Murray Ed and Diaverde stood dejectedly in front of Claude. They were greedy for success and commanded their men to rush into the last tent area in the camp where the enemy was stubbornly resisting in the final mopping up stage. As a result, they were swept away by the shotgun shells fired by the two light infantry artillery guns that the enemy obtained from unknown sources. Nearly a hundred people were killed and injured in one fell swoop, adding one-third of the casualties to this battle that could be considered a complete victory. .
The pleadings and curses of the dying enemies could be heard in the distance, but none of this could change their fate. The last group of recalcitrant retired soldiers from the Principality of Karrnath who had laid down their weapons and surrendered with bare hands, faced the muzzles and bayonets of the angry victors. They could only watch as they and their companions were massacred. Apart from protesting, begging and yelling, there was nothing they could do to stop them from dying.
Claude gave the order, and all the last batch of surrenderers were executed on the spot. This is not retaliation for the heavy casualties suffered by the soldiers of the Thunder Division caused by their last stubborn resistance. The main purpose is to kill the chickens and scare the monkeys. If they are not executed, they will not be able to deter the more than 5,000 retired soldiers from the Principality of Karrnath who have surrendered. captive.
Because Claude was about to lead a large force to continue attacking the bison herd's eastern side at the camp of the other two regiments of the volunteer light cavalry regiment formed by retired soldiers from the Principality of Karnas, there was no way to leave too many people there. Prisoners are guarded here. Therefore, killing those prisoners with the strongest will to fight and resist first can ensure that there will be no trouble after the large army leaves.
If the Kingdom of Nasseri is the first mortal enemy of the Kingdom of Orveras, then the Principality of Karnas is the second mortal enemy. This can be seen from this offensive battle. After losing the defensive line of the camp wall, which determines the outcome, and the camp gate being captured, if it were the soldiers of the standing legion of the Kingdom of Hicks, they would have been obedient. He raised his hands and surrendered to save his life.
However, this so-called volunteer light cavalry regiment composed of retired soldiers from the Principality of Karrnath was caught off guard by the Thunder Division with grenades. They were shocked by the heavy casualties around the wall. However, as the Thunder Division advanced, The soldiers rushed into the camp, but these retired soldiers from the Principality of Karnas still resisted, causing more than 200 casualties to the attackers.
In particular, these resistances and casualties were caused spontaneously by individuals or teams in the camping tent area without orders from superior officers. Of course, Claude has ordered that all resisters will be executed on the spot even if they surrender. There is no doubt about this. The last group of veterans who used two light infantry artillery to set up an ambush in the tent area and severely damaged the troops commanded by Murray Ed and Diavid were killed by Clowe as soon as they surrendered and laid down their weapons. Germany issued an order to kill them all
There were more than 12,000 people in the two regiments, and by the end of the battle, more than 5,400 people had become prisoners. One can imagine how fierce their resistance was. In addition to the more than 700 stubborn enemies who were massacred, there were also more than 2,000 injured retired soldiers from the Principality of Karnas who were ordered by Claude to send them away. Whether they were slightly injured or heavily rewarded, the Thunder Division did not There is no need or energy to treat them. As for the more than 5,000 prisoners who had been silenced by the massacre, Claude planned to send someone to escort them back to Lanhu Town to become free construction labor.
"Lieutenant Colonel Andrewk." Claude whispered a name softly.
"Here, general, please give me instructions." Standing behind Murray Ed and Diavid, the commander of the 1304th Regiment of the Thunder Division, Lieutenant Colonel Andrewk, who had not been criticized, hurriedly strode forward for two seconds. Step, stand at attention and salute. In fact, the massacre order issued by Claude not only frightened the more than 5,000 enemy prisoners, but also most of the officers and soldiers of the Thunder Division were frightened by Claude's ruthlessness.
The gunshots were still echoing, and the last screams of the dead were still ringing in my ears. But Lieutenant Colonel Andrewk heard the order given by Claude very clearly: "Your regiment will mobilize two battalions of officers and soldiers, and integrate them with the logistics battalion to escort the prisoners and the wounded back to the direct jurisdiction of Robisto, and hand over the prisoners and wounded to the Major General Bolognik of the First Division of the Rock. Then you take my warrant to Mr. Veblen and ask him to hand over all the grenades that have been produced by the iron ore workshop to you and transport them to the front line. Understand your mission. Yet"
"Yes, I understand." Lieutenant Colonel Andrewk answered loudly.
The adjutant next to him, Major Anders, immediately took out a pen and paper from his briefcase. Claude put the briefcase on his back and wrote a warrant directly. After signing, he first stamped it with his official seal, and then stamped it with his private seal with his ring. Leave it to Lieutenant Colonel Andrewk.
