Chapter 626: First Confrontation
"Thank you Uncle for your teachings. Jemil respectfully took the beef jerky, threw a piece into his mouth, and carefully put away the rest, while remembering that although these little things were inconspicuous, they were all the experience accumulated by the veterans.
"I really don't have anything else to teach you, you should know, when you usually train, your commanders should teach you. The veteran Jim then said lazily, "The only thing I can tell you is that if you want to live, you can't be cowardly, the more you coax, the faster you die, because bullying is hard and afraid of soft, it is common to everyone, the more cowardly you are, the easier it is for the enemy to come to the door, and the more fierce the better, when you are more fierce than everyone else, it is not the battlefield that dominates you, but you dominate the battlefield." ”
"I see!" Jamil nodded heavily, and vigorously straightened his not very strong chest, trying to show a fierce expression, but no matter how you look at it, the momentum is insufficient.
"It's coming!" Jim, who had been lazy, as if he had not yet fully woken up, sat up straight, his eyes shining, and a fierce aura rushed to his face.
Jemil shuddered involuntarily, feeling that the person sitting in front of him was no longer the kind middle-aged uncle, but a vicious beast.
This is the true face of a veteran of a hundred battles.
Throughout the walls of Hukou Fort, similar to Jim's situation, abound.
They went from being the laziest and most indifferent group of people to being the most serious and vicious group of people.
Jemille was a little confused at first, and he didn't know why Uncle Jim, who was still a little kind, suddenly became so serious.
Immediately afterwards, all kinds of strange cries and horses' hooves came at the same time.
That kind of terrifying movement made Jemil, who had never experienced such a battle, pale, sweating profusely, and soon wet the underwear in the leather armor, sticking to his body, so uncomfortable.
He was clearly in no mood to care about it now, and curled up behind the wall, the centurion's shouts echoing in his ears.
"Steady, steady, they're just testing now, they're not allowed to launch a counterattack, and we'll fight when we get them closer. ”
"Everyone pay attention to avoid it, the rain of arrows is coming. ”
"Don't mess around, but do what I tell you to do. ”
Those veterans like Jim, who have experience in dealing with Odin orcs, even without the reminders and orders of these middle and low-level commanders, know what to do, although their spirit and spirit have changed, but their bodies have not changed much, and they are close to the female wall, and some are still closing their eyes and recuperating.
It's a different story for a recruit like Jemill who has never been on the battlefield, although he has been in the Broken Pulse Defense Line for a long time and has not trained much in normal times, but he is still a recruit.
The spirit is highly tense, the body is like a spring, it is pulled tightly, and it will be okay to say for a while, and I am about to cramp after a long time.
Listening to the strange cries and horses' hooves outside the city walls, time became even more difficult.
At this moment, they felt like they were blind, and they had no idea what was going on outside.
Despite repeated reminders from his own centurion, and Uncle Jim had just warned him, Jamil still couldn't control his fear and curiosity.
I secretly told myself in my heart that there should be nothing wrong with just one look, just one look.
Still thinking about it, my body had involuntarily taken action, looking out through the gap between the women's walls.
"Be careful!" Jamil had already been thrown to the ground before his head was fully extended.
Immediately after that, countless arrows roared, crossed the city wall, and smashed down densely through the gaps in the women's wall.
Including the entrance of the female wall where Jemil tried to peek out, there were also seven or eight that jumped through it.
If Jamil's head is still there, it is unknown whether he can avoid it completely.
Most of these arrows are bone or stone arrowheads, and their lethality is obviously lacking, but if they are hit in the face, they still won't have his good fruit to eat, even if they don't die, their heads will be broken and bleeding is indispensable.
"Are you looking for death?" Didn't your captain tell you that the hairy savages were accustomed to start with a rain of arrows and make threats and temptations?
At the same time, he did not forget to drag Jamil and lead him to the corner of the arrow.
"I ...... I ......" Jamil kept opening his mouth like a fish on the shore, but he didn't spit out for a long time, not only frightened by the thrill he had just seen, but also by the scene outside the city that he had just peeked into.
In the first glimpse of the flood just now, the most impressive thing was the overwhelming rain of arrows, which seemed to cover the entire sky, and that kind of scene was not scary.
Below the city wall, countless Odin orcs rode their war horses and whistled over the not spacious open space, sending arrows to the city wall.
