However, although the Treant Golems and Elemental Creatures were much stronger than the Orc Soldiers, their resistance faded away as quickly as a wave in the face of the tide of beasts!

Nearly ten Treant Golems and all the elemental creatures were torn apart into countless pieces by a large number of orc soldiers in less than a few minutes after resisting the surging army of orcs!

Fortunately, they also bought the dwarven warriors a few precious minutes of time to retreat, allowing the dwarven warriors to retreat back to the castle without any problems.

And their dying counterattack also took the lives of at least several times the number of half-orc soldiers!

As Iruba's massive rocky gates slowly closed, there was a rare respite from the battlefield, but there was no doubt that it was only temporary.

A large number of orc soldiers quickly assembled on the flat ground in front of Iruba, lined up one orderly phalanx after another, waiting for the arrival of the general attack!

At this time, the dwarf king Solin also asked his subordinates with a solemn face: "How about our casualties?" ”

"Report to the King!" At this time, a dwarven commander immediately stepped forward and reported: "In the battle just now, we lost almost more than 60 elite dwarven warriors and dozens of human warriors!" ”

"But the enemy suffered far more casualties than we did, and they paid at least hundreds of soldiers' lives!"

"But we also lost control of the first line of defense, and the heavy crossbow and two small trebuchets placed on it were destroyed as a result!"

There is no doubt that Thorin is also very dissatisfied with such a result, after all, compared to the enemy's tens of thousands, the loss of a few hundred warriors is simply harmless to the enemy.

But they have lost control of the first line of defense!

And now, the enemy is also about to launch a general attack on Thorin's last line of defense, Ilubo City Defense, and once the enemy breaks through the gate of Ilubo, then relying on the remaining hundreds of warriors to face the army of nearly 10,000 orcs, the result is also conceivable!

No matter how proud Thorin was, he was very clear about such a result.

The only good news was that Irub's gate was not as easily destroyed as the earthen wall summoned by Nightfront, and the nearly one-meter-thick gate was made of solid rock, and even if it was hit head-on by a stone thrown by an ogre, it would never collapse with a single blow like an earthen wall.

So not to mention the ogre-like wooden stick hammer, so there's no doubt that it's going to be a tough and protracted battle!

It is also important to note that the height of the walls of Iruba is not only 5 meters like the earthen walls, but almost 20 meters high!

Such a height is definitely very bad news for the army of orcs who have not prepared wooden ladders and building cars!

And if you want to pile up and fill in little by little by stacking corpses like just breaking through the earthen wall, then you don't have to think about it without thousands of corpses!

In fact, it was precisely because of this that after successfully overcoming the first earthen wall, the orc army did not immediately take advantage of the victory to pursue, but gathered its troops and gathered in front of Irubi's array.

At this time, the destroyer who was riding on the huge pale wolf, Azog, also looked at the Iruba city wall in front of him with a blue face!

You know, in the original plan of the orc army, it was not to fight a siege but to defend the city!

The reason is also very simple, in the original plan of Azog's master, the Dark Lord Sauron, Azog's army of tens of thousands of orcs is to assist the evil dragon Smaug in defending the Lonely Mountain!

Because Sauron has reached a strategic alliance with the dragon Smaug, spreading the darkness to every corner of Middle-earth.

And the Lonely Mountain is the hub of the Orc Clan's recovery of the Northern Angmar Kingdom!

Therefore, the main task of the Destroyer this time is to bring tens of thousands of orcs to Irubi, and cooperate with the evil dragon Smaug to defend this place to prevent it from being conquered by the humans and elves on the Middle-earth continent!

As for killing the dwarven king Thorin, it's just an amateur hobby that is done incidentally.

It is precisely because of this that a whole army of half-orcs with complete equipment will not carry any siege equipment, in fact, even the trolls and slingers are essentially used for defense after entering the walls of Lonely Mountain.

Because the Destroyer, Azog, never imagined that the dwarves would be able to kill the dragon Smaug, turning the original slaughter into a difficult siege battle!

It's a pity that it's too late to regret it now, once the news of the dragon's death spreads, a large number of dwarven reinforcements will continue to gather at that time.

When the time comes, if the orc army does not succeed in capturing the Lonely Mountain, then they will be met with the fate of being flanked in front and back.

When the time comes, let alone complete the mission of the Dark Lord Sauron, even their army of orcs will be in danger of being wiped out!

After all, once the humans on Middle-earth know that the Dark Lord is about to make a comeback, then the ancient covenant will also be established, and the humans, elves, and dwarves will also abandon their previous grievances and reunite against the Dark Lord Sauron and the orc tribes ruled by him!

Only by relying on the defense of the city walls here in the lonely mountain can the orc army be able to support it under the siege of the combined forces of the three clans.

However, the most serious problem for the orc army at the moment is that they are seriously lacking siege equipment, and even the only dozen or so trolls have been lost in the previous battle, and there are currently less than two trolls left.

And if you want to rely on these two trolls and slingers, you want to break through the huge stone gate of the lonely mountain, which is completely made of solid granite, it is simply impossible!

However, at this time, when the orc army came to a standstill because there were no siege ladders and equipment such as building cars, the dwarf army on the wall of the lonely mountain did not give up the counterattack because of this!

Arrows and stones rained down from the 20-meter-high walls, killing large numbers of orc soldiers, and the wounded orc soldiers let out terrible screams of pain.

However, to the annoyance of the orc soldiers, in the face of such an attack, they had no ability to fight back except to be beaten.

Because although there is an archer class in the orc army, you must know that they have to brave the dense rain of arrows to shoot at the dwarves on the 20-meter-high city walls!

