"Report to the general, we have just received a hawk message from Lieutenant Colonel Murray Ed of the 1302nd Regiment. Their reconnaissance cavalry has discovered traces of the enemy and is currently under secret surveillance. We are requesting instructions from the division headquarters." Adjutant An Major Des came in to report.
"Oh, have you finally found it?" Claude cheered up. It had been a week since he found the bison herd, and it was only now that he found traces of the enemy. It seems that the volunteer light cavalry regiment formed by the retired soldiers of the Principality of Karnars really wants money rather than life. They know that several of their reconnaissance cavalry teams are missing and there is a high possibility of being captured, revealing their whereabouts of hunting bison. But they still came. Ignoring the five reinforced divisions formed in the new theater of the Kingdom of Orvelas, they still got into the eyes of money and couldn't get out.
"Where is the enemy and how big is it?" Claude was preparing to take a nap, but he didn't expect that as soon as he lay down, Major Anders came in and reported the whereabouts of the enemy. He immediately jumped up from the sleeping mat on the ground while arranging his military uniform. while asking.
While Major Anders stepped forward to help Claude put on his armed belt, he replied, "The letter didn't say it, but it is estimated that the scale is not small. Because Lieutenant Colonel Murray Ed said in the Falcon Message that the scout cavalry they sent It was because the light cavalry from the Principality of Karrnath were massacring the wolves following the buffalo herds and making so much noise that they discovered the traces of the enemy."
Slaughtering the wolves Claude nodded. It was obvious that the enemy had dispatched at least one regiment of troops, so he would first kill the thousands of wild wolves following the buffalo herd. They deal with those pesky wolves before preparing to hunt the bison, so that they don't have to worry about the wolves watching when the official hunt begins. Only with the large scale and strength of the army, there is no need to worry about the retaliation of the wolves. Perhaps they also regard the wolves as prey.
"Blow the trumpet and let the troops prepare for departure. In half an hour we will break camp and march towards the camp of the 1302nd Regiment." Claude ordered.
Along the periphery of the migration route of the bison, they marched for another two days before arriving at the camp of the 1302nd Regiment of the Thunder Division. This is a depression of small mounds nearly four thousand meters away from the bison herd. From a distance, you can't even see that there is a military camp hidden in these small mounds. Claude is very satisfied. This guy Murray has finally made some progress, and this camp was chosen well.
After learning that Claude had arrived with a large force, Murield had ordered the soldiers to expand the camp enough to accommodate the division headquarters and the accompanying two regiments. At the same time, he also came up early and reported the battle situation to Claude immediately.
Nearly a million migrating bison are spread across the grassland, which is nearly ten miles wide. The enemy discovered by the 1302nd Thunder Regiment led by Murray Ed was on the west side of the tail of the bison herd. The strength of about two regiments had killed nearly a thousand prairie green wolves and red wolves in the past two days. The hunt for bison has begun. Based on the secret observations during the past two days, Muriel deduced that the enemy might be divided into two groups, with two regiments in each group, one on the west side of the tail of the buffalo herd and one on the east side. This would speed up the hunting of the buffalo. efficiency and gain more benefits
Claude also sent two regiments from the Thunder Division as the vanguard to search for the enemy's whereabouts on the prairie. Now that the 1302nd Regiment from Muriel had discovered the enemy's whereabouts, Claude immediately used a falcon to send a signal. The letter instructs Belklin's 1301st Regiment to penetrate directly behind the enemy. First, it uses the 1301st Regiment to cut off the enemy's retreat, and secondly, it prepares to outflank the enemy.
This volunteer light cavalry regiment composed of retired soldiers from the Principality of Karrnus only sent one division to hunt bison. Claude was confident that he would command the Thunder Division on the Albato prairie to completely annihilate this enemy division and win the battle. Spare an enemy and flee back to report the news
However, before commanding the troops to launch an attack, Claude still needed to conduct further observations.
It can be seen from the monocular that these retired soldiers from the Principality of Karnas are very skilled in riding. They rode their horses to quickly separate dozens of bison from the tail of the herd and hunted them down easily. The hunt took less than half an hour from start to finish, and then the transport team that followed carried the bison carcasses to the car and sent them to a camp not far away for processing. It goes on and on like this, and it looks like a bison slaughtering line that operates very smoothly.
No wonder the captured scout cavalry from the Principality of Karnars confessed that last year, the same division of troops hunted more than 30,000 bison and earned profits worth 70,000 to 80,000 gold crowns. No wonder this year, the volunteer light cavalry regiment sent a division to hunt buffalo even though they knew that the capture of their scout cavalry might reveal the whereabouts of their hunt for buffalo. This is an attractive amount of money. Seventy or eighty thousand gold crowns is indeed an extra money that people cannot easily refuse.
