Empire Calendar, Year 1098, December 11
"Clean up the battlefield, bury the corpses, and remove all traces!”
Outside Bern City, Locke shook off the blood on his iron whip and pointed at the hundreds of corpses in front of him as he ordered his guards.
This was the fourth wave in three days.
Darcy had already formed a pillaging team, and they had spread out to pillage small cities and villages. In order not to let the news of Bern City leak out, Locke personally led the team to ambush outside the city.
In three days, four waves of raiders had been killed without missing a single one!
It was almost time to be detected. A storm was coming. Looking at the snow that had begun to melt on the plains, Locke's face was solemn.
In the center of Darcy's army camp, in a huge tent that was ten times larger than its peers.
"Wu Luo, tell me, what's up with the raiders?”Prince Seka's face was a little gloomy.
The Darcy Kingdom was located in the extreme north, and the temperature was low all year round. It was not suitable for farming. In this invasion, hundreds of thousands of soldiers only had ten days of rations. If they wanted to gain a foothold in the occupied areas and completely digest the empire's land, the collection of military rations became the most important thing. For this reason, once the northern border guards of the empire were defeated, Seka ordered the vanguard Wu Luo to organize a raiding team to search for food.
Yesterday was the day when the raiders returned to camp, but none of the four raiders that had headed south had returned. The nearly two thousand Darcy warriors had gone missing.
"Your Highness, on the afternoon of the battle, after defeating the border guards of the Empire, Your Highness led the army to chase after the defeated army. On your orders, I reorganized the 3rd Infantry Cavalry Division into 40 raiding teams and scattered them to collect military rations. The recruitment operation in the occupied area went smoothly. The raiders from the north to the south almost did not encounter any resistance. However, I received news yesterday that the raiders who went to the outskirts of Bern City have disappeared. As soon as I received the news, I immediately sent scouts to investigate and discovered that the originally small number of soldiers stationed in Bern City had actually gathered a large number of defeated soldiers. Moreover, the defeated soldiers were still pouring in, and the current number of soldiers was unknown. "Your Highness, this is a completely unexpected situation. I…" Wu Luo quickly explained in fear.
After hearing Wu Luo's explanation, Seka's tense face relaxed. It was indeed unexpected, and he couldn't be blamed. No one expected that even after hundreds of thousands of border guards were defeated, Bern City still dared to fight and even gathered an unknown number of defeated soldiers.
" Alright." Seeing that Wu Luo was about to explain, Saika waved his hand impatiently." The most important thing now is to clear the resistance forces in the occupied area. We also need to continue collecting food. I plan to leave this matter to the 2nd division. You, take down Bern City for me." When the military rations are ready, you will be the vanguard when we attack the Korotan Fortress. Whether or not you can wash away this humiliation is up to you!”
"Understood, Your Highness. Wu Luo will lead the charge and attack the Korotan Fortress!”Wu Luo promised.
The terrain from the north to the hinterland of the empire was like a gourd, and Bern City was the mouth of the gourd. The Korotan Fortress was at the bottom of the gourd, the last line of defense in the empire's hinterland. The strategic goal of the Darcy Kingdom's army this time was to take down the Korotan Fortress and grab the empire by the throat, preparing for the destruction of the empire in the future. As for how to take down Camil City, which had many soldiers stationed at the waist of the gourd, Sika didn't say anything, and Wu Luo naturally didn't ask. Just do your own thing. Guessing the emperor's intentions without permission was a big taboo for an official, let alone a strategic arrangement like probing.
"Alright, you can go!"
"Yes, sir! Your Highness!"
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Just as Darcy's 3rd Infantry Cavalry Division was heading south, the people in Bern City were also making their final preparations.
The disorganized soldiers in the city had already been reorganized. Excluding the wounded soldiers, 16000 soldiers were reorganized into four regiments. Two were responsible for defending the open front wall of the city, and the other two were responsible for defending the narrow terrain on both sides, which was difficult for the siege army to spread out. As for the back, Locke only arranged 2000 lightly injured soldiers and an equal number of civilians who volunteered to defend the city.
On top of the city wall, the materials used to defend the city, such as battering rams, rolling stones, arrows, and kerosene, had been arranged. Unfortunately, there were only about ten iron cannons in the city, and they could not kill the enemy in an organized manner. Fortunately, Locke found nearly 200 crossbows in the prefect's mansion. These were powerful weapons with 100 arrows in the box that could be shot instantly to deal a head-on blow to the attacking army.
The atmosphere of facing a great enemy made the residents of the city know that a war was coming. In order to protect their homes and families, they spontaneously organized themselves, worked overtime to prepare military rations, rushed to make stretchers, and organized stretcher teams to be responsible for treating the wounded during the war. More and more young men joined the reserve team that Locke had set up, ready to use their hot-blooded chests to push down the Darcy soldiers that rushed up the city wall.
The entire Bern City was like a machine that was fully wound, revolving around the upcoming battle to protect the family!
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