"Chapter 21: Recovering the County"
When we are four or five years old, we already have a first understanding of the meaning of life, which is not calculated mathematically, but groped in the darkness in front of us. It's like walking through a valley at night, relying on fragments of experience intuitively, piecing together bit by bit, grasping local feelings and understandings, and then interpreting them to find a way out.
– Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)
In order to prevent the Empire's counterattack, Cahill, the fox king who was appointed by Prince Sainsbury as the commander of the army, deliberately transferred the main force of the orc army.
Knowing that the Imperial counteroffensive army was approaching the province of Bromjansson, the 6,000 orc warriors scattered in Bromjansson County were all concentrated in Browjansson County under the command of their commanders.
In the city of Brocksund, which had a permanent population of more than 200,000 and more than 140 noble mansions, all the nobles and wealthy merchant families who held a lot of wealth were slaughtered by the orc army that invaded the city, and even those who belonged to these families did not escape this catastrophe.
In the first round of plundering of the county town of Bronjansund, Cahill, the fox king, presented 1.27 billion worth of gold and silver to Prince Sainsbury, and at the same time, the number of city dwellers who died under the butcher's knife of the orc warriors reached a staggering 50,000!
Nearly a quarter of its inhabitants were killed, leaving the centuries-old town of Browjansson bloody, and more than 20,000 craftsmen and their families were sent to the Orc Empire by the orc army to become slaves of the orcs.
It was only after the people of Brojansson County were left with nothing and even the most basic rations that the sack of Brojansson County by the orc army slowed down slightly, and then the orc army moved from the county to various towns in the county.
In just two months, the huge county of Bronyangsong was destroyed by 6,000 orc warriors, more than 100,000 imperial civilians were slaughtered, and more than 40,000 craftsmen were escorted to the orc empire.
As soon as the order of the fox king Cahill to the orc army stationed in the counties to fully reduce the strength of the troops arrived in Brojansson County, the tiger man who served as the commander of the six thousand orc warriors commanded all the warriors under his command to withdraw to the county town of Brojansson.
The day after the 6,000 orc warriors withdrew to the city of Bromjansson, López's 2nd Division and Bartloli's 4th Division arrived in Bromjansson, but López and Bartloli did not have the slightest fear, knowing that there were 6,000 strong orc warriors in the city.
The tragic scene on the way to the counterattack ignited a raging vengeful anger in the hearts of every Imperial soldier, and instead of fearing that the orc warriors might take the initiative to attack the city, they launched a provocation against the orc warriors outside the city with high fighting spirits.
Needless to say, the combat effectiveness of the Second Division, which was formed with 10,000 elite commandos of the assault wing, is that the officers and men of the core unit of the mixed Fourth Division are from the Seventh Wing, and the overall combat effectiveness will definitely not be much worse than that of the second division.
The orc warriors, who never lacked the courage to fight, were naturally not willing to defend the city to the death, so as soon as the soldiers of the Second Division ended the humiliating battle outside the city, the furious orc warriors slaughtered out of the city.
The soldiers of the Yulin Legion, who were full of revenge and anger, encountered the fierce orc warriors who were not afraid of death, and the two sides did not even have a tentative attack between the two sides, and directly entered the white-hot battle stage, and the orc warriors with strong individual combat strength occupied a great advantage in the early stage of the battle.
The 10,000 soldiers of the 2nd Division were divided into five independent battle groups in a unit, and only two of the five battle groups were the first to engage the orcs, which was not as numerous as the orc army that fought out of the city.
Of course, it was not easy for all the 6,000 orc warriors to get out of the city, and the tactics used by the soldiers of the 2nd Division to meet the enemy were the standard Roman shield wall tactics, which was a combat tactic with defensive counterattacks as the core.
In contrast, the orc warriors who were still struggling to attack were on the superior side, and the soldiers of the second division who defended were retreating step by step under the onslaught of the orc warriors, until all the 6,000 orc warriors were out of the city, and the battle line was 800 meters away from the city wall.
As the number of orc warriors entered the battle increased, López also put his third and fourth wings into battle, and the shield wall defense line jointly built by the four wings was absolutely insurmountable for the orc army that did not know how to fight!
It was impossible for the orc warriors, who were only aware of the fierce assault, to sustain their fierce offensive for too long, and the officers and men of the 2nd Division, who had used the shield wall and the three columns of battle formations to resist hard, held out for half an hour, and the offensive momentum of the orc army became obviously less sharp than in the first battle.
Feeling that the fighters were approaching, López waited patiently for half an hour, and then personally led the fifth wing of the second division to launch an attack on the two flanks of the orc army.
At the same time that the 2nd Division was engaged in a desperate battle with the orc army, the 4th Division, which was slowly withdrawing from the battlefield, went around to the east of the county town of Brojansson under the leadership of Bartloli;
When the 6,000 orc warriors stationed in Bromjansson left the city, the city was empty, and all it took was Bartloli's 4th Division to reach the eastern gates, and the city's Romans would open the gates for him.
As soon as the soldiers of the First Wing of the Fourth Division approached the eastern gate, dozens of Luowang members, led by a battlefield ghost, opened the gate made of fine iron.
After the army marched into the county town of Brojansson, Bartloli left only the 4th and 5th Wings to maintain order in the city, and he himself personally led the remaining three wings of the 4th Division to the West Gate, where the battle was raging.
He was a little disappointed that the inhabitants of Bronjansson, who had finally arrived at the Imperial Army, did not show the ecstasy that Bartloli had imagined, and in fact it was not that the inhabitants of the city were unhappy, but that they were not happy.
Until the orc army outside the city is wiped out, who can guarantee that the Imperial army will win the battle, and if the Imperial army is defeated by the orc army, it will be tantamount to suicide for the inhabitants of the city to celebrate too soon.
Bartroli, who didn't have time to think so much, led his army to the west of the city in time, and launched an attack on the unsuspecting backs of the orc army from the open west gate, and the situation of the enemy on all sides did not affect the morale of the orc warriors, but caused their casualties to skyrocket.
After more than two hours of life-and-death fighting, the orc army, with more than 3,000 dead soldiers, broke through the defense line of the second wing of the second division;
Their task was to surround the county town of Brojansund, where six thousand orc warriors were stationed, and now they had recovered the county town of Brojansson, which was considered to be more than the task, not to mention, the remnants of the fleeing orc army, the direction in which they fled was where the White Peak's army was located.