Chapter 15: The Secret March
The sun has not yet appeared in front of everything, and the 2nd Tarak Frontier Regiment has already been busy. Since last night, Captain Ronio gave the news that the next day would be launched, everyone began to prepare for the front line.
A lot of the necessities had been packed up last night, and they woke up early in the morning just to help the convoy sort out some necessary supplies. Although the Second Frontier Regiment has a team dedicated to logistics, the large troops still have to prepare some necessities by themselves. For example, it can last about a month's military rations, as well as some necessities for camping, and the siege camp also needs to bring some engineering equipment in case of emergency.
After more than 2,000 men and horses of the entire corps worked for more than three hours, everything was made bigger and ready to be pulled.
Because this time the march was still a secret, Ronio only sent orders to the heads of the main battalions, asking them to keep it secret and keep his men in order. In the course of the previous march into the mountains of Monria, the entire Tarak border regiment suffered a considerable attrition.
In the process of marching, many soldiers ran away because they knew the battlefield they were going to. Some battalions even fled in groups. So much so that before reaching the mountainous area of Monria, there were more than two hundred combat attrition.
This kind of desertion, which not only caused nearly one-tenth of the non-combat attrition of the Tarak Frontier Regiment, but also directly dampened the will of the regiment to fight. It is precisely because of the low morale that there is a situation where the whole line collapses just after being attacked.
So Ronio, who had learned his lesson, strengthened the training of honor during training, and even acquiesced in the spread of the belief in the god of war in the barracks. Although he also did not believe that what Arman could bring about victory in the war. But he hoped that this faith that came from nowhere would reduce the fear of war among his men.
It was about 10 a.m. and there were no instructions or information. The soldiers of the 2nd Tarak Frontier Regiment were given the order to move forward closely with the troops in front. Many of them didn't know what was waiting for them, but each one knew they were not far from war.
It was a stealthy march, and as the designer and executor of the new battle plan, Ronio was a little apprehensive when he rode his horse. At the final battle meeting, he presented an updated battle plan to Misrid II.
It was an unprecedented battle plan, and Karatok, who had rarely been at war, had never seen such a combat operation. Ronio turned the whims of Mithrid II into reality.
Roneo abandoned his previous plan of encroaching on the mountainous region of Monria, and transferred the main force of the 2nd Frontier Regiment to the undefended line from Sekeboa to Probez through extremely secret operations. The Bohemian side was going to launch an unexpected military operation here in order to tear the Bavarian border. A long drive to the city of Dislafa.
In Misrid's opinion. If the First World War could destroy the Kingdom of Bavaria, it would be the best. He was already tired of the kingdom that had always occupied the mountains of Monria. Even if he could not capture Disrafa for a while, Mithrid II hoped to use this favorable strategic situation to force the other side to cede the Monria mountains.
Although this was the wishful thinking of Misrid II, it was up to Ronio's plan to make it happen. The battle plan that was not reached was always a literal plan. It does not constitute a condition for negotiation in any way.
In the long line. The Naxi squad is the easiest. As a magician with a dimensional bag. Naxi threw in all the dry rations and armaments he needed to carry, as well as some of the larger items in his team. This magical ability made the brothers in his team almost kneel and shout that the boss is wise.
Although the dimensional bag can hold a lot of things, the total weight of all the items is not completely removed. Different degrees of dimensional bags can reduce the weight of the items carried, and Naxi's dimensional bags can only reduce the weight of all items by 95%. This is already the best dimensional bag Naxi can buy. Those better dimensional bags already belonged to the treasures held by high-level mages, and they were not possessed by a mage of Naxi's level.
Naxi's squad belongs to the Guards Battalion, and as the backbone of the Border Guard Regiment, they are Ronio's personal guards, second only to the Legion Commander's retinue. But even Naxi, who was the captain of the Guards Battalion, did not get accurate information on where they were heading now.
The entire Guards battalion followed behind the Legionnaire, and the Legion's Commander, Ronio, gave them the order: Everyone follow me forward.
From this somewhat inexplicable order, Naxi smelled something unusual.
"Where the hell is this?" Naxi looked at a small village around the corner, hidden in the sparse woods that Naxi had never seen before. If the destination of this expedition is the Monria front, then the team should pass through the familiar villages of Naxi south of Tarrak.
"Captain, this is Birch Grove Village, and beyond this village there is a large birch forest all around. It's a pity that the leaves are only starting to fall now. If we wait until it snows, we'll be able to catch rabbits. It's the coolest thing to chase those rabbits in the white snow. A soldier walking behind him said.
"Oh, you live around here?" asked Naxi with some curiosity, and from the tone of his voice, Naxi sensed that he was familiar with the surroundings.
"Ah, haha, the captain guessed it right, I'm from this village. Sukos, who looks two or three years younger than Naxi, said with a grin. These days, he admires the knowledgeable captain in front of him, and he doesn't want to scold the recruits as often as the captains of other teams.
"Sukos, what is the place further along?" Now that he knew that Sukos behind him was from the neighborhood, Naxi wanted to know what the place was further along.
"Then we have to walk about fifty miles further down this road to the town of Mlada and we can't go to Mlada a few times a year, and the people in that place are very unfriendly to us countrymen......
After hearing about the small town of Mladá, he knew very well that it was a border town north of Tarlac next to Bavaria, having just made up for the geography of Bohemia and Bavaria.
From the beginning of the year, Naxi felt that there was something wrong with the marching route, but he did not expect that this time he would pass through the small town of Mlada . After thinking about it carefully, Naxi found that this time the march was not the mountainous area of Monria, where the two countries were facing each other.
Recalling some of the orders of Captain Ronio's return, Naxi seemed to have guessed something. This is a covert march, so the goal of this operation is unclear.
Perhaps, it was a surprise attack. (To be continued......)