"Chapter Ninety-Seven: Changes in the Battle Situation"
Everyone is looking for a sense of superiority that is unique to them. It depends on the meaning that people give to their lives.
– Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)
On the day of the defense of Kogorin, Bai Feng's Fourth Route Army was temporarily stationed in the southern military camp of the county town, and the military camps scattered on the outskirts of the county town were originally prepared by the county guard for imperial reinforcements, and now they were just for the use of the withdrawn army.
The 150,000 imperial reinforcements stationed in the east of the county town have not yet been named, and they are only grouped according to 10,000 people as a temporary unit, so the military camps prepared by the county guard are all standard military camps that can accommodate 10,000 people.
Of the four forces in the battle cluster, only Ranocchia's Iron Guards had only 10,000 troops, the Seventh Wing and the Reserve Force had 12,000 soldiers, and the Assault Wing had 16,000 soldiers.
The 10,000 main forces of the 7th Wing were stationed in one barracks under the command of Hans, and the other 2,000 men were stationed in another barracks under the command of Assasis.
In addition to the fact that the battle clusters with different formations were a little complicated to settle in, the 39th and 40th Army Corps, which had only 10,000 men at full strength, could be stationed directly in the barracks, and the reserve corps, which had 25,000 men, was stationed in three barracks.
After the Agni Legion, which attracted Bai Feng's attention the most, each of its five divisions settled in a barracks, Bai Feng took the field doctor Hua Mu to these five barracks in turn to treat those wounded soldiers in a timely manner, and personally sent grain and grass materials into the barracks.
The division commanders and wing captains of the Fire Legion naturally did not find it difficult for Bai Feng to detect Bai Feng's intention to win them over, but the special status of the Royal Legion meant that they could not make any response to this, because there were not a few hidden guards in the Royal Legion.
The failure of the division commander and the wing commander to respond to the arrival of General Bai Feng, who was revered as a god, responded fiercely!
If it weren't for the large number of flags of the Fire Legion flying around the barracks, and the uniforms of the soldiers were all fiery red, Bai Feng would have thought that he was in a battle cluster, and it was really the soldiers of the Fire Legion who were too enthusiastic, as if Bai Feng was their leader.
Think about it, half of the 50,000 soldiers of the Fire Legion came from the city defense army handed over to Bai Feng by the Marquis of Rundstead, and the other half of the soldiers of the Fire Legion had basically received treatment from Hua Mu.
After coming out of the barracks of the Flame Legion, Bai Feng inspected the battle clusters, the 39th Legion, the 40th Legion, and the Reserve Legion one after another, and it was not until night was about to fall that his busy inspection of the armies came to an end.
The Marquis of Rundsteadt, who followed the Duke of Gna to the county of Nice in the morning, returned to the barracks alone in the evening with dozens of his own soldiers, and the other three dukes also returned to their army with their own soldiers, but the Duke of Gna did not return.
The military tents of Bai Feng and the Marquis of Rundstead were set up in a new military camp, which housed Bai Feng's personal guards and the overseers of the Fourth Route Army.
"Bai Feng, do you know what the Duke of Gna took us to the Duke of Nice to discuss?" The Marquis of Rundstede, who was full of tiredness, leaned slightly on the head of the military tent, and asked Bai Feng, who was sitting down.
"It should be a matter of replenishing the imperial reinforcements into various legions, right?" Bai Feng, who had some feelings in his heart but couldn't say clearly, said in a uncertain tone: "The soldiers we withdrew are all elite veterans, and using them to bring new recruits can help recruits quickly improve their combat effectiveness." ”
"That's really one of the things I'm talking about, but it's not the main thing. After shaking his head slightly in denial, the Marquis of Rundstead, who frowned slightly, continued: "The main content of our discussion is how to deal with the current situation in the empire. ”
"How to deal with the current situation in the empire?" Bai Feng, who was slightly startled in his heart, did not speak, he just quietly looked at the Marquis of Rundstead, waiting for the next step from the Marquis of Rundstead.
"Integrating 300,000 Imperial reinforcements and 150,000 Nice city defenses into our army is only the first step in our plan, and the real key is that Duke Gna intends to merge and split our four-way army into two armies and take the initiative to launch a counteroffensive against the orc army. ”
"Launch a counterattack now?!" Bai Feng, who exclaimed in surprise, said incredulously: "With our current strength, even if we have 450,000 reinforcements to supplement each legion, we are not the opponent of the 1.5 million orc army?"
"Bai Feng, the battle situation is no longer what we were familiar with before, I'm afraid you don't even dare to think about the new changes!" After a long sigh, the Marquis of Rundstead explained with a bitter face and a hoarse voice:
"Do you know why the orc army has a million and a half million troops, and why they don't exterminate us all, because their minds are not on us at all! The five eastern provinces that we have fallen have almost been sacked by those orcs these days!
Countless craftsmen, technicians, and scholars of our empire have been captured by the orcs and escorted back to the orc empire, and the capture of these valuable talents is the greatest loss of our empire compared to the loss of wealth, because the orcs can use them to quickly become stronger.
Moreover, the emissaries of the Orc Empire have arrived in the Empire with their peace agreement, and they are willing to return the five eastern provinces to us on the condition that we provide them with food worth 500 million gold coins and 1 billion gold coins of various materials, including weapons and equipment. ”
"This is absolutely impossible!" Hearing this, Bai Feng stood up abruptly and said categorically: "The grain of 500 million gold coins can save the orc empire from the food shortage crisis within five years, and the materials of one billion gold coins can allow the orc empire to form a more elite army, which is simply a problem of raising tigers!"
"That's right, raising tigers is a disaster, and there will be endless troubles in the future, this Duke of Gna knows this better than us, so he personally formulated a counteroffensive plan, and used a million imperial army to completely drive out the 400,000 orcs who remained in the empire!"
"An army of 400,000 orcs?!Isn't the orc army 1.5 million?"
"When we broke through, the orc army withdrew to the orc empire with their booty and captives, and now, there are only about 400,000 orc troops left in our empire, and we may not have no chance of defeating them, right?"
The new changes in the battle situation exceeded Bai Feng's expectations, and the orc army, which had dropped to 400,000 in size, was no longer an invincible target for the imperial army;
Of course, this kind of upper-level decision-making is not Bai Feng's turn to intervene, even the Marquis of Rundstead only has the right to suggest but not the right to make decisions; the Marquis of Rundstead told Bai Feng that the purpose of all this is to make Bai Feng prepare to lead the army into battle in advance.
300,000 Imperial Reinforcements and 150,000 Nice City Defenses were not evenly replenished to each army, and Bai Feng's Fourth Route Army was only divided into 50,000 Imperial Reinforcements and 30,000 Nice City Defenses, which was the least number of additional troops among the Fourth Route Army.