Flesh and blood flew on the battlefield, a large number of soldiers died every second, and the orc warrior who rushed up was also killed by several human soldiers at this time, and finally after more than two hours of fierce fighting, the orcs finally dropped more than 2,000 corpses and retreated.

The soldiers of the Blackstone Fortress finally breathed a sigh of relief, all the soldiers were exhausted from this day's fighting, Gavin moved his sore shoulders, and the guards next to him were bandaging their wounds.

The soldiers who had come to change their guards took over the soldiers who had just fought hard, and Gavin rested for a while before walking down the wall with his attendants towards the castle.

"When I was in Carthusian City, I heard about the combat application of Lord Gavin, and I often took the lead, I thought it was just an exaggeration, but after seeing it today, Lord Gavin is even braver than rumored!" Count Vane sighed and said, just today, he personally understood the situation on the battlefield, the fierceness of those orcs made his heart shake, most of the captains of the wall defense on the battlefield began to ask for reinforcements to the rear when they were halfway through the battle, but Gavin led his soldiers to fight to the death.

Not once did he ask for reinforcements from the rear, and the soldiers he led suffered the fewest casualties, but the results were the greatest, for the section of the city wall they defended, they killed more than 500 orc soldiers, including several orc warriors.

"Thank you, Lord Venne, for your compliment. Gavin forced a smile and said, "As you can see today, the gap between us and the orc army, without the protection of the city walls, we are no match for those orcs at all. ”

"And more importantly, according to our intelligence, the orc army this time is at least 100,000 people, and we now have less than 50,000 soldiers, it is difficult to rely on our strength to hold on, so I ask you to ask the king for reinforcements immediately!"

"And we have suffered 4,000 casualties today, and the casualties of the orcs are estimated to be about 3,000, and we can't fight at all!"

"Your Excellency Gavin, I will ask His Majesty for reinforcements. Earl Vane thought about it for a moment and agreed.

"But Gavin, you also know that even if His Majesty agrees to reinforcements, it will take at least a month for reinforcements to arrive, and we will have to rely on ourselves for this month, I wonder if you have any options?"

"Your Excellency, we can only hold on. After a moment of silence, Gavin said, "Let's ask for help from the surrounding nobles first, they have a lot of troops there, although they are not elite, but it should be no problem to defend the city." ”

"Heh, do you think those nobles would be willing to send their own troops here?" Count Vane sneered, as a nobleman, he knew too well the plans of those nobles, even if the Blackstone Fortress was in danger, these nobles would not agree to send their private soldiers here.

Sometimes they know that danger is approaching, but as long as the danger does not come to them, these nobles will not take it to heart, you can also say that they are short-sighted and do not have a big picture, in fact, the vast majority of nobles are like this, they have their own castles, and their own soldiers, and many times they believe in themselves more.

"Even if you don't shoot the private army, but those newly recruited soldiers are fine, we need a lot of people now, they don't know how to use weapons, they always carry stones, they always boil water, as long as they have good hands and feet, let them throw stones down!" Gavin said directly.

"Gavin, if you do this, the soldier will probably end up with heavy casualties!" Vane said in a difficult tone, shocking in his heart. The untrained soldiers are actually farmers who are allowed to go to war, and the chances of surviving are less than 1 in 10.

"Is there a better way for you?" asked Gavin.

Vane opened his lips, he couldn't do anything better.

"Then let's do it!" Vane quickly recovered, gritted his teeth, and nodded in agreement.

"For the sake of Blackstone Fortress, these sacrifices are worth it!"

"By the way, I've heard there's a human city in the wasteland. Vane suddenly thought of something.

Gavin nodded and said, "You're talking about Zhenbei City, that human city was founded last year by a young nobleman who bought the Pioneer Order, and it is rich in sugar and rum. ”

"So what about their strength. Vane asked, his eyes lit up.

Gavin hesitated for a moment and said, "The strength is not bad, I heard those merchants who went to trade say that they have defeated goblins, kobolds, jackals, and even orcs." ”

"But I haven't been there in person, I think it's a bit exaggerated, just a pioneer territory that has just been established for a year, how can they have the strength to defeat the orcs, it is estimated that the pioneer lord boasted, but they can hold on to the wilderness for more than a year, and the strength should still be there. ”

"It's good to have strength!" Vane's eyes lit up when he heard that he had strength, and he directly filtered out the previous words, "Since he has strength, then let's ask this pioneer lord for help, doesn't he want to be a territory, he wants to be a nobleman?" As long as he helps us defeat the orcs, I will recommend him like His Majesty the King, not only has a title, but also land!"

