Chapter Seventy-One: The Battle of Walter

Walter means water in the continental lingua franca, meaning that the place has an abundance of water, which is certainly a very obvious local feature for the orcs. This is the first place where the leopards came to the west, hence the name.

It is close to the sea, and there is a river nearby that meanders through the camp and eventually joins the mighty Riopat's Bay. Walter was a short distance west at the mouth of the Great River, where the Talon orcs had built a small harbor even though they had not learned how to actually sail.

It is a real treasure land, where the abundant waters of the great river flow gently, irrigating the vast flat land and transforming it into fertile, and south of Walter, by a small forest, about a hundred miles in circumference, along the banks of the river, to the banks of the west coast. This forest can help Walter stop the West Coast typhoons that are too violent when they land in the forest, and when they come to the forest, they will restrain their fiery temper and turn into a gentle drizzle and fall on this fertile land.

If this land falls into the hands of both elves and southern humans, it will undoubtedly be developed immediately and become a fertile land known for its abundance and abundance, but now in the hands of the orcs, it can only become an overgrown wilderness, although the orcs covet the abundance of water and grass here, but they are also troubled by the overly prosperous vegetation.

Today, it will be a battlefield.

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In the early morning, Walter was originally extraordinarily quiet, but when the base mountain army stationed here moved, it immediately became noisy and lively, eating and eating, feeding the livestock, and the soldiers who had eaten and eating arranged their weapons and put on their armor, and the orcs of the base mountain were busy for more than half an hour, and the various departments were ready to stop and start to enter the battlefield.

The day before yesterday, when the outpost troops of the base mountain arrived, they found that the enemy was already on full alert, and after a little engagement in the field, the elite leopard people and centaur cavalry troops retreated, probing the situation within a radius of dozens of miles around and controlling it in their hands. As is customary, the enemy is already prepared, and there is no chance to surprise the base mountain and the leopard people who are waiting in Walter are about to start a traditional head-on battle with the wasteland orcs here.

Therefore, the army of the base mountain tribes that had arrived yesterday was not reckless, and after setting up camp, they had a good rest, and after the night passed, the various departments recovered their energy and prepared for war in high spirits.

Under the urging of the whistles of the captains, thousands of people from each battalion and each team streamed in according to the order, except for the baggage team and the recruit battalion in the rear battalion, all the soldiers and mercenaries gathered in front of the battlefield today, and soon this place merged into a sea of orcs.

The battlefield was directly in front of Walter, in an east-west direction, and the front was about five kilometers wide, with the Leopards to the west and Base Hill to the east. The battlefield of the two armies was surrounded by a forest to the south and a river bank to the north. In the past, the wilderness between the two armies was full of dense and luxuriant grass less than half a meter high, destined to be full of blood today.

Geth, dressed in armor specially made for his size, was still a little out of place, but it was also imposing. Carrying his beloved long-handled wheel giant axe behind his back, the rhinoceros under his crotch was also uneasy to take the front horns of his forehead and keep digging the ground.

The armor on the orcs, the modern Feiteng Machinery Factory does not have this kind of similar machining experience, so it can only be done according to the map, and it is good to say when it is made in small quantities, but once mass production begins, the size is greatly discounted, and the armor does not fit, it is inevitable, and some of them will be processed a second time after they are taken, in short, as long as they are put on, almost half of the armor of the orcs who are too exaggerated in size such as the Minotaur, Bill and Centaur are like this.

However, these armors are still particularly liked by the orcs, because the processing technology of plate armor and chain mail is far beyond the level of the orcs in the wasteland, and these armors are far from being comparable to the previous things in this world in terms of strength, lightness and appearance, which is the result of hundreds of years of industrialization of steel in the earth world. Orcs know what is good, too.

Equipped with such armor and weapons, Geth and his three hundred minotaur mercenaries stood in front of the large formation, in the center of the entire frontal formation, they would be the main force of the formation to bear the frontal pressure, with the good reputation of the Minotaur heavy infantry in the wasteland, Zhang Quan felt that this task was the most suitable for them.

On both sides of the minotaur phalanx, on the left is the kobold (kobold) phalanx led by Grant, equipped with the main weapon of spears, their task is mainly to defend, and on the right is three hundred Bill (bearman) heavy infantry, and the Bill heavy infantry stands together with six hundred centaur cavalry, today, Zhang Quan put the main assault lineup on the right flank, aimed at the enemy on the opposite side. Other mercenaries were placed in the rear and used as reserves.

