"Sir, the Hicks Kingdom colonial garrison stationed in Ferru Town is a regiment of troops. The military discipline is very bad. The officers do not live in the military camp, but in the residential buildings next to the town office. The colonel commander also In this way, he lives in his mistress's home in the west of the town. Although the soldiers stay in the military camp, they come and go without restriction, and the security is ineffective..." Muriel reported to Claude what he had detected.
The town of Ferru in the Beringana Territory is the southernmost colonial town, about two hundred miles away from the Amphiston Territory. There were originally more than 17,000 kingdom residents engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. After the war broke out and the town of Ferru fell, one-third of the kingdom's residents fled, and it is estimated that only about 12,000 people remain in the town.
The remaining kingdom residents in Ferru Town are those who are reluctant to give up their own properties. Fortunately, the colonial garrison of the Kingdom of Hicks also abides by the unspoken rules of all colonial countries in the Nubisian continent. Even the warring parties will not go Harm these civilians from the Farea continent. Of course, robbery and extortion are unavoidable. For the residents of the kingdom who fall into the hands of the enemy, they can only spend money to solve the problem.
The first target Claude chose to attack was the town of Ferru. It was simple. He had to find a suitable temporary base for the 131st Ranger Battalion. There was no place more suitable than the town of Ferru. As long as the town of Ferru is captured, the 131st Ranger Battalion can attack from here to disrupt the enemy's rear. Once the enemy army attacks, Claude can use his mobility to withdraw to the Amphiston Direct Territory. Unless the enemy army is stationed here, the 131st Ranger Battalion can make a comeback.
"Let's act, each according to the plan. First arrest the officers, and then force the soldiers in the barracks to put down their weapons. Captain Belklin, your mission is the most important. The light cavalry brigade must block all entrances and exits of the entire town of Ferru and must not use them. An enemy escaped..." Claude ordered.
"Yes, sir." The officers of each brigade under his command stood at attention and saluted.
A battalion of troops attacks a town guarded by a regiment. Even if it is a reinforced battalion and the enemy is an under-organized field regiment, the enemy is more than twice the strength of the 131st Ranger Battalion. But in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the 131st Ranger Battalion, this was a very easy battle. The reason was very simple. They were elite divisions, but the enemy was a ragtag group.
Belklin changed into the military uniforms of the Kingdom of Hicks. Anyway, these enemies had many military uniforms, and they were all stripped from the prisoners. Pretending to be a scout cavalry from an enemy squadron, he passed through the town of Ferru on the pretext of carrying out a mission and was preparing to rest for the night. The enemies guarding the town's entrance had no suspicion at all, and then the town's entrance fell into the control of the 131st Ranger Battalion.
Immediately afterwards, small groups of patrol soldiers set off, and it only took an hour to take over all the entrances and exits of the town. The artillery brigade immediately appeared. They placed four light infantry artillery pieces at each entrance and exit, with the muzzles pointing inward.
It was already around ten o'clock at night. Except for the candlelights in the town's military camps, taverns and a few residents' homes, most of the residents in the town had already begun to fall asleep. This is very convenient for the operations carried out by the officers and soldiers of the 131st Ranger Battalion. News of success continued to reach Claude one after another. Most of the officers of the enemy's regiment stationed in the town had been arrested, and the next focus was on the enemy's military camp.
Things are not always perfect. There were a few crisp gunshots coming from the tavern, which must have meant something was wrong. Claude made a prompt decision and immediately took the remaining two artillery squadrons to the location of the military camp in the town.
The sound of gunfire soon rang out, and the town of Ferru suddenly became noisy like oil pouring on a hot pot. The most lively area was the military camp. Claude arrived at the right time and immediately ordered the artillery to load shotgun to block the gate of the barracks. After the two cannons were fired, the gate that was originally crowded with people flowed into a river of blood, and there were cries and screams. No enemy wanted to rush out from the gate of the military camp anymore...
"Sorry, sir, when we went to the tavern to arrest enemy officers, several drunk enemy officers resisted desperately. We finally had to shoot them to save our soldiers..." Diavid rushed over. Report the reason for the shooting to Claude.
Claude didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What can you do if the enemy officers are drunk and are not afraid of death? Normally people would raise their hands and surrender if the muzzle of the gun is pressed against their chests, but these drunken enemy officers are not afraid at all and instead grab the gun. Guan fought hand-to-hand with Diavid's soldiers and gained the upper hand. In the end, Diavid had to shoot them, otherwise his men would either be strangled to death or smashed to death by something...
