"Roar, about three hundred orcs let out an astonishing roar, lined up in a loose formation, waved their weapons and launched a charge. Their target was a human position 50 meters away. This human position was located between two streets. At the confluence, as long as this is opened up, two orcs attacking from different directions can meet here.
It has been five days since the orcs invaded Fernando City. They were strongly intercepted by the human defenders, and they suffered casualties almost every step forward. Although for every orc killed, the humans would pay the price of fifteen to twenty deaths, but At this time, the imperial capital has a population of at least 8 million, and the number of armed young and middle-aged people exceeds 2 million. This is a number that makes any race except humans tremble all over.
Humanity is not afraid of sacrifice, because even if these 2 million soldiers are killed in battle, the Imperial City can still recruit 2 million more soldiers. Although the quality of the soldiers will inevitably decline, and humans are not the only city in this city, the Holy Alliance Empire nominally controls more than With a population of 60 million, there are many cities with a permanent human population of more than 200,000, and there are several cities with a population of more than 500,000. These are areas with relatively concentrated populations. As long as there are supplies and equipment, a large number of warriors can be quickly armed. , even if we only recruit troops in those areas that the empire can actually control, we can once again obtain more than 2 million troops in a short period of time.
But the orcs can't do that. The entire orc tribe only has a population of a few million, excluding the elderly and children. Moreover, once all the young orcs are wiped out, there will be serious problems with the continuation of the orcs' race. The orcs rely on hunting. It is very difficult for the elderly and children to make a living by herding and herding.
Moreover, the orcs are not monolithic. Although the Barbarian Bear clan is the only one with a current strength of 250,000, if they lose a large number of troops in battle, their dominance will be peeped by other clans. The reason why the Barbarian Bear clan has achieved what it is today The most important reason for the dominant position of the orcs is that the previous ruler of the orcs, the Wild Wolf Clan, suffered a huge loss in strength after attacking humans. This allowed the Barbarian Bear Clan to seize this position in one fell swoop.
Now, it has been five days since the orcs invaded Fernando City. The front troops of the Barbarian Bear Clan suffered heavy losses. Almost all of the 30,000-strong team were crippled and had to withdraw from the battle. However, the orcs quickly changed some strategies. The Beast King Order the orc army to be organized into units of a thousand people and equipped with small siege equipment such as trebuchets. They strive to first occupy the traffic arteries in the city and divide and surround the human defenders. Once the encirclement is successful, they will use superior forces to forcibly annihilate them, and the assault will be at the end. The orc army in front is still about six kilometers away from the royal viewing platform in the center of the city.
The orcs' offensive changed, and this important information was quickly gathered in front of Luke and Orlando. After careful consideration, Orlando began to modify the human defense line in response to this situation, focusing on the traffic arteries, with the number of people. advantage to block the orc offensive, and then mobilize elite troops to take advantage of the fact that the human and orc fronts are intertwined to penetrate deep into the orc-occupied areas and harass the orcs' logistics.
The crossroads where humans and orcs are currently fighting is a very important place in the imperial city. Further south here is the central area of the imperial capital, which is the administrative area of the imperial capital. Important buildings such as the central square and the palace are located in this area. If the orcs Occupying this place can cut off the human defenders in the northern area of the imperial capital from the outside world, and can also attack the central square in the central area of the imperial capital through this main road of the imperial capital, because the streets to the south here are very wide and completely It can allow more than eight carriages to travel in parallel. The orcs' mobile units such as wolf cavalry and mammoth legions can play their greatest role, and it is also difficult for humans to defend.
"Hurry up and fire the arrows." Following the officer's order, dozens of human shooters stood up from behind the bunker, pointed at the charging orcs and drew the bow strings in their hands, "Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." Yu. Arrows flew out and shot down a dozen orc warriors. The remaining orc warriors didn't care about the life or death of their companions. They strode over the corpses lying on the ground and rushed towards the human defense line at full speed.
There are a total of three human defense lines here, each of which is about 50 meters apart. These defense lines are made of flax bags filled with soil. The height of the bunker is almost as high as the waist of an adult human man. This way Human spear warriors can rely on this kind of bunker to form a square formation to fight against the orcs.
"Quick, prepare the gun array."
Hundreds of human spear warriors stood in three rows as usual in training, and pointed the spears in their hands at the orc warriors. The orcs didn't care about the chill emanating from the sharp spear tip, and bumped into it.
"Plop." The spear passed through the bodies of the orcs who were charging at the front, and the dying orcs threw the axes in their hands with all their strength. "Ah." Many human warriors standing in the front row were thrown out by this. After being hit by the ax, he fell to the ground. Several gaps appeared in the phalanx. The warriors standing in the two rows behind immediately filled in, preventing the orcs from taking advantage of the gap.
