"What's going on in the middle of the night?"

Jefferson asked unhappily as he stepped out of the tent.

"Report to the General! Five soldiers were found using a campfire at the top of the mountain. ”

A gendarmerie captain came up to Jefferson and reported that behind him was a group of five men, presumably the ones who were using the campfire, and one of them was an officer.

"As an officer of the Northern Army, you can't take the lead, but disobey military orders because you are greedy for life and afraid of death, are you guilty?"

Ignoring a few soldiers, Jefferson came up to the officer and reprimanded him in the face.

"It's true to disobey military orders, but I'm not greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

The officer looked unconvinced.

"Would you rather take the risk of being exposed, but also make a fire to keep warm, and say that you are not greedy for life and afraid of death?"

Jefferson had never seen such a brazen person, and he couldn't help but raise his voice and shout.

"We don't make fires to keep warm, but to expose our targets, and we're fed up with the grievances along the way, and we'd rather die in battle than live this kind of life of hiding in Tibet and starving. ”

The officer stiffened his neck, his tone full of irrepressible resentment.

"We are retreating now in order to preserve our strength, and only by preserving our strength can our Northern Army make a comeback when General Bernard returns. ”

Jefferson couldn't help but refute.

"Let's face it, the Northern Army is finished. It is impossible for General Bernard to return. ”

The officer shook his head and said in despair. Hearing his words, a young soldier next to him couldn't help but cry.

"Take them down, and they will be court-martialed at dawn tomorrow. ”

The officer's words made Jefferson feel uneasy, and he didn't want to continue the topic, so he waved his hand and asked the gendarmes to escort a few people down.

"Woo... Woo... Woo!"

However, before the gendarmes could act, a rapid horn suddenly sounded from the top of the hill to the north, which was a signal to detect the enemy's attack, and listening to the rhythm of the horn, the orcs were above him.

"Aren't you going to die in battle, here's your chance!"

Jefferson glanced coldly at the officer, ordered them to be untied, and had them follow him for a moment into battle.

"Our wing is responsible for holding back the attacking orcs, and the rest of the group is all retreating south. ”

Soon the middle and high-ranking officers were gathered, and Jefferson decided that his own wing would be responsible for blocking the enemy, after all, his own wing was still fighting and the defeated troops who had been collected all the way retreated first until the city of Nice, without waiting for them to converge.

The order was conveyed, and the entire army was divided into two routes, and Jefferson led a group to guard the grove on the north side of the valley mouth to cover the others from the valley mouth to the south, but as soon as he led his men to the grove before they were ready for an ambush, the orc army had already been killed, and a fierce battle broke out immediately.

In night combat, orcs have the advantage of being able to see things at night, but fortunately, Jefferson has a few qi magicians by his side, although he is only a junior magician, but there is no problem in casting lighting magic.

The magic illuminated the wilderness beyond the woods, and with the cover of the trees, the archers launched the first attack on the front of the orcs who were approaching within a hundred paces, and the wolf cavalry at the forefront suddenly fell to pieces.

The Orc Commander's counter-attack angered the Northern Legion, and he immediately ordered a charge into the woods, but was quickly repelled by the humans who were guarding it, and the Orc Commander changed his tactics and sent two large groups of wolf cavalry around the woods to attack the flanks of the human defense. Jefferson didn't have that many magicians, and except for the frontal battlefield, which could not guarantee the lighting of the flanks, the wolf cavalry successfully sneaked into the woods, which immediately caused chaos. The orc infantry took the opportunity to break through from the front, and the battle in the woods became more intense.

Fighting in the woods is not a human strength, but in order to delay the orcs and give others a chance to retreat, Jefferson can only lead people to resist hard, but in the end, his strength is not good, as more orcs pour into the woods and begin to retreat, until they retreat to the bottom of a hillside, there is no way back behind him.

"Retreat up the hillside, and I'll cut off the way. ”

Jefferson drew his longbow and shot a nearby wolf cavalry with the light of illumination. The light of the illumination magic dimmed, and suddenly wolves sprang out of the nearby grass. Jefferson was about to shoot the wolf, but he snapped the quiver. Oh no, empty! I had run out of arrows in the fierce battle just now. In such a stunned moment, the wolf had already pounced on him to the ground.

Jefferson struggled, but his left arm was pressed under him, and he only had a longbow in his right hand, so he couldn't kill the strong wolf at once, but was dragged backwards by the wolf's shirt, and his own soldiers rushed up to the rescue despite this, but a few wolf cavalry separated them, and the two sides were getting farther and farther away, and Jefferson was already deep in the enemy. The orc infantry also seemed to know that he was the leader of the human side, and rushed forward to capture him alive.

Just when Jefferson was in despair, the wolf suddenly relented. Jefferson jumped to his feet, and was surprised to find the wolf lying in front of him, with an arrow stuck in his eyes and a tail feather still trembling slightly. The werewolves who surrounded them were also stunned, but they immediately roared and rushed towards Jefferson.

"Whoosh! Whoosh..."

Jefferson pulled out a dagger in his left hand and was about to meet the enemy, when suddenly there were a few subtle sounds of breaking the air in his ears, if it weren't for the fact that Jefferson was also a master of archery, this small sound would be easy to ignore on the battlefield.

"Ahh...h

The werewolves who rushed up fell one after another, and like the wolf, they were shot in the head by feathered arrows.

When did you have more masters of archery around you?

Jefferson looked around in surprise to find out who had saved him with an arrow, but he looked around and found nothing but a few dozen paces away from his own people fighting the orcs in close combat.

Who saved himself?

Just when Jefferson couldn't figure it out, a black shadow flashed above the trees above him, and a sturdy figure jumped up from the trees, and the man had already bent his bow and shot an arrow in the air. Behind the vigorous figure, there is another figure with light movements. The two of them jumped from tree to tree one after the other, with a speed comparable to that of an ape, and their posture was extremely graceful. At this time, the light in the forest was dark, but the bows and arrows in their hands were still as if they had night vision, and they shot the nearby wolf cavalry with a few "whoosh", and the archery skills were not under Jefferson. As soon as the crisis here was resolved, the two figures jumped into the distance to support other battlefields without even saying hello.

"General, are you alright?"

The pro-soldiers finally rushed to Jefferson's side.

"It's fine. ”

Jefferson patted the blades of grass on his robe, and there were only a few abrasions on his body, and there was no major problem.

"Reinforcements are coming. ”

Looking at the direction in which the two figures disappeared, Jefferson was a little excited, and as soon as his words fell, there was a sudden "boom" in the distance, followed by a huge fireball rising into the air, illuminating the dim woods.

"There are really reinforcements. ”

The soldiers looked up, the location of the fireball should be outside the woods, it seemed that the reinforcements had already fought the orcs, and they were equipped with high-level fire magicians.

"Everyone's ready, let's get out. ”

Although it was not clear which people were coming to help, Jefferson was still overjoyed, and hurriedly led his men scattered nearby to launch a counterattack, wanting to flank the orcs inside and outside with the reinforcements from outside.

"Kill!"

The morale-boosting Northern Legion, led by Jefferson, charged outward, encountering weaker and weaker resistance along the way. In the distance, there was a horn for the orcs to retreat, and by the time they came out of the woods, the morning light had already appeared on the horizon in the distance, and the orcs were rapidly retreating northward, followed by human cavalry, but the banners and costumes did not belong to the Yus Empire.