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Chapter 467 Thunder Attack
Perhaps for the Hicks people, the floating trestle in the fishing port town was their confidence to confront the Thunder Legion outside Lanhu City. As long as the floating trestle is there, subsequent support troops and replenishment of military supplies will be continuously transported from afar. So after learning that the fishing port town was burned to ashes and the floating trestle was also burned, the Hicks in the camp outside Lanhu City immediately started a commotion. Everyone knew that they had no way out.
For the territorial war zone, these nearly 100,000 Hicks people have become turtles in the urn and have lost their threat. In particular, their senior officers and commanding officers didn't know what they were thinking, but they actually wanted to retreat to the Mormali Direct Territory. Claude later asked several senior prisoners to find out the reason. The Hicks wanted to retreat to the Mormali Direct Territory and build a pontoon from the beach area on the seaside to the deep sea to find the trapped thousands of people. A way out.
One of the two local garrison regiments under the direct jurisdiction of Mormali was dispatched to the command of General Kling and was fighting in the eastern frontier mountainous area. The other received an urgent transfer order from Claude and went to the port of Cauchus in the direct jurisdiction of Tiersim to help defend the city. There is no defender in the Mormali Direct Territory. The Hicks only dispatched two light cavalry field regiments and successfully occupied the entire direct territory. Perhaps this is why the Hicks decided to retreat to Mormali. The reason for the direct jurisdiction.
Claude can only feel sad for the nearly 100,000 Hicks. If he is the frontline commander of the Hicks, then there is only one option, which is to retreat to the fishing port town, re-log the trees, and build a floating trestle. So that the troops can escape. After all, the fishing port town is much closer to the seaside town in the direct jurisdiction of Mormali. Even if it is burned to ashes, there are many mountains and forests around the village, and it is still possible to build a temporary pontoon bridge.
However, the senior officers of the Hicks decided to evacuate to the seaside town of Mormali Direct Territory and build a pontoon bridge on the beach there. They did not care about reality at all and commanded blindly. It's very simple. After the Thunder Legion arrived in Lanhu City, the Hicks no longer had the possibility of any infantry unit leaving the camp. The roaring light cavalry of the Thunder Legion had already taken the initiative on the entire battlefield.
Especially at night, for the Hicks people in the camp, the Thunder Legion has become a nightmare for almost all Hicks officers and soldiers. They attacked from all sides of the camp, throwing
Throwing bombs bombarded the camp, and the Hicks people rushed around to put out the fire and resist, so that the Thunder Legion could not break through the camp. Many Hicks officers and soldiers have never had a peaceful night's sleep since the Thunder Legion arrived in Lanhu City, and their two black eye sockets have become their most conspicuous symbol.
As for the light cavalry of the Royal Knights Reserve Corps, they were so frightened by the Thunder Legion that they could not leave the camp's grenade range even during the day. Countless light cavalry sent out for reconnaissance became the target of an ambush by the Thunder Legion as soon as they left the camp. The crisp sound of gunfire meant that each of the Hicks light cavalry fell under their horses.
If Claude hadn't discovered that the Hicks still had fighting spirit and attacking the camp would cause heavy casualties to the Thunder Legion soldiers, he would have defeated the Hicks' camp long ago. Now that the war is under his control and rhythm, Claude doesn't mind letting these Hicks survive for a while, and then annihilate them in one battle when they run out of ammunition, food, and morale. That would be much easier, and it won't It will cost a lot of casualties.
Therefore, after Maijack and Blovik led the 131st Battalion and the Wolf Fang Team to escort the prisoners back to life, Claude ordered the release of several officer prisoners so that they could be brought to the Hicks in the camp to cut off their escape routes. news, in order to speed up the desperate psychological process of these Hicks people, and at the same time see what kind of response these Hicks people who stick to the camp will make. Continuing to stick to the camp will only lead to death, but leaving the camp will bring greater opportunities to the Thunder Legion.
