The orc warrior with his body hanging in the air saw the human archer on the city wall pulling out another arrow. He roared angrily, and simply stopped relying on his two feet to climb. He simply used the power of his arms to grab both ends of the wooden ladder and quickly Moving upward, the human archer shot two arrows in succession. One arrow was dodged by him, while the other arrow hit his left shoulder, which did not affect his crawling speed at all.
The orc soldier climbed up in a few steps. He pushed hard on the wooden ladder with his feet. He actually jumped more than one meter high. His whole body jumped up. The orc soldier was still in the air, but he had already tightened his grip with his right hand. The dagger originally held in his mouth was aimed at the human shooter who shot him repeatedly.
The long bow in the hands of the human archer could not be resisted at all. He staggered back and reached for his waist, preparing to pull out the dagger for self-defense, but the orc pounced at him much faster than he could draw the sword. Quickly, seeing that the human archer was about to die under the dagger of the orc warrior, he heard a shout, and a stream of swords swept past from top to bottom, cutting the orc in mid-air into two pieces, but it was that The human warrior armed with a battle ax launched an attack and rescued his companions,
The orc was cut in two by an axe, and his forward attack was naturally weakened. He fell to the ground with a thud. The human archer escaped death. He took back his right hand to draw the sword and took advantage of the situation to draw an arrow from the quiver on his back. , shot into the head of the orc soldier who fell on the ground, harvesting his life,
The human warrior holding the battle ax slashed it with the axe, without stopping at all. He rushed directly to the city wall. At the same time, another orc warrior appeared. Before the orc warrior could react, the human giant ax warrior He swung the ax in his hand again and chopped off half of the orc's head.
Blood spurted out and sprinkled on the face of the human giant ax warrior. The latter didn't even bother to wipe it, but swung the ax in his hand again, because the third orc climbed up again,
"Pfft." A feather arrow passed by the human giant ax warrior and hit the face of the climbing orc. The orc fell down covering his face.
No need to ask, this was the masterpiece of the human archer. The human giant ax warrior roared loudly: "Brothers, come on, kill these green-skinned bastards."
"Yes, kill them." A human soldier responded loudly not far away, accompanied by a scream from an orc. The soldier who responded slashed down an orc soldier who was about to climb the city wall with a sword.
Inspired by the human giant ax warriors, the human soldiers became more brave, and their cooperation became more and more tacit. In fact, the human soldiers stationed in the Thor Fortress were training almost every day for today's battle, combat skills, teammate cooperation... every day. Xiang Du practiced thousands of times. They waited for work and guarded the fortress from a high position, occupying an absolute geographical advantage.
Most of the orc warriors were herdsmen a few months ago. They were hastily called together and crossed the vast North Talon prairie. They rested for a while in the Beast Blood Castle and reluctantly accepted the most basic military training. Without cooperation, he was fighting purely on instinct.
The weapons of the orc soldiers are far inferior to those of human soldiers. They have no defensive armor on their bodies. Only a few of them have homemade wooden shields. When climbing the city wall, there are no large siege equipment. Even climbing the city wall with the help of wooden ladders is a mess. There is a swarm of swarms, everyone is crowded together, and often a stone thrown will injure a large number of people.
The orcs don't have archers, so they can't use long-range shooting to suppress the defenders. Human soldiers standing on the city wall can kill the enemy as they please. Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that the war is one-sided, but humans The soldiers still saw how powerful the orcs were, and many orcs actually climbed up the city wall. However, due to the superior strength of humans, almost all of them were killed as soon as they stepped on the city wall.
"Whoosh, whoosh." Dozens of rockets were nailed to the orc's battering ram, and soon the flames ignited. The orc soldiers who were still working hard to push the wooden stakes against the city wall could no longer continue and had to run. When they came out, they were of course greeted by boulders, logs and arrows.
The battle is still going on, but there are now less than 3,000 of the tens of thousands of orc soldiers left. Everyone knows that the outcome of this battle is already clear.
When the last orc was hit by seventeen arrows and fell in a pool of blood, the entire Thunder God Fortress suddenly immersed itself in a strange silence, but this silence only lasted for more than ten seconds. The human soldiers on board immediately let out cheers of victory, and the huge cheers spread throughout the entire Thunder God Fortress.
The orc army in the distance did not react in any way to the outcome of this battle. They did not send follow-up troops to support them, and they just watched all their companions die on the battlefield. This really puzzled General Clark, so He immediately sent his messengers around him to report all this to General Keenst in the command post.
