attack to the left, and Murray Ed's second regiment attacked to the right, first occupying the first wall defense line of the entire camp and the two front trenches, exempting the left and right wings. The danger of a raid to the enemy. In doing so, it is also possible to join the positive second division to join the offense. Although the second division of General Albert is still able to play only two regiments, but this one million joins the battlefield to give Claude. The first division brought a lot of help.

In addition, Claude also wants to test the number of the Hicks's strength. This defensive camp is very large, even if Claude commanded the Thunder Army to occupy the entire first wall defense line and the two front trenches. It is also equivalent to dispersing the strength of one's own hands into all occupied positions, and let the Hicks find a cohesive force to gather troops to launch a raid on a certain area.

But the purpose of Claude is this. This is to turn to the offensive, give up and the Hicks in the third trench area they have prepared to entangle the consumption force, but in the second first battle or even the first On the road wall defense line, I waited for the work, and waited for the Hicks to deliver it to the door. Although the troops are scattered, there is only one small team in the second trench area, but this is a big net. The Hicks don’t want to go back as long as they launch a surprise attack.

The Hicks were indeed confused by Claude’s move. They didn’t understand why Crowder would disperse his troops under these positions. Do you want to trap them? So they launched several exploratory attacks, only to their surprise. The soldiers of the Thunder Legion defending in the second trench saw that they were not resolutely resisting the attack, but they resolutely evacuated. In their hands.

So the Hicks continued to attack the first trench and found that the first battle was also the case. Continue to attack the first wall defense line, the first wall defense line is easily occupied by them. Only the enemy did not find that they could not go back. The Thunder Legionnaires in the left and right wings of the occupied area of ​​the second trench had already launched a counterattack and quickly regained their position, then occupied the first trench and the first wall. The Hicks veterans of the line of defense became the shackles of the shackles. They carried out heroic and tenacious resistance and eventually became martyrs.

At first, the Hicks thought it was too little force to attack, and the Thunder’s counterattack was too fast, so they increased their strength to attack and prepared to expand along both sides of the attack area. The entire occupation. It’s just that the Hicks veterans can’t resist the soldiers of the Thunder Legion that were wrapped around the left and right wings. The area they occupied will always fall back into the control of the Thunder.

Until the Hicks veterans of a battalion were also surrounded by the area between the first trench and the first wall defense, the Hicks talents understood that this was the trap set by the Thunder Legion. No more active attacks. Just to get this lesson, they lost nearly one regiment.

"The Hicks are indeed not strong enough, otherwise their last offense will not only be invested in one battalion. If they can invest in a group of Hicks veterans, then they can withdraw at least half of the people." Claude General Eblon said.

General Albert finally nodded and thought that Claude's analysis made sense. If the Hicks have sufficient strength, they do not need such a small family, and even the first attack will directly invest in a regiment.

Then, when attacked by the Thunder's two wings, the people who occupied the first wall defense line and the first war can be evacuated more quickly, or put into resistance, and will not be surrounded so quickly. The soldiers who might have escaped talked about the offensive process, and the Hicks commander could understand the trap set by the Thunder Legion.

All the Thunder Corps units that launched the offensive on both wings were the three groups of Diavid’s men armed with new rifles. The three groups were divided into four battalions, each occupying four points, which area between the four points Attacked by the enemy, the two battalions on both sides immediately attacked from both wings and surrounded the enemy.

Compared to a arquebus that can only carry a cumbersome charge on a gun, the six-shot bullet of the new rifle has an advantage in this trench attack. The four battalions of the three regiments annihilated the Hicks nearly 5,000 troops in two days of casualties with less than 400 casualties. Especially the Hicks veterans, who were ready to fight the deadly white-bladed fighting, and were knocked down on the ground in the bursting shots of the new rifle, and they died.

Since the Hicks no longer attacked the positions occupied by the Thunder Legion, Claude’s anti-customer commanded the third group of Diavid’s soldiers to launch a sniper battle with new rifles, all of which showed their heads within two hundred meters. The Hicks have become the target of shooting. The ten sniper rifles that were successfully developed before the war were the main force of the sniper. The Hicks observation post that was exposed three or four hundred meters away from the position could be shot.

