"Chapter 32: The Bloody Battle of the Fortress, 10"
There are usually three ways to approach life: the first is to completely deceive oneself, which means not to take the pain seriously, the second is to find some alternative satisfaction that can alleviate the pain, and the third is to use anesthetic objects to make oneself lose one's sense of pain. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
- Sigmund Freud (Austrian Jewish psychologist, psychiatrist, founder of the psychoanalytic school)
The reason for the vomiting of almost all the soldiers was simply that the orc warriors who had been burned alive by the asphalt, and the smell of meat similar to roast paste permeated the entire battlefield, which made the stomachs of the Imperial soldiers who had eaten the barbecue several times squirm wildly.
Especially the veterans of the Seventh Wing, who were the first to follow Bai Feng, their daily meals were not the standard meals of the imperial soldiers, but the meals after Bai Feng paid for them himself.
Now this former ostentatious capital has become a source of disgusting vomit for the soldiers of the Seventh Wing, and even Bai Feng, who was standing on the city wall, almost couldn't help but vomit when he smelled the smell of the charred corpses of orc warriors.
After a hard battle, and then a long time of vomiting, the defenders on the city wall were tossed and unable to stand still, but after a morning of rest, Borg's Fifth Brigade barely recovered, and the task of cleaning the battlefield was entrusted to the Fifth Brigade.
At this time, the orc army attacking the fortress and the left wing city wall had not yet retreated, and the huge fortress was still in the midst of a war, only the right wing city wall where Bai Feng himself was sitting ended today's battle early.
Of the more than 4,000 orc troops who attacked the right flank wall, less than 2,000 escaped back, and the other 2,500 orc warriors were all strangled by the Seventh Wing.
In this afternoon's battle, Darren's 3rd Brigade and Lennon's 4th Army lost a total of 178 officers and men, and the wounded 400 or so officers were soon able to recover from their wounds and return to their brigades under the treatment of the field doctor Hua Mu.
Because Wald's logistics brigade entered the battle relatively late and fought in places with low fighting intensity, only 39 men were killed, and the vacancies left by the 217 soldiers who died in battle will be filled by veterans of the reserve brigade.
The 8,500 wounded soldiers of the city defense army and the 3,100 wounded soldiers of the other wings were the reserve brigade of the 7th Wing, and the 7th Wing, which had a total strength of only 7,000 people on the surface, actually had nearly 20,000 veterans who had fought against the orcs!
Of the total number of 11,600 wounded soldiers, more than 3,000 wounded soldiers had regained their combat effectiveness under Hua Mu's treatment, and the replenishment of the 3rd, 4th, and logistics brigades was replenished by Bai Feng within an hour of the end of the battle.
In addition, the other 3,000 veterans who had recovered their combat effectiveness were formally organized into three reserve brigades, with General López, sent by the Marquis of Rundstede, as the commander of these three reserve brigades, and officers at all levels were also appointed by López.
It will take at least six days for the other 8,000 wounded soldiers to fully recover their combat effectiveness, which means that in a week at the latest, the 7th Wing will have a reserve of 10 fully equipped elite veterans!
It was a terrible battle for the Empire and the other legions, but for Bai Feng, who had the field doctor Hua Mu, it was a battle of opportunity for him to grow the Seventh Wing.
Wounded soldiers, which are a burden to other troops, are the most precious treasure in the Seventh Wing, otherwise, how could Bai Feng exchange the five hundred additional soldiers assigned to the Seventh Wing by Commander Giscard yesterday for the three thousand and one hundred wounded soldiers of the other wings?
After an afternoon of fierce fighting, it was not until late evening that the frenzied attack of the orc army slowly withdrew from the battle, and the exhausted defenders dragged their tired bodies and began to clear the fortress and walls full of corpses.
Hans's second battle group of the seventh wing paid the price of 423 soldiers to defend the city wall under the frantic attack of more than 4,000 orcs, and what made Bai Feng even more distressed was the death of two detachment leaders and three squadron leaders.
The Seventh Wing, which already lacked officers at all levels, had already lost three detachment commanders and seven squadron leaders in two successive battles, and the number of junior officers at the squad leader level was as high as 34, seriously weakening the combat effectiveness of the units.
Those who were promoted to squadron leader in the line of fire were squadron leaders with excellent command, squadron leaders who fought bravely to kill the enemy, and veterans who survived when they were promoted to squad leaders.
The survival of the fittest is an eternal law of survival on the battlefield; the officers who die in battle are not necessarily incompetent officers, but the officers who survive must be excellent officers, because good luck does not always befall the incompetent.
If an incompetent soldier can always sit in the position of captain of the 7th Wing on the battlefield by virtue of good luck, then his good luck is his capital, because luck is part of strength, and those who are unlucky are doomed to be miserable losers.
After the day's fighting, the commander of the corps, Giskal, convened a military meeting as usual, and according to the casualty data reported by each wing, Bai Feng learned that the 40th Legion had lost more than 6,000 more than 6,000 soldiers and more than 2,000 seriously wounded.
In these two battles, the 40th Army Corps, which had been on the battlefield for two days, had more than 15,000 killed and more than 5,000 seriously wounded, and even with 5,000 reinforcements sent by the Marquis de Rundstead, the combat strength of the 40th Army had dropped to 12,000.
Bai Feng's Seventh Wing was an over-formed wing, which was different from the situation of the standard wing; excluding the seventh wing, the total strength of the other nine wings was already less than 8,000, with an average of less than 1,000 people in each wing, not even half of the full number.
Captain Giscard and the other Wing Commanders didn't know that Bai Feng's Seventh Wing had been at full strength, and if they knew, the Forty Legion's combat strength would have changed from 12,000 to 15,000.
The 40th Legion, which was in an increasingly dire situation, could only continue to defend Fortress 12 for three days at most, and by the time the orc army attacked next time, the 40th Legion would not have more than 8,000 soldiers and would not be able to hold Fortress 12 at all.
Faced with this almost cruel reality, the commander of the Giscard Corps had no choice but to send an application for help to the Marquis of Rundstead, who was in charge of the No. 4 Main Fortress, and reported the current situation of the Fortieth Army in detail.
After coming out of the legion headquarters, Bai Feng, who had other ideas in his heart, did not return to the right wing city wall where the Seventh Wing was located, but took Bai Yi and Bai Er straight to the No. 4 Main Fortress;
As for whether this hard-working plan can be successfully implemented, it depends on whether the Marquis of Longdstede, as the commander of the army, is willing to cooperate with him;
Although he didn't have much intersection with the Marquis of Rundstead, strictly speaking, there were only two hurried meetings, but Bai Feng was willing to believe in the Marquis of Rundstead from the bottom of his heart, and this may be the fate of the legend.