Chapter 136: The Counterinsurgency Ends
Standing on the lookout, Richard saw that a group of rebels had begun to take the blood boiling potion, and immediately sent the fifty alchemical bombs that had been prepared for a long time to the grenadiers.
Although the Warcraft Cavalry is not around, Richard still has alchemy bombs to use.
People who use the blood boiling potion become fanatical and stupid.
On the battlefield, only a smart soldier can live well and make a meritorious service.
Stupid people are slow to react, and once the battlefield situation changes, it is difficult to respond correctly.
Faced with the onslaught of the Boiling Blood converts, Richard was not particularly worried.
Seeing the Boiling Blood Converts rush up in a frenzy, they are within range of the Grenadiers.
The grenadiers waved their arms and dropped alchemy bombs into the crowd of Boiling Blood converts.
In an instant, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, shrapnel flew sideways, and the boiling blood converts were immediately killed and wounded.
After the fifty alchemy bombs were dropped, the Boiling Blood Converts had already suffered thirty or forty casualties.
The Boiling Blood Converts didn't care about casualties, and the remaining sixty or seventy still rushed fiercely towards the station.
Richard opened his bow and shot several Boiling Blood converts, but unfortunately these people were still ordinary people in nature, and killing Boiling Blood Converts had no killing experience at all.
The physical fitness of the Boiling Blood Converts was already close to that of the professionals, and their speed was very fast, and in just six or seven seconds, they had rushed through a distance of one hundred meters.
Seeing that the Boiling Blood Converts were about to climb the wall and rush into the station.
Richard immediately used a powerful spider web technique. He threw in eight points of spiritual power at once, and a huge magical spider web five meters wide and thirty meters long appeared on the ground, instantly sticking to more than two dozen boiling blood converts.
Seeing that the Boiling Blood Converts could not move, the veterans in the military station shot arrows one after another, and after a second or two, the two dozen or so Boiling Blood Converts were already full of arrows, and they died on the spot.
After two rounds of blows, the remaining forty or so Boiling Blood converts climbed the wall and rushed into the camp.
Although the Boiling Blood Converts were powerful, there were also many veterans in the military station, and they were in groups of three or five people, cooperating with professional officers to fight against the Boiling Blood Converts.
For a time, flesh and blood flew in the station, and there were heavy casualties.
Standing on a high place, Richard continued to shoot cold arrows to kill the Boiling Blood converts who entered the camp, and in less than a minute, he managed to shoot eight people.
Seeing that Richard's threat was too great, the rebel commander immediately dispatched more than a dozen archers to attack Richard with bows and arrows.
The arrow came and was blocked by the powerful shield that Richard had released earlier.
The energy shield released by four points of spiritual power blocked the shattering of ten cold arrow shields.
Targeted by more than a dozen sharpshooters, the danger is very high.
Richard hurriedly jumped from the lookout and hid in the crowd.
The Boiling Blood Converts stormed the camp, and the rebel commander immediately threw the third echelon into battle, taking the opportunity to widen the gap and crush the enemy.
The third echelon is already the reserve of the rebels, adding up to more than 600 people.
As soon as these 600 people crossed the moat, they were about to face a round of arrows, and many people were killed and injured immediately.
At the same time, the Boiling Blood converts in the camp also killed and wounded more than a dozen people, and the remaining Boiling Blood Converts were less than twenty.
Richard ordered Martin to command the 1st Squadron, the 5th Squadron, and the 8th Squadron to suppress the main rebel forces. He led his own soldiers and the Sharp squadron to surround and annihilate the Boiling Blood converts.
After the reorganization of the serf soldiers brought out by Baron Rice, the infantry squadron commanded by Richard already had three hundred people.
The quality of this squadron under Baron Sharp is good, and many of them are veterans of the Eighth Brigade. After being incorporated into the serf soldiers, there was still a numerical advantage, and with the addition of Richard Sharp's two killing stars, the remaining boiling blood converts were quickly slaughtered.
The rebel commander had just approached the wall, and Richard and Sharp had cleared the camp of the enemy.
Despite the better quality of the rebels, but with the protection of the camp, Richard repelled the rebel onslaught.
The rebels had just retreated from defeat and were in good formation.
Baron Deyang had already arrived nearby with his cavalry.
Facing the charge of more than two hundred Demon Beast cavalry, the rebels were instantly defeated.
Seeing that the defeat of the rebels was assured, Richard immediately led his troops out of the camp and cooperated with Baron de Young to annihilate the cavalry in one fell swoop.
During the battle, Richard also seized the opportunity and killed the rebel commander, the sixth-order warrior Hoffern.
Killing a sixth-order warrior will reward a great merit, and killing a hundred Boiling Blood Converts is another great merit, plus the command merit of this battle, and the merit of killing the rebel professional.
Richard was very close to being knighted as a second barony.
After the battle, Richard ordered his soldiers to cut off the heads of the Boiling Blood converts, and the corpses were piled up and burned.
The flames of the corpses burned at the barracks until noon the next day, when the bodies of the rebels were cleaned.
Soldiers who died in battle would also cremate their bodies in clay pots and bring them to their relatives in the territory.
In this battle, the soldiers under Richard's command suffered many casualties.
The 1st Squadron suffered 32 casualties and 61 minor or serious casualties, of which more than 50 were veterans.
The 5th Squadron suffered 28 casualties, 46 minor and serious wounded, and more than 40 veterans suffered casualties.
The 8th Squadron suffered the heaviest casualties, with 56 killed and 87 casualties. The vast majority of casualties were serfs.
Sharp's squadron suffered twenty-six casualties and forty-one minor and serious wounded.
The four squadrons combined, plus the losses of Richard's own soldiers, suffered about three hundred and eighty casualties.
After this battle, Richard did not participate in the next battle.
Baron Deyang took part in the siege of Victory City with the Warcraft cavalry.
The siege was fought very brutally. The serf soldiers and the aristocratic coalition suffered more than 10,000 casualties.
In the end, Cardinal Marvila of the Church of Dawn used the artifact Dawn Emblem to kill the Nightcrawler Mallo to achieve a difficult victory.
In this counterinsurgency war, although there was no large-scale mobilization of the main army of the orcs to participate in the battle, the casualties were not light at all.
As a result of the cultists' rebellion, Canyon County lost 60,000 people, Brenner County lost about 10,000 people, and Wright County lost a few thousand.
Nine barons were killed in battle, and counting the noble serf army, the Grant Kingdom lost 16,000 soldiers, and the main force also lost 5,000 men.
In addition, due to the deliberate destruction of the cultists, a dimensional passage to the necromantic realm was also opened on the mountain roads of Brenner and Canyon counties.
Closing this plane passage is also a very troublesome thing.
In the aftermath of this rebellion, the Governor of Canyon County was killed by the rebels, and responsibility was held down to the provincial level.
The provincial consul Jeram was transferred back to the royal capital, which was good news for Richard, but he was replaced by Berette Holland, who was still a member of the Holland family.
Idles, supported by Richard, was also successfully promoted this time and served as the deputy consul of the province.
In the upper echelons of Geda Province, there is finally a spokesman for the interests of the Haaland family.
(End of chapter)