"Chapter 48: The Hard War, Part 5"
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Of the 4th, 10th, 11th, and 12th fortresses under the command of the Marquis of Rundstead, only the 11th fortress garrisoned by the 39th and 40th legions was captured by the orc army.
The 10th Fortress, which was garrisoned by General Giannu, one of the Iron Blooded Five Tiger Generals, and the 12th Fortress garrisoned by Bai Feng's army, were both intact in the hands of the defenders, but the casualties of the defenders of the 10th Fortress were much heavier than those of the 12th Fortress.
More than half of the soldiers were killed, and almost all of the remaining half were wounded, a tragic result that neither the Marquis nor General Giannou of Rundstedt expected, and for this reason, the Marquis of Rundstedd specially sent a group of reinforcements to strengthen the Tenth Fortress.
Although Bai Feng's battle cluster also paid the price of nearly 10,000 soldiers killed, the main force of the army was still there, in fact, among all the orc armies that attacked Sunset Fortress, only this orc army that attacked the Twelfth Fortress was completely wiped out.
The 7th Wing of Hans and Assassis suffered the heaviest casualties among the units participating in the battle cluster, while the assault wing of López and Athos, with less than 4,000 men killed, held the main fortified area of the 12th Fortress.
The 7th Wing, which was more elite than the assault wing, had only 12,000 soldiers at full strength, but nearly 6,000 soldiers were killed in this fierce battle, because the 'wrath of the beast god' of the orc shaman and the onslaught of 5,000 tiger warriors were all resisted by the seventh wing on the city wall.
The 'Wrath of the Beast God' of the Orc Shaman alone caused a large number of unlucky soldiers to be killed in the six brigades under Hans's command, and the 5,000 Tiger warriors who rushed up after him killed even more soldiers of the defenders of the 7th Wing on the left flank wall.
Seeing that the Seventh Wing that he had formed was crippled by the mad orc army, Bai Feng, who was distressed, could only ask Hua Mu to treat as many wounded soldiers as possible after the battle, so as to reduce the casualty figure of the Seventh Wing.
As soon as the battle was over, the Seventh Wing and the Assault Wing, which had not participated in the battle, were replaced by the Seventh Wing and the Assault Wing, which had fought bloodily for a long time, and the Seventh Wing and the Assault Wing, which had returned to the barracks, were temporarily rested and recuperated under the protection of the cavalry units of the Pro-Guards Corps.
The twenty fire-type magicians who arrived at the twelfth fortress in time were supposed to return to the fourth main fortress after the battle, but Bai Feng, who had seen the suppressive effect of fire-type magicians on the Beamon warriors, directly ordered them to be intercepted.
For this reason, Bai Feng also specially sent several cavalry members of the cavalry brigade to act as his own heralds, and went to the fourth main fortress to inform the Marquis of Rundstead about this matter;
Marquis of Rundstede, who did not know the detailed combat situation of the battle group, kindly asked Bai Feng if the battle group needed reinforcements; in the face of the kindness of Marquis of Rundstede, Bai Feng, who witnessed the fall of the Eleventh Fortress, did not ask for any reinforcements.
The 39th and 40th Legions, which had been defeated and caused the fall of the 11th Fortress, were no longer treated as battle clusters, and as soon as the attack of the orc army was contained, Totila and Giscard were arrested by the Marquis of Rundstead himself.
The remnants of the two armies, who were in a state of panic, did not dare to face the gendarmes sent by the Marquis of Rundstead to arrest their commanders, and even the personal soldiers of the two commanders chose to sit back and watch all this happen.
Commander Totila and Captain Giscar, who had no desire to resist, were not sent by the gendarmes to the fourth main fortress where the Marquis of Rundstead was located, but directly to the second main fortress where the Supreme Commander, Duke Gna, was located, which was also ordered by the Marquis of Rundsteadt.
Although the Marquis of Rundstead is the commander of the fourth main fortress region appointed by the Supreme Commander of the Sunset Fortress, Duke Gna, he does not have the power to dispose of generals at the rank of corps commander;
The crux of the matter is that Totila and Giscard themselves are the confidants of the two princes in the army, and the Marquis of Rundstead, who does not want to get involved in the struggle for the throne, naturally leaves it to his superiors to solve the matter related to these two army commanders.
The Marquis of Rundstead did not care what the Duke of Gna would do with the two defeated generals, Totila and Giscar, and after the two commanders were arrested and sent away, he sent the demoralized 39th and 40th Legions to the Twelfth Fortress.
The 39th Army Corps and the 40th Army Corps, which had less than 13,000 soldiers combined, had 27,000 dead soldiers, and half of the wounded soldiers had been killed.
In the days when Bai Feng was in Sunset Fortress, he not only led the army to inflict heavy losses on the orc army that attacked the Twelfth Fortress several times, but also helped other legions treat a large number of wounded soldiers;
After the remnants of the two legions arrived at the Twelfth Fortress, they became less panicked under Bai Feng's appeasement, and Hua Mu's treatment of the wounded soldiers further stabilized the mood of the remnants of the soldiers and raised their morale.
Because the Seventh Wing under Bai Feng was originally a subordinate wing of the 40th Legion, the Marquis of Rundstead transferred the 40th Legion to the 11th Fortress in order to avoid Bai Feng's command of the 7th Wing being interfered with by the 40th Legion.
Now that the Fortieth Legion is back in the Twelfth Fortress, and the Seventh Wing, which is part of the Battle Cluster, is in the Twelfth Fortress, even if everyone knows that the Seventh Wing is no longer a subordinate unit of the Fortieth Legion, this is still a hidden danger that cannot be ignored.
Therefore, Bai Feng made a new suggestion to the Marquis of Rundstead: the 11th Wing of the 40th Army Corps was renamed the 7th Wing, and the original 7th Wing adopted a new number and was completely independent from the 40th Legion.
On the night when the 40th Legion arrived at the 12th Fortress, when their Legion Commander Giscard was still training in the command headquarters of the Duke of Gna, the 11th Wing was transformed into the 7th Wing, and Bai Feng's 7th Wing was changed to the new name of the Special Operations Wing!
The Seventh Wing, which had finally nominally freed itself from the shackles of the 40th Army Corps, had truly become a combat unit under the Battle Cluster, and the Special Operations Wing, with only 6,000 men, was still commanded by Hans and Assassis, each of whom commanded six unorganized brigades.
After handling the relationship between the Special Operations Wing and the 40th Army Corps, Bai Feng spent two hours inspecting all the troops stationed in the 12th Fortress one by one, especially the troops stationed at the fortress and the city wall at night, which were even more inspected by Bai Feng.
As midnight approached, Bai Feng, who had been busy all day, returned to his military tent in the barracks, he did not have the habit of staying overnight at the headquarters of the fortress, and the military tent in the barracks behind the fortress had always been his place to rest at night.
At midnight, except for the four small fortresses that had just fallen, the other four main fortresses and eight small fortresses were all lit with sporadic fires, and the soldiers of the fortress defenders, who were in charge of night patrols, walked back and forth on the passages between the fortress and the city walls.