While using the new rifle and sniper rifle to turn the Hicks into a scorpion, Claude let the fourth group of the Thunder escorted a large number of prisoners into the position, and drastically rebuilt and expanded the first and second trenches. The excavated soil was piled up on the trenches and built into a half-height wall, completely blocking the observation line of the Hicks' condescending, so that they could no longer see the situation in the second and first trenches.

The Hicks veterans who were defensive in the camp were resentful, because their captive compatriots worked on the positions. They couldn’t fire or shoot to stop the construction. They could only call these captives to escape, except for the swearing. During the period they also organized two offenses to rescue some of the Hicks captives, but their offense failed, and even the captives who followed them escaped were killed in the trenches and positions. Since then, all Hicks captives have worked hard and no longer run away.

Claude used Hicks captives to expand the first and second trenches in order to house the captured Hicks-produced throwers. He was preparing to bomb the Hicks with the Hicks iron pumpkin. Defensive trenches. From the 5,000 iron pumpkins seized by the Hicks General Logistics Base Camp, Claude is ready to use on the Hicks camp, and he does not believe that the Hicks' tortoise shell can not be blown.

With the new rifle and sniper rifle closed the Hicks' observation line, and stacked a half-human mud wall on the trench, plus Claude directly let those Hicks captives from the first battle to the first The road wall defense line also digs out the deep traffic trenches to the periphery, so that the Hicks do not know that the Thunder Legion soldiers are pushing more than one hundred heavy trebuchet style throwers in the first and second The war is already in place.

When nearly a hundred iron pumpkins were thrown into the air and thrown into the third trench, the Hicks veterans who were defensive in the third trench ushered in their catastrophe. Claude ordered the key bombardment of all the third battlefields leading to the fourth trench, so that the walls of the pits on both sides were destroyed and lost their cover. The Hicks veterans who led the garrison in the third trench either evacuated from the traffic squad by bombing with iron pumpkins or climbed out of the trenches and evacuated from the positions.

No matter which one they choose, they will become the target of new rifles and sniper rifles. The fact that Hicks veterans can be withdrawn from the fourth trench, and the withdrawal to the fourth trench does not mean that they are out of danger, and Claude has ordered the second trench. The thrower threw an iron pumpkin into the fourth trench.

The Hicks kingdom's thrower can throw iron pumpkins a hundred and thirty meters away, and even adjust the distance to control the throwing target to a hundred meters. The third battle was a distance of more than one hundred and ten meters from the first battle, and it was within the throwing range. Of course, this throw also has a big deviation, not where you want to vote.

Claude ordered eight rounds of nearly seven hundred iron pumpkins to be thrown into the third trench, and that one third of them actually fell into the trenches, but this third fell into the trenches of the iron pumpkin, which was enough to clear. Most of the Hicks veterans who are guarded inside. When more than twenty throwers placed in the second trench began to throw iron pumpkins into the fourth trench, the soldiers of the Thunder Corps had already rushed to the third trench and successfully occupied the position. Then a large number of Hicks captives were escorted and began the transformation and expansion of the third trench...

From the third trench, the bodies of nearly 5,000 Hicks veterans were removed, and when the positions were evacuated and killed, it can be determined that the Hicks lost another regiment. For these Hicks veterans, Claude admire the tenacity of their will to fight, but he still believes that such a stubborn enemy is still clean and clean.

Because in the process of occupying the third trench in the Thunder Legion, many Hicks veterans who were stunned or injured caused the unexpected Thunder Legionnaires to suffer unexpected injuries. Finally, Colonel Murray had to order, The soldiers under his hand saw the bodies of the Hicks veterans who fell to the ground in the trenches, and gave them a shot or a bayonet, lest they suddenly violently change their lives...

The Hicks had a big loss in the third trench, but they still did not give up. Claude sent a Hicks captive to send a letter to the Hicks commander in the camp. As a result, Claude's request was rejected, and the Hicks were captured and the pain was released. He was insulted and beaten by the Hicks veterans. He was considered a traitor and played for the enemy. If his commander did not need him to send back a letter, he might not return.

