Skepticism is cheap and barren stuff. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 InfoThe skepticism of a person who is closer to the truth than his predecessors and who is clearly aware of the limitations of his intellectual construction is important and fruitful. This skepticism only multiplies the value of a certain discovery, without decreasing its value.

- Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian physicist, one of the founders of quantum mechanics)

Marquis Rundstead can step by step from an ordinary soldier in the imperial army to the current marquis commander, and he still has very good control over his emotions; the sadness and grief of one moment have become the motivation for him to lead the army to attack desperately in the next second.

In front of the passage, there are Marquis Longdstead and hundreds of thousands of elite divisions, and there is no need for Bai Feng to worry about it; what Bai Feng needs to do now is to personally command the soldiers of the personal guards and reserve army, and cover the withdrawal of the officers and soldiers of the other armies who have not retreated for a long time.

At this time, the men of the city defense army under the command of D'Ambrosio and Bella, who were still building a defensive line between the passage and the fortress to resist the onslaught of the orc army, and the elite of the 60,000 city defense army, after nearly an hour of fierce fighting, had less than 50,000 soldiers left.

The soldiers of the city defense army are all veterans who have survived the battle of blood and fire, but their weapons and tactical concepts are still far from those of the soldiers of the seventh wing and the assault wing, and the casualties in the face of the orcs are naturally much heavier.

In fact, the fact that D'Ambrosio and Bella were able to lead the army to fight hard for so long had already impressed Bai Feng with respect to them; in all fairness, this kind of disparity in strength could not have been much better than D'Ambrosio and Bella's by any other general.

Hannibal had Spain as his base, Caesar had the support of Rome in the early days, Gaul as the rear in the later period, and their success was built on a broad stage.

At present, the battle situation outside the fourth major fortress limits the stage of each general to a very small range, and within such a range, the generals have very little room for self-expression, and they can only use as many prudent tactics as possible in the limited space.

After leading the Cretan archers and iron gunners into the passage, Bai Feng immediately asked three teams of Cretan archers to shoot at the orc armies on both flanks of the passage, and the twelve teams of iron artillery spearmen were broken down by Bai Feng into several small forces for use.

Five teams of iron artillery gunners lined up, using the 7th Wing's shield wall defense as a cover, fired directly at the orc warriors outside the shield wall, and another five teams of iron artillery gunners, using the assault wing's shield wall defense as a cover, fired the same volley.

The reason why Bai Feng only left two teams of iron artillery gunners for the defense of the rear of the passage was because the width of the passage was too narrow for more iron artillery gunners to deploy, and the lateral deployment of the two teams of iron artillery gunners was already the limit of what the passage could accommodate.

After Capitus arrived at the passage with the Spartan hoplites and the Macedonian royal pikemen, three Spartan hoplites formed the first pike-line defense outside the entrance to the pass, followed by two more pike-lines by the royal pikemen.

On either flank of the Spartan Heavy Infantry Line and the Royal Lancer Line, there were two flank lines of Spartan heavy infantry, and the last Spartan heavy infantry remained behind the three lines of defense as a mobile force for the overall defensive line.

As soon as the defense line of Cabitus was built, Bai Feng sent the overseer cavalry around him to give orders to D'Ambrosio and Bella, asking them to immediately organize the soldiers of the city defense army under their command to gradually withdraw from the battle and withdraw to the passage.

It was not easy for the city defenders to evacuate the battle, and the furious orc warriors would not let the city defenders retreat, and D'Ambrosio and Bella, who were forced to fight, had to fight and retreat.

The frantic pursuit of the orc warriors was a formidable opponent for the retreating city defense soldiers, and some of the soldiers under Bella's command who were the first to retreat were even surrounded by the assault flanks of thousands of orc warriors.

Bella, who couldn't help this part of the soldiers, had to give up the rescue of these soldiers and retreat more carefully, more than 3,000 soldiers of the city defense army were besieged by orcs, but this was a vital force that Bai Feng could not give up.

Equipped with a fourth-level magic suit, after the blessing of the magic suit, although its actual combat effectiveness is not as good as the powerful ironclad cavalry, but it is not much worse than the partner cavalry, and their charge is still very strong for orc warriors.

So, at the same time that Bella chose to give up this part of the city defense army, Bai Feng sent the overseer cavalry around him to rescue these city defense soldiers;

The roaring overseer cavalry directly charged the orc army that surrounded the soldiers of the city defense army, and the total number of orc warriors was only about 5,000, where could they stop the flank rush of the thousands of overseer cavalry, and the casualties of the orcs skyrocketed in an instant.

It was not only the soldiers of the city defense army who had been fighting for a long time, but also the orc warriors of the orc army who had been fighting so far, so the fierce attack of the overseer cavalry quickly crushed the surrounding orc army.

After successfully rescuing these city defense soldiers, the overseer cavalry did not pursue the defeated orc warriors, but made the orc army that pursued the retreating soldiers of the city defense army their new target.

With the powerful Overseer cavalry helping the city defenders to retreat, D'Ambrosio and Bella's retreat became noticeably easier and faster, until all the guards had retreated into the passage, and the overseer cavalry slowly withdrew from the battlefield.

The 1,000 overseer cavalry who attacked to rescue the city defense army, and finally retreated to Bai Feng's side, there were less than 800 people, and the death of more than 200 overseer cavalry did not make Bai Feng feel much distressed, but the loss of more than 200 sets of fourth-level magic equipment was not a small amount.

Fortunately, Bai Feng also has Ivan and his shadow killers by his side, and their latest mission is to go to the battlefield to retrieve the magic suit worn by the fallen Overseer cavalry, and the part-time mission is to find an opportunity to assassinate the middle and low-ranking officers of the orc army.

Not to mention how well the Shadow Killers had accomplished their mission, after the Overseer cavalry withdrew along the vacant passage of the pike line, Cabitus commanded the soldiers of the pike line to close the passage immediately.

More than 45,000 soldiers of the city defense army successfully withdrew to the passage, which was a good takeover for everyone, and D'Ambrosio and Bella wanted to thank Bai Feng, but Bai Feng didn't have time to greet them, just let them rest for a while before moving forward.

The reorganized orc army, once again gathered about 50,000 orc warriors, and launched an attack on the spear defense line formed by three Spartan heavy infantry, and when they approached the line, the iron gunners who were ready to shoot first.

Each team of 120 iron artillery gunners was deployed by Bai Feng into a small battle phalanx of three people and a row of forty people, and when the forty iron gunners in the first row opened fire, they would immediately crouch down and make room for the iron gunners in the second row.

While the second row of gunners is firing, the first row of gunners is loading their ammunition, and the third row of gunners who have not yet fired are preparing to shoot, and when the second row of gunners are finished, they will crouch down and let the third row of gunners shoot.