Chapter 72: Destination (2)
Suddenly a terrible bull's horn sounded over the valley, and the whole valley was filled with bull's horn sound one after another. The long sound of the horn was desolate and imposing, but it was extremely uncomfortable to the ears of those who listened to it.
This is the signal for the orcs to attack.
On the northeast slope, a dense group of orcs began to appear, and they quickly and orderly turned over from the other side of the mountain, and gathered at the foot of the hillside, and from a distance, it looked like a mudslide suddenly pressing, making people's scalps tingle.
Edgar Green looked solemn, standing on the low city wall, looking at the mountain in the distance, behind him were full of warriors with hatred, but hatred was mixed with despair, there were too many half-orcs, the Thunderstone tribe gathered several nearby half-orc tribes to attack them, the number of warriors alone reached five thousand, which is only three thousand different from their total population, but everyone is soldiers!
After the battle in the past few days, although they have resisted the orcs who have no siege equipment, but the strong physique of the orcs can always rely on their strong physique to effectively cause damage, Edgar knows that they are using wheel warfare, they succeeded, the defenders of six hundred people are now only three hundred people, morale is low, physical strength is beginning to keep up, and all of them are wounded.
Why did the people sent go out for so long and didn't see anyone come back? Could it be that there will be no reinforcements?
Before Edgar could think more, he heard the familiar and very frightened sound of the drums
His heart suddenly jumped wildly, could it be that this was about to launch a general attack?
Edgar stared blankly at the foot of the mountain in the distance, and with the sound of drums, a tall orc stepped out of the crowd, along with his elite troops, the orc axe-throwers. Yesterday, the two squads of orc axe-throwers impressed him, and remembering the drums of the orc axe-throwers, he understood that yesterday was a temptation, a temptation to test them when they were at the end of the mountain.
It is clear that they are powerless to resist. The temptation is over, and it's time to launch a general attack!
Behind the most elite troops were the orcs carrying ladders, and under the cover of the large army, they got closer and closer......
The two sides are two hundred meters apart.
"Archer ready!!" Edgar was already at the forefront, holding up the banner with the snarling wind wolf tattooed on it, and turned back and yelled, "Don't let those damn brutes carry the ladder over! ”
The leader of the orcs lowered his round shield, raised his battle axe, and roared hoarsely: "Huha...... Phew! ”
The warriors behind him were immediately inspired by the roar of the orc leader, and they responded in unison, and the roar of the three hundred troops at the same time! All the voices of the opposing side were muffled out in an instant, as if the sky on the battlefield was about to fall.
"Hoo!!"
The orc leader dropped his shield and began to run towards the city wall, and suddenly the three hundred orcs of the vanguard also shouted and began to run after him.
The two sides are one hundred and fifty meters apart.
Originally, the morale of the soldiers was not high, but they were so frightened by the domineering momentum of the orcs, and suddenly several squads collapsed and began to panic, obviously retreating, impacting the formation of the archers behind.
Edgar spotted the riot of the soldiers in time, he held the wind wolf banner in one hand and a long knife in the other, crashed into the rout, and cut several spearmen who tried to charge the archers, and said sharply: "What will happen to the relatives behind you when you retreat?" Do you want to see the end of the murder of old parents and young children, and the abduction of wives and daughters!! ”
"Raise your spears! Draw your knives! Draw your bows! ”
"Kill them all!! Put!! Edgar roared, no longer caring about the fact that the other party was still more than a hundred meters away from him, and at this time he wanted to improve his morale and courage.
With Edgar's shout, a black rain of arrows whistled towards the orcs who began to run wildly.
Sou! Sou! Sou!
The long arrow slammed into the strong muscles of the orcs, and suddenly disappeared into only the tail rod, and many of the half-orcs were shot to the ground and fell to the ground, but the axe-throwers in front of them were not harmed, their speed increased to the limit, watching the leader's fist and wave the gesture, they roared wildly and threw out their two flying axes, and flew into the back of the city wall in a beautiful arc.
