Chapter 568: Hand-to-hand combat
After the shield soldier raised the shield according to Renault's order, there was a ping pong sound, like hail falling from the sky, smashing into a mess, but the power of these stones is much more powerful than hail, the shield is wrapped in a thick wooden plank, and the outer iron sheet is smashed out of dents, especially those larger stones, after the hit, the warrior even takes a few steps back, and the shield is smashed out of cracks.
When Ark the bear saw that the stone-throwing had worked, he immediately roared again, and more orc warriors followed suit, followed by an even more frantic charge. With the suppression of the stone, the shooters on Renault's side could not shoot as recklessly as they did at the beginning, and many orc warriors charged straight towards the base of the wall.
Renault frowned, and randomly underestimated Ah: "Do you know how to throw stones?" After speaking, he waved his hand at An Luoluo, who had already run down the wall, and An Luoluo gave him a gesture with a bright smile.
Behind Anlolo, there were three trebuchets neatly placed, and Anloro asked several warriors who controlled the trebuchet to adjust the direction of the trebuchet according to the position given by the warriors on the arrow tower, and many of the stones thrown by the orcs were exaggerated and smashed over the wall, and Anloro had to raise a shield and shout for those warriors to hurry up.
The sound of a heavy object bouncing sounded, and three stones many circles larger than a human head flew out, followed by a wail in the formation of the orcs. Xiong Ake was dumbfounded again, trebuchet? This is definitely a heavy weapon in this kind of skirmish, how can there be trebuchets in this small human town? Random Xiong Ake remembered, it seems that his third brother has three trebuchets on his side, which are to prepare for the attack on Pompeitu City, and they are naturally going to follow the orc army to attack the city, and now it's okay, let these humans take it?
The trebuchets made by the orcs are very consistent with their style, the appearance is very rough, and even a little crooked, but they are inexplicably very strong, and the force of the stones thrown is very large, just like most orcs are not very beautiful in appearance, but the combat effectiveness is outstanding.
The trebuchet threw stones much more violently than the stones thrown by the orc warriors, and smashed a clearing of more than ten meters in the orc formation, even if the orcs were strong, they had to die a few warriors who couldn't dodge.
Xiong Ake is also experienced in a hundred battles, and immediately judged his own little people, standing here and letting the trebuchet smash a few more times, the morale of his team is difficult to say, Xiong Ake raised a heavy big knife and shouted: "Charge with me!"
After saying that, Xiong Ake took the lead in riding a long-haired cow and rushed out, I have to say that Xiong Ake's current appearance is still very fierce, holding a black machete, this machete is vertically higher than the average person, wearing a breastplate, a large piece of muscle and thick hair exposed to the air, brown and black hair steel needles are generally erected, and under the crotch is a long-haired cow comparable to the size of Xiong Ake, wearing armor, roaring again and again, obviously a good mount.
Xiong Ark had already charged, and the other orc warriors naturally didn't dare to stand still, so they followed Xiong Ark and rushed towards Fankou Town in a frenzy. The 6921 Brigade originally only had so many marksmen, and it was obvious that the orcs were charging in one go, and it was naturally impossible to completely block them, and soon there were orc warriors who were strong and could rush over with red eyes after being hit by two arrows.
Then there was the orc warrior carrying the staircase, who also made a sound like an animal screaming, and stood the long ladder on the stone wall in the face of the attack of the human warrior. Finally, it's time for the attack and defense of the city, after all, the pace of small-scale battles is always much faster. The head of the first orc popped out of the city, and unfortunately his head was cut off with a knife.
But then the second and third came out, like gophers, one by one, and the shield soldiers hurriedly switched under the command of Renaud, holding the shield in their left hand and the sword in their right, and under the cover of the shield, they kept slashing at the orc warriors who climbed up to the city.
"Archers go up to the turrets!Keep the shooting suppressed!Each turret must have a squad of sword and shield soldiers as cover!Spearmen, it's time to play!," Renault commanded with a wave of his hand.
