The clouds of war had actually long been over the fort, and after learning that Mayne had been breached, the lord of the fort, Dombrand, had already been wary of his neighbors.

This nearly sixty-year-old earth castle lord is also a powerful character, not comparable to Mayne and the two straw bale city lords at the ferry. Tubao is also a rich territory, with a lot of mineral deposits, and a good life.

With 1,000 cavalry, the fort is the proudest place to be. These cavalrymen had the best horses and were well-trained to fight well. Even in the face of the nomads to the north, they are a powerful existence with more victories and fewer defeats.

Moreover, he formed an alliance with his eastern neighbors, Beijun and Hanhai, half a year ago, in order to target the Duchy of Irranhill, which had already obtained three lands.

On the other hand, he also raised the price of steel sold to the Duchy of Irlanhill, severely limited the total amount of steel sold, extorted more than 150,000 gold coins, and strengthened himself and weakened Irranhill to a certain extent.

As a result, just this morning, the city lord with a lot of skill received a notice of declaration of war from Irlanhill - the messenger from Alleyland Hill handed over the war letter to the minister of the earth fort, and left here quickly without looking back.

"Inform the two city lords of Hanhai in Beijun and gather troops! I'm going to show Chris, that idiot, how powerful an army of 2,500 cavalry is! The lord of Dombran waved his fist and commanded his men,

"Blow the trumpet! Assemble the cavalry! Let's first attack the territory of Irlanhill to burn and loot, and let the group of soft eggs in Ellanhill see what a real war looks like! He said as he stood up from his seat and straightened his hands.

The attendants on either side stepped forward and draped his armor over him. The heavy cavalry of the earthen fort was known as an Arantian presence, and a frontal charge was enough to penetrate anyone's defenses.

"Do you want to wait for the cavalry from Beijun and Hanhai to arrive?" One of the ministers asked in a low voice.

Dombran waved his hand and said, "The soldier is fast! If I don't take the opportunity to bite back, I'll let the infantry of Ellan Hill come to the city, and no matter how we fight, our earthen fort will have to pay a heavy price, which is not worth it. ”

As he spoke, he put on his armor: "I will use the mobility of the cavalry to block the attack layer by layer, and consume those clumsy infantry on the plain!" …… You don't have to worry, I'm all cavalry, I can't fight, and I can still retreat. ”

On the other side, on the border between the city of Seris and the earthen fort, Chris's soldiers crossed the boundary monument and marched into the distance.

"I can't imagine that our soldiers don't even have armor...... And so it went to the battlefield. Standing beside Chris, Wagron said with a wry smile on his face.

Even before the war, he had been reporting to Chris about the army's lack of armor. However, to this day, this problem has not been completely solved.

In the entire 1st Regiment that participated in the battle, only the officers were equipped with cuirasers, and the rest of the soldiers only had new uniforms issued by the same standard.

These new uniforms consisted of regular uniforms and armed belts, and each soldier carried 10 rounds of rifle ammunition in a bullet pack around his waist. This is already the maximum amount that the arsenal has worked hard to gather before the expedition.

Each soldier was equipped with a long spur, a triangular spur that would maintain the strength of the bayonet while maintaining its length – and it was the least technically reliant and arguably the cheapest and least labor-intensive design.

However, the military spur is not without disadvantages, that is, this weapon can only do the stabbing action, and there is no chopping and other functions, which is also an important reason why the military spur has been completely eliminated in modern times.

But now Chris doesn't care about this, what he wants is the length of the military spur, so that the soldiers can have more security and increase the advantage of the troops in close combat: he wants to use the length of the military spur to make up for the lack of length of the Mauser 98K rifle.

On the other side, there is a hanging grenade ammunition bag: this thing is Chris's "on-the-spot play", which comes from the creative invention of the Chinese army, which solves the problem of no place to carry the wooden handle grenade to a certain extent.

This thing is still very useful, on the one hand, it takes advantage of the lack of bullets in the early Iran Hill army, and the space left unused in the ammo pack on one side. On the other hand, it also has a little bit of protection, and the three wooden handles erected on the chest can play a little bit of defense that is better than nothing.

In order to increase the speed of the troops, each soldier was given specially designed leather boots, which were previously only distributed to officers, but now, because of the cost, they have become the standard equipment of the Irlanhill army.

