Chapter 124: Restraint of the Troops, You Come and Go
Collini lowered his head and thought about it, under normal circumstances, the archers are in the rear, Eugene's suggestion was to move the archers forward, so that the range could cross the shield hand to give the enemy's depth to kill, and the most important thing was the cavalry, the enemy must not have imagined that the cavalry who suffered a big loss would immediately launch a second charge.
Knowing that the stakes were high, Collini consulted with the leaders of the various forces, gathered some second-line cavalry, and gathered a full 30,000 cavalry brigade to hide behind the infantry.
Before the appearance of ***, cavalry appeared as a strategic class, and the size of the orcs made it impossible for them to ride ordinary war horses, and more powerful mounts could not be domesticated in batches, so the biggest shortcoming of the orcs was here.
After some repairs, and when the 30,000 cavalry were ready, according to Eugene's arrangement, the infantry began to move towards the orc army step by step, and the orcs retreated the spearmen step by step, and arranged for the shield-wielding soldiers to be at the front of the queue to resist the arrows.
Because the orc archers were at the end of the queue, the range of the orc archers had just touched the shield soldiers of the human coalition, and the relatively high coalition archers could already cover the middle army of the orcs, and the orcs saw that the team of the coalition suddenly stopped, which made a lot of question marks pop up in the minds of those who were already stupid, and in the next second, the sky suddenly darkened, and the orcs looked up at the sky, but found that countless arrows seemed to block the sunlight, with shield hands in front and archers behind, Those spearmen had no way to avoid and could not dodge, so they could only suffer four or five rounds of volleys, and then they realized that the archers of the coalition army had moved forward, since this was the case, then the ordinary soldiers of the coalition army must be in the rear of the team, and the leader of the orcs immediately began to adjust, so that the spearmen retreated, and the archers were distributed to the side of the shield soldiers to counterattack, anyway, when the enemy's sword and axe men arrived, the archers would be retreated, and it was too late in time.
Supposedly, the orc leader is right, it does take time to adjust the various classes, but there is one class that can reach the enemy's line in a few breaths, and that is the cavalry!
Just after the allied archers fired ten rounds of arrows in a row, the archers who were basically exhausted and the sword and axe men in the back lined up in a straight line, so that the cavalry behind them had a sufficient charging route, and when the cavalry began to accelerate through, the archers ran to the base camp in the rear, and the axe men quickly ran behind the shield hands, waiting for the cavalry to charge the enemy and then stepped forward to replenish the sword.
The archers who had just received the order to move forward suddenly felt the earth begin to tremble, and before they could take the arrows, they saw the archers in front of them being hit by the high-speed galloping horses and flying into the air.
At this time, the orc commander also wanted to slap himself in the face, he never expected that the coalition army would not only put the archers in such a high position, but also hide a large number of cavalry behind, and the spearmen who restrained the cavalry were hurriedly retreating! The orc army, which had no order to speak of, was being attacked by the cavalry in a hurry, and the end was bound to be a rout!
I can't take care of those archers, even if I kill all the archers, as long as it is worth destroying the enemy's cavalry, the orc commander ordered the spearmen and axe men to press all on it, regardless of formation or order, as long as it can cause damage to the enemy's cavalry, even if it is to block it with a human wall, these cavalry must be blocked by the orcs.
And the shield hand of the coalition army also threw the shield in his hand, pulled out the long sword at his waist, and the knife and axe hand who had followed behind him began to fight with the enemy's archers, the archer is a complete long-range class, there is nothing to do in the face of the cavalry, and the face of the knife and axe hand is also the fate of being tortured and killed, although there is also a long sword on the waist, but the archers who are good at long-range shooting rarely carry out hand-to-hand combat training, and soon, a large number of orc archers were eliminated, and spearmen and ordinary orc infantry were mostly surrounding and killing the advancing cavalry, After all, there are too many orcs, and the cavalry is always exhausted when the constant charge is exhausted, and once the speed advantage disappears, then the cavalry is not much different from the ordinary infantry, and it is the infantry that penetrates deep into the enemy's camp alone. At the scene, it fell into the most tragic fighting and melee.
Collini's face looked a little better, although the cavalry did not cut the enemy as originally intended, but the enemy unexpectedly moved the archers forward so that the non-commissioned officers of the coalition army could easily kill a large number of relatively weak archers It is also excellent, war is the restraint of the troops, the enemy has no cavalry, even if his cavalry is all gone, it is good to be able to knock out the enemy's archers.