As we all know, the best way for archers to shoot is projectile and flat fire, in the case of back shooting, the shooting distance will be greatly reduced, and the maximum limit range of the back shot will not exceed about 20 meters.

This is because when the bow and arrow are fired from the back, the force will decrease as the higher it goes up under the action of gravity, and finally it will fall weakly.

Therefore, if the orc archers are only facing a wall of about ten meters, then their attacks can still deal effective damage, but in the case of facing a wall of up to 20 meters, it is basically impossible to rely on their bows and arrows to deal effective damage to the dwarven warriors above the city wall with their strength alone!

In desperation, in the face of such a situation, the destroyer, Azog, could only order the army to temporarily retreat a few dozen meters back, relying on the ruins of the earthen wall that had been conquered before for defense.

All that's left is the corpses all over the ground!

And when the orc army hides behind the ruined earthen wall, except for the stone-throwing of the treeman puppet, all other ranged attacks are also ineffective!

This also made the battlefield temporarily enter a short period of peace.

While the enemy was thinking about countermeasures, the dwarves also took advantage of this rare time to replenish the consumed crossbow arrows and physical strength.

You must know that the 500 dwarven warriors who came to help were basically in a state of semi-starvation, after all, they had just arrived, and before they could rest, the army of orcs had already arrived.

By the time they had been fighting, their physical strength had been seriously depleted.

Subsequently, nearly 100 slave warriors under the command of Yefeng also temporarily took over the city defense from the dwarven warriors, allowing the dwarf warriors to eat some elven rations to replenish their physical strength, and also took this opportunity to take a little rest, and then come out to replace the slave warriors when the battle was difficult.

It is worth mentioning that at this time, the anxious dwarven warrior Dvalin and them also suggested to Nightfeng at this time, driving the beast army hidden in the ruins of Riverdale Town to sneak attack from the rear of the orc army.

However, he also decisively refused this, and the reason is very simple, now is not the best time to send out an army of beasts!

Especially now that the orc army is still on the defensive, not in the midst of a fierce battle, so once the beast army rushes out of the ruins of the city, it will be quickly discovered by the enemy, and from the ruins of Riverdale to the orc army, no matter how fast the beast army is, it will take at least ten minutes or so!

Such a long time is enough for the orc army to make perfect defensive preparations!

Only when the orcs and the dwarves of the Lonely Mountain are in the middle of a fierce and scorching battle will the enemy lose the ability to temporarily defend!

Finally, after the calm on the battlefield lasted for half an hour, the army of orcs who had been waiting suddenly moved into action.

I saw a large number of half-orc soldiers holding their shields high in one hand, and pulling animal skin bags or corpses full of clods of earth in the other hand to quickly charge under the walls of the lonely mountain, and then poured out the bags or corpses full of clods in their hands, their intention was to prepare to use the method of building earth to reduce the height difference with the city wall!

However, it will inevitably take a lot of time and energy to do so.

It is worth mentioning that the arrows shot from the top of the city wall hit the shield, but they could not cause damage to the orcs under the shield, and only the orc soldiers who were hit by the stones thrown by the treeman puppet would be severely injured or even die miserably due to the huge impact force!

After accumulating hundreds of corpses, a steep slope about 5 meters high gradually formed under the wall of Gushan Mountain!

Although this still did not allow the orc soldiers to successfully rush to the top of the city wall, it at least gave the orc soldiers hope!

In the process, the orc soldiers also killed and wounded nearly 100 people one after another, most of which were caused by the stones thrown by the Treant puppets, and half were caused by heavy crossbows.

Although the orc soldiers held their shields high in defense, the spear-thick crossbow was so penetrating that it could easily pierce through the shields of the orc soldiers.

At the same time, for these dead orc companions, the remaining orc soldiers also directly saved the work of transporting, and directly piled up the corpses of these half-orcs who died on the road on top of the clods of earth!

Under such a stupid method, although it takes a lot of time, I believe that in the future, the 20-meter-high city wall of Gushan will also lose its effect under such a stupid method.

When the difference between the height of the steep slope and the wall is only a few meters, the army of orcs can charge directly from the top of the steep slope to the city wall.

The dwarven king Thorin is naturally very aware of this outcome, so they are also trying their best to stop the orc soldiers from throwing clods of earth and corpses.

Unfortunately, the iron shields in the hands of these orc soldiers were very effective in defending against ordinary arrow attacks.

Only the bolts fired by the Heavy Crossbow and the stones thrown by the Treant golem can deal effective damage, but they are too few in number.

At this time, in order to slow down the enemy's siege, Ye Feng had no choice but to open one of his hole cards!

Then, he summoned a third-order legendary creature, a five-headed monitor lizard!

And under his order, the five-headed monitor lizard also quickly brewed magic, ready to summon a combination of magic to kill and block the enemy!

As a large amount of magic power in its body was extracted, I saw that the sky above the battlefield was also suddenly covered with dark clouds, and large gray-black clouds quickly accumulated in the air!

In an instant, the originally clear sky also dimmed instantly.

Then, a large drizzle fell from the black clouds, but the original rain should have been colorless and transparent, but this time the rain fell in color and purple-black!

And it is accompanied by a choking stench!

At the same time, when the purple-black rain fell on the bodies of the half-orc soldiers, in an instant, a puff of green smoke came out from the bodies of the half-orc soldiers, and at the same time, a large number of miserable screams and wails of the half-orc soldiers resounded on the battlefield!

These purple-black rains are all poisonous water that contains poison!

This is exactly the new ability that the original three-headed monitor lizard gained after evolving into a five-headed monitor lizard, and the ability to use rudimentary water magic and poison magic!