Claude knows very well that the Hicks believe that they can still hold on to the second protective wall, and the rear-mounted thrower has not yet come in handy. Now waiting for the Thunder Legion to attack and occupy the fourth battle, then the Hicks will be able to retaliate back to the hatred of the third defeat.

If you are condescending, the Hicks Kingdom’s throwing throw can throw the iron pumpkin to a distance of 150 meters. That is to say, the third battle is 10 meters ahead. The Hicks are placed behind the second protective wall. Within the scope of the bomb. But Claude was not so stupid to send the soldiers of the Thunder Army to attack and occupy the fourth battle. He bet that the Hicks must have forgotten the most important point. The territory of the direct jurisdiction also has throwing bombs, or the first toss. Users.

The Hicks were very clear that the thrower was throwing the maximum distance of the iron pumpkin, so they were indifferent to the Thunder Legionnaires’ intensive coercion of the Hicks captives to dig trenches and expand their positions. Even if the Thunder Legion placed the thrower in the third trench, it could only be thrown at the fifth trench, and the second protective wall and the behind the throwers and light infantry field artillery could not be injured. .....

Kroeder was prepared to place the thrower in the third trench not to throw iron pumpkins, but to throw throws from the theater production. The throwing bombs produced by the territorial warlords are not as big as the iron pumpkins, but they are light and concealed. They do not need to ignite the fire ropes to expose the throwing places like iron pumpkins. It is only necessary to slightly adjust the inside of the hoisting rope to a length of one centimeter, which is enough to fall over the distance of two hundred meters.

At the beginning of the second defensive front in the eastern mountains, General Beechklin used the captured Hicks kingdom to throw the throwing ball produced in the theater, which increased the throwing distance to more than two hundred meters. The iron pumpkins thrown by the Hicks alleviated the crisis of the defensive front encountering the iron pumpkin bombing. It is likely that the Hicks, who were stationed here on the northern mountain border, did not understand this, so Crowder was allowed to place the thrower in the third trench.

Although during the three days, the Hicks also launched several night raids, they were all repelled by the soldiers of the Thunder Corps who had been prepared. Perhaps the Hicks really lacked some strength. The strength of the attack on these nights was not too much. The intensity of the attack was not too strong. After dropping more than 100 bodies, they returned and let Claude The commander successfully placed all the throwers in the third trench.

Although the Hicks did not arrange observation posts on the open positions, the secret prying was still indispensable. Even if Claude had those Hicks captives on the trenches using the excavated soil to build a half-man high wall to cover the situation in the trenches, the Hicks were still aware that the Thunder Army was about to launch an attack, so They are also ready.

The first division reserves a total of more than 1,200 throwing throws in the theater, plus three hundred remaining in the second division. Claude is ready to use all of the more than 5,000 throwing bombs in front. A second protective wall within a kilometer distance, from which the opening of the second protective wall is opened. The Thunder Legion really wants to launch an attack, but it is not to entangle the Hicks between the fourth and fifth battles, but to break through the second protective wall in one fell swoop.

With the release of the order, more than a hundred throwing bombs flew into the sky. The Hicks behind the second protective wall are still a bit puzzled. Isn't this a waste of iron pumpkin? In the fifth battle, no one is guarding, and it is a waste of effort to blow up a bad meal. Hicks talents woke up until the throwing bombs in the sky fell to the second protective wall. At this moment they had no reason to explore why the Thunder Legion could throw the tossings so far. The most important thing for them now is Keep your life...

The cheers of the Thunder Legion soldiers in the third trench continued to ring, and nothing was more morale than watching the enemy bombing. On the top of the second protective wall, the front and rear constantly rise to explode the fire and black smoke, and vaguely see the human body and various objects that have been blown up into the sky...

"Fried well!" General Albert was very excited to order: "Throw all the throwing bombs. The last two rounds of the throwing forces launched a total attack, killing the enemy's defenses in one fell swoop and destroying all the Hicks. !"