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At this time, Bellam also came to Levi.

"Uncle Bellam, sit down."

Bellam, whose eyes were full of exhaustion, was not polite and sat directly in front of Levi, then took out a roll of rosters.

"Lord Baron, after these few days of fighting and transfer, we have lost nearly 200 people, including 137 killed in battle and 53 slightly injured and damaged.

In addition, our horse losses were not small. A total of 170 war horses and 126 cargo horses were killed or injured. "

Levi raised his head and drank the last bit of salt water in the water bag, and then fell into silence.

Yes, there are no serious casualties.

On the way to escape, all seriously injured people with limited mobility were "relieved of their pain early". Although everyone knows that this is the most correct and reasonable thing to do, and although Li Wei will give death compensation to these soldiers who are "relieved of their pain as soon as possible", no one is willing to face this problem head-on.

If the situation becomes more critical, the slightly injured might also need to

"So we have less than six hundred people left?"

Bellam pursed his lips and said, "Yes, we have five hundred and twenty-three people left."

Li Wei pretended to be relaxed and said: "It's not bad. After all, the enemy's casualties are much more than ours. We make money no matter what."

At this time, Villefort also came over.

"Lord Baron, our food consumption situation during this period is quite optimistic. We have almost three days more food than we planned before. Our current food supply is enough for us to consume for seven days."

The grain reserves seemed to be increasing instead of decreasing. In fact, it was not because of how much Li Wei and the others had captured through fighting, but more because of the decrease in personnel and horses.

"It seems there is more good news. I think we will be able to escape smoothly this time!"

In fact, Levi was already confused at this time. The size of his team was getting smaller and smaller, and the gap in strength between him and the enemy was getting wider and wider. Every day that passed, the probability of Levi and his group getting away became lower and lower.

Even the most optimistic scenario is that Li Wei led less than a hundred elites of level 3 and above to escape from the orcs' encirclement in a hurry, while the others were buried forever in the vast forest.

He pulled out a slightly moist and wrinkled map from his chest. Taking advantage of the last ray of sunset, Levi began to study the breakout route.

"Achis!"

"Boss, I'm here!"

A genius shooter seems to have inexhaustible energy. During this period, even though Yaqis was responsible for quite heavy investigative work, he always maintained a vigorous appearance.

"After we cross the river tomorrow, can we walk another thirty kilometers south and then head east?"

"Yes, boss, this path is easier to walk, and it is relatively hidden. It does not pass through any major traffic roads."

"Is the water in the Orin River deep?"

“The water in the Orin River is generally not too deep, especially now that it is spring and it is not the rainy season yet. If it doesn’t rain, the water in the Orin River will be knee-deep at most.

The water level in the ford where we had planned to cross the river was probably only halfway up our calves.

But all these assumptions are based on the premise that it does not rain upstream. If it rains upstream, the water depth will be difficult to say, but the water level in the shoal will not be deeper than the knee even if it becomes deeper due to rainfall. "

"If we don't cross the Orin River for the time being, how about walking east along the Orin River for a while and then going south?"

"It's okay, just a little circuitous."

Levi looked at the map, and a vague plan gradually became clear in his mind.

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In a newly established temporary command post, Army Commander Hank sat on a chair covered with tiger skin cushions and stared at a large and detailed map on the wall.

At this time, Hank's personal guards broke into the camp with several envelopes.

"Mr. Hank, this is Captain Sully's battle report today."

The information was very long, densely written for two pages, but Hank only took less than half a minute to scan it all, and grasped the key points: "Sally's cavalry was severely damaged, losing 112 cavalry, and the attack Killed thirty enemies and wounded nearly a hundred...

Well, this Sally is not telling the truth. The number of enemies killed must be at least halved. As for the cuts, haha~. "

Hank took out a piece of paper from the table that had already written many numbers on it, crossed out the last line, and then filled in a new line of numbers.

One thousand three hundred and thirty-one to two hundred and ten

The battle loss ratio was more than six to one, an exaggerated number. Half of these six came from the main army of the empire.

Those who didn't know better thought that the orcs were surrounding and killing a large group of Ice Knights!

Through these days of fighting, Hank has completely figured out the composition of this enemy. One hundred of the seven hundred people in the team are the famous Ice Knights.

The five hundred were two distinct groups of cavalry. The quality was not bad, but it was far inferior to the standing elite regiments of the Kingdom of Fontaine.

There are still a hundred who should be some hunters, mountain people and other rabble, completely unable to make it to the stage.

It would be incredible for such a patchwork team to be able to exert the strength of a large army in the empire's main army.

But Hank never expected that the other party would defeat two warg cavalry brigades and a centaur cavalry brigades one after another in the endless pursuit and interception under his command.

Hank was very sure that he had not reached the age of old fool, but he actually had such a humiliating record, which he never expected.

Fortunately, Li Wei's army was limited in number and suffered serious attrition. The more Levi struggled, the more blood he lost. The final defeat was foreseeable. Hank had already sentenced them to death.

[Let you be proud for a few days. Your pockets are getting tighter and tighter, and there are more and more pursuers. Let’s see how long you can hold on! 】

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At nine o'clock in the morning, Li Wei led the remaining troops to the ford of the Orin River.

"How about Archis?"

"Boss, we are lucky. The water level of the Orin River is very shallow, so crossing the river is not difficult at all.

In addition, we found an orc reconnaissance stronghold on the other side of the river and have started to remove it. "

"Uncle Beram, organize a crossing of the river!"

"Siegfried, Achis, you lead people across the river first, pull out at least two orc reconnaissance strongholds to the south, and then quickly join us here." As he spoke, Levi took out the map and pointed to the west side of the ferry. A hidden valley.

"You must come back before noon. If you don't find enough reconnaissance bases, come back on time!"

Li Wei remembered that in his previous life, there was a true military genius who led the remaining defeated generals to weave in and out under heavy enemy encirclement and suppression, pulling back and forth, creating a classic battle example.

Levi is planning a monkey version

I’m going out for a dinner tonight, so I don’t know if I can update it, so I’ll post a chapter first.