Chapter 132: The Battle of the Valley of the Holy Helmet (Part II)

The orcs reacted faster than expected, and they were not disrupted by the sudden appearance of the large number of cavalry. The orcs on the left flank immediately formed a tight array, pointed their spears at the direction of the cavalry's attack, and spontaneously marched slowly, letting out a series of fearless roars, and stabbed their spears the moment the cavalry and their own line came into contact.

The leading cavalry rushed into the spear formation by inertia, using their own bodies and the bodies of their horses to open the way for their companions behind, and although the scattered orc spear array severely damaged the cavalry, it could not stop the following iron hooves from trampling. The vanguard cavalry plunged into the orc army along the gap, like a sharp knife into the orc formation, and the cavalry behind followed them, widening the path of the charge on both sides, until the entire orc army was cut horizontally. After the orc commander found that the army was divided in half, he decisively gave the order to surround the cavalry in front and rear, wanting to fight for the human reinforcements for the last time.

The numbered men of the valley did not charge with King Xieudon, they took on the task of guarding the castle hall, the entrance to the sheltered cave was here, and the knights who fought back could not clear the orcs who entered the inner city, and the women and children could not be left unprotected, and the remaining enemies were up to them. Hu Bin also accepted Aragorn's suggestion, and stayed in the hall with Jin Li, who was responsible for blowing the horn, and his elven archers, while the seriously wounded Hardir was carried into the shelter.

The crowd was tightly guarded at the door of the narrow hall, and several numbered people in the front row took out heavy shields to block the door, while the people behind them sacrificed all kinds of long-range weapons such as javelins, throwing knives, bows and crossbows, and even numbered people holding large stones and staring nervously outside.

"Quick, find more obstacles, they're coming." A numbered person who was confidently holding a large shield in front of him hurriedly retreated into the hall after seeing the large number of orcs killed, no matter how powerful he was, he couldn't stop the siege of so many orcs.

Although the knights led by the king successfully rushed out of the inner city, as Hu Bin expected, the orcs who were caught off guard did not give up occupying the hall, they did not look back at those knights, but came directly to the hall of the castle. There is no way to repair the broken gate, but there are still many seats and weapon racks in the hall, and Hu Bin simply led two war horses to slaughter them and piled them up at the door.

The orcs, who were quickly approaching, saw that the doorway was blocked, and without saying a word, it was as if they were about to climb over the corpses of horses, only to be met by the numbered ones who were waiting in the hall.

As one of the members of the Fellowship of the Ring, Jin Li's strength is much stronger than that of the ordinary numbered ones, and with him standing at the door to resist the orcs pouring into the door, the pressure on the others has been reduced a lot. Several of the better defenders quickly filled the position with the golden bolt, and the elven archers formed an arc, supporting the front row with precise arrows.

Hu Bin raised his hand to slash at an orc who bypassed the golden thunderbolt, but the orc reacted and raised his weapon to block the route of Hu Bin's attack, but he didn't prevent the dwarf Vicky from slashing an axe on the knee from the side, and the pain in his lower body deformed the orc's blocking action, and was easily slashed in the chest by Hu Bin, and then made up for the final blow by Vicky's sledgehammer.

"Haha." Vicky tapped his two murder weapons and happily threw himself at another target, while Hu Bin calmly followed the side looking for an opportunity, the two of them cooperating with each other to focus on the upper body, the other to keep an eye on the lower body, and none of the orcs targeted by the two of them could survive the third round.

The corpses of the orcs piled up more and more at the door, making the defenders a little inconvenient, and finally gave up the plan to defend the door, and began to fight and retreat back to the center of the hall, if he still can't resist these orcs, Hu Bin will have to consider releasing the stone giant Entre again to save the disadvantage, he absolutely will not allow these orcs to rush into the shelter under his nose and slaughter the women and children there.

Fortunately, King Xiyodon seems to have discovered the situation here, and sent some knights back to help, restraining the continuous attack of the orcs in the hall, allowing the numberers to take a breather for a while, and finally killed all the orcs who rushed into the hall.

The group looked around and found that although everyone was wounded in the melee, they miraculously did not lose anyone. The dwarf Golden Bolt was slashed in the shoulder, the wound pierced his shoulder armor, and the blood flowed all over his body, but it did not affect his fighting spirit in the slightest, and the dwarf roared angrily at the orcs who were scattered outside the door, thanks to his being at the front, the numberers were able to block the onslaught of the orcs with ease.

"It's over!" Hu Bin rushed out of the hall with the last dozen elven soldiers and climbed the high platform, pouring the remaining arrows at the orcs below, and some of the panicked orcs were blocked by the cavalry who returned to help, they could not escape in the inner city, and were destined to be wiped out.

The battle in the inner city of the Valley of the Holy Helmet is basically over, but the battle outside the city is not optimistic. The human side relied on the cavalry charge advantage to reduce the number of orcs by a large chunk, but they quickly found themselves in a difficult situation in the melee after losing their speed and falling into an encirclement situation.