Claude did not expect that the Hicks in the camp would decide to evacuate to the Mormali Direct Territory. Perhaps the towns they occupied gave the Hicks a false sense of security, thinking that it was their territory. . Perhaps it was because they could obtain sufficient supplies of food and grass in the direct jurisdiction of Mormali, so on the third day after learning the news that the fishing port town had been burned to the ground, the Hicks broke out of camp and withdrew to Mormali. Malley demesne.
There were ten thousand people, boundless, and the 780,000 or 80,000 Hicks who were guarding the camp retreated with great momentum. The remaining five light cavalry regiments served as pioneers and broke through the barrier set by the Thunder Legion regardless of casualties. However, as the number of light cavalry in the Royal Knights Reserve Corps became less and less, and when there was only about one regiment left, the senior commanders of the Hicks were no longer willing to send them to die. As a result, the evacuated infantry units suffered To the point where there are attacks day and night, all the time.
I was just thinking about it while eating
I wanted to drink some hot soup, but the enemy came. A few projectiles or solid projectiles flew into the crowd, taking away the lives of a few unlucky people, and often making the entire queue jump. The enemy's light cavalry finally evacuated. When they turned around, they saw that the hot soup was gone. It was either poured or stained with blood or mud, making it impossible to drink it.
Just when I closed my eyes at night, the sound of bombing rang out again, and the enemy's night attack troops circled around the position again. A good night's sleep and hot food became a luxury. Within three days, all the Hicks soldiers who were still marching on the road were staggering and numb. Even when the light cavalry of the Thunder Legion attacked again, some people were looking forward to being beaten to death by a gun. It would be better than this. Traveling without sleep and suffering.
On the sixth day, Claude issued the order for a general attack. The Hicks infantry troops at the rear had lost their determination to resist. They just stood there in a daze, watching helplessly as the light cavalry of the Thunder Legion leaped towards them and raised their swords. The team rushed forward, but even the Hicks soldiers who wanted to resist were slow to react and were hacked down like wooden stakes by the enemy. When the light cavalry of the Thunder Legion shouted to surrender their guns and not kill, more Hicks soldiers threw away their guns in relief and fell to the ground to sleep. For them, this war was finally over. .
Not all Hicks are like this. The Hicks unit in the army should be regarded as the most energetic one. The senior command and elite guard troops of the Hicks are gathered here. All troops are located in the area during the evacuation. The heart is attacked and harassed the least. So when the Thunder Legion launched its general attack, this part of the Hicks reacted the fastest. They abandoned all the supplies, collected a large number of pack horses, gathered the remaining light cavalry, and left the infantry behind to block them. , and then went all out to break through the direct territory of Mormali.
The light cavalry of the Thunder Legion collected most of the Hicks prisoners and followed them all the way behind, but they still couldn't catch up. The Hicks who fled to the Mormali Direct Territory gathered their garrison troops and evacuated all the way to every town they visited. When they finally retreated to the seaside town of Boa in the Mormali Direct Territory, they were attacked by the Thunder Legion. The light cavalry overtook them. The Hicks had no choice but to defend themselves in the town of Poya. At this time, their total number of troops was only more than 10,000.
Although Poya Town is close to the sea, it is not a port like a fishing port town. It is five hundred meters away from the sea. It is a beautiful brown beach.
, which is thousands of meters away from the shallow sea to the deep sea. Several warships of the Sea King Fleet of the Hicks Kingdom were wandering in the deep sea area. They could see the flags of the Hicks Kingdom flying over Poya Town and the fireworks signals warning for help, but there was nothing they could do.
A light cavalry battalion that was the first to arrive from the Thunder Legion has surrounded the entire town of Poya. They are only responsible for monitoring the movements of the Hicks in the town, to avoid giving the Hicks time to go to the beach to build any pontoon bridge, and at the same time send troops Go and set fire to all the small fishing boats of the town residents placed on the beach, so that the besieged Hicks people lose the opportunity for senior officers to abandon the large troops and board the boats to escape.
Although the light cavalry battalion of the Thunder Legion outside the town was ten times more powerful, the Hicks who occupied the town of Poya had no intention of leaving the town to fight. The escape all the way had consumed them too much energy. After entering the town, most of the senior Hicks officers just ate something and found a place to fall asleep. Only a few troops were arranged to set up defenses in the town. Alert front.
