"Chapter 18: The Fierce Battle"

The voice of reason is soft, but it never stops until it is heard. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

- Sigmund Freud (Austrian Jewish psychologist, psychiatrist, founder of the psychoanalytic school)

As far as the forging skills of weapons and equipment are concerned, the dwarves who are proficient in mining and casting skills are undoubtedly the masters of ordinary and sophisticated weapons and equipment on the continent, and the elves who are proficient in magic and enchantment skills are the masters of the production of top-level magic weapons.

Not to mention anything else, Bai Feng's White Spirit Ring contained a thousand sets of fourth-level magic weapons and equipment from the Elf Empress, and if it weren't for the unnecessary trouble caused by this batch of magic weapons and equipment, Bai Feng, who was eager to improve the combat effectiveness of the Seventh Wing, would have taken it out long ago.

In addition to the ordinary weapons and equipment created by the dwarves and the magic weapons created by the elves, the forging and enchanting skills of other alien races are obviously inferior to those of the human race, and the three of the human races are rich in sophisticated weapons and equipment, such as the Holy See, the Celestial Dragon Empire, and the Rhine Business Alliance.

The Holy See's exclusive light magic weapons and equipment are the exclusive weapons and equipment of the Holy See knights and warriors, and other countries and forces cannot obtain them through any means;

Among the various armors carefully forged by the Heavenly Dragon Empire, there are not only heavy armor suitable for heavy infantry and heavy cavalry, but also light armor suitable for sword and shield soldiers and light cavalry, and even leather armor for archers and rangers.

The Rhine Merchant Alliance's advantages in forging weapons and equipment are different from those of the Holy See and the Celestial Dragon Empire, they are better at crafting all kinds of weapons with extremely sharp and extremely lethal power, and their sophisticated weapons are not only used by themselves, but also exported to all the forces that can afford to pay for them.

From this point of view, the armor used by the soldiers of the Celestial Dragon Empire's military should not be too bad, but in reality, this is not the case;

In fact, it was not only the eight new legions that lacked weapons and equipment, but also the other standing legions fighting on the frontier.

Limited funds can only forge limited weapons and equipment, and the imperial military, which is deeply involved in two-front operations, urgently needs a large number of weapons and equipment, so the equipment building department of the imperial military department has to increase the quantity on the premise of reducing the quality.

If the weapons and equipment used by the four most elite royal legions and the three royal knights of the empire are the highest achievements of the empire's forging technology, then the weapons and equipment used by the soldiers of the imperial standing legion are of declining quality.

The standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army and the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman heavy infantry mass-produced by the armor shop in the Roman city are equivalent in quality to the combination of the finest armor of the Celestial Dragon Empire and the most sophisticated weapons of the Rhine Merchant League, so that Giscard was blushing when he saw it.

And the two thousand sets of weapons and equipment from Rome City that Bai Feng provided to Giskal, although they were all weapons and equipment used by barbarian warriors, the ones that could be left by Bai Feng were relatively sophisticated, and the quality was no worse than the weapons and equipment used by the Fortieth Legion now.

As for the 2,500 sets of captured weapons and equipment, 300 of them were originally the weapons and equipment of the imperial soldiers, and the other 2,200 sets were also carefully selected by Bai Feng; the quality was not as good as the standard weapons and equipment of the 40th Army Corps, but it was better than nothing.

With this batch of weapons and equipment, the 40th Army immediately became the only one among the eight newly built regiments in which all officers and men of the army were equipped with weapons and equipment, which was quite a glorious thing for the 40th Army Corps, which was the last in the number.

In this regard, when Duke Gna convened a military meeting at the level of a corps commander, he also specially commended Corps Commander Giscard, making Giscard his record much less than that of Legion Commander Andrew, Captain Donald and other legion commanders very proud.

At this time, the eight newly built legions were still about three days away from Sunset Fortress, and the battle information about Sunset Fortress was also sent to Duke Gna three times a day.

Among the four royal legions of the Empire, the Thunder Legion and the Praetorian Legion, its captains Albert and Reinhardt are the same Juggernauts as Duke Kleist, and with three powerful Juggernauts in command, the morale of the defenders of Sunset Fortress is also high.

Under the command of the Iron-Blooded Marquis Rundstead, the city defense troops of various provinces that continued to rush to the Sunset Fortress broke out with a combat effectiveness that was not weaker than that of the Imperial Standing Army, especially the Iron Guards formed by the Iron-Blooded Marquis himself, which killed countless enemies on the battlefield.

However, a bloody battle is still a bloody battle after all, and the gradual stabilization of the defense line of the Sunset Fortress was bought with the blood and lives of countless soldiers, and the four royal legions with a total strength of up to 200,000 killed more than 30,000 people in the bloody battle for more than ten days!

The most tragic Storm Legion, with a legion of 50,000 elite troops, undertook the 12-day onslaught of 100,000 of the Orc Empire's most brave and skilled Minotaurs, and even with Sunset Fortress, the strongest fortress, the Storm Legion's casualty figure was still as high as 35,000!

More than 8,000 soldiers were killed, and more than 26,000 soldiers were seriously wounded, so heavy the price made Marquis Robert, the commander of the Storm Legion, known for his bravery, even burst into tears, and the intensity of the battle was evident from this.

Compared with the heavy casualties of the four royal legions, the city defense army under the command of the Marquis of Rundstead can be described as countless casualties, and the 230,000 soldiers of the city defense army before and after arriving at the Sunset Fortress have entered the battle, and the number of dead soldiers has exceeded 80,000!

Less than 1,000 of the 5,000 mighty soldiers of the Iron Guard are still alive, and even the last of the Iron Guards have been sent by Rundstead to serve as officers at all levels in his subordinate city defense army to organize the city defense army and the orcs in bloody battles.

The really worst thing was the Sunset Fortress's first five standing legions, the 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, and 32nd legions, each of which had replenished its troops at least four times, and each of them still had no more than 3,000 soldiers to fight.

The 22nd, 23rd, and 26th Army Corps, these three legions were originally the first troops to reinforce the Sunset Fortress, and they have all been replenished more than three times in bloody battles, and there are only about 4,000 soldiers who can be put into battle.

The 27,000 soldiers of the eight standing legions, the 120,000 elite soldiers of the four royal legions, and the 100,000 soldiers of the city defense army can be replenished at any time with the 60,000 reserve troops of each legion, and these 247,000 soldiers and 60,000 reserve soldiers are the entire strength of the Sunset Fortress.

The reason why there were 60,000 reservists who had not been replenished to the various lost corps was because there were still more than 100,000 wounded soldiers to take care of in the Sunset Fortress, and the task of the reservists was to take care of the increasing number of wounded soldiers and to transport defensive supplies to the front-line soldiers.

The basic situation of these Sunset Fortress was first informed to the eight legion commanders by Duke Gna, and then the eight legion leaders informed the co-captain of their own legion, and when Bai Feng learned of these conditions, he became further worried about the battle situation of Sunset Fortress.

Because the empire has invested all its strength in the Sunset Fortress, and the orc empire army attacking the Sunset Fortress is still as high as more than 1.5 million, how can the 400,000 imperial army that is fully calculated withstand the onslaught of the orc empire's 1.5 million army?

Looking at the outline of the Sunset Fortress that was gradually becoming clear in front of him, Bai Feng, who was full of emotions, really didn't know what way to use to break the deadlock of the Sunset Fortress;