The human warriors guarding here are all well-trained elite troops, especially these spear warriors, who retreated from Thor Fortress and belonged to the Jonas Legion. Due to their performance in Camp 2 of Thor Fortress, Orlando was He trusted them very much, so he mobilized two brigades with a total of 10,000 people, led by an infantry commander and stationed here.
It was this elite force that had experienced the flames of war that dealt a severe blow to the arrogance of the orcs here. The densely packed gun blades took away countless orc lives, causing the orcs' plan to occupy this place before dark yesterday to fail. After spending a quiet night, when the sun rose today, the orcs launched a more violent attack. Several thousand-man teams took turns charging at all costs. There were orcs and humans guarding them almost every moment. army fighting,
However, these spear phalanxes from the Thunder God Fortress withstood the huge pressure. Although they suffered heavy casualties, they did not allow the orcs to move forward. In front of this first line of defense, the corpses of the orcs lay full, and the first row thrust out spears. Then, the tacit cooperation between the second and third rows prevented the attacking orcs from finding a chance. They were either stabbed to death by random spears or shot to death by human shooters through the gaps.
The orcs also thought about attacking from the rooftops on both sides of the street, but the human defenders were well prepared. They also set up spear arrays on both sides, and added two teams of shooters. They not only shot the orcs who attempted a sneak attack with random arrows After trying several times, the orcs gave up the idea because the buildings on both sides of the street were densely packed, which was not conducive to the movement of the army. As long as they occupied a few key points, they could be easily defended. It is difficult to attack. If there are few orc warriors, they will not have enough attack power to take them down. If there are many people, they will crowd together and die in vain.
The orc general who directed the attack watched indifferently as the attacking warriors were killed one by one by the human defenders. The position he was standing was about 500 meters away from the human defense line. The humans did not have catapults, so they could not attack with ballistae alone. It's quite safe this far away.
The orc general glanced past his eyes. Of course, he didn't know that this was a human civilian area. The streets were not wide, but the houses on both sides were many and dense. He only knew that the streets here could accommodate six carriages in parallel, which counted. It's only about 20 to 30 meters long, and hundreds of people can be sent up at once. If there are more, not only will the formation be unable to unfold, but they will also be massacred by human weapons such as ballistae.
"Report to the general that the siege equipment has arrived."
The orc general nodded. The reason why he stopped the offensive last night was to wait for the follow-up troops to mobilize these siege equipment from outside the city. Now after several hours of attack, the human defenders should be relatively tired. The ammunition for the opponent's crossbows It's almost exhausted, and it's time to launch a fatal blow.
"Very good, the trebuchets will immediately launch ten rounds of attacks on the human defense line, and then the siege engines will attack with all their strength. We must capture this place. We are wasting too much time here."
"Yes, general." A captain of a thousand-man team standing nearby shouted loudly: "I will do my best." After saying that, the captain of a thousand-man team hurriedly ran, shouting loudly as he ran. : "Get ready for battle." About 30 meters away, a neat phalanx of a thousand people immediately started moving and began to move towards the front line.
Three small trebuchets were slowly pushed over and set up not far from the orc general. Five siege vehicles were pushed to the front line side by side, almost occupying the entire street. The captain of the thousand-man team 200 people were transferred into five groups to follow the siege vehicle, and the remaining people were led by him personally, ready to support at any time.
The orc general looked at the trebuchet beside him and felt relieved. He knew the power of the trebuchet. The attack distance of this small trebuchet was about 500 meters, and the stone bullets it threw were only 20 meters. It's only a kilogram, but it's enough to cause huge damage to the human defenders' positions. As long as the enemy's dense defense can be destroyed, they can break through here and complete the goal of joining forces.
The orc general has a total of 10,000 men, but he separated about 4,000 men two days ago, led by his deputy to launch an offensive from the other direction. They agreed to meet at the crossroads currently defended by humans, passing through this After several days of fighting, the orc general still had about 3,000 people in his hands. Most of them were neatly arranged in a square formation and stood 100 meters behind him. The iron-like discipline kept these orc warriors quiet. stand there,
The sound of "squeaking" sounded. This was the orc warrior twisting the cable spool and pulling the catapult rod of the trebuchet to a horizontal position. After doing this, an orc picked up a ball from an unknown building. The dismantled stones were placed in a "scoop" behind the ejector rod.
The orc general pressed his arm and signaled to wait for the attacking troops ahead. When the captain of the thousand-man orc team and his men reached a distance of about 100 meters from the human defense line, this was also the limit of the range of human crossbows. The orc general raised his right arm high, looked at the human defense line in the distance with complacency, and waved it down as if he wanted to crush everything in front of him.