"Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Battle of the Breakout, Sixteen"
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The army led by the Marquis of Rundstead was composed of Borg's reserves, Giannou's Third Army of the City Defense Army (PS: misspelled as Bella, now corrected), Danilo's Fourth Division of the Fire Legion, and Sarnia's Fifth Division of the Fire Army.
According to Bai Feng's orders at the time, the reserve troops of Borg and Upadama should be the vanguard of the breakthrough army to be the first to reinforce the front line, but the Marquis of Rundstead slightly changed the order of the various armies when he led his army out of the fortress.
Danilo's 4th Division replaced the reserves as the vanguard of the breakout, followed closely behind by the 5th Division of Sania, then the 3rd Army of Giannou's City Defense Army, and finally the reserves that were supposed to be the vanguard.
Imperial soldiers regard obedience to orders as their duty, even though Borg is Bai Feng's confidant and favorite general, and he still has Bai Feng's personal orders, but Marquis Rundstead's qualifications and prestige, as well as his current status as the main general, determine that Borg does not have the courage to refute the marquis's orders.
Of course, the real reason why both Borg and Upadama acquiesced to Marquis Rundstead's order was not because Marquis Rundstead's prestige and status made them jealous, but because Marquis Rundstedd's order was beneficial to the battle group.
Among all the armies under Bai Feng's command, the most loyal to Bai Feng were undoubtedly the four constituent units of the battle cluster, and at this time, the most elite Seventh Wing, the Assault Wing, and the Iron Guards of the battle cluster had basically been disabled in the battle.
In particular, Bai Feng's starting unit, the Seventh Wing, and the Assault Wing, a descendant unit formed by Bai Feng himself, these two elite divisions were the first to be sent out to fight in the fortress, not only undertook the most arduous defensive tasks, but also fought hard and persisted in the fight to this day.
Although the elite of the 60,000 city defense troops of D'Ambrosio and Bella took over the defense line between the passage and the fortress from the seventh wing and the assault wing, the soldiers of the seventh wing and the assault wing who were replaced joined the bloody battle of the passage after a little rectification.
The Seventh Wing, which has a full strength of 12,000 soldiers, is now still fighting on the shield wall, and the assault wing, which is full of 16,000 soldiers, has as many as 10,000 soldiers because its weapons and equipment are inferior to those of the Seventh Wing.
The death of more than 10,000 soldiers of the Seventh Wing and the Assault Wing made the generals of the city defense army and the generals of the Fire Legion who were bystanders feel distressed;
It is precisely because of the Seventh Wing and the Assault Wing as an example that Ranocchia will fight so hard when he leads the Predator Guard, so Marquis Bernard will accept Bai Feng's order to let the Fire Legion fight without saying a word.
However, the battle cluster is Bai Feng's most elite troops, if the four elite divisions of the battle cluster are completely disabled in the battle of the breakout, then what capital can Bai Feng have to fight for greater benefits for himself after the breakthrough?
It was precisely because of this consideration that even with Bai Feng's personal order, the Marquis of Rundstead still took the initiative to change the order of the breakout army, and the commanders of the reserve army, Borg and Upadama, also acquiesced to this order of the Marquis of Rundstead.
Bai Feng, who was standing at the head of the fortress, watched the breakout army drive out of the fortress and go straight to the battlefield, how could he not know that the Marquis of Rundstead had changed the order of the various armies without authorization? It's just that too many things just need to be tacitly understood.
The ambitious Bai Feng would never do anything to sacrifice himself to be a good man for others, and the reason why he sent elite troops from battle clusters one after another was only because the combat mode of the city defense army and the fire army could not withstand the fierce attack of the orc army.
Therefore, he had to send the soldiers of the Seventh Wing and the Assault Wing to take the lead in the battle, and as for the Iron Guards and Reserve Troops sent later, they were accompanied by the City Defense Army and the Fire Legion, which was the way for all armies to work together to tide over the difficulties.
Moreover, according to Bai Feng's plan, after all the large armies of the Fourth Main Fortress broke out of the encirclement, the battle group could be withdrawn to the rear of the empire to be replenished, and the city defense army would be completely merged into the battle group under the command of the Marquis of Rundstead, which was all to strengthen the battle group.
The only Fire Legion that will not actively merge into the battle cluster will fall into a leaderless situation once the Marquis of Bernard is killed, and if Bai Feng can't even swallow a Fire Legion without a leader and with heavy casualties, then he should go back to Rome City to retire.
Marquis of Rundstede, who didn't know much about Bai Feng's methods and was completely unaware of the existence of the Shadow Killer, was naturally a little jealous of the Fire Legion in his heart, and letting the soldiers of the Fire Legion act as the vanguard was deliberately weakening the Fire Legion.
Whether it was the reserve forces that deliberately protected the battle cluster, or the various divisions that deliberately weakened the Fire Legion, it was a happy result for Bai Feng, not to mention, this matter was brought in by the Marquis of Rundstede, and no one else could blame Bai Feng.
With the Marquis of Rundstead personally in command, the movement of the breakout army was very rapid, and soon after the Marquis of Bernard received a request for help from Ranocchia, Danilo's 4th Division rushed to the Legion of Fire and joined forces with the 3rd Division behind him.
Marquis Bernard, who wanted to preserve his strength, learned from Danilo that the tens of thousands of troops led by the Marquis of Rundstedde were about to arrive here, so he immediately ordered Rodriguez and Eder to lead the first and second divisions respectively to reinforce the Iron Guard.
After receiving reinforcements from 14,000 soldiers from two divisions of the Fire Legion, Ranocchia put the two divisions of the Fire Legion in charge of guarding the left and right flanks of the Predator Guard, and then he led the more than 7,000 soldiers of the Predator Guard, which had been slightly reorganized, to attack again.
The Marquis of Bernard, who still had no idea of fighting to the death, only sent two divisions to reinforce the Predator Guard, while he himself kept the strength of the other three divisions in his hands, neither reinforcing the Predator Guard forward nor reinforcing the passage defense line backwards.
At this time, the officers and soldiers of the other armies were fighting to the death against the orc army, but the main force of the Fire Legion following behind the Iron Guards flinched, and this behavior made the soldiers of the Fire Legion with a strong sense of honor feel ashamed.
Marquis Bernard, who thought that he could silence everyone by sending two divisions to reinforce the Iron Guard, did not know that Ivan, who was hiding in the Fire Legion, had quietly approached him, and the dagger in Ivan's hand was less than three meters away from Marquis Bernard!
"General, the Iron Guards have lost 3,000 soldiers on their side, and they are still desperately attacking the orcs in front, we can't wait and see anymore, hurry up and send troops to reinforce the Iron Guards, otherwise the Iron Guards will really not be able to hold on!" This is the advice from Ospina.
As soon as Ospina, the commander of the Third Division, heard his exhortation, Danilo of the Fourth Division, continued: "Yes, General, the men of the other armies are fighting with the orcs, and it is not suitable for us to stand still here!"
"Why doesn't it fit in? Didn't I just send two divisions of soldiers to reinforce the Predator Guard......? Ah!" Before the enraged Marquis de Bernard could finish his reprimand, a terrible scream came out of his throat.