Black Iron’s Glory

The 451th chapter is a failure, a lesson and an idiot of the Nikkan

Crowder slowly sat down and his face became more and more gloomy, like a volcano that was about to erupt. General Eblon looked at him uneasyly: "Are you okay?"

Slowly spit out a sulking sigh in the chest, Claude gnashed his teeth and replied: "Nothing..."

How could it be all right, Claude felt like he was about to explode. The two messages brought by General Alberton are really bad and can't be broken anymore. As long as he gave Claude five days, no, three days, Claude promised to annihilate the remaining Hundreds of the Hicks in the camp.

Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to do this. Claude must calm down and arrange for the Thunder Army to evacuate as soon as possible. Otherwise, it is not that he annihilates Hicks, but the Thunder Army is surrounded by the Hicks on three sides. The dilemma is over.

Claude couldn't blame anyone, and no one knows that the third group of Hicks' kingdoms arrived at the colony of the Rhodes Bay at this critical moment. One of the two standing corps was just a light squad. It takes five days to walk from the Rhodes Bay colony to the northern mountainous border, but the light cavalry can only be reached in two days or even a day and a half.

And General Beechklin on the Eastern Front, he only took a division of the Rock Corps, plus the 3-1 battalion of the Thunder Corps that Claude sent him, and those Nikancans who could bring the Hicks. The two standing corps of more than a hundred thousand horses dragged on the eastern mountain front for such a long time has been their best efforts. Now that the Hicks have all withdrawn from the eastern mountains, there is only one and a half of the standing army's strength, which is considered a big defeat.

The lurking secret agent of the Rodex Bay Colony sent a letter to the theater, and the theater was transferred to its own side. It has been more than half a day, and the time left for Claude is only one day. Fortunately, it is located here on the northern mountainous border. It only takes two or three hours to enter the mountain area to get rid of the enemy's tail chase. Crowder still has time to pack up the battlefield and bring back all the dead and wounded officers and soldiers.

The Hicks Remnant in the offensive camp, the Thunder Legion has spare capacity, the 10,000 Hicks Remnant who occupied the small mound has been more disabled than the Thunder Legion, relying on the remaining more than 4,000 iron pumpkins on the hand, and then Coupled with civil work, Claude promised to flatten the entire small mound, leaving more than 10,000 Hicks remnants. But with this Hicks camp to defend against the Hicks' two-way siege and more than 200,000 troops, Crowder did not have that confidence.

If the Thunder Legion has not experienced the previous big melee, plus the bullets are sufficient, Claude does not mind staying in this camp while clearing the remaining 10,000 Hicks remnants in the camp. The two enemies attacked each other, and maybe even give the Hicks a good blood.

Quite simply, the light squadron had just arrived on the ship and immediately rushed, and still maintained 30% of the fighting power, Claude admitted. After more than a month of sea travel, people can't stand the horse. Can the Qingqi Legion have enough combat power without the mount? Perhaps Claude can counterattack and also seize a large number of horses that the Hicks are hard to transport.

Instead, the semi-reserved army that withdrew from the eastern mountain front and rushed to the northern mountain border to help rescue, let Claude pay more attention. Because this one-and-a-half of the standing army is formed by the Hicks veterans, even if the defeated soldiers are low, but these Hicks veterans will be rushed up unambiguously. Even if they were tired when they rushed to the long-distance march, it would be difficult for them to get rid of them if they were wrapped up in the Thunder Legion. These Hicks veterans’ battle will have Claude already seen...

Who called the third group equipped with new rifles without bullets, and the remaining seven main field groups now have dissatisfaction with the strength of the three regiments, so that the Thunder Corps in this situation will meet the enemy's two-way reinforcements two and a half. With a standing army of fifteen or sixty thousand troops, Claude would not do such stupid things as long as he did not go crazy.

After the mood was calmed down, Claude issued an order: "Clean the battlefield, pack up, send us the heroic and sacrificed soldiers to go home, take away all that can be taken away, and take all the cars that are not taken away... ..."

