The Northland Wastelands, while the town of North is under construction, in the wastelands further northwest of the Lotas Mountains, a large number of orcs are trying to move south.

Summer is coming to an end, the sun in the sky is not as fierce as it used to be, and the barren wasteland continues to push green-skinned orcs south.

"Chief, we're running out of food. An orc came to Rogethus.

Rogsus was silent for a moment: "How much grain is left?"

"With today's food, it's only enough for us to eat for a week, and it's summer, and it's hunting and gathering along the way, up to a month. The green-skinned orc said.

Rogers' eyes suddenly burst into cremation: "A month!

"A month later, when the grain harvest of the southern human kingdom is officially harvested, as long as we break through the fortress, the grain outside the city will be ours!"

"That's enough food for our entire tribe for a whole year!"

"This time, we also want to have a warm and fertile land under the sun!"

At the same time, the Kingdom of Loren, the Kingdom of Florence, and the Kingdom of Celence have all received the news of the imminent invasion of the Orcs, and these kingdoms have been paying attention to those orc tribes in the Northland Wasteland all the time, and after seeing the orc tribes starting to move south, they will pass the news back as soon as possible.

At this time, the orc invasion directly made the human kingdom feel great pressure, there is still a month before the harvest, those nobles are not willing to clear the wall at all, and the vast majority of the farmland outside the city is noble, and they want to let them burn their fields? Those stingy nobles will not do this, as for the orc invasion, it is a matter of the army.

The orc invasion also made several countries nervous, and these nobles near the northern border began to recruit soldiers, and the exiles who promised Suren were directly required to join the army. In a short time, the number of soldiers in the hands of several kings, the northern nobles, increased by two or three times.

It's just that although the number of soldiers has increased by as much as two or three times, the strength of the army has not only not increased, but has declined. These soldiers are basically farmers who have just put down their hoes and picked up their weapons, and it is okay for them to defend the city, but as for the frontal battle, it is estimated that they will mutini and flee as soon as they enter the battlefield.

The Kingdom of Florence, the Kingdom of Lorence, and the Kingdom of Seoren all began to increase their troops to their respective fortresses, and the Black Rock City of the Kingdom of Florence used to have only 5,000 permanent troops, but after receiving the orc invasion, the number of troops increased to 30,000 in less than a week.

The Beast Blood Fortress of Lorens and the Canyon Pass of the Kingdom of Seren have also greatly increased their armies. At the same time, the nobles of the Northland also issued a wartime mobilization order, and all kinds of military supplies began to be collected, and many caravans that were ready to set off were directly stopped, and then some soldiers took the requisition order to directly collect the goods of these merchants.

The materials expropriated by these expropriation orders will be returned after the end of the war, of course, this is the official statement, in fact, these materials will not be returned even after the end of the war, and will only be compensated according to the minimum price of the goods.

As for not giving a penny, it is not nothing, in this era, the vast majority of those who can form caravans to do business have nobles as backers behind them, and if there is no compensation, those nobles will not give up.

Several human kingdoms in the north and the northern wasteland are separated by a Nafir mountain range, which stretches for thousands of miles, the main peak of the mountain range is covered with snow all year round, and there are a large number of wild beasts and demonic beasts living in it, although this mountain range separates humans from the northern wilderness, but there are still many roads that can be passed.

The Blackstone Fortress and the Beast Blood Fortress include the Canyon Pass, and these three passes are the three largest roads that cross this mountain range. These canyons are much easier to walk than the other trails, and there is no problem with large vehicles, except for these three canyon passes, the other roads are rugged and steep, difficult to pass, and in many places there are no horse-drawn carriages at all.

Some of the most dangerous trails are steep on one side and an abyss on the other, with a rough surface less than half a meter wide underfoot. Most of these trails are used by smugglers, because this kind of road is not only difficult to walk, but also life-threatening.

The Beast Blood Fortress, the northern gate of the Kingdom of Lawrence, once this place is breached, the three northern provinces of the Kingdom of Lawrence will face the Orc's military peak, Count Colin has immediately begun to prepare for war since he got the news that the Orcs are going south, and the permanent army in the Beast Blood Fortress is only three thousand people, including a knight group of five hundred people, and these knight members are the backbone of the Beast Blood Fortress.

Five hundred heavily armored knights wearing heavy armor and riding on horses that are also armored are the strongest troops in the human kingdom in this world, and the weight of a knight even with people and horses and then wearing armor has reached a thousand catties, and when he charges, not to mention the damage of weapons, even the impact force is enough to break the internal organs of an adult orc.

