A full twenty-two days have passed since the attack by the orcs began. The human defense line has been torn apart repeatedly by the soldiers of the Barbarian Bear clan. Now the orcs have invaded the central area of Fernando City, and the tall royal viewing platform in the distance It's already in sight,
However, it was not all smooth sailing for the orcs to reach here. The Barbarian Bear clan paid the price of at least 80,000 warriors dying on the battlefield, and the other three major clans together also paid more than 50,000 casualties. As for the smaller tribes, Many elite warriors have been completely exhausted and have to withdraw from the battlefield.
Although the price paid by the orcs was high, the human losses were even more tragic. At least 1.5 million humans were killed in this catastrophe, and more than 2 million people were homeless and had to live in the central area of the imperial capital, whether it was the palace or the nobles. The houses are crowded with refugees in ragged clothes,
Since the day Fernando City was built, it has been hoarding supplies all the time. Therefore, even though millions of people are crowded together, humans can barely survive. However, as long as the orcs plunder those human farms, manors, etc. outside the city, they will be able to survive. You can get enough food. Although orcs mostly live on meat and don't like wheat and other foods grown by humans, there is absolutely no problem in satisfying their hunger.
The battle has reached this point, and there is nothing more that can be said. Persevere until victory, or be defeated by the opponent. With no third way to go, the orcs must break the imperial capital to consolidate their new position on the South Talon Prairie. The occupied land, and humans must fight to the death, because the Holy Alliance Empire has no actual control area in the south and lacks sufficient strategic space. Once the imperial capital falls, these millions of people will be slaughtered by the orcs, then Thinking about such a tragic fate makes people shudder.
"Huh." Dozens of huge stone bullets whizzed through the air. This was an attack launched by the orcs. Under such a high-density stone throwing attack, the human defenders could no longer form a square formation to fight the enemy. This also means that the most effective infantry phalanx used by humans to resist the orcs will no longer be useful.
In order to reduce casualties, a large number of human warriors had to hide in buildings, relying on those buildings built with strips of stone to defend themselves against the stone bullets thrown by the orcs' trebuchets. After more than ten seconds, the stone bullets fired by the orcs flew into the air. It plunged down, or hit a building, stirring up dust that bounced to the ground, or penetrated those buildings that were not very strong and landed directly inside the house.
After about twenty stone-throwing attacks, the orcs stopped the attack and began to send warriors forward, preparing to seize the human defense line. The human warriors slowly walked out of the bunkers in groups of three or five, and quickly Holding the weapon in his hand, he looked expressionlessly at the orc warriors who were getting closer and closer.
Due to the lack of enough shooters on the human side, there is no way to form a suppressive arrow rain attack. They can only use feather arrows to sneak attack the orcs with feathers on their heads when the orcs get close. The two sides have been fighting for so many days, and the humans have already I figured out that this feather is the unique mark of the orc commander,
However, such sneak attacks are usually not very effective, because the orcs respect force, and those who can be promoted to commanders have much higher personal combat effectiveness than others. Even if they are sneak attacked by human shooters, most of them can be in the first place. If you have time to dodge or block directly, even if you are careless for a moment, being hit by a few arrows will make these strong orc commanders unbearable pain, but it will stimulate their ferocity even more.
When the orcs attacked the human defense line, hand-to-hand combat began. The humans formed small square formations and used the terrain to desperately resist the orcs, while the orcs relied on their personal bravery to break through. The battle was fierce, and the orcs were not static. When attacking human defenses, from time to time, several orcs will form a charge formation and break through the human defense line, but they will soon be surrounded by more human reinforcements, and then be killed using their own numerical advantage. However, these humans will take advantage of The local numerical advantage launched a counterattack to suppress the orcs. However, once the human formation became larger, they would be attacked by stone throws from behind the orcs. Soon they had to retreat due to heavy losses, so more The orcs used this as a breakthrough point and began to attack forcefully again.
The battle continued in a stalemate, but on the whole, the human defense line was still being eaten by the orcs bit by bit. The royal viewing platform in the distance became clearer and clearer. The streets were filled with corpses, most of which were human. But there were also a lot of orcs. In many cases, both sides even directly piled these corpses together to form bunkers as their own temporary defense line. The humans had long lost the fear at the beginning of the war. After twenty days of blood and Under the baptism of fire, a large number of human warriors have grown from recruits to veterans. These veterans will soon be replaced and receive treatment from the rear pastors. After a short rest, they will return to the front line with more recruits.