In the evening, Claude rode on the horse and turned to look back at the burning Hicks camp. The outermost wall of the log wall was splashed with fire oil, like a circle of bonfires around the entire camp, black smoke. In the sky above the camp, you can see the camp of the flame mountain in a few miles.

It is a pity that the Hicks prematurely set fire to their living facilities such as campsites and warehouse areas. Otherwise, they will burn together now. Maybe they can use the smoke to keep the tens of thousands of soldiers trapped in the small mounds. Smoked to death. This will burn the entire camp, but the space left by the site is too large. Those Hicks remnants are very guilty of being in the small mounds, but if they have enough water, they can still survive, and count them!

"Let's go!" Claude said to General Albert, who was turning around, and turned his head to the northern mountains.

The fire in a valley has been burned for three days and three nights, and will continue to burn for a few days. The remains of more than 18,000 war-torn Thunder Corps officers and soldiers were all burned into ash jars and brought back to the Yinglieshan cemetery where the Legion was buried.

It was a small hill near the town of Lanhu, directly under the jurisdiction of Amphitheatre. The theater was assigned to the military cemetery and renamed Yinglie Mountain. No matter whether it is the Thunder Army or the Rock Corps, and the officers and men of the local garrison, as long as they are heroes who died in the battlefield of the direct jurisdiction, they will all be buried in this military cemetery for future generations to pay homage.

Needless to say, this is Claude's idea, and this idea has of course been unanimously endorsed. It’s just that Claude didn’t expect the Thunder Army to have so many martyrs staying in the Yinglie Mountain this time, and that General Albert’s first command of the Second Division’s offensive camp lost more than 6,000 people, a total of nearly 25,000 sacrifices. The soldiers.

This time the Thunder Legion's attack was equivalent to the loss of a division's strength, and there were more than 20,000 light and severe wounded, including more than a thousand people who were retired because of the disability. This is almost the point of the Thunder Legion. It kills the enemy 10,000 and damages three thousand. It’s just that Claude’s regret is too late. If he knows that there will be such a big fight after the second protective wall position, he might let those Hicks.

No one thought that the Hicks would be so mad and rushed to death, and the battlefield was unmasked. The soldiers on both sides are like the traditional war mode. They are facing each other at a distance of a dozen or twenty meters, and then they are together with a bayonet...

More than 18,000 heroic soldiers died, and nearly 16,000 people fell in the second battlefield. The previous seven days and seven nights of the Thunder Army only paid more than 2,000 soldiers. The sacrifice.

Of course, the Hicks are also not good. There are more than 44,000 names of soldiers collected from the scene of the big melee. It is conceivable that after the Thunder Army captured the second protective wall position, the Hicks had already invested all their remaining forces in the subsequent counterattack, but they eventually failed.

The lesson that Claude learned in this war is that the bullets of the new rifle must be replenished, and the new rifle without bullets is not as good as the fire stick. In fact, this can't blame him for his carelessness and carelessness. It is the long-standing habit of using arquebus to let Claude forget that the new rifle is a weapon completely different from the arquebus. It cannot be used to infer that the new rifle is in a big battle. Bullet consumption.

When Claude went to the Blue Feathers Army to join the army, the war broke out in the Eastern Region in the following five years. At that time, the soldiers who participated in the war took the arquebus, and each person was equipped with guns and fire ropes that could be fired 150 times. In fact, many soldiers do not have to replenish guns and gunpowder in addition to the fire rope for three years, because it is impossible to put ten shots and twenty shots in one battle.

In most battles, a soldier can enter a face-to-face close-knit hand-to-hand combat with a maximum of one or two shots. Only the soldiers armed with the Obash three-type arquebus can precisely aim at the shooting, and can shoot several times in combat.

Claude led the troops this time, equipped with the first three zero three groups of new rifles, that is, the soldiers of the third group, in addition to one hundred bullets carried by each person, the Legion Logistics Department also stocked a number of bullets. These soldiers equipped with new rifles can be supplemented with three more bullets each, and Claude believes that so many bullets are enough to supply this attack.

