The northern kingdoms are drunk and singing and dancing, but the kingdom of Stormwind in the south is in full flames, and the raging flames of war are completely burning at the moment when Ainam opens the dark door and the orcs invade Azeroth.

As the front line against the orc invasion, Night Town is also the place where the battle between humans and orcs is fiercest, and the once peaceful town has been transformed into a flesh mill, where countless lives have been lost, both humans and orcs.

Marcus leaned against the wall with his sword in hand, panting heavily.

Just now, they once again repelled the attack of the orcs, and the price paid was that the kingdom soldiers who were more than three digits closed their eyes forever.

At this time, Night Town had long since replaced Raven Ridge as the place with the most dead bodies. Because the orcs were attacking too quickly, the adult men in the town either went to the battlefield with weapons or did logistics for the soldiers fighting in front, and there was no manpower to deal with other things. In order to save time and save human beings, the soldiers who died in battle could only dig a deep pit and bury things hastily.

Even so, there are countless graves of all sizes erected in Nighttown, and as far as the eye can see, there are more and more raised graves, and their number is increasing as the war progresses, and there is a great tendency to catch up with Raven Ridge.

Reginald walked over covered in blood: "Are you alright, Marcus?" ”

An ugly smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and Marcus gave the other party a reassuring look: "Who am I, how could those orcs hurt me." Lao Wen, let me tell you, after fighting for so long, I finally understood a truth today: it turns out that if a person cuts too much, the sword will break, and if he is injured too much, it will not hurt. Your uncle, those orc cubs are really delicious. ”

That means you're still injured, but it doesn't look serious.

Reginald breathed a sigh of relief, the wave of orcs just now was too fierce, and the number of orcs involved in the attack was the largest, Reginald was really worried that something would happen to Marcus.

The tenacity of the orcs was beyond everyone's expectations, and the higher-ups of the kingdom thought that after failing to quickly take Night Town, and seeing a large number of kingdom soldiers from the Red Ridge Mountains rushing to support, the orcs would retreat to the dark swamp. I didn't think that these ugly and crazy guys just stopped for a few days, and then invested more troops, and they swore not to give up until they took the night town.

If it was just an ordinary defender of the city, even if there were a lot of orcs, even if the orcs would die in a battle, Reginald and they would not necessarily be afraid of each other. The massive amount of war materials hoarded in Night Town and the continuous blood transfusion in the rear of the kingdom, as long as the general is within the passing line, he is sure to hold Night Town.

However, orcs are no ordinary siegers, and their greatest advantage over humans is night fighting.

The standard of living in Azeroth is low, and most people are thankfully able to fill their stomachs, and many people are malnourished in such a social environment, most notably with night blindness.

At night, the vast majority of humanity is blind, even the soldiers in the army.

Orcs, on the other hand, the night is not completely unaffected for them, but it is much less influential, at least they can see their surroundings clearly.

If you want to win in war, you have to learn to play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses, and it is clear that orcs are not an unintelligent barbarian race, they know how to play to their strengths, and they will take advantage of the weaknesses of their opponents. As a result, every time at night, the orcs attack will be more ferocious than during the day, and the vigil has become the most difficult and dangerous task for the defenders of Night Town.

Reginald sat down next to Marcus, and from the exhaustion on his face that he couldn't hide it, he was also very tired.

"The orcs have stepped up their offensive again today, and the number of people they are involved in the attack is increasing every day, so I'm worried about it."

After fighting for so many days, the orcs stopped for a few days when the Kingdom reinforcements from the Red Ridge Mountains arrived, and the other times the orcs were not attacking one day, and they were still the kind that did not discriminate between the day. Night Town is fighting during the day and at night, and it's really 24 hours a day. If the intensity of the war continues, even those who are beaten with iron will not be able to stand it.

Marcus spat on it, and the chance of blood was mixed in it, showing that his injuries were not as good as outsiders thought. He patted Reginard on the shoulder and teased the other party: "Why, when you become a general and still put on such a sad face, you are deliberately stimulating me." ”

Night Town was able to hold on, and the huge amount of supplies in the town was not looted by the orcs, thanks to Marcus and Reginald. It is worth noting that it was also thanks to the kingdom that Reginald was promoted and became a general, but Marcus did not receive any awards.

It is not surprising that this situation occurs, in the eyes of some people, it is not that you will be rewarded for your meritorious service, but they see whether you have safeguarded his interests, if you dare to tamper with the things of the nobles, even if this thing is discarded by the nobles, you will not have good fruit to eat.

Ignoring the exploits of war was already good, at least the nobles did not hold Marcus accountable for trumped-up charges.

As a party, Marcus is naturally very unhappy.

Uncle, I worked hard for you, you hid in the back safely and enjoyed the blessings, not to mention, you still have to find trouble with the uncle, if we didn't have other plans, Uncle Marcus, I would have left the picks and quit.

Marcus's plight naturally made his companion Reginald very dissatisfied, and the latter sighed and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "To be honest, Marcus, I'm disappointed, very, very disappointed. ”

The most taboo for the above is to reward and punish unfairly, and the meritorious do not reward, who is willing to work hard for you when encountering things? Now, the nobles of the Stormwind Kingdom are doing such stupid things.

The temper of the soldiers has always been very straight, especially the soldiers from the lower strata of society, who make up the vast majority of them, and they are very angry about what happened to Marcus. When the news spread that Reginald had been promoted and Marcus had received nothing, the soldiers didn't say anything, but they were upset about Marcus in their hearts.

Why is there no reward for his meritorious service, just because Reginald is a son of a nobleman and Marcus is a commoner?

The soldiers pondered that they were also the children of civilians, so if they had made the credit for their lives on the battlefield, the nobles who stayed in Stormwind City and enjoyed their happiness were in a bad mood, and they would also erase their credits, and maybe they would put their credit on some noble child who didn't even know what an orc was like. You know, this kind of thing has happened a lot.

Can an army with a grudge and a lot of dissatisfaction with the upper echelons of the kingdom fight a tough battle?

It's a personal know-how impossible.

The soldiers began to slack off, and their negative effect was immediately apparent - in just two days, the orcs almost stormed the town of Night several times, and if it weren't for the desperate efforts of Marcus and Reginald, the town might have been destroyed.

"You're disappointed, I'm even more disappointed." Marcus pursed his lips, he didn't have to hide his thoughts in front of Reginald, "Anyway, you've been promoted, but I haven't gotten anything." I'm all wondering now, is it necessary to fight the orcs here? ”

"Of course there must be ......"

Reginald was about to persuade Marcus when a voice interrupted him.

"There's no need."

The voice came to Marcus and Reginald's minds at the same time, it was so familiar that Marcus and Reginald jumped up and down like springs.

It's Ainand-sama!

Reginald hesitated and asked, "My lord, do you mean to let us withdraw?" ”

"Those guys in Stormwind City have done stupid things, and the soldiers of the kingdom have no heart to fight, and they are still waiting here to die?" Ainan's voice sounded in the minds of the two of them, "Take advantage of the fact that the new wave of orcs has not yet arrived, hurry up and retreat to the Red Ridge Mountains with those loyal to you, anyway, the civilians in the town have already run out after fighting in Night Town for so long." ”

"Remember, take your army. Troubled times are coming, only soldiers have the right to speak, and generals without an army are nothing. ”