The western fort area of the deep defense line of the Corver woodland is a small fortress group built in the hills and mountain streams with a lot of manpower to cut down countless timbers, and each stake on the outer wall surrounded by giant trees is carved with magic runes, and its strength can ensure that dozens of trebuchets can attack continuously for five hours without moving.

This fort area was a defensive wall built by Bowenright himself, and more than 100,000 laborers were used to cut down countless trees, and the total cost of these was less than a thousand gold coins.

This is due to the abundance of free labor brought about by the special environment of the Twak Domain, and the fact that the Corwee Woodland is unlord due to the betrayal of Cize-Devin, and no one will stand up and say a word even if its woodland resources are completely cut down.

And building such a strong defensive point is not Pedi's intention, and he will not spend Twak collar labor to do such a thing, this is the will of Twak collar nobles... Because, outside the jungle behind the fortress area, there is a southern official road that can directly enter the Fort of Tulbuk.

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The fortress area under the dark night sky is full of people!

The war drums of the orcs and the bagpipe military music of the humans competed with each other, and the shouts of killing, cursing and screaming were endless.

Half an hour ago,

The orcs attacked this defense area with overwhelming superiority, and Sir Bowenlight abandoned the forward defense line after receiving military reports from various places, and withdrew his main army into the fortress area.

As it turned out, Sir Bowenwright was the right one.

This decision not only saved the living force of nearly half of the corps under his command, but also caused the orcs to advance too quickly, which caused almost all of the orc's heavy weapons to be stranded in the forward defense zone.

The arrogant orc warriors were attacked by a perfectly staggered defensive line of attack in the hilly terrain without the cover of a heavy crossbow, and in the half hour of the battle, the proud orc warriors found that they could not even touch the enemy's walls!

Soon, the orc commander Cabe discovered the mistake made by the Vanguard Army, and after a moment of reflection, he gave the order to retreat for the first time since nearly twenty hours of the battle.

On the inner fort tower, Sir Bowenwright, who was watching the battle on the front line, frowned and whispered, "Our opponent is not easy to deal with. ”

"An experienced commander. The old knight's chief of staff, Baron Pruitt, commented: "In the face of the threat of flanking from the front and rear, he can still calmly deal with the tactical problems he faces, which can only be said to be a little calm and terrifying." ”

Sir Bowenright nodded, he looked up at the snow that almost covered the entire starry sky and said, "How long will it be before the orcs will continue to attack?"

"It's just more than half an hour. Baron Prut replied quickly, "The reason why the orcs retreated was because their siege equipment was stranded in the rear because they rushed too fast just now, that is, as long as they waited for their siege equipment to be in place, the attack could continue at any time. ”

"Well..."Sir Bowenwright stared at the soldiers moving back and forth on the front wall, thought for a few seconds, and said, "Then take advantage of this time to remove the first corps, and let the rested ninth corps go up."

"Haha, are you worried that Baron Pedi will see his 'beloved' First Legion suffer too heavy losses when he arrives here?" Baron Prut said in a mocking tone, "and Lord Baron's 'fiancée', she doesn't seem to have rested since she returned from Fort Tulbuk. ”

"I never think about it that much. Sir Bowenwright did not like the fancy mouth of his deputy, and he said lightly: "You also know that the First Regiment has not rested for a long time... And Baron Pedi's order is to hold out until noon tomorrow, and now there are nearly thirty hours before the order, so I must ensure the strength of the soldiers. ”

After a pause, the old knight continued, "I have stressed countless times that the Baron's fiancée is Miss Eileenfeld, not Knight Silla... I warn you, I don't want any rumors about this in my barracks. ”

"Well..."Baron Prut whispered with a lonely look on his face, "I can only say that it is all to blame for this war that should be cursed, if it weren't for this war, Count Omar wouldn't have had an accident, and we Crewe men wouldn't have married that damn magician... The family of the six dukes will never intermarry with the magicians of the Drake Mage Tower!" The young baron clenched his fists and slammed his fist on the wooden pillar on the tower, and roared: "This damn war, the orcs deserve to go to hell!"

