"Chapter 114: The Battle of the Barracks"
Don't let anything disturb you, intimidate you, and everything will pass. God does not change, and patience allows you to accomplish everything.
- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)
After coming out of the tent where Gregory and François were imprisoned, Bai Feng did not leave the barracks, but went straight to the tent of the general of Leonidas;
Leonidas's Spartan Legion, Licinius's First Legion, Vermina's Second Legion, Lucurus's Seventh Legion, and Nishimura's Lucy Expeditionary Legion are all on the list of tomorrow's expeditions, and the only army that can guard the captured is the Lucy Kingdom Army.
Among the four legions under the Lucy Kingdom, Xia Chuan Pinggong's First Legion has set out this morning, and the soldiers of the Second Legion of Wiled and the Third Legion of Valk, the soldiers of these two legions, have too much hatred for the captives, and they are really not suitable as prisoner guards.
The only thing that Bai Feng could choose from was the personal guard corps directly under Yamashita Yangxi, and the personal guard corps full of 5,000 elite soldiers and 5,000 ordinary soldiers, and the transfer of 5,000 ordinary soldiers to the military camp outside the camp to guard the prisoners was quite easy.
The point is that the elite soldiers and ordinary soldiers of the Guards Legion did not actually participate in yesterday's battle, which means that their attitude towards the captives will be better than that of other fighters who participated in yesterday's battle, and at least they will not do anything drastic.
Regarding the matter of the Spartan Legion handing over the prisoners, Bai Feng only explained a little, and Leonidas would do it himself; as for the leakage of secrets by the Spartan Legion, Bai Feng, who had given the order, did not mention it again, and Leonidas, who knew it well, did not take the initiative to mention it.
During the conversation, Leonidas also consulted Bai Feng about whether the shortage of fallen soldiers in the Spartan army could be replenished from among the captured enemy soldiers, and Bai Feng gave Leonidas sufficient autonomy to freely choose prisoners to replenish.
After returning to the camp with his personal guards and generals, Bai Feng talked with Yamashita Yoki about the transfer of the prisoners for a while, and naturally Yamashita Yoki had no objection to the matter of transferring 5,000 soldiers from the personal guard corps to guard the captives.
This biggest thing was decided, Bai Feng, who had nothing else to do, went back to prepare the follow-up battle plan first, and the preparation of each expeditionary legion was immediately under the responsibility of their respective legion commanders, and Bai Feng didn't need to worry about it at all.
After a night of silence, early the next morning, with the sound of military horns, Bai Feng put on his Starfall Meteorite Battle Armor again and embarked on the journey north.
The remnants of the Luci border garrison were surrounded by the invading Eastern Union army for several days, during which time the Lucy garrison, which was holding the barracks, did not react at all, not even in response, no matter how provocative the Eastern Alliance fighters were.
After this stalemate lasted for several days, the Eastern Alliance army, which had exhausted its own military rations, finally could not help but launch an attack on the Lucy military camp, and the Eastern Alliance army, which had an absolute superiority in strength, was attacking the city at an unusually slow pace.
Because the Lucy garrison defending the camp was all elite soldiers who had survived the bloody battle, on the other hand, the Eastern Alliance army, which was the attacking side, not only had a large number of old and weak women and children cannon fodder army, but even the combat effectiveness of other soldiers was generally inferior to that of Lucy soldiers.
The Lucy garrison defending the camp only needed to use about one-fifth of the soldiers at a time to easily block a one-day attack by tens of thousands of troops of the Eastern Alliance, and after several days of repeating this, the Eastern Alliance had left nearly 50,000 corpses under the Lucy military camp.
The camps that could not be attacked again and again, and the enemy forces that were unable to defeat the enemy forces the Eastern Alliance, which was suffering increasingly heavy casualties, had to start thinking of other ways to end the battle.
First he burned the wooden Lucy barracks, then smoked the Lucy soldiers in the barracks, and finally took the old and weak women and children of the northwestern Lucy from the nearest Lucy settlement, put knives around their necks, and forced them to act as meat shields.
The Lucy warriors, who saw the move, were really unable to do anything in the face of the old and weak women and children of their own tribe, and took the opportunity to kill the Eastern Alliance troops who entered the barracks, causing great casualties to the defending Lucy garrison, so that they almost lost control of the barracks.
At the critical moment, the cavalry in the Lucy barracks, which had not participated in the battle, played a crucial role, and the Lucy cavalry, which launched the charge despite the accidental injury, broke the Eastern Alliance soldiers who killed the barracks at the cost of accidentally injuring more than 2,000 of their own soldiers.
Before Lucy's army, which had struggled to hold the barracks, had no time to breathe a sigh of relief, the strong Eastern Alliance sent another army composed of tens of thousands of more elite soldiers to launch a fierce attack on the defenders of the barracks, who had been exhausted after a long battle.
In the face of the typical wheel tactics of the Eastern Alliance, the brave and fearless Lucy cavalry directly rushed out of the barracks and launched a decisive counterattack against the Eastern Alliance army with the momentum of the same fate; as a result, none of these Lucy cavalry who killed out of the barracks returned alive!
After the loss of these 30,000 Lucy cavalry, the number of Lucy defenders in the barracks dropped from the original 130,000 infantry cavalry to less than 60,000 soldiers, and the number of Eastern Alliance troops surrounding them was still as high as 210,000, more than three times the number of defenders!
Had it not been for the Eastern Alliance's army, which adopted the unbounded practice of using the Luci people as meat shields when attacking the barracks, the casualties of the Lucy defenders would not have been so heavy; unfortunately, there are never ifs and ifs in war, and justice and morality have never belonged to war.
The fierce siege continued, and the Eastern Alliance army, after the defeat of the first day, pressed tens of thousands of Lucy civilians to the forefront of the siege force on the second day, and this time, the Lusi defenders did not have cavalry to charge to the death.
More than 50,000 Lucy soldiers, full of anger and unwillingness, launched an unusually fierce battle with the 50,000 Eastern Alliance soldiers who rushed into the barracks again.
The reason for the sudden increase in casualties of the Lucy defenders was that they had been fighting bloodily for several days without rest, and the most appropriate adjective for these grief-filled Lucy warriors was to kill the enemy and not be able to return to the sky.
Another day of endless bloody fighting, the number of defenders in the Lucy barracks had shrunk to 20,000, and the number of Eastern Alliance troops outside the camp was still 150,000.
Of the 700,000 troops at the time of the expedition, only 150,000 remained, and the 300,000 border garrisons of the western Luxi tribe had not yet been completely annihilated.