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

The battle behind the Eleventh Fortress became the fiercest battle in the area of the Fourth Fort, and the fighting at the Tenth, Twelfth, and Fourth Forts, although fierce, was far less severe in terms of casualties, and the fighting here could be described as fierce.

The soldiers of the city defense army and the assault wing are using their flesh and blood to resist the ferocious attack of the orc army, while D'Ambrosio and Bai Feng, who are closely watching the battle, are ready to devote more troops to the front line to prevent the orc army from entering the fortress.

With the 80,000 city defense troops of Bella and D'Ambrosio, plus the special operations wing and assault wing brought by Bai Feng, the number of troops used to suppress the attack of the orc army in the fourth main fortress area has reached 110,000, which barely blocked the army of more than 50,000 orcs near the fallen fortress.

In the other three main fortified areas where a small fortress had fallen, Duke Albert, Duke Kleist, and Duke Reinhardt did not have 110,000 troops to fight, and they had less than 50,000 troops at most to suppress the orc army.

Fifty thousand Imperial soldiers, even if they were all elites of a hundred battles, could not stop the attack of the 50,000 orc army in a field battle, not to mention that the 50,000 army sent by Duke Albert and the other three commanders was actually a new army composed of a mixture of veterans and new soldiers.

When the battle lasted almost two hours, the 50,000 soldiers sent by the Duke of Reinhardt to suppress the orc army at the fallen fortress were completely crushed, and more than 30,000 imperial soldiers were killed on the spot, and less than 10,000 fled back to the third main fortress.

The rout of these 50,000 soldiers snowballed like a chain of routs in the third main fortress area, and the orc army, which had lost less than 5,000 men, launched an attack from the rear of the fortresses in the third main fortress area with a great victory, and captured the other two small fortresses one after another.

The defenders of the fortress were caught off guard and fell into the predicament of being attacked on their backs, but fortunately, the Duke of Reinhardt sent the Praetorian Legion that successfully repelled the orc army to rescue them, and only then did the four defending legions with more than half of the casualties withdraw to the third main fortified area.

The 23rd, 26th, 37th, and 38th Army Corps that were crippled, and the four standing corps that had just been replenished to full strength yesterday combined were less than 15,000 soldiers, and the 50,000-strong Praetorian Guard Corps was also more than two-thirds killed!

In fact, if it weren't for the Praetorian Legion's need to rescue the other four standing legions, they would have lost only about 8,000 soldiers, and the cost of rescuing the almost crushed standing legion from the two sides of the orc army would have cost them dearly.

The defenders of the 3rd Main Fortress with a total strength of 150,000 troops held out in less than three hours, killed more than 100,000 soldiers, and again fell to the last two small fortresses, leaving only the 3rd Main Fortress still in the hands of the Duke of Reinhardt.

The orc army that opened up the situation surrounded the third main fortress with 50,000 orc warriors, and another 90,000 orc army directly divided into three routes, killing the first main fortress area, the second main fortress area, and the fourth main fortress area respectively.

The battle situation in the first and second main fortresses was slightly better than that in the third main fortress area, but it was not much better, and the soldiers under the command of Duke Albert and Duke Kleist were also unable to stop the onslaught of the orc army, but they held out for half an hour longer.

After nearly two hours of fighting, the last 20,000 soldiers of the city defense army in D'Ambrosio's hands had already entered the battle, and the 12,000 soldiers of the special operations wing led by Hans and Assassis also joined the battle, and the battle became more and more intense.

In the three-hour bloody battle, more than 30,000 of the 80,000 soldiers of the 80,000 city defense troops of Bella and D'Ambrosio were killed, and nearly 20,000 wounded soldiers were sent to the vicinity of López for treatment by Huamu, and the number of soldiers of the city defense army still fighting on the front line was less than 30,000.

The 8,000 commando soldiers under Bai Feng's command who were the first to enter the battle have been fighting at the forefront of the battlefield under the leadership of the fierce general Athos, and nearly 5,000 commando wing soldiers have killed at least 3,000 orc warriors at the cost of their lives.

The special operations wing, which had been put into battle an hour earlier, undertook the main attack task that was originally undertaken by the officers and men of the city defense army; their morale was no lower than that of the orc soldiers, and the officers and men of the special operations wing, whose combat strength far surpassed that of the officers and men of the city defense army, suppressed the offensive of the orc army as soon as they entered the battle.

More than 50,000 orc troops, under the joint suppression of the city defense army, the assault wing, and the special operations wing, only about 15,000 orc warriors were killed.

The 39th Army Corps and the 40th Army Corps, which were originally stationed behind the 12th Fortress, had been transferred to five miles behind the assault wing half an hour earlier; once the battle situation on the front line was close to collapse, these 20,000 soldiers were Bai Feng's lifesaver!

The soldiers of the Special Operations Wing are all elite veterans equipped with Roman heavy infantry standard weapons and equipment, and the long knives in the hands of orc warriors that seem to be powerful but have limited lethality are difficult to split their armor in battle, which is the advantage of weapons and equipment.

Just as Bai Feng was about to order the 39th and 40th Army Corps in the rear to advance, the Parthian archers who were ordered by Bai Feng to cruise around the perimeter of the battlefield rushed over, and the new centurion of the Parthian archers reported to Bai Feng breathlessly:

"General, an army of 30,000 orcs is coming towards us seven miles away from the left side of the battlefield!"

"What?30,000 orc army?!" Before the shocked Bai Feng could react, López on the side subconsciously exclaimed: "Could it be that the third main fortress has all fallen?

"There must be a problem with the third main fortress, but it will not all fall, Duke Reinhardt has a Praetorian Guard and more than a hundred magicians under his command, and it must be no problem to defend the third main fortress, and the other two small fortresses are probably less auspicious. ”

"General, what should we do then? Do we continue to send the 39th and 40th Army Corps to reinforcements, or do we immediately withdraw to the fortress and wait for reinforcements?"

"Judging from the current situation, it is pointless to continue to send the 39th and 40th Army Corps to reinforcements, and it is even more infeasible to return to the 12th Fortress to hold on and wait for reinforcements;

"López, you immediately lead the army to escort the wounded soldiers here to the Fourth Main Fortress, and report the situation here to the Marquis. ”

"No!"

"Bai Yi, you immediately return to the fortress and inform the four generals Ranocchia, Borg, Upadama, and Aetius, and let them repel the attack of the orc army in one go, and then the whole army will withdraw from the fortress and go to the fourth main fortress, where I will wait for them!"

"No!"

"Bai Er, you go to the front battlefield to convey my orders to General Hans and General Assasis, let them lead the army to block the attack of the orc army with all their might, and give orders to the three generals Bella, D'Ambrosio, and Athos, so that they can immediately withdraw from the battle and withdraw to the fortress!"

"No!"

After giving these orders, Bai Feng personally led the nine teams of cavalry around him to rush towards the 30,000 orcs who had come to reinforce him!