Chapter 24: Strategy
Hathaway's idea is very good, even if the Fury Fortress has been completely occupied by the Pole army now, but as long as King Duriss dies, all the efforts of the Polish army will be in vain, if Duman's guess is correct, now the Pole army left in the Zoroaster Valley is only a few thousand people, and the orcs on the opposite side will be furious if they know that they have been smashed, this is simply not enough for the orc army present; although Duris's personal strength is extraordinary, how can he only have one person to resist the army of thousands of orcs
That's a good idea, but Hathaway misses some very important factors: the key to winning is not just numbers, will, and courage...... Strategy
The Great Chief, who had taken over the command from Geba Roar, was patiently watching the duel between the tribal leader and the opposing king, and the orc soldiers under it were already frenzied, and they were all eager for the bloodiest battle, and how could they endure this endless wait, but for the honor of Geba, who was in the duel at this time, the Great Chief forcibly restrained the behavior of his orc soldiers and prevented them from rushing out to fight, although the Great Chief was also hungry for battle at this time
At this time, several subordinates came to the Great Chief with an orc boy who was covered in blood and scarred, and the young man reported to the Great Chief that after the Fury Fortress was occupied by the human army, he died, and the Great Chief and everyone on the command platform were shocked when they heard it, and most of the orc war leaders present were from the Roaring Tribe, even if the guest generals from other tribes were furious when they learned that the fortress had been captured, this was the first time in the history of the orcs that the fortress was captured by humans, how could it bear such a shame and humiliation
From the command platform, the Great Chief shouted to Geba Roar, who was dueling with the other party in the battlefield, "Chief, stop fighting, we have fallen for the tricks of the humans, the Fury Fortress has been captured, but how can Geba Roar, who is fighting fiercely below, listen to his words, at this time, the warlord who is deep in the battle of selflessness can no longer extricate himself, he has not encountered such a powerful opponent for a long time, before this battle comes, he has been lonely for more than a hundred and fifty years, and at this time, in the eyes of this orc warlord, there is nothing but this incredibly powerful human standing in front of him
Those orc soldiers were immediately carried away by anger after hearing the shouts of the Great Chief, and some even rushed out of the queue to kill the opposite side despite the threat of the Cyclops' giant stick, and saw that the leader's words to him were deaf, but the Great Chief knew that his commander had entered a state of complete oblivion in the duel with the opponent, and could no longer exercise normal command of the army, so the Great Chief immediately ordered the troops to press up on all fronts and launch a full-scale attack on the human army shrouded in yellow smoke on the opposite side, and the Great Chief no longer suppressed the soldiers' killing feelings, and the angry orc warriors swept towards the opposite position like a flood of tigers out of the gate
When the orc soldiers rushed halfway, there were more than two dozen orcs who tried to besiege Duris in the duel, but half of them died under Duris's fighting spear, and the other half were slaughtered by Geba's double-edged long-handled axe, Geba told his people with practical actions: Don't disturb my duel
The remaining orcs no longer dared to attack Duris, and they bypassed the two men in the duel and continued to rush forward, and the entangled Duris and Geba Roared like the same rock in the rapids, the torrent was separated by the rocks, and then converged not far downstream, and continued to rush downstream
Due to the difference in speed, the wolf cavalry who finally left their position actually left the fighter who ran in front at the beginning far behind, and became the first orc to rush to the front of the human positionThe orcs and wolves pulled out, the second group of wolf cavalry has pounced, they quickly approached the humans, when the close attack, the long weapons of the heavy infantry lost their effect, many became the orcs under the axe, a group of light infantry with swords and shields rushed forward, to participate in the melee battle with the wolf cavalry, covering the surviving heavy infantry retreat, the heavy infantry retreated to the second line, and then used the spears in their hands to mobilize the light infantry fighting in front, in the close cooperation of long and short weapons, the wolf cavalry could not continue to expand the results alone
But they bought time for the other friendly forces behind, and the second group rushed up with four-legged running centaurs, who threw their javelins at the human army, and the light infantry and heavy infantry were killed and wounded for a while, and the human army retreated again, at this time they put out a row of giant tower shields, and from the back of the tower shield, countless spears, centaur javelins, and hit the tower shield, ping pong sound, although some of the tower shields trembled, but could not pass through the defense of the tower shield, and some of the wolf cavalry who were about to rush forward were threatened by the spears, and could not tear through this defensive position for a while
