Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 278

“砰” a white smoke appeared in the muzzle, and the last one of the blue uniforms of the Kanas Dukedom light cavalry, which was turned around and was ready to escape, smashed a bloody water from the back of the horse and slowly fell to the ground. The horses under the seat also screamed and vacated their legs. The two front stalks smashed in the air and then crouched on the ground and struggled.

The big man Jamie couldn’t help but curious to run over and quickly ran back again: “Sir, the gun you just shot is really a god, piercing the enemy’s body and hitting the back of the horse, one shot down one person. horse.”

It should just happen that Claude didn’t expect to hit the enemy’s horse. However, the distance between the four or fifty meters, with the power of the Obas mark 3 rifle, it is natural to penetrate the enemy’s body.

All the soldiers were nervously loading their own guns, while Claude’s guns were done by McJack. The three of them brought five muskets, and the big man Jamie usually carried three muskets on his back, which allowed Claude to shoot three times in a row.

When the soldiers reloaded their guns, Claude ordered the battlefield to be cleaned. Just ambushed a small team of Cannes Dukedom’s scout scout, a small team on his side is unscathed, which is a very difficult record for the battalion. In the past two months, the battalion of the squadron has slammed these Cannes Dukedom scouts and has also suffered a lot of casualties.

This is actually not Claude’s fault. The main casualties occurred in the second, third and fourth battalions. The reason is very simple. The soldiers who make up the three brigades are mostly recruits. The officers are also re-dispatched. They have never experienced the battle of ambushing enemy scouts when mobile battalion was just formed. From the mobile battalion of that period to the current camp, there are also Claude, McJack, big man Jamie, Mordred, Diavid and Makez.

To blame, I could only blame the battle that captured Welfgang, and almost all the soldiers who followed Claude in the ambush enemy scout battle were forced into the neat first row by the damn Rosler Lieutenant Colonel, and then went to the enemy. position. The casualties were heavy, only a small and a half survived. After the war, Hansback was ordered to form a second, third and fourth battalion. If it weren’t for Mordred, if Diavid and Makez were injured at the treatment facility, they would not be able to stay in the battalion.

Similarly, several soldiers who followed Claude stayed in the battalion because of injuries, but the last frontline commander dispatched a group of grassroots officers and hunter to the Blue Feather Legion, and these soldiers were transferred. So now, in the battalion of the squadron, the one who can lead the soldiers to set up an ambush to attack the enemy scout is also Claude. Makez is still unqualified. This hunter oil was originally in the mobile battalion and did not ambush the enemy with Claude. He just relied on luck to kill two enemies scout on the battlefield.

No way, Claude can only assign Mordred and Diavid to the second and third battalions to serve as instructors for the ambush. As for the fourth team, they can only wait. After the second and third battalions received the Skerri Major asking them to take the initiative to ambush the enemy reconnaissance cavalry, the two battalions obeyed the order and sent the soldiers. It’s just that the effect of the ambush is not so good. The enemy has not killed a few, but he has suffered a lot of casualties. The second brigade attacked four times, but the result was ambushed by the enemy scout, the casualties approached a squadron.

Claude can only shake his head and sigh the wooden head bag of this second brigade captain, Hemllin Captain, and I don’t know how to work. He thought that the ambush was to find a place for the soldiers to hide and shoot when the enemy appeared. If it is so simple, then the previous mobile battalion will not always recruit soldiers into the camp. Now Kanus Dukedom is out of the hunter that has been fighting for a few years. The battlefield experience is very rich. As a scout, it is easy for them to find an ambush if they are a little bit wrong, let alone the military uniform of the Kingdom of Aueras army. The ambush in the grass can be detected by the enemy far away…

For Claude, every time you go out to ambush the enemy, you need to make a very detailed plan. Where will the enemy be interested, where the terrain is suitable for ambush, how to disguise the enemy to detect the hidden soldiers, how to deal with the battlefield Unexpected situation. After the enemy appears, whoever fires first will pay attention to it. If there is any countermeasure against the enemy’s scout reinforcements in the battle, how to ensure the safety of the soldiers and their soldiers is a problem that the commander should consider.