Claude waved his hand. These accidents were expected. Fortunately, the enemy's large forces were blocked in the military camp, and most of the officers were arrested. The group was leaderless and in chaos: "Go and capture the captured ones." The officer and the regiment leader were brought over and asked to order the soldiers to put down their weapons and come out with their hands raised to surrender. If any officer did not comply, he would be killed on the spot. If the soldiers did not surrender, they would fire artillery on the military camp. In addition, our soldiers were asked to strictly guard the military camp. Walls and guardrails, open fire when enemies appear..."
The enemies in the military camp were in a stalemate for more than two hours, and finally laid down their weapons and surrendered. Because they didn't know how many enemies were surrounding them, and the enemy's ruthlessness frightened these soldiers. A captured officer refused to surrender at the gate of the military camp and wanted to encourage the soldiers to resist. As a result, a musket was placed on his head and fired directly, blowing off half of the back of his head. The remaining officers were all frightened and shouted hoarsely. He shouted to his subordinates to come out and surrender quickly.
The soldiers in the military camp also wanted to check the surrounding situation from the surrounding walls, but all the soldiers who poked their heads out to look around were either shot in the head or wounded, and everything was dark outside. It was unknown how many enemies surrounded the military camp. In addition, the sound of artillery fire was heard from time to time at the gate of the military camp. The sound was at least eight cannons being fired. Occasionally, artillery shells as big as fists would hit some unlucky people, and the military camp would echo with screams and cries for help like ghosts and wolves...
The soldiers who persisted in the military camp for about two hours finally collapsed, put down their weapons and walked out of the military camp with their hands raised. The 133rd Ranger Battalion captured the town of Ferru and captured more than 3,300 enemies in the first battle, killing more than 500 and wounding more than 500, but suffered only 17 casualties.
The Kingdom residents of Ferru Town never expected to see the arrival of the king's team again, and they also annihilated a regiment of enemies entrenched in their town in one battle. They happily sent various labor supplies to the 131st Ranger Battalion, and young people in the town came to volunteer to join the army. Claude immediately ordered Major Schneck to form a local garrison in the town of Ferru to relieve his worries. At the same time, he ordered the Murield Brigade to escort all the prisoners back to the Amphiston Territory.
Since he failed to escape any enemy after capturing the town of Ferru, Claude then set his target on the town of Guinco, which is about 270 miles away from the town of Ferru, but only ten miles away from the capital city of Bricaman. The Colonial Garrison Krado Corps of the Kingdom of Hicks besieged the city of Bricaman for about three months, and the warehouse of the Corps' logistics supplies was located in the town of Ginko.
Claude pretended to be an officer of the Kingdom of Hicks and entered the town of Guinco. He found that the enemy in charge of the garrison was very heavily guarded and had about two regiments of garrison troops. At the same time, they drove the Kingdom residents in the town to the south of the town, and the town in the north was requisitioned as a warehouse for storing military supplies. Every day, a large number of carriages transport supplies to the Krado Army besieging Brickaman City, and countless carriages come from the north to transport supplies to the town of Ginco.
After leaving the town, Claude went to the north again for reconnaissance. This time he led a small group of light cavalry disguised as enemy patrol cavalry and followed the ruts on the road all the way north. It turned out that more than thirty miles away from the town of Ginco, on the banks of the Dolinibara River, the largest river in the Nubisian continent, the enemy had built two pontoon bridges on this very gentle river and landed on the shore. A warning camp was set up. What makes Claude happy is that this warning camp is not large in scale, and the number of troops deployed depends on the situation, no more than one battalion.
At this moment, Claude only hated that he had too few troops. If he had one more battalion, he could lure the snake out of the hole and encircle the enemy for reinforcements. If we attack the warning camp of this pontoon first, the enemies in Jienko Town will definitely come to rescue. It is impossible for the enemy to abandon these two pontoons. The enemy in Jiinke Town has two regiments of troops, and it is likely that one regiment will come out to rescue the pontoon bridge. You can use the 131st Ranger Battalion to hold off this group or even defeat them.
Then if he had one more battalion of troops, he could completely attack the town of Jienko, even if he had to pay some casualties. As long as the town of Jienko is captured, the Krato army that besieged Bricaman City will be in dire straits. Without the logistics and food supplies, they will not be able to protect themselves, and they may be defeated thousands of miles away. By that time, the siege crisis of Bricaman City was lifted.