"Okay, I'll leave this to you next. If the prisoner does something wrong during the escort, I grant you the power to make an emergency decision." Claude said to Lieutenant Colonel Andrewk, then turned his head and looked down at The two leaders, Muriel Ed and Diavid, each gave a kick. "Go back and pack up the troops. Give you half an hour. We will set off immediately to the camp on the east side where the prisoner confessed. This time give it to me." Be careful"
"Yes, General, we will not let you down again this time." Murray and Diaverde were overjoyed after each received a kick from Claude, because Claude expressed his forgiveness by doing so. After meeting them, he stood at attention and saluted, and then ran quickly to gather his troops.
The two regiments of the volunteer light cavalry regiment of the Principality of Karnas were deployed on the east side. They did not know that the two regiments on the west side had been completely wiped out by the Thunder Division, and they were still busy hunting bison. When the guerrilla battalion led by Mai Jack, who was the vanguard, appeared in their field of vision, the enemy thought it was a small reconnaissance cavalry team from the Overseas Territory War Zone of the Kingdom of Overas that was conducting reconnaissance and accidentally touched them.
Although it was a little strange how these enemy light cavalry reconnaissance teams passed through the friendly blockade on the west side, they still did not recall the personnel who were hunting bison. They just rushed out of a large group of light cavalry from the camp and fiercely charged at McJack. Others rushed towards him, trying to drive away the scouts from the guerrilla battalion led by Mai Jack.
McJack was very alert at this moment. He immediately turned around and left with a dozen light cavalry scouts, and at the same time lured the large group of light cavalry from the Principality of Karnas to follow.
When the dozens of officers and soldiers pursued by the light cavalry brigade of the Principality of Karnas rushed up the gentle slope in front of them, what they saw in front of them made their whole bodies stiffen. Just below the gentle slope, more than a thousand people and horses were lined up in a neat military formation. Everyone's guns were pointed at them. The distance between the two was less than forty meters.
And in the distance, there is a large army coming. Looking at the size of the long team, there are no less than 20,000 to 30,000 people.
"Enemy, enemy, attack!" An officer from the Principality of Karnas, who was leading the charge on the gentle slope, roared from his throat. He thought the sound was very loud, but in fact, only a few soldiers next to him could hear it.
The light cavalry chasing after them had rushed up the gentle slope in a swarm, but what they saw made them almost as stunned as their companions in front.
"Put it down." Mike waved his hand.
The gunfire exploded continuously, and the flash of fire and white smoke rose from the neatly arranged military formations. The light cavalry of the Principality of Karrnath that were crowded on the gentle slope were almost wiped out. The gentle slope was suddenly filled with the corpses of men and horses, as well as the wounded and wounded horses. The screams and the neighing of the horses merged into one. The remaining few lucky ones reacted, turned their horses' heads and ran back.
"Follow me," McJack ordered.
The soldiers in the first, second and third rows who had already fired their guns put their muskets behind their backs, drew their sabers and rode in pursuit. The soldiers in the fourth and fifth platoons rode their horses up the gentle slope behind McJack. Naturally, there were people to deal with the enemy's wounded on the ground, but most of them were given a quick life.
There are only about two hundred people in the principality's light cavalry brigade. More than a hundred have been defeated on the gentle slope. The remaining fifty or sixty cavalry are galloping towards their campsite, shouting as they run. "Enemy attack enemy attack"
There was so much noise that even the light cavalry who were hunting bison stopped hunting, turned to look at the fleeing soldiers, and finally understood something from their dancing movements. They didn't even bother to take the bison carcasses on the ground. , rode directly to the campsite.
When Claude arrived with a large force, the enemy's two regiments had already huddled in the camp and were ready for defense. Fortunately, this volunteer light cavalry regiment came to hunt bison and did not bring many artillery. According to the statistics captured in the captured camp on the west side, the two regiments only had twenty-four light infantry artillery pieces, which was about half less than the normal artillery equipment.
"Let's carry out the attack according to the plan. We only need half a day at most to capture the enemy's camp." Claude said.
It's daytime now. When the enemy sees the Thunder Division attacking them, they will definitely send a hawk message to notify the large force that is coming later. If the camp cannot be captured in half a day, then Belklin will have to try to delay or block the schedule and time for the subsequent large force to arrive for reinforcements.
The entire camp has been surrounded, the artillery has been deployed, and the one-hour attack preparation has been completed. Claude waved his hand to signal the attack to begin.
First, the light infantry field artillery equipped by the Thunder Division opened fire from a distance of 800 meters, smashing solid iron projectiles as big as fists against the wall of the enemy's camp. Compared with the enemy's light infantry artillery, this standard artillery manufactured by the Kingdom of Ovilas should be the most powerful and longest-range of all light infantry artillery. Just like it can now hit the enemy's camp wall from 800 meters away, but the light infantry artillery equipped by the Principality of Karnas has a maximum range of only 700 meters, so it will only be in a passive situation of being beaten.
