Chapter 154: Orc Invasion (Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription)
If it was just like that, Silvermoon City wouldn't be too nervous, after all, they had been fighting with the orcs for so many years, and they had seen a lot of small twists and turns, and the soldiers would just come to block the water and cover the earth. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
But this invasion was different from the past, and the orcs somehow dragged other barbarians and monsters in the Enoch Desert to invade together. You know, the other inhabitants of those deserts have not been very compatible with the orcs for thousands of years, and it is common for them to attack each other.
Especially the Bedai barbarians, this barbaric and powerful human nation is inherently incompatible with the orcs, and over the years they have almost become mortal enemies with the orcs in order to compete for living space, and their beliefs are very peculiar, they do not believe in any specific gods, and the Enoch Desert itself, they consider themselves to be the children of the desert. So they have never been too interested in the belief in the dark trigod.
I don't know how the Dark Tritheistic Church and the Orcs persuaded this group of stubborn desert nomads to help them. But now this thing doesn't matter, Silvermoon City only knows that these barbarian desert hussars have invaded Silvermoon Kingdom with the orcs.
Now the eastern front of the kingdom has become a pot of porridge, the most important city on the eastern front of the kingdom Eskaw has been crumbling, this historic fortress city, has always been the bridgehead and the most important defense center of the Silver Moon Kingdom against the orcs on the eastern front, if Eskaw falls, then the orcs can drive straight into the Forte of the Silver Moon Kingdom.
Another important city on the Eastern Front, Fort Adeba, is now also under attack by the Orcs, this city is the most important arsenal and metal smelting base in the Silvermoon Kingdom, if this city is taken by the Orcs, then the kingdom's military industrial system will suffer a heavy blow.
Not only that, after taking this city, the orcs can use the underground volcanic fissures of Fort Adeba to continuously create various weapons and equipment, and then the Silvermoon Kingdom will really be in big trouble.
But fortunately, as the most important military base of the kingdom, Adeba Fort has a perfect defense, and it has not been breached since it was built, and the city has been prepared with enough food and grass for the entire army and civilians to eat for a year, as well as hundreds of underground wells, plus sufficient weapons and equipment, Silvermoon City is not very worried about the city being captured for the time being.
However, the kingdom couldn't watch Fort Adeba being besieged, after all, other places still needed its equipment to support it, so the moment Silvermoon City got the alarm, it began to organize reinforcements to go to Fort Adeba and Esko. Naturally, the support for this line of Locke Town has decreased, and now Silvermoon City has no other troops at all except for a small number of city guards and queen guards.
Therefore, Silvermoon City requires that the Earl of Marshall must eliminate this group of ogres on the front line of Locke Town, and must not let them attack Silvermoon City, otherwise Silvermoon City will have a lot of fun, and then can only recruit civilians to climb the city wall to help defend the city, in this way, even if the final victory can be obtained, the kingdom will be greatly damaged.
"It's... This.... The generals who saw the information were dumbfounded, they never thought that the situation would suddenly deteriorate to such a level.
"Alas... It seems that we can only rely on ourselves, and besides, Silvermoon City is not without our support. The Earl of Marshall sighed, and also sighed a little, the world is changing too fast, yesterday was still singing and dancing, so for a while, why is it going to be extinct?
Indeed, after receiving the information about the size of the monsters from the Earl of Marshall, Silvermoon City felt that there were 5,000 people on the Marshall Earl's side, and there was no guarantee of combat effectiveness among 2,000 of them, which was really a bit unsafe, after all, these monsters threatened Silvermoon City, and they originally planned to send reinforcements again.
However, the turmoil on the Eastern Front forced Silvermoon City to change its mind and send all reinforcements to the Eastern Front. But the Earl of Marshall couldn't ignore it, so in desperation, he gave the Earl Marshall an authorization.
Authorized Earl Marshall to recruit noble knights and noble privates from Locke Town to the vicinity of Silvermoon City.
"But what's the use of this support? Even if we use all our might, how much can we recruit? 2000? Or 3000? And even if the knights are counted, can those private soldiers really guarantee combat effectiveness? "But in the eyes of the generals below, this authorization is simply nonsense. How many knights can there be from Rock Town to Silvermoon City, and it is only 300 to 400 to die, and the combat effectiveness of these people is still guaranteed, but the number is too small.
There are a little more private soldiers, and it is estimated that they can recruit 2,000 to 3,000, but in the eyes of their regular army, this group of people is not even as good as the militia, they are just a rabble.
