Because he had witnessed the battlefield with his own eyes, Sui Xiong gave up the idea of stealing the three Eagle artifacts for research. For a whole night, he floated over the battlefield, thinking alone.
He was born in a peaceful and peaceful era and grew up in a stable and peaceful society. For him, the cruelest and most horrible thing in the world was probably a lovelorn psychopath who went on the street with a machete and injured many people. Finally, he was shot dead on the spot. At that time, he was eating spicy rice noodles in a nearby shop. He was so surprised that he put the rice noodles covered with spicy oil into his nostrils. That was how he remembered it.
Of course, he had also seen a lot of horrible reports, such as terrorist attacks in a certain area that harmed the public, wars and famines in a certain area, and earthquakes and tsunamis in a certain area … But, after all, those were seen through the media of TV, computers, and newspapers, and lacked a sense of reality.
Being born and growing up in a peaceful world had cultivated his gentle and soft character. He was willing to negotiate with others to solve problems, was willing to share benefits with everyone, was willing to share benefits, and was willing to compromise and make concessions appropriately …
However, this also made him react quite fiercely in the face of evil acts that exceeded his bottom line of compromise and concession. When he faced the cruelty that was beyond his tolerance, he would suffer a very heavy blow.
And this was the cruelest scene he had ever seen in his life.
It was not that he had never fought or killed. For example, when he was in the abyss, he did not know how many demons he had killed. Not long ago, he even participated in the attack on Cloud City and fought with a large number of angels and oracles. He did not know how many of them he had killed. But no matter if it was demons or angels, when they were killed, there was no sense of bloodshed. There was only the effect of light, shadow, flame, and explosion similar to those in games. For experienced players, this kind of battle was really difficult to make him feel that it was real. Instead, it was more like a fierce and difficult virtual game.
In fact, until now, Sui Xiong often imagined that maybe he was just having a long and absurd dream, and that after he woke up, he would return to real life, go back to his dormitory, and continue his life of looking at warehouses, drawing illustrations, and playing games.
Perhaps this was an escape from reality. He really could not accept all kinds of messy realities in this world.
But at this moment, the scene of countless corpses of humans and humanoid creatures made it impossible for him to escape from reality. He had to look at the bloody battlefield and the cruel world.
As an artist, Sui Xiong was an emotional person. He was not good at detailed analysis and thinking, but he was good at understanding and feeling others.
At this moment, he could deeply feel the pain and despair of the dead, the sorrow and grief of the living, the tragic destruction brought about by the war, and the disaster that would last for a long time...
He floated above the battlefield motionlessly, watching the people below him busily collecting the corpses and disposing of them day by day. The corpses of the nobles and knights with higher status would be frozen and sent back to their graves. The corpses of the lower-ranked officers and adventurers with lower status would be burned into ashes. The ashes would be placed in small jars and sent to their families along with their belongings. As for the ordinary soldiers, their corpses would be gathered together and set on fire. Then, their ashes would be collectively buried. In the end, all that was left of them was a name on the "death list" of the military clerks.
Compared with the more civilized Eagle Kingdom, the Orc Empire's way of doing things was more rough and cruel. The corpses of famous strongmen would be found and sent back to their hometowns along with their belongings because they could be given to their children or clansmen as materials for the inheritance of their bloodline. The ordinary soldiers would directly burn the corpses, and the ashes would be blown away by the wind. They didn't even need to bury them. As for the clerks, they only recorded how many people had died in a certain clan or tribe. They didn't even bother to remember the names.
Sui Xiong stayed above the battlefield for a month, coldly watching the two sides silently pack up. He sent messengers to negotiate and deliver the captives. At the end of January, when the weather was almost extremely cold, the last troops stationed here from both sides also left. On the land that had been soaked in blood and fought for, there was only a vast expanse of white snow, covering all traces of the war.
At this time, the number of casualties on both sides had also been calculated.
On the human side, the direct army of the Eagle Kingdom originally had about 400,000 people. Nearly 200,000 people had died in battle, died of illness, or were seriously injured. About 20,000 people had minor injuries, and about 50,000 people had scattered and fled. The recruited adventurers had originally had more than 4,000 people, but more than 2,000 of them had died, and the same number had been slightly injured. Only a few of them were intact. There were about 50,000 volunteers and knights from various countries who came to help, but nearly 45,000 of them had died in battle. Only a few of the remaining 5,000 could still fight, so the casualties were the most tragic.
On the Orcs' side, the total number of troops that had participated in the decisive battle was about 650,000 people. About 350,000 of them had died on the battlefield. Later, because of the insufficient healing ability of the Shamans, nearly 100,000 people had died of illness, or had fled. However, the Orcs had calculated another number. The elite troops had lost about 150,000, and the rest had lost about 300,000.
