379 Heaven and Earth
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"My lord, they are finally here. ”
A goatman standing beside Qu Kaichen whispered to the python prince, Qu Kaichen nodded, and during this time, he gathered all the orc tribes in the northern gourd canyon.
Those who have money have paid and some people have organized an army of more than 30,000 people, and they have been waiting for several days on this side of the sad canyon outside the gourd waist gorge.
These days, people eat and chew a lot, and if they can't take the humans in Riverrun, they will rush through the canyon and find them.
The topography of the sad canyon is very special, the terrain of the whole gourd canyon is high in the north and low in the south, and the terrain of the gourd basin in the north is steeper than the basin in the south of the gourd waist canyon, which is several hundred meters higher.
Therefore, the process of marching from south to north from the gourd waist canyon is a process from low to high, after passing through the narrowest section of the canyon, a small basin with an area of about five square kilometers will suddenly appear, but this basin, although the terrain is flat, because the surrounding mountains are steep, the traffic is inconvenient, the surrounding cliffs and cliffs often fall down the rocks, but the ground is full of broken stones that fall from the mountain, and the land is not suitable for farming, so no one has ever thought of building a city here.
And when Xiao Feng led the team here, he found that this was a very good transit station, and holding on to this place would have the effect of being a husband and a wife.
Although it is not suitable for production, it is a military important place, and it seems that after taking the gourd basin to the north, Charlesman can build a castle here to guard this canyon that runs north and south.
Walking here, it was already halfway there, Xiao Feng ordered the soldiers to rest in place, but secretly called Kyle and Bloom over and told them to be on guard.
Because since entering this gourd waist canyon, he can feel a feeling of being watched all the way, and he has a very strong perception of danger when he fuses the crazy soul of the overlord.
This kind of peeping dared to make him feel like a man's back, and he knew that it must be in the dense forest between the mountains, there are countless half-orc spies.
If you think about it, you can understand that he has made such a big disturbance in the southern section of this gourd canyon, and now he has even knocked down the southern end of the real gourd canyon, but the half-orcs have no reaction, which is very abnormal!
In particular, he learned from many orc captives that to the north of this canyon was a basin three times larger than the southern basin, and that hundreds of thousands of humans and orcs lived in it.
Before he swept the entire southern basin, there were already countless orcs who fled from this canyon to the northern basin, and they couldn't have been unaware that Xiao Feng led a large army to attack.
And any orc with a little head will know the importance of this canyon, and now they have marched halfway, but the half-orc on the opposite side has not moved at all, which is very abnormal.
Either they had already set up an ambush trap in front of them, or they had completely fled from the northern basin.
However, regarding the option of escaping, Xiao Feng didn't believe it at all, how could these half-orcs give up such a fertile land in the north?
So, you can think with your toes that they must have set up an ambush in front.
After entering this central valley, Xiao Feng's sense of crisis became stronger and stronger, and he guessed that his judgment was basically correct.
Kyle and Bloom were not skeptical of his judgment, because the current situation was too strange for the orcs to be unaware of their movements, and it was impossible for them to give up such a geographical advantage and not take advantage of it.
"So what are we going to do?"
"Suspend the march and let the soldiers rest here first, but be ready. Also, Bloom, you go find some mountain elves, dwarves, and former hunters, who are good at hunting and have more accurate archery skills. Pan Deli, you take someone over to investigate, try not to make too much movement, and don't expose yourself. ”
Xiao Feng instructed Kyle and Bloom, and at the same time called the poisonous bee general Pan Deli, who had surrendered to him in the last battle to defend the city, and gave him a few orders.
This poisonous bee general, because of Xiao Feng's overlord Feng's soul, is completely submissive to him, and his loyalty is even more speechless, and he also took this guy with him during this Northern Expedition.
On the one hand, they use their combat skills to assist humans in attacking cities, and on the other hand, they are also trained as scouts and signal soldiers, after all, these flying poisonous bee people are not big, but they are more flexible, and their flight speed is fast, which is very suitable for reconnaissance on the battlefield and transmitting information.
Pan Deli took the order, and Xiao Feng also sent the drone in his hand at the same time, Pan Deli alone is still not enough, the drone in his hand also has to be used, after all, this drone can fly higher and farther, and the drone with infrared camera, the detection ability is stronger than those poisonous bee people, and it can play a better role in detecting some orcs hidden in the dense forest.
