MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 440 Defense front

The forty-fourth chapter defense front

Crowder stood in the middle of a mountain cliff, surrounded by a few dense pine trees. He raised the monocular and looked at the military camp of the Hicks in the mountains more than a thousand meters away. This is the border between the northern mountains of the Nikhanda country and the colony of the Rhodes Bay. Claude also wants to see the situation of the three standing Legion of the Hicks this time, and then quietly sneak.

Already in mid-August, the Hicks finally transported the two standing corps, named the fourth and fifth of the Shame, to the colony of the Rocks Bay. Just after the arrival of the two standing regiments, the three standing army regiments that had been in the colony of the Rhodes Bay for nearly three months were reopened to the mountainous border of the Nikancan country and resumed camping.

In the northern coastal mountainous region, the Hicks arranged two standing corps, while the eastern mountainous borders deployed only one standing army. It seems that the Hicks seem to focus on the northern coastal mountains, but in Claude's view, the situation seems to be not quite right. Because the camps set up by the two standing regiments are more defensive than offensive than the camps of the standing army in the eastern mountainous border...

"General, we should go." McKee behind him reminded: "The Hicks reconnaissance squad is very active during this time, often going deep into the mountains of this area for reconnaissance. Maybe there are their latent whistle near here. You are the frontline commander and can't easily put your life at risk..."

Crowder put down the binoculars in his hand, and the ones that have been seen have already been seen. It is really impossible to stay at the forefront. Going back to discuss, the Hicks will obviously launch an offensive against the Nikkan people in the near future, but their deployment will make Claude somewhat incomprehensible. It is reasonable to say that these two standing legions in the north should serve. The main attack, the standing army in the east as a attack and containment. But what about the defensive camp set up by the two standing legions in the north? Ready to be a logistics base after the start of the war...

General Beechklin’s Defence Front Command was established at the junction of the northern mountainous region and the eastern mountainous region. This is also to facilitate the mastery of defensive positions in both directions. The command is located in a large cave on the mountainside. The entrance is very flat. Four rows of semi-hidden wooden houses are built. The exposed wooden shed is covered with many vines. This leafy climbing plant is very good. It played a role of masking, and it was easy to ignore those past houses in the distance.

Two flat trenches were dug in the flat front of the log house. This is the defensive position of the warning whistle and the headquarters when the enemy attacked. When Claude came over, General Beechklin had already greeted him, and he was concerned about what Claude had discovered...

When Claude said what he had observed and the doubts in his heart, General Beechklin thought it was no surprise. He said that the Hicks are likely to suspect that the direct military area has sent troops into the Nikkan countries. Perhaps the Hicks believe that if the troops directly under the jurisdiction enter the Nikkan countries, they should assume the northern coast. The defense in the mountainous areas, so they deployed two standing corps in the north, and also set up a defensive camp, fearing that they would be suddenly attacked by two legions in the territorial war zone.

General Beechklin’s remarks made sense. Claude thought that if he was the commander of the Hicks, he should also make judgments like General Beechling. As for the eastern mountainous border, in fact, sending a standing army is considered to be a high-spirited Nikkan people. Everyone knows that the Nikkan people’s fighting power is scum and they are vulnerable.

"Is there any information about the Hicks general commander?" Crowder asked. During this time he ran all over the eastern and northern border mountains, sleeping for nearly twenty days outside, and did not know much about the rear battle zone and the front line command of Monknard Castle. Did the colonial secret agents send valuable information?

General Beechklin nodded. "Yes, the eagle sent by the detectives said that the general commander of the Hicks Kingdom sent this time was a hereditary count and an army general of the Hicks Kingdom. It is said that in the Hicks Kingdom, when the domestic aristocratic rebellion was settled, it was strongly trusted by King Majid III. This year, he was 68 years old and was ordered to serve as the chief commander of the colonial war. His name is Novo. Burlington Pon Belondi..."

"Just these?" Claude shook his head in disappointment. Perhaps this is the inconvenience of losing contact with the kingdom. What he wants to know is the character of the Hicks general commander, what kind of war he has participated in, what are the characteristics of the commanding soldiers, etc... Knowing the enemy can make a targeted arrangement. Like the intelligence sent by the detectives, apart from knowing the name and age, nothing else is clear...

Sixty-eight years old... Such a big age should be very stable, and I don’t like to take risks. It’s hard to use lure to lure him. At the same time, veterans like this are basically ridiculous. They like to make plans to let the various units execute orders in a step-by-step manner. The defense of logistics supply will be more thorough and rigorous... In general, he will not like the strategy of winning. It seems that the three standing regiments of the Hicks Kingdom will die after the attack.

“Are our defensive fronts and frontier positions set up?” Crowder asked.

General Beechklin nodded. "It's all good. You look here. I have made people create a clay sand table based on the terrain."

This is a large room separated by a cave. There is a chandelier with 18 candles in the top, which makes the whole room very bright. There was a large table in the middle of the room with a large sand table on the table. This is the sand table of the mountains in the northern and eastern parts of the Nikkan people's country. Perhaps because of the rushing work, the hills on the sand table are very rough and simple, and there are no decorations for the trees.

