When Du Wei saw Gabriel, the young brother's armor of a commanding officer had been dyed bright red, there was still a piece of minced meat hanging on his shoulder armor, and blood stains remained on his face.
But Gabriel looked very excited. As soon as he saw Du Wei, he rushed up, hugged Du Wei fiercely, and rubbed against Du Wei's body with most of his blood stains.
"Okay!" Du Wei pushed his younger brother away, looked up and down carefully, and made sure that his younger brother was not seriously injured, so he was relieved.
In today's first battle, out of selfishness to protect his younger brother, Du Wei placed his infantry regiment behind the army's infantry shield wall in a relatively low order.
After all, this is Gabriel's first battle. Even if he is a brave young man, it's better not to let him take on too dangerous missions in the first battle. A little bit of proper discipline will suffice.
But looking at Gabriel's blood stained body, it is obvious that he is still charging very fast...
"Did you lose your team and rush to the front alone?" Du Wei lowered his face and glanced at his younger brother.
"I killed at least six orcs today!" Gabriel looked excited. He seemed to have not noticed Du Wei's sinking face, and he still shouted excitedly: "One of them is probably an officer, because I saw it on the head. The helmet he wears is different from other orcs. "I ask you, have you left your team and rushed to the front alone. " Du Wei lowered his voice.
"This..." Gabriel noticed that his brother's tone was weird. Quickly shrunk his head, and said a little nervously: "I... After the fight, the scene was a bit chaotic. I only know how to rush forward... I don't care about it."
Du Wei took a deep breath, and was about to reprimand his younger brother, but seeing the excitement and excitement on the young man's face, and the look in his eyes full of expectation, it was like a person who had achieved outstanding results and hoped to It is like a child who is praised by the elders.
Du Wei thought for a while, and felt that it was his younger brother's first battle after all. If he scolded him fiercely, it might hurt the young man's self-confidence, so he sighed. Patted him on the shoulder: "Good job, you are very brave, you didn't lose our father's face!"
Gabriel's eyes turned red at this moment, he lowered his head, wiped his eyes quickly, raised his head, and looked at Du Wei seriously. But suddenly lowered his voice, and said in a low voice: "Brother, I understand... I shouldn't go forward recklessly today. As an officer, I have some negligence...Although you don't have the heart to scold me. But..."
talking. He took Du Wei's hand actively, and looked eagerly into Du Wei's eyes: "I promise, I will never be so reckless next time!"
Du Wei smiled with satisfaction. The younger brother still understands very well in his heart, that's all right. Not in vain for my painstaking efforts to love him.
"It's just..." Gabriel scratched his head again. With a wry smile: "I know you love me, but next time, don't put me at the end of the team. Brother... You are doing it for my own good. But if you let others see it, they will look down on me, just as I am A useless pustule that you protected!"
Du Wei's heart moved, knowing his protective posture. It also seems a little inappropriate.
The two brothers looked at each other. They laughed at each other a few times.
The fire burned for a full day, and the next day. After Du Wei dispatched troops and magicians to fight together, the fire in the city was finally brought under control. It was not until the next night that the fire was completely extinguished.
But what was left of this originally majestic fortress was only a dilapidated wall and ruins.
Trampling on the rubble, Du Wei walked on the ruins of the fortress. Looking around, there were thick smoke rising from some places.
"Three years, millions of gold coins and tens of thousands of manpower, it's a magnificent city." He sighed.
The human infantry had already crossed the ruins from both sides, and 5,000 troops were stationed in the shallows on the south bank of the river, as an early warning to defend against criminals crossing the river at any time.
"Fortunately, although the fire was fierce and burned away the buildings on the ground, the foundations of most of the buildings are still there, and the outline of the city wall still remains a lot. It shouldn't be a problem to rebuild it. It's just... time is a thorny issue. During the construction of the city, the criminals will definitely harass us non-stop."
Du Wei frowned deeply.
This battle basically achieved the strategic goal he had conceived before. A big victory effectively numbs the army and stimulates it to a high level!
Look at the soldiers who are now working back and forth, cleaning the battlefield and the ruins of the city, with confident and proud smiles on their faces. There is a huge difference between that expression and the numb and panic-stricken appearance when I first arrived in Yajin City a few days ago.
