Ever since Ryan woke up from his slumber, the human retreating troops have regained their morale. Especially on the night when the orcs attacked the Thunder God Fortress, those soldiers who fought under Ryan, after experiencing the test of life and death, no matter in terms of experience, Still, he has greatly improved psychologically and has become a true elite.
General Jonas has been in the army for nearly twenty years and is very experienced in this area. After discussing with Ryan, he used these surviving elites as the backbone and reorganized the broken troops he gathered to form a new army. Legion, speaking of it, among the many senior officers in Thor Fortress, the only one who is still alive is General Jonas. General Keenst, who was originally a nobleman, was born in the south and was a civilian, so he was very interested in Jonas and His subordinates suppressed him a lot, and only gave him a lack of new recruits. In terms of supplies, he was far inferior to Clark's army, which was also from the nobles of the imperial capital.
Unfortunately, things are unpredictable. Currently, the only senior officer among the retired troops of Thunder God Fortress is Jonas. According to the laws of the empire, he has become the supreme commander of Thunder God Fortress until His Majesty the Emperor issues a new appointment, but now Fernando The Thirteenth was killed, and it seems that Jonas will be in this position for a long time to come.
However, Jonas will seek Ryan's opinion first on everything, because Jonas is nominally the commander of this legion composed of broken soldiers, but in fact the spiritual leader of the vast majority of these tens of thousands of soldiers is Ryan. That night , Ryan's crazy killing of enemies has spread throughout the entire convoy, and even Androkos, a magister, said privately: "Ryan is not a human being, he is a pervert. He releases hundreds of fireballs in one night, and then only I'm alive and kicking again after two days of rest. Is there any justice? I can only lie down in the carriage obediently. From now on, I will no longer call the God of Wisdom, but instead call Ryan."
Although the last sentence of this sentence is just a joke, it also further confirms Ryan's strength. In the army, any qualifications, background, background, and identity are meaningless things. What soldiers care about is being able to lead They were officers who defeated the enemy and saved their lives, instead of being trash with a noble bloodline and a famous reputation who suffered consecutive defeats. Ryan single-handedly wiped out more than 5,000 orcs, and also led the human warriors to defeat more with fewer on many occasions, breaking the situation on the plains. Following the convention that humans must use several times their military strength to win against orcs, is there anything more convincing to the soldiers on the front line of the battle than this
At noon the next day after Ryan woke up, the orcs' pursuers appeared in the sight of the scouts. However, what surprised everyone was that these pursuers were only 5,000 people. The human army simply let the carriages filled with food He and the civilians left first, leaving the main force in place, setting up a formation and waiting quietly for the pursuers.
Two hours later, the orc pursuers appeared in front of the human phalanx. Jonas sat on his war horse, looking at the orc army coming from Juechen, and couldn't help but curse: "That's all, you look down on us so much." Right." Indeed, the orcs were chasing only 5,000 people, and their equipment was also uneven. Some had bronze weapons, some had iron weapons, some were wearing body armor, and some were actually wearing human infantry uniforms. They were wearing standard armor, and the entire orc pursuers had no formation. They just caught up with them in a chaotic manner, and then swarmed towards the waiting human phalanx.
"General, give the order." General Jonas's men couldn't bear it anymore and begged for a fight: "Hit them well and make the brothers angry."
Jonas looked at Ryan next to him. The latter was sitting on a docile horse without saying a word, and his face was very calm. He was not like a soldier waiting to fight on the battlefield. Jonas thought for a while, and then An order was given: "The infantry square will defend on the spot, and the cavalry commander will go around from the right to the orc flank to wait for the charge order."
The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded. Under the leadership of their commander, 10,000 unarmored cavalry broke away from the main phalanx and went in an arc to the right side of the human position to stand by. The orcs who were originally pursuing troops who were far inferior in number to humans He actually had no countermeasures and was still running with all his strength in a chaotic manner.
"Damn green-skinned bastard." Colin cursed fiercely behind Ryan's back. Because he and Thomas were capable officers under Ryan, each of them got a war horse to ride on.
Thomas said: "Yes, these barbaric guys have no military knowledge at all. Our army clearly set up an attack formation, but they didn't care and just ran into us."
"Don't be careless." Jonas suddenly spoke: "Orcs are not as good as us in these aspects, but their advantages are also obvious, that is, the combat effectiveness of a single body, whether it is strength or the ferocity of combat, is not comparable to that of us humans. Yes, in fact, for them, fighting means charging close, and then fighting tooth and nail to kill all the enemies or be killed themselves."
Colin and Thomas were speechless for a while. Jonas's words left them unable to refute. At this time, the human cavalry troops had arrived at the designated position and were ready to launch an attack at any time.
