"The Northern Army without Bernard is a rabble!"

Sarzu smiled and shook his head, looking disappointed at his opponent.

"Behead one person, five prizes. ”

Hearing that the orcs with gold coin incentives chased after them even more happily.

"The humans fled into the valley ahead. ”

"Then take their nest to the pot. ”

In the valley is a human military camp, and there may be some princes and nobles hiding in it, and if you can catch a few, you can exchange them for tens of thousands of gold coins or grain piled up like a mountain.

The slopes around the valley were densely wooded, and as soon as the human army entered, they climbed the hillside and burrowed into the woods, followed by the orcs who followed them.

By the time Sarzu arrived with his own soldiers, the valley was left with nothing but broken tents, and there was no trace of the human army, even the orcs who had chased them into the woods. He finally felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered to stop the pursuit, and sent a team of werewolves into the woods to search.

"Oh no, there is..."

Not long after the werewolves entered, one of them ran out covered in blood, and shouted as he ran, but only the first half of the sentence was shouted, and an arrow flew out of the woods and hit him accurately in the back of the neck, cutting the second half of the sentence in his throat.

"Withdraw!"

Salzu hurriedly ordered, and as soon as his Kodo beast turned around, several puffs of black smoke suddenly rose from the forests on both sides of the valley mouth, and tongues of fire gushed out from it and quickly joined together.

"Get out!"

Seeing that the smoke and heat generated by the flames were about to seal the mouth of the valley, Salzu hurriedly gave the order. But as soon as the orc vanguard rushed to the mouth of the valley, a rain of arrows as dense as flying locusts shot head-on, and immediately fell down, and a row of minotaurs took out their wooden shields and rushed out in front of the arrows.

"Tuk-tuk..."

The feathered arrows shot at the wooden shield, and the sound was dense like rain.

Suddenly, the sound of the rain stopped. Just when the orcs breathed a sigh of relief, a whistling sound sounded in front of them again, and the orcs hurriedly raised their shields, but this time it was no longer bows and arrows, but magic.

Countless fireballs flew out of the smoke with a long tail flame, and when they hit the shield, they burst into sparks, and the shield that originally protected life instantly turned into a blazing torch.

"Whoosh!"

Just as the orcs threw away the burning shields in their hands, the sound of feathered arrows breaking through the air sounded again, and the orcs who lacked shields could only turn around and run back.

"Stand in place and prepare to meet the enemy!"

Seeing that the mouth of the valley had been sealed by flames and enemy archers and magicians, Salzu did not panic, the space in the valley was very wide, and there were no woods in the valley, and even the wild grass had been cleaned up when the humans camped before, and he had enough space to line up to meet the enemy. If the humans want to destroy them, they can only rush in, otherwise they can still kill them when the fire at the mouth of the valley is weakened.

To Salzu's surprise, when the orcs re-arrayed, the humans did not attack, but the flames on both sides of the valley mouth continued to spread, and soon the woods around the entire valley were burning, and the orc army was completely surrounded by flames, but fortunately, the flames were far away, and there was no substantial harm except for the heat emitted to make the orcs sweat.

"Stupid human beings, they can't even hurt our hair. ”

Sarzu sat on top of the Kodomon and laughed insolently, the fire now trapped not only itself but also the route of the humans attacking him.

"Really?"

A voice came, loud and echoed through the valley as if the mountains were talking.

"If you don't accept it, try it!"

Sarzu was startled by the sound, but he spun around Kodomon and couldn't find the source of the sound, so he angrily shot back.

"Then try it. ”

The voice sneered, and then it disappeared.

Suddenly the wind rose in the sky, and the smoke on the hillside was carried by the wind, flying towards the sky, and finally coalesced together into a smoke tornado. The smoke tornado grew longer and longer, dragging its long, thin tail in a huge arc to the middle of the valley, and then a large amount of smoke was released from the tip of the tail. And that's not all, followed by another smoke tornado formed in the air.

"It's the magician, we've been fooled!"

Salzu shouted in panic, he finally understood that everything today was a trap, and the previous human beings used all false moves, only the smoke in front of him was a killing move. But he reacted too late, and four smoke tornadoes had already appeared over the valley, and they carried a large amount of smoke from the burning of the surrounding woods to the center of the valley, and the valley was already filled with thick smoke.

"Ahem... Ahem..."

The smoke made the orc soldiers unable to breathe, as long as they gasped for breath, they would be choked and coughed violently, and there were wildfires all around, and they had nowhere to dodge, so they could only find a place with stream water nearby, wet their cotton clothes and cover their mouths and noses, but they still couldn't solve the problem fundamentally, the smoke became more and more flawed, and they couldn't see anything ten steps away, and the wet cloth gradually lost its effect.

"Breakout!"

Salzu couldn't hold on any longer, he jumped on the Kodo beast and led his cavalry towards the mouth of the valley, but in fact it was impossible to see where the mouth of the valley was, they could only follow the stream all the way down, as for the headless flies behind them to let them die, he really didn't care.

By the time the distraught Sarzu finally broke out of the flames at the mouth of the valley along the stream, and broke through the blockade of the archers and magicians, there were less than five hundred men left of the original army of 20,000.

"Bastard human magician, if you don't kill me today, I will definitely come back tomorrow for revenge. ”

Salzum strangled the Kodomon, looked at the hellish valley behind him, wiped the black ash off his face, and did not forget to say a few cruel words.

"Sarzu, you don't have a chance, suffer death!"

With a shout of rage, a huge figure descended from the sky, and a raging flame erupted from the figure's mouth, enveloping Salzu in it.

"Dragons! Where are the dragons?"

The orcs, who were on the verge of collapse, were so frightened that they scattered.

Sarzu burst out of the flames, his hair still flaring, and behind him the Kodomon had fallen to the ground with a whimper.

"Who is it?"

Salzu brandished his mace and roared wildly.

"It's me. ”

A young human jumped from the dragon, none other than Stanny, the deputy leader of the Cadet Regiment, who held a long sword in his hand and looked at Salzu with a playful gaze.

"Die!"

Sarzu roared and charged at Stanny, but only two steps forward when a young woman stood up on the dragon's back and had just finished a magic spell before a bowl of thunderbolt of lightning fell on his head.

With Sarzu's strength comparable to that of a great swordsman, the thick lightning at the mouth of the bowl was far from killing, only bringing momentary numbness, but for Stanny, this moment was enough, and his long sword turned into gold and silver and swept across Sarzu's thick bull-like neck.

On October 21, the year 328 of the continental calendar, the first battle of the Battle of Valen was held, and the human legion, under the leadership of Allen, adopted a strategy of outwitting and almost bloodlessly annihilated 20,000 orc vanguard legions, including the main general Salzu.

After the battle, Eren did not rush to march, but camped nearby, and two days later Bloom led 40,000 people with the Dragon's Bard mercenary group, and four days later Quake led 20,000 people with the Wolf Warrior mercenary group. They brought with them a large amount of armaments, which were just used to equip the remnants of the reorganized Northern Corps.

The four major legions were combined, which was already all the troops that Allen could mobilize, plus the logistics supply team, a total of 150,000 people, under Allen's command, they were mighty towards Valen Pass, and they vowed to regain the lost territory before the snowfall.