"Chapter 52: The Hard War, IX"
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The reason why the battle cluster stationed in the twelfth fortress was able to return to full strength in just four or five days, and helped the 39th and 40th Army Corps to rest and recover, was purely because of the existence of Hua Mu, a field doctor, under Bai Feng's command.
The wounded soldiers of the other legions can be restored to combat effectiveness under Hua Mu's treatment, but there is no way for their dead soldiers to be replenished quickly, and the various legions that have been severely damaged by the orc army will definitely not recover their combat effectiveness in a short time.
The fall of the four small fortresses has caused a huge hole in the originally rock-solid Sunset Fortress defense system, and the orc army that has successfully opened the stalemate situation can bypass the Sunset Fortress at any time to launch a direct attack on other fortresses that have not fallen.
In response to this situation, the Duke of Gna personally gave orders to the four commanders, including Duke Albert, Duke Kleist, Duke Reinhardt, and Marquis of Rundstead, ordering them to send a large army to block the rear of the fallen fortress, so as not to let the orc army have an opportunity.
This order is indeed an extremely wise order, but the right order does not mean that the battle can be saved, and it is right to want to block the orc army in the fallen fortress, but who can really have the strength to block the orc army in the fallen fortress?
Aside from the systematic arms and reserve officers of the pro-soldier guards, Bai Feng had a battle cluster with a full strength of 50,000 troops and two standing regiments with a full strength of 10,000 troops, and a full army of 70,000, and its combat effectiveness could be called the largest among the defenders of all the fortresses!
Even so, Bai Feng, who never lacked self-confidence, did not dare to guarantee that the 70,000 army under his command could withstand the attack of the 50,000 orc army, because the combat effectiveness of the orc warriors was really amazing, and it was definitely not an existence that could be matched by the generals and soldiers of the Heavenly Dragon Empire.
The average strength of the officers and men of the Tianlong Empire is about the realm of the junior sword master, and they are known as the four royal legions that are the trump cards in the imperial army, and their average strength is only the realm of the intermediate sword master, which is equivalent to the system of the third-level experience under Bai Feng.
Orc warriors don't cultivate spiritual power, their strong combat power comes entirely from their powerful bodies, and even the most ordinary dogman warriors and pigman warriors have combat power that is not inferior to that of intermediate swordsmen!
As strong as the Tiger Warriors, Lion Warriors and other high-level orc warriors, their combat effectiveness is not as strong as the high-level swordsmen in the Heavenly Dragon Empire Army, but they are much stronger than ordinary intermediate swordsmen;
Fortunately, the soldiers of the four royal legions have not only sophisticated weapons and equipment armed to the teeth, but also magicians who specialize in suppressing orc warriors to cooperate in battle, and with the blessing of many aspects, the royal legion has the strength to compete head-on with the orc army.
This meant that once the orc armies chose the four fortresses they had captured as a breakthrough point to launch an all-out assault on the Imperial forces defending Sunset Fortress, only four royal legions could fight against the Sunset Fortress's hundreds of thousands of defenders.
In fact, the situation in Sunset Fortress at this time was even worse than Duke Gna and the others had imagined, because it was the four royal legions that had once gathered the most elite soldiers of the empire that could fight head-on with the orc army, not the four royal legions that had been replenished with a large number of new recruits in front of them.
The brutal battle caused the four royal legions to suffer at least three heavy losses, and the fire legion, which suffered the heaviest losses, was replenished with six new recruits, and the 50,000 elite veterans of the legion when it arrived at Sunset Fortress now have less than 5,000 left.
The other 45,000 elite soldiers of the Fire Legion were either killed on the walls of Sunset Fortress or joined Bai Feng's battle cluster as wounded soldiers, and at least 10,000 veterans from the four royal legions were in the battle cluster of 50,000 soldiers.
It is precisely because of the existence of these veterans with rich combat experience and strong strength of their own strength that the combat effectiveness of the battle cluster will become stronger and stronger and higher than that of other legions; unfortunately, this kind of superiority is only the result of the comparison of combat strength within the imperial army.
The battle clusters with stable combat effectiveness surpassing the four royal legions still can't compete with the orc army of the same size in the field, and what is even more deadly is that the number of orc armies is much more than the defenders of Sunset Fortress, and the imperial army is already at an absolute disadvantage!
On the seventh day of August, five days later, the orc army once again launched an onslaught on Sunset Fortress, this time without the help of the Beamon warriors and orc shamans, but their attack was fiercer than ever!
An army of about 400,000 orcs launched an assault on the remaining four main forts and eight smaller forts in the Sunset Fortress, with an average of 40,000 orcs and 30,000 orcs per small fort.
At the same time, an army of more than 200,000 orcs broke through four small fortresses that had fallen and launched a fierce attack on the interior of Sunset Fortress, and the renewed flames of war plunged the entire Sunset Fortress into a bloody battle.
With a combined 22,000 elite soldiers from Ranocchia's Iron Guards and the reserves of Borg and Upadama, supplemented by the long-range strikes of three teams of Cretan archers and twelve teams of iron gunners, it was impossible for a mere 30,000 orc warriors to capture the Twelfth Fortress.
What really worries Bai Feng is the attack of the orc army occupying the eleventh fortress against the army of General Bella's army and the army of General D'Ambrosio, if the 80,000 city defense army cannot stop the attack of the orc army, then the twelfth fortress will be attacked on both sides!
Hans and Assassis's special operations wing had 12,000 elite veterans, López and Athos's assault wing had 16,000 elite veterans, and the 28,000 soldiers and eight elite cavalry of the pro-guard were all deployed by Bai Feng on the left side of the fortress.
Once the 80,000 city defense forces of General Bella and General D'Ambrosio are crushed by the orc army, the special operations wing and assault wing deployed on the left side of the Twelfth Fortress will take on the important task of blocking the orc army and covering the withdrawal of friendly troops from the battlefield.
Because when the battle situation really developed to that extent, the Sunset Fortress could no longer stop the attack of the orc army, and it was only a matter of time before the other fortresses, including the four main fortresses, fell, and the twelfth fortress garrisoned by Bai Feng's army could not be an exception.
Totila's 39th Army and Giscar's 40th Army were deployed by Bai Feng ten miles directly behind the 12th Fortress, so that the 70,000 troops of the 12th Fortress were divided into three interlocking and interdependent armies.
The systematic infantry unit of the Pro-Guard and 5,000 elite veterans in reserve, under the leadership of Aetius, remained behind the defenders of Sunset Fortress and the army on the left, and no matter which of these two armies needed reinforcements, the Pro-Guards could rush to the battlefield as soon as possible!
After arranging the various armies under his command, Bai Feng focused his attention on the battle behind the Eleventh Fortress, and the soldiers of the city defense army under the command of General Bella and General D'Ambrosio had already fought together with the attacking orc army!