The howl of wolves sounded. This was the young mage Sheila coming to visit Claude again.
"You guys just wait here, don't follow me, I'll come down as soon as I get down." Claude said to Mike Jack and the big guy Gemmy beside him, then turned around and walked towards the small shop with a big cherry tree not far away. forest.
The girl threw herself into Claude's arms and put on her red lips. After a painful kiss, Claude let go of the flushed young mage: "Why are you here again? Didn't I tell you not to come here during this period? The enemy has already arrived, and a war is about to break out. I don't want to You came here because I was worried that something might happen to you."
"I know, I just want to come and see you," the young mage pouted and said, "I'm also worried about you. I had a nightmare last night, dreaming that you were injured, so I rushed over to have a look. you"
Claude didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I'm not standing here properly. Don't worry, I won't be injured that easily. I will accompany you well when this war is over. You don't have to worry. In the next period of time, please don't Come here, wait until I defeat the enemy and then look for you, okay?"
The young mage made four or five trips within half a month, and now everyone knows that Claude found a hunter's daughter as his girlfriend in Squirrel Village. Diavid was so impressed that he, a boss, could even find beauties hiding in the mountains and forests. It was a pity that the young mage had no older sisters.
The young mage nodded while looking at the bustling labor scene not far away: "What are you doing there?"
Claude smiled bitterly: "Nothing, just set up a defensive position. The enemies are all together. If we want to come from here, we have to prepare for defense in advance. That's why I don't let you come to see me. Soon this place will become a battlefield." I'm afraid you will be discovered by the enemy."
"I'm not afraid of them." Silla said unconvinced.
Claude shook his head: "This is not a question of whether I am afraid or not, but I don't want you to be hurt at all. Although you are a natural mage and the mountains and forests are your home court, now is the age of muskets, even if it is a five-ring battle A mage has to stay away from muskets and cannot confront them head-on. You can deal with one person or ten people, but you can't deal with a hundred soldiers holding muskets. They are completely outside the range that your magic can't reach. It poses a fatal threat to you. Even the black wind cannot withstand the fire of muskets. So, don't be brave, don't be curious, and don't take risks. Just be obedient, okay?"
"Okay, I promise to be obedient, then you also have to promise that nothing will happen to you. If, if there is nothing you can do, you can run to me, okay?" Sheila looked into Claude's eyes.
Claude nodded solemnly: "I promise that I will never be a hero. If I am really defeated, I will definitely escape to you."
This is the truth. Everything Claude is doing now is just doing his duty. He will not heroically sacrifice his life for the ambition of the Kingdom of Overas. If he is unable to do so, he will retreat immediately instead of holding his position and dying with the enemy. That is what a fool can do. The green hills are still there, so you don’t have to worry about running out of firewood. The words of our ancestors are always very reasonable. Anyway, Major Leedfunk didn’t force himself to defend Squirrel Village.
Now the territorial nobles of the Principality of Karnas and the Principality of Eskilin have joined forces, and more than 4,000 people are rushing toward Squirrel Village in a menacing manner. Diavid led his troops to attack again, but accidentally suffered a small loss and lost a small team of troops. It seems that sneak attacks, ambushes, and cold shots are no longer useful to delay the enemy's journey. Only then did Claude decide to dig trenches on the hillside behind Squirrel Village and prepare for a formal positional defense battle with the enemy.
After struggling with Sheila for a while, the reluctant young mage was sent away. Not long after returning to the position, Murield came over with his men: "Boss, I'm here."
"How many people did you bring here?" Claude asked.
"There are three teams, and one team is left to garrison in Black Rock Village." Murray Ed was very excited. From this point of view, he is a militant: "Finally, we can have a fight. It's really hard to stay in Black Rock Village for so long. so boring."
"First ask your soldiers to help dig trenches, and then dig a communication trench to the back for our retreat." Claude was not polite and immediately ordered Muriel and his soldiers to help.
"Retreat" Murray Ed looked at the terrain: "Boss, the terrain here is good. We can completely defend here. It is condescending and suitable for us to shoot targets."
