Chapter Seventy-Four: The War of the Little People (2)
Both sides have 100,000 troops, in terms of physique alone, as the most conventional troops of Mordo, the half-orc soldiers are actually not as good as the Terran soldiers, but in the case of the Terrans' long-term lack of nutrition, the physique of the Terran soldiers has decreased greatly (during World War II, an RB soldier melee can win the siege of three Chinese soldiers, this is the physical gap), and coupled with the huge gap in equipment, the Terran casualty rate is higher.
Therefore, it is a great irony to say that this battle is a battle that can be ashamed of any Terran commander, and in the face of a half-orc army known for its ability, the Terrans need to trade numbers for superiority.
Although the Terran troops were fighting like Mordor's orc legion due to various problems, relying on the number of people and the encouragement of the church, after the first wave of offensive and defensive battles that lasted for two days, they successfully repelled Mordor's first attack, and in the continuous two-day attack, Mordor successively invested 20,000 of the 100,000 troops to participate in the attack, and even sent a strong orc army to launch a surprise attack.
After opening a huge landing port in an instant, it was repelled by the elite alliance forces of the North and South Realms, and this time the attack of the strong orcs, the last of the first wave of attacks, after repelling the enemy, Mordor temporarily stopped attacking.
In fact, the kind of sleepless attack in the movie is simply impossible, because according to normal physical fitness, a person can maintain a maximum of two hours of vigorous exercise, if it is a well-trained special forces, with reasonable physical conditioning and cooperation, it may be longer, but for ordinary people in ancient times, this kind of stop-and-stop battle is enough to last a day, if it is not for the racial physique of Middle-earth is superior to that of earth humans, this battle may not last more than two days.
In any case, the battle entered the intermission, compared to the big grinning of the orcs, the Terrans were still busy cleaning up the battlefield, stripping the dead on the city wall to arm themselves, transporting the bodies of the dead to the designated place, while the others were tired and curled up in every corner of the city wall, closing their already tired eyes, and at this time, perhaps only when the food delivery person brought the food to them, they could open their eyes angrily for a short time.
Maybe it's because the performance of these miscellaneous soldiers greatly exceeded the expectations of the upper echelons, the first meal after the war, extraordinarily rich, in addition to the enough black bread, actually gave everyone a small piece of jerky, for these miscellaneous soldiers, this is already extremely tempting food, you know, the current White City is starving to death every day, in this case, it can meet the troops on the city wall Everyone can eat enough black bread, which is already extremely luxurious.
Countless reservists were mobilized on the city wall, of course, 100,000 people could not be put on the city wall at the first time, even if they wanted to go, they could not accommodate it, so they generally only arranged just enough men and horses on the front line, and then after each battle, the rear sent recruits to replenish the number, and it was impossible for the veterans to be withdrawn, because they needed to be nailed to the front line and constantly bring new recruits, otherwise the casualty rate of the front line would not only not decrease with the accumulation of war experience, but would always be at a high peak.
Big Mouth curled up behind a wall stack, squinting his eyes at where the old man captain was directing the recruits to clean up the field, Big Mouth and their team killed nearly twenty half-orcs, and they also suffered twenty-two casualties, although there were two more people, but whether it was the bottom or the upper level, they didn't feel a loss, and Big Mouth also got a half-orc iron armor and war knife that didn't fit very well because of his superior performance.
"Yes, yes, just give them the corpses, and we won't have to worry about the rest, okay, you can continue to do this, and you can rest when you're done." ”
After a few words, the old man strode towards the "veterans" with a big mouth, looked at the slightly proud old man, and pouted:
"What really makes this old man proud, isn't it just twenty recruits? ”
Looking at the old man who was getting closer and closer, he complained casually and then didn't say anything, after all, it was a fateful friendship, and there was no need to hurt people too much.
"Ah, our first warrior woke up, how is he resting?"
"It's not good, but it's definitely better than you being old and immortal~"
The big mouth was not angry, and the old man smiled brightly:
"Oh, busy with official business, busy with official business~"
Looking at the old man's happy face, Dazui and the others were speechless and ignored it, just as they were about to continue to rest, the horn of battle was blown again, and the Dazui and others who heard the horn hurriedly picked up their weapons and stood up, and looked out, with the last combat experience, this time their performance was obviously much better, at least the arm holding the weapon, no longer trembling.