But I didn't expect that, in the end, because the bullets were not supplied, they couldn't afford to eat such a big loss. The Thunder Legion paid such a heavy casualty price and lost a lot. If the third group of bullets does not need to be retracted, then even if there is only more than an hour to prepare, they can simply lay out a bunker and then use the bursting ability of the new rifle to give those who are crazy against the Hicks. An awkward lesson...

Claude believes that if his imagination can be true, then the Thunder Legion does not need to pay such a large casualty price. For the Hicks, it will be a massacre. The more they rush, the more troops they assemble, the faster they die.

The hoist gun charges the bullets, and the enemy can use this time to rush straight into your face, forcing you to give up the idea of ​​shooting again and his white-knife close combat. The new rifle has six combos. Every time you shoot, you only need to pull down the bolt to pull the trigger again to shoot the enemy. It is as fast and natural as breathing.

It may be said that the process and time of loading the rifle after one shot of the rifle is enough for the new rifle to be fired six times and then reloaded with a magazine. The arquebus did not hit the target once, so when the charge was shot and the aiming shot was again, the target of the first shot did not know where to go.

The new rifle can be fired once in a single shot until it hits the target. This may be the biggest reason why the soldiers who are equipped with new rifles consume very fast bullets. No one will watch the target they are aiming to escape. Everyone has the mentality of not accepting the loss, so they often waste on a dynamic target. Several bullets...

It is a pity that there is no regret in the world to buy, whether it is Claude's past life or this life. The only thing Claude can do is to keep this lesson in mind and avoid making the same mistakes later. Maybe the bullet replenishment of the new rifle soldier needs to be doubled in the future. After all, it is too simple and convenient to pull the gun to trigger the aiming shot.

"General, the leaders of the Nikkan camp have come again. They still hope that you will assign the captured Hicks throwers and iron pumpkins to them so that they can confidently hold the frontier mountainous positions.... .." The newly promoted adjutant, Captain Mason Hughes, quickly walked to Claude's side and interrupted his contemplation.

Claude’s original adjutant, Lieutenant Anders, was appointed by Claude to become the acting head of the 1300 regiment, replacing Colonel Jed Walker, who was unfortunately killed.

Crowder's mouth outlines ridiculous ridicule: "Let them get out of the way, I really don't understand the courage they came from, I want to get a throwing ride and iron pumpkin from my hands. Tell them, either buy it with real money, Or just roll away, lest people look upset."

But the newly appointed adjutant, Captain Mason Hughes, has not yet touched Claude’s temper: "But the general, the Nikancha leaders, said that if they don’t assign the throwers and pumpkins that our legions seized, then they It is impossible to resist the attack that the Hicks are about to launch. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, they can only retreat and abandon the northern frontier mountainous areas, and can no longer provide cover for our legions..."

"Ha ha ha..." Claude was all laughed. Did the Nikkan cadres know if the Thunder Army was entering the mountains not to escape and avoid the Hicks, otherwise how could it be? Will stay here. When the Nikkan people saw that the Thunder Army had killed so many officers and men, they thought that the Thunder Army had escaped from a defeat.

Then the Nekancans discovered that there were more than two standing army members of the Hicks outside the mountain border, and they complained that Claude commanded the Thunder Army to attack the Hicks camp and recruited more enemies. They did not know that the Thunder Legion had wiped out nearly a thousand Hicks of nearly two standing army groups, leaving only 10,000 remnants.

When these Nikkan people found that the Thunder Army, which they thought was defeated, escorted more than 20,000 Hicks captives and nearly a hundred carriages filled with iron pumpkins. They put on the ideas of the Hicks kingdom's throwers and iron pumpkins, in the name of guarding the northern frontier mountainous positions, and asked the Thunder Army to hand over the seized throwers and iron pumpkins to them against Hicks. What is the offensive that people are about to launch...

There is no way to communicate with these idiots. These Nikkan people do not want to think that if the Thunder Corps fights and can defeat so many prisoners and transport so many spoils? Crowder did not hesitate to let them go far. Unexpectedly, these idiots were still persevering, refused to go back three times and still want to throw the thrower and the iron pumpkin, but this time also said that the abandonment of the front position does not give the Thunder Army a cover threat.

