"Good news! Good news! The 4th Corps is only half a day away!"

In the trenches of Ulster's border defense, exhausted coalition soldiers stood up one after another. For them, the news was like the rumbling thunder sounding in a long-dry land, allowing people in desperate situations to see hope.

"The 4th Corps? The Iron Fist Corps of the 1st Corps? They came from the Western Front to reinforce us?" Beside Weiss, a third-year student at the Baston Military Academy, murmured to himself.

At the last spring meeting, the 1st Legion played the offensive side performed quite well. As one of the four ace corps of the 1st Legion, the 4th Corps, nicknamed the "Iron Fist Corps", was on the left wing and ordered the defensive side with several times its strength to return. This marine unit with great military achievements has been stationed on the western border for a long time. Although the natural environment there is harsh, the soldiers are well-equipped, well-trained, and well-logistically supported, so they have always maintained strong fighting spirit. In the last war, the 4th Corps confronted the Norman army many times, and won twice in key battles. It is one of the few elite troops in the federal army that can compete with the Norman army.

The 4th Corps, which has been guarding the border for many years, has certainly not comparable to those of ordinary combatants. After experiencing the previous arduous battle, Weiss no longer has the intention to consider the overall situation of the war. He only hopes that the federal troops heading north can clear obstacles as soon as possible, clear the land passages between the border defense line and the rear, and respond to the outbound combat troops withdrawing back to the land.

After getting up, Weiss looked around and then looked south. Although the 1st Norman Empire Marine Division, which landed in the Federal landing, was brave, the two attacks on the day had already made them do their best. Before using the new round of replenishment of soldiers' ammunition at night, it was unlikely that they would launch a third attack.

Seeing that there was no abnormality in the mountains and forests in the south, Weis looked up at the sky. At the critical moment, he received support from his own planes. The ground forces of the Federal Army defended the border defense line very hard, but in the air, the Federal Fleet was defeated again. Five of the 12 flying warships were sunk, and four were severely damaged, basically losing their combat effectiveness. The Normans only sank 3 ships, and two were severely damaged. Fortunately, the Federation sent a support fleet with two armored ships under the formation. The Norman Fleet took the initiative to escape from combat contact and only maintained surveillance from afar. After that, the Federal Fleet launched a brief shelling of the Norman army in the mountains and forests. After that, the Norman support fleet arrived, and the fleets of both sides moved into a confrontation again.

From dusk until nightfall, the air and ground forces on both sides did not make any new moves.

When it was late at night, the night sky was suddenly shining with artillery fire, and the battle took place south of the border defense line lasted for a whole night. At dawn, a team of cavalry in federal uniforms appeared outside the woods opposite the position. Seeing this, the coalition guards on the border defense line were in full swing.

That night, the 4th Corps of the Federal Army defeated the 1st Norman Royal Marine Division with their "iron fist" and opened up a land passage for the northbound reinforcements. Although the "Devil Division" of the Norman Empire was not completely annihilated, but was broken into pieces and continued to raid the Federal Army's logistics supply line, for the border defense defenders and the outbound combat troops retreating from Wessex, this battle made their situation fundamentally improve!

On the evening of the evening of the 4th Corps' arrival in the border defense, the Baston student group received an order from the command center, and packed their luggage and retreated to the rear by a transport ship.

On the national defense line, the various units of the Federal Army fought side by side for many days. At the most intense and cruel moments of the battle, they did not distinguish between each other, supported each other and survived the darkness before dawn together. When the young officers and soldiers of the Baston Student Group lined up to pass through their own defense zones, the soldiers stood up to see them off, their eyes full of respect.

Before boarding the ship and leaving, Weiss and Otto Lundes carefully counted the personnel. Before the battle began, the Baston Military Academy's instructors, inspectors and cadets, plus more than 1,000 reserve soldiers added during the war, a total of more than 2,400. In just over a week, nearly 90% of the personnel were reduced due to deaths, disappearances, serious injuries, etc. Now only 311 people were able to leave with their heads held high. Among these 311 officers and soldiers, except for the officers assigned during the war and the reserve soldiers mobilized and recruited, only 137 were from the Baston Military Academy.

After nightfall, a light transport ship flew to the defense line and landed on the bumpy position. The remaining personnel of the Baston student group lined up in three columns and boarded the ship in silent order. Until they sat in the cabin seats, someone looked through the porthole to look at the border line that was about to bid farewell.

More than half a month ago, when the Baston student group arrived here with a neat queue and full spirit, no one expected that they would endure a purgatory test here, and many of their former classmates and friends would stay here forever...

Accompanied by the dull mechanical roar, the transport ship flew away from the ground. Relying on the slightly trembling bulkhead, Weiss was mixed with emotion. As soon as the war began, the Baston student group had been severely damaged. What fate would be waiting for them? Replenish the troops, re-archive them, or split them up, and send the students as trainee officers to the staff command departments at all levels?

Close your eyes, the unforgettable bloody battle scenes are vivid in my mind. Even if I am exhausted and sleepy, I can't fall asleep peacefully. Along the way, Weiss woke up from the bloody dream twice, and fell asleep twice in a state of confusion and hesitation.