Beechklin took a slender stick for pointing. He pointed to the mountainous area on the border of the sand table and said, "We surveyed the terrain of the border and thought that the Hicks were still very easy to find between the border mountains. The road that can be used. After the independent establishment of the country, the Nikkan people had no interest in going to the colony of the Rhodes Bay. There were Nikancha people, but there was no settlement. So neither of them had any contact.

The main reason is that people in the United Kingdom of the Fox Islands are more annoying to the settlement of the Nikkan people. In those colonies of their country, they are adopting a drastic attitude towards the settlements of the Nikkan people and do not allow the existence of settlements. Like the Nikkan people in the colony of the Rhodes Bay, the young women who were arrested by the colonists from the Nikkan people’s settlements, were born to their children after being vented, and then cultivated into servants, and There is nothing to do with the settlement of the Nikkan.

Therefore, in addition to hating the Hicks, the Nikkan people hated the descendants of the Kramer pirates of the United Kingdom in the Fox Islands, which was why they did not contact the settlement of the Nikkan people in the colonies of the West Coast after their independence. If it weren’t for our war zone to voluntarily leak, these Nikkan people might not send people to the colonies of the West Coast to find their compatriots to help them hear the news, so that when the Hicks army came, they knew that the disaster was coming.... ..

Now these Nikkan people are very hard, helping us to build the three defensive fronts in the central mountainous area, and even offered to help us set up three defensive fronts in the rear to resist the Hicks offense. I told them that it was not necessary. Because the Hicks wanted to capture the three defensive fronts, there was only one possibility. One of the divisions where our Stone Corps was placed was completely annihilated, and none of the officers and men survived.

At that time, let alone the three defensive fronts, and then the ten defensive fronts can not stop the pace of the Hicks offensive. Without our guards, there is a fart for the defensive front. After listening to the words I said, after half a month, the Nekka people sent us 100,000 young and strong armed men. They all received the junior military training of the instructors in our war zone and knew how to cast the firearms.

Many Nikancan leaders and elders came to the day. The elders who led the head also held my hand and told us that the lives and deaths of their country were on the three defensive fronts in our hands, so they followed The cooperation agreement with us has sent me 100,000 elites. I hope that I can guard this defensive line against the attack of the Hicks. ”

General Beechklin ordered the middle part of the sandbox with a thin wooden stick, where three red wool threads were glued to the hills of the clay, which represented the three front and rear defense lines, showing an irregular L. Type: "I broke up the 100,000-year-old Nikkan people and distributed them to the distribution. According to the plan planned by the theater, let a soldier of the Meteorite Corps bring two Nikkan people to the youth and have supervised operations. The power to enforce military law.

There are also 40,000 Nepalese people armed with young and strong, I have compiled them into forty camps, let our staff officers of the Stone Corps serve as the responsible officers, and arrange them on the forefront of the border with the forty hills with small red flags. . This is the way we think the Hicks are likely to launch an offensive. These hill positions can alert us in the first place and suppress the enemy's offensive path, creating some trouble for the enemy.

Of course, I don't expect these Nikkan people to withstand the Hicks' offense, but at least they can make the Hicks think that the defenders are all Nikkan, and at most we have sent instructors to guide them in the theater. Defensive. I believe that the Hicks will be bold and forward-thinking, and the forty Nikkan camps that we have placed in the mountains in the forefront will be able to fight and withdraw. The enemy’s attack will also consume enemy weapons, ammunition and food. Until the enemy is attracted to our defensive front. ”

This was a strategic plan that was originally planned in the theater. After the Hicks' offensive troops arrived at the defensive position set by General Beechling, the Thunder Corps, who was the turn of Claude, took the initiative. They will be inserted obliquely into the mountainous area behind the Hicks, blocking their logistical supplies supply channels, and fighting for help. So the attacking Hicks were in front of a solid defensive front, followed by the Thunder's squad, plus the severance of grain and ammunition, except for surrender, there is no other way to go...

The difficulty of this plan is how to let the Nikkan people take the initiative to defend the Hicks offensive in the mountains in front of the border. It is important to know that this plan is confidential to the Nikkan people, but after a strong defensive front can be relied on as a defensive force, the Nikkan people are armed to the frontier mountain areas, I don’t know if they will be The Nikkan people misunderstood the war zone and wanted to use the knife to kill people, which led to the unpleasant and unsatisfactory cooperation between the two parties...

Only if the Nikkan people were deployed in the forefront of the mountain, would the attacking Hicks be reassured until they hit the defensive front of the Rock Corps. To put it bluntly, the Nikkan people armed in the forefront of the mountains are indeed the role of cannon fodder, mainly used to lure the Hicks.