"Alright, I'll send someone to contact Zhenbei City. Gavin shrugged his shoulders and agreed directly, in his opinion, even if this Zhenbei City agreed, the strength of the army sent in the end would not be high, as for the promise of Count Vain, just listen to it.

The nobles' discipline has always been like this, and if Zhenbei City dares to take the initiative, Gavin finally recites that the pioneer lord will not be able to wait for the war to end. Once he came to attack, it was estimated that even the orcs would not be able to survive the first round of attacks before collapsing.

Taking advantage of the night, Galen selected a few cavalrymen, quietly left the fortress, and then moved in a northeast direction, the orc army did not block the fortress, after all, the fortress is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and it cannot be surrounded at all, the orc army is not close to the camp from the fortress, and they also want to prevent the human knights from taking advantage of the night to sneak attack.

The next day, as soon as it was dark, the orc army began to move again, this time pushing the siege equipment made overnight to attack again, but the siege equipment was already half less than the day before.

But today's battle is more intense than yesterday, and this time the orcs have sent more soldiers to participate in the city. The number of siege towers and chariots was not enough, so they carried ladders. These orcs did not care about casualties at all, and since the morning, orcs have been climbing the walls.

"These damn orcs, are they crazy?" said Gavin, slashing the last orc on the wall with a sword, then wiped the blood on his face.

"If this continues, we won't be able to survive for thirty days!"

"The orcs are in a hurry!" Count Vane looked at the orcs who had temporarily retreated, and another orc army in the distance was ready.

"They attack regardless of casualties, and they use wheel warfare, which puts a lot of pressure on us, but the orcs don't have a good time. ”

"Why are these orcs so anxious?"

"Why?" Gavin looked at the orc in the distance and sat on the ground.

"I guess it's grain!"

"Food, you say the orcs are short of food?" Gavin's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly.

Vane nodded and continued: "I have observed in the past few days that there is very little cooking smoke in the camp of the orc army, which is far from enough to feed so many orcs. ”

"Then as long as we hold on for a few days, the orcs who have run out of food will naturally retreat. Gavin stood up excitedly.

"It's not that simple!" Vane shook his head, "Even if the orc army is short of food, our pressure will be even greater. ”

"You know, without food, the orcs will be even more crazy, they will be desperate to take this place, behind our Blackstone fortress, there is a large area of grain waiting to be harvested. ”

"Those orcs will definitely attack desperately when they run out of food!, so the pressure is even greater than before!" said Count Vane with a solemn face.

"The closer you get to death, the more crazy you become, and after madness comes dead silence, and before dawn is the darkest hour!"

......

Zhenbei City is actively preparing for war, Su Lun also attaches great importance to the orc attack, and the orc army of more than 100,000 people needs to be dealt with carefully even in Zhenbei City, and the Eagle Nest has also dispatched many harpy leaders to investigate. Every move of the orc army was recorded by them and reported to Suren.

Sheriff Harris was very busy during this time, and all the 300-strong security team was released to patrol the city 24 hours a day to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, and the militia team of 2,000 people was also reorganized, these militias did not need to go to the battlefield, but just followed the security team to maintain the stability of the northern city of Zhenbei.

The troops in Zhenbei City have also been all recalled, and these troops will be dispatched as soon as Su Lun gives an order.

Castle of the Lords.

Su Lun cleaned up a room, and then used it as a war hall, at this time in the war hall, in addition to the mission, the rest of the generals and heroes are here, in the center of the room is a huge sand table, on the sand table vividly the Black Stone Fortress, the orc army, and Zhenbei City are all marked.

"Who do you think won this battle in the end?" asked Suren as he looked at the generals.

"I don't know. "Boulder and Johnson looked at the sand table, and looked at Su Lun, completely like I didn't understand anything, Su Lun didn't have any surprises at these two fools' reactions, he was used to it a long time ago...

Kane looked at it for a while and said: "I think the orcs are likely to win, judging from the previous battle report, there are not many defenders of the Blackstone Fortress, according to the orc's fighting style, although there will be heavy casualties, but the Blackstone Fortress will definitely not be able to hold on." ”

"What about you?" said Suren, looking at Karina and Grace.

"I think humans will win, after all, the orcs don't have much food..."