To the surprise of Claude, the more the ambush was batded by the battalion in the area and the prairie, the more the Canas Dukedom’s reconnaissance light ride was interested in the area. The enemies who came to scout are more and more light, from the initial group of three or four to the last is a small team scout. After being ambushed by Claude et al. and lost the scouts of two or three squadrons, Canas Dukedom finally sent a light squad to come to scout. They split into four light squadrons and entered the area from four directions.

Under such circumstances, Claude could not go out to ambush the enemy. Only two or three hundred enemy light cavalry could be explored in this area. If the terrain is dangerous, Claude may play against these enemies. But this area is flat and the light cavalry is coming and going. The battalion can only occupy the castle.

It took only two days, this Canas Dukedom’s light squad should be able to find out that the garrison power of this area is only one battalion. They sent a squad squad to monitor the RAND of Claude. Castle, the second battalion’s Victor viscount castle and the third battalion’s Kraft Baron Castle, the rest of the squad turned to sweep the Campos County Castle where the camp is located.

Then Claude saw far away from the dark smoke, and from time to time came the fierce gunshots and the roar of artillery. I don’t have to worry about whether the enemy can attack the castle Claude where the camp is located. Then the fourth brigade is stationed in the castle, so that the enemy of less than one brigade can ride the sturdy castle and it is really a ghost. As long as the enemy is not so stupid, it will not ask for it to attack the castle, but what is the sound of gunfire and artillery coming from now?

In September, Claude took the soldiers out to ambush the enemy’s scout, but seized thirty horses, plus all the horses, can barely organize a squadron’s cavalry. Only the current enemy sent a small team of light rides to monitor the movement of Landes Castle. Claude will be detected by the enemy if it is dispatched. In the event of a squad ride of the enemy team on the way to the reinforcements of the camp, Claude was not sure he could get out. Then again, these are the field infantry, and the horse battle is not the opponent of the light cavalry of Canas Dukedom.

At this time, Claude discovered that he had advocated that the four brigades were stationed in four castles to form a diamond-shaped garrison in this area. First, the battalion was a field infantry and did not have strong maneuverability. There is no way to give effective reinforcements to the remaining three castles when the enemy attacks one of the castles. This is mainly because the strength is not enough. If they do not gather together to form a powerful fist, there is no way to threaten the enemy.

Second, the four brigades stationed in four castles seem to control a large number of sites, but also distracted their own strength. In fact, they and the second and third brigades are stationed in empty, uninhabited territory, there is no need to guard these castles. At that time, Claude thought that the four castles were stationed separately. When the enemy came to attack, they needed to disperse their forces to attack the four castles. But they forgot that the enemy was not a fool. They could completely ignore the three castles here. They only needed to attack the camp. The Clarences Count Castle is enough.

Now the enemy is also two or three hundred light rides. With good mobility, it limits the reinforcements on its own side. As for what happened on the other side of the camp, there is no way to figure out it. In the event of any unexpected situation in the battalion, the loss of the Clarences Count Castle is tantamount to cutting off the retreat of the three battalions. Waiting for oneself can only surrender and destroy.

Claude stayed on the wall more and more annoyed, and wished to give himself two slaps. It’s just that he has no way to do it now. He stares at the enemy’s small group of light-riding activities, waiting anxiously for the dark.

Not as Claude expected, the squad that had gone down to the enemy had not left, but just lit a bonfire in the distance, and there were two or three rides in the distance, half a hour. The small mound in which Dess Castle is located ran a circle, apparently to see the movements in the castle. Claude knows that the main focus of the enemy is on the log suspension bridge on the moat. The people in the castle want to come out through the suspension bridge, and the suspension bridge will make a big noise, they can find it in the distance.

It’s just that the scout of this squad’s enemies will not be expected. The river that they see as the Scorpio is actually the road that Claude has already prepared. Seven or eight selected soldiers were ready, each holding a suffocating sheepskin sac, gently placed in the moat, people squatting up, and then quietly along the shore in the direction of the river The bonfire that ignited toward the enemy drifted away.

