The opponents that Duke is facing now, such as the Sea Clan, Alpine City, and even the Ice Demon who does not have a necromancer in a sense, do not have strong magic troops, so although the primordial artillery is weak, it is enough to deal with them, and it can greatly enhance the strength of the Storm Army.

The simplest analogy is a battle like today's Sea Clan, if there are enough firearms, let alone artillery, even if it is a circle of mines and explosives on the beach, it is estimated that the casualties of Storm Fort can be at least halved this time.

Because this is not only the lethality, but also the psychological deterrent effect of the explosion of gunpowder, for a race like the Sea Clan, who may have never seen firearms in their lives, a sudden explosion can easily cause them to panic, and naturally their combat effectiveness will drop a lot.

But it's too late to say this, and it's not something that can be done all at once to get a hydraulic factory to cast artillery. And Duke has to focus more energy on the dark forest for the time being, where the ice demons and hellish creatures are a group of real time bombs, and maybe they will be detonated when they are unlucky.

Zhang Nan left the medical laboratory and went to the Storm Castle Church outside, but this place has actually been transformed into the Storm Castle Hospital, if it weren't for the fear that the Holy See would conduct a surprise attack that day, maybe the cross symbol on it had been replaced.

But sometimes Duke doesn't need to change it, because in a sense, the red cross, the symbol of the hospital in later generations, is also this pattern, which is nothing more than a different color. So when you're weak, don't care about these formal things, and pay more attention to reality.

Tonight all the students of the medical school, the nurses, the priests of the former Holy See, were in a tense busyness, for the whole church was filled with a strong smell of blood as the logistics regiment cleaned up the battlefield on the coast, and because most of them were wounded.

Duke looked at the various wounded lying in the church, and listened to the continuous howls of pain in his ears, and there was an indescribable discomfort in his heart. These are the most elite soldiers of Stormcastle, and they are also his most loyal subordinates, and as a result, after this battle, I don't know how many people will not be able to see the sun rising tomorrow morning.

Even if Duke understood that this was a necessary scene for war, he still felt unacceptable at the moment. And many of the wounded here have been hit hard by blunt weapons, and there is no serious injury on the outside, but dark blood is constantly flowing out of the mouth and nose, which means that the organs are bleeding profusely.

In this case, it is much more serious than Cassel's blood-soaked look, at least Cassel can still suture and stop the bleeding with all his might, and can even use the most primitive blood transfusion method in the whole world to save it. However, internal injuries are incurable in this world, and with the medical methods of this world, it is impossible to do such a difficult operation as thoracotomy, so they can only lie on the hospital bed and watch their lives pass continuously.

Generally, in the face of such wounded, a nurse and a pastor are arranged to accompany them when they are dying, so that they can feel the last bit of warmth in the world. Even if Duke thinks that the Holy See is his enemy, or even the kind of enemy of life and death, he has to admit that the faith of the Cult of Light is still the backbone of the people of Stormcastle, even the Storm Army soldiers.

Because the development of science is not as easy as preaching, he needs a combination of knowledge and world view. The average Storm Army soldier, who was either a farmer or a miner, told them the principles of science in the Middle Ages, wasn't that playing the harp to the cow?

Therefore, if you want science to become a support for people's lives, a yearning for the future, and a change in life, Storm Castle can only start from a child. Let them accept new knowledge as much as possible, and understand that the origin of this world has nothing to do with God, and only by establishing their scientific outlook from an early age can the Holy See's ideological control produce confrontation.

Just as Duke was looking at the room full of wounded people in a daze, Allen also rushed in at this time, his left arm was bandaged, and he was beckoning several soldiers to carry a wounded man in the rescue.

Seeing Duke standing here, Alan immediately rushed over and asked him, "Lord Lord, how is Cassel's injury?"

"I've stopped losing blood for the time being, but it's still in a very dangerous stage, and I'm not sure if he'll survive in the end. ”

Hearing Duke's answer, Allen's face showed a trace of sadness. But at this time, Duke opened his mouth and asked him, "How is your arm, is the injury serious?"

"It's not serious, it's just that the group of monsters smashed the shield with a cone hammer, and it was just a little injured. ”

"What about the casualties of the first regiment of the Storm Army, can you have an approximate statistic now?"

Hearing Duke's question, the sad expression on Allen's face became more and more obvious, and he looked at Duke and replied in a very heavy tone: "Lord Lord, this time we have suffered very heavy casualties, after all, the number of opponents is too many, basically the entire First Regiment of the Storm Army is facing the enemy on three sides. ”

"According to my current preliminary statistics, the casualties of the first regiment of the Storm Army should be about half, and many of the wounded are injured by heavy weapons, either internal injuries or broken muscles and bones, even if they are healed, they may be left with disabilities, and it is difficult to continue to serve in the Storm Army. ”

After listening to Allen's general statistics, the expression on Duke's face was also very ugly, if it was really as Allen said, then the storm army would be hurt to the bones. You must understand that this is the most elite Storm Army First Regiment, even if some of the wounded soldiers can return to the team, this time it will lose at least a third of its soldiers and horses.

The first regiment of the 1,500-strong Storm Army, one-third of which was five hundred, was an almost unacceptable result for Duke. But this is far from the final casualty, because the dwarven legion on the other side of the hammer also has a thousand dwarven warriors and five hundred war sheep knights to fight, and even the human cavalry regiment has also put its own two hundred cavalry into it.

By the time the final statistics come out, it will be an even more difficult data to accept.

The treatment continues on the side of the Stormcastle Church, and the other side of the church is also full of citizens of Stormcastle. Because in this battle, their sons and husbands were fighting bloodily in the storm army, and watching the truckloads of wounded soldiers being transported, they didn't know what happened to their husbands and sons.

But they could do nothing but stand outside the church and pray, hoping that their husbands and sons would survive.