Chapter 133: Aftermath
The morning was spent going over reports, ordering repairs to the portions of the city that had been bombarded and burned, and cleaning the remainder of the battlefield after the Dagos troops were long gone.
There was a surprising amount of military equipment simply abandoned on the battlefield. The artillery had destroyed the transport vehicles, and many of them had never even been opened, with whole loads of supplies still inside when the Burton defence force went to collect them for parts.
Over a hundred vehicles were pulled into the city the first day, all staged near the gates for inspection.
Loose supplies, weapons, and the storage devices of the fallen officers were all taken by the survivors. But spare uniforms, blankets, camp supplies, enlisted men’s weapons, and much more were discarded as too heavy to carry, or too hard to sell once they got home.
The uniforms could be stripped of badging and reused in the city, or cut for bandages and rags by the city’s residents.
The quality was decent, though. So, the consensus was that it would be better to simply dye the blue and yellow uniforms into something more suitable and keep them until they were worn out.
The process continued for the next three days, until everything was finished, and the city could send out a Magitech dozer to create a deep mass grave to put the now cooled remains of the Dagos Soldiers in, well past artillery range.
In case someone wanted to come visit the grave of their lost family members.
"We have a message from the Capital." Princess Alexis informed Dominic the morning after the last of the battlefield cleanup was finished.