Chapter 166: Emergencies
For a group of Michael soldiers who were frightened by the power of their own long-range troops, to be honest, at this time, Andert had already questioned whether they could become a new soldier of the Sunset Empire, as a senior general of the Sunset Empire, although he was a Lanster before this, but the Sunset Empire did not have a racist heart against the Lanster people, just like the general of the Lanster people, and now the Sunset Imperial Army has appeared in the Lanster hook and sickle soldiers, giant shield crossbowmen, town militia, etc., Even in the hoplite units, 20% of the men were made up of veterans of the previous Lancester hoplites. And this is the strategy that Sun Lin promotes called "taking the essence".
But the problem is that no matter which Lanster joins the army on which the sun never sets, they are all veterans who are forced to surrender, although they surrender, they still maintain a belligerent heart in their hearts like the orc slaves, at least these captured orc soldiers and Lanster soldiers are not captured in the rout, and generally the army that never sets the sun implements a clearing policy for the enemy's fleeing army, because Sun Lin thinks that this can kill the chickens and make an example to his own soldiers to know that there is no good end to the rout. And Sun Lin thinks that the soldiers who flee are not worthy of having the ability to take up arms to fight, if there are soldiers in their own army who flee, although Sun Lin will not kill them, he will also send a small amount of money to let them leave the army forever after carrying the armor and weapons of their own war, of course, Sun Lin does not know that because of his approach, in the future empire of the sun, a new guild - mercenary guild has been established, and 70% of them are soldiers who leave the army because of the rout. Among them, there are also veterans who have participated in the war for more than 3 years, and this mercenary guild has not weakened even after the Sun Never Sets Empire enters the industrial age, and the commercial guild and the alchemy guild are called the three giants of the sun never sets, of course, the people of the Sun Never Set Empire at that time were more willing to add a "hire" word in front of the "mercenary guild", because it was the world of money at that time...............
Of course, Andelt didn't know the morale standard in his heart, but compared to the heavy swordsmen of the Empire on which the sun never sets, how could a semi-professional unit like the Snow Mountain Raiders be compared to a professional army? However, to a certain extent, this is not to blame Andert, who called Sun Lin when he talked to Andert before, he had repeatedly told Andert how powerful the Nordic axe soldiers in the original world were in the world.
"Forget it, maybe the Snow Mountain Raiders I saw just now belong to the 5th Duke's powerful army, if that's the case, then the reason why these Snow Mountain Raiders fled immediately after more than half of the casualties can be explained, I'll just say, how could the original Orc Slave Soldier Snow Mountain Warriors all collapse because of two shots?" Just find a decent reason to comfort yourself, so that after the capture of the Wilcot fortress, you can look at those timid Mishaal soldiers without a fever in the brain, and ordered all the beheadings to be directly beheaded, and Ander, who turned his mind to the Wilcot fortress again.
At this time, the black parallel lines in the distance had really become parallel lines, because just now, the arrow tower built on the outer wall of the fortress of Wilcot was bombarded by the counterweight trebuchet for more than 5 hours, and the last arrow tower located on the city wall collapsed............... Oh no! There was not a black parallel line ahead, because at one point of the parallel line, a V-shaped silhouette was visible in the distant landscape, which had not appeared in the previous half hour.
"Does it seem that the counterweight trebuchet has broken through the outer wall of Fort Wilcot and created a passage? Very good, it seems that our army can ............ Hey! What's going on? Just as Andrult turned his attention to his own soldiers, a strange phenomenon attracted Andrett, and it made Andrit feel uneasy, very uneasy.
In Andelt's eyes, the soldiers on the side of the sun never set looked full of energy, but the careful Andelt found that most of the soldiers who did not set the sun showed a slight stiffness, as if they had become a mechanical puppet, especially the giant shield crossbowmen who had been lying on the ground to ambush 5,000 snow mountain raiders were the most obvious, and Andelt also found that most of the soldiers who did not set the sun had ruddy faces, but they were inevitably a little too ruddy, and the complexion of all the soldiers who did not set the sun turned dark red.
Feeling uneasy, Andert immediately called the field doctors who accompanied the army, these doctors from the Imperial First Hospital in London City on the Peninsula in New Delhi were like medical soldiers in the age of hot weapons, not only had a strong physique, could eat and live with soldiers in various environments, but also had a very solid foundation in herbology and first aid. It can be said that these field medics who follow the main army on which the sun never sets are the second life givers of all soldiers who never set the sun, and even generals on whom the sun never sets.
After inspecting several giant shield crossbowmen who were in obvious condition, the field doctor who arrived told Andelt a bad news with an ugly face, which directly lowered Andelt's originally happy heart: "Your Excellency, thank you for finding out, but I still have very bad news to tell you......... Although I don't want to admit it, because the officers and men of our army have been in the snowstorm for nearly six hours, there is no hot food and no boiling water, and the sun never sets and the Lenster people are not used to fighting in the snow, more than half of the soldiers of our army have been frostbitten. ”
"Sure enough.......... my luck is really not very good! Mr. Medic, what do you mean I should do now? Although the situation was so bad that Andelt couldn't even imagine it, Andelt still asked the field doctor in front of him without giving up.
“………… Your Excellency, General, I don't know anything about military affairs, but I definitely attach much more importance to a person's life than yours, so I hope that for the sake of the lives of 60,000 soldiers, you should order a retreat, for every second you let a soldier who never sets the sun stay here, a new soldier who never sets the sun will be frostbitten, and ................... with all due respect, if this continues, in less than 3 hours, our soldiers will have non-combat attrition due to the weather............" After pondering for a while, the combat medic replied with a calm face, of course, even he didn't know that a lot of cold sweat had broken out in his palms.
“………… You are right! Endelt sighed and said, "Captain of the Guard, pass my order, all the soldiers whose sun never sets........."
"Wait!" At this moment, the same English suddenly sounded behind Andert.