Miranda and the magician quickly dispelled the not very heavy mountain fog, allowing the first rays of the newly rising morning sun to shine on the wilderness.

An undulating black line quickly approached in the continuous sound of trumpets and sonorous steps, and gradually expanded into a surface, showing the powerful momentum of the dark clouds pressing down on the city.

Nurnaha, the commander in charge of the siege, walked in the middle of the line, flanked by the legion's elite minotaur hoplites. In order to ensure that he could complete the task of capturing the city walls of Capra today, he had to ask the commander of the legion, Drekbal, to put a battalion of minotaurs under his command. Although the strength of the Minotaur heavy infantry does not lie in siege, but in field warfare, which is used to resist the onslaught of the opponent's cavalry, Nurnaha is still ready to let them go up at a critical time, and the Minotaurs are stronger than other troops in combat under any conditions.

In order to complete the task, the forward commander Nurnaha dispatched 5,000 men in the first attack, accounting for almost half of the total strength of his striker, including two battalions of half-orcs, four battalions of werewolves, two battalions of lizardmen, and some special units that are good at siege warfare, and half of the number of mammoth war elephants also participated, in order to make up for the weakness of their own long-range attacks during sieges.

Humans have always shown some cleverness, but that doesn't change much. Because they almost never won in a face-to-face battle, this siege battle was a face-to-face battle. In similar battles in the past, human beings always had an absolute advantage in numbers, relying on their numerical superiority to make up for their lack of combat effectiveness, but this time it was different, this time they did not have an advantage in numbers.

Riding his own wolf and feeling the sonorous armor of the minotaur infantry battalion around him, Nurnaha was full of pride and confidence.

"Report to the general, the striker is already in place. ”

The orc vanguard soon reached a distance of six hundred paces from the wall, where they had been attacked by trebuchets yesterday, when the herald came to report to Nurnaha.

"Give me commandments, blow the trumpet, hasten your advance, and be rewarded to him who goes up to the wall first. ”

Nurnaha's order was quickly passed down, and the horn suddenly became urgent, and the forward force of the orcs began to speed up.

To the surprise of the orc soldiers, the first hundred marches were unusually smooth, and the trebuchet did not pour stones at them, but just as they had just run a hundred paces and their pace slowed down a little, there was a sudden roar in the sky.

A black dot first appeared in the sky above Capra Pass, and the black dot flew in the air, quickly approaching, and gradually became larger, taking on the shape of a stone.

"Trebuchet attack, run!"

Without the officer's urging, the orc camp, which had just breathed a sigh of relief, began to accelerate forward again, striving to get out of the area covered by the trebuchet as soon as possible.

After leaving behind more than 200 corpses of their companions, the sweaty orc forwards finally rushed to the city with engineering trucks.

Unlike many other checkpoints, Capra Pass has a moat built outside the city, it is located between two ridges, the geographical position is high, the river water cannot be drawn, and there is little rain in normal times, so the moat is not very useful. However, after taking over the defense of Capra Pass, the Cadets also dug a deep trench fifty paces away from the city wall under Harvey's arrangement, although there was no water in the trench, it could still create some trouble for the orc attack, so that they had to build a bridge over the trench or fill the trench with a passable ramp. And the distance of fifty paces, condescending, is the opportunity for the archer to exert his might.

The orc army, which was the first to arrive in front of the trench, immediately took out the tools and equipment that had been prepared, ran out from behind the bunker of the siege engine and began to lay the passage across the trench.

"Whoosh ......"

At this time, the human archers, hiding behind the battlements, began to attack. Fifty paces of span, shooting from top to bottom, the power of the bow and arrow can be maximized, the wooden shield held by the half-orc can not completely prevent the route of the bow and arrow, the lizardman shooter hiding behind the siege vehicle will seize the opportunity to fight back, but the difference in terrain makes their bow and arrow lethal limited, and it is impossible to suppress the defenders at the head of the city, so soon a half-orc corpse fell on the side of the trench.

"Hold on! ”

The orc commander roared wildly with his shield over his head and a machete wielded in his hand. The orc's ugly face, which was already sloppy and toothy, became more distorted under the commander's urging, and he could only brave the rain of arrows from the defenders to lay the passage.

Compared with other orc races, the intelligence of the orcs is generally low, which is why they are called half-orcs, because of the problem of intelligence, the orcs are of low status in the orcs, and generally play the role of slaves in the human race. Of course, this time the Battle of Capra Pass was no exception.

After throwing down more than a hundred corpses, the orcs finally made a passage in the trench, and the orc soldiers hiding behind the siege engine rushed out, carrying ladders and shields all the way to the bottom of the city walls.

"Uhhhhhh

Trumpets sounded on the walls, and the infantry of the cadet regiment fought out of their hideouts and quickly took up the defensive positions that had already been assigned. There was a shout of killing up and down the city wall, and the attacking and defending sides were close to each other, and the battle instantly became fierce.

The first ladder covered with orcs was pushed away by the soldiers of the Cadet Regiment with hook guns, the second and third ladders were immediately put up, the second and third ladders were pushed away, and more ladders were put up. The fury of the orc soldiers, who had endured the shooting of bows and arrows, finally had a chance to vent, and they desperately climbed up against the rain of arrows, stones, and oil.

Finally, the first orc warrior managed to climb the city wall. "Oh!" the distant companion let out a cheer at the sight, but before the cheers could be heard, the orc had been thrown from the top of the wall, and his head was on the ground. "Oh! haha!" this time it was the turn of the boys' corps guarding the city to cheer, mixed with mocking laughter.

However, the siege momentum of the orcs was not affected by this scene, and more orcs climbed to the top of the city, and fierce hand-to-hand combat began to unfold on the city walls.

In order to deal with the orcs who climbed to the top of the city, the boys' group formed a group of six people, two trained shieldmen, two spearmen, and two swordsmen. The spearmen are the main attackers, the shield bearers are responsible for the defense, and the swordsmen are on both sides to protect the flanks from enemy attacks. This combination is Harvey and Stanny learned from the Northern Army led by Bernard, combined with the Cadet Corps' own characteristics to optimize and improve and finally finalize the basic battle mode of defending the city, the mode is very simple, but the offensive and defensive are very efficient. The first batch of orcs who rushed up were either stabbed to death by spears, slashed by swordsmen, and some were even pushed off the city by shields, while the casualties of the Youth League were very limited.