This is to swindle Captain Mason Hughes, who has just been promoted from the position of the civilian officer of the Logistics Department. It will allow Claude to take a fancy and promote him to take over as a lieutenant of Lieutenant Colonel Anders. Captain Mason Hughes took the big fortune.

Claude knew Captain Mason Hughes on the battlefield after the big melee, when he lay on the bodies of several Hicks and slept soundly. Claude thought that he was a war dead officer. It didn't feel like it was very strange to take care of him. When he came closer, he found that he was still snoring. This is the first time that Claude has seen someone taking the enemy's body as a mattress. He thought that the captain was a bit abnormal.

But the soldier next to him told Claude that the captain of the logistics department was on the battlefield for the first time. He was very brave and his shooting was very accurate. He smashed three Hicks veterans with a rifle, and killed an enemy with a bayonet. He also involved the remaining soldiers to destroy the last five Hicks veterans. He only paid three deaths and eleven injuries. At the cost, the Thunder Legion soldiers here withstood the last attack launched by the Hicks.

Captain Mason Hughes is a civilian and is 28 years old this year. He was expanded into a regiment after the Second Colonial War by the Rangers, and was transferred from the Kingdom to the overseas territorial war zone. Because he graduated from the logistics major of the Wangjia Military Academy, Captain Mason Hughes was assigned to the Guards Corps as a logistics officer. At that time, he was still a young man, and he was full of ideas.

Because of the birth of civilians, and the number of aristocratic corps of the Guards, many of the Mason Hughes have no chance to make a difference. When the Royal Army Department recruited new recruits to prepare for the expansion of the Rangers, the Lieutenant Mason Hughes, who was inspired by the Rangers’ mission, submitted an application for the transfer of the Rangers to the mainland of Nobsia for the Kingdom. .

So the second lieutenant Mason Hughes came to the territory of the direct jurisdiction, and because of the regular military school, the logistics professional officer, the Marshal Michelle, who was heavily recruited, made a big stroke and transferred to the newly formed five enhanced divisions. Inexplicably became the logistics and civilian officer of the Second Line Corps, promoted to Lieutenant, and became the subordinate of General Albert.

Then, a few years later, Lieutenant Mason Hughes, who was dedicated in the logistics department, was promoted to the rank of captain, and served as the logistics director of the 28th Field Camp of the 1st and 3rd Regiment of the Thunder Legion. This time, the first division of the General Albion General and the second logistics officer and the direct service staff were temporarily organized into three camps. Captain Mason Hughes volunteered for the first time.

At the beginning of seeing the blood and seeing the body of the land, Captain Mason Hughes spit up the river. But he was very adaptable and soon became familiar with the killing rhythm on the battlefield. Although as a logistics officer, Captain Mason Hughes has a strong military skill and won the trust of the soldiers on the battlefield. After the injured chief in the area where they defended was sent, the captain of the highest rank, Mason Hughes, became the highest commander of the brigade soldier.

Commanding the soldiers to withstand the enemy's last attack, Captain Mason Hughes felt very tired to lie down for a while. There was no place to lie on the ground, and there was blood on the ground, so he simply dragged several enemy bodies and put them on the ground. I didn't expect to sleep when I closed my eyes. Claude thus saw the real scene of the sleep of the enemy...

Captain Mason Hughes didn't know that he was in Crow's eyes, and soon General Eblon took the order to find him and asked him to be the deputy officer of Claude. Just because he had just taken office, did not understand Claude's temper, and did not deal with the Nikkan people, so he would tell the threat of the Nikkan people in front of Claude.

"Let them get out of the way. If they don't leave, let the guards go and drive them away. Tell these idiots, our Thunder Legion never needed their cover, let them not be passionate..." Claude I feel that I can't be true with these idiots. The words of the past life are coming, and the idiots will turn themselves into idiots, and then those idiots will use your rich idiot experience to defeat you this new idiot...

But Claude did not expect these Nikkan people to really give up their frontier mountainous positions and not say goodbye the next night. Crowder, who got the news, was really happy. He ordered Captain Mason Hughes to order: "Let Diavid's three regiments to receive these positions and tell them that here is the territory of our theater.... ."