The defenders had expected that they would launch such an attack again, and a group of shield soldiers stepped forward and raised their large shields, intercepting most of the flying axes, and only a few of the unlucky ghosts were struck by the flying axes, and the blades of the axes were deeply submerged in their bodies, and they did not see that they would survive.
Suppressed by the axe thrower, the orcs soon crossed the dangerous distance and came to the city wall, where many rudimentary ladders were set up on the city wall, and the orcs began to attack the city!
"It's you waiting for you!" Edgar sneered, and the archers suddenly switched to the front row.
The orcs were immediately hit hard.
The half-orcs were shot mercilessly, they didn't expect the Terran shooters to dare to shoot at such a close range, and suddenly the two teams of half-orcs were caught off guard by the dense arrows, fell down, and smashed a lot of unlucky people, and the half-orcs who were lucky enough to escape roared and jumped on the city wall, and saw a spear stabbing straight ahead!
But after all, the defenders were short of numbers, under the crazy suppression of the orc axe-throwers, more and more ladders sandwiched the city wall, and more and more orcs took advantage of this time to climb up, and suddenly their defense line was like a long mention of a broken gap, and they were suddenly rushed away, and at this time a war knife fell from the sky, and resisted the impact of the half-orcs with the long knives and bodies in their hands, until the halberd troops arrived and drove them down again.
As an assault force, the sword soldiers attacked in the front, knocking back the rushing orcs, while the spearmen covered the archers to shoot, and under Edgar's loud shouts, they skillfully used their complementary advantages to effectively counterattack and repel another wave of attacks.
But in a shout, the half-orc leader with the half-orc axe-thrower began to join the siege troops, the elite troops joined, the pressure on the defense line suddenly increased several times, although the human army swore to resist, but still to the half-orc leader with the half-orc axe-thrower broke through the defense line, and the entire city wall entered a crazy melee.
The orc leader consumed the craziest counterattack of the Terrans at the cost of just over three hundred men, and then he planned to fight with his elite troops.
The nightmare of the Terran defenders has begun again.
The strong half-orc leader with his third-order elite troops began to kill, even if the sword and shield soldiers swore to resist to the death, they still couldn't bear the more powerful half-orc troops, and fought and retreated, the archers also suffered heavy losses in the melee, without the suppression of the archers, the half-orcs began to climb the wall, and it didn't take long to seize the next section of the wall, and the troops behind began to continuously increase troops to that section of the wall.
If it weren't for Edgar's urgent call to battle and the temporary reinforcement of a hundred militiamen, they would have been unable to hold on, and finally the halberdiers were not afraid to charge that section of the city wall, and at the cost of all the deaths, they still swept most of the orcs off the wall, and then destroyed the ladder, and the remaining orcs could only rely on the militia to solve it on their own.
Edgar handed the Wind Wolf Banner to the archers behind him, picked up the broadsword in his hand, joined the confrontation, and fought with the three shield soldiers and the half-orc leader, to drag the half-orc leader as the battlefield butcher, otherwise his strength alone would be enough to destroy the defense line formed by two squads of spearmen, and he would not be able to make the half-orc leader return to the half-orcs.
The only hope is to wait until the militia take back that section of the wall, and then come to their aid, take out the group of orc axe-throwers who can be near and far, and finally join the siege of the orc leader. But he didn't hear the familiar roar of his men, nor did he see the figure rushing from behind to participate in the fierce battle, only the continuous retreat, and the continuous orcs climbed up from the wall behind the half-orc leader.
Hope is sinking little by little.
At this time, he saw the orc leader Azog smiling at him, and then he heard a terrible whistling sound, and a shield guard knocked him away, only to see the huge mace hit the big shield hard, and even the shield flew to the outside of the city wall, even if he was lucky enough not to die, he couldn't escape the pursuit of those orc warriors outside.
His heart ached, because of him, another shield guard had died, and he roared wildly and tried to rush forward, but the other two shield guards grabbed him, and three sword men came out from behind, dragging Azog, and he was pulled back to another section of the wall.
He stared blankly at the battlefield that had gradually fallen silent, hope had sunk to the deepest depths, and something called despair quietly appeared. The battle on the militia's side was over, one hundred against fifteen, and in the end only thirty militiamen remained, badly wounded, but they gritted their teeth and joined the action against the orc axe-throwers of Azog.