I saw that behind the shield and spear array, a round of arrow rain broke through, and the range of the bow and crossbow was farther than the centaur javelin, plus at this time, the centaurs had no means of defense, and a large number of them fell under this round of arrow rain attack, but the absolute main force of the orc tribe that followed the footsteps of the centaurs - the gladiator phalanx had already stepped on the human position
The gladiators savagely destroyed all the anti-collision horses in the way, and rushed directly into the human positions, and with the close cooperation of the light and heavy infantry, shield men, and crossbowmen, the resistance of the Polish army was extremely fierce, and even the most brave orc gladiators could not advance half a step, leaving two layers of corpses on both sides of the line of contact
However, this seemingly evenly matched situation will soon be broken, because those slow-moving but extremely terrifying behemoths, the Beamon Behemoth and the Cyclops, have come to the front of the battle, although there are only four Beamon and nine Cyclops, but only those who have experienced it will feel the deepest fear, the Cyclops waved a large giant stick, The Behemoth of Beamon danced and could carry out a horrific and bloody slaughter of the human soldiers in front of them with the torn claws of the dragon, and the bodies of the soldiers who were slapped by the giant rods flew several meters high, and the people who died under the giant claws were even more miserable to see them being torn apart into pieces of flesh and internal organs in an instant
When Duris was not in the formation, the command was in charge of the adjutant, and the remaining human soldiers quickly retreated under the adjutant's order, and the victorious orc army rushed into the main position of the Polish army shrouded in sulfur smoke under the opening of Beamon and Cyclops, but when these orcs rushed into the sulfur smoke, they found that they were not surrounded by the swarming human soldiers, on the contrary, there was not a single human on the side, the main position of the Polish army was actually empty, it seemed that the entire strength of the Polish army was only the thousand people in the front, how could these orcs be puzzled
Before the orcs could figure it out, suddenly there was a rumbling sound from the earth, and a large area of ground subsidence occurred, and a huge pit appeared out of thin air, and Beamon, Cyclops, and a large number of orcs standing on it all fell into this trap prepared for them, and were buried at the bottom of the pit in advance, and the sharpened wooden stakes pierced the Beamon beast. The bodies of the cyclops and a large number of orcs who fell into the pit were mostly killed by the stake on the spot, and some survived, but the Behemoth and the Cyclops were different, they were huge, even if they were pierced by the big stake, they would not die for a while, but they were even more enraged, but when they struggled to get up from the pit, countless barrels rolled down from all around the pit, all of which were broken, filled with sulfur and white phosphorus, and several torches were thrown from the edge of the pit, and with a loud sound, the huge pit was burned into a sea of fire, and the creatures that fell in the pit let out a terrible scream, wailing all over the valley, and under the cover of the fire pit, the surviving human soldiers retreated quickly to the back of the valleyThe pursuing orc army froze in front of the huge fire pit and watched the humans flee from under their noses
The battle on land was in full swing, when the battle in the sky was also carried out, the orcs gathered hundreds of bipedal dragoons in the Zoroaster Valley, when the wolf cavalry rushed into the Polish position, the bipedal dragoons rushed to half the distance, but at this time, they were attacked by twenty griffons that suddenly appeared from both sides, several bipedal dragoons were hit by javelins, and the wryceers were furious, and divided more than thirty people to chase the ten griffons on the east side, and more than thirty people to chase the ten griffons on the west side, and the air horsemen turned around and ran, they used the flight speed of the griffons to be far superior to the two-legged wyverns, leaving the pursuers behind, but they did not dare to leave the enemy too behindIt's to lead them far enough
The remaining thirty or so bipedal dragoons continued to charge forward, and they drove the wyverns into the dense sulfur smoke, and in the empty space where they could not see their fingers, several wyverns were even choked by the choking sulfur smoke, and they were planted down at once with the orcs on their backs, but the remaining twenty or so wyvern dragoons still managed to pass through the sulfur smoke and find the remnants of more than 600 humans who were retreating
The human army seems to have been prepared, more than 400 crossbowmen are in full array, although this human army has been heavily damaged, the crossbowmen's team is still relatively intact, they are waiting for this moment, these bipedal dragoons are greeted by countless arrows approaching at high speed...... Ten minutes later, the ambush ended, except for a few crossbowmen who died under the flying axes of the Wyvern-dragoons because they couldn't dodge, and the other crossbowmen were not harmed at all, at this time, the Wyverns-wyverns who were pursuing them, along with the two-legged wyverns under their seats, all turned into hedgehogs, lying on the ground in a pool of blood
Although this human army suffered heavy losses, they did their job brilliantly with brilliant strategy