Chapter Eighty-Seven: Attack and Defense of the Walled City

"Kill! Give Lao Tzu some spirit, don't be careless, and drive this group of puppies down. ”

An officer of the Jingbei Army cut down a kobold who tried to climb over the wooden wall with a sword, and loudly reminded the surrounding Jingbei Army soldiers.

"Don't worry, boss, even if this group of puppies rushes up to ten, I can cut them down alone."

", if you put ten kobolds on that section, Lao Tzu will screw your head off."

"Poof!"

As he spoke, another kobold climbed the wooden wall, and before he could cross the battlement, his head was cut off by the fast-eyed Jingbei army commander with a sword.

These kobolds are not very powerful, but they are flexible, and they can climb the wall without any tools, but it is difficult for them to do any substantial damage to the defenders when they climb the wooden wall, and can only play a harassing role, and the real threat is still the ogres mixed in with it.

"Captain! Ogres are approaching us! ”

One soldier spotted an ogre mixed in with the kobold trying to climb the wooden wall, and reported loudly to the officer, his tone no longer as relaxed as he had just faced the kobold.

"Prepare for the wood! Don't let him climb up! ”

The captain of the Jingbei Army also became nervous instantly, although he was also a quasi-knight, but if the ogre was allowed to climb up, he would not have the slightest confidence to withstand it.

Two sturdy soldiers soon brought a thick log with spikes nailed to the surface.

"Put!"

The two soldiers threw the log off the wall, and the next moment an ogre's roar was heard from under the wall, which was interrupted with a muffled "bang".

This piece of wood just hit the ogre's head, and Rao couldn't bear the hundreds of pounds of falling objects with the thick skin and flesh of the ogre, and he lost his life when he landed.

Fortunately, the Marquis Wade listened to some of Lint's suggestions and made arrangements in Fort Herr, prepared a lot of materials for defending the city such as wood and stones, and enough food to support it for a while.

Now these Jingbei troops are guarding the hard fortress outside the Helburg, which is all made of iron and wood, and is very strong, and the defenders stationed in the fortress echo the Helburg, which has interrupted the attacks of several waves of ogres these days.

Today, however, the situation seems to have changed a little, and as the soldiers cheer for the easy defeat of an ogre,

The sharp-eyed soldier spotted more ogres approaching, and today didn't seem to be as simple as a tentative attack.

"Team, captain, look over there!"

Following the direction of the soldier's finger, a hundred-hundred-strong armored ogre phalanx began to approach the wooden wall, surrounded by a large number of kobolds.

What was even more frightening was that more than a dozen ogres were also pushing a huge battering ram and approaching with the team.

"Fake, fake."

The captain was obviously also frightened by the ogre's formation, and in his impression, the ogre had no ability to build siege equipment at all.

What's the deal with this guy who's bigger than a normal battering ram?

"Prepare for battle!"

In fact, there is no need for him to shout, the soldiers who have just relaxed have already taken their weapons and prepared, they are all veterans of the Jingbei Army, and their basic combat quality is not bad.

"Bang!"

The ogre pushed the battering ram and slammed into the wooden wall, and the whole stockade shook significantly.

No matter how good the hard village is, after all, it is also made of wood, and it is still not as good as a castle built with hard stones.

If this battering ram is allowed to hit, it is estimated that it will not be long before this section will be directly opened.

The defenders of the city naturally understood this truth, but it was embarrassing that they were unable to deal effective damage to these ogres who were pushing the battering rams.

These heavily armored ogres did not get close to the wooden village, it was difficult to throw the wood and other objects so accurately to cause damage to them, and the bow and arrow were even more of a joke in front of them in heavy armor.

"Why are you stunned, pouring fire oil?"

"But ......"

"Bang!"

There was another crash, and the wooden wall shook more violently than before.

"But what, go quickly!"

It was a Dutong who shouted, and when he found out that this wooden wall was dangerous, he had already brought people over to support.

The defenders of the city will generally prepare some fire oil, but this village is also wooden after all, although it has been fireproofed, it is still easy to use fire oil here to ignite itself first.

However, this kind of crisis time can't take care of so much, let's get through this level first.

"Pour!"

"Whoa......

Most of the oil was poured directly on the battering ram, and when the torch was thrown a little, the whole battering ram burned like a torch.

Several ogres around were also scattered by the flames.

In the end, the fire did not ignite the wooden village, and the ogre, who had lost the battering ram, began to gradually recede, and finally survived the catastrophe.

At this time, Marquis Wade and several senior officers of the Jingbei Army were standing on the tower of Fort Hull observing the whole battle, seeing that it was an ogre that was finally repulsed, but Marquis Wade turned around and ordered

"Let the outer military villages be withdrawn."