Looking at their thick and abnormal arms and the speed at which they open their bows, you can know that these people are from the wolf clan who are good at shooting.
The Orcs of Odin are not so simple as intimidating and deterring with a rain of arrows, they are still using this method to cover their movements under the city.
They are clearing roadblocks in preparation for a full-scale siege.
Because this is not a sudden siege, before the year, all the soldiers of the entire Broken Pulse Defense Line knew that the possibility of a large-scale attack by the Odin orcs after the year.
Since then, they have begun to prepare, and Hukou Fort is naturally no exception.
The outside of the city is littered with traps, tunnels, and rudimentary horse piles.
If the Orcs want to attack the city wall, they must first clear these artificial obstacles, which will greatly slow down their siege.
I just forgot, this sentence, Jamie finally didn't say, and thanked the veteran Jim: "Thank you just now, uncle." ”
"It's for the sake of the jug of wine. Jim snorted coldly, "If you look for death next time, I may not have a chance to pay attention to you." ”
"No, no!" Jamil laughed, feeling the bottom of the cold-hearted veteran, "If I can survive this, I will definitely ask my uncle to drink the best wine." ”
"I hope there's an opportunity. Jim was very cold about this, and seemed to have no faith in Jamil.
Jemil didn't feel much of it, and asked cheekily, "Uncle Jim, I have some questions, I don't know if I can ask." ”
"You're a curious kid. Jim glanced at him, threw another piece of beef jerky into his mouth, and chewed slowly, "Those brutes want to attack, and there will be a while, and they will be idle, so it's better to pass the time, and say, what did you find? It can't have anything to do with the rise just now, right?"
"Why doesn't the Lord let the archers fight back, if we allow them to clear the barricades, no matter how many barricades we have laid before, they will rush under the walls in less than two days. Jamil asked the biggest question in his mind.
If their archers take the opportunity to launch a counterattack, it will greatly slow down the speed at which the opponent can clear the barricades.
"Yes, you kid isn't stupid. Jim said with a rare compliment, "How could the generals not think of a question that you can think of as a recruit? ”
"Why?" said Jemille, puzzled even more.
"Stupid, of course it's for launching a counterattack! Now is the time when they are the most careful and the most heavily protected, even if they mobilize the archers, the damage is relatively limited, except for delaying for a day or two, it doesn't make much sense, but it exposes our archers to their attacks, if they break and flee, if they launch a counterattack, it will be powerful, and then it will be their backs nailed. Veteran Jim replied.
Although he was swept to the end, his high-ranking knowledge and connections were still there, allowing him to know some things that ordinary soldiers did not know.
Jemil's brows furrowed into a pimple, and the doubts in his heart were even worse, "What Uncle Jim said is indeed no problem, but all the premise is based on defeating those orcs, and now the number of Odin orcs is more than ten times that of ours, whether it can be prevented is a problem, let alone defeated, and it will be useless to leave more arrows at that time." ”
"Hey, hey!" Jim smiled mysteriously, "Of course we've got a secret weapon, so you'll have to wait and see, and hopefully your jaw won't be shaken off when the time comes." ”
The secret weapon in Jim's mouth was naturally the black powder that had just been prepared in large quantities by the Broken Pulse Defense Line.
Due to the rush of time, the Broken Blood Fortress ate a large amount of black powder from the leader of the Eternal Night.
However, the experimental training is pitiful, and even those operators, most of them stay at the theoretical level, only knowing that the new weapons they operate are extremely powerful, and they must be cautious and cautious, and if they are not careful, they will blow themselves and their teammates into the sky.
I don't know what kind of huge law it is, let alone a low-level soldier like Jemil, who really can't imagine it because of their lack of brains.
When the black powder keg swirled and smashed into the siege ranks of the Orcs.
Not only were the Odin orcs bombed, but even the soldiers on the head of the city were dumbfounded, and the noisy battlefield was instantly silent, and only those Odin orcs who were blown up in pieces, but had not died on the spot, howled miserably.
That desperate, heart-rending howl.
For the Odin orcs, it is like a spike, which is venting their incomparably high morale, and they are all in a hurry.
For the soldiers with broken veins at the head of the city, it is a heart booster, which makes them red and their morale is greatly increased.
"What's going on? What was that?"
"Who knows what just happened?"
