306 Public Sacrifice Ceremony
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With plans for the trade market in place, Duke began to deal with the Stormtroo's casualties.
After three days of high-risk time for the wounded, basically the specific data of the casualties of the Storm Army in these two battles have been counted. Of the 1,500 men of the 1st Regiment of the Storm Army, 822 were killed, and more than 100 were severely fractured and disabled, and the rest of them were not counted for minor injuries or anything.
In other words, after these two battles, the most elite first regiment of the Storm Army was killed by most of them, and the overall losses reached two-thirds. According to the standards of the medieval Cold Weapons Corps, it can be said that the first regiment of the Storm Army has been scrapped.
But the 1st Regiment of the Storm Army was not the standard of the army of the Cold Weapon Age, at least under Duke's training, it reached the spiritual outlook of the modern army. What's more, these two battles are defense battles, and the Storm Army has no way to retreat, so there is no collapse of all the troops, at least under the organization of low-level officers, there is a basic structure, which is also where Duke is gratified.
The second regiment of the Storm Army was not much better, it was originally in close contact with the ice demon, but due to the tactical victory, it actually did not fall behind, and it could even be said to occupy a certain advantage. As a result, the attack by the dark magic behind instantly caused hundreds of casualties among the fighters, and the combined result also caused thousands of casualties in the second regiment of the Storm Army.
It's just that the casualties of the second regiment of the storm army are lightly wounded, and the mortality rate and disability rate are far less high than those of the first regiment of the storm army, according to Fei Duo's statistics, after the second regiment of the storm army has undergone final cultivation, there should still be about a thousand soldiers left.
In addition to the two main corps of the Storm Army, there are also logistics corps and new corps, which also have some minor casualties, but basically have little impact on the overall establishment.
However, the casualties of Storm Castle are far more than just two main regiments, as the Dwarven Legion of Storm Castle is currently equally powerful, after the inventory of the hammer, the number of dead and disabled soldiers has also reached more than 1,000.
Although the number of this thousand people is not as large as that of the Storm Army, you must know that if it weren't for the tight military strength of the Storm Fort behind, the Iron Hammer Tribe fused with some scattered dwarven tribes in Mount Saint-Michel, and the entire dwarven heavy infantry legion would only have the appearance of a thousand people.
For a dwarven tribe of only 10,000 people, the loss of 1,000 people is equivalent to one-tenth of the total population. Except for the elderly, weak, women and children, and the sturdy dwarves between the ages of sixteen and sixty, one of the three fell on the land of Stormcastle.
And the losses of the heavy infantry were not all, the seven hundred war sheep cavalry, who had experienced the desperate counterattack of the beach battle, had already been continuously killed and wounded as patrol sentry cavalry, and there were only less than four hundred people left.
Of course, the cavalry side is not only the casualties of the war sheep cavalry, but the human knights of Storm Castle, after experiencing this battle, can almost be described as the total annihilation. I used to be able to serve as a sentry horseman, but now it's difficult to even form a few sentry squads.
Suffice it to say that from today onwards, the fig leaf of the cavalry of Stormfort has been torn off, forming an organizational annihilation.
The entire Storm Army has plummeted from 8,200 at the peak before the war to 5,200 after the war. More importantly, this is not simply a loss in numbers, but a sharp reduction in the combat effectiveness of the entire Storm Army. You must know that the losses are all the most elite soldiers of the Storm Army, and if you encounter a strong enemy again, the only ones who can go to the battlefield will be the logistics army and the new regiment.
At the same time, after three days of intense cutting and production, nearly 3,000 coffins were finally produced. In this late summer and early autumn, three days of placement is almost the limit of the placement of corpses, and this is still as close to the cold area of the Saint-Michel Mountains as possible, otherwise Duke's planned public memorial ceremony may not be held, and the burial can only be carried out in advance.
In the early morning of the sixth day of the tenth month of the Bright Calendar, it may have felt the heavy atmosphere of the Storm Castle, and the day was not sunny as usual, but from early in the morning, the weather appeared a kind of oppressive gloom.
In the Storm Fort Cemetery, there are more than 2,000 coffins neatly placed, which are all the soldiers who died in Storm Fort after the two wars. Perhaps this number is not the final number, because many casualties are still infected, and most of the infected wounded will not survive in the years when antibiotics are not available.
This is why the death rate of the two regiments of the Storm Army is so high, and many of the so-called wounded are actually to give them a psychological comfort, and whether they can survive in the end is actually up to the destiny of heaven!
In addition to the nearly 3,000 coffins, almost all of Stormfort's subjects, except for the necessary defense troops, came to the outskirts of the cemetery, even the newly joined Wave tribe, the Sea Clan.
At the foot of Mont Saint-Michel, the sudden appearance of close to 200,000 people is definitely a very spectacular scene. Because of today's public sacrifice, in addition to the remembrance and respect for the deceased Storm Army soldiers, Duke also intends to familiarize and integrate the various races of Storm Castle, after all, the current foundation of Storm Castle, if you can't completely hold it into a fist, it is too difficult to develop and grow.
The sky began to get darker and darker, and with Duke's order, the parked coffins began to be lowered into the tomb one by one. Each coffin was covered with a Storm Flag, which was also a way for Duke to learn from later generations, which greatly enhanced the Storm Army's sense of belonging to Storm Castle.
At the same time, as the coffin entered the grave, the uncontrollable cry finally began to sound. Duke's criteria for recruiting the Storm Army are the strongest young men, which means that many of them are old and young, and once they die on the battlefield, it is an unacceptable outcome for the family.
Listening to the constant crying sound in his ears, Duke felt very uncomfortable at this time, whether he was a native of this world or not, but after getting along for so long, he had completely integrated into this world.
Looking at the grief and tears of these loved ones, Duke could not remain indifferent in the face of the storm army he had built. It's just that as his position as a leader has grown, Duke has also understood that many things are unavoidable, that wars must be bloody, and that if yesterday's battle had been lost, the deaths of these soldiers would have been even more worthless.
As the burial ceremony ended, Duke walked over to the cornerstone directly in front of Stormcastle Cemetery, where he had spoken about the establishment of Stormcastle Cemetery. And today, he will be in this place to announce Stormcastle's speech on the future of integration and resistance!
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