Of course, this may have a lot to do with the fact that the enemy believes that the five divisions in the new theater have just been formed and have not yet threatened their strength, or that they are very confident in their combat effectiveness. They probably believe that it is still safe to hunt buffalo this year. The five divisions in the new theater of the Overseas Directly Administered Territory of the Overas Kingdom have just been formed and are unlikely to attack them.
Although the enemy thinks so, they are indeed a force composed of veterans with rich battlefield experience. Their camp was well defended, with a trench two meters wide and three meters deep dug around the camp. The excavated soil was built into a three-meter-high earthen mound. Together with the rows of logs transported from the rear, the earthen mound was combined with the earthen mound to form a protective fence of varying heights, forming a very high barrier to the camping site. safety barrier.
If it were last year's Ranger Regiment, it would have to pay a heavy price of casualties to capture such a well-protected camp. But now that Claude has the weapon of throwing grenades, he is confident that the enemy's wall will become a yoke to trap themselves. But before the attack, the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Division still need to make some preparations, such as climbing over trenches and climbing ladders on the walls.
"Reporting to General, Lieutenant Colonel Belklin sent a hawk message. They have discovered the enemy's follow-up division. We are still more than two days away." The adjutant, Major Anders, handed Claude the latest urgent letter. .
"What enemy has a follow-up division?" Claude grabbed the urgent letter and opened it. Belklin said in the letter that he sent a small team of reconnaissance cavalry to the White Collar Ghana and Cromwell Territory. Go check out the border of the territory. This is just an unconscious assignment. If you are lucky, you may be able to capture a few enemy reconnaissance cavalry or communications troops. But what they didn't expect was that when the small group of reconnaissance cavalry arrived at the border, they suddenly discovered that most of the enemy cavalry was marching, estimated to be close to a division in size.
The volunteer light cavalry regiment formed by the retired soldiers of the Principality of Karnars was dispatched. Why did Claude look at the Falcon eagle message again? The time when the small scout cavalry discovered the enemy was around ten o'clock in the morning, and it is now four o'clock in the afternoon. Nearly a day passed. Then the enemy's follow-up troops are likely to arrive here in a day or a day and a half, leaving little time for the Thunder Division.
"Send the order and ask Lieutenant Colonel Belklin to lead the 1301st Regiment to find a suitable location and wait for follow-up notifications. If necessary, resolutely block the enemy's subsequent large forces, so as to delay the division and regiment headquarters' encirclement and annihilation of the enemy's buffalo-hunting forces. In addition, Send the order, dinner will be made an hour earlier, and all officers and soldiers will rest immediately after eating. The Thunder Division will launch an attack on the enemy's camp in the early morning." Claude made a prompt decision and issued the battle order.
"Yes, General." Major Anders saluted energetically, preparing to go out and deliver the order.
"Wait a minute, have all the battalion-level officers in charge of the division come over immediately and hold a pre-war seminar to determine the tasks and actions of each department." Claude ordered again.
It was late at night, and a bonfire was burning outside the enemy's camp. It is indeed an elite force that has experienced five years of war in the eastern region and suffered the heaviest casualties in the offensive and defensive battles of the Principality of Rimodra. Their measures to prevent night attacks are very complete and in place. Piles of bonfires were scattered in front of the trench, which was divided into two levels, the front and rear, twenty or thirty meters apart, which just covered the fifty-meter square space in front of the camp wall within the lighting range of the bonfires.
At such a distance, any enemy who wanted to launch a sneak attack on the camp would not be able to escape the eyes of the sentry on the wall. As long as he entered the lighting range of the campfire, he would be shot by the sentry with precise cold shots.
Claude and others saw from a distance that a spotted cheetah, which was attracted by the smell of blood and bacon coming from the campsite, was attacked by seven or eight gunshots from the wall the moment it approached the trench. Aimed shot of musket. As the firelight flashed on the fence and the smoke rose, the spotted cheetah trembled and fell to the ground. After about ten minutes, a small group of people and a carriage came out of the camp. They threw the body of the spotted cheetah into the car and returned to the camp.
All the senior officers who saw this scene began to look stern. It was obvious that the enemy was not a soft persimmon, but their strength should be considered a hard walnut. This is an elite force, not the standing army of the Kingdom of Hicks, which everyone thinks has poor combat effectiveness.
"Okay, let's go back." Claude put away the monocular. "Everyone knows the enemy's combat power. It is not much weaker than our Thunder Division. But this time you only need to remember the tasks assigned to you. The guerrilla battalion will capture the walls and camp gates as soon as possible. And you will attack the areas you are responsible for according to the layout before the battle and mop up the remaining enemies."