All in all, both sides had invested more than a million troops. There were even True Gods leading the Oracle Legion to participate in the war. In the end, it led to the fall of the earliest patron god of the human race, the God of Knights, who had a high reputation. Countless oracles and believers had died, and the total number of mortals on both sides added up to more than 750,000!
Such a tragic war was rarely seen in the history of the past. Even in the legendary war between the humans and the Orcs, although the number of troops that had been mobilized exceeded this number, the number of casualties was much less than this. That time, both sides had mobilized more than 1.5 million troops, but the total number of casualties was only about 300,000. It was not even half of this time's number.
The reason why the casualties in this battle were so tragic was that both sides had invested in the Oracle Legion, and there had been a few crazy tangled battles. The efficiency of the legendary Oracle Legion's killing of mortals was too amazing. With the help of the super-large-scale auxiliary magic, the mortals, who would usually collapse upon being slaughtered, had summoned unimaginable courage and launched a crazy battle. They did not care about their physical strength, nor did they care about their casualties. Not only did this cause the number of casualties to reach a shocking level, but it also caused a large number of people to die of injuries and illnesses after the war.
In particular, the human army had once broken through the Orcs' battle line and launched a completely one-sided massacre on the auxiliary soldiers behind the Orcs' army with low combat power. It was just like using a giant sickle to cut wheat. Countless auxiliary soldiers died in batches, and the blood even converged into a small lake at one point. The price was that almost no one from the few troops that had launched the assault could return alive. Those brave warriors had almost all died in the Orcs' position.
But in the tangled tangled battles, the situation was reversed. Although the few elite troops of the Orcs were almost completely annihilated, before they were annihilated, they had brought along several times the number of humans with them to the underworld.
The serious consequences caused by such casualties would slowly show up in the future.
The total population of the Eagle Kingdom was about five million, but the Griffin Duke's territory in the east was basically semi-independent. Although the territory was not big, the land was very fertile and could support almost a million people. In this war, the Griffin Duke had only sent over 3,000 troops to help. This army was very slippery and had always maintained a relatively safe position on the battlefield. The losses were minimal.
Mobilizing 400,000 troops for a population of four million, this had almost exhausted the resources of the Eagle Kingdom. A direct loss of 200,000 troops and 70,000 wounded and routed meant that almost 70% of the entire army had been destroyed. On average, more than one-fifteenth of the population of five million had been lost. For those areas that had sent fewer troops, perhaps only five people from a village had joined the army, and in the end, only three returned. But for those areas that had sent more troops, there were cries in every house and dead people in every household. Every territory was holding many funerals at the same time, and every village had gained many orphans and widows.
The Orc Empire had not calculated the exact population, but it should be roughly between 12 million to 15 million. However, many of the tribes were outwardly obedient to His Majesty the Emperor's orders, and those who could truly be considered as hardcore royalists should only be about 60% to 70%, which was about 7 to 10 million.
Taking a more optimistic middle number, assuming that His Majesty the Emperor could mobilize an army out of nine million people, the number of elite troops would not exceed 300,000, not counting the auxiliary troops. The death of 100,000 at once would seriously shake His Majesty the Emperor's rule. Not to mention the loss of 300,000 auxiliary troops. Perhaps it would not directly damage the Emperor's rule, but it would have a lot of negative effects on the people.
For the Orc Empire, this meant that many tribes that were once strong would be weakened, and many tribes that were not strong would be annexed. After that, there would be internal strife and killing, and no one knew how much blood would be shed.
At the same time, people could not forget those knights, troops, and adventurers who did not originally belong to the Eagle Kingdom, but had gone to help for their own interests, beliefs, or the king's orders. Their losses were also extremely tragic. Almost all the elite believers of the God of Knights had been killed or wounded in the entire Main Plane, and only about one-fifth of those volunteer troops could return to their hometown alive. Even among the adventurers, who had relatively fewer losses, half of them had died …
This was war, a war so tragic that it was hard to imagine.
Before the outbreak of this war, many people had speculated. Some had speculated that both sides would win, and many had speculated that both sides would fight to a draw. But even the craziest and most pessimistic person had not expected that both sides would fight so badly. It was just like a nightmare!
This crazy and tragic war had even moved the Goddess of War and Death of the War God System. Although she had always been keen on making both sides of the war die more tragically, and even planned a massacre with the God of Hunting and Massacre. But in the face of a war with millions of people, with more than 70% of the people dying or wounded, this cruel and evil god could not help but flinch. So much so that her believers, who were supposed to eulogize this war, were somewhat speechless.
Whether it was the scale of the war or the number of casualties on both sides, this war, which later generations called the "Battle of the Sun's Dying Day," was terrifying, and even the gods trembled.
In terms of the impact on the future generations, perhaps compared to the war of the gods where the Human God System annihilated the Sun God System, this war in the human world was even more far-reaching …
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