"Mishion, I remember that the strength of you and the orc tribe is not much different, why did you suddenly lose it?" After the group sat down in the meeting room, Su Lun asked the doubts in his heart.

Michion smiled bitterly: "We were too careless. ”

"We let our guard down after defeating the orcs, and the orcs turned away from us after that defeat, which made our warriors even more proud, and now that I think about it, they did it to paralyze us and show us flaws. ”

"Obviously they succeeded. ”

"But even if you were careless, you wouldn't be defeated so easily. Su Lun asked strangely.

"Indeed, even if we were careless, we would not have lost so much if we failed. After all, even if you can't beat it, you can still run. ”

"It's just that the orcs have been prepared for a long time. The orc shaman used the art of obscurity, and the army of orcs relied on the art of obscurity, and then under the cover of night, they succeeded in surround our tribe. ”

Su Lun nodded, he understood the orc's plan, the spell of hazy spell is not too difficult spell, after use, it can shroud a layer of phantom outside people's body, plus the night shroud, it is already comparable to stealth technique.

It is not easy for an army of tens of thousands of orcs to be shrouded in invisibility, and even legendary wizards need to consume a lot of magic power to cast more than a dozen times.

Although the orc shaman is powerful, it has not broken through the legend, and the use of hazy spells with night barely achieved the effect of stealth spells, and hazy spells also have an effect, and the shadows produced are easy for archers to miss.

Then taking advantage of the centaur paralysis after carelessness, a night of rapid march to surround the centaur tribe, the strength of the centaur lies in the cavalry and heavy cavalry group charge, lose speed, and are close to the orcs, the centaur loses all the advantages, the orc army has formed an elite force, the number is not much only two thousand, and then with the orc wolf cavalry directly broke through the defense of the centaur tribe, the centaur tribe was defeated.

In order to break out of the encirclement, the centaur tribe paid a huge number of casualties, and some warriors launched a decisive charge against the orc army, using flesh and blood to break through a way for more centaur women and children.

In the end, the centaurs lost more than 3,000 elite warriors, as well as some women and children, and in the end less than 4,000 centaurs managed to escape. And even so, these centaurs were still chased and harassed by the wolf cavalry of the orcs.

The centaur tribe with heavy losses fled all the way to the vicinity of Zhenbei City before stopping, facing the orc army, relying on their own is no longer able to resist, these centaurs want to unite the humans in Zhenbei City to fight against the orc army.

The war in the wasteland is brutal, and if it fails, there is a danger of racial extinction, and the orcs will not give the centaurs a chance to rise again.

"Are you going to ally with us?" said Suren as he looked at the little mare Misheen.

"Yes, Lord Suren, the humans and the orc tribe are feuding, and we now have a great hatred with the orcs, and we should join forces to deal with those orcs together. ”

"And after the orc tribe defeated us centaurs, their strength is no longer something that either of us can fight alone. ”

"I don't deny that. Su Lun nodded and said, "The orcs are indeed our common enemy. We agreed to form an alliance with the Centaur Horde. ”

The centaurs were overjoyed when they heard that Suren was willing to form an alliance, arguably the best news they had heard since the rout that night.

"Your Excellency Suren, we have one more request. Michion hesitated.

"What request?"

"We need some food, tents, medicine and weapons from Zhenbei City to support us. "The centaurs fled that night with no food with them, and many of them didn't even have weapons.

Su Lun held his chin with one hand, "Chrissy, how much food and tents can our territory provide now?"

"Master, the grain harvest in the territory has just begun, and after deducting our own needs and the food of the new population every month, we can take out thirty tons of grain. Chrissy said, of course Suren knew that this was only a small part, just a gesture for the centaur to see.

"Immediately arrange for men to deliver thirty tons of grain to the centaur. Su Lun said directly.

"Understood. ”

"Thank you for your generosity, Lord Suren, you are our centaur's best friend. Michion said gratefully.

"This is our support for our allies. Su Lun said with a smile: "It's just that we are also limited in weapons and equipment now, and we can't provide you with too much." ”

Su Lun's territory is not large, and his current weapons and equipment are only barely able to maintain his army, you must know that there are 1,700 soldiers in the territory now, and there are still many soldiers wearing leather armor, and the equipment that can be provided is naturally limited.

And there is another reason, after all, the two sides are only allies, these centaurs are not harmless to humans and animals, once they are given too much equipment, what should this group of centaurs do if they turn back and attack themselves, this situation is not impossible, they grab a vote in Zhenbei City, and then continue to flee to the south, and those orcs will not continue to pursue.