The cavalry could not turn well in the crowd, and although they could attack the orcs from top to bottom with the height of their horses, it was difficult to form a local superiority in strength, and they were often besieged by several orcs and lost troops to a cavalryman. Seeing that the situation was not right, the cavalry commander immediately ordered a part of the cavalry to break through and try to relaunch the charge outside the orc encirclement, opening a gap for the cavalry on the inside to maneuver.

But the orcs will not let these cavalry succeed so easily, and after paying a certain price, although this part of the cavalry successfully broke through the siege of the orcs, their numbers can no longer complete the original planned task. In the end, a large number of Terran faction numberers and their subordinates formed a powerful team, which broke through the orc's interception and killed their commander, which put an end to the orc's frantic attack.

The demoralized orcs scattered in a hurry, most of them were retained by the other orc elites and retreated to their old nest of Isengard, and the cavalry converged with the king who had slain from the Valley of the Holy Helm, and after chasing the orcs for a while, they found that they had entered a forest in a panic, only to be buried there by all the treemen who were ambushed in the woods.

The cheers of victory were finally remembered, but with them came the sorrow and pain of sacrifice, which is always cruel in war, but sometimes it has to be faced.

With the annihilation of the invading orc armies and the recapture of the capital city of Idoras led by King Theodon, the Rohan banner once again flew in the land of hussars, and the numbered ones who participated in the battle were rewarded with great rewards.

All the human camp numberers who survived the battle to defend the city were made knights by the king, and five Rohan militia could be conscripted as knight attendants, and the military merits they worked so hard for were directly tripled, and a small group of squad leader numberers soon appeared in the Rohan Kingdom.

Those numbered people who followed the cavalry army to break the orc army did not enjoy these treatments, and many numbered people in the chaotic army died unluckily on the battlefield, but it was much better than the defense of the city with a mortality rate of more than half, although the gain was less, but the victory was that they could safely complete the side quests.

Human Alliance faction numberers like Hu Bin and Vicky can't get military merit rewards, but they do gain the favor of many plot characters, such as Hu Bin can ask Legolas for some archery knowledge, and Vicky can go to the dwarf Jin Li to learn some skills in the next game, these very practical instructions did not make them suffer in the harvest of this battle.

After his injuries were better, Hardir said goodbye to King Xieudon, refused the escort team sent by the king, and returned to Lorian with the surviving elven soldiers, preparing to take a ship to the west from there, while Hu Bin stayed in Rohan with 5 elven soldiers who left Middle-earth not far away, and were properly settled by Hu Bin.

"The temple sacrifice in Muradine City has finally been decided, and I don't know if the goddess Elune will accept male elf sacrifices." Hu Bin is going to transform these five elven soldiers into sacrifices in the natural temple, naturally to ensure their safety, and expects that they can be recruited to the initial space after the mission world is over.

After Idoras was recovered, it became the largest gathering point of the numbered people in the Rohan Kingdom, and the task of clearing the barbarians and the remnants of the strong orcs issued by King Hiyodon attracted a large number of idle numbered people, and the Kingdom of Rohan was also gathering troops during this time, because there was news that Isengh in the west was not attacked by the tree people, and Saruman was desperately concocting a new batch of strong orcs to try to redeem his defeat.

The Treants in the Fagon Forest took the opportunity to attack Isengar on the eve of the Battle of the Valley of the Helm, and these powerful creatures caused great damage to Isengard's factories and buildings, but due to the efforts of many Saruman faction numberers, the Treants were unable to destroy the dam of the Aixin River, so that the Orc Brewing Factory under Isengar was not destroyed, and the Treants were also forced back by the targeted fire attack of Isengard's defenders, giving Saruman a chance to breathe.

Hu Bin was still thinking about why it was rare to see the numbered people of the opposite camp in the Battle of the Holy Helmet Valley, and it turned out that their energy was all tied up in the battle against the Treants.

With the Kingdom of Rohan unable to launch a crusade against Isengh anytime soon, and the Treants needing some time to recover from their injuries, the situation seems to be entering a calm standoff, but a more brutal battle is on the horizon for the numberer.

The numberers, who had just settled in Idoras, received bad news from the west, when a team of five numberers was ambushed by the rival Numbers while clearing the barbarians, and only one survived. This news aroused a strong bloodthirsty urge among the numberers of the human camp, and hordes of numberers packed their bags and headed for Isengard, where they prepared to hunt down the hostile numberers. Killing a hostile numbered person will not only give you a small rating bonus, but you will also get an additional item on their body, which can squeeze more value if they are captured alive.

