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Shortly after the fall of the two minor forts of the Third Principal Fortress, the two minor forts of the First Major Fortress and the two minor forts of the Second Major Fortress fell one after another, and Duke Albert and Duke Kleist faced equally bad conditions.

The 28th, 29th, and 30th Legions in the First Main Fortress area managed to withdraw to the First Main Fortress, but the unfortunate 33rd and 34th Legions were not so lucky, and unfortunately they were surrounded by an army of orcs in the First Fortress.

If it weren't for Duke Albert personally leading the Thunder Legion to open a passage from behind the orc army, I am afraid that the northern wolf Captain Andrew and Captain Billy, who terrified the northern steppe tribes, would have been lost in the hands of the orc army.

Judging from the battle situation at that time, if the commander of the 33rd Legion was not Andrew, Duke Albert, as the commander of the Thunder Legion and the commander of the army, would definitely not send troops to rescue the trapped two legions, because this was a rescue that outweighed the losses.

When Duke Reinhardt sent the Praetorian Legion to the aid of the trapped Legion, he exchanged thousands of soldiers of the Praetorian Legion for four disabled standing legions, which was cost-effective both from the point of view of morale and from the point of view of numbers.

The 33rd and 34th Legions, which were trapped in the First Fortress, were said to be two standing regiments, but in fact there were less than 12,000 soldiers, and it was not worth wasting troops to save these two regiments when three standing regiments had already withdrawn to the First Fortress.

The soldiers of the 35,000 Thunder Legion went to the first fortress to rescue the 33rd Legion and the 34th Legion, and after more than half an hour of bloody battle with the orc army, only 27,000 Thunder Legion soldiers were left who could return to the first main fortress, and the number of dead soldiers was as high as 8,000!

What is even more unacceptable is that after the 33rd Army and the 34th Army Corps, which were already small in strength, followed the Thunder Army back to the First Main Fortress after this fierce battle, the total strength of the two Army Corps dropped to less than 7,000 soldiers.

It is not a wise choice to exchange the 8,000 elite soldiers of the Thunder Legion for the defeated 6,000 remnants of the two standing legions, but who in the Imperial Army does not know that Andrew, the wolf of the north, is the confidant of Duke Kleist!

And Duke Albert and Duke Kleist, who were two of the four most decorated generalissimos and three famous generals during the first emperor of the Tianlong Empire, were also the two with the deepest personal relations;

Later, Charlemagne ascended to the throne of the emperor, and Marshal Henkel, Marshal Gnaner, and Marshal Karl among the four great generalissimos of the empire, and Duke Prince and Duke Kleist of the three famous generals of the empire left the army one after another.

Duke Albert and Duke Gerald, who remained in the army, remained in the position of captain of the Thunder Legion and head of the Knights of the Praetorian Guard for eighteen years, and the Duke of Gna, Karl, and Kleist all went to the Imperial College and were no longer in charge of the military.

As for Marshal Henkel, the oldest and most meritorious of the four generalissimos, and the Duke of Prince, the youngest and most talented of the three famous generals, their names have long become taboo words within the empire, and no one dares to mention them in any public forum.

Eighteen years have been long or short, and too many things that need to be remembered have been slowly forgotten by the world, and the facts that were well known to everyone in the past have now become secrets that only the high-ranking aristocratic families will know, and there is no chance to tell them.

The deep personal relationship between Duke Albert and Duke Kleist decided that Duke Albert would never sit idly by and watch Duke Kleist's henchman die under his command, so he personally led the Thunder Legion to the First Fortress to rescue Andrew's 33rd Legion.

After the Thunder Legion and the five standing legions retreated to the first main fortress, the total strength was slightly better than that of the Duke of Reinhardt, and the total strength of the six legions reached 80,000 people, and it was more than enough to defend the first main fortress.

Duke Kleist's second main fortress area was the first to withdraw to the 35th and 36th legions, but the 22nd, 31st, and 32nd legions of the old standing army were blocked by the orc army on the periphery of the second main stronghold.

The commander of the 22nd Legion, Count Wunt, and the commander of the 31st Legion, Count Kelis, were both well-known generals in the Imperial Army, and the commander of the 32nd Legion, Count Demi, who was slightly inferior to them, was not inferior to them.

The three generals were already very good, and their respective legions were still at a level worthy of a battle, and before Duke Kleist could send reinforcements to meet them, they joined forces to launch a fierce attack on the Orc Army.

The 6,000 veterans of the 22nd, 31st, and 32nd legions were drawn out, and the strongest and most brave of the three was commanded by Count Wund, who directly launched an attack on the 20,000 orcs who intercepted them.

They were followed by six thousand ordinary soldiers led by Count Kelis and Count Demi, three disorganized and regrouped troops, and engaged in a fierce battle with the orc army that blocked them.

Marquis Robert's Storm Legion is not only the second main fortress guard legion, but also the strongest legion in the hands of Duke Kleist; when Wundt and the other three legion commanders lead the army to fight a bloody battle with the orc army, Duke Kleist will naturally not sit idly by.

The 20,000 soldiers of the Stormwind Legion who were drawn out formed a rescue group with the 36th Legion of the Captain of the Jungle Fox Davis, and a full 26,000 soldiers launched an attack from behind the army of 20,000 orcs to cooperate with Count Wundt and others.

Two armies, with a total strength of 44,000 troops, launched a fierce front and rear attack on the 20,000 orc army, and the fierce orc warriors met the brave Imperial soldiers, and the two sides fought in the field, and finally the Imperial army successfully withdrew to the fortress.

The Second Main Fortress, which had assembled the Storm Legion and five standing legions, also had a total strength of 80,000 troops, and with the help of various defensive weapons in the Second Main Fortress, they could definitely block the attack of an army of more than 150,000 orcs for more than a month.

Excluding the Fourth Main Fortress where Bai Feng is located, the armies of the other three main Fortress areas have all retreated to the Main Fortress, of which the First Main Fortress and the Second Main Fortress each have 80,000 defenders, and the strength of the Third Main Fortress is at least less than 50,000 soldiers.

The day before, there were still 17 full-fledged regiments with hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the three main fortified areas, and in an instant, only 210,000 soldiers remained, and among these 210,000 soldiers, about a quarter were wounded soldiers who were temporarily unable to fight, and the actual combat strength was only 150,000.

Compared to the tragic situation in the three main fortress areas, the situation in the fourth main fortress area was undoubtedly much better, and the orc army in the eleventh fortress did not break through the defensive positions jointly constructed by the city defense army and the battle group from beginning to end, giving the other armies time to retreat.

Totila's 39th Army Corps and Giscar's 40th Army Corps were fully deployed to the Fourth Main Fortress, and the Special Operations Wing, the Assault Wing, the Iron Guards, the Reserve Forces, the Pro-Guards, and other units of the battle cluster were also withdrawn to the Fourth Main Fortress.

More than 30,000 soldiers of the city defense army under the command of General Bella and General D'Ambrosio, and more than 40,000 soldiers of the city defense army under the command of General Giannu, who defended the tenth fortress, all withdrew to the fourth main fortress under the cover of Bai Feng, preserving a large number of living forces.