There are not too many rules in the wilderness, here is a belief in survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest, if Zhenbei City is still the original Zhenbei Fort, without building a tall city wall, then these centaurs are likely not to seek an alliance but directly grab a vote and continue to run.

Thirty tons of grain sounds like a lot, but because there are only potatoes and no other meat supplements, according to the appetite of a centaur, a centaur consumes about two or three kilograms a day, and you must know that a horse has to eat five to six kilograms of hay and about two kilograms of feed a day, and the amount of food that a centaur eats is even more amazing.

Thirty tons of grain plus their own hunting can feed more than 3,000 centaur tribes for half a month, if they want to rely on this bit of food to continue to run, they will not last long, plus the orc pursuit, these centaurs are likely to starve to death in the end.

Su Lun is wary of any force, even if it is an ally, he will use the greatest malice to figure it out, and conspiracy killings happen all the time in this world.

The centaur tribe lacked weapons, but they had bows and arrows, and the centaurs lacked iron armor, and they didn't have time to put on their armor during the chaotic battle that night, which also led to the lack of hoplite cavalry in the centaur tribe. Although the heavy cavalry has many shortcomings such as slow speed, lack of steering, high cost, and large loss, it still cannot deny the irreplaceable role of heavy cavalry on the battlefield of cold weapons.

If the centaur tribe had a thousand, nay, five hundred hoplites, they could have carved through the orc tribe's army on a frontal battlefield.

Suren gave the centaur tribe three hundred sets of iron-clad armor, as well as a batch of throwing spears and charging spears. Thirty tons of grain were sent to the centaur tribe.

At the same time, Zhenbei City entered a wartime alert state, 1,700 soldiers all returned to the team, 200 Zhenbei Fort guards were also on standby, 2,000 militia reserves were assembled again, and the blacksmith shop also opened up to produce armor.

Su Lun intends to issue iron armor to all soldiers above the elite pikeman, the strength of the elite pikemen is still a little worse than the knight level, but after being equipped with good iron armor weapons, ordinary orc soldiers are no longer their opponents.

At present, most of the pikemen in Zhenbei City have reached this level, and one has reached the strength of heavy armored pikemen (knight level).

These heavily armored pikemen are the backbone of the army, so their equipment is the best, and the half-body plate armor forged by the blacksmith shop in the territory has been given priority to the heavy armored pikemen, and the tower shields made of the carapace of the digging worms have all been given to them to equip.

The Barbarians also used half-body plate armor, and were dealt with double-edged axes and hand axes, which could only be used to launch counter-charges, or to disrupt enemy formations.

The archers were all in iron armor, longbows, and melee weapons, with only some of them using centaur longbows and elven warbows, and the rest of the archers using ordinary birch bows.

The range of the birch bow is half shorter than that of the elven warbow and the centaur longbow, and Suren was originally going to replace all the archers with the centaur longbow or the elven warbow, but the oak used in the elven warbow has not yet been completed, so it can only be replaced with birch.

Although the birch bow has a short range and little power, it also consumes less strength, although it is not a big threat to orc warriors wearing iron armor, but those ordinary orc soldiers do not have iron armor, and the birch bow can still pose a threat to them.

Su Lun issued a war conscription order in Zhenbei City, and there are still many mercenaries in Zhenbei City, all of whom have been conscripted to approach the army, and the half-elves are also within the scope of conscription. Suren promised Grace to recruit only one hundred and fifty half-elves to join the army last time, but the territory can continue to recruit when facing a huge threat, so this time the half-elves have a total of three hundred and fifty people to join the army, and the same drow elves are the same.

In order to deal with the upcoming orc army, Suren can be said to have used all the power of the territory. But even so, in addition to the militia, the number of troops in Zhenbei City was only 2,500 people.

All the scouts have been released, and every three hours there will be scouts to report the latest developments of the orc army, which has an army of tens of thousands this time, including about 500 elite orc warriors, 3,000 orc wolf cavalry, and 8,000 other orc warriors. In addition to this, there are more than five thousand servants in the orc army.

After the orc army defeated the centaur tribe, a large number of jackals, goblins, and bear goblins joined the orc army, as for ordinary goblins and kobolds, they were not even qualified to join the army, and the only ally in Zhenbei City was the centaurs of less than 4,000 people.