Of course, some private soldiers are not as bad as they imagined, and the noble private soldiers in some places are still okay, such as the private soldiers who went with Baron Vane to attack the monster camp last time, and the quality is very good. But this is a minority after all, and it would be a joke to ask them, the regular army, to believe in their combat effectiveness.
The Earl of Marshall didn't know any of this, but what could he do when things were already like this? The people underground can still come to him for revenge, but what about him? Who should he turn to for revenge. He can't complain in front of his subordinates, otherwise the morale of the army will be lost. So he had no choice but to reprimand the generals who said discouraged words.
"Bastard! Besides, we are a regular army, and even if there are no reinforcements, don't you have the confidence to defeat those monsters? No matter how many monsters there are, they're a rabble! Even if they have the help of the Dark Triary, they are still a rabble! ”
In fact, the Earl of Marshall can only say this, after all, the morale of the army is still maintained. But he didn't lie, even if the Dark Trigod Church helped, that group of monsters would not be able to become a disciplined army. As long as there is no discipline, they have nothing to fear.
Humanity was able to become the master of the continent again after the dark and boiling years, thanks to their disciplined army. At this point, other races are really not as strong as humans.
The individual strength of human beings is indeed not strong among all the intelligent races in the continent. But their armies are stronger than the other races. For example, elves, in terms of personal strength, these immortals are much stronger than humans, after all, they live a long time. But after the elven militarism disappeared, the four words of strict discipline were completely irrelevant to the elven army.
These words of the Earl of Marshall did inspire those generals, they were actually very confident in themselves, just now they were just startled by the Dark Tritheistic Church, this will be said by the Marshall Earl, and they also figured it out, what about the Dark Trigod, how can they make these monsters smart or what, it is not the same rabble.
Seeing that the morale was rising again, the Earl of Marshall was very happy, so he hurriedly arranged the next matters, after all, spring was about to begin, and the monster could come out of the forest at any time, and some preparations had to be made.
At the same time, he also arranged for Baron Vane and several other generals to recruit knights and select private soldiers, although this support is very small, but it is also a force, not in vain. What's more, although those private soldiers are uneven, they should still be able to use them under screening.
Because Baron Vane is a native and knows more about some things here, the Earl of Marshall specially asked him to assist in this matter, which can be regarded as making the best use of things.
After arranging these things, the Earl of Marshall let the others go out first, and sat alone in the tent to think about the aftermath.
What Earl Marshall just said was not actually a comfort to those generals, he knew that the Dark Trio Church would not be so simple to support those ogres, although they could not let those monsters become a real army, but that did not mean that those ogres were not a threat. Although the Earl of Marshall was confident that his army would be victorious no matter what, he would surely suffer heavy losses.
As the commander in chief of the army, he could not tolerate this happening, and he had to find a way to minimize the possibility of this. After making up his mind, the Earl of Marshall rose and went to Mavis's tent, where he needed an elite squad to help him.
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"What? Let me lead a team to raid ogres? Solam looked at the Earl of Marshall in front of him in surprise. He couldn't have imagined that as soon as this old man came over today, he would let him do such a difficult task, which made it clear that he wanted Solam to send him to death.
"It's not a raid on the ogre, it's a gang of cultists, it's the supplies they send to the ogre, as long as you can raid that group of cultists and burn their supplies, that's it."
"......" Solam didn't know what to say. The old guy said it so simply, as if he were going on an outing. Then why didn't he go to him? It's clear, I want to fool Solam.
"What you said, in my opinion, is too simple, otherwise, I will directly lead people to rush into the ogre's camp and kill all those monsters, do you think about it?"
This made the Earl Marshall's face turn white for a while, he knew that Soram was sarcastic about him, but he couldn't help it, it was really easier for adventurers to do this. His subordinates are all regular soldiers, and he is really not very familiar with jungle warfare. But this kind of mission is too dangerous, and those adventurers may not be willing to take it, so he can only hit Soram again, who calls him a high prestige among adventurers?
"Listen to me, I know this mission is dangerous, but I can't help it, now the kingdom's military strength is overstretched, I have to make this decision." The Earl of Marshall finally couldn't bear it anymore and had to tell the truth. "As long as you can help me, the bonus or something, how much you say, I won't bargain, and I promise that I will truthfully report the credit for participating in the mission this time, and I will definitely not discount it! I promise, I promise in the name of the God of Radiance! ”