Sure enough, seeing that the orc archers were almost slaughtered, Collini issued an order for the cavalry to retreat, and the exhausted cavalry lost most of them again, and the remaining cavalry of the coalition army was less than 10,000, and then the knife and axe man picked up the shield nearby, covering the retreat of his comrades without a shield, and before the sun disappeared in the west, the two sides finally ended the day's fighting.
At the coalition meeting that night, although the countries were slightly dissatisfied with the large number of casualties of the cavalry, they eliminated the orc archers in a structured manner, and they still had a complete mixed army, and there were few cavalry that could win at a critical moment, and the group was full of confidence in the battle behind.
And the orc commander came to Sauron's study dejectedly, Sauron was listening to a report from a scientific researcher, basically everyone is ready, and it can be done tomorrow morning, Sauron nodded and let the man leave, and then listened to the commander's report, in fact, Sauron has long understood the battle situation clearly, even Eugene's suggestion was carried out under Sauron's instructions, all of which did not deviate from Sauron's script, and a large number of casualties in the orc camp today were also expected by Sauron, but tomorrow... Hehehe, it's the turn of the humans to suffer a loss, right? Seeing that Lord Sauron didn't blame himself, the orc leader was very moved and left.
Sauron then summoned Gandalf, the white-robed sorcerer, to discuss it, and then went to the Eye of Hell alone, looking towards the mountains to the north, as if he could see the expeditionary force through the night.
Hermione, at Hongjun's insistence, the four of them set up a big tent, a small stove that could burn without firewood made Hermione a little curious, and all kinds of tables, chairs, benches, beds, quilts, and even some pots and pans for the four of them to cook, Hermione was used to Hongjun and these people could come up with something very enjoyable at any time along the way. Hongjun's original words are "Only a good rest can better advance on this mountain road, otherwise blindly desperate can only make the body tired, who will perform such a difficult task at that time, you know, only you can resist the erosion of the supreme crown." ”
Although the altitude here is high, there is still no shortage of all kinds of small animals, those cute guys who are hibernating have not yet figured out the situation in front of them and become fragrant barbecue, Hermione was still chattering about Hongjun's cruelty while refusing to eat those cute animals, and the next second he was forced by Hongjun to put a piece of barbecue meat in his mouth, and couldn't help but chew a few times and said that it was really fragrant, and even a little unhappy after eating.
On this night, the coalition forces collected the corpses of their comrades on the battlefield during the day, a habit that humans had developed over the years, while the orcs allowed the corpses of their kind to lie on the plains, and did not attack the scattered ranks of humans, allowing them to collect the corpses. And on the narrow passage of Issinger to this plain, several tall figures are slowly moving forward in the darkness of the night.
In the early morning of the next day, there was some mist in the canyon plain, Collini was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the human coalition to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the orc army that had not finished eating, and launched an attack early, lacking the threat of orc archers, the coalition army simply withdrew the shield soldiers, and directly pressed all the infantry in front, and the archers were divided into hundred-man teams in the rear, taking the opportunity to obtain the results of the battle.
And the orcs have a huge amount of food, and every time it is time to eat, the management in charge of logistics has a headache, and now at the critical moment when the coalition has entered their own camp, these stupid guys are still rolling on the ground for a bowl of broth. In an instant, the orc forces were plunged into a one-sided slaughter.
However, just as the human alliance had the upper hand, a loud long roar suddenly pierced the mist of the canyon plain, and everyone looked up in the direction where the sound came from.
The rising sun quickly evaporated the remaining mist, and a huge figure slowly appeared in front of everyone, it was an object more than seventy meters long, with a fierce and brutal head hanging from its long neck, and a few sparks erupted from its nose with its breath, and its strong and powerful wings were closed on both sides of its body. The long, narrow, spiky tail flicks around the back.
"Dragon!" I don't know who shouted first in the human alliance, and soon, the news spread to both sides of the battle, and as the fog became thinner and thinner, the figure on the dragon's back slowly appeared, it was a warrior who was nearly three meters tall and wearing full-body armor, seeing this figure, the orc army erupted into a burst of shouts, and Colini stared at the man and the dragon, gritting his teeth and spitting out two words "Suo." Lun. ”
Just when the figure of the shadow Sauron completely appeared in everyone's sight, the giant dragon under him spread its wings for more than twenty meters, took a deep breath and let out a louder cry, as if declaring its powerful existence, and what was even more terrifying was the dragon flame that erupted from its mouth, which suddenly made the military heart of the human alliance sink to the bottom.