"But, Lord Marquis, without the outer stockade, Helburg will be completely isolated."

"If you can't hold it, it's better to withdraw the army first to preserve your strength."

"According to the reservation plan, withdraw now."

"Yes, Lord Marquis."

Marquis Wade also didn't want to give up the outer walled city, but after the ogre created the siege equipment, those outer walled villages were obviously unable to bear it, so it was better to withdraw the reinforcements as soon as possible and hold on to Fort Hull for reinforcements.

……

"Withdraw, withdraw, move faster!"

An officer of the Jingbei Army was shouting at the gate of the city, directing the Jingbei Army to retreat to Fort Her,

"Close the door!"

As the last soldier passed through the city gate, the flag commander stationed in the camp outside the city also turned around and rushed back to the city gate.

"Bang!"

As soon as he entered the city gates, the heavy iron gates were slammed shut.

A group of pursuing kobolds stood under the city, and after being shot one by one, they finally gradually retreated.

Although the kobolds suffered heavy casualties, the ogre's strategic purpose was achieved, and after more than ten days of siege, the ogre army finally took all the camps outside Helburg.

Helburg became a lonely city completely.

At this time, the Marquis of Wade was standing on the walls of Fort Hel watching all this, without any expression on his face,

However, anyone with military common sense can realize that the real crisis in Fort Herburg is coming.

Originally, the Jingbei army was still strong in the hard fortress outside Herburg, and the ogre was only besieged for the first two days, and drove the kobold to attack tentatively with their lives.

There is no substantial threat to these stockades, although the Jingbei Army is newly defeated, but after all, it is a long-trained elite army, and the enemy army is a monster like an ogre kobold, and there is no chance of surrender.

According to the Jingbei army guarding the fortified village, they can still calmly repel weak creatures like kobolds.

But within a few days of the good days, the ogre, who had never had the ability to siege the city, actually brought out a good quality siege equipment, which could not deal with the strong Helburg, but could easily deal with the wooden village outside the city.

……

Ogre Battalion,

Grugosh was sitting in a huge gold-rimmed tent, and the decoration inside the tent was becoming more and more exquisite, from the carpet to the ornaments.

If it weren't for the hideous-looking ogres in the tent, just looking at this decoration, I am afraid that it would be the banquet hall of some noble.

"Lord Grugersh, the humans have abandoned the outer camps and retreated to the castle."

"Hmm"

Grugersh replied at the same time, and when the voices coincided, a simple "um" sounded very terrible, but fortunately, there was no one sitting who was not terrible.

"Fence it off first, don't let anyone out of the city, and wait a few days to make some siege equipment."

"Yes"

"How many human castles are being unplugged around now?"

"Lord Gru, our four major tribes are still surrounding Helburg here, and we can only rely on those small tribes to fight, those human castles are quite strong, and there are not many of them now."

This time it was only Gru who was questioned, and it was difficult for the ogre chieftains to distinguish between them.

The four major tribes are now considered the basic plate of Grugesh, plus some small and medium-sized tribes absorbed with the power of great victory this time,

Now that Grugosh can command at will, the strength is about nearly 20,000 ogre warriors, nearly 100 ogre warriors, and the four ogre chieftains,

There were also a large number of small and medium-sized tribes who were out of the country, and did not directly accept Grugesh's orders, but only obeyed the call to invade the Northlands.

In the spirit of waste utilization, Grugersh told them to attack the castles of the human lords, raid the territories of the various families, cut off roads and connections, and try to avoid the union of the various lords.

"Let's divide them with some siege equipment later."

"Also, let your subordinates catch human craftsmen must take care of it, as long as they are willing to make weapons and instruments for us,

Eat and drink sufficiently, and those who have family members must ensure the safety of their families and must not kill indiscriminately. ”

"Yes, Lord Gersh."

"Anything else?"

"Lord Gru, it seems that several tribes in the northeast have been wiped out by humans."

"What's going on?"

"There should be a human lord united."

An ogre chief somehow got incomplete information, after all, it was too far away, and it was a non-descendant tribe that was destroyed.

This information is quite vague, only a rough idea, only that there are probably some human lords over there who have formed a coalition army, and destroyed several small tribes whose names they can't even name, and they don't even know the true strength of the coalition army.

Grugersh tapped the table in front of him,

"This sign must be extinguished, a team of 1,000 people must be sent over, and a few more small tribes must be recruited, and they must be eliminated."

"Yes, sir."

Although the information is unknown, Grugersh's response is quite decisive, and Richard, who is far away in the Bender Command, does not know that he has been slightly targeted by the big leader of the ogre......