Chapter 465 Riot·Shrink Defense
Although he received the order to shrink defense, Kevin is obviously not the kind of character who would directly withdraw his troops and then hand over the city to others.
Although he was indeed shrinking his defenses in accordance with Kallen's orders, and some cities and positions that were obviously undefendable were indeed decisively abandoned, this does not mean that Kevin was escaping in a hurry without even a little resistance. None.
On the contrary, Kevin was still fighting the Imperial Army while retreating as much as possible.
This method of retreating while fighting caused a lot of trouble for the imperial army. Some colonial garrisons that ventured in were even more severely attacked by Kevin. If the revolutionary army had not been shrinking its defenses, these Arrogant colonial garrisons might even be wiped out.
These achievements have also stabilized the morale within the Revolutionary Army, and at the same time made some wavering losers and speculators understand that it is not that the Revolutionary Army cannot fight, nor is it that the Imperial Army is very powerful, but that the Steam Knights are unreasonably powerful. .
After understanding this, Kevin also became more active. While shrinking his defense, he also launched several beautiful defensive counterattacks against the colonial garrison, causing a lot of casualties to the colonial garrison.
On the other side, facing the two steam knight teams that have restarted their activities, Kevin strictly ordered any troops to take the initiative to fight with them.
Faced with these two steam knight teams, all of Kevin's tactical arrangements were designed to delay, delay and interfere with their actions, including but not limited to a series of destructions such as tearing down railways and blowing up bridges. means of transportation facilities.
And with the consumption of the Steam Knights' actions and battles, the supplies they carried were gradually insufficient to support their consumption, and they had to start transporting the Steam Knights' supplies to the New World colonies from the north.
This undoubtedly gave the revolutionary army an excellent opportunity. They designated relevant action plans for this batch of supplies and tried to destroy this batch of supplies on the road.
The powerful combat effectiveness of the Steam Knight is based on its dependence on logistical supplies, which Kevin has known since the beginning.
This is also the reason why he would send out elite night attack troops to try to sneak attack the Steam Knight's train.
However, the consumption of supplies by the Steam Knight did not affect the battle at that time, making Kevin's sneak attack unsuccessful. Instead, it caused considerable losses to the night attack troops.
Now that he has reconsidered, Kevin has obviously changed his thinking and style of play. He is eyeing this batch of supplies transported from the north to the New World.
I don't think the Steam Knights can defeat them, but it doesn't mean that the logistics troops have such strong combat effectiveness, right?
With this idea in mind, Kevin once again sent out night attack troops and asked them to find ways to destroy this batch of supplies.
The night attack force did not disappoint Kevin. They spent some time collecting intelligence, tried every means to figure out the delivery route of this batch of supplies, and then set up an ambush on the road.
This time, the night attack force successfully launched an attack on the train transporting supplies. Not only did they successfully blow up the train and destroy the supplies, they also severely damaged the colonial garrison escorting the supplies.
It can be said that this time the night attack force made a wonderful turnaround. It was a shame that they were easily defeated by the steam knights before.
For the night attack force, which can be called the absolute elite in the revolutionary army, the last failure was indeed a shame. They will always remember how they were easily defeated by three steam knights and chased away like a group of chickens running around. of.
This time they successfully destroyed the Steam Knight's supplies. While letting out a bad breath, they were also trying to find out what the impact would be if the Steam Knight lost this batch of supplies.
If the Steam Knights really lost their combat effectiveness due to supply problems, then the night attack troops would have to give them a hard blow to truly avenge the previous one. However, the night attack troops soon discovered that they were wrong, and how wrong they were.
The so-called train carrying supplies was a decoy, and the real supplies were not actually on the train.
Although Purficott did know that the Revolutionary Army would find ways to attack supply routes, she did not intervene in the matter.
The person really responsible for all this is Major General Richard.
As a man who has been leading troops in wars and climbed to the position of Colonel and Division Commander of the Guards, Richard is not a loser. Through his own experience and analysis, he came to the conclusion that the Revolutionary Army would attack supplies. Conclusion, so a trap was set.
That train did indeed transport a batch of supplies, and it was indeed supplies for the Steam Knight Squad, but it was mainly supplies for the Guards Infantry Battalion accompanying the Steam Knight Squad, not They are consumables and parts needed for steam knight combat.
Sure enough, the train was attacked. Not only was the entire train destroyed, but all the supplies on the train were also lost.
Major General Richard mobilized an airship to transport the real supplies, which were successfully delivered to the two steam knight teams.
If it were not a night attack force that launched the attack, and if they chose to carry out a sneak attack at night, based on Major General Richard's arrangement, even if a thousand revolutionary troops came, they would be killed by him.
Because he sent a signal to the two Steam Knight squads, asking them to prepare for supplies. When the revolutionary army attacked the supplies, the reinforcements sent by the Steam Knight squad would arrive on the battlefield in time. , to annihilate the attacking troops of the revolutionary army.
However, the night attack force in the hands of the Revolutionary Army was indeed elite, and there was no problem even if it launched an attack at night. It caught Major General Richard off guard.
Although Major General Richard prepared to ambush the opponent, and the revolutionary army did not realize this, the night attack troops still used their almost instinctive intuition to let them discover the trap and did not step on it. , and in turn quickly destroyed the supply train, completing the evacuation before the Steam Knight arrived.
This is nothing to Major General Richard, and it is not too unacceptable for a plan to come to nothing.
However, the sneak attack by the night attack force still aroused his desire to win. After asking for instructions from Purficott, the highest-ranking military general in the north besides Purficott led Then his own troops also entered the battlefield.
Major General Richard's military command level is indeed lacking. He quickly took over the command authority after arriving at the local area, and then quickly took over the command authority with the Guards Infantry Regiment he brought as the core. launched a fast attack on the revolutionary army.
With the cooperation of the Steam Knights, this style of play achieved quite good results. In just one week, three more cities were recovered by them.
Major General Richard's outstanding performance also aroused the hostility of the night attack troops, who intended to assassinate the Imperial Army general.
(End of this chapter)