Chapter 170: The Great War is about to begin
In the end, Dane's persuasion didn't do much good, and instead of listening to him again, Morno decided to fight the orcs to the death. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
What could Dane do? At this time, it was impossible for him to break away from the Eastern Expeditionary Army when the Great War was about to start. Let's not talk about whether Morno will let him go, but if he goes, where can he go? This is a huge eastern wasteland, and if you want to go back, the orc army in front of you is a hurdle that you have to cross.
"I can only do one more time......" he thought to himself.
Of course, it is impossible to fight a fight. Obviously, if Morno had assigned him a task that he knew at a glance was fatal or deadly, he would never have done it - he had to fight for the benefit of others before he had to show off his head.
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On January 19, the Eastern Expeditionary Army, which had formed a formation, encountered the 4,000-strong orc vanguard army head-on. The two sides were separated by a distance of almost two kilometers, but neither of them was in a hurry to make the first move.
Originally, the distance between the two sides was not far, so that they would not meet in two days. However, the orc vanguard was chasing behind Dane's ass before, but later found that it couldn't catch up, and on the way, it might have detected the traces of Jer's Smir mercenary group, and it might be closer, so he simply turned around and swallowed Jer's troops directly. This process took a certain amount of time for the orc vanguard army, so the orc army that came out on the fifteenth only met the main force of the Eastern Expeditionary Army four days later.
At a distance of several kilometers, with the strength of the two sides almost close, and even the strength of the orcs on paper was even stronger, the two armies set up camp separately, and there was no particularly big movement on this day. Of course, skirmishes between some reconnaissance units that were spilled out by each could not be avoided.
The main force of the temptation of the orc army is still the wolf cavalry troops that come and go like the wind. But the wolf cavalry of the orcs did not bargain in front of the Eastern Expeditionary Army this time. The white wolf cavalry from the White Wolf Castle was no worse than the wolf cavalry of the orcs, and within a day, the two sides fought more than a dozen battles on the scale of their squads, and they won and lost each other. The white wolf cavalry died less than twenty, and the number of losses of the orc wolf cavalry on the opposite side was relatively much more, reaching nearly forty.
The extra numbers are not the results of the White Wolf Cavalry, but the results of the elite rangers under Dane.
Dane had the Elven Ranger in his hands, and that was something that Morno knew. So, in the confrontation of these small reconnaissance units before the war, he also received orders from Morno, asking him to send some rangers to join the reconnaissance. In small-scale battles, especially in this kind of open terrain, without worrying about being surrounded, without worrying about being ambushed, and the number of enemies is not too large, the rangers' superb archery skills are simply exerted to the extreme.
A squad of elven rangers, when facing the charge of the same number of wolf riders, often dared to put the opponent into a distance of thirty meters or even less before firing arrows. Although, at this distance, the wolf that rushed up might only need a breath or two to pounce, but again, at a distance of less than thirty meters, the bow and arrow of the elite ranger could almost be said to be a hundred shots. After a round of shooting, it is very likely that the several wolves that rushed up will all be killed, and most of the wolf cavalry with them will be directly seriously injured, and then killed by the easy mending knife.
Before the real battle starts, it is obviously a very morale-boosting thing to win in the early stage. Morno was quite happy about this, praising Dane in public, and at the same time saying that these elves were all natural 'marksmen', showing a great deal of envy.
Dain couldn't be happy, after he reluctantly passed it perfunctorily, he still had a headache when he returned to his camp, and he didn't know how to fight tomorrow's battle.
"Boss, I don't think I need to think too much." Delin knew what Dane was worried about, and rushed over to comfort, "Tomorrow's battle, you can't avoid it, since you want to fight, you have to fight beautifully." ”
Dane scolded with a smile: "Fuck off, I still don't know this truth?" Don't worry, I have a spectrum in my heart. ”
Delin also smiled: "Hehe, the boss just has a score in his heart." ”
"You make your men smarter tomorrow." Dane instructed, "Don't be foolish enough to rush up against the knife. We should fight us, we shouldn't, don't go up and die. ”
"Do you want to avoid war?"
"Negative fart, passive avoidance of war, what should I do if I lose?" Dane scolded, "Just let our old brothers not be too tiger, and let those cannon fodder be on the matter of sending them to death." We spent money to recruit more than 200 mercenaries, but we didn't use them as treasures. You know what I mean, right? ”
Delin nodded hurriedly: "Understood, understood......"
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On the second day, in the early morning of 20 January, the two sides walked out of the barracks in unison, set out carts and artillery, and began to curse each other from a distance of one kilometer.
There are not many orcs who can understand the lingua franca of humans, and there are not many humans who can understand orc language, but the two sides scold each other very happily, it doesn't matter if they understand it or not, the catharsis of that atmosphere and emotions is the key, otherwise, the tense atmosphere before the big war is enough to drive people crazy.
Dane led his own army, on the left flank of the whole army. Also on the left flank was Delina's Pure Sword Mercenary Regiment. Under Morno's appointment, Dane became the commander of the left flank of the Crusade Army, and he commanded nearly a thousand troops. The elven ranger stood at the front of the array, a hundred or so dreaded warriors and two hundred and twenty or thirty pure swordsmen, standing behind the guard, and further behind, there were five hundred miscellaneous soldiers from the two mercenary groups combined, and at the back of the core position, there was a hundred-person sword dancer army led by Dane, as well as spellcasters such as mages and priests. Sixty dragonmen were on standby on the far side.
"Knock, knock, knock......" The continuous and rhythmic sound of war drums sounded, and looking at the opposite side, the orc army began to move forward. At the same time, on this side, the clarion call for the army to attack also resounded on the battlefield, and the human army also moved forward without showing weakness. The speed of both sides is not very fast, the distance is still relatively long, and it is necessary to retain physical strength in the final charge and fight.
When the two armies approached a distance of 500 meters, the archers of both sides fired the first wave of arrows. Shooting at this distance was basically demonstrative, and few marksmen were able to complete a hit at this distance, not even Pexins.
However, when the armies of both sides got closer to each other by another hundred meters, the lethality of the bow and arrow began to manifest itself!
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I received a notice today that it will be on the shelves tomorrow, and I am nervous......