On the battlefield, the battle between Andreas and Orlando continued. Under Orlando's planned and patient defense, Andreas could not gain any advantage at all. His "Wrath" and "Frost Whisper" double swords and Orlando's "Passion" sword and "Lion Pattern" shield are both magical weapons, and their enchantment effects are not much different. When Orlando goes all out to defend, even Andreas, a sword master, can't do it. Break through the protection of this holy knight in a short time,
In order to defeat his opponent, Andreas used various methods. He disrupted Orlando's sight with his unpredictable body shape, but Orlando only had to move his position slightly to advance Andreas to the top of the royal viewing platform. The passage was completely blocked, and Andreas had to confront Orlando head-on if he wanted to continue moving forward. In order to quickly pass through Orlando's blockade, Andreas directly waved his two swords and aimed at the same part of Orlando continuously. Launched a thrust, but Orlando could easily block Andreas' attack by just waving the lion shield in his hand.
Under the influence of the idea of quick victory, Andreas even did not hesitate to expose one flaw after another to attract Orlando to attack him. In his opinion, Orlando's defense was airtight, but this holy knight was attacking and defending. There will always be some flaws exposed during the transition, but Orlando is so slow and stalemate with Andreas. No matter Andreas deliberately exposes the flaws or there are real flaws, Orlando is unmoved and just firmly Blocking the passage for Andreas to reach the top of the viewing platform,
In this way, the most powerful attack point of the orcs, Swordmaster Andreas, was held back by the human holy knight Orlando. In this way, it would be almost impossible for the orcs to break through as quickly as before. This is very difficult for humans. This is indeed a good thing for the army. At least no one will die under that hurricane before Orlando is defeated.
However, Orlando was only able to hold back Andreas alone, but his human warriors were unable to block the onslaught of the orcs. Especially after the orc shaman sacrificed his life at the cost of his life, the attacks of the Blood Guards, the direct line of the Beast King, became even more intense. It is sharp, not to mention the temporary recruits of humans, even those elite troops that have undergone rigorous training are retreating steadily under the attacks of the Blood Guards.
This is not to say that those human elites are greedy for life and fear death, but that the direct gap between them and the orc blood guards is too big. As long as the warriors from both sides have a slight struggle, the orcs' double-edged battle axes will attack without mercy, and the human elites Even if the warrior raised his shield high, he still could not block the attack of the orcs. Some soldiers would be split into two pieces with their shields, or they would be severely knocked away by the orcs.
Therefore, the retreat of the elite human warriors is based on the premise that they suffered a large number of casualties. How can the position be defended if everyone died in the battle? Moreover, the so-called elites also have different levels. The elite troops of humans in the imperial capital are actually Strictly speaking, it can only be regarded as the third level of elites.
According to the deployment of the year and the development over the years, the first level of elite troops in the Human Empire is the Royal Knights under Orlando. With this strength of five thousand men, Orlando is enough to compete with ten times the number of orc blood guards.
Of course, Orlando has no choice but to allocate his men, because the new recruits recruited by humans simply cannot have any combat effectiveness in just a few days. If there are no backbones among them, they may be defeated before they even go to the battlefield. , and even if Orlando leads these 5,000 elites, if there are not hundreds of thousands of troops to support them, they will still suffer heavy losses under the siege of a large number of orc troops.
Holy knights are excellent, but they are not gods. They will still get tired, bleed, get injured, and die.
Except for these holy knights, the second level of elite warriors in the Human Empire are the legions in the Thunder God Fortress. However, most of them have been buried in the northern fortress forever. Only General Jonas led them. I returned some, but the quantity was not very large.
The elites stationed in the imperial capital were only at the third level. However, after the Holy Knights were dispersed and the Thor Fortress was almost completely annihilated, they became the most elite troops and became Luke and Orlando. The last trump card in hand,
If the orcs want to classify the elite troops, then the Beast King's Blood Guards are the elite among the elite. In a sense, their status is equivalent to the human Royal Knights, and due to the individual strength of the orcs, The combat effectiveness is several times that of human soldiers, so if calculated according to this simple method, it is normal for the human army to pay such a price.
After all, the Blood Guards are direct descendants of the Barbarian Bear Clan. They have gone through enough training and actual combat exercises, especially ten endless battles in the Blood Arena. Only the orcs who survive to the end are qualified to join this team. The selection conditions are cruel, but the warriors selected strictly according to the conditions are the best.
