After receiving the news that the group of territorial citizens who were opening the way were lured into an ambush and almost annihilated, the territorial nobles of the Principality of Karnas and the Principality of Eskilen cautiously stopped their march and set up camp, attracting those few A local citizen who escaped quickly figured out the situation.
The mountain road leading to the three-way intersection of Squirrel Village from the Principality of Eskilin is different from the mountain road leading to the Principality of Karnas. The mountain road in the Principality of Karnas can be said to be a winding mountain road, with a cliff on one side. On one side is a valley, with mountain roads winding halfway up the mountain. The mountain road on the Eskiline Principality side is sandwiched between two mountains, with hillsides and cliffs on both sides.
In addition to the mountain road leading to the three-way intersection and passing under Squirrel Village, there are four places on the mountain road here where you can go up the hillside and go around to the back of Squirrel Village. If we use abcd to distinguish them, then Murray Ed led people to shoot at point a, and then lured the people to chase them to point d where they were ambushed. Claude's defensive position is set up at point d, because the hillside at point d is the closest place to Squirrel Village.
Now the coalition of territorial nobles from the two principalities is camped in the woods on the hillside opposite point a. They have sent several squadrons to conduct reconnaissance. They also know the defensive positions set up by the enemies guarding Squirrel Village at point d. For this reason, many There was a dispute among the territorial nobles.
Some territorial nobles believe that since the enemy has deployed more than a hundred garrison troops on the defensive position, it is obviously an empty nest, and there must be an emptiness over there in Squirrel Village. As long as one part of the troops is sent to hold down the enemies on the defensive position, and the other part rushes along the mountain road, as long as the Squirrel Village is captured, the enemies here will have their back roads taken away, and they will become the sandwich in the pie. They will not be able to escape even if they want to. Lost.
Another part of the territorial nobles believe that judging from the cunning and insidiousness of the enemy, it is impossible for them to leave such a loophole for us. There should be many traps set up on the mountain road to Squirrel Village to delay our progress. Since the enemy will set up defensive positions on the hillside, it means that that is the key point that he must defend, and it is not something that can be avoided by conspiracy. We can completely rely on our superior strength to capture the enemy's defensive positions on the hillside, then capture Squirrel Village, and just rely on our strength to push forward.
These are actually two perspectives: radical and prudent. Traveling along the mountain road to avoid the enemy's defensive positions is fast, and avoids the real and hits the weak, which can avoid excessive casualties of the troops under your command. As for attacking the enemy's defensive position, even though there are only more than a hundred enemies, it can still cause relatively large casualties to our own side. In addition, it will delay time and consume the few food and ammunition supplies carried by the troops, which is not a good choice for the territorial nobles.
In the end, the territorial nobles decided to try the idea of quickly heading to Squirrel Village along the mountain road. This time they dispatched two battalions of troops. One battalion went straight to Squirrel Village along the mountain road, and the other battalion was responsible for holding back the defensive positions on the hillside. Guard the enemy and make a feint attack posture so that the enemy cannot send troops to support Squirrel Village.
Of course, the enemy walking on the mountain road still did not forget to drive two pack horses ahead. But it is a pity that when we walked to the mountain road not far from point D, several enemy soldiers ran down from the hillside defensive position and shot to death the two pack horses exploring the road in front of them.
This distance was a bit awkward for both the battalion marching on the mountain road and the battalion responsible for involving the enemy in the defensive position. Because the soldiers who killed the packhorse only need to turn around and run a few dozen meters to return to the defensive position. If someone is sent to pursue them, they will easily step into the enemy's shooting range. If the pursuit fails, they will lose their lives.
But without the packhorse, how can we find out if there are any traps on the mountain road ahead? We can't let the soldiers explore the road. The territorial nobles who received the report quickly came up with an idea. They gathered all the pack horses in the camp, two in a group, stuck a knife in their buttocks, and drove them to gallop on the mountain road.
Sure enough, a running packhorse is not so easy to be hit by a musket. Even if it is hit by a shot, the horse's vitality can still keep running forward for a while. Soon, there was a "bang", and a big trap appeared on the mountain road. Two pack horses fell into the trap. The pit was filled with the whine of the pack horses, but the whine stopped after a while.
Claude used three large jars of gunpowder to blow up the mountain road to set up this trap. It took a small team of soldiers a day to dig it. Unexpectedly, only two pack horses were trapped and discovered by the enemy. Claude could only