"Chapter 57, The Hard War, Fourteen"
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- Sigmund Freud (Austrian Jewish psychologist, psychiatrist, founder of the psychoanalytic school)
Finally, he returned to Baifeng, the fourth main fortress, and had just handed over the nine cavalry to Aetius to rest in the barracks, when he welcomed General Giannu under the command of the Marquis of Rundstead, and a meeting that could decide the life and death of everyone was waiting for him.
The nine generals who belonged to the battle cluster, including Hans, Asassis, Lรณpez, Athos, Borg, Upadama, Ranocchia, Totila, and Giscar, had not gone to the headquarters of the Marquis of Rundstead, but were waiting for the return of Bai Feng.
Now that Bai Feng has returned, they will naturally follow Bai Feng to the headquarters to attend the meeting, and frankly speaking, the waiting of Hans and Assassis and others is within Bai Feng's expectations, and the performance of Lopes and Ranocchia is somewhat beyond Bai Feng's expectations.
Because Hans and other system generals were loyal to Bai Feng, and Borg was Bai Feng's henchmen, and the military power of Totila and Giscard was given to them by Bai Feng, so it was reasonable for the seven of them to wait.
The wait for Lรณpez and Ranocchia is a bit confusing, after all, they were once the iron-blooded tiger generals trained by the Marquis of Rundstead, and now they are the fourth main fortress in the Marquis of Rundstead, so they should report to the headquarters first.
However, the crisis in front of him made Bai Feng have no time to think about these things that had nothing to do with the battle situation, he had to quickly discuss with the Marquis of Rundstead to come up with a countermeasure, otherwise the hundreds of thousands of troops trapped in the fourth main fortress would not be able to avoid the end of the entire army sooner or later.
In the headquarters of the Fourth Main Fortress, in addition to the Marquis of Rundstede, who sat in the first place, on the left and right were the commander of the Fire Legion, Marquis Bernard, and General Giannu, General Bella, and General D'Ambrosio, among the Iron and Blood Five Tiger Generals.
Compared with the five people in the headquarters, Bai Feng, who walked into the headquarters with nine generals, was more like the commander, and the Marquis of Bernard, who was also aware of this, frowned slightly, as if he didn't want to see the situation in front of him.
Long before Bai Feng returned to the fourth main fortress, the Marquis of Rundstead left the first place on his left hand side to Bai Feng, and on the second seat on the left was General D'Ambrosio, the oldest of the Iron and Blood Five Generals, and then General Bella.
On the right hand sat the Marquis of Bernard, who had the same title as the Marquis of Rundsteadt, and next to him was General Giannu.
Bai Feng, who knew it well, naturally would not refuse the arrangement of the Marquis of Longdstead, and did not waste time to excuse anything, he sat on the first place on the left side of the headquarters, and the nine generals who followed Bai Feng sat down with a tacit understanding of the four on the left and the five on the right.
After all the generals had already sat down, the Marquis of Rundstede, whose brows were a little gloomy, spoke: "Before discussing the countermeasures, your army commanders should first report on how many soldiers they still have under their command, and only then can you choose the best way to break the enemy. โ
"Our Fire Legion has a full strength of 50,000 soldiers, and now there are 30,000 soldiers and 8,000 wounded soldiers. โ
"Our 39th Army has a full strength of 10,000 soldiers, and there are now 10,000 soldiers. โ
"Our 40th Army has a full strength of 10,000 soldiers, and there are 10,000 soldiers at present. โ
"We still have 60,000 troops to fight in the city defense army, and nearly 30,000 wounded soldiers. "General D'Ambrosio, on behalf of General Bella and General Giannou, reported on the situation of the city defense forces.
"Our battle cluster Iron Guards have a full strength of 10,000 soldiers, and there are now 7,000 soldiers and 1,000 wounded soldiers. โ
Suddenly hearing Ranocchia's report, the non-combat group generals present were a little uneasy, but D'Ambrosio and the other three generals were surprised by the strength of the Predator Guard, and Marquis Bernard was shocked by the secret expansion of the Predator Guard.
"Our combat cluster special operations wing has a full strength of 12,000 soldiers, and now there are 7,000 soldiers and 2,000 wounded soldiers. โ
"Our Combat Cluster Assault Wing has a full strength of 16,000 soldiers, and now there are 9,000 soldiers and 3,000 wounded soldiers. โ
"Our combat cluster reserve force is fully staffed with 12,000 soldiers, and there are now 8,000 soldiers and 1,000 wounded soldiers. โ
If the strength of the Predator Guard shocked Marquis Bernard, then the strength of the other three forces in the battle cluster had already numbed Marquis Bernard's nerves, and he didn't expect that the battle cluster would have more troops than his Fire Legion!
The battle group was formed by the personal order of the Marquis de Rundstead, and the Marquis of Bernard had never paid attention to the specific formation of the battle group, and in his opinion it was nothing more than a motley army that had been put together haphazardly.
Now that it was really a critical moment of life and death, the combat effectiveness displayed by the battle group and the overall strength exposed all shocked the Marquis of Bernard, and he even began to doubt the intention of the Marquis of Rundstead to form the battle group.
"Well, in this case, we still have 141,000 soldiers in our hands who can be put into battle at any time, and the remaining 45,000 or so wounded soldiers, I suggest that they all be gathered and handed over to His Excellency Hua Mu under the command of General Bai Feng for treatment, what do you think?"
None of the generals present had any opinion on the matter of handing over the wounded soldiers to Hua Mu for treatment, and even the Marquis of Bernard did not object to this arrangement of the Marquis de Rundstead, who let Hua Mu be the only way to help the wounded soldiers quickly recover their combat effectiveness!
"According to the information transmitted by the Duke of Gna by magic, the situation in the other three main fortresses is the same as here we are, all the small fortresses have been captured by the orc army, and the defenders have all retreated to the main fortress, unable to launch a counterattack for the time being. โ
"Your Excellency Marquis, how many defenders are left in the other three main fortresses to stop the attack of the orc army?"
"General Bernard, the situation at the three main fortresses may be worse than you think: as far as I know, the Duke Albert and the Duke Kleist have only 80,000 men under their command, and the Duke of Reinhardt has less than 50,000 combatable troops. โ
"The combined army of their three main fortresses is only 210,000, which means that our total strength in Sunset Fortress has been reduced to 350,000, and the orc army surrounding us is as high as 560,000, and it will be difficult for us to open up the situation on our own. โ
"General Bai Feng, your words are too frustrating, right?" As soon as Bai Feng's analysis came out, the Marquis of Bernard, who was already a little dissatisfied with Bai Feng, retorted: "If we don't open up the situation with our own strength, I'm afraid there is only one way to die!"
"I understand what you mean, General Bernard, for the current state of affairs in the Empire is simply not possible to send a large reinforcement to reinforce us. Moreover, after losing the Sunset Fortress, how many soldiers will need to be sacrificed to drive the orc army out?"
Bai Feng, who was a little lonely in his tone, explained the embarrassing situation of the Heavenly Dragon Empire and the defenders of the Sunset Fortress; in fact, the generals present were all the main generals of the first army, and they didn't know the situation of the empire in their hearts, but they didn't want to think about it.