Outside the city walls, there were also dense half-orcs, thousands of half-orcs were roaring, they could not climb the city wall because of the lack of ladders, they could only release their anger with wild roars, and kept banging against the iron gates. The battlefield on the side of the orc leader Azog has been sharply reduced, and the shouts of the warriors and the crashing of weapons have slowly thinned out to the point of becoming inaudible, and the only eye-catching thing is that the bright red wind wolf flag is still standing on the battlefield.
Is it over......
In the distance, to the east, an army suddenly appeared.
The horn of the charge resounded throughout the battlefield.
Both the offensive and defensive sides on the battlefield were stunned, where did a force come from at this time? Quietly!
Edgar's face was expressionless, and the situation could not have been worse with one more bandit army, and there was nothing to be afraid of.
"Kill them all!"
The orc leader, who had never spoken, finally gave his first order. Because the half-orcs who couldn't climb the city wall to participate in the battle had long been stimulated by the fighting on the city wall, and there was nowhere to release their anger, and at this time they finally had a target to release! They began to move towards the army to the east, and they still had more than four thousand men, more than double the number of that force, and they still had so many weak archers, what was there to fear?
Kill! Kill! Kill them all!!
Then enter that rich village!!
Edgar, supported by the archers, stood up and looked over, looking at the banner of the army on the opposite side, the golden wind wolf flag.
Reinforcements have finally arrived!
In the face of the chaotic half-orcs, the reinforcements suddenly stopped, and the archers who followed behind were reorganized for a while, and in an instant, the sky was full of arrows, and the black pressure was overwhelming.
The "poof" sound of arrows entering the body was endless. The orcs who were shot immediately lost the ability to act, and the orcs who followed closely behind could not stop, that was to stay in place as a target, and those orcs who were hit by the arrow were trampled to death and seriously injured It was unavoidable, which could only speed up the charge as much as possible and shorten the distance.
However, this short distance sent four waves of arrows to the opponent's archers, and it was obvious that there were formed marksmen in the opponent's archer troops!
Before the orcs could rush to the front, there were seven or eight hundred fewer people, most of whom were caused by their own charges, but this was no longer a problem, because the weak Terran soldiers were right in front of them!
"Kill!!"
Suddenly, the spearmen separated, and the two teams of crusaders came out of it, began to accelerate, and with the crusaders as the cones, they formed a huge sharp arrow formation, and plunged into the fan-shaped orc troops!
When the other two orc leaders commanding the orcs were raised high by three spears, the formation of the orc army was cut through by the supporting troops, and then their respective squads began to divide the enemy. Protected by the spearmen of the two squads of the archer troops, they also boldly approached the orcs and carried out a delicate single blockade.
When the orcs suffered more than 2,000 casualties, the orc forces finally collapsed, lost the courage to fight, and began to flee in all directions.
"Win ......" The remnants of the warriors on the city wall were excited, and suddenly turned from despair to ecstasy, and suddenly came from hell to heaven.
The face of the orc leader Azog suddenly became very ugly, he snorted coldly, gave up the attack, and jumped off the city wall with the remaining orc axe-throwers, and entered the dense woods after a while.
The rescue force defeated the orc army, the overall situation has been decided, all that remains is to chase and kill, it is very strange that the regular army did not pursue the orcs, but the bandit army that attacked with the regular army just now rushed to chase and kill the orcs.
Escorted by a group of crusaders, the golden wind wolf flag slowly moved over, and a man and a woman rode over on a large red wild boar, and the young man glanced at the battlefield. was stunned, which is the battlefield, it is clearly a slaughterhouse. Nearly a thousand corpses, in various postures, the corpses under the city walls were already piled up more than a meter high, the walls were covered with russet and solidified blood, countless weapons, spears, broadswords, maces, or were thrown on the ground, or deep into the body of the soldiers who died in battle, and some were still clutched tightly in their hands.
He looked at the Terran soldiers poking their heads out of the city wall and smiled.
"It's good that it's not too late."