The next day, a regiment of light cavalry from the Thunder Legion arrived at the town of Poya. By this time, the senior officers of Hicks, who had regained their energy, had already fled. They stood on the wall of the town and looked at the kingdom of Hicks on the sea. The battleship was on the verge of crying, and there was nothing more desperate than the scene before her. The distance of several hundred meters from the town to the beach has become a natural chasm for them to escape from their predicament. The light cavalry of the Thunder Legion set up an ambush position here, and anyone who wanted to go to the beach would become their shooting target.
When General Albert led the two light cavalry field regiments of the Second Division of the Thunder Legion to the town of Poia, the besieged Hicks no longer had any hope of escaping. After two days of negotiations, these hopes After the senior officers and command of the Kingdom of Kes obtained General Albert's promise to allow their families to come to redeem their return to the country, they simply ordered the troops to lay down their weapons and raise the white flag to surrender.
Then, under the watchful eyes of three Hicks Kingdom warships at sea, the Hicks King flag over Poya Town fell, and the national flag of the Overas Kingdom and the military flag of the overseas territorial war zone slowly rose.
The recapture of the town of Poya meant that the direct-administered war zone annihilated the three standing legions of the Hicks Kingdom that penetrated deep into the war zone, shattering Hicks's strategy of attacking from the east to the west. But at the same time, this war also brought very heavy losses to the territorial war zone, with as many as 30,000 casualties, nearly 10,000 of which were residents killed and injured by the Hicks. Property damage in two
Around 20 million gold crowns. Lanhu City needs to be rebuilt, as well as the fishing port town, as well as the residents injured by the Hicks and the property losses plundered need to be compensated by the war zone.
Nearly 200,000 Hicks landed in the fishing port town. The three standing legions suffered nearly half casualties and only about 80,000 prisoners. But this is not surprising, because it has the second legion of revenge. This legion composed of captured veterans was almost completely wiped out. During the attack on Lanhu City, they suffered more than 40,000 casualties. It was these veterans who resisted the most during the evacuation. They would rather die in battle than be prisoners again.
Claude finally solved the mystery in his heart. After asking the senior Hicks officers who surrendered, he realized that the Marquis Clario de Xirios who succeeded the previous frontline commander came to Rhodes. After the colonization of Kes Bay, he became unaccustomed to the local environment. After formulating the plan to land in the fishing port town, he was vomiting and was sent back to the kingdom. He didn't know if he could be rescued.
The senior officers of the three standing corps who implemented this plan received orders from King Medid III, requiring them to completely destroy the administrative center of the theater and the seat of the theater headquarters, Lanhu City, to vent the anger of the failure of the previous four colonial wars. . In addition, according to the traditional rules of war between various countries in Farea continent, capturing the enemy's royal capital means winning the war, and Lanhu City is also equivalent to the royal capital of a direct jurisdiction, so the Hicks are focused on fighting Lanhu City. Fight to the end
However, this victory does not mean the end of this colonial war. The Hicks Kingdom's Sea King Fleet and Combined Fleet are still cruising in the waters of the territorial war zone, eyeing them. Rodex Bay Colony also has four standing legions from the Hicks Kingdom. Claude's Thunder Legion can only stay in the two direct territories of Mormali and Amphiston to maintain order and clean up the mess. Next, we need to rearrange the garrison forces in the coastal areas of each direct-administered territory to prevent another Hicks landing and sneak attack.
When Claude was very busy, it was already the end of the year, and the 593rd year of the Holy Light Calendar was coming to an end soon. However, the arrival of this New Year's Eve was not very festive. The ruins of Lanhu City showed the war. of cruelty and post-war trauma. The Falcon message from General Kling said that after receiving the news that the three standing corps that landed in the fishing port town deep inside the war zone were completely destroyed, the Hicks no longer attacked forward, but instead reduced their forces and strengthened them. Defense in frontier mountainous areas turns from offense to defense
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