Chapter 196: Night Attack
The night fell quickly, and Su Lun did not rest after dinner, but took a few guards around the camp to check the state of the soldiers, comfort the wounded, and boost the morale of the soldiers.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Suren finally finished his inspection and returned to the tent, at this time the rest of the camp except for the soldiers who were on the night watch had already slept, Suren did not feel sleepy at all, and the rise of every city or tribe was accompanied by the decline of other races.
If you want to really occupy this land, you need to defeat all the competitors, which was the case with the original Carthusian city, and the northern city of Suren needs to go through such a wave if it wants to rise.
If Zhenbei City can defeat the orc army on the battlefield, then the surrounding small and medium-sized tribes will retreat from Zhenbei City, and only by defeating them will the other tribes be afraid.
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In the orc army of the Fireblade Clan, a strong orc sat in a spacious tent, and in the center of the tent was a burning bonfire, on which this fat pig weighing two or three hundred catties was roasting, and the rich aroma of meat permeated the tent.
"Didn't you find an army of centaurs?" the orc sliced the roast pig with a knife, and the fat dripped onto the wood, causing a flame.
"Thirty miles around have been explored, and no trace of the centaur has been found. Another orc.
"Could it be that the centaurs took the opportunity to escape?"
"Probably not. Gordon shook his head.
"Do you want to do it tonight. Another elderly orc, who was supposed to be a shaman, asked.
Gordon took a hard bite of the roast and said, "The plan doesn't change! Even if the centaurs do hide nearby, we'll just leave some people waiting for them to come." ”
"Great Shaman, it's up to you tonight, I'm going to tear those humans apart and avenge my sons. ”
"Ahem... Leave it to us. The old shaman coughed twice, then said in a hoarse voice.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was one o'clock in the morning.
The wilderness was so quiet that even the nocturnal creatures avoided it, the orc camp looked chaotic, some of the orcs who kept vigil were drowsy, and the torches around the camp swayed back and forth in the night wind, reflecting all kinds of twisted and strange shadows.
In this silent night, a team of orcs walked out of the territory, these orcs did not stop, just like the woods on the other side of the camp, in the depths of the woods, two thousand orc elites squatted silently on the ground, there was no fire here, only some moonlight shining through the leaves.
These orcs didn't make a sound, two thousand orcs were like two thousand statues, and after a long time, one of the strongest orcs looked at the sky, and then gestured at the orcs beside him, and the surrounding orcs began to take out dry food and chew slowly.
Even when eating, the orcs didn't make too much noise, and the orc at the head sat down again, took the wine bag from the hand of a strong orc warrior beside him, poured it into his mouth, and then handed the wine bag to the other orc.
In the dark forest, a team of orcs arrives.
"Great Shaman!"
"Are you all ready?"
"Ready. ”
"And here we go. ”
With a slight fluctuation of magic, an invisible shadow enveloped the orcs, and as the shadows spread, the figures of the orcs in the shadows became extremely indistinct. The shadows soon stopped expanding, and then the shamans continued to cast spells.
After about ten minutes, the two thousand orc elites were all shrouded in shadows, and with the cover of the night, these orcs looked as if they were invisible from a distance.
Instead of crossing the river from the location of the day, the orcs wanted to continue their journey for a kilometer downstream, from where they intended to cross the river.
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"Warning, warning, a massive enemy is moving. ”
"Warning, warning, a massive enemy is moving. ”
Su Lun was suddenly awakened by the alarm sound in his head, and then opened the strategic map to take a look, and at a glance, he saw that the orcs who had been hiding in the woods were trying to move downstream of the Baishui River, and it was obvious that these orcs were planning to cross the river from downstream.
Seeing this situation, Su Lun immediately got up, and then sent someone to notify everyone to gather immediately, it took fifteen minutes, all the soldiers were assembled, and after seeing all the soldiers gathered, Su Lun took out the Shadow Sky Lantern, and then activated the ability of this item.
"Group stealth!"
I saw that something like a glass cover quickly spread from Su Lun's hand, and the glass cover quickly enveloped all the troops in the entire barracks. By the time everyone had come in, the camp looked empty from the outside.
"Everyone, march in silence!"
Su Lun gave an order, and the troops of the entire Zhenbei City wrapped their horses and hooves, and quietly moved towards the lower reaches of the Baishui River. More than 2,000 people were all blessed with stealth techniques, and the orc sentries on the opposite side did not find anything unusual.
The distance of one kilometer is not close, but it is not far away, and soon the army of Zhenbei City came to the river where the orcs were crossing.