Claude shook his head: "We can't hold it. The difference in our numbers is too big. We can hold it during the day but not at night. The enemy will probably arrive tomorrow afternoon, and we will have to retreat until the night after tomorrow. Although the terrain here is good, but There are too many detours. The enemy can go up the mountain from farther away and then detour back to us."
With a "boom", there was an explosion behind the hillside.
"What's going on?" Murray looked over there warily.
"Don't be nervous." Claude knew very well what was happening there: "I asked Markchi to set some traps there, and at the same time use gunpowder to blow up a few paths leading up the mountain to prevent the enemy from sneaking up on us at night."
Alas, Claude sighed deeply. He had too few troops on hand. Murield brought three teams over, plus Markchi's four teams, plus Diavid's two teams, for a total of only There are 108 people in nine teams, and three artillery crews with 15 people. In addition to himself, Michael Jack, and the big man Gimi, there are only 120 or 30 people who can be considered a real combat strength. Currently, there are only a few signal corps medical soldiers and a dozen wounded soldiers guarding the camp. It's really hard to have too few troops when they are needed.
If it weren't for certain that there was hope of defeating this group of rabble, Claude would have fled with his men. Now we can only block attacks layer by layer, taking advantage of the defensive terrain and firepower advantages to gradually consume the enemy's effective strength and delay this war. The original plan was to eliminate the territorial nobles of the Eskiline Principality first, but he did not expect that the territorial nobles of the two principalities would join forces, which made Claude's original plan come to nothing.
Diavid withdrew with his soldiers in the evening, and told Claude and others the process of suffering a loss. After the territorial nobles of the two principalities joined forces, they rested for half a day and one night, and then marched towards Squirrel Village again yesterday morning. Diavid still led his soldiers to start sneak attacks and ambushes, firing cold shots to delay the enemy's progress.
But what they didn't expect was that this time the territorial nobles placed the conscripted citizens of the Principality of Karnas on the periphery, and they would pursue the soldiers who were attacking them as soon as they found them. Most of the weapons of these territorial residents are broadswords and spears for close combat, but unfortunately there are so many of them that there is no way to charge and load the muskets during the escape. Even if the charge is loaded, it is useless and can only be fired once. He was overwhelmed by the swarming people. Several groups of soldiers were forced by the people in this way and had no way to escape. They could only fight hand-to-hand, and then killed two or three enemies before dying in battle.
It's not that Diavid didn't think about luring the chasing enemies into an ambush circle. The problem was that the chasing enemies were not dozens or dozens, but hundreds of them rushing towards them from all directions. He and the twenty or so people in the ambush also You can only take one shot and run away, otherwise it will be all over if you are surrounded. He guessed that the territorial nobles of the two principalities must have paid heavy rewards, otherwise the people under their command would not have pursued them without regard for life and death.
In addition, Diavid brought another bad news. The traps on the mountain road have lost their effect on the enemy. With the nobles in the territory of the Principality of Karrnas learning from their mistakes, now the enemy marches and drives a few packhorses ahead to explore the road. Diaverde said that the two traps they dug a few days ago were discovered by the enemy. They had no casualties and only lost three pack horses. According to the enemy's marching speed, they will arrive here at noon tomorrow.
Muriel proposed to rob the camp at night, but Claude rejected the suggestion after careful consideration. First, there are too many enemies. In the past, more than a hundred people could only cause chaos but could not collapse the enemy. Secondly, Diaverde had harassed the camps of the nobles in the Eskiline Principality at night a few days ago, and the enemy had already taken countermeasures. The third is to pull the men over. Even if they come back without any losses, a night is wasted on the road. The soldiers did not get a good rest and may not have the energy to deal with the enemy's attack tomorrow.
At noon the next day, I saw a large group of enemy troops coming along the mountain road from a distance. As Diavid said, three pack horses were driven ahead. The enemy's scouts were estimated to be about a large group. In addition to forty or fifty noble private soldiers equipped with muskets, the people walking beside them were all the people in ragged clothes holding broadswords and spears.
Five gunshots rang out on the steep slope next to the mountain road in the distance. Murray and four soldiers jumped up from the weeds on the slope and ran towards the mountain with their muskets. The three packhorses in front of the enemy's march fell to the ground and struggled with their limbs in the air, while the locals held up their swords, spears and spears and climbed up the hillside, shouting and chasing after Muriel Ed and others.
