540 Forward and backward flanks
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Who thought of Charlesman, but sent him such a powerful piece of news?
The entire back road has been cut off, and the orcs have already approached the city of Riverrun?
Where did these orcs come from? You know, they have always controlled the gourd gorge? The orcs who came up from the Napal grassland, and they haven't even captured the gourd-mouthed Qukai City, how could they suddenly appear under the Qukai City?
Could it be that they got through the ground? It's impossible!
After learning the news, it was not only Xiao Feng who was shocked, but even Kyle and Bloom were also taken aback.
Where the hell did these orcs come from?
Finally, after taking out the map and studying it for a while, Xiao Feng slapped his head, and he figured out that these orcs were killed from the east side of the land bridge.
They are located on a land bridge connecting the two continents of St. Sodius and Mesodis.
The northern part of the land bridge is a mountainous mountain range that runs through the entire length of the land bridge.
On the west side of the land bridge is the continent of St. Sodis, where the original Toulon Empire was located, while on the east side of the land bridge is the continent of Mesodis, where the Catron Empire was located.
The southern part of the land bridge is the Pannivela Peninsula that gradually narrows on both sides, forming a triangle that leads straight into the deep sea.
Riverrun is stuck at the isthmus pass where this group of mountains leads directly to the Southern Peninsula, and along this pass it goes north and west.
On the west side is the Hulu Gorge leading to the mainland of St. Sodis, and through the Hulu Gorge is the Napal grassland on the mainland of St. Sodis, and on the east side, there is also a large mountain range, even more dangerous than the terrain leading to St. Sodis.
It is said that it takes a full thirty days to pass through that mountain, and after passing through that mountain, it is the Mesodis continent where the original Catlrun Empire and Yingzhou Kingdom are located.
Previously, their attention had always been focused on the side of Saint Sodis, after all, there was a half-orc lair here, the secret forest.
And the main armies of the orcs are also concentrated on this continent, and they are conquest of the only remaining human empire.
As for the Mesodis continent on the east side, it is completely ignored.
After all, there had never been a half-orc attack from the Mesodis continent before, so a blind spot was naturally formed in everyone's hearts.
I don't think there will be any orcs coming from that direction.
As a result, the orcs taught them a lesson this time, and even took advantage of their sneak attack on the stall of Napal Mountain City, killed them from the mountains on the east side of the land bridge, and went all the way to their lair, and fought Riverrun.
Hearing that the nest was attacked, Xiao Feng was also anxious, compared to Rushing River City and the Pannivela Peninsula in the south, this gourd gorge is really nothing.
That night, he flew directly to Hulucheng in the south of Huluzui Gorge in a helicopter.
Not long after the team led by Charlesman left Hulu City, they found those orc armies, and the orcs naturally discovered them.
Fortunately, they were on the waterway, and the orcs had nothing to do with them, so they retreated back along the waterway, if not, they collided on land.
The fate that awaits them will definitely be annihilated.
Kyle and Bloom also sat on the vulture at night, followed Xiao Feng to Hulu City, plus Yingran, who was originally sitting here, almost all the senior leaders on this side of Hulu Gorge were gathered.
"How's the situation over there?"
Xiao Feng asked as soon as he came, the atmosphere in the conference room was very dull, and Ying Ran replied after listening to it.
"It's not clear yet, after Lord Charlesman brought people back, I contacted you while releasing pigeons, and at the same time releasing pigeons to contact the side of Riverrun, but there was no reply from the side of Riverrun, I believe it should be that the pigeon was sniped in the air. ”
Xiao Feng grimaced, and Ying Ran continued.
"After that, I sent a lot of land sentry out, but these elite scouts basically went out of the city and walked less than five miles before they encountered the orc scouts, with many casualties, and it seems that the orcs have covered the battlefield. In addition, I have sent a lot of ships back from the waterway, and the orcs should have nothing to do with them, but I am afraid it will take a while to get back the news. ”
Xiao Feng nodded after hearing this, and then turned his head to look at Charlesman, the old man was full of half-orc armies in the afternoon, and at this time he still had a palpitating look.
"My lord, I only took a few peeks at their large camp from a distance on the boat, and then I was driven away by their longbowmen, and I estimate that according to the size of the camp they have set up, this large camp will also be stationed with at least 150,000 half-orc soldiers. And I don't know how many such camps there are. ”
Xiao Feng nodded, the old man was already very courageous to be able to do this, after all, he was not a full-time soldier.
Kyle and Bloom were also gloomy when they heard this, now they were under attack from two sides, an army of orcs on one side of the gourd gorge, and an army of orcs on the other side to sneak up on their lair.
