Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 257 Offensive and Defensive

After the news that the front-running brigade was lured into the ambush and the army was almost annihilated, Cannes Dukedom and Eskilin Dukedom’s territorial nobility cautiously stopped marching, tied the camp, and recruited those few The people who fled back quickly figured out the situation.

Eskilin Dukedom This mountain road leading to the Semarang Village Sancha crossing is different from the mountain road leading to Canas Dukedom. The mountain road of Canas Dukedom can be called Panshan Road and one side is a cliff. On one side is the valley, and the mountain road is halfway up the mountain. The mountain road of Eskilin Dukedom is sandwiched between two mountains, with hillsides and cliffs on both sides.

In addition to the mountain road leading to the Sanchadao Pass passing under the Squirrel Village, there are four places on the mountain road that can be taken from the hillside to the back of the Squirrel Village. In the case of ABCD, the front Mordred is to take a cold shot at point A, and then entice those people to catch up to point D and be ambushed. Claude’s defensive position was set at point D, because the hillside at point D is the closest to Squirrel Village.

Now the two Dukedom’s territorial nobility coalitions are camped in the hillside woods opposite point A. They sent several squadrons to reconnaissance. They also know the defensive positions set up by the enemy in the squirrel village at point D. There was a dispute over the territory nobility.

Some of the territorial nobility believe that since the enemy has placed more than one hundred garrison troops on the defensive positions, it is obviously an empty nest, and it is definitely empty in the squirrel village. As long as a part of the troops are involved in the enemy on the defensive position, the other part is rushing along the mountain road. As long as the squirrel village is taken, the enemies on the side of the enemy are copied, and they become the sandwich in the pie. They want to run without running. Lost.

The other part of the nobility believes that it is impossible for them to leave such a loophole to us in terms of enemy blackmail and insidiousness. There should be a lot of traps on the mountain road to the Squirrel Village to delay our march. Since the enemy will set up a defensive position on the hillside, it means that there is a point that he must defend, not by intrigue. We can completely rely on the superior strength to capture the enemy’s defensive positions on the hillside, and then capture the squirrel village, relying on the strength to push it…

This is actually a radical and steady two viewpoints. Walking along the mountain road to avoid the enemy’s defensive positions, one is quick, and the other is to avoid the actual smashing, and can avoid excessive casualties of the troops. And to attack the enemy’s defensive positions, although the enemy has only one hundred, it can still cause relatively large casualties to the party. In addition, there will be delays in delaying the consumption of a small amount of food ammunition carried by the troops, which is not a good choice for the territory nobility.

Finally, the nobility of the territories decided to try the idea of ​​quickly going to the squirrel village along the mountain road. This time they dispatched two battalions of troops, one battalion went straight to the squirrel village along the mountain road, and the other battalion was responsible for the defensive position on the hillside. Keep the enemy and make a squatting posture, so that the enemy can’t divide the soldiers to support the squirrel village.

Of course, the enemies who walked on the mountain road still did not forget to drive the two Hummers to the front. But unfortunately, when I walked to the mountain road not far from point D, several enemy soldiers were run down the hillside defensive positions, and a chaotic gun killed two horses in front of the road…

This distance is somewhat embarrassing for the battalion that is on the mountain road and the battalion that is responsible for the enemy in the defensive position. Because these soldiers who killed the Hummer only need to turn around and tens of meters to return to the defensive position, and it is easy to send people to pursue the enemy’s shooting range, and then chase can not be turned into a life.

But how can you find out if there are any traps on the mountain road ahead? Never let the soldiers go to the road. The reported nobility of the territories quickly came up with ideas. They concentrated all the hummers in the camp, two in a batch, and inserted a knife on their ass to drive them on the mountain road.