Diavid smiled bitterly and said to Claude: "You see, that's it, you are not afraid of death at all. Every time there are at least two to three hundred people chasing you, even if we have support, we can only kill a few of them." There were about a dozen of us, and the rest of them were still able to chase us to the sky and nowhere. In this way, my three group of soldiers who died in the battle were chased into a dead end by them, with nowhere to escape. We were far away. Chu watched helplessly as they were beaten to death by the swarming citizens."
A small group of soldiers who responded raised their guns from the grass and shot at the chasing citizens. Seven or eight of the citizens fell down. But unexpectedly, the remaining citizens became more and more fanatical. They shouted and divided more than half of their people to rush towards the small group of soldiers who were responding. The remaining more than a hundred people were still chasing after Muriel Ed and the others. In this situation, there is really no way for the soldiers to load their ammunition. It only takes ten seconds for those who can run a distance of a hundred meters. Even if you are equipped and can fire another shot, you can only defeat one enemy, and the remaining enemies will not be able to escape if they rush towards you.
So the small group of soldiers who responded also turned around and ran away, and soon they were running head-to-head with Muriel Ed and the others, and the people chasing behind them would join together and chase them, shouting and screaming. Claude now understood why Diaverde and the others were complaining when they came back yesterday. They couldn't do anything after running like this all day, and they were almost exhausted from exhaustion. But this time, Muriel led people there to lure the enemy into pursuit, and they were running towards the position.
"Get ready" Claude said softly.
The order was quickly passed on to the soldiers one by one, and everyone got their muskets ready to aim and shoot. Black gun barrels stretched out from the bushes used as cover above the position, aiming at the large group of pursuers behind Murray Ed and the others.
Muriel jumped directly over the bushes, threw himself into the trench, and said out of breath: "Run, you will kill me."
"Fire" Claude ignored him and ordered directly. Now the pursuers were only seventy or eighty meters away from the trenches.
"Bang, bang, bang" gunshots rang out, and from a distance, smoke rose from the long bushes and weeds on the hillside. Fifty or sixty of the people chasing at the front fell to the ground, and they became the first batch of victims.
All the chasing citizens were stunned. They did not expect to encounter such a large-scale ambush. The sound of gunfire, blood, corpses and the screams of the wounded were intertwined, leaving them at a loss for a moment.
However, there were still people who were awake, and a voice that reacted first shouted: "Quick, rush forward, don't let them reload."
They were seventy or eighty meters away, and it only took about ten seconds to rush up and fight the enemy hand-to-hand. This was the idea of the owner of that voice. Most of the people who were stunned there suddenly woke up from a dream. They clenched their weapons and rushed towards the hillside. Yes, they still have about two hundred people. As long as they rush into the position, are they afraid that they will not be able to defeat the enemy
Sixty meters, fifty meters Claude loaded his musket unhurriedly, as if he didn't see the people rushing over with ferocious faces.
"Release" Mark Qi's roar rang out from the position.
"Boom!" A light infantry artillery hidden in the bushes made a loud noise and sprayed out countless small projectiles, almost covering the entire forward position.
After the smoke cleared, a dozen soldiers couldn't help but lowered their heads and vomited. This shot of shotshells almost wiped out more than a hundred territorial residents who rushed up. The hillside was full of broken limbs, corpses, and blood flowing. It was a bloody scene like Shura hell.
There are still thirty or forty surviving territorial residents, but they have been stunned by this artillery fire. All the weapons in their hands are gone, and they are standing in the pile of corpses, shivering. Behind them, there were ten or twenty sober citizens who were running away down the hillside.
He picked up his musket, aimed at a citizen who was fleeing down the slope, and fired, causing the target to fall down. Claude ordered Muriel beside him: "Go and capture those who are still standing there."
"Why are we arresting them? We'll just beat them to death." Murray was furious when he remembered how embarrassingly he was chased by these people just now.
"Go if we ask you to. After we are captured, someone will do the work for us." Claude said.
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