"Chapter Twenty-Three: The Army of the Dead"

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Compared with the four Eastern Legions, which are not strong in combat effectiveness, the performance of the other newly built army can be described in four remarkable words: this special force is the death battalion that Sophia is extremely disgusted with and was personally ordered by Bai Feng to set up.

When the Fourth Route Army left Kogorin, the death battalion was composed of death row prisoners from the province of Nice and the lazy men of the Eastern Legion, with only about 900 officers and men, and this number rose rapidly when Bai Feng led his army into the territory of the province of Brojansund.

If it weren't for the fact that the orc army did not accept the refuge of the Empire's speculators, perhaps there would have been a large number of despicable 'Heavenly Dragon Traitors' in the five provinces where the empire had fallen.

On the day that the army led by Bai Feng personally entered Brojansson County, it encountered an incident that made countless soldiers indignant: a small imperial village and town, after several rounds of sack by the orc army, only more than 100 old and weak women and children were left.

Perhaps because of the inconsistency between the aesthetic concepts of the Terrans and the Orcs, few Terran women were violated by the Orcs, and the Orc warriors who respected the strong generally only slaughtered the Terran men they considered dangerous, and did not deliberately target the Terran women.

In this unfortunate village and town, the old and weak women and children who had escaped by luck did not die under the butcher's knife of the orcs, but died at the hands of robbers who were also human beings, and the tragic death of the old man and the child and the cruel humiliation of the women made Sophia, who passed through this village and town, instantly out of anger.

Sophia, who was accompanied by 300 Overseer cavalry, personally led the Overseer cavalry behind her to attack the bandits, and the bandits, who had no organization to speak of, even escaped in front of the Overseer cavalry equipped with a fourth-level magic suit.

After only one round of charge, this gang of robbers, composed of more than 200 scumbags, was officially destroyed, and in addition to the more than 80 robbers who were killed on the spot by the overseer cavalry, nearly 150 robbers were still taken prisoner by Sophia.

According to Sophia's intentions, she wants the humiliated women to kill these scum beasts who are not even as good as orcs, but ordinary women with untrained hands lose the courage to continue killing after killing several robbers in anger.

After Sophia escorted the remaining robbers to Bai Feng, without the slightest hesitation, Bai Feng, who was also extremely disgusted with this kind of scum, ordered all the big and small leaders in these robber captives to be killed, and the other robbers were directly put into the death camp.

Eighteen bloody human heads terrified the already frightened robbers, who were already trembling with fear, until they were put into the death camp and found that the robbers who did not have to die breathed a sigh of relief.

As soon as the threat of death was removed, the bandits, who were unchangeable in nature, made trouble in the death camp, and a clash in which no one could tell right or wrong triggered an armed brawl between death row prisoners and robbers in the death camp, in which four death row inmates and one robber were killed on the spot.

Lister, the captain of the first wing of the first division of the former Yulin Legion, as one of the veterans of the reduced wing, was transferred by Bai Feng to the newly formed death battalion as the commander;

Lister, who was born as a civilian, is an Imperial soldier with strict military ethics, and what he hates most on weekdays is the scum who oppress the people, and after serving as the commander of the death battalion this time, he is even more determined to clean up the scum under his command.

The 62 death row prisoners and 33 robbers who participated in the brawl were all executed on the spot, and the executioners were other soldiers of the death battalion.

Five bodies killed in the brawl, ninety-five severed heads, made Lister known as the 'butcher' of the army, and the punishment that bordered on slaughter frightened the remaining death row prisoners and robbers in the death camp.

With such a murderous 'butcher' general as the commander of the death battalion, the officers and men of the death battalion have obviously become at peace with themselves; the criminals who used to do all kinds of evil have become 'good babies' who are more law-abiding than the officers and men of the standing regiment.

Following the first bandit regiment that was exterminated by the Overseer Cavalry, dozens of bandit regiments, large and small, were exterminated by the Overseer Cavalry and the Cavalry Wing, and the number of soldiers in the death battalion increased day by day, and at most more than 1,200 robber prisoners were taken prisoner a day.

When the army was about to march to the county town of Bronjansund, the battalion of less than 1,000 men at the time of the expedition had 4,500 soldiers, and among them, the officers who could serve as squad leaders, squadron leaders, and group leaders were all brave men selected from within the battalion.

Since the day it was born, the mission of the Death Battalion has been to complete the task at the expense of himself, so Bai Feng will not waste valuable officers and experienced veterans on the Death Battalion at all, and the self-contained Death Battalion can only select officers from within itself.

In order to ensure that there were no accidents during the march, the camp was surrounded by four groups of royal pikemen, four Roman youth armies in the back, and six Spartan hoplites on the left and right.

As long as there is a slight change in the death camp, the fourteen elite system soldiers will make the death camp completely disappear from this world; for those death row prisoners and robbers who do all kinds of evil, Bai Feng's heart does not have a trace of trust, even if it is Bai Feng's henchmen and generals who command them.

The cavalry wing, which was roaming the perimeter of the army, found traces of an orc army fifteen miles in front of the army, and the wounded orc warriors accounted for half of the orc army, which was less than three thousand in size, and looked like a remnant of an army that had recently withdrawn from the battlefield.

Kabaye, who did not dare to delay, ordered the cavalry of the cavalry wing to retreat quickly to avoid the orc army from discovering him, and on the other hand, he hurriedly sent several cavalry to report this important situation to Bai Feng, who was fifteen miles away.

"General, our cavalry found an orc army fifteen miles ahead, with a strength of about 3,000, suspected to be a remnant. ”

"Suspected remnants?" The cavalryman's report made Bai Feng, who had stopped, frown slightly, and after a little thought, Bai Feng ordered him: "You go back immediately and tell Cabaye, let him closely monitor this enemy army, and report to me at any time if there is any new situation." ”

"No!" the cavalry who had received the order immediately turned their horses and galloped towards the front of the cavalry wing.

After seeing the cavalry leave, Bai Feng turned to Luculus next to him and ordered: "Luculus, send someone to send an order to Borg in front and Ranocchia in the rear, tell him to stop advancing and stay on guard on the spot, and then let Aetius and them come to me." ”

"No!"

In a short time, eight herald cavalry galloped to the front and rear of the pro-guard guard, and after three minutes, the advancing army came to a halt, and six generals, including Aetius, Cabitus, Keitel, Brauchitsch, Lister, and Leonardo, came to Baifeng's side.

"Aetius, Cabitus, Keitel, Brauchitsch, the four of you lead your respective legions, bypassing the Pro-Guard and the Third Division from both flanks, and blocking this orc army that appears before us; ”

"No!"

"Lister, after the four Eastern legions have blocked the orc army, you will lead the death battalion to attack first. ”

"No!"

"Leonardo, you lead the Feather Forest United to fight for the death battalion. ”

"No!"