At the same time, humans have regained the south bank. Strategically, there is no need to worry about criminals using this fortress as a base to launch a southward invasion at any time—although Luoxue said that it does not plan to go south in a large scale, but after all, this is a war, not a show, what the enemy said , even if it was Luo Xue, she couldn't believe it all.
As for the third...
Du Wei suddenly sneered, the corners of his mouth curved a little, his eyes were cold...
Luoxue, you are really generous and ruthless!
Are you using the 60,000 orc army as cannon fodder? !
You "saint" are indeed crazy!
But, it’s okay, let me touch your bottom line—it’s ridiculous, didn’t you say you want to be a saint? But now it seems that your so-called "sage" is only kind to your elves!
After the battle, Du Wei quickly noticed a difference.
This battle was brilliant, but in general. The army of criminals who stayed behind to resist is all orcs! None of the elves participated in the battle!
If there are elves participating in the battle, then even if you have griffin cavalry - but the number of griffin knights is too small after all. Sneak attack is okay, if you encounter a large-scale elf air army, a hundred griffin knights, even with the name of Slater Forest, if you want to deal with thousands of elves head-on - not much, as long as the opponent has more than three thousand The elf warriors in the air, a mere hundred griffin knights, had no choice but to retreat. Even if they set fire to their deaths, they would never dare to fight! In order to obtain such brilliant results now. That is absolutely impossible!
What's more, air power, they also have dragons!
The elves did not participate in the war, and even after the orcs were defeated, the elves on the north bank of the river did not have a single soldier to support them, but some human troops were dazzled by the victory and rushed to the river. When trying to cross the river to pursue, the warriors of the elves appeared to stop them, but then the human army retreated, and the elves died down.
Originally, Du Wei brought the magician into the battle, and he was ready to bear considerable losses. The prediction in his heart. There are one hundred griffin cavalry and thirty magicians on my side. If I encounter a large number of elf warriors defending the sky and dragons to help, then my side will definitely suffer huge damage. Even if you risk your life and set fire to it - the worst case scenario. Du Wei even had the best plan to fight off all the hundred Griffin Knights!
and…
"Beheaded more than 37,000 enemies, and captured... less than 2,000?"
After Du Wei finished reading the reported statistics, his face immediately sank.
On top of the ruins of the fortress, a temporary camp was re-established at the original position of the Commander's Mansion in the city.
In the big tent, many generals gathered here. Do a post-battle report.
But Du Wei looked at the statistics. His face sank at that moment!
"Hmph, less than two thousand..." Du Wei was about to say something. But seeing the disapproving expressions of all the generals in the tent, he sighed in his heart—the hatred has already been buried.
This is not a battle of annihilation, but a battle of defeat. According to common sense, it is unlikely that there will be such an imbalance in the ratio of the number of beheaded and captured enemies. Then the only explanation is that the following people concealed the actual situation: hatred, which made human soldiers become popular at the end of the battle. Eyes, slaughter all the captured orcs! Even... Many military officers acquiesced or encouraged this behavior.
Du Wei sighed. He knew that if he pursued this kind of thing at this moment, his generals would resent him. After all, since the beginning of the war, the orcs had committed various indelible acts of hatred towards humans... For example, the orcs even used humans as food ! This alone is enough to make human beings look at these enemies with extreme hatred. As the commander himself, he is kind and does not command the soldiers!
Du Wei gritted his teeth, his face calmed down, and deliberately threw the statistics aside: "What else? What about our brother's injuries?"
Seeing the seriousness on Du Wei's face dissipate, all the generals breathed a sigh of relief. Many people in this big tent were involved in the massacre of prisoners of war. The remaining two thousand prisoners of war were left by some officers who had been captured by the enemy.
But…
He couldn't help but feel a little complicated—Luoxue, you have already forged such hatred, do you still want to be a saint and seek peace
is it possible? snort!
"My lord." The statistical officer handed over the second data.
Du Wei glanced at it, and was troubled in his heart.
The casualties were close to 20,000, of which more than 15,000 were killed, and the rest were seriously injured and disabled, and the wounded who had completely lost their combat capabilities. As for the slightly injured and temporarily lost their combat effectiveness, there were also close to 4,000.
Adding it all up, my current subordinates are equal to nearly 25,000 attrition in one battle.
He set fires everywhere again, blocked the opponent's back, outflanked his two wings, and threw in one of his trump cards, "Thunder Cavalry".