Sir Bowenright shook his head silently, not making any comment on it.

The traditional aristocracy sometimes has a very strange misunderstanding of honor, such as Baron Pruitt, in his subconscious thought, since there is no precedent before, it should not be destroyed, and if it is destroyed, it is disrespectful to tradition, and it is a matter of detrimental honor.

Strange idea, isn't it?

However, a large part of the nobility of the empire had this deep-rooted idea, so the contradictions between them and the emerging nobility were irreconcilable.

After a long silence, Sir Bowenright said, "Have you approved the supplies requested from Command?"

They replied very quickly, by magic ten minutes ago. Baron Prut replied, "It's a waste, and I don't know how much magic material is spent on just two sentences." ”

Seeing that the other party still wanted to bring the topic to the magician, Sir Bowenright hurriedly asked again, "When will Baron Pedi arrive with us?" ”

"Arriving before dawn. ”

"Well, call me before dawn, I need to catch up on some sleep. Sir Bowenright dropped a sentence and went to his private lounge.

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Half an hour later,

As Baron Prut had calculated, the orcs launched a new assault as soon as their siege engines arrived, this time behind the bodies of the siege towers that looked like moving walls.

However, with the crisscrossed mountains and faults separated from the top and bottom, the siege engines were also the most important mobile equipment that could resist the arrows and heavy crossbows of the orc soldiers, and they could not reach the walls of the giant wood at all.

In other words, if the orcs want to capture the fortress area, they must fill the defensive line with their flesh and blood.

Therefore, at this time, the attack of the orcs became a little hesitant.

On top of the Orc Chinese Army's mobile tower, the leader of the 12th Banner, Mailersey, the leader of the 20th Banner, Shi Bo, and the leader of the 16th Banner, Riplo, were arguing violently around Kabe.

"We should now immediately abandon our plans to attack the Western Front. The old Captain Spoop Banner had a low voice, but the words were clear, and he looked at Kabe, "We should change the target of the attack, the Eleventh Legion of the Imperial Crewe has no intention of being the best breakthrough, they are stationed fifty miles southeast of the Corwee Glade, and there are almost no defenses. ”

"But to the southwest of the Eleventh Army there is a swampy area that is just blocking our line of attack. McLersey retorted: "It is for this reason that the attack on the Eleventh Army was abandoned in the first place. ”

"But now, we have a well-defended fortress in front of us, are you confident that you can break it in ten hours?" said Smith coldly back, "If we continue to delay, we will be attacked on our backs." ”

Ignoring the argument between the two, Cabe asked the intelligence officer a few meters away, "Is there any sign of reinforcements on the Western Front?" ”

"No reports have been received in this regard. Under the watchful eyes of the four commanders, the intelligence officer answered quickly.

"Humanity is so confident in their defense on the Western Front?" said the head of the Riplo Banner.

"Don't underestimate our opponents, since Pedy Reagan can defeat the old Overseer Morinda, you shouldn't treat him like a child. Cabe warns his men that if they still underestimate their opponents at times like these, it would be no different from looking for death.

Old Overseer Sboo glanced at everyone and said, "In my opinion, this is not because the humans have confidence in their own defenses, but because we are in case we change the target, and the daytime tactics have no effect on the humans, so I suggest that we immediately turn to attack the Eleventh Legion." ”

"Now it is impossible to attack the Eleventh Army. Kabe made it clear, "Although our intelligence was wrong before, so that we concentrated our forces here, since the beast god wants to test us, we can only face the difficulties." ”

"But..."

"My staff told me that if I paid enough money, I could take this defense in ten hours. Kabe unceremoniously interrupted Shi Bo's words, and his gaze fell on several flag leaders, "So, we need someone to make sacrifices." ”

"Advance the forbidden technique?" asked Melesey, frowning.

Cabe shook his head, "No, that's the means used to attack Fort Turbuk, it's our last hope!"