"Chapter Eighty-Seven: Winning the Hedong"
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Both Eggers' Eagle Legion and Bronno's Dragon Legion completed the task of annihilating the enemy army at the cost of less than 2,000 casualties, and Bronno's Dragon Legion, in particular, lost fewer dead and wounded soldiers than Eggers' Eagle Legion.
On the one hand, the Dragon Legion faced an enemy that was not as strong as the Eagle Legion, and on the other hand, Eggers led the army to reinforce in time, helping Brono's Dragon Legion to force down the defenders of the Werther tribe in the barracks with an absolute advantage.
At this point, the number of Werther soldiers captured by the Eagle Legion and the Dragon Legion alone reached 25,000, and Eggers, who had a secret mission, did not rush to reinforce Nabazani and Assam after reinforcing the Dragon Legion, but aimed at the other remnants of the enemy.
Nabazani's First Legion and Assam's Second Legion each had 20,000 Essini warriors, some of whom were equipped with weapons and equipment provided by the city of Rome, and their combat effectiveness was only stronger than that of the Vitz tribes.
Even if the defenders of the two camps of the Werther tribe had 3,000 cavalry each, the numerical superiority would be enough for Nabazani and Assam to not be afraid of the enemy's cavalry forces, and in Eggers' opinion, it was only a matter of time before Nabazani and Assam annihilated the two enemy forces.
While Eggers and Brono turned their attack on the scattered Werther forces, the armies of Nabazani and Assam successfully completed their mission, but at a much greater cost than Eggers and Blono.
The Nabazani army, which was slightly stronger in combat, encountered the Werther tribe army, which happened to be commanded by the bravest general of the Wertit tribe's Hedong army, and the fierce performance of the Werther tribesmen's army shocked Nabazani, who was ready for a hard battle.
The Werther tribe, an army of 10,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, fought to the end and did not surrender to the end, and they defended the glory of the Werther warriors with their blood, and Nabazani's army won the battle, but did not win.
Because Nabazani's fully armed First Army paid the price of more than 8,000 men killed and more than 6,000 wounded in this terrible battle, it is no exaggeration to say that Nabazani's army was crippled.
If a crushing victory of this magnitude was a victory, then Nabazani's army was indeed victorious, but such a victory was not what Nabazani wanted, and he had even decided to withdraw from the military force altogether after the end of the war.
From the first time he followed Francis to attack Queen Boudicca, he was defeated by the army of Rome, to the second time, he chose to surrender to the army of Rome in the face of Francis's attack, and finally to the third, not so long ago, his intention to become independent.
The increasingly powerful military strength and comprehensive power of the city of Rome made Nabazzani, who was not very ambitious, finally recognize the reality, and he no longer thought about how to break away from the city of Rome, nor how to restore the independence of the Acenian Kingdom.
Nabazani, who had almost no desire, just wanted to bring the soldiers who followed him back to the Essini Kingdom as safely as possible, so that they could be reunited with their families, but the fierce battle shattered Nabazani's hopes and gave him the idea of returning to the field.
At this time, Nabazani did not know that thirty miles away from his army, the Assam Legion fought even more fiercely than his legion, and even the Assam, the commander of the army, was personally rushed to the front line of the battle.
The general who commanded this Werther army may have been far inferior in bravery to other Werther generals, but his cunning was extremely good, and Assam's legions were attacked by the cavalry of this army before they could get close to their camp.
The impact of the 3,000 barbarian light cavalry was not strong, but it was enough to disrupt the Assam legion, and before the Assam, who had barely organized an army to crush the enemy cavalry, could breathe a sigh of relief, the enemy's 10,000 infantry surrounded and killed from all sides.
The frightened soldiers of the Second Legion almost collapsed half an hour before the battle, but fortunately, the brave Assam personally led his henchmen to the front line of the battle, which stabilized the morale of the Second Legion.
The Assam legion, which fought to the death, lost more than 3,000 soldiers on the day of the attack, and countless soldiers were wounded.
The day after a night of silence, the unwilling Assam led his regiment to launch the fiercest attack on the enemy camp, and the fierce fighting lasted from early morning to nightfall, and the battle of blood and fire became the best test for both armies.
This kind of scorching battle allowed the soldiers under the command of Assam to make better use of their superiority in weaponry, and the weapons and equipment from the city of Rome were better than those used by the Werther tribesmen's army.
The disparity in weaponry can always play an important role on the premise that the strength of the two sides is not too different, and the Assam legion, relying on its superiority in weapons and equipment, ended the battle with five days of unusually tragic fighting.
In the end, Assam's army was able to win the battle not because they gained a substantial advantage on the battlefield, but because the enemy commander was killed on the spot by Assam, who had once again rushed to the front line on the evening of the fifth day of fierce fighting.
Having lost the command of the commander-in-chief, the demoralized Watte tribesmen surrendered to Assam's army that night, and when almost all of the wounded enemy troops came out of the barracks, Assam had less than 4,000 men left to fight.
These 4,000 men included not only the soldiers of the Second Army who were fully combat-ready, but also those who were not seriously wounded and could still go into battle; it was a bloody and brutal battle, and the difference between victory and defeat was only which army had more casualties.
The secret mission that Bai Feng gave to Eggers was to consume at least 25,000 troops under the command of Nabazani and Assam, and after this first round of bloody battles, there were less than 15,000 soldiers under the command of Nabazani and Assam.
Although the lightly wounded soldiers could return to the army after recovering from their injuries, the seriously wounded and disabled soldiers could not even survive, so the armies of Nabazani and Assam could still maintain their combat effectiveness after this battle with a maximum of 10,000 soldiers.
On the twentieth day of the outbreak of the war, Eggers, who led his army through the Hedong region of the Werther tribe, joined forces with Nabazani and Assam in the hinterland of the Hedong region of the Werther tribe;
The regrouped coalition forces began to attack the unprotected settlements of the Werther tribes, and the 600,000 or so people of the Werther tribe became the subjects of Rome in less than half a month.