As a result, the ratio of casualties in this crushing battle actually reached about 1:1.5
Even though they were defeated, the fighting power of the orcs was indeed strong! If it wasn't for the lightning cavalry that broke down the opponent's formation, the casualty ratio of both sides in this battle, I am afraid that humans would not have much advantage.
Oh, by the way, there are also Lei Qi's casualties. This number is not included in it!
In this battle, Lei Qi rushed back and forth, and later defeated the opponent's wolf cavalry head-on. According to post-war statistics, Thunder Cavalry suffered over a thousand damage. This result is not bad, but for Du Wei, he still feels very distressed!
Everyone was amazed, when did the Tulip family produce such a strong army, especially these cavalry, the temperament displayed one by one, they are undoubtedly genuine elite soldiers! However, although the Northwest Tulip family has experienced the battle of defending Gilliat and the war to wipe out the rebels of the Northwest Legion. But the former, as we all know, Du Wei had only two or three thousand cavalry at that time. As for the latter, the war lasted not long...
But only Du Wei and some core figures in the family knew how much thought Du Wei had spent on the establishment of this Lightning Cavalry! !
Elite soldiers are made by fighting, not by training—everyone knows this truth.
The origin of this thunder cavalry is also mysterious: after Du Wei reached a cooperation agreement with Saladin on the grassland, Du Wei not only supplied Saladin with weapons and supplies. They also secretly sent troops directly into the grasslands, and fought under Saladin's command. They only pretended to be Saladin's subordinates on weekdays.
For more than three years, these armies have rotated a group almost every year, gradually. Du Wei sent batches of troops from the family into the grassland, and with the help of the grassland, the melee area, in the grassland, Saladin was in the process of annexing tribes one by one. Participate in the war and hone batch after batch of troops into real elite troops!
This is a very difficult job: the number of each batch of dispatched troops has been controlled, and if there are too many, it will not work, and traces will be exposed. No less. Too little and it's useless.
Can't help Saladin too much. In case the power of the prairie wolf expands too rapidly and exceeds its control.
In the past three years, batches of elite knights have been honed from the grassland battlefields. During the period, there were also injuries, which made Du Wei feel guilty—is this kind of training too cruel? !
However, objectively, fighting like this also strengthened Du Wei's control over the grassland situation! Battle after battle aroused hatred among the various tribes on the grassland. As Saladin's power expanded, it also made more and more tribes on the grassland unite to fight against Saladin.
As a result, such an elite Thunder Cavalry was created! These people were honed in battles with the prairie people who were known as the strongest cavalry!
Of course, to carry out this extremely dangerous "practical training", this Thunder Cavalry, the treatment of the cavalry, even in the Tulip family, is the highest.
"My lord, we have achieved a big victory in this battle! To the military newspaper in the imperial capital, what do you think should be written?"
In the big tent, after a general spoke, many people looked at Du Wei eagerly. For such an unprecedented victory since the start of the war, the rewards in the imperial capital must be very heavy!
You are all members of the army, what is the purpose of fighting desperately? In addition to defending the glory of the empire and soldiers, who wouldn't want to make great military exploits, win rewards from high-ranking officials and nobles, and make their families rich and well-clothed
Du Wei carefully observed the changes in the expressions of each of the generals under his command, and remembered them in his heart. He smiled lightly on his face: "Don't worry, everyone, I will write back to the imperial capital today to ask for credit for you!"
Cheers.
Immediately, many people were beaming with joy, and some even clamored loudly, thinking that they should take advantage of the present and fight across the river in one go, defeating the enemies on the north bank, and reaping greater fruits of victory.
After hearing this, Du Wei just smiled lightly and didn't say anything.
Before the war, many of these guys fiercely opposed this counterattack...but now, hum.
With a smack in his heart, he faintly made some calculations...
cleaning! Still need to clean!
If you want to truly control this army, there are quite a few of these people who need to be purged! If I want to firmly imprint my brand on this army... Then, among the group of people in front of me, I must carefully distinguish them! Some of them can develop into their own direct descendants, while others can only be cleaned up!
Perhaps, with this reward... a batch can be taken away
When he thought of this, he couldn't help laughing at himself... Unexpectedly, one day, I would feel this way.
Luo Xue, you are both a saint and a lunatic.
but I am not!
I, Du Wei, am neither a saint nor a lunatic!
I will only do it my own way! Go my own way!