"The wrath of the gods, this is the wrath of the gods of the fall of the miracle peninsula, I didn't expect the power of this kind of thing to be even greater than imagined, Odin is on top, how can this battle be fought?"
"The horse is frightened, the horse is frightened, quickly calm the war horse. ”
"I can't calm down, run!"
"Withdraw! withdraw!"
"No retreat, all attack, Odin warriors are fearless. ”
"Attack, attack, death to those who retreat. ”
Not only were the soldiers of the Odin orcs under the city in chaos, but their horses were even more startled by the violent explosion of the black powder keg, and they were uncontrollably chaotic.
Fortunately, their siege soldiers dismounted from their horses.
If they come on horseback, they are afraid that the situation will be even more chaotic.
Odin's orcs also have a high level of knowledge about black powder.
Even if they wanted to convey the news to the Orcs below, the effect was not very satisfactory, just like before they saw the power of black powder with their own eyes, they were not in a state of doubt, and they did not believe that there was such a thing in this world.
The only thing that can be done is to drive away those herdsmen cannon fodder, as a vanguard, to test the power of the black powder of the Broken Pulse Defense Line, and prove it to those elites.
The leader of the Orc army besieging Tiger's Mouth Fort was clearly part of the ranks of unbelievers.
Driving the herdsmen cannon fodder to attack the city is not to obey orders from the top, but to the usual means and habits of the Odin orcs.
The Odin orcs were clustered together, and the formation was very dense.
The black powder keg naturally caused the most damage.
Most of them were directly shocked by this wave of counterattacks, and their morale fell to a low point and they were ready to retreat.
There are also a small number of them, who are stimulated to be ferocious, and rush forward with a scream.
There were also some people who had only heard the sound and had not yet seen the terrifying lethality of the explosion of the black powder keg, and rushed forward, only to collide with the soldiers who had withdrawn in front.
The pass of Hukou Fort itself is not large, one after the other, when they collide together, they immediately turn into a huge can of sardines, and they cannot advance or retreat.
"Haha...... The power of the black powder keg is really worth it, no wonder His Majesty is willing to spend a lot of money to buy a large amount of money from that Earl Sean, with this new weapon, even if the number of those humanoid beasts is several times higher, what does it matter, they don't think about the next step. ”
"Long live Your Majesty, the broken veins will last forever!"
"What are you waiting for? Keep reloading and kill them all! Kill all these hairy brutes!"
"Reload! Reload!
"Kill them, kill them, kill them!"
"Catapult, let's go!"
"Put!"
"Put!"
The soldiers on the city wall screamed excitedly, and some even let out a roar that they didn't understand, venting their excitement.
The trebuchet gurgled and turned, the vibrating of cowhide ropes, and the whistling of black powder kegs piercing the air, filling the city.
Then a cloud of flames, the flames of death, exploded in the dense formation of the Orcs of Odin.
Broken arms, broken legs, torn flesh and internal organs, flying in all directions.
The survivors around the fall looked at each other.
It wasn't just a rain of blood, it was mixed with sparks.
These sparks are the natural nemesis of Odin's orcs, many of them wear the kind of leather robes that have not been washed for an unknown number of years, and once ignited, they cannot be extinguished until they are burned out.
Soon outside the city, there were countless more humanoid torches.
The pain of the flames made these humanoid torches run wildly while howling miserably.
They are like drowning people, once they hug the people around them, they will not let go, begging the other person to save them, whether they can extinguish their own fire or not.
This led to more people, together turning into humanoid torches.
The tragedy and horror even surpassed the damage caused by the black powder keg.
directly caused the morale of the Odin orcs to fall to a low point, and in this case, no matter how brave a person is, there is no way to raise courage.
And the second wave of the broken veins line has arrived.
"The first echelon, the angle of attack is sixty degrees, put. ”
"The second echelon, the angle of attack fifty degrees, put. ”
"The third echelon, the angle of attack is forty degrees, put. ”
Countless arrows emerged from the Tiger's Mouth and fell into the ranks of the Orcs of Odin.
These sharp arrows are thick and long, and they are full of power.
Even some weak iron armor can be easily drilled through, not to mention the ordinary leather armor and leather robes of the Odin orcs, which are really nailed and accurate, and once they are shot, they will be killed on the spot.
Andes Longbow.
The Broken Pulse Defense Line is the first material to import the leading supplies of the Eternal Night Army.
The number of imports is even higher than that of black powder.