On the human side, most of the 100,000 elites left by Orlando and Luke have been lost. In order to fill the void left after their deaths, a large number of temporary recruits were mobilized and joined the battle. These recruits were The Holy Knight captain joined the battle. It was not easy for them to fight to the death. If their homeland was not at their feet, I am afraid that under the attack of the orcs, even Orlando personally leading the team would not be able to avoid them. rout,
Of course, not being defeated does not mean that they can play a big role. Originally, the individual combat effectiveness of these recruits was far inferior to that of the orcs, and now they cannot have any cooperation. Basically, once faced with the pressure of the orcs, everyone is Fighting on their own, the only purpose of these recruits being sent to the battlefield was to consume the power of the orcs. In fact, they did this, although the ratio was almost fifty to one.
Ryan saw that the human battle line was completely shrinking. He took a big step and wanted to continue to join the battle group. Unexpectedly, a person next to him suddenly pulled Ryan's arm and stopped his behavior. Ryan turned around and looked over. It turned out to be Luke. Luke rushed towards Ryan shook his head slightly, and then whispered: "That's enough, your task now is to protect Queen Catherine."
"But." Ryan defended his actions: "With Her Majesty's strength, she doesn't need our protection at all."
Luke shook his head with a wry smile, and lowered his voice again and said: "That's enough, Ryan. You ignored my objections and forcibly joined the battle group. Although you achieved good results, Allendo was seriously injured. You go I have nothing to say about fulfilling your wish. After all, you are also an adult man. You know very well what you should and should not do, but... "
When Luke said this, he suddenly looked at Faras next to Ryan, and then said to Ryan in a heavy tone: "I have no son, only two daughters. Orlando has limited responsibilities, so it is impossible for him to leave the imperial capital, but you cannot Same, your current identity is just the leader of a certain mercenary group."
Luke patted Ryan's shoulder lightly and said meaningfully: "I hope my daughter can live well, but with Sophie and Orlando's relationship, I'm afraid my wish will not be realized, but Faras is still If you have the chance, can't you even realize this little wish of mine?"
Ryan said hesitantly: "This, this... I can't just sit back and ignore it."
Luke said: "You have tried your best before, right? Even if you go up again now, will you be able to change the outcome? No, you can't do this, so please do what you can. Continue to complete the tasks I gave you. Even if we lose this war, it does not mean that mankind has lost everything. We can still make a comeback. Many times, living is more difficult than dying generously."
Seeing the confusion on Ryan's face, Luke continued: "As long as the queen is still there, the empire will still have a chance. There are many cities in the south of the continent, and there will always be opportunities to regain the lost land. Neither I nor Orlando can do it. It is our responsibility to leave this city, but who is going to protect Her Majesty the Queen? This person must be someone we can trust. We cannot let Senat do this. Okay, don't say it anymore, just treat it like it is It's exactly an old man's last wish." Luke's last words were very plain, but there was deep regret in them.
Ryan's mind was in chaos. He weighed it again and again, but he didn't know what he should do. In fact, Ryan had done a lot, completely exceeding what he should have done. If calculated according to military merit, I am afraid that in the imperial capital, In the defense battle, few people could surpass Ryan, but Ryan always felt a little regretful in his heart, because he found that his strength seemed pretty good, but it was of no use in this kind of war with hundreds of thousands of people.
Ryan stood there silently. Faced with a dilemma, he fell into hesitation. Unknowingly, Ryan was distracted. He thought of his parents, teachers, and Faras. Thinking of this, Ryan subconsciously He raised his head and glanced at Faras, and suddenly thought of Victor from Faras and the magic scroll that Luke had given to him before.
Ryan found the scroll from his storage pocket. If it were normal, Ryan would definitely study the magic circle on this scroll, but now Ryan didn't have time. He aimed at the orc who was less than 30 meters away from him under the auditorium. Tear the scroll apart with force, and a faint white light emits from the scroll, and disappears without a trace after a few seconds.
However, this scroll just flashed with a white light and had no other reaction. The orcs not far away were still killing the human defenders crazily. This made Ryan very, very disappointed. Could it be that this scroll was just a failed work