As for the Krado army that besieged Bricaman City, Claude didn't care much. The reason is simple. The Krado Army is an infantry army, and its two legs cannot keep up with the four legs of the 131st Ranger Battalion. Although the Crado Legion was also equipped with two light cavalry regiments, the scout cavalry annihilated and captured by Claude's 131st Ranger Battalion came from these two light cavalry regiments, and the total number of prisoners alone was two thousand. Including those who were killed, it can be said that one of the two light cavalry regiments has been abolished, so that now it is rare to see the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry out and about.
Of course, the Krado Army already knew that Beringana had brought reinforcements from the Overas Kingdom directly under its jurisdiction. The light cavalry sent out for reconnaissance had lost so many that everyone knew something was wrong. But the problem is that they don't know how many reinforcements from the Kingdom of Overas have entered the Beringana Direct Territory. The reconnaissance cavalry squads they sent out always never came back. Occasionally, a few large troops came back that they had not seen the enemy at all. However, when they encountered the same reconnaissance squadron, they were beaten and fled back in panic. .
The Krado Army that besieged the city of Bricaman could only strengthen the escort force of the logistics transport team, and at the same time warned the garrison troops in various places to strictly guard against the attack of reinforcements from the Kingdom of Ovilas. The rest was left to fate. After all, a very realistic situation was placed in front of them. The light cavalry of the Overas Kingdom was much more powerful than their own. Now sending their own light cavalry out for reconnaissance was equivalent to sending them to death. No one knew whether they could do it again. return.
Claude began to think about the two pontoon bridges. The officers of the 131st Ranger Battalion also believed that it would be better to get rid of these two pontoon bridges, which would cut off the retreat of the Crado Army. After much consideration, Claude decided to adopt everyone's opinions and raid the security camp on the pontoon side first, burning the two pontoon bridges. Then ambush the enemies who came to rescue the town of Ginco, and finally see if there is a chance to raid the town of Ginco and burn down the enemy's logistics warehouses hoarded there...
Four nights later, the 131st Battalion of Rangers launched a night attack on the guard camp on the pontoon side. Although the enemy put up tenacious resistance, the camp was quickly breached, resulting in heavy casualties. Only more than 300 people surrendered in the end.
Claude asked the soldiers to pour kerosene and lamp oil on the pontoons, and then set the two pontoons on fire, and the flames shot into the sky. Claude believed that the enemies in Ginco town would immediately come to the rescue. Claude wanted to use this warning camp to defend for a period of time, severely damage the enemy troops who came to rescue him, and then mount his horse and ride away.
The first to arrive at the security camp was a horse-riding battalion assembled by the enemy. Their mounts were all packhorses, followed by dozens of four-wheel freight carriages filled with soldiers. Perhaps because they were too concerned about the two burning pontoon bridges, these enemies ran into the guard camp without warning, and were quickly surrounded by the 131st Ranger Battalion.
When encountering an ambush, these enemies reacted very quickly. It can be seen that they are well-trained and may be called elites. They quickly dismounted and dismounted, and under the guidance of the officer's whistle, they lined up and began to counterattack with a salvo of fire. It's a pity that they collapsed after only two rounds, because they didn't see where the enemy's queue was. They only knew that their companions fell to the ground when gunfire rang out from all around, and the officers who commanded them were all killed...
Without the command of the whistle-blowing officers, these enemy soldiers performed better. They learned to hide behind the carriages without any instructions, lay down with the bodies of their dead mounts, and fired muskets into the darkness on the opposite side. Shooting where there was light caused casualties to some careless officers and soldiers of the 131st Ranger Battalion.
But it all ended after the artillery brigade used shotguns to clear the area. Only four shotguns were used, and the remaining enemy soldiers obediently raised their hands and surrendered. The ambush lasted for more than half an hour, and the 131st Ranger Battalion suffered nearly 50 or 60 casualties. However, the number of enemy casualties reached more than 300, and about 600 people were captured. A large number of pack horses and four-wheeled freight carriages were also captured.
Claude learned from the prisoners that there was a regiment from the town of Ginco coming for reinforcements. Since we are walking, it will take a while. After learning that the enemy infantry regiment that came over did not carry artillery, Claude decided to ambush them again. He believed that he could use artillery as a fire support point to defend this warning camp...
But to Claude's surprise, after waiting for an hour, the enemy still hadn't arrived. After sending out reconnaissance cavalry, they discovered that the enemy had retreated back to the town of Jienko and was unable to leave. Claude was very disappointed, thinking that the sound of shotgun shells from artillery might have made the enemy suspicious. He knew that even if they arrived, they would not be able to save the pontoon bridge, and might even hit him, so he retreated back to Kyrgyzstan. The town of Inco.