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Before the smoke of gunfire had completely dissipated, Marshal Rommel, under the protection of the guards, slowly crossed the only one of the three bridges that could continue to pass, and came to the west bank of the Inle River.

About a hundred meters from the head of the bridge on the west bank, there was originally a circular fortress, which was preceded by hundreds of tall horse traps, deep trenches, and a tall and wide wall and an arrow tower on top of the wall. But these were the scenes before the war began, the horse traps had already been removed, the trenches had been filled, and the entire fortress wall facing the bridge had been smashed by trebuchets and magic, and the debris was everywhere.

Even more common than these rubbles are the ubiquitous corpses.

Hundreds of corpses fell to the ground, including soldiers of the Jimny Empire and warriors of the Kingdom of France, almost every corpse fell to the ground in a distinctive position. Some were stabbed to death by a long sword through the chest, some were sealed by the sharpshooters with a longbow and arrow, and some fought to the end together, and even many corpses were simply scattered on the ground by eight pieces, and they were not even qualified to die without a whole corpse.

The pungent smell of blood permeated the tip of Marshal Rommel's nose, and the famous marshal who shocked the entire continent suddenly frowned slightly, and a trace of anger appeared on his face. Of course, he was not angry because he smelled this strong smell of blood, as a person who crawled out of the mountain of corpses and blood, this feeling of being accompanied by death was commonplace, and he had seen it several times more bloody and tragic than the current scene, and the reason why Marshal Rommel was angry was because of a string of numbers just reported by the adjutant next to him.

"The casualties of the 1st Combined Army were 6,512, that of the 2nd Combined Army were 7,189, and that of the 3rd Army were 4,943, for a total of 18,644 casualties. However, this is only a preliminary casualty figure, and based on previous experience, the actual number of casualties may reach around 20,000 after the specific casualty figures are released. ”

Casualties of 20,000 soldiers! The corners of Marshal Rommel's eyes suddenly beat violently, and he couldn't help but spit out fiercely and cursed a swear word: "******, why did Lao Tzu's soldiers die so much?" ”

Rommel had to get excited.

In the whole battle plan originally set by Marshal Rommel, breaking through the line of defense on the west bank of the Inle River, which was garrisoned by 100,000 French troops, was the most difficult part, so of course the marshal sent his strongest troops, three combined legions of 48,000 warriors from the three strongest dukedoms in the Guimny Empire.

There are 48,000 soldiers, and now there are 20,000 dead and wounded! Although it seems that the number of casualties is not more than half, the experienced Field Marshal Rommel does not know that the combat effectiveness of these three combined armies is very likely to be less than half of the original!

Moreover, these 48,000 soldiers are all elite, for Marshal Rommel, who has always valued quality over quantity, even if he loses 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers, his heart may not be as uncomfortable as at this moment, it looks as if someone suddenly cut his heart.

"I've fucking heard enough of this stuff!" Marshal Rommel said viciously to the adjutant beside him: "If you want Lao Tzu not to send you to the coolie camp, either tell Lao Tzu some good news, or shut your mouth!" ”

The clever adjutant was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then immediately reported another series of figures from his mouth: "Lord Marshal, according to the information we have so far, the 90,000 enemy troops of the five legions of the entire Inle River defense line have been completely defeated, and the preliminary estimate of the number of enemy deaths is about 25,000, and we have captured at least 30,000 prisoners. ”

"That's pretty much it." Marshal Rommel snorted, and the expression on his face looked much better. In fact, Marshal Rommel knew very well in his heart that it would be easy to cross such a wide Inle River and break through a fortress of five people who had been in operation for at least ten years and had 90,000 troops stationed.

Even though Marshal Rommel had 100,000 Jimny soldiers in his hands, and threw out all the three most powerful trump cards in his hand at the beginning of the battle, and carried out a fierce attack day and night at all costs, it took a full five days to break through this line of defense under such circumstances, and even a full day later than expected!

You must know that the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the time of day can sometimes represent the difference between victory and death! If it weren't for the sudden rebellion in Paris that caused André's Black Rose Army to abandon reinforcements and go north, if it weren't for the news of Louis's rebellion that demoralized the François defenders, and if it weren't for the domino effect of the François defenders' rout after breaking through two fortresses in a row, Marshal Rommel even had some doubts that his soldiers, who were already showing fatigue, would be able to completely break through this line today.

Ten years! A line of defense that has been in operation for ten years is really not so easy to break. Field Marshal Rommel suddenly realized that he had made a rather fatal and common mistake, and that was to underestimate the enemy.

This sentiment of underestimating the enemy not only existed in the heart of Field Marshal Rommel, but also manifested itself to varying degrees in the officers and soldiers of the Jimny army, and it was precisely because of this underestimation that the Jimny people achieved their goal a full day later than they had previously scheduled after paying an even more painful price than expected.

Field Marshal Rommel suddenly exhaled heavily, as if he wanted to exhale all the depression in his heart.

Fortunately, André did not choose to come with the Black Rose Legion to support the defense line on the west bank of the Inle River, if the Black Rose Legion had arrived here on time, it would have been Field Marshal Rommel and his 100,000 Jimny troops who would have been defeated now.

Andrey, you couldn't fight me ten years ago, and now, ten years later, you still can't be my opponent! A wave of pride suddenly rose in Marshal Rommel's heart.

Field Marshal Rommel took a deep breath, and then gave a loud order: "Pass my order, let Major General Tulius stay with his Sixth Army to take care of the wounded soldiers and take care of the prisoners, and all the rest of the troops must be drawn as soon as possible, the target - the city of Paris!" ”

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