When the batch of veterans who are able to return to the rear alive begin to rest, the priests who treat the injuries will find that it is difficult to find familiar faces here. War is so cruel. Until now, the only human side that can maintain The team was formed by the Royal Knights of Orlando. These knights who had undergone rigorous training became the backbone. They fought bravely on the front line to kill the enemy, bringing out batch after batch of qualified veterans, but they never withdrew. rest,
Although the orcs have been equipped with a large number of sharper iron weapons, it is still very difficult to split the magic-enhanced armor of the Holy Knight. Not to mention that the Holy Knight can easily Defeating orcs ten times their size, and inspired by them, more and more human warriors forgot their timidity and bravely joined the battle.
Ryan and others never participated in the battle after returning to the Royal Observatory, because with the deepening of the orc offensive, the Royal Observatory, as the human command center, has also been greatly threatened. Ryan must start to perform his duties, Protect Catherine's safety, but under the control of the royal magician, the magic defense of the royal viewing platform can completely block the stone bullets flying in the air, so there is no need to worry about accidental injury.
Standing at the back and watching the battle is actually a kind of torture. Standing on the high viewing platform, Ryan can see the scene several kilometers away. He can clearly see the front line of the battle between humans and orcs. The orcs raised their axes high and chopped off the heads of the human warriors. Seeing the orcs expanding their offensive step by step, and seeing the humans consuming the orcs' vitality at a cost of fifteen to one, Ryan suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.
Yes, Ryan's heart is full of confusion. He knows that his strength is very good among human magicians, but in the face of such a situation where hundreds of thousands or millions of people are fighting, even if Ryan can keep releasing Thousands of fireballs can only delay the enemy's attack. What's more, once the orcs swarm up and Ryan is attacked from both sides, he will not be injured and his spell casting will not be disturbed at all.
After all, the path that Ryan and Alando have taken now is mainly to fight fast and slow. Needless to say, Alando's speed goes without saying, and Ryan also tries his best to preemptively strike first, and then uses crazy spells to suppress the opponent's counterattack until To achieve the final victory, this method is quite effective in small-scale battles, but once faced with tens of thousands of enemies, if Ryan does not have a large number of determined teammates to help support the defense line, Ryan can only do so much. Just fighting and retreating, barely protecting myself,
Tens of thousands of comrades form a phalanx, which is basically telling the orcs: "Hurry up and hit me with a catapult." Therefore, this method is not feasible. Ryan thought about it, but he still could not think of a perfect solution to the human predicament at hand. , he also planned to lead an elite unit to sneak attack on the orcs' trebuchet position, but this idea only passed through Ryan's mind for a moment, and then he threw it behind him.
The appearance of orcs and humans is very different. Neither side can make up and infiltrate secretly, and there is no need to worry about the opponent's spies. However, this double-edged sword also makes it difficult for humans to grasp the specific location of the orc trebuchet positions, while the orcs The range of the trebuchet is about 1000 to 1500 meters. It is really a difficult task to cross such a long distance in the area controlled by the orcs and go deep behind the orcs to find the opponent's constantly changing target without being discovered.
Faras soon became aware of Ryan's thoughts. She knew that Ryan's idea was a bit extreme. After all, when fighting against the orcs, the entire human race, at least the entire human race in the imperial capital, could let Ryan bear all the responsibilities alone. , so Faras found a suitable time to enlighten Ryan in a subtle way, and Ryan also opened his heart under the reminder of his close lover. He no longer thought about those meaningless things, because the military on the human side The commander is Orlando, and he, Ryan, only needs to fulfill his mission seriously and protect Queen Catherine.
Now Queen Catherine will use the amplification magic circle to deliver a speech to the entire city almost every few hours, showing that she has not left and boosting everyone's morale. The result of this has greatly encouraged the humans, but it has also made The orcs have found the key point of mankind. In the past three days, the orcs have increased their troops attacking the royal viewing platform seven times, and successfully confirmed the location of the royal viewing platform.
This is really no one’s fault, because when the orcs attack in other directions, they can advance a little bit as long as they increase their troops, but when they attack the direction of the royal viewing platform, the battle is often fierce and it is difficult to move forward. If you don’t understand where the human command center is, Direction, the orc commander is really an idiot. Originally, during the battle, the army's command center moved according to the actual situation of the battle, but in the entire imperial capital, only the royal viewing platform had a magic amplification circle. If Catherine left, Here, wouldn't it make everyone misunderstand that she has escaped? Then morale will definitely collapse on a large scale.
Based on these accidents and inevitabilities, the offensive and defensive battle of the imperial capital ushered in the most intense battle, the battle to defend the royal viewing platform.