On the opposite side, there are the Leopard People of the Talon Division, the Alliance reinforcements, and the troops of some of the vassal tribes of the Talon Division.

At this point, in fact, the strength of the two troops has been hidden from each other, Zhang Quan's scouts have already explored clearly, the enemy's total strength is including nearly 3,000 leopard people, 2,000 Birr heavy infantry, and about 10,000 or so vassal tribes, including centaurs, kobolds, pigs, etc., but unlike the base mountain, the centaurs and kobolds of the claw department are impossible to be used as the main force, most of them are lined up behind the formation of the army, waiting for a frontal victory, Serve as a force for pursuit and an auxiliary for cleaning up the battlefield.

As mentioned earlier, the customs and habits of a nation that have been passed down for thousands of years are deep-rooted, and although the leopard people have seen the fierceness of the centaur cavalry in the base mountain, it is still difficult to use the weak centaurs and even weaker kobolds in their tribe as the main force of war.

Even now, the traditional strength judgment criteria of the orcs still have the upper hand in the minds of the Walterclaw elders, thousands of leopard people, plus more than 2,000 bear people heavy infantry, even the strength alone is stronger than the total strength of the other party, not to mention the qualitative difference in the existence of various orc races in strength.

Under normal circumstances, a leopard man can slaughter dozens of kobold soldiers, and fifty leopard people together can wreak havoc on a kobold tribe of more than thousands of people, and the dignity and great strength of the powerful war orcs in the wasteland are definitely not something that low-level orcs can desecrate. Even the base mountain side has better armor and sharper weapons.

The leopard people in the claw department didn't think that they would lose, they just regarded the stray orcs in the base mountain as arrogant and ignorant children. This situation became even more pronounced after the formation of the large army was completed.

The two armies faced each other, and on the Leopard side, there were 5,000 main forces, forming a thick and huge formation, while on the side of the base mountain, it was about 2,000. Speaking of the formation alone, it seems to be much thinner, not to mention that the main forces on both sides are all strong orcs and tall in stature, while most of the other side are basically low-level orcs. The average height is 1.7 meters and the weight of 60 kilograms of dogheads and the average height of 2.23 meters, and the difference in size of leopards weighing more than 100 kilograms is too obvious, it really looks like adults are about to beat up children.

But even so, the soldiers in the base mountain did not have the slightest fear, and the weak kobolds were still full of spirit, holding the weapons and spears in their hands, and looking at the enemies opposite. What they have seen and heard along the way has made them believe that they are already very strong, and their strength is not like the enemy they face, relying only on their physical bodies. What they rely on will be stricter organizational discipline, better armor and equipment, and more advanced tactics, plus the unwilling will of the low-level orc races when they have been oppressed for thousands of years and have long been overwhelmed by the desire to rise and succeed.

The army is opposed, the orc warriors in the two armies who are outnumbered are outnumbered, the momentum is indiscriminate, the side with more people is of course a large number of troops, the formation is broad, but although the base mountain has fewer troops, but the excellent armor, the neat tactical formation is arranged, but there is also a special formation, the orcs on the entire army front, are solemn and upright, silent, the rows of steel armor on the body shine in the sun, forming pieces of golden light, the momentum is solemn, not weaker than the tall leopard man and the Bill bear man opposite, This also surprised the leopard commanders on the opposite side.

Zhang Quan stood on his RV, looking at the front army's large array, except for the guards, there was only Cartes who accompanied him on the left and right, and the others went down to lead the troops. In front of the account car, there were a group of scouts: Berg and the centaurs, neatly arranged, at this time, their identity was to be in reserve with Zhang Quan's personal soldiers.

The communication system of the army is based on a set of Motorola radio walkie-talkies brought by Zhang Quan from the earth world, and the effective distance can basically reach 10 to 15 kilometers in the wasteland, which can already meet the needs of the army.

At this time, the army was silent, and at every opportunity, whether it was friend or foe, they were waiting for the last order of the commander,

Zhang Quanli smiled in the car, after such a long period of experience, he has enough confidence and calmness to control such a war, he said to Carters next to him:

"How about I bet that today's battle can be finished before noon?"

Carters was stunned, before noon? That's just two hours? Why did Zhang Quan come from so confidently?

Then, without waiting for him to answer, Zhang Quan waved his hand, not adjusting the rest time for the leopard people on the opposite side at all, and the centaur cavalry had already taken the lead like a tiger pounced on the people, and forced up from the right flank.

They faced the left flank of the enemy army, two thousand reinforcements from the Leopard Tribal Alliance.