Chapter 315: You Think I'll Sing on the Seventh Day of July
The Orc Overseers who were entrenched in Danmoro had expected the dwarven offensive to come and go as fast as ever, but he didn't expect that the offensive that had been launched late at night had no sign of stopping until noon the next day.
After more than a year of blockade, the orc overseer was well aware of the military superiority and inferiority of his orc and dwarven sides.
Although Ironforge is located on a high position and is difficult to defend and attack, the dwarven artillery has the advantage of a height difference. However, as long as the blockade continues, victory will ultimately belong to the orcs. The Overseers were convinced.
Although the terrain of Danmoro is complex, with many mountain valleys and basins, and countless snowfields and ice valleys, it is still a plain at the foot of Iron Fort Mountain.
As long as it is stuck here, any action of the dwarves cannot avoid the monitoring of the orcs, and the remaining scattered paths, it will be enough to repair its seventy or eighty sentry posts.
Although the mountains of Danmorro may look cold and inhospitable, there is a lot of life hidden between the snow and the rocks. The Overseer, who had been tasked with defending the dwarves from counterattacks and maintaining the transport lines since the Grand Chief Orgrim headed north, knew that he could not let his grip on the dwarves come to an end, and that it would be a huge problem for the orcs to let them go.
But the failure of the crusade to the north made the position of the Great Chief awkward. Reed. As the son of the former High Chief, the Black Hand has his own influence in the Blackstone Clan, but the Overseers believe that Orgrim is more influential than Red. The black hand is more suitable for the position of the Great Chief.
Brave and resourceful, Orgrim. The Hammer of Doom is one of the few strategists among the Orcs.
In support of Orgrim, the Overseers divided 20,000 of the 30,000 orcs guarding Danmoro and followed Orgrim to the Burning Plains. This move made the orc tribe's power in Danmoro a little thin. But the Overseers weren't too worried, and rushed from the Burning Plains to the Orc camp in Danmoro to support them no longer than five days, relying on the sturdy offensive they had built over the past year and their old men of more than 10,000 men. Enough to wait for the support of the Great Chief.
Just as the dwarves have mastered the tactics of dealing with the orcs, the orcs have learned how to deal with the dwarves effectively. While the steam tanks and highland bombardment were incredibly powerful, the dense trenches and bunkers were enough to cost the dwarves dearly. Without corpses filling the trenches, the dwarves could not cross the blockade.
And what else can those dwarves ride besides steam tanks? Goat!
I want to laugh at the thought of this orc overseer, goat. The dwarven cavalry who charged on goats not only sent their exploits, but also rations, which were simply rare opponents.
He still has more than 2,000 wolf cavalry mobile troops in his hands, unless the dwarven steam tank can fly, any roundabout breakthrough under the wolf cavalry's sword is a joke.
As for the gnomes...... The Orc Overseers don't want to judge someone who isn't knee-high enough.
That being said, those annoying little things flying around in the sky are still annoying.
The night's shelling, combined with half a day's firefight, left the camp with a shortage of grease and stone shells, as well as animal tendons and ropes. While the Orc Overseers were busy mobilizing supplies and coordinating the rotation of troops. A scout panicked to find his Overseer.
"Five-nine, five-nine is coming down the mountain!"
The dwarven steam tanks were numbered, and although it took a long time to understand the dwarven script, the Overseers were serious.
Because the steam tank with the number 59 is the trump card of the dwarven mechanized troops, the elite of the elite, when it appears on the battlefield, it means that the dwarves are in real character.
"Pass my orders. Let the soldiers of the third line of defense fill the second line of defense, and the soldiers of the first line of defense are ready to evacuate at any time. Prepare the trebuchet positions on the flanks. Once the dwarven steam tanks entered the plains and carried out saturation bombardment. Let the wolf cavalry squad go out fifteen kilometers to the east, southeast, and northeast to reconnoitre, and let the ogre troops assemble. ”
"Understood."
"Wait."
The Orc Overseer stopped the young man who was in a hurry to give the order, and whispered in his ear, "Tell the guy guarding the ogre that the routine mobilization meal will be saved, and the battle will be eaten." Got it? ”
"Understood."
The orc didn't understand what the Overseer meant, he just memorized the order mechanically.
But the Overseers didn't have time to raise the young men. The dwarven surprise came without warning, giving the Orc Overseers a sense of foreboding.
Contact with the Wetland Dragonthroat Clan has been cut off, and there is no support from the sky. In the face of those annoying dwarf helicopters, the Horde is at an absolute disadvantage when it comes to information secrecy.
This battle is not easy to fight. But I have nothing to fear.
The Orc Overseers stopped their paperwork, changed into rugged and sturdy orc-style armor, picked up their battle axes, and headed to the front.
Sporadic bows and arrows and spears are not too much of a threat to the dwarf flying machines in the sky, but in the hands of experienced orc hunters, using the interference of bows and spears to restrict the flight path of the gnomes, and then using bed crossbows to kill, is still an effective means of air supremacy.
"I really didn't expect that in Azeroth, in the world of Warcraft, I would actually see such a war."
Led by Hemmit, Carlos arrives at the predetermined hiding place.
