Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 465: Riot and Defense Retreat
Although he received the order to shrink the defense, Kevin was obviously not the type of person who would just withdraw his troops and hand over the city to others.

Although he was indeed shrinking his defense according to Kallen's orders, and some cities and positions that were obviously undefendable were indeed decisively abandoned, this did not mean that Kevin was fleeing in panic without even a little resistance.

On the contrary, Kevin was still fighting the Imperial Army while retreating as much as possible.

This method of fighting and retreating caused considerable trouble to the Imperial Army. Some of the reckless colonial garrisons were hit hard by Kevin. If the Revolutionary Army had not been shrinking its defense, these reckless colonial garrisons might even have been wiped out.

These achievements also stabilized the morale within the Revolutionary Army, and at the same time made some wavering fence-sitters and speculators realize that it was not that the Revolutionary Army was incapable of fighting, nor that the Imperial Army was very powerful, but that the Steam Knights were unreasonably powerful.

Kevin, who understood this, became more active. While shrinking his defense, he also launched several beautiful defensive counterattacks against the colonial garrison, causing considerable casualties to the colonial garrison.

On the other hand, facing the two Steam Knights teams that had resumed their activities, Kevin strictly ordered any troops to take the initiative to engage in battle with them.

Facing these two Steam Knights teams, all of Kevin's tactical arrangements were aimed at delaying, procrastinating and disrupting their actions, including but not limited to tearing up railways, blowing up bridges and a series of other means of destroying transportation facilities.

And as the Steam Knights moved and fought, the supplies they carried were gradually insufficient to support their consumption, and they had to transport the Steam Knights' supplies from the North to the colonies of the New World.

This undoubtedly gave the revolutionary army an excellent opportunity. They formulated a relevant action plan for this batch of supplies and tried to destroy it on the road.

The powerful combat capability of the Steam Knights is based on their reliance on logistical supplies, which Kevin knew from the beginning.

This was also the reason why he had previously sent out elite night attack troops to try to sneak attack the Steam Knights' train.

However, the Steam Knights were not affected by the consumption of supplies at that time, so Kevin's sneak attack was unsuccessful, and instead caused considerable losses to the night attack troops.

Now that Kevin has rethought his thoughts, he has obviously changed his thinking and strategy. He has set his sights on the batch of supplies being transported from the North to the New World.

I admit that the Steam Knights cannot win, but it is impossible to say that the logistics troops have such strong combat power, right?
With this idea in mind, Kevin once again sent out the night attack troops and asked them to find a way to destroy the supplies.

The night attack team did not disappoint Kevin. They spent some time collecting intelligence and tried every means to figure out the delivery route of the supplies, and then set up an ambush on the road.

This time, the night attack force successfully launched an attack on the train carrying supplies. Not only did they successfully blow up the train and destroy the supplies, but they also inflicted heavy damage on the colonial garrison escorting the supplies.

It can be said that this time the night attack troops fought a beautiful comeback, wiping out the shame of being easily defeated by the Steam Knights.

For the night attack force, which was considered to be the absolute elite of the Revolutionary Army, the last failure was indeed a shame. They would always remember how they were easily defeated by the three steam knights and chased away like a group of chickens running around.

This time they successfully destroyed the Steam Knight's supplies. While venting their anger, they were also trying to find out what impact the Steam Knight would have after losing these supplies.

If the Steam Knights really lost their combat effectiveness due to the supply problem, then the Night Raid Force would have to give them a hard time and truly avenge their previous defeat. However, the Night Raid Force soon discovered that they were wrong, and they were wrong to an outrageous degree.

The so-called train carrying supplies was a bait, and the real supplies were not on the train.

Although Perfect did know that the Revolutionary Army would find a way to attack the supply routes, she did not intervene in the matter.

The person who is actually in charge of all this is Major General Richard.

Richard, who had been leading troops in battles and climbed to the position of colonel and division commander of the Guards, was not a good-for-nothing. Based on his own experience and analysis, he concluded that the revolutionary army would attack the supplies, so he set a trap.

That train did carry a batch of supplies, and they were indeed supplies for the Steam Knights Squadron, but they were mainly supplies for the Guards Infantry Battalion that accompanied the Steam Knights Squadron, rather than consumables and spare parts needed for the Steam Knights' operations.

As expected, the train was attacked, and not only was the entire train destroyed, but all the supplies on board were also lost.

The actual supplies were transported by an airship mobilized by Major General Richard and were successfully delivered to the two Steam Knights teams.

If the attack was not launched by a night attack force, and if they had not chosen to launch a sneak attack at night, according to Major General Richard's deployment, even if the revolutionary army had a thousand people, they would have been wiped out in one fell swoop.

Because he sent a signal to the two Steam Knights squads, asking them to prepare to receive supplies, and when the Revolutionary Army attacked the supplies, the reinforcements sent by the Steam Knights squads would arrive at the battlefield in time to annihilate the Revolutionary Army's attacking forces.

But unfortunately, the night attack force in the hands of the revolutionary army was indeed elite, and there was no problem launching an attack even at night, which caught Major General Richard off guard.

Although Major General Richard was preparing to ambush the enemy and the Revolutionary Army was indeed unaware of this, the night attack troops still relied on their almost instinctive intuition to discover the trap. Not only did they not step into it, but they also quickly destroyed the supply train and completed the evacuation before the Steam Knights arrived.

This was nothing for Major General Richard. It was not too unacceptable for a plan to fail.

But the surprise attack by the night assault troops still aroused his desire to win. After asking for instructions from Perfectok, this military general, who was currently the highest-ranking general in the North except Perfectok, also led his troops to the battlefield.

Major General Richard's military command level was indeed impeccable. After arriving at the local area, he quickly took over the command authority, and then launched a quick attack on the revolutionary army with a Guards Infantry Regiment he brought as the core.

With the cooperation of the Steam Knights, this strategy achieved quite good results. In just one week, three more cities were recaptured by them.

Major General Richard's outstanding performance also aroused the hostility of the night attack troops, who intended to assassinate the imperial general.

(End of this chapter)