Chapter 2: The Return
Four o'clock in the morning, the darkest time before dawn.
The southern gate of Capra suddenly opened a gap, followed by soldiers quietly walked out of it, each of them led a war horse behind them, the war horse had a chew on its mouth, and its hooves were wrapped in cotton cloth, and there was no sound at all when it stepped on the ground, the soldiers were dressed in black, and the blades in their hands were also wrapped in black cloth, like a group of ghosts wandering in the night.
After a brief assembly under the walls, the leader made a gesture, and then a group of men crept after him as he crept his horse to the wasteland beyond the valley. It wasn't until he had walked two miles that the leader stopped, and the cavalry behind him also stopped.
The autumn wind blows, and the grass whimpers.
All the horsemen stood silently in the night, and the leading horseman listened intently while caressing the mane of the horse's neck, but he did not hear the sound of the wind and grass, but the sky, and he seemed to be waiting for something.
If there is the night vision ability of the elves, at this time, it can be seen that there is a cavalry wing of about two thousand people standing quietly in the wilderness, which is already all the cavalry strength that the Youth League can show now. At last night's military meeting, the senior generals of the Youth League formulated a night attack strategy, and Stanny was ready to use this cavalry wing to sneak attack the orc army blocking the southern city gate, as long as this army was cleaned up, the Youth League could be freed from the situation of being attacked by the enemy on its belly and back, and concentrate all its strength to deal with the attack of the main force of the orcs in the north without distraction.
But now is not the time to charge, we have to wait.
The leader of the cavalry is Sanders, the boy of the eastern tribe of the prairie who first encountered the orc wolf cavalry and fled to the enemy, resulting in the killing of his family, but he has now grown into a brave and fearless warrior, and has gained Harvey's trust, and has been promoted to the rank of cavalry wing leader at Harvey's recommendation.
"Whew... Whew..."
Soon there was a strange sound in the night sky, as if the wind was blowing across the canvas.
"Stany is here!"
Saunders knew it was the sound of the dragon's wings swooping down from the clouds, and he jumped on his horse, and the cavalry behind him jumped on horseback one by one. Moments before giving the order to charge, Sanders' eyes moistened again as he remembered the scene two years ago when Harvey had been flogged on his own initiative for his fearful enemy. Harvey's blood can't be shed in vain, and today he has to let the orcs return a hundredfold.
"Harvey, we will sacrifice your heroic spirit with the blood of the orcs!"
Sanders stared at the flickering orc camp three hundred paces away, and a fiery flame burned in his chest.
"Kill!"
There was no need to continue to hide his whereabouts, Sanders tore off the cotton cloth wrapped around his blade, let out a loud shout, and urged his horse to rush in the direction of the orc camp with the cavalry wing.
The shouts of killing on the ground startled the orcs standing guard at the gate of the camp, but before they could figure out the source of the shouting and killing, a gust of wind suddenly rolled up in the sky, and in the light of the bonfire, a huge bat-shaped figure fell from the sky, followed by overwhelming flames.
The dragon swept past the gate of the camp, behind him was a field of flames and wailing sentinels, he did not stop, continued to fly towards the depths of the barracks, in addition to the dragon's breath flames in the dragon's mouth, the dragon's back also continued to have fireballs flying towards the orc's tent, stirring up clusters of flames, and finally connecting into a sea of fire, causing more damage and destruction. It wasn't until the minotaurs in the barracks reacted and threw their spears at the dragon that the dragon staggered and frustrated the orc's attack.
The fireball was launched by Miranda, who together with Stanny embarked on the first wave of the night attack on the night on the night rondia, and the dragon's fire and fireball magic successfully destroyed the antlers and horses used to defend against cavalry attacks near the camp gate. The cavalry wing followed closely, and in the roar of horses' hooves, Sanders took the lead in the breakthrough made by the dragon with a spear, and the spear spirit snake in his hand stabbed into the chest of a werewolf in front of him, and then he drew his saber, and in the night he couldn't see the position of the enemy's main force clearly, so he could only follow the inertia and slash all the way forward.
Encountering little decent resistance, the cavalry easily cut through the orc camp and slaughtered all the way to the opposite side. But Sanders wasn't happy with the outcome, the resistance he encountered along the way wasn't fierce enough, and he hadn't cut off enough orc heads to completely quell the grief and anger he had accumulated over Harvey's sacrifice.