Bags have also become a must-carry for every soldier, and well-designed backpacks are very convenient, containing bedding for rest, as well as some important personal items. For more than a year, almost all the gadgets produced by Illanhill's industrial production line are in this bag.

These included a small bar of soap for washing hands, a printed manual for the use and maintenance of weapons, a small round mirror that looked good, a small candle that could be used in the field, two boxes of matches, a wooden comb, and a knife for shaving......

It can also be seen from the things carried by these soldiers that the products of Irlanhill can already quietly change the world and change the lives of ordinary people in Irlanhill.

What makes people laugh is that although they are not equipped with armor, everyone in this army is issued with steel helmets, a kind of defensive tool that looks very imposing, but is very simple to process. Wagron did not understand Chris's approach, and he felt that it would be more appropriate to issue a cuirass to each soldier.

This M42 steel helmet is easier to process and provides better service. What's even more interesting is that this steel helmet suddenly makes the bland Iran Hill soldiers refreshed, and they look handsome.

After such modifications, the image of a well-known early Iran Hill grenadier was born: wearing a Y-shaped armed belt, an ammunition pack and a long military sheath around his waist, three wooden-handled grenades on one side of his chest, a backpack behind his back, a water bottle and ration bag on the back of his buttocks, an M42 steel helmet on his head, and a pair of long leather boots on his feet......

By any measure, this unit has the charm of modern infantry, and in some ways is even as good as the German soldiers of early World War II.

It's a pity that this unit is definitely a typical representative of the strong and the middle, just like the well-equipped Chinese German armor division during the Battle of Songhu - their ammunition is not sufficient, and the logistics supply can only be described as shabby.

This time, the troops mobilized by Seris were not a full regiment of 1,500 people as originally expected, but a full 2,400 people, which was almost the main force of the two regiments.

Because Chris found that the original troops could not guarantee the reconnaissance and logistics support of the entire campaign before leaving for the battle, he could only transfer some troops from other troops to ensure that the operation of the entire army could be normal.

He transferred 500 cavalry from the 2nd Regiment, the Cavalry Regiment, to be used as a reconnaissance force to guard the troops, in order to avoid being attacked by the opposing cavalry in the field. These cavalrymen did not need to fight the enemy head-on, they only needed to provide early warning of the troops.

The other 400 men were given reinforcements to his artillery and transport detachments. Among them, 200 were indeed transport troops, responsible for transporting supplies and supplies for the conquest of the earthen forts, and they were drawn from the cavalry units, and were responsible for driving the wagons to ensure the supply of the troops.

There were also 200 men in a reinforced artillery corps of 10 guns, also drawn from the artillery of the 2nd Regiment, armed with old 90 mm howitzers that had been pulled up to make up the numbers, that is, the old guns that Chris had used earlier in the conquest of Mayne and the ferry.

In fact, in this way, 30 cannons actually have two calibers, which makes Chris's supply of shells a little more complicated. However, the problem is not really prominent, because the number of shells is not large, all the shells are acting with the large army, and there is no trouble with logistical supply difficulties.

As a result, the first battle of Iran Hill's initiative to attack the outside world started very abruptly in the autumn harvest season. The season was chosen mainly because of the surprise and the industrial needs of Iran Hill himself - Chris thought he had the ability to fight quickly, so he was not worried about dragging the war into winter.

Similarly, Lord Dombrand, who believed that his troops had the advantage of mobility and was ambitious to take out his opponent before the main force of Eranhill reached the core of the fort, headed south with a makeshift group of more than 800 cavalry at about the same time.

The scheming Dombran never imagined that the cavalry of his opponent, the Duchy of Ellan Hill, would turn into rangers, and he was determined not to collide with his main cavalry. After the other party learned that his cavalry was heading south, he did not even carry out the attack, and immediately retreated.

Those cavalrymen who fell in the distance were like ghosts, they didn't fight Dombran at all, and turned around and left without waiting for contact, which made Dombran always have a very bad feeling. He also once sent cavalry to engage in skirmish fights with the other side, but the effect was really not ideal.

On the one hand, the other party has no intention of fighting at all, and he is not equipped with any armor, and he has no intention of fighting at all when he touches it. On the other hand, after more than a dozen skirmishes, he only killed more than 30 Elanhill cavalry, but made more than 100 cavalrymen on his side sleepy and almost lost their combat effectiveness.

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