Jonas narrowed his eyes. He still couldn't figure out what the purpose of these orc pursuers was. However, after he learned about the traces of these pursuers, he sent out scouts one after another to search dozens of kilometers around. There was no trace of the second orc army. After hesitation, Jonas decided to fight back on the spot. He couldn't let 5,000 orcs drive him and his party back to the imperial capital like this. Since they were sent to the door, they would eat them first. If there is any conspiracy or conspiracy, Ryan will be there, right
Jonas looked at the orc soldiers getting closer and closer, mentally calculating the best time to attack. After all, these 10,000 cavalry did not wear armor. Although they would run faster, they had almost no defense. Once they got into a hard battle, they would be in trouble. Seeing that the orcs at the front were less than 50 meters away from the humans, Jonas made a quick decision and said: "Infantry phalanx, raise your guns."
A dozen messengers immediately held their flags high, urged their horses to run, and loudly announced Jonas's order. Ten thousand human infantrymen all raised their spears and aimed their sharp blades at them. The orcs rushed up, and in front of the 15,000 spear warriors were 5,000 warriors holding shields and swords. They pressed the shields tightly against their left shoulders, then turned their bodies slightly sideways, facing the orcs with the front of the shield. Can resist the attack of the orcs at any time, these 5,000 sword and shield warriors will become the first line of defense of the human phalanx, buying precious time for their comrades behind them.
After these human warriors experienced a short rest, their mental state was much stronger than when they were defeated. Especially the surviving veterans kept warning them that when forming a phalanx to fight against the orcs, they must not have any Anyone who wavers and runs away without wanting to die will definitely die the fastest, because he has lost the support of his comrades. As long as he stands firmly in the square and gives his back and sides to his comrades, he does not need to be afraid of the orcs. Although the orcs are very powerful in attacking, the human spear array is not inferior to them. These veterans were able to temporarily form a phalanx with 3,000 defeated troops to kill more than 7,000 elite orc warriors, which is the best proof.
Therefore, the gun array composed of human warriors stood firmly in place. They far exceeded the enemy in numbers, and there was also Ryan magician behind them. Even if the situation was critical, everything could be solved as long as Ryan took action. With this kind of thinking, all human warriors naturally had no fear. Also without fear were the orcs. They started running with all their strength from a few hundred meters away, and just ran into a group of 20,000 humans. In a square formation composed of soldiers,
"Bang." A dull sound of impact came, and the orc warriors hit the shields of the human sword and shield warriors standing in the first row of the phalanx. The huge impact caused these human sword and shield warriors to retreat continuously, but before these humans Behind the sword and shield warriors, those warriors holding spears had already lowered their 3-meter-long spears and pointed them at the orcs. Without exception, the orcs who hit the shields were penetrated by the sharp spears.
"Huh." The spear warriors standing in the third row of the square thrust out their spears without hesitation, while the spear warriors standing in the second row took back their spears in a tacit understanding and acted as the third row. After the soldier's spear was thrust out to the limit, the spear warrior standing in the fourth and last row also thrust out the spear with all his strength. At the same time, the soldiers in the third row also began to draw back the spear.
It sounds tedious to say, but these human warriors have gone through similar training for at least half a year. As long as the leader of the team shouts a slogan, they will make corresponding actions in a uniform manner, thrusting out, withdrawing, and thrusting over and over again. Take out and then retract, regardless of whether the spear hits the target or whether there is an enemy in front of you. All these human warriors need to do are a few standard actions that are familiar to them from daily practice.
The orc warriors did not have a neat attack formation at all, and they were unable to exert continuous pressure on the gun array formed by the human warriors. Sometimes, individual powerful orcs hacked to death the sword and shield warriors in front of them and rushed into the human phalanx. Inside, there were no companions behind him to support him. The orcs who broke through the phalanx could only cause a little local chaos, and then died under the encirclement of superior human forces.
Jonas looked behind and shook his head. What on earth were these orcs thinking? Did they come here specially to die? However, thinking about it, Jonas had never been careless. Even though humans had already occupied an absolute advantage, he still kept I sent scouts everywhere to investigate, but still couldn't find any trace of other orcs within dozens of kilometers nearby.
Soon, the battle came to an end. The remaining hundreds of orcs no longer charged forward, but turned around and ran away. The human infantry phalanx did not pursue it without receiving orders, but Jonas did let people launch a cavalry charge. On the order, 10,000 cavalry formed a charge formation and ran over the hundreds of fleeing orcs without mercy, leaving only a bloody ground. The battle ended in less than ten minutes. Humans could only pay for it. At the cost of dozens of warriors being killed and more than a hundred injured, the 5,000 orc pursuers were completely wiped out, and a rare victory was achieved.