Two
The speed of the convoy was not very fast, nor was it very slow. The carriages were all used for pulling and reusing before. According to the lieutenant who was in charge of transporting the corpses, that is, the lieutenant who was driving the same car as Guderian, Guderian roughly understood the cause of the battle of Asgar Plains, which he had just escaped.
Three days ago, Marshal Odin received an urgent military report from the garrison of the Asgar Mountain Road: The orcs colluded with the dark elves of the underground to lure away the archmage Douglas who was stationed with the army, and the orc prophet forcibly opened the demon gate on the back of the Asgar Mountain Road, and endless demons poured out, and the Asgar Mountain Road was attacked by the enemy, requesting urgent support! The marshal immediately gathered 30,000 eagles to let General Augustus rush to the aid of the starry night. And when I arrived at the Asgard Plains battlefield this morning, I saw such a scene.
Guderian knew that the battle ended yesterday. That's when I woke up. It's just that there are only orc corpses on the battlefield, what about demons? The Asgar Mountain Road should have become a camp for the orcs and dark elves, thus becoming a way to enter through the Asgar Plain and reach the Asgar City Wall, and retreat to hold the Asgar Mountain Road to choke the exit of humans to the orc territory. From then on, the Asgard Plain will become a place where many soldiers will fall.
The lieutenant knew that Guderian had suffered a head wound and was amnesiac, so he did not ask why the dragon guards had left the Asgar Mountain Pass and fought the orc forces in the middle of the Asgar Plains. At the end of the day, Guderian never spoke again, except for a few questions when the lieutenant told him about the cause of the war. And because the mage regiment and the construction battalion accelerated the construction of the camp fortifications in the morning, they did not have time to sort out and preserve the remains of the dragon guard, so when the convoy set off for half a day, General Augustus sent most of the members of the mage regiment who had completed the construction of the fortifications back to sort out the remains of the soldiers and preserve the remains. Guderian had been silently watching the mages busy in the convoy.
The Eagle Guard's mage corps consisted of forty full-fledged mages, led by Archmage Martin Luther King Jr. Except for the Archmage and the other four high-level mages who remained in the Eagle Guard camp, thirty-six mid- and high-level mages were all sent to the convoy. It wasn't until after sunset that the mages finished sorting out all the remains. When the convoy stopped to set up camp, the mages approached Guderian and asked the lieutenant in charge of the convoy to sign the mission completion paper. At this time, three war horses galloped from the back of the convoy, and the knight led by jumped off his horse when he approached the mages, stroked his chest, saluted, and handed out a document: "Lord Nietzsche, the camp was attacked by orcs in the afternoon, and the general ordered the mage regiment to return immediately to cooperate with the withdrawal of the troops, and sent men back to the wall of Asgar to report to the marshal and ask for support." ”
The middle-aged mage at the head of the mage group took the document, then turned around and handed it to an attendant mage to give a few words. The retinue mage took the document and used his flying spell to fly towards the walls of Asgard. Master Nietzsche watched his entourage leave, ignoring the receipt of the task of transporting the lieutenant of the convoy, and directly led the remaining mages to fly along the way the convoy came to the camp of Eagle Yangwei. The knight who reported the news also divided two men and continued to gallop in the direction of the Asgard city wall, while the other man mounted his horse and turned back to the camp of the Eagle Guard.
Witnessing all this, the lieutenant in charge of transporting the convoy immediately ordered to stop camping and advance to Asgar overnight.
In this way, half the night was carried out, and in the second half of the night, the wounded soldiers of the Eagle Guards had followed the convoy with the bodies of the dead soldiers of the Eagle Guard. There were about 400 wounded soldiers, all of whom were seriously injured due to mobility difficulties. The remains of the Ying Yangwei who died in the battle, there were nearly 1,500 people, and this can still be collected, and it is said that the remains of about two or three hundred soldiers could not be collected because the fighting was still ongoing. The convoy merged with the wounded soldiers and continued to accelerate towards the walls of Asgar.
When it was daybreak, another group of wounded soldiers and the remains of soldiers followed. More than 300 seriously wounded soldiers and the remains of more than 2,000 soldiers. The lieutenant who drove Guderian saw the wounded soldiers and their bodies, and his eyes were red. In the interval between the merger and repair of the convoy, the lieutenant gathered the soldiers transported by the convoy: "Brothers, I have decided to go to the front line to support the general!"
There were nearly two squadrons of more than 500 people gathered, and quietly, no one made a sound, only a pair of reddish eyes staring at the lieutenant.
"But the wounded robes, the bodies of the dead brothers, still need to be escorted back! I order!
No one moved. Everyone, no one moved.
"Get out of line!!" the lieutenant roared. The lieutenant's voice alarmed the seriously wounded lying in the car all around. In an instant, the sound of low sobs around came one after another.
Still no one moved.
The lieutenant's eyes were red, and his chest was heaving.
"Again, this is an order! Disobey the order, and be dealt with directly by military law!
No one moved.
"Two!"
The lieutenant counted, and as a rule, only three times.
The soldiers tacitly agreed, and no one moved.
"Ivan, Rooney, Henry, out of line!" the lieutenant said no longer counting, snarling past the front of the queue, kicking him out of the queue without saying a name. "Green, Nal, out of the ranks!"
The soldiers who were kicked out of the queue, one by one, each bowed their heads in silence. By the time the lieutenant had finished reviewing the entire ranks, nearly two hundred soldiers had been kicked out.
"The task of transporting the remains of the robe and the seriously injured robe is entrusted to you. Don't let us down. After the lieutenant said this to the soldiers who had been forced to stay, he mounted his horse and galloped to the front with the soldiers who had not been named. This is also the last image left by the lieutenant in Guderian's later memory.
The lieutenant did not say goodbye to Guderian. The lieutenant also did not ask Guderian if he wanted to return to the front with him. And when Guderian saw the back of the lieutenant with the team away, he realized that he didn't even know his name.
The soldiers who remained spontaneously sorted out the convoy, settled the seriously wounded, and then continued their march towards the walls of Asgard. For a whole day, there were no more wounded or corpses in the rear to join them. Guderian felt a little uneasy. And since the horses had not rested well for two days and one night, and the speed was getting slower and slower, the soldiers decided to rest for a night before nightfall and continue their journey tomorrow. This made Guderian's vaguely uneasy premonition even stronger.
The convoy was stationed behind a slope, and nearly a thousand carriages were stacked in several large circles. It is said to be a carriage, but it is actually very simple. Several planks were placed on four wheels, and since the remains of warriors were pulled, three layers of planks were added to every three-horse cart. These horses are not war horses, their explosive power is not as strong as war horses, and they are not as tall as war horses. But the victory is enough endurance, docile temperament, and not picky about food. Otherwise, the bodies and wounded of more than 20,000 soldiers will be a big problem just to transport.
The soldiers automatically divided into a dozen groups and set up around the convoy, while sending scouts in all three directions except the walls of Asgar. With five miles as the boundary, there are cases where fireworks are used as signals. Guderian, because of the growing uneasy premonition, took the initiative to take over the task of night duty.