After all, the space of the arrow tower is relatively small, and there are not many, so it is good to be able to shoot in turns, but obviously the use of the archers at the head of the city at this time is not to fight, especially when the soldiers are close to each other, the pikemen are very good to take over the shooters' squad, hiding behind the sword and shield soldiers, the spears are pierced out along the gaps in the shields, and the heads of the orc warriors come out of the face with a shot, and they are stabbed down one by one.
At this time, I still have to sigh that the West Mothbeth Empire is rich and well-equipped, and under a variety of equipment, the soldiers can form a variety of troops, and the effect is very powerful.
The personal strength of orcs and their personal combat effectiveness are strong, but compared to humans, the fighting methods of orcs are more rough, that is, the so-called free and wild battles, and often when the fight is hot, many orc warriors will kill red eyes and fight for themselves. And human warriors are different, often under the command of the commander, maintain the formation, a group of several people, several arms cooperate, a single force is indeed not comparable to you, but a few people will be different, especially the infantry phalanx of the human army, it is a headache for the orcs, every human soldier is like a part of the machine, running in an orderly manner, like a steel giant beast is difficult to deal with. Therefore, there is no absolute superiority or inferiority between humans and orcs, and even if the orc army is now victorious, it does not necessarily mean that the orc empire will be able to win.
Renault watched the bear man rush over, he didn't rush to make a move, but walked around the city with the black sword, commanding one or two from time to time. To be honest, Renault really didn't take that bear man seriously, if he wanted to, he could have taken the head of the bear in the orc army, but fighting was not his business alone, these people under him needed to be trained in the war, he killed the enemy leader, so these orcs still fart?
Although Renault's soldiers have tried their best to cooperate, there are still too many orcs rushing up, and it is impossible to completely block them, such as the pig-headed man in front of Renault, this pig-headed man has a fat body, a filthy pig nose still has a crystal snot on his nose, the horizontal meat on his face is shaken one by one, a pair of big ears are also shaking constantly, and the messy hair is combed into braids, scattered, it looks really ugly, but this pig-headed man is really big, just climbed up, raised his knife with both hands and slashed hard, the sword and shield soldier in front of Renault was directly split backwards, and smashed to the ground together with the pikemen behind him, and you can even see that the shield has been split one after another, and it looks like another shield will have to be broken.
The pig-headed warrior still wanted to continue wielding the knife, but Renault picked up the spear on the ground like lightning and stabbed it out, the spear was inserted into the pig-headed man's eye socket very quickly, and another characteristic of the orc warrior was shown again, the vitality was strong, the spear was inserted into the brain, and he was stunned and grabbed the spear with a wail, wanting to tear Renault off with the last bit of strength in his life, the idea was beautiful, and Renault shook off the pig-headed man with a shake of his hand.
Renault patted the two soldiers who were still lying and moaning and asked them to get up quickly, and the two soldiers slowly got up, although Renault had the idea of training, but he couldn't see death without saving him, right? But Renault could save one, but he couldn't save all, many things were unpredictable in hand-to-hand combat, and casualties soon appeared everywhere on the wall, and the wounded or killed soldiers were pulled out, and there would continue to be fighters on top.
"Defend the holes! stab them!" Renault continued to shout, and the pikemen guarding the defense holes below sent the spears out through the fist-sized defense holes, and stabbed the orc warriors who climbed up one after another, with enough strength, the right direction and good luck, one shot could stick the orcs down, and even if they couldn't plug in, they could hinder the orcs from climbing.
Xiong Ark was not stupid, although he seemed to charge bravely, but he did not directly follow the warriors to attack the city wall, but stopped not far away to watch, and commanded the orc warriors to attack the city. Just kidding, Xiong Ake knows very well that his third brother is not a little weaker than him, but he was still cut off by someone, and there are many wounds on his body, as if he was tortured and killed, he has not yet figured out the details of 6921 after the new leader, so he naturally does not dare to rush forward. However, if Xiong Ake understands Renault's strength, it is estimated that he will stand further.