It was already dark, and Sanders gathered up his cavalry troops, and after a brief count of the numbers, the losses were not large, so he immediately ordered to regroup and fight back, this time with even less resistance. The sky was already bright, and the gradually clear battlefield made Sanders feel unbelievable, the orc camp had been destroyed, and the smoke was full of unextinguished flames, but the casualties of the orc army were not as large as expected, at least half of the surviving orcs gathered outside the barracks, and successfully escaped the two cavalry assaults by the night.
This is the natural advantage of the orcs, their night vision allows them not to fall into complete chaos even if they are attacked at night, and the clever orc commander does not choose to confront it head-on, but instead gathers the soldiers outside the camp and waits for an opportunity.
If it were at another time, Sanders could rely on the advantage of cavalry to slowly find a way to gradually eat away at this orc infantry, but not now, the battle outside the south gate has awakened the main force of the orcs outside the north gate, and they obviously realized what was happening, so Tianmeng launched an attack on the north city wall, which was confirmed by the earth-shattering shouts and the bipedal wyverns that were constantly circling and diving in the sky in the distance.
Just as Sanders was hesitating whether to continue to command the cavalry to destroy the remnants of the orcs, or return to the north wall to help, Stanny in the sky had already driven the dragon to the north wall. Stanny, as a commander, is of course more aware of the current changes in the situation on the battlefield than anyone else, and the battle has been won locally outside the southern city until now, but the entire battle situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to himself, because the northern city is the key, if it is lost, then even if the orcs outside the southern city gate are completely annihilated, it will not help.
When Stanny reached the sky above the northern wall, the head of the city was being attacked by a trio of two-legged wyverns, and Rondia was in battle with them as soon as they arrived.
The situation is more dangerous than imagined!
Miranda took Stanny to the top of the city with floating magic, and saw the orc army rushing towards the city wall in a dense manner, mammoth war elephants, siege engines, and sacrifices almost rushed up, drums and horns sounded in unison, and war songs were loud. It seems that the orcs are not only relieving the pressure on their companions outside the North Gate, but also want to take this opportunity to capture the city of Capra in one fell swoop.
Today, the area covered by the orc sacrificial war song is surprisingly large, and with it, the combat power of the orcs has skyrocketed, and the defense of every city wall has fallen into a battle to the death.
Stanny asks his soldiers to pull out a military flag, which is bloodied when it is unfurled.
"Listen to the soldiers of the Youth League, the military flag behind me is stained with the blood of Deputy Commander Harvey, and the soul of Deputy Commander Harvey is stored, as long as this flag is raised, we will only die in battle and never retreat!"
The soldiers raised the Iron Banner to the top of the city, Stanny stood under the banner and announced loudly, and Miranda used amplification magic to spread his sonorous proclamation throughout the battlefield.
"I'd rather die in battle than retreat!"
Tens of thousands of soldiers echoed in unison, and the sound shook the sky. From this moment on, the Youth League made an oath for itself, as long as this iron-blooded banner is raised on the battlefield, the soldiers will not retreat. This oath ran through the entire history of the Youth League, and they never broke their promise until hundreds of years later, when they encountered the incomparably powerful demon legion.
"Bang!"
Under the cover of mammoth war elephants, the first siege vehicle finally succeeded in docking with the city wall, and a group of minotaurs rushed up the city wall with a shout, and with the blessing of the sacrificial war song, the battle axes wielded in their hands were invincible, and the defenders were suddenly covered with flesh and blood.
"Looks like I can't wait for the day you marry me. ”
Stanny smiled bitterly at Miranda, then shook off his shirt and rushed forward with his own soldiers against the Minotaur.
"I support you, if you want to die today, we will die together!"
Miranda showed no signs of weakness, she followed behind her soldiers and chanted a magic spell, ready to give the minotaur a chain of lightning, but unexpectedly, the magic spell was finished, but there was no shadow of an electric spark in the air.
This kind of casting failure had never happened to Miranda, and she tried again but it didn't work, but this time she found a problem. The surrounding qi magic elements were not controlled by her at all, and they surged into the air one after another, as if an even more powerful spiritual force was controlling them.
Filtering through the cacophony of battle, Miranda faintly heard the sound of someone chanting a magic spell in the distance, the sound was all too familiar.