The situation that originally had the advantage could be said to be reversed in an instant, after all, almost all the elites of the human army were concentrated on the side of the Hulu Gorge, and as for the side of Rushing City, although there was Birodis in charge.
But the number of troops there is only 20,000 people who have just been trained recently.
Fortunately, Charlesman led people to frantically raise and strengthen the city walls, and now they can only hope for these walls.
It was already midnight outside, and there was silence in the conference room, and no one could think of a good way to deal with the current predicament
Xiao Feng turned his head and said to Kyle and Bloom: "You guys wait a while and rush back to Qukai City overnight, after all, there can't be no main general there, those pursuers were hurt by me before, I believe that they should not dare to attack recklessly this time." Tomorrow may only be a temptation, so the defense of the city will be left to you first. ”
Kyle and Bloom nodded, although they were also anxious about the situation on the Riverrun side, they also knew which was more important.
"Tomorrow morning, I will go back to Riverrun City to take a look, you don't have to worry, I will feed back the news from Riverrun City as soon as possible. As for the gourd gorge land, I will hand it over to you first. ”
Xiao Feng said to the participants, everyone else nodded silently, Xiao Feng is the archmage who led them to create countless miracles, he is everyone's confidence, the soul of this tribe.
Now that Xiao Feng is not flustered, everyone's hearts have finally found the bottom.
That night, Xiao Feng didn't sleep all night, and as soon as the genius was polished, he took off in the Black Shark helicopter and went straight to Benliu City.
There is still a distance of seven or eight hundred kilometers from Hulu Gorge to Benliu City, and if there is a highway, it will take a day to drive, but the road conditions in this world will take two or three days to drive.
In the past, the fastest way was to take a boat along the rushing river, but now Xiao Feng is not so leisurely.
At a distance of seven or eight hundred kilometers, the gyroplane will have to drive for a morning, encounter crosswinds, and avoid air currents, and may have to fly for a day.
But with the powerful Black Shark helicopter, there was no need to worry about any crosswinds, and Xiao Feng returned to the sky above Rushing City in two or three hours.
And along the way, he was terrified.
Then Charlesman was really not mistaken, the camp of the half-orcs was really very large, Xiao Feng flew over from above, and roughly calculated, a large camp can really accommodate an army of almost 150,000 half-orcs.
And there are two such large camps in the open space north of Riverrun.
And when he arrived at the bottom of the rushing city, he was even more stunned by the scene in front of him, the open space in front of the city wall to the north, everywhere was unextinguished fire, and the battlefield under the firelight was full of corpses.
Apparently there was a fierce battle here yesterday, and these corpses are obviously the result of human oil canisters.
Under the city wall in the distance, the sound of fighting was still shocking.
Many of the ground fortifications in front of the walls, such as the trenches, moats, and barbed wire positions, had been breached.
At this time, a large group of orcs were under the city wall, attacking the city wall.
The walls are full of scorched black, and there are also pictures of corpses lying in wait under the walls.
Thanks to Charlesman's previous increase in the height of the main city wall to about twenty meters, these orcs who rushed under the city wall were helpless.
But Xiao Feng saw dozens of elephant people, with a height of more than five meters and a waist thickness of more than three meters, standing at the city gate, smashing the city gate.
The huge wooden door covered with a thick layer of iron sheet was smashed by them, and the planks behind the iron sheet had been smashed by them, and the wooden door had been seriously deformed.
But Xiao Feng was not worried that they would rush in, because the back of the wooden door must have been blocked by sandbags and stones.
The half-orc siege ladder and arrow tower are obviously not as high as the city wall, and they pose little threat to the city wall, but the most critical situation at present is still the city head.
Because at this time, there were countless golden eagles and birdmen in the sky who begged him to fly, hovering over the city walls, and constantly attacking.
Different from the aerial stone-throwing attacks that Xiao Feng had seen before, these golden eagle men grabbed round black balls one after another, and flew directly from the direction of the half-orc camp to the top of the human city wall.
When they flew above the human wall, they let go and threw the black balls from the sky.
But this time, these golden eagles didn't dare to go too low, because by this time the humans had already mastered a weapon against them.
That is, Xiao Feng taught human soldiers to make big yellow ballista carts, this powerful weapon, once it was born, it was widely liked by human soldiers, and now naturally many of them are installed on the city wall as a weapon to defend the city.
And the giant crossbow shot by this weapon operated by human soldiers was naturally a huge threat to those golden eagle people, and in just a moment, Xiao Feng saw that at least three golden eagles were shot by human soldiers.