Sure enough, the Hummer in the running is not so easy to be hit by a musket, even if a shot of the horse’s vitality can still insist on going forward for a while. Soon, “bang”, there was a big trap on the mountain road. Two hummers were planted in the trap, and the screams of the humour were heard in the trap, but they stopped after a short whisper…

This trap Claude used three pots of gunpowder to blast the mountain road, and a team of soldiers took a day to dig. Unexpectedly, only the two Hummers were trapped in the enemy and they were discovered by the enemy. Claude could only shake his head and smile. But it doesn’t matter if you don’t dig into a few enemies. The reason why it takes so much effort to lay out this trap is to stop the enemy from moving forward. I just don’t know how many soldiers in the territories are willing to spend the life of the soldiers to fill this trap.

The position of the trap is between the two mountains, and the other side is the cliff wall of tens of meters high. The enemy cannot climb up. On one side of his own is a small stone mound twenty or thirty meters high. If the enemy wants to board this small stone mound, he must come to capture his defensive position. Otherwise, they can’t go around.

Of course, the enemy still has a choice, that is, to fill the big trap on the mountain road. However, Claude placed a cannon on the small stone mound, which was the trophy that Ledfang Major sent to Claude in the southern three counties, and the light-weight live ammunition produced by Eskilin Dukedom. This artillery can not launch a shotgun, the effective range is only three hundred meters away, and the light infantry artillery equipped with the Kingdom of Aueras can be said to be not a grade, belonging to the goods being eliminated. But in the Eskilin Dukedom, this artillery is the fire support of the infantry field.

If it wasn’t for the small stone hilltop area that was small enough to arrange the next artillery, Claude would have liked to arrange two light infantry artillery pieces. Just considering that the defensive position requires the artillery of the artillery to cover the shooting to defeat the attacking enemy, Claude can only remove the garbage cannon from the warehouse, and let Mordred bring a small team of soldiers to the small stone mound. Their mission is to stop the enemy from filling this big trap.

The territorial nobility people really thought that the big traps on the mountain roads were buried, so they drove the people to cut wood and prepare to fill the big pit on the mountain road. But what they didn’t expect was that the enemies on the defensive positions actually ambushed the guards on the small rocky hills on one side of the trap. They were still in a position where they could get you but you couldn’t carry out the counterattack, carrying the collar of wood and earthen bag. The people are like the targets being knocked down on the mountain roads one by one, there is no way to get close to the big trap.

When the nobility of the territories allowed several wooden rafts to be used to withstand the musket, the artillery on the small stone mound also opened fire. The mountain road was narrow and could only accommodate a wooden platoon, so that the artillery had sufficient time. Come aim at the fire. Moreover, the mountain road is bumpy and sloping, and the enemies above the small stone mound are condescending, and it is possible to shoot the cart that can’t hide the body behind the wooden row car. There are fewer people who can’t push it up. When people are more and more hit by muskets, even if they are seven or eight meters away from the big trap, the artillery on the small stone mound is enough to destroy the wooden row.

One afternoon, the efforts of the nobility of the territories have become hard work. The airy nobility of the Dukedom of Eskilin pulled out the four light-weight live-fired artillery pieces and prepared to compete with the artillery on the small stone mound. However, the artillery above the small stone mound is the same model as the four artillery pieces of the nobility of the territory, but it is placed at a high place, and the range is much longer and it is cheaper.

The territory nobility can only allow the artillery to move the artillery forward, thinking that the four doors will always win. Unexpectedly, the artillery moved forward and fell into Claude’s calculations. He ordered two light infantry artillery rifles on the hillside defensive positions to slash and fire, directly destroying three artillery pieces, and by the way, watching the lively enemy smashing chicken flying dogs The casualties are heavy.

As a result, in the afternoon, the territorial nobility coalition had lost more than 200 people because of filling the pits and preparing for the artillery bombing and casualties. In addition, the leader group that was lured into the defensive position in the morning has lost nearly 500 people. The morale of the soldiers was extremely low. They did not have the temperament to go to the southern three counties before they set off.

After dinner, the nobility of the territories gathered in the big account to discuss countermeasures. Now their only choice is to take down the defensive positions set by the enemy on the hillside, and the only remaining road can go. However, everyone knows that it takes a lot of casualties to capture the enemy’s defensive positions. Although the number of enemies is small, the quality of the soldiers and the weapons and equipment are far beyond the joint forces.