Don't look at the battle of just a thousand people, but it still lasted for two hours, these simple-minded orcs kept charging, even if the corpses of the orcs were already piled up under the city walls, they still stepped on the corpses and climbed up. During the period, the orcs tore a gap in the city several times, after all, there were many recruits, inexperienced, many strong pig-headed people or kobolds climbed up, slashed indiscriminately, causing a lot of casualties, fortunately, Renault was still calm, commanding people to encircle and suppress, after all, the situation did not worsen.
And Ngawang, who was originally an idle pig, saw that some orcs wanted to climb up to the arrow tower to kill the archer, especially the pig-headed man, who was covered in fat, rough skin and thick meat, and had a few arrows inserted in his body and climbed up, and he could reach out and grab the shooter and pull it down without climbing up, and the whole shooter was directly pulled down, and the result of falling down was naturally self-evident, and he was divided by the orc warriors.
Ah Wang was furious, those were his subordinates, and finally couldn't help it, and with a wave of his hand, a large crystal clear blue lotus exploded on the stone wall, piercing the orc warriors who were still climbing out of holes, even the thickest orc warriors were directly swept away by the sugar gourd.
This strange scene made the orc warrior's eyes straighten, obviously he had never seen such a scene, and Xiong Ake, who was not far away, also saw his eyelids jumping, his strength was barely stepping into the third level, with his physical strength, it was no problem to fight against the average third-level warrior, but as soon as those few crystal blue lotus flowers exploded, he couldn't help but shudder, and he really felt the deadly threat, and couldn't help but retreat.
Not to mention the orcs, even the human warriors were shocked, most of the human warriors still had never seen Ah Wang show his skills like this, they only knew that Ah Wang was a division-level powerhouse, but they didn't expect this kind of move? Renault sighed, and sure enough, as he expected, Ah Wang still couldn't help but make a move.
A few blue lotus flowers exploded, making the morale of the orcs suddenly wither, but the morale of the human warriors was high, although they couldn't understand how those blue lotus flowers came out, but it didn't prevent them from recognizing the strength of these blue lotuses, and it was more enjoyable to fight.
After fighting for another half an hour, the orcs finally couldn't bear it, even if it was a simple-minded orc, in the face of the huge casualties suffered by the siege, they couldn't help but be frightened, their team of thousands of people, the hundreds of corpses that had been thrown at the base of the wall, it seemed that more than half of the losses had been lost, and the orc warriors could no longer bear it, and began to retreat.
Xiong Ake saw a burst of pain, the large corpses under the corner of the wall were mostly his soldiers, he really didn't expect the human 6921 brigade to be so tenacious, he used to kill with his third brother, and it took an hour to kill it, but now he has killed and injured so many brothers but still can't take the city? In addition to the reinforcement of the defense of Fankou Town, there is also the damn human commander, who is too calm, the whole battle is commanded in an orderly manner, quite smoothly, and there are some holes in the defense, but the commander can quickly detect it, and quickly fill it, so that the charging orc warriors can never open the gap. It's like a beast that wants to gnaw on the Iron King, it's hard to put his mouth down, and he knocks his teeth when he gets down, which is completely different from the script that Xiong Ark expected, even if Xiong Ak's third brother is killed, but in Xiong Ak's heart, he still despises humans, just like people despise orcs in some way, orcs also look down on humans in terms of fighting, not to mention killing all the way, most of the orcs are victorious, and Xiong Ark has habitually looked down on humans.
At this point, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and even if Xiong Ark went back to face the punishment, he had to grit his teeth and retreat, leaving with less than half of the remaining orc warriors and most of the wounded orc warriors and the logistics troops who were a little dumbfounded behind.
However, Renault couldn't help sneering when he watched Xiong Ake retreat, he really wanted to come and go, and he left if he wanted to? A few strides, snatched a shooter's bow and arrow, crossed the city wall with his feet, and almost pulled the step bow into a full moon, a little aim, as soon as he let go, the arrow shot out sharply under the blessing of the fighting spirit, and then he heard a miserable howl from the orc army, and this one shot directly into Xiong Ake's big ass.
The surrounding warriors immediately cheered, and they won the battle.