After more than six hours of flight, the transport ship finally landed at the Hofentis military base more than 300 miles north of Ao City. This place goes to more than 1,400 miles to the northern border defense line and the western border defense line, making it a relatively important military stronghold.

At this rear more than a thousand miles away from the front line, there will be no sudden sound of gunfire, nor will it be with the god of death at all times. After arriving at the temporary camping site, Weiss took a comfortable hot bath, changed into clean clothes, lay on the camp bed, and finally slept peacefully.

After breakfast, the surviving officers and inspectors of the Baston Student Group were summoned. In the tent used as the conference room, they were surprised to see Colonel Capes and two major officers under his command, as well as five colleagues in the military academy, including Lun Schmidt. Most of these people were injured, and Capes had bandages on his head and arms, and Lun Schmidt was leaning on crutches. It turned out that after the troops incorporated into the Dulm battle group were defeated by the Norman army, some of the survivors retreated to the country.

Some of the border defense lines followed friendly forces to retreat south, and some were cut off by the Normans and broke out after a lot of hardships. In addition to those captured by the Norman army and those who returned to the border defense line, a total of 57 survived. 8 of the 62 seriously injured people who evacuated from the border defense line in advance were killed. In this way, the survival rate of the Baston Military Academy was about 45% when it was organized to fight. The specific number depends on the number of people captured by the Norman army. To be precise, the number of people who returned to China after the war.

The overall survival rate of the Baston student group in the last war was 49%, which is mainly because the casualties of the people participating in the war have improved greatly. If we only look at the casualties in the early stages of the war, the survival rate is only 30%.

In front of the enemy's guns and bayonets, there is no essential difference between the Baston Student Group and the ordinary troops.

Colonel Capes and others met with the "big troops" at the Hoffentis military base, which was both a formal return and a farewell before leaving. Colonel Capes announced to everyone that he had received an order from his superiors to go to the newly formed 190th Division as acting division commander, and several of his capable garrisons would also go with him. After he left office, the position of commander of the Baston Students' Corps will be assigned by the 8th Garrison District. Although all the members of the Baston Students' Corps have evacuated the northern border line, it is still affiliated with the 8th Garrison District in the northern part of the Federation.

The remnants of the Baston Students' Corps were temporarily rested at the Hofentis Military Base for two days. During this period, not only did they not add one soldier, but also transferred all the reserve troops out, becoming a skeleton composed of only Baston students, teachers and inspectors. It seems that the superiors are not going to send this special force to the front line in the short term.

The peaceful days in the rear passed quickly, and on the northern front, the coalition officers and soldiers were still suffering. Although the federal army heading north defeated the Norman "Devil Division" and reversed the precarious situation, the Norman army was not as easy to deal with as expected. Behind the 2nd and 4th Legions of the Federal Army retreating to the border, followed the 1st Northern Battle Group of the Norman Empire, who conquered North Fries and Wessex.

The elite troops of the hundreds of battles created a series of successful battle examples that can be regarded as classic military battle examples. On the second day after the Baston student group evacuated the border defense line, the Normans launched a fierce attack on the Federal Army's rear guard with armored chariot troops as the vanguard. The 2nd Northern Norman Northern Battle Group, which built positions north of the Ulster-Wessex border defense line, first showed that the enemy was weak, voluntarily gave up some positions, and then suddenly counterattacked and attacked the flanks of the Federal Army.

The Federal Army's rear guard troops, which had been struggling for a long time, collapsed. Without the cover of the guard, the 2nd and 4th corps of the Federal Army, who had just arrived at the border defense line, rushed to retreat into the border defense line, along with the accompanying Wessex 1st gang, gave the Norman army an opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity. They fought day and night, and pursued and attacked them in various ways, causing the casualties of the coalition troops to increase sharply. After all the outbound combat troops retreated into the border line, the Federal Army voluntarily gave up the crumbling border defense line, retreated in an orderly manner to the fortifications between the two fortresses of Malogos and Cercilo, and built a new northern defense line based on favorable terrain.

In the border battle, the losses of the Federal Army and the Wessex Army reached 3-4 times that of the Norman Army, which was an absolute and painful defeat. Among the few positive factors in the coalition, most of the "Star Source Stones" in the wreckage of warships on both sides were recovered by the Federal Army, which allowed the Federal Fleet to obtain relatively more supplements in a relatively short period of time.

Through the investigation and analysis of the wreckage of Norman warships, the coalition forces also mastered more information about the structural principle of "devil bombs": they use batteries to act on artificial star source stones to provide floating force, and use gunpowder to burn forward driving force, forming a highly aggressive "air torpedo".

The key to this new weapon is the artificial star source stone technology.

The characteristic of Star Source Stone is to provide equal floating force. The weaker the power, the more star Source Stones are needed, and vice versa. The output of the power system of warships using natural Star Source Stones requires the driving of Star Source Stones to provide floating force, drive the rudder and oars to provide horizontal power, drive the normal operation of weapons and equipment, and how to allocate to maximize the effectiveness is a very complex system project. The output of Star Source Stones has always been the primary factor restricting the number of flight ships in various countries.
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