The huge interests made the numberers the main force of the two camps in the confrontation phase, either wandering around the edge of the Fagon Forest or clashing near the Rohan border, and many battles were fought on both battlefields every day. The previous numbered deaths did not occur frequently in the early days of the battle, and both camps still maintained the final bottom line, as long as they took out enough life-buying items, the numberers were willing to put the other side to survive. However, there are also a few bloodthirsty numberers who specialize in killing the numberers of the hostile forces and take pleasure in it, and there are not a few numberers who are killed in the battle because they can't stop fighting, and there are also cases where they are still wiped out after handing over the life-buying items, in this case, the hatred between the two sides is getting deeper and deeper, and it has reached a point where it is almost uncontrollable, and it can be expected that there will be a bloody battle waiting for them between the two numberers.

Hu Bin heard a lot about the battle between the two numbered people on the border in the city of Idoras, but he was not in a hurry to participate in this hunt, because Legolas had given him very detailed guidance on archery during this time, although the archery level was not further improved, but he had mastered a branch of archery skill, bowfighting, which could use bows and arrows to engage in close-range combat.

In contrast, Vicky is much more troublesome, he has to be extra responsible for the daily supply of ale to get his guidance, and Vicky not only has to drink it himself, but also pulls Vicky to drink it together. But when Vicky's next cut went from mastery to mastery, he felt that the painful experience of spending half of his time in drunkenness had not been in vain.

After a series of affairs, the two decided to travel together to the Arhat border to meet the numberers of the rival faction, and at this time, the numberers of the Saruman camp did not know what kind of miserable fate awaited them.

Hu Bin, who had already killed fifty half-orcs, completed the first side quest after the Battle of the Sacred Helmet Valley, which increased his strength attribute by twenty points, and finally returned to his original strength level, so he could put on a suit of plate armor again without any effort. For the safety of this trip, two other numbered people from the human camp were also invited to join the team, they were Qiao and Lin who met before, in the Battle of the Valley of the Holy Helmet, these two people were lucky to survive, and put all their military achievements into the rank, at this time they were already at the level of Rohan Squadron Leader, and they could recruit 20 Rohan militia to fight. The addition of the two also made Hu Bin not have to worry about the lack of numbers on his side that would lead to unnecessary trouble, and in terms of individual strength, Hu Bin thought that he was not inferior to anyone.

The goal of the four-member team's trip is clear, and that is to get the exclusive reward of the Saruman faction, the Body Enhancement Potion.

Although Saruman has fallen to the point of being in the same league as Sauron, he is still very capable as the former speaker of the Wizarding Council. As a sorcerer obsessed with alchemy, Saruman's numbered ones have much better perks than the military items of the human camp. A series of alchemy products, such as body enhancement potions that can improve attributes, can be exchanged for the contribution of the Saruman camp, and after these items were exposed in the private transaction between the two sides, the numberers of the human camp rose up a wave of capturing the hostile numberers alive, in order to obtain these alchemy potions, and the numberers of the Saruman side are also happy to use these things as their own life-buying items, and they have nothing to do with one on their bodies, maybe they can use it when they are unlucky enough to be caught.

Saruman has a very sought-after item on his side, and the Rohan Kingdom side also has something they covet, which is a fine war horse. The Kingdom of Rohan is known as the country of hussars, how can there be no excellent war horses, these war horses are far more than the half-orc wolves that can be obtained in the Saruman camp in terms of speed and endurance, and they are more courageous, and they will not be affected by the breath of the orcs in the fierce battle, which is specially bred by the Rohan Kingdom to deal with the orcs. This also makes it necessary for the Saruman faction numberers, who also need to be in the company of the orcs, to get their hands on, but this type of mount requires a lot of military merit and is not available to ordinary numberers, so it rarely flows into the Saruman side, but it is hot in the private transactions between the two sides.

Although Hu Bin does not belong to the human camp, but as the leader of the reinforcements on the elf side, and played an excellent role in the defense of the Holy Helmet Valley, Hu Bin has a very high prestige and purchase authority in the Rohan Kingdom, with sufficient funds, he spent a lot of gold coins, and ruthlessly acquired five excellent Rohan war horses, if his purchase authority was not restricted, Hu Bin estimated that he would have to buy a few more horses.

Even Vicky tightened his belt and bought a war horse, which cost him a lot of gold coins to buy wine for the golden bolt some time ago, but the tragedy was that the dwarves were really not suitable for riding, so he had to ride with a Rohan militia. The plan for him and the rest of the team was to be prepared to capture the numbered members of Saruman's camp alive, but also to make a private deal with them and secure any chance of profit.

On the choice of the route, Qiao suggested going to the border of the Rohan Kingdom, because the plain area is conducive to the deployment of the cavalry, but Hu Bin thinks that this battlefield is too passive, not as active as the Fagong Forest, although the forest environment is not conducive to the cavalry charge, but it is very suitable for ambush warfare, the forest is the home of the elves, with Hu Bin's high perception, it is completely possible to grasp the enemy's situation in advance. The others felt that it made sense that the main force of the squad was the more effective numberers rather than their militia, so they decided to go straight to the Forest of Fagon, where they surprised the numberers of Saruman's faction.

Hu Bin faintly felt that the harvest of this trip was not only what he expected, but he was still very interested in the creature of the tree man.