In front of those low-lying people, the territorial nobility can be called their own family armed, the private Guard is elite, but in front of these regular military guards of the Kingdom of Aueras, they all understand how much their own private soldiers. Take the muskets, their squadrons are basically the old-fashioned weapons that were eliminated in the two Dukedom army. After all, they have to deal with the rebellious people, not the invading foreign aggressors.

Besides, if the best weapon of the family’s private soldiers is equipped with the suspicion of Dukedom, the other is that the best equipped muskets cost a lot of money, with the living standards of the two Dukedom territories, if they are in private equipment. Spending too much on them can easily affect their own quality of life and make them unable to enjoy a better life. So some nobility is because the territory is too poor, there is no more wealth to search, and there is no way to equip good weapons. Other nobility is reluctant to invest in armaments.

But then how to say that the two Dukedom’s territorial nobility families are still armed, and the loss is only a small part. Most of the casualties during this period were the applicants. For the nobility of the territories, their strength is still there, so there is no need to give up the plan to plunder the three southern counties. Only when discussing how to attack the enemy’s defensive positions, most of the territorial nobility did not intend to dispatch their own private soldiers, but instead put their ideas on the applicants brought by the nobility of the Cannes Dukedom territory.

Cannes Dukedom’s territorial nobility people also have a hard time saying that although they have dispatched a regiment of troops, there are more than 4,000 people, but their family armed forces add up to less than a thousand people, and more than 3,000 are applied for. people. However, they were blocked in the corner of the mountain road for four days, and seven or eight hundred people were killed or injured. Going to the mountain road of Eskilin’s Dukedom, the first two days of the reward, let the applicants to pursue the sneak attack and ambush enemies. Killed ten enemies, but lost nearly a hundred people on his own.

Today, one day, another 500 people have been killed or injured. Together, the troops have been sent to the present. The loss of the people who have applied for the levy has reached 1,300 or so, more than one-third, and the remaining can still fight. The people are only nearly two thousand people, and their morale is very low. They all think that the territorial nobility people are taking them as cannon fodder. If you force these people to attack the enemy’s defensive positions, if the casualties are too big, it will arouse the transformation…

There is a nobility proposal for a night attack, but other nobility refers to the defensive position on the hillside in the distance. It can be seen from the hillside to the side of the mountain road, igniting more than ten large bonfires, enough to burn overnight. Whether on the mountain road or on the hillside, it will be seen by the enemies on the defensive positions, and the night attack will be no different from the daytime. If you send someone to extinguish those fires, one is that the fire is also within the range of the enemy’s musket at the defensive position, and the second is to cause the enemy to be alert.

After a long period of military discussion and bargaining, the two Dukedom territories nobility finally reached an agreement, they are ready to let the soldiers and the applicants take a rest at night, and attack the enemy’s defensive positions on the hillside tomorrow morning. As for the offensive candidates, all the territories nobility are proportionally drawn from the respective family armed forces, temporarily composed of two brigades, and then equipped with a thousand applicants, and strive to capture the enemy’s position with the advantage of strength.

A peaceful night passed. In the morning, when Claude saw the enemy’s large army with a monocular and drove out of the camp, he knew that a bloody battle was inevitable. Five hundred meters away, he directly fired two light infantry artillery pieces to fire live ammunition. Only the private soldiers and the people of these nobility noisies were not arranged into the marching queue of the regular army. Instead, after being bombarded by artillery, they directly waved the melee weapons in their hands and rushed toward the defensive positions on the hillside.

“In two hundred meters, the guns are free to shoot, the artillery is replaced by a bullet, and it is not fired until it is close to 50 meters!” Claude’s cold pass.

In the morning, the territorial nobility coalition launched three assaults on Claude’s garrison position, but each time they were beaten, and the second time there were dozens of crazy soldiers rushing to the position, but they were quickly guarded. The bayonet was wiped out. The attacker had more than half of the casualties. The corpses on the hillside were everywhere, and the blood made the soil on the hillside thicker. When you went down, you got a big piece with a pungent bloody smell…