"General, are you sure the guerrilla battalion is sure to capture the enemy's well-defended walls and camp gates?" Murield asked with some worry.
"Of course." Claude laughed, "Because we have a secret weapon."
At four o'clock in the morning, the darkest night has passed, and a trace of fish belly white has been revealed on the horizon, but this fish belly white has also quickly become brownish red. In the continent of Nubicia, red has become a common color for people. The sky is red, the earth is red, and even the ocean is red.
A peaceful night made the sentries on duty on the camp wall relax their vigilance. It would be dark in half a day, and today would be another stressful and fulfilling day. Hunting bison will make everyone very tired, but as long as they are busy for more than half a month, everyone can earn two or three gold lunies. Is there any business in the world that is more profitable than this? It is said that the legion has decided to try its best to hunt as many as possible. Kill some bison and try to get twice as many as last year, and everyone gets twice as much.
The gold runi is the legal gold coin of the Principality of Karrnath, and it can be exchanged for two for three with the gold crown of the Kingdom of Orvilas.
Most of the bonfires outside the campsite have been extinguished. Although these bonfires piled up with dry cow dung have been burned, the smell is not very good, with a faint smell of burning. But on the prairie, if cow dung is not used as fuel, there is no way to pile up so many bonfires to guard against attacks in the dark. It's almost dawn now, and those extinguished campfires are still emitting curls of white smoke, some like morning fog, which have joined together and obscured the view outside the camp.
However, this kind of scene is already accustomed to the sentries on the camp wall. It won't be long before the morning breeze blows away the smoke outside the camp. Even if there seemed to be some movement outside, I guessed that it was some unyielding beast that was attracted by the smell of meat in the camp and refused to leave. It doesn't matter. When it gets dark and most of the cavalry in the camp are dispatched, the beasts outside the camp won't be able to escape even if they want to.
So when countless smoking black iron cans flew into the outside of the camp and landed on the walls and inside the walls, most of the sentries still didn't realize what was going on. They just stared blankly at these falling around and around them. There are black iron jars in the distance, and a soldier is trying to pick one up to take a closer look at what it is.
Then there was a violent explosion, and the camp wall and the inside of the wall became a hell on earth for a while, with blood and flesh flying everywhere, and even a small part of the wall was blown down.
"Enemy attack" finally the surviving sentry roared loudly.
In fact, he didn't need to remind him at all, the explosion had already explained it all. The troops composed of retired soldiers from the Principality of Karrnath in this camp were truly elite. After they reacted, they picked up their muskets and rushed towards the wall. This is the strongest defensive position in the entire camp. Even if they are attacked by the enemy, they will never give up this line of defense. As long as one person is there, the enemy will not be able to capture this wall so easily.
No soldier was shocked by the scene of heavy casualties around the wall. Even if his comrade was wailing because of his injuries, no one stopped to help him. Such tragic battlefield conditions occurred during the offensive and defensive battle of the Principality of Rimodra a few years ago. Already used to it. The soldiers who rushed to the wall for reinforcements knew very well that only by repelling the enemy's attack would they have time to rescue their comrades. Otherwise, once the wall is captured by the enemy, there will only be more casualties among comrades, and even the entire unit will be annihilated by the enemy, perhaps including himself.
Just when these fearless soldiers rushed to the wall to find the whereabouts of the attacking enemy, another batch of iron cans burning with green smoke fell on the wall and around them, and then exploded, with fire, gunpowder smoke, flying human body fragments, and countless wailings. It became one with the screams.
A total of four or five iron cans fell on the wall and around the wall. No soldier from the Principality of Karrnath dared to rush to the wall anymore. The wall has been riddled with holes, and the rows of logs inside have collapsed in more than ten places. But that's not important. What's important is that the scene inside the wall is horrific. Blood, flesh and corpses almost cover the nearly two meters of ground and walls inside the wall. Blood puddles of different sizes have appeared on the ground.
When the soldier of the First Thunder Division stepped on the ladder and stuck his head out from the outside of the wall, driving his musket on the wall and aiming inside the camp, he took one look at the miserable situation inside the wall and immediately lowered his head on the ladder. , he vomited
The outcome of the battle was nothing to say. With the help of throwing grenades, Claude led the Thunder Division to easily win a critical battle. The enemies of the two regiments were wiped out, and the fruits of their hard work over the past few days fell into Claude's hands.
What dissatisfied Claude was that even after consuming nearly a thousand grenades and inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy, the guerrilla battalion easily captured the wall of the enemy's camp. However, when the three regiments under his command rushed into the camp and mopped up the remaining remnants of the enemy, they still suffered heavy losses from the stubborn enemies. The casualties of more than 370 people made Claude angrily scold the two lieutenant colonels Muriel and Diavid who came in bloody.
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