However, the four-round artillery fire did not pose much of a threat to the enemy's camp wall. At most, it could only knock down some dirt from the wall's earthen ramparts. However, the artillery bombardment was only to cover the approach of the Thunder Division officers and soldiers. The first batch of attacking soldiers spread out and crawled close to the camp, in order to avoid being shelled by artillery and musketry in the camp. They stopped about a hundred meters away, took a small shovel from their waists, and quickly dug a hole in the grass. They hid in the hole and set up muskets to shoot at the defenders on the enemy wall. Suddenly the enemy suffered casualties and did not dare to show their heads on the wall easily.
The Karnas Army is also equipped with muskets with precise aiming and shooting performance. The only difference between them and the Obash Type III standard matchlock guns equipped by the Overas King's Army is the effective range of this precise aiming and shooting. . Oba's Type III standard matchlock gun has a range of 100 meters, but the effective range in their hands is only more than 80 meters.
Therefore, the main task of the first batch of soldiers from the Thunder Division to launch the attack was to suppress the firepower of the guards on the wall while avoiding being attacked by shotgun fire from the enemy's camp artillery within a hundred meters. When the first group of soldiers began to suppress the firepower on the enemy's wall, the second group of attacking soldiers also set off. They also crawled to the pit where the first group of soldiers were hiding, then took out their small shovels and continued digging forward.
Soon, the second group of attacking soldiers had dug a shallow tunnel in the grass. They stayed about 70 meters away from the wall of the enemy's camp. Instead of digging forward, we worked hard to dig down and to the side. The excavated soil was piled on the side of the position facing the camp.
The enemies on the wall of the camp also noticed the movement of the second batch of attacking soldiers. Although they thought it was strange that these soldiers were digging holes, they didn't pay much attention. Perhaps they thought that the second group of attacking soldiers were just like the first group of soldiers, wanting to shoot and suppress the soldiers guarding the wall. They were just closer to the wall.
This second group of attacking soldiers was already within the effective range of the enemy's precisely aimed fire on the wall, and therefore was fired upon by the hiding enemy guards. But most of them were in vain, and the bullets were shot into the dirt pile in front.
The third group of attacking soldiers also set off. They were all veterans of the guerrilla camp. They formed a group of three. One person was holding a throwing device, and the other two were carrying a large backpack containing four throwing bombs. Their target was the big hole dug by the second group of attacking soldiers.
Most of the 100 groups of the third batch of attacking soldiers successfully entered the pit. More than ten soldiers were hit by enemy fire and fell to the ground on the way forward. However, the soldiers who entered the pit also started digging immediately, so that the pit could be expanded enough for people to squat or kneel upright without being hit by enemy fire.
The enemies in the camp seemed to realize that the 70-meter-long crater in front of the wall posed a great threat to them, so they used light infantry artillery to launch two rounds of shotgun attacks. Thanks to the accumulation of mud in front of the pit, these two rounds of artillery shell attacks only caused a few single-digit casualties to the attacking soldiers. Instead, the artillery crew was severely sniped by the first batch of attacking soldiers from the Thunder Division, resulting in dozens of casualties.
When the second group of attacking soldiers lay down on the big pit and started shooting at the enemies above the wall with their muskets, it meant that the grenade-throwing group with him in the big pit was ready to throw. As a sharp copper whistle sounded from behind, the grenades in the big pits flew towards the wall of the enemy's camp like rain.
This is almost a replica of the captured camp on the west side. Round after round of projectiles exploded above and inside the wall, which also triggered the explosion of several barrels of gunpowder for artillery launches. There was an extremely violent explosion and an earthquake. After the shaking like a mountain, a large section of the wall collapsed, and a light infantry artillery with a twisted barrel was thrown high and landed more than forty meters away.
A sharp copper whistle sounded from behind, and groups of soldiers rushed up with ladders. They successfully put the ladders on the trench in front of the wall, rushed across the trench, then put the ladder against the wall, climbed up and racked their muskets. Go to the top of the wall and shoot at the enemies who are still active in the camp.
When the walls were densely packed with muskets from the Thunder Division soldiers, the enemy's defeat was inevitable.
Claude looked at the time. It took a total of three and a half hours. It saved a lot of time, but it took more time to throw the bombs than to attack the campsite on the west side. There were nearly a hundred groups of grenades, and almost every group used up eight grenades. When the throwing range was extended into the camp, five or six more grenades were supported from the rear. Of the 3,000 grenades we brought out before departure, there were less than 800 left.
What Claude needs to consider now is whether to fight the enemy's large force that is coming later.
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