Chapter 104: Follow-up

Although the battle ended after just over an hour on the frontal battlefield, Sun Lin's troops spent nearly half a day chasing the remnants and clearing the battlefield during the pursuit, and it was not until sunset that they withdrew all their troops to the Nottingham fortress.

Sun Lin lost a total of nearly 5,000 soldiers in this battlefield, including more than 1,200 half-orc warriors, and the rest were more than 4,100 human hoplites, and the Yoman longbowmen and engineers were only responsible for long-range strikes in this battle, so there were no casualties, but due to problems such as tendon strain, it is estimated that it will take at least a few days for these more than 7,000 longbowmen and engineers to recover to their best condition.

In terms of percentage, the biggest loss in this battle is the hook and sickle soldiers, which are not originally defensive heavy infantry but are used to defend the rear, and the defense is not high, in the early stage of the short 10 minutes of battle, more than half of the damage was immediately lost, if it were not for the fact that the heavy sergeants had loopholes due to the long battle line, and the rear position was the area where the orcs attacked the lark, otherwise the first heavy swordsman unit to go forward to fill the support was not the two wings but the rear.

In comparison, it is estimated that if you want to say which class is the most successful in this war, it must be the number of 5,000 heavy swordsmen in the unit, although the number of wounded in a battle is as many as 1,000 people, and the number of casualties has reached more than 2,000, but the heavy swordsman unit has also used this battle to make the newly recruited heavy swordsmen also receive a baptism of blood, and the level of the 10 teams has all been upgraded to 3 stars, Of course, most of the reason for this is that Sun Lin used the system to quietly modify the mission of the Hobila Rangers, changing the pursuit of orc warriors to driving away orc warriors, and driving them all in the direction where the heavy swordsmen are, and compared with the two remaining units of the heavy sergeants and hook and sickle soldiers after the war, the combined number of them did not even reach a thousand, and the heavy swordsman troops that retained more than 2,000 combatants have done a very good job.

In comparison, the orc troops can be said to be extremely miserable, under the chase and killing of more than 5,000 light and heavy cavalry, the orcs who escaped are not even more than 2,000, and this also includes the warriors who Bobby estimated to let go and let them go back to pass the bad news back to the tribe, counting the hundreds of orc wolf cavalry troops who fled after the most reluctance in the previous cavalry battle, after the battle, the original number of about 35,000 orc troops finally only escaped back to 3,000 people, And among the troops that meet the professional or semi-professional level standards - werewolf death squads, wind raiders and orcs were all wiped out, if you subtract more than 5,000 orc captives, plus those orcs who were directly beheaded after being captured due to physical or physical problems that did not meet the requirements of becoming captives, this time the orcs killed more than 20,000 good soldiers of the general, it is estimated that such losses are enough for those orc tribes to directly from large tribes to small tribes, and they are no longer capable of continuing to attack the fortress of Nottingham.

When he returned to Nottingham City, it was already more than 8 o'clock in the evening, Sun Lin ordered all the soldiers to return to the camp to rest and recuperate, and immediately let the system prepare, use the war value to make up for the loss of all the troops, and then use the gold coins in the treasury to recruit a group of heavy swordsman troops again, and use the remaining war value to raise all of them to 3 stars. Because Sun Lin has not commanded a large-scale battle so attentively as he does today for a long time (most of the previous York-led battles were commanded by Blackbeard, and the army that became was actually only carried out according to the plan set before, and did not need Sun Lin to personally command it as it is today, considering when to send troops in which direction to fill the loopholes, and how many people need to be sent, etc.). As for the post-war chores, these things were handled by Bobby and the members of the military department anyway, and it would be no problem for him to deal with them for a day.

It wasn't until three poles up the next day that Sun Lin got up and opened the system template to observe the situation in the area and army in Nottingham's territory today.

Judging from the vague Nottingham Territory interface, although the orc tribe that originally stayed on the outskirts of the wasteland was still there, the red danger displayed on the interface had changed from the original dazzling red light clusters to small red dots that emitted faint light. And just as Sun Lin thought, a brighter green light appeared on the map moving towards the dozen or so red dots.

This green light belongs to Sun Lin's cavalry unit, including more than 3,000 knight squires, 2,500 feudal knights and 1,000 Hobira rangers, and the system also standardizes the leader of this team - Bobby on the interface. As for why this situation will occur, it is very simple, Sun Lin is ready to beat the water dogs, and when the orc tribes have just been hit by a great blow and lose their will to fight, he will use the cavalry troops to fight these orcs in one go, and use the mobility of the cavalry troops and the powerful charging power of the heavy cavalry to destroy the last bit of the orc's will to fight, and drive them all back to the desert.

At first, Zarakku and Bobby had told Sun Lin that this plan was not advisable, because no matter how strong the heavy cavalry was, they could not break through the wall outside the orc camp, but after the two generals knew that Sun Lin had mixed some surprises with the orcs who had fled back, Bobby and Zaraku did not object to this plan.

"Zaraku must have let his men cause a disturbance in the orc camp by now, right? It doesn't take long for Bobby to be with them............ Hehe, although the orcs are indeed shorter, how could the panicked orcs care about this little problem at this time, and their brains and leaders are already dead, with the IQ of those fools, who will notice those half-orcs............ I'm really looking forward to it! How many orc slaves will Zaraku and Bobby bring back to me this time? 10,000, 20,000, or 50,000? I'm really looking forward to it, I hope that the more the better, so that the regular army group that ambushes the Lanster Empire will have enough cannon fodder to reduce casualties. ”

As he muttered, Sun Lin shifted the map interface of Nottingham to the class interface, and began to allocate the troops that would ambush the Ranster Empire next: "10,000 hoplite swordsmen, 5,000 Yoman longbowmen, 2,000 feudal knights, and 2,000 hoplite sergeants............... With the addition of more than 4,000 people in York's territory, the number of more than 20,000 people is added to the estimated minimum of 10,000 orc slave soldiers who can enter the battlefield............ It doesn't seem like there's enough of it............ Instead of recruiting cheaper hook scythes as a reserve, then ............ Wait, why didn't you forget what that forest axemen were for! ”