Outside the city, the army of Mordor began to move closer again, and the ground still had the traces of the battle of the previous day, countless corpses were stacked on top of each other, the abandoned ladders were still lying on them, and the siege towers engulfed by flames stood silently like silent guards.
At this time, the sky was just faintly bright, and with the light, the Mordor army in the distance had already settled in the camp, although the supplies were abundant, but such a camp was still in tatters, many orcs just casually set up a shed, and lay in, and other supporting tools and materials were discarded aside.
But this does not affect Mordor's combat effectiveness, with the end of the rest period, the second attack came on time, and this time, the Great Shaman prepared a special gift for the White City, the orcs may be stupid and brainless, but Mordor will definitely not be stupid or brainless, on the contrary, their upper echelons are very smart, know how to use politics, economics, and even marriage to consolidate their empire, on the battlefield, of course.
When the Mordor army began to advance, Big Mouth and the others saw a scene of disbelief, only to see that in front of the Mordor army, a dense crowd appeared between the two armies, they were not Mordor's army, but the humans who came from outside the White City, had no time to withdraw, or were unwilling to leave their homes.
At this time, these humans carried ladders and used any object they could find as weapons, crying forward, looking at their posture, they were ready to attack the city.
Seeing this scene, the defenders of the White City were instantly angry, and a church monk hidden in the ranks completely forgot to hide his identity and drew a cross on his chest:
"God, do you see these evils, send your children to save these humble servants!"
However, the "gods" did not seem to hear the pleading, and the crying procession quickly entered the range of the attack, but none of the soldiers defending the city faced the "enemy" below launched an attack, they just look at me, I look at you, this situation until the first cloud ladder was set up on the city wall, and at this time, the half-orc legion that was still closely following behind instantly accelerated, blended into the crowd, and began to coerce the crowd to attack the city wall, and it was at this time, under the coercion of the nobles, the guards could not bear to attack downward.
The defenseless Terran refugees faced even if they suppressed a lot of attacks, they were still under great pressure, only to see the crowd constantly falling down, and every time one person fell, two more people would soon be made up, Mordor didn't care about the lives of these people, so he didn't care about the collapse of the crowd at all, just blindly drove them to attack the city, anyway, any human who dared to retreat, directly slashed to the ground, there was no emotion to talk about.
Thanks to the rich natural environment of White City, the number of humans around White City is quite large, although the vast majority of people have fled, or entered White City, but under the search of Mordor, no less than 20,000 refugees have been found, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, after all, most of the young and middle-aged people will not choose to sit still, most of them still leave White City, but it is precisely because of this that the guards will not bear to attack these refugees.
When Dazui picked up a stone and was about to throw it down, he saw a child with tears on his face, his face was full of discomfort and tears, and his eyes were full of longing and pleading for life, praying for Dazui to save him.
Looking at those eyes, Big Mouth felt that his heart was stabbed fiercely, although he wanted to save him, but there was no way, especially when there was a half-orc hiding behind the child, Big Mouth was watching the child shout: Uncle save me, after the words, he dropped the stone in his hand, the child accompanied by the stone, after overpowering a half-orc behind him, fell on the hand together, the child was not dead at this time, he struggled to move away from the stone, as if he wanted to leave here, but the seriously injured body seemed so weak, he could only drag his body, step by step backwards, the small face, full of seriousness~
I don't know what happened to the kid in the end, because he quickly fell into the crowd and disappeared, and the stimulated Big Mouth could only desperately attack the enemy, and even a small team of knights, forming a death squad, jumped down directly along the rope and slashed the orcs mixed in the team, hoping to save some refugees from entering the White City.
No matter what race they are, when they feel that their race is threatened, there is always no shortage of people who dare to send them to death, for Mordor, this battle may only reduce the losses of Mordor's army, and waste the ammunition of the defending troops, but for the White City, it has escalated into a race war, or rather, it is only now that they really feel what a race war is!