It’s just that Claude didn’t expect the elders and leaders of the Nikkancha people to be so knowledgeable and interested, and he took the initiative to hand over the 100,000-Kazakh people to the command of General Beechklin, which solved the arrangement of the theater. The biggest problem with this plan. With the officers of the Stone Corps serving as the heads of these Nikkancha camps, I believe that the fighting power of these Nikkan people will also be improved. At the very least, they will take a serious resistance to retreat...

General Beechklin said very proudly: "From July to August, our soldiers on this defensive front are training the Nikkan people to fight against the defensive operations. Although the time is short, these Nepalese At least the Kamcha people also knew obedience orders and covert shooting. According to the arrangement of the three standing legions of the enemy, I deployed a regiment in the eastern mountainous region, deployed two regiments in the northern mountainous region, and another regiment stayed behind. Reserve team.

According to the situation of a soldier carrying two Nikkan people, the defensive line is full of manpower. Together with these Nikkancha camps in the mountain fronts of the border, we can completely delay the Hicks offensive forces in the forefront of the mountains for a month. Without these Nikkan battalions, the Hicks would only have to spend fifteen days to reach the defensive front in Central Mountain.

With these Nikkancha camps in front of the side, I believe that the Hicks were exhausted before they reached our defensive front, unable to launch a fierce attack. This will greatly reduce our defensive pressure, and make full use of the defensive line to cause greater damage to the attacking Hicks. At that time, your Thunder Legion will be copied from behind. These Hicks are the fish that have been arrested. They can only wait for death..."

Crowder scrutinized the arrangement on the sand table and found that General Beechklin did not exaggerate. The defensive front in the central mountainous area and the garrison deployment in the mountainous area along the border were very old and thoughtful, at least he could not find any flaws. Come.

"The commander of the defensive front here did not arrange for the soldiers to train those Nikkan people together?" Claude asked, when he came over, he did not see the young people of Nikkan near the headquarters. Armed.

"No." General Beechklin shook his head and said: "The reinforcement camp that I am directly under the division is equipped with new rifles. It is not convenient to train with Nikkan. So the troops in the north and east have Nikkan people. I didn’t bring the Nikkan people to my headquarters."

"Well, then I am back to Monknaard Castle." Claude is ready to say: "I suspect that the Hicks will attack very quickly in the next few days, you must be careful. If you decide that the Hicks can't Before you arrive at the defensive front in a month, you can let the group that is behind the reserve team follow me. The Blackrock Gun Manufacturing Workshop has 6,000 new rifles, and General Bologna said that the front line defense forces ......"

General Beechklin was overjoyed: "Really, then I will order the regiment to go back with you. With the new rifle, the regiment's combat power can be increased by at least three times."

"Well, our Thunder Legion has just equipped a regiment. Your regiment will go back with me, equipped with new rifles, and after seven days of short-term training, the soldiers will be able to grasp the combat performance of the new rifle, enough to form combat effectiveness. More than 20 days, plus short-term training, it takes a month, you guarantee that there will be nothing on the front line?" Claude always feels a little uneasy in his heart, but can't think of any omissions, can only be attributed to the war before the advent Nervous...

"I promise, don't worry, the Hicks will start attacking tomorrow. At least one month before arriving at my defensive front, just let the group equip with new rifles, you can learn these wicked Hicks." "For the new rifle, General Beechling is not planning to leave Claude for dinner." He would have liked to let Claude go back with the group of the Stone Corps, so that he could be equipped with new rifles.

When Claude returned to the front line command of Monknard Castle, General Eblon told him that the war had broken out: "Seven days ago, the Hicks launched an attack on the northern and eastern borders of the mountains... ..."

This is a briefing sent by General Beechklin with a eagle letter. Claude couldn't receive it on the road. It took him ten days to come back. In the mountainous area, there is no way to go. It was only seven days before the attack began. It was the third day after he left. Crowd breathed a sigh of relief. Then the Hicks had at least 20 days before they reached the defensive front, enough for the main battlefield of the Meteorite Corps. The regiment equipped with new rifles to complete short-term training and return to the front line.

He is ready to wait for the regrouping of the regiment to lead the Thunder Corps and the regiment to set off and return to the front line. It’s just that Claude didn’t expect that, five days after, General Beechklin sent a letter from the front line to the eagle. The defeat of the soldiers, the deployment of the Nikkan people in the mountainous area in front of the border is simply a blow, not to mention the delay of the enemy's attack, even the defensive counterattack can not do, only know the defensive front to the rear defeat.. ....

The most troublesome thing is that the Nikkan people armed with the retreat from the frontier mountain areas did not even see the enemy's face. Seeing that the Nikanca people in the front collapsed and followed the defensive positions, they also ran back. The officers and men of the Stone Corps sent to serve as responsible officers were unable to stop their escape. Some officers who were preparing to carry out the military law of the field were also shot by the Nikkan people.

The Hicks army will appear in front of the defensive front of General Beechling in three or four days. But the Nikkan people who are now on the defensive front have been nervously nervous by the Nikkan people who had been defeated in the front. Maybe they will see the Hicks appear. San, General Beechklin can only hope that Crowd will come with reinforcements.