"Chapter 43: The War Resumes"

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Twelve teams of ballistae to assist in the defense of the fortress took twelve days to recruit, and twenty-two teams of iron artillery and gunners were summoned in an instant, but it was inconvenient for them, with a total number of two thousand six hundred and forty, to suddenly appear in Fortress No. 12.

The appearance of ironclad cavalry, royal cavalry, Parthian archers, and Spartan heavy infantry not only strengthened the combat effectiveness of the battle group, but also attracted the attention of many well-intentioned people.

In order to avoid attracting more attention, Bai Feng did not bring all the twenty-two teams of iron artillery gunmen back to the fortress for the time being, but only brought two of them back to the fortress; the two hundred and forty spearmen armed with iron cannons were far less eye-catching than the Spartan heavy infantry that exuded a fierce atmosphere.

However, the typical Japanese-style clothing worn by the gunners, as well as the small flags they wore behind their backs, did not fit in with the soldiers of the battle group, so Aetius's personal guards added two more teams of iron gunners of the shogunate system.

The battle group, which had been expanded to 50,000 troops, no longer needed to devote all its forces to the defense of the Twelfth Fortress, and of the four independent combat units, the reserve units really became the mobile forces of the defending army, and were only responsible for reinforcing the friendly forces stationed at the fortress at any time.

Ranocchia's Predator Guard and López's Assault Wing rotate to defend the fortress, with 5,000 soldiers of the Predator Guard led by Ranocchia garrisoning the fortress on a single day, and 8,000 soldiers of the assault wing led by López or Athos on two days.

The Seventh Wing, which Hans and Assassis were in charge of, was still stationed on the left and right flanks of the fortress, and the four most elite veteran brigades of the Seventh Wing were each fairly divided into two brigades, and the other eight brigades were divided more casually.

Led by Aetius and directly under the command of Bai Feng, although the number of soldiers is at least two-thirds less than that of the four main battle troops, it is more than one step stronger in terms of quality, and it is definitely the most elite combat unit of the Twelfth Fortress.

The days of calm for more than half a month have made the officers and men of the various armies under the battle cluster a little relaxed; the officers and men who are on rest in turn need to carry out routine drills every day, and the task of garrisoning the walls of the fortress that was originally dangerous has become a relaxing time for the soldiers.

Because the matter of changing clothes and expanding the organization was too complicated, the busy Bai Feng had not found time to rectify the relaxed state of the soldiers of the battle cluster, and until the arrival of August, Bai Feng, who finally made time, decided to reorganize the more and more scattered army of 50,000.

The seven main generals, Hans, Asassis, Ranocchia, López, Atos, Borg, and Upadama, were all summoned by Bai Feng to the headquarters in the fortress, and the topic of discussion with Bai Feng was how to strengthen the training of the various armies and rectify the military discipline of each army.

Just when Bai Feng convened this military meeting, the army of more than 800,000 orcs opposite the Sunset Fortress took action again after half a month!

The elite composed of 100,000 tigermen, leopard men, and lion men is the core offensive force in the orc army, and the other ordinary troops composed of more than 700,000 pigmen, dog men, and monkey men are the regular offensive force in the orc army.

However, the werewolf cavalry, which has always been the vanguard of the orc army, and the minotaur warriors, who played the role of the mainstay, did not appear on the battlefield this time, and most of the people who frantically slaughtered the Sunset Fortress were ordinary orc warriors.

The attack on the fourth main fortress area was a huge army composed of 20,000 tiger warriors and 150,000 ordinary orc warriors, among them, the 12th fortress garrisoned by Bai Feng's headquarters was 5,000 tiger warriors and 40,000 ordinary orc warriors.

In the headquarters, as soon as the topic of the meeting was thrown out by Bai Feng, a captain of the Iron Blood Guard rushed in in and reported: "General, there are forty or fifty thousand orcs outside the fortress who are killing from a distance, and they will be killed in ten minutes at most!"

On the occasion of Bai Feng, the title of this captain was naturally directed at Bai Feng; suddenly hearing this amazing news, Bai Feng, who was shocked in his heart, immediately stood up without changing his face, and ordered the generals in the headquarters:

"General Hans and General Assassis, you immediately lead all the soldiers under your command to climb the city wall, and you must guard the city wall!"

"No!"

"General López and General Athos, you will immediately lead the soldiers of the assault wing to take full control of the defense of the fortress, and in the next battle against the attack of the orc army, the 16,000 soldiers of your assault wing must fight to the death!"

"No!"

"General Ranocchia, you immediately lead the soldiers of the Predator Guard to withdraw from the fortress and remain on guard behind the fortress. ”

"General, why do we Predators leave our defense zone to the assault wing to defend, and run to the back of a safe fortress to stay on guard? Do you not believe in the combat effectiveness of the Predators? or do you not believe in my command ability?"

"General Ranocchia, I believe that as one of the Iron and Blood Five Tiger Generals, you are definitely one of the best generals in the Empire, and I will not question the combat effectiveness of the Iron Guards;

"Isn't it safe to be behind the fortress?" Ranocchia, who was a little overwhelmed, suddenly woke up after a moment's thought, "You mean, the army of missing orcs may appear behind us? How is this possible?!"

"How is this impossible? The hundreds of thousands of orc armies that disappeared inexplicably, the tens of thousands of wolf cavalry who appeared in a hurry, the strange truce that lasted for half a month, all of this, isn't it enough to explain something?"

"Even so, it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of orc armies to bypass the Sunset Fortress and attack our rear, that is an army of hundreds of thousands of orcs, not dozens of orc warriors, they will not be able to climb over the Sunset Mountain Range full of high-level demonic beasts!"

"General Ranocchia, in my eyes, nothing in the world is impossible, especially in war, war can always stimulate the potential of human beings and promote the progress of human scientific and technological civilization, which I believe orcs are not much worse than humans. ”

"I ......" Ranocchia wanted to say something more, but was rudely interrupted by the impatient Bai Feng: "General Ranocchia, I am giving you a battle order, not consulting with you about the military situation;

"No!" Ranocchia, who was reluctant, finally had to obey the orders of Bai Feng, the supreme commander.

"General Borg, General Upadama, you each lead 6,000 reserve troops and soldiers, stationed on the left and right sides of the rear of the fortress;

"No!"

After giving orders to the generals, Bai Feng directly asked the generals to return to the army to carry out the military orders, and he himself took Aetius and his personal guards to the left flank of the city wall guarded by Hans, which was very close to the eleventh fortress not far away.

The orc army attacking the Eleventh Fortress and the orc army attacking the Twelfth Fortress were almost the same in size and composition, except that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under Bai Feng's command was much stronger than that of the two legion commanders, Totila and Giscar!