The night was hazy, the water vapor rose on the surface of the river, and a mist began to fill the river, and the orcs who had blessed the hazy art were even more difficult to distinguish, and the darkness completely concealed their figures.
If it weren't shown on the strategic map, Suren would have ignored them, and although the orcs' methods weren't very clever, they just worked.
Two thousand orc troops rowed a raft across the river, and Suren did not attack immediately, but continued to wait for more orcs to cross the river. He was already planning to take this opportunity to eat all the orc army in front of him.
All the pikemen were lined up at the front, forming a huge array of spears, followed by archers, at the front of the line were elite pikemen, each wearing heavy armor and holding a large shield, and the other with a spear. The spear is like a forest, the big shield is like a wall, and a row of guns is like a wall, as long as Su Lun gives an order, he will directly advance forward.
On each flank of the pikemen were thirty ballistae, the ballistas were facing the orc army, and all of them had a large weapon attached to them. Three meters of spears were mounted on ballistas, and at such close range, there was a good chance that a few orcs would be hanging on a spear.
All the archers were ready, Su Lun stared at the red dots on the strategic map, soon a third of the red dots had come ashore, and the remaining red dots were quickly approaching on the surface of the river, Su Lun's eyes were cold, and then he took out the shadow sky lantern and directly used it for another function.
"Break the stealth!"
An invisible energy light wave centered on Su Lun and swept in a fan shape forward, the speed of the energy light wave was very fast, and with just one breath, the hazy magic on the orc army on the shore and the orc army on the river was instantly dispelled.
All the orcs were instantly exposed to the noses of the army in Zhenbei City. These orc armies are hideous and murderous, all the orcs are wearing armor, and there are about five or six hundred orc troops wearing iron armor, you don't have to think about it to know that these orcs are the most elite warriors of the Fire Blade Clan, if you annihilate these elite soldiers, it will definitely be good news for Zhenbei City.
"Longbowmen prepare!"
Su Lun raised his right hand, and more than 700 longbowmen immediately bent their bows and arrows, they were only fifty meters away from those orc armies, but these fifty meters formed a full four defensive lines. It wasn't easy for those orcs to break through.
"Ballista ready!"
"Shooting !!"
With Suren's order, the ballista that had been prepared for a long time was fired immediately, and at the same time, all the longbowmen were also fired in an instant.
"Boom!"
The orc army of warriors who crowded the shore poured a large piece like wheat harvesting, but the most striking thing was the bolts fired by sixty ballistas.
The three-meter-long crossbow bolt, like the most terrible messenger of death, like a string of sugar gourds, the spear pierced the first orc and then continued forward, directly penetrating the orc behind it.
Sixty ballistas fired a salvo, and the outermost orcs suffered a big loss in an instant, plus more than seven hundred longbowmen, and those orc armies on the shore suffered heavy casualties for a while.
The range of the ballista was four or five hundred meters, and Su Lun kept closing until he was two hundred meters away before announcing the attack, in order to bring out the strongest power of the ballista.
After the attack, the invisibility effect on everyone's body disappeared, and the spear array was seen advancing towards the river with neat steps. The orcs were stunned by this sudden attack, but when they saw the army in Zhenbei City, they immediately moved forward.
"Longbowmen ready!"
"Three shots straight ahead!"
The continuous rain of arrows continued to be thrown, a large number of orcs died, and at the same time, there were still many orcs rushing towards the army of Zhenbei City, but although these orcs were strong, they were facing the shield wall that had already been arranged.
Throwing spears, axes flew one after another, and shields were shaken into a chaotic sound. Then some orcs armed with maces and giant axes smashed into the shield, and the powerful force smashed the shield to the ground.
The spears next to him were like poisonous snakes, stabbing out quickly and then withdrawing, and a large number of orcs were stabbed, and blood flowed.
The orcs on the shore suffered heavy casualties for a while, but soon a large number of new forces joined, and the orcs who had just completed the crossing of the river, as soon as these orcs came ashore, they immediately joined the other orcs, as the elite of the orc army, although they were blinded by the previous attack, but they quickly adjusted.
After seeing that it was difficult to break through the front, a large number of orcs took advantage of the time when the ballista was loaded with spears, braved the rain of arrows, and rushed directly to the ballista positions on both sides.
It's just to disappoint them, in order to prevent this situation, Su Lun also deliberately transferred most of the barbarian guards to let them guard the ballista position. Those who passed through the rain of arrows finally rushed up and prepared to kill the Quartet. As a result, he ran head-on into the barbarian guards who were already ready to move.