It is best to camp on the grassland next to the water source to facilitate the drinking water needs of herders and livestock. The light cavalry of this small team, Canas Dukedom, also found a place beside the river five or six hundred meters away from Landes Castle as his own camp. They are hunter, they are very cautious, half of them rest half of the night, and every two or thirty minutes send two people to ride near the castle to see the movement. The people on duty next to the campfire also kept an eye on the suspension bridge on the moat, but they did not expect to pay attention to the river on the other side. For these light water cavalry on the prairie, the rivers are their natural defense barrier.

Claude led the squad to the shore when the bonfire ignited by the enemy was about forty-fifty meters, and the sounds that were coming out could be detected by the enemy. However, everyone is consciously keeping silent. With the cover of the weeds on the shore, I slowly check the muskets wrapped in tarpaulins that are carried behind me, ignite the fire ropes, and prepare for the launch.

In the distance, the hooves of the hooves came, and the two light cavalrymen who had been riding around in a circle came back. They laughed loudly at the bonfire. The general idea was that there was no movement. The enemy was very awkward in the castle, and the suspension bridge opposite. There are no people at all…

A light cavalry who was also riding on the mount inadvertently looked at Claude where they were: “Strange, how can there be fireflies on this shore…”

He used Claude’s ignited fire rope as a firefly’s light.

“Open fire!” Claude said.

The gunshots sounded, standing and sitting, and the six enemy light cavalry riding on the horse almost fell at the same time, while the other six enemy light cavalry who were sleeping were awakened and climbed up first. Time to go and take your own weapons. It was only that they were slower. The soldiers who had fired had jumped up and rushed to the campfire with a rifle on the bayonet. The distance of forty or fifty meters is also a few seconds. Several enemies have not yet understood what is going on and are stabbed to the ground.

“peng!” Claude fired again, and the last enemy who jumped on the horse wanted to run down and fell to the ground. The enemy light cavalry of this squad had all been destroyed.

“Pick up the battlefield, then dry the clothes, we go back to the castle, rest early, and go to the camp to reinforce tomorrow morning.” Claude sighed and wiped out the enemy light cavalry squad, who was responsible for monitoring himself. Unexpected effect.

The fact is also true. On the afternoon of the next day, Claude suddenly appeared with two squadrons and four big slabs under the Clarences Count Castle. The Canas Dukedom light cavalry, who was burning in the village, was caught off guard by the enemy. The organization made two wave raids, aiming to quickly defeat the reinforcements that the group had come to with the speed of the light cavalry.

But Claude used four large slabs to protect his flank, and then launched two light infantry artillery pieces, using two rifle launches to make the enemy’s gliding raids leave thirty dead bodies in front of their front.

Seeing that there was no benefit, Claude introduced two light infantry artillery pieces that were not fired. The two artillery pieces that had been fired were also loaded with bullets. The enemy was very interesting and blew the horn of the retreat. In a twinkling of an eye, they gathered together and quickly left.

Claude found the injured Scree Major in the village. He hung an arm and said it was scratched by stray bullets. Nothing serious.

“Why not defend in the castle?” Claude was very angry.

Scree Major shook his head and shed tears. He said with grief: “I can’t stand it…”

The matter is very simple. When the enemy team is riding a light horse, Scully Major will gather the people and the young captives of the fourth battalion of the battalion into the castle, but the old and weak women and children gathered in the village are in the village. . Scully Major thought that these were the people of Kanas Dukedom and should be fine. Unexpectedly, the light cavalry of this brigade actually raised the butcher knife to these old and weak women, and killed them indiscriminately.

They also publicly insulted some female refugees on the ground in front of the castle. It is necessary to know that some old and weak women and children are gathered up by the young and strong family members. Those who entered the castle are eagerly pleading for the Scree Major. His own relatives, and the soldiers who did not understand these atrocities, were also angry and asked to play, so Scree Major was impulsive and fought against the light cavalry in the village.