Chapter 167: The Siege Continues

"You say that your three armies refused to retreat, but chose to rest after taking the fort of Wilcot......... Don't you know that the choice you made is related to the life and death of the 60,000 soldiers of the Empire, if the battle is defeated, then even if these 60,000 soldiers survive, they will no longer be able to obtain the right to participate in the war, do you three know the Tao? Andert looked at the 3 people in front of him who were wrapped in the special plate armor of the commander of the Imperial Army Group where the sun never sets, and glanced at it with a little anger, helplessness and joy.

The three in front of him are the commander of the 2nd Longbow Army of the Sun Never Setting Empire, the commander of the 1st Crossbowman Army, and the commander of the 3rd Heavy Armor Army. In the echelon of the Imperial Legion, each army group has 15,000 to 30,000 participants and 5,000 logistics personnel. In the external and internal propaganda, the troops led by Andelt this time claimed to be 60,000, but the actual number of troops who moved back and forth between the combat zone and the rear and transported war resources was excluded, and the real number of troops in Andelt's army who could participate in the battle was as high as 80,000.

At present, the group armies on which the sun never sets are still distributed in a single or the same type of troops, and there is no so-called mixed group army. At present, the sun never sets in the Imperial Army, with a total of 1 cavalry army, 6 heavy armor, that is, heavy infantry army, of which 5 are composed of heavy swordsmen and the remaining one is composed of half-orcs, 4 hook and sickle group army, 2 Sun Lin descendant group army (that is, 40,000 papal guards), 3 longbow group army and 1 crossbow group army, of course, there is a special orc group army, of course, in addition to the hook and sickle group army, which is a semi-professional group army, the rest are professional-level.

Although the army led by Andert this time included orc soldiers and the Papal Guard, because his army group commander was fighting in other areas, Andelt had no choice but to temporarily classify the orc slave soldiers into the 3rd Heavy Armor Army, and the Papal Guard was temporarily included in the Longbow Army.

In the military law that the sun never sets, in order to appropriately restrict the rights of the high-ranking generals of the empire, Sun Lin established a military decree called the general restriction order, which stipulates that if the military order made by the commander-in-chief is opposed by the commander-in-chief of three or more group armies, the commander-in-chief must change the order he has issued. So after the commander of the 3 group army opposed his decision, Andelt knew that he was going to play a real life and death gamble, but before that, Andelt was curious, he really wanted to know what decision he made for Lu Before he finished speaking, he would suffer the strong opposition of the 3 army commander so quickly.

It is important to know that if Lu Dao withdraws his troops at this time, then due to weather conditions and other reasons, Sun Lin will agree with their decision, but if they are retreating some time after the battle has begun, then these retreating Imperial soldiers will agree to be triggered by the level of the Fleeing Army.

"Your Excellency General, because we are not only the people of the Sun Never Sets, but also the soldiers of the Sun Never Set Empire, before this, no army of the Sun Never Set Empire chose to retreat strategically after entering the battlefield, and we don't want the soldiers of these three group armies to be the first bird, this is the reason why we object, and I believe that the reins commanded by the three of us also have such thoughts." After Andert glanced at it, a group army commander came out and said to Andert, then turned to the side and said to the field doctor: "Doctor, we know that you are thinking about the 60,000 soldiers of our army, but what I want to tell you is that sometimes the psychological trauma is far more painful than the physical trauma. ”

"Your Excellency, the General, we both think the same way." The last two army commanders also stood up and said: "So Your Excellency, General, please revise your order, I believe that our 60,000 lions will definitely overcome the severe cold and capture the first fortress of the Michar Empire, the Fortress of Wilcot." ”

“…………… Doctor, this is ............" Andelt turned his head to look at the field doctor and asked, but the field doctor just smiled and replied to Andelt, "Your Excellency, the decision is always in your hands, and I am just here to remind you, and............ The world is unpredictable............"

"Understood............ The 3 army commanders listened to the order! I now put the command of the battle in your hands, I have no other requirements, but you must ensure that within 3 hours, the outer wall of the Wilcot fortress will be breached and occupied, otherwise one of your troops has already killed the inner wall of the Wilcot fortress, and I will let my guards blow the horn of the whole army to retreat, do you three understand? ”

"Understood!" As the horn of the whole army raid sounded, although the three army commanders were eager to break through the city wall in front of them, for the sake of safety, they generally sent orc slave soldiers to move quickly towards the gap opened by the trebuchet before, and at the same time, they let the 30,000 giant shield crossbowmen move forward in an extremely scattered formation, and the heavy swordsmen and papal guards entered the battle state side by side, ready to support the orc slave soldiers at any time, of course, this practice was again before the attack began, Andelt had already privately told the three army commanders about the attack plan, so although Andelt handed over all the command to the three army commanders, the real commander was still Andelt.

As the Sunset Army moved forward, many sounds of breaking the sky began to be heard in the blizzard, and then on both sides of the Sunset Army, a large number of unclear arrows flew in, and the source of these arrows were all hidden in the surrounding cliffs in the dark arrow tower, which was not noticed by the counterweight trebuchet.

However, it is a pity that the target of these arrows is not the orc warrior who only wears part of the plate armor, but the giant shield crossbowmen wearing steel plate armor and full-body chain mail, and carrying a giant tower shield behind them, so these flying arrows did not cause much damage to the moving soldiers who are not setting, on the contrary, due to the exposure of the dark arrow towers, these arrow towers were first ruthlessly suppressed by the giant shield crossbowmen, and then they were destroyed by the counterweight trebuchet without even the shape of a tower.

Then, with the help of the blizzard, the orc slave soldiers easily moved to the city wall that had been blasted out by the counterweight trebuchet before, but here, the 40,000-meter sand snow mountain warriors had already been gearing up, holding a double-edged axe that emitted bursts of cold light.