The dry riverbed is more than two meters deep and more than thirty meters wide, and more than 3,000 human soldiers are hidden in this section of the riverbed, which does not look crowded at all. Unlike the dwarves who crawled on the snow, Carlos was able to observe the battle in the distance by stepping on a large rock.
It is said that a long-term illness becomes a good doctor, but in fact, a restriction should be added to it, and the long-term illness will not die. In the same way, those who have fought for a long time and have not died will naturally become good commanders.
It is said that the one who knows you best is always your enemy.
In countless conflicts, dwarves and orcs have fought each other, and there is nothing new on this battlefield for a long time.
Using steam tanks as shelter and hillside artillery fire cover, the dwarves established a temporary position in the plains with enough foothold, and soldiers were constantly rushing from Ironforge Forts down the mountain roads to the front.
But the orcs are also very well coordinated, Carlos is a person who has seen modern warfare, and he can see that if the dwarves don't have a big killing weapon. Being able to stand firm at the foot of the mountain is already the biggest gain today. The overnight bombardment consumed the stone shells of the orc trebuchet, otherwise now the orcs can make the dwarves in a dilemma as long as they concentrate on the trebuchet to saturate and bomb the mountain road.
This orc is very elite, although there is no difference between the individual combat power and the orcs who went north to Lordaeron, but from the perspective of group combat. Even better than the orcs Hilbride had encountered.
Carlos looked at the dense sentry posts and trench stakes in the distance, and understood Magni's helplessness.
The orcs have already established a set of three-dimensional firepower fortifications against the Iron Fort Fort, and it is too difficult and too expensive to break through from the direction of the Iron Forge.
But on the other hand, from the position where Carlos is now, the defense of the tribe's orcs is much weaker.
According to Magni, he will attract all of the orcs' living mobility to the frontal battlefield. Carlos then struck from the flanks and rear, destroying the Orc's five trebuchet launches, and the Orc Fortress and Sentry Tower, which had lost their suppressive firepower, were nothing more than large targets named by steam tanks and dwarven mortars.
But seeing a small group of wolf cavalry roaring towards him, Carlos had a bad feeling, I am afraid that Magni's wishful thinking is about to fail, the commander of this orc army is very experienced.
With so much frontal pressure, so many elites were sent out to investigate.
Every wolf cavalry is the elite of the orcs. The upper wolf can ride and fight, and the lower wolf dares to fight. It's hard to deal with. Hermit looked at Carlos nervously, whether to hide the whole army or gamble to intercept this wolf cavalry squad, waiting for him to make a decision.
"A full twelve wolf cavalry, counting their wolf twenty-four livestock, let one go, and we are all exposed."
Carlos was short, keeping his eyes above the riverbank. said without hurry.
"Then why is it hidden?"
Hermit asked nervously, the wolf cavalry was very fast, and there was not much time to give them disguise.
"It's useless, those orcs will definitely come to check, we can't hide. Based on my experience fighting orcs in Lordaeron. They would soon divide into four groups, one group to look at the wind, one group to check the riverbank, one group to reconnoiter the valley on the left, and one group to the center. ”
Carlos said calmly.
"What do you mean?"
Hemet was vaguely excited.
"The smell of our war horses can't be hidden, and the wolf-mounted wolf of the orcs will definitely notice it, but until it is certain that there is a problem, the arrows in the hands of the wolf cavalry will not be released."
"Then we ......"
"The group of Wangfeng will be handed over to you dwarves, I believe in your marksmanship, see, that pile of rocks can hide five or six dwarves, just enough to dispose of people and wolves. The group in the valley will be handed over to my spearheads. ”
Carlos turned his head and winked, and soon, a small group of warriors in white cloaks left the large army with a cold expression and touched in the direction of the valley.
"Then what to do with the other two groups of wolf cavalry?"
Hermit asked, confused.
"Your snipers wait until the wolf cavalry who went to the valley to scout is far away, and then we will follow."
Hermit didn't understand what to do at first, but Carlos's order was quickly conveyed, and when he saw that the human army of 3,000 men was equipped with more than a thousand bows and crossbows, and almost everyone was equipped with hand axes and spears, the dwarves understood what to use.
This is going to be shot to death with arrows!
Fearing bad things for his subordinates, Hemet personally took the musket and touched it out.
Carlos, on the other hand, continued to observe the battle between Magni and the orcs in the distance, as if he did not care about the exposed danger in front of him.
"Your Majesty, orcs are not fools, and we won't be able to delay long after dealing with this reconnaissance team."
Ymir himself was a cavalryman, and knew the rules of scouting inside out.
"How long can it be delayed, if Magni can't focus the orcs on the frontal battlefield, then it's a big problem."
Carlos's tone finally showed a hint of agitation.
"Yes."
The trouble that Imir Dan Carlos said was casualties.
As a human general, his thoughts are not wrong. But as commander-in-chief, Carlos is talking about trouble, and by time.
If the wolf cavalry could not be diverted, even if Carlos led the troops to win, it would be dark.
At night, the general's control over his soldiers is in an awkward position, and if the orcs are left to a bad fight, only God knows the outcome of the battle.
"It's not my style to sit still, deal with that wolf cavalry scout, feed the horses some bean cakes, and then move your body. If we don't have enough time, we act early. ”
Carlos made a decision. (To be continued.) )