Kyle and Bloom turned back and gave orders, and after a while, Bloom brought two or three hundred people to Xiao Feng's jeep.
At this time, Xiao Feng was observing the information constantly transmitted by the drone on the tablet, and under the observation of the infrared camera of the drone, those orcs hidden in the mountains and forests had nothing to hide.
Further north of this central basin is a very narrow mountain road, with a cliff of 90 degrees on the right, towering over hundreds of meters, and on the left is the branch of the rushing river, all the way to the south.
The road is very narrow, basically enough to accommodate three people walking side by side, much narrower than the canyon road they walked before, and it is very suitable for ambushes.
And those orcs did ambush a lot of people, on the left side of the big river bank is in the mountains, compared with the nearly ninety degree vertical cliff on the right, the slope of the mountain on the right side is very gentle.
And the vegetation is lush, and the orcs are hidden in this mountain, which is difficult to be discovered.
Once the army of Riverrun City took this path and spread out their formation, if the orcs suddenly launched a blow from the right side, it would catch Xiao Feng and them off guard.
And because of the terrain, the army of Riverrun will expose its left flank unprotected, once the orcs put arrows on the hill, or use trebuchets to strike, the army of Riverrun will be defenseless, and they will not even be able to fight back.
Because they are separated by a large river that is hundreds of meters wide, the terrain where the orcs are located is relatively high, and it is not difficult to project, and there is lush vegetation overhead as a cover, even if the army of Riverflowing City fights back with bows and arrows, it is difficult to be effective.
Once the whole formation is stretched out and embarking on this road, it will be a point of no return.
These orcs really choose the location of the ambush, this way of attacking from the side is often the most difficult to prevent, which is also the tactical means that all kinds of military books on the earth will repeatedly emphasize, from the right stab of the Roman phalanx, to the interspersed detour tactics during World War II, and then to the left hook tactics of the US military during the Iraq War, the essence is flank strike.
These orcs also know a little bit about war strategies, Xiao Feng looked at the feedback from the tablet, and pondered how to deal with such a situation.
When he looked up and saw that Bloom had gathered in front of his car with the mountain elves, dwarves and human hunters, the thoughts in his mind had already taken shape.
"You, under Bloom's leadership, are like this... ”
Xiao Feng began to explain tactics to these people, these people are special operations elites who are good at operating and fighting in the mountains, Xiao Feng had asked Bloom to pay special attention to these people with tactical expertise, and now these people can finally play a role.
After Xiao Feng finished explaining, Bloom led those people to retreat first, and went to the entrance of the canyon to start replenishing energy and resting, and after a while, they would be the vanguard of the battle.
At this time, the poisonous bee general Pan Deli had also returned, and he reported the situation he had detected to Xiao Feng.
"Those guys, set up a lot of ambushes on the right side of the valley, our men saw a lot of archers, and trebuchets, and outside the valley, they also have a big camp, quite a few people are waiting there, once we get out of the valley, they will give us a head-on attack on the outside of the valley, the terrain outside the valley is not suitable for forming formations, so they will have the advantage of fire projection. ”
Pan Deli explained to Xiao Feng while spending a simple topographic map on the ground, when this guy was in the Orc Alliance, he was also a general, he had received some simple military training, plus many years of warfare, he could be regarded as having rich experience in warfare, so it was okay to draw a topographic map and explain the reconnaissance situation to Xiao Feng.
Outside the canyon was in the shape of a trumpet, where the orcs had laid a net, and they not only set up an ambush on the right side of the canyon, intending to attack the human marching team from the flank.
After calculating the situation once the human army endured the blow and rushed out of the canyon, it seems that they did not want to wipe out the human army in the canyon, they designed the final main battlefield on the flat ground outside the valley mouth.
A coalition of about 30,000 people, 20,000 of whom are deployed at the mouth of the valley, are surrounded by a ring around the mouth of the valley, and once the humans rush out of the canyon, they will be covered by their overwhelming long-range firepower.
And the topography of this valley mouth is also from south to north, from low to high, showing a trend of flare mouth spreading to the north, so it is very suitable for orcs to deploy troops and carry out long-range intensive strikes, while it is difficult for the human army to rush out of the canyon to form a formation.