Chapter 561: Wolf Cavalry
Yu Fei stood on the city tower and saw clearly, the orc clan's burning catapults were thousands of meters away from the city wall, according to the level of Eslazze's war machinery and magic ability, unless it was a large number of high-level magic or forbidden spells, humans could not threaten these burning catapults at all.
Yu Fei was not at all surprised that the range of the orc clan's incendiary catapult far exceeded that of the war machinery of the Eslazer realm. The Burning Catapult's status in the Orcs is the same as the Blade Thrower's status in the Night Elves, and the range is also very long, at the same level.
The incendiary bombs that were constantly slamming into the walls kept the mages of Cirek busy casting water and earth magic to extinguish the flames and repair the walls. The Mage Tower's maximum attack amplification and increase in the range of attack spells are completely unreflected.
In this situation, a cavalry rushed out of the orc troops in the distance. In the direction that Yu Fei observed, there were about 10,000 cavalry rushing out, and I think the other three directions should be the same.
Yu Fei's keen vision made it easy for him to see the appearance of these orc cavalry. The mounts of this cavalry unit are giant wolves that are either black, gray or brown, and the knights riding on the giant wolves are also werewolves.
However, Yu Fei found out that these wolf cavalry were different from the werewolves of the Frostwolf Clan. Compared to the werewolves of Eslaze's native land, these wolf cavalry of the new orcs resemble an upright giant wolf in appearance, and only a humanoid face can be seen on the face.
And the werewolves in Eslazze's native area, such as the werewolves in the Frostwolf Clan that Yu Fei observed through the perspective of the bear warrior, are actually relatively close to human form. It is only visible from the ears and tail that it is not human.
This may be one of the reasons for the emergence of the new ancient orcs. The origins of the orcs native to Eslaze are unknown. But the evolution to the human form has not changed. This may be due to the fact that many orcs have intermarried with humans.
And the orcs in Warcraft. There is no "human" in the name. Orcs and Terrans are two completely separate races that did not intersect in the beginning.
It should be for this reason that after the orcs of Eslaze chose to merge with the power from the Warcraft beast clan that descended on them, there would be all kinds of changes. Embodied in this wolf cavalry, it is the original appearance close to the human form has become atavistic.
These atavistic wolf cavalry advanced very quickly, and soon came under the walls of Ciric under the cover of burning catapults. The mages were busy repairing the walls, and only a few attack spells flew out, failing to stop the wolf cavalry.
When these wolf cavalry came under the noses of Yu Fei and the others. One by one, they all raised their scimitars in their hands and began to slash down the city walls with a clang.
It stands to reason that if it is not a specialized siege machine, it is difficult for a single weapon to damage a magically reinforced wall, even if it is a giant hammer and axe. However, at the head of Ciric City, the human officers and soldiers were all dignified.
If you look closely, the scimitar in the hand of the wolf cavalry, which is like a toothpick compared to the city wall, slashed at the city wall, and it was actually able to casually make the city wall, which had been reinforced by two magic processes of fossil to mud and mud to stone, crack into a big hole.
"Sure enough." Paramount frowned, talking to himself as if he was talking to Yu Fei. "I don't know what the weapons of these orcs are made of, and the damage to the city wall is so great, but when they are actually fighting, they are not as sharp as when they slash the city wall, it's really strange."
Yu Fei was relieved. Wolf cavalry can easily damage the city wall, but cannot reflect the high level of weapons in battle. It is indeed difficult to be understood by the natives of Aislazze.
As for Yu Fei himself, he understands the reason for this situation. In Warcraft, the Wolf Cavalry's attack type is a siege, which can cause more than twice as much damage when destroying buildings. It is embodied in this real world, that is, it is easier for them to destroy the city wall than to kill people.
Originally, the mages in Cirek City were a little choking just to deal with the burning catapults. Almost all of the mages stationed in the mage tower shifts worked together to keep the city walls repaired at the same rate as the speed at which they were destroyed.
However, after the wolf cavalry of the orc tribe participated in the attack on the city wall, the officers at the head of the city could clearly see with the naked eye that the speed of repairing the city wall could no longer keep up with the speed of destruction of the orcs.
"It's not a way to go on like this, the wall will be opened for half an hour at most, or the wall will be completely destroyed in two hours." Paramount spoke affirmatively, and quickly discussed the countermeasures with the officers around him.
Yu Fei, as the head of the Eighth Army Mage Regiment, was naturally drawn into this brief meeting, but he was not prepared to express any opinions. Anyway, in the eyes of these soldiers, this magician should not be able to understand military affairs, so he simply sat by and watched how the elite officers of the Holy Lion Empire dealt with the situation in front of him.
A tall, thin officer was the first to give his opinion. "The speed of repairing the city wall can't keep up with the speed of destruction, mainly brought by the wolf cavalry under the city, in fact, we only need to kill these wolf cavalry to solve the crisis."
The tall and thin officer's words seemed to be clear-sighted, but after he finished speaking, all the officers present, including Yu Fei, looked at this guy with contempt. Isn't that? What we want now is a solution, and if you kill the wolf cavalry, you can eliminate the crisis, who doesn't know what to do!
If it had been before, Yu Fei might have asked Paramount and other officers, why didn't they use the Rolling Stones to summon these wolf cavalry under the city? They were there slashing down the city walls, regardless of the situation above their heads, they were simply live targets.
But after Eslazer fought a lot of battles - to be precise, after seeing the Night Elf troops fighting a lot of battles with humans, it was not surprising that Yu Fei was not equipped with such a garrison in Shirek City.
In the Anthropocene, only those towns and small towns could defend them with sandalwood rolling stones. In larger cities, mage towers are usually built. The war spells that have been amplified by the Mage Tower are used to defend the city, which is much more lethal and more convenient than the Rolling Stone.
This Ciric City is the second largest city in the kingdom where the Eighth Army is now staying, and there are many mage towers in the city, so it is naturally impossible to equip the "low-end" city defense equipment such as the Rolling Stone. Therefore, when the magicians were pinned, the wolf cavalry was able to bully under the city walls and destroy the city walls with impunity.
As for archers or something, there are too few warriors in Eslazer who use archers as weapons, and there are only a few ordinary archers in the army. Archers who have not practiced fighting qi or only have the strength of apprenticeship will not be able to deal effective damage to these wolf cavalry whose strength is obviously around silver.
Of course, Paramount also knew about this, and knew that the tall and thin officer was talking nonsense. However, he didn't reprimand the guy, but directly gave the officers present two choices, and asked everyone to discuss and make a decision on these two options.
"Don't think about anything else now. The decision to make was to either defend the city walls, drag on for half an hour to two hours, and then engage in street battles with the orcs. Either abandon the city walls and go directly out of the city to fight the orcs in the field. ”
Paramount's tone was very firm, not giving the officers a chance to think about other paths. Also, time is of the essence, and there is no room for more thinking.
As soon as these two choices were laid out, almost all the officers present subconsciously wanted to choose the former. The advantage of mankind in the war with the aliens is to rely on the strength of the city. If you abandon the city wall, won't you attack the enemy's strength with your own shortness?
But Yu Fei saw that Paramount actually wanted to abandon the city wall.
Sure enough, when the officers opened their mouths to say that they would continue to hold the walls, Paramount stopped them with a stern look. These officers were all old subordinates of Paramount, so they naturally knew what the commander of the Dao Legion meant—this was to make them think more. (To be continued......)
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