The 30,000 troops supported by the kingdom have also arrived, but this did not ease Count Colin's nervousness, because according to the information from the front, this time the orcs can be said to have poured out, and they are facing an army of at least 100,000 orcs.

Outside the beast blood fortress, the previous various antlers and horses have been completely destroyed, the ground is a mess, there are corpses and blood stains everywhere, and the air is filled with a disgusting smell of blood, in the battle that has just ended, the orcs did not take advantage of the slightest, but they have also successfully completed the combat objectives, and all the defenses outside the fortress have been destroyed.

The human soldiers who held the fortress were still in high spirits, although the orc army seemed to be a lot, but this fortress took advantage of the natural and dangerous terrain, the orcs could not take advantage of the numerical advantage at all, the narrow terrain was destined to only invest a small number of troops to attack here, and the steep walls of the mountains on both sides provided them with natural side protection.

Under the city walls, a large number of corpses were piled up in all directions, and the disgusting smell attracted a large number of birds of prey vultures, and some scavenging crows in the sky, and ordinary beasts were afraid of the army, but these birds had little scruples, and whenever night came, when the battle was over, it was time for them to feast.

The orc camp was only ten miles from the fortress, and a large number of orc overseers were driving kobolds, goblins and other slaves with leather whips to cut down trees, which were then made into rudimentary siege equipment by orc craftsmen.

Although the civilization of orcs cannot be compared with that of humans, their social system is much stronger than that of gnolls and kobolds.

Just after the battle between humans and orcs in the Beast Blood Fortress began, in just three days, battles also broke out in the Blackstone Fortress and the Canyon Pass, and after a short period of temptation, the orcs began a powerful offensive.

Su Lun knew that the time of the orc invasion was a little later, after all, Zhenbei City was not on the path of the orcs' advance, and it was also three hundred miles away from the nearest battlefield, the Blackstone Fortress. To the north of Zhenbei City is the Lotas Mountains, and if the orcs want to attack Zhenbei City, they can only bypass the Lotas Mountains and attack from the northwest of Zhenbei City.

After learning of the orc attack, Su Lun immediately recalled the army that was clearing the territory of monsters and bandits, and Zhenbei City now has 7,000 troops, the largest of which is the pikemen, with 4,000 people, followed by the archers, with 2,000 people.

Originally, Suren wanted to form more archer troops, but the archers didn't want pikemen, a wooden stick was added to create a sharp spear head, and the archer's bow body needed good materials, although the centaurs and half-elves were recovered, both races cultivated wood for making bows and arrows, but the number was limited after all.

It was difficult to assemble an army of 2,000 archers, many of whom still used birch bows. The strongest of them is naturally the Half-Elf Archer, the strongest of these Half-Elf Archers has been advanced to the Half-Elf Demon Archer, which can attach elemental effects to the bow and arrow.

The vast majority of half-elf archers are still at the level of half-elf archers, as for the half-elf phantom archer, there has not yet been one at this level, mainly because the half-elf upgrade requires twice as much experience as humans. But even so, the half-elf archers are much more accurate than human archers in terms of accuracy and range.

Suren sent all the scouts out to keep an eye on the movements of this orc army, and now the orc army should not know about Suren's city, once they know that there is a human city here, those orcs will definitely come to attack.

At the same time, the construction of the wizard tower in the city did not stop, but Su Lun transferred a large number of people to start digging the moat, and the previous moat of Zhenbei City was only partially excavated, because after solving the orc tribe, Zhenbei City had no enemies in this area, so the moat stopped.

Now it's just a restart, Su Lun's planned moat is to directly guide the water of the Hongsha River, the width of the moat is about ten meters, and the depth is also three meters, the water of the moat belongs to the living water, Su Lun even has the skill of earth spring to guide out two springs from the underground, so that the spring water also flows into the moat.

Because the terrain of Zhenbei City is relatively high, there is no need to worry about the river water pouring into the city, in addition to the role of defense, the moat can also be used as water transportation, Su Lun plans to build a dock outside the city after the end of the war, so that ships can transport goods from the Hongsha River through the moat to the city gate.

The moat in Zhenbei City is being built in a hurry, and the caravans in the city have also received news of the orc attack, these caravans are impossible to return to the human kingdom before the end of the war, and can only stay in Zhenbei City temporarily, the guards and mercenaries of these caravans have also been recruited, Su Lun did not let them go to the battlefield, but guarded against these people from taking the opportunity to make trouble. 1603461462