Chapter 179: Iron Will
Hell Grand Canyon, Heavenly Fire City.
It has been almost half a month since the collapse of the Frost Fortress and the start of the Great War.
To everyone's surprise, the militant faction had not yet captured the gap.
It's not that they don't work hard, during this time, it is not completely estimated that the combat faction has crippled at least five legions, and one of them is the main legion "Red Fang".
As for how many Inhuman warriors have been killed in battle, I don't have time to count them yet, but just the disabled "Red Fang" has attrition at least half of the battle.
These combat attritions included killed, missing, and seriously wounded, and less than a third of those who retreated to the rear for treatment, and the rest were gone.
Although many of these people who disappeared are listed as missing, judging by the intensity of the battle, almost all of them can be classified as dead, and their survival is extremely low.
This means that a third of the "Red Fangs" died on the battlefield, in addition to a large number of seriously wounded, many of whom will die in the subsequent treatment process.
To put it simply, the "Red Fangs", as the main army, were full of 8,000 people when they entered the war, and now there are almost 4,000 dead and close to death.
These 4,000 people are all particularly heroic, and the main fighters who rushed to the front line, that is, those five-star and six-star warriors.
These people are almost dead, and the remaining auxiliaries and logistics just want to continue fighting, and they don't have much combat effectiveness at all.
In desperation, "Red Fang" became the first main army to retreat from the battlefield, which was both aggrieved and tragic.
From the commander down, none of the main generals of this legion survived, and all of them died in battle, which can be called heroic and fearless.
But bravery and fearlessness are also graded, if the bravery and fearlessness on the Inhuman's side is a high-level "fierce and fearless of death", then the remnants of the defenders of the frost fortress are even more terrifying "die well".
The difference can be seen only from the proportion and frequency of self-detonation between the two sides, and the Inhuman side often self-detonates in a desperate situation, and it is always not a loss to pull a few pads.
But the Arctic Guard is terrifying, those logistics and auxiliary soldiers who have low combat power and are not enough to participate in the frontal fierce battle, and even the wounded soldiers who should have retreated, actually took the initiative to find an opportunity to blow themselves up, just to create opportunities for teammates and seniors to kill and injure the enemy.
With such a firm will to die, coupled with the terrain advantage of the sinkhole, the remnants of the defenders of the Frost Fortress were stunned to achieve the ultimate achievement of being a man and a man.
In the past half a month, the desperate degree of the militant faction is also obvious to all, and their forwards have almost broken through the defenders' defense line several times.
But under the stubborn counterattack of the defenders, they will always be a little bit close, but they will not be able to really defeat the defenders.
The closest he came to breaking through the breach was the Legion Commander of the Red Fangs, and it was the exhausted and mortally wounded Frost Fortress Commander who stopped him.
At the cost of his life, the latter blew himself up to the "Red Fang" commander, and also saved the defense line in a thrilling way, successfully renewing the life of the defenders.
His self-detonation thwarted the Inhumans' closest to success, and the Red Fang became the first main army to be crippled.
Shortly after the attack ended, when the newly topped Inhuman Legion was ready to break through the crumbling defense line in one go, the reinforcements that the defenders had been waiting for finally arrived.
The Arctic Guard urgently mobilized all the combat power that could be drawn from several nearby areas, and rushed here non-stop, and finally arrived at this time.
They took over the defense line as soon as possible, and it is said that at that time, the remaining defenders of the Frost Fortress were less than two hundred men.
Among the more than 100 people, there were no less than minor injuries, but there were no serious injuries, because those who were seriously injured had already blown themselves up and killed the enemy.
There is also no auxiliaries and logistics, because these lack of combat power have also blown themselves up.
According to the statistics of some mercenaries and bounty hunters who left the battlefield alive, more than half of the remnants of the entire Frost Fortress were likely to die by self-detonation, which can be called a frenzied "self-detonation army".
This has also made the defenders of Frost Fortress famous, with some even calling them "the last guardians of the human world".
Unfortunately, no matter what the final outcome of this battle is, the Frost Fortress will be completely history, and all the guards here will no longer exist, not only will there be no fortress, but also no living people, and almost all of them will die in the line of duty.
According to the official records of the Arctic Guard, the total number of personnel in the Frost Fortress defense area prior to this incident was more than 50,000, including the surrounding satellite fortresses, as well as non-combat support personnel, but not outside mercenary personnel.
If you count only the number of combatants, this figure is about 20,000, not including recruits and reserves who have not passed the formal examination.
Although the collapse of the fortress happened very suddenly, there was still a great chance for the innate martial artist to escape.
Therefore, it is estimated that before the Inhuman Legion arrives on the battlefield and begins to attack, the remnants of the defenders of the Frost Fortress are likely to have twenty or thirty thousand people.
If you add the Arctic Guards who came from the surrounding satellite fortresses and a very small number of non-Arctic Defenders who volunteered to die, then the total number of defenders should be 30,000.
But when the reinforcements of the Arctic Guard arrived, there were only more than 100 remaining defenders on the defense line, ignoring the very few righteous soldiers who regretted running for their lives, and no one on the Arctic Guard's side left their posts to flee for their lives.
Under such a terrifying battle damage ratio, it is truly unprecedented to maintain the iron will to fight until the last moment.
The horror and glory of the Arctic Guard have finally been remembered by the world with this battle.
On the other hand, on the Inhumans' side, the combat faction also used their lives to fill in, and in order to break through the gap defense, their losses would never be lower than the remnants of the Frost Fortress, and it was conservatively estimated that the number of dead was at least 30,000 to 50,000.
If you count the subsequent deaths from serious injuries, this number will definitely exceed the 50,000 mark.
This is still the same level of combat power of the Inhuman warriors is generally higher than that of humans, and the geographical advantage is not so disparity, and there is no Frost Fortress on the side of the Arctic Guard, and it is also very disadvantageous to rely on the sinkhole and the narrow ground on both sides to resist the attack.
As a result, it can only be attributed to two points, one is that the Arctic Guard's will to fight is terrifying, and the other is that most of the Inhuman warriors are affected by alienation, and the cooperation during combat is not as good as that of the Arctic Guard.
In any case, the fighting faction is difficult to ride the tiger, and it must continue to attack the gap until it is defeated.
The loss of tens of thousands of people is a heavy blow to the Arctic Guard, but for the entire Inhuman race, it can only be regarded as a slight injury.
Of course, this refers to the entire Inhuman race, and now the militant faction lacks the full support of the conservatives, so they can only mobilize the military strength and resources of the Hell Grand Canyon to fight, and the loss of tens of thousands of people can be regarded as minor injuries.
In order to minimize the losses, the front-line operations began to be as disorderly as possible, and the wounded soldiers were withdrawn as much as possible and sent to the rear for treatment.
With the size and geographical location of Tianhuo City, it naturally has to take on a considerable part of the task of receiving wounded soldiers.
But no one noticed that among the wounded soldiers, there was a strange existence mixed in, naturally Chen Mu, who had long wanted to infiltrate Tianhuo City.