A moment later, General Keenst received a report from the frontline commander, General Clark, and immediately walked up to the city wall with his adjutant and a dozen guards.
Looking at the few orc corpses on the city wall, and then looking at the large swaths of orc corpses lying in a pool of blood outside the city wall, as well as the corpses of many human soldiers, General Kyenst was slightly absent-minded. The orc army He was even more powerful than the legend said. Looking at the orc camp in the distance, General Kyenst was surprised to find that the more elite orc warriors were slowly withdrawing and retreated to the camp in an orderly manner.
General Kyenst felt very strange. In the battle just now, although all the attacking orc soldiers were wiped out, it did not mean that the orcs had lost, because all the orc soldiers were old, weak, sick and disabled, and they were the most elite. The army is still watching from several kilometers away.
"Report to General Keenst." General Clark strode up to General Keenst and said loudly: "The results of the battle have been calculated."
"speak."
"Yes, sir." General Clark said loudly: "Seventy-three of our soldiers were killed, 46 were seriously injured, and 159 were slightly injured. Eight trebuchets were damaged, all of which were beyond repair. More than 410,700 arrows were consumed, and stone bullets were consumed..."
"Tell me about the situation of the orcs." General Kyenst did not intend to continue listening, because the reserves of these strategic materials in the Thunder God Fortress are quite huge, and this little loss is only a small fraction.
"Yes, sir." General Clark thought for a moment and said loudly: "About 29,000 to 33,000 orcs were killed in battle. The specific data needs further statistics. Destroy the orcs' catapults, siege ladders, and siege ladders." There were twenty battering rams each, and no orc prisoners were captured.”
"Then what is the quality of these orc soldiers? You have been commanding on the front line, so you should have the most direct experience."
"Sir, most of these orc soldiers are old orcs. There are almost no young warriors. Their weapons are quite poor. Most of them are equipped with bronze weapons and have little protection on their bodies. But they are very brave, yes, very We are brave enough to be able to use the simplest wooden ladder to climb the city wall many times under the tight defense of our army. Although we were killed as soon as we set foot on the city wall, that is because our numerical advantage is too obvious."
General Kyenst waved his hand to show that he understood. He looked at the orc army in the distance. At this moment, all the more than 100,000 elite orc warriors had withdrawn from the camp, leaving only a large empty space.
"It seems that this is the orcs testing the defensive strength of the Thunder God Fortress." General Keenst came to this conclusion after thinking over and over. "The orcs can also make simple siege equipment, but it is obvious that their soldiers, at least These soldiers in the first battle were not very good at using them. Maybe they were going back to study more effective methods, maybe they were preparing to make more siege equipment."
"It seems that we need to reconsider the defense of Thunder God Fortress. Only 60,000 people are stationed at a time. Isn't it a little less?" General Keenst thought silently: "Perhaps, I should adjust the deployment of military strength, but With the increased number of people, the troops were originally divided into three groups and took turns to rest and recuperate. Now they will inevitably be combined into two troops, which will result in the soldiers not being able to take turns to rest and recuperate well."
Hans, who was standing aside, seemed to have guessed what General Kyenst was thinking, and suddenly whispered: "General, there are still many mercenaries, so why not make use of them."
"Oh, tell me."
"Okay, General, I'm afraid these mercenaries are not as good as our soldiers for fighting, but they should be good for keeping watch, looking out, and transporting supplies, etc., so that our soldiers can get the maximum benefit." rest."
General Kyenst nodded. This is a good idea. It would be best to use these mercenaries to keep watch at night. Most of them will have similar experiences when taking risks. They should be more experienced. As long as some elites are sent out, If the soldiers are mixed with them, they don't have to worry about them getting in trouble, and other soldiers can rest in the camp to recover their physical strength to the maximum extent. Moreover, the tasks of keeping watch and looking out are not very dangerous. As long as you give advance warning and wait, The soldiers took over the defense line on the city wall, so they had nothing to do.
"Then let's do it." After thinking about all this, General Kyenst issued an order: "Go to the mercenary guild to issue a mission, first recruit 2,000 mercenaries, then select 8,000 soldiers, and mix with them, these 10,000 people Divide into two groups and take turns keeping watch and looking out. It’s up to you to arrange the specific matters, and be sure to ensure safety.”
"Yes, Your Majesty General." Hans stood at attention and performed a standard military salute.