Chapter 582: Meeting
After the Orc siege legions retreated, the Fortress of Dawn turned into a sea of cheers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoWhether it was the heavily armed warriors leaning on the city walls and struggling to support themselves, the crossbowmen with sore arms, the archers in the arrow towers, and the wrestlers next to the castle defense equipment, everyone celebrated their victory with yelling and shouting.
Leo didn't have the same calmness as before, the hair on his forehead was scattered with sweat on his forehead, his face was pale with a hint of detachment, and the violent ups and downs of his chest and the wheezing sound in his mouth and nose made him look particularly embarrassed. If it weren't for the long sword in his hand supporting his body on the ground, I'm afraid he would have sat down on the ground unsteadily at this moment.
Beside him were the corpses of three hideous and terrifying-looking ape warriors, all of whom were fatally wounded by swords in the throat, and instantly lost the ability to resist and were killed. A little farther away were some of the Golden Legion Arbalest soldiers celebrating their deaths, roaring and looking at the Grand Duke of Pritz with admiration and gratitude.
The hoplites on this section of the city wall had all been killed, and if Leo hadn't arrived in time and single-handedly fought the three ape warriors, I am afraid that these crossbow soldiers would have been killed by those orcs. Being able to escape from a mortal situation, the gratitude of these soldiers to Leo in their hearts is simply incomprehensible.
Outside the fortress, the Right Xian King, who led the Hun army to pursue the ape warriors, saw several passages divided among the orc army to accept those orc warriors who retreated in a hurry, and also noticed that there were crossbowmen faintly preparing in the military formation.
"Order, stop the pursuit, let's return to the fortress!" With the order of the Right Xian King, after a burst of flutes, the Hun cavalry elegantly drew a large circle and stayed away from the orc army formation.
"Phew, these cowards, the cunning humans must have discovered us!" a fox officer who led the fox archers snorted hatefully, sighing that his opportunity to win military merit had slipped away in vain.
Although the orcs were scared away by human reinforcements from afar and the fortress was temporarily saved, whether it was Prince Grantham or Leo, or even any ordinary soldier knew that once the orcs returned, the Fortress of Dawn was still in danger of falling.
Due to the limited space in the fortress to fully accommodate these reinforcements, and from a tactical point of view, it was impossible for all of them to be crammed into a single fortress, so Prince Grantham, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the front line, ordered the allied forces to camp on the spot, and except for the Spartan Heavy Regiment, which was transferred to the fortress to replace the badly damaged Golden Legion, only the senior commanders of the various legions were allowed to enter the fortress
Don't look at the individual combat ability of human soldiers is not as good as that of orcs, but the discipline is far superior to them, a mixed army of more than 100,000 soldiers from more than a dozen countries under the command of Gao Xianzhi quickly set up camp, and the continuous camps, rows of horses and arrow towers were quickly built like building blocks.
The generals who entered the fortress were invited by Prince Grantham to the command platform of the fortress, and when these reinforcement generals saw the overwhelming orc army in the north, they originally thought that they could easily win military exploits as a promotion rank, but they did not expect the orcs to come out of the country so frantically.
A commander of the Sova Kingdom pointed to the orc camp in the distance, and stammered, "Could it be ...... Are these orcs crazy? Winter is coming, do they want to conquer the Holy Griffin Empire in ten days?"
"Cut!" Leo, who was standing not far behind the commander, sneered, and after seeing that many generals were turning their heads to look at him, his face was full of confidence and arrogance, and said: "Do you only see the strength of the orcs? But in my eyes, this is precisely the best time to pacify the threat of the orc empire in one fell swoop!"
Being ridiculed by Leo in public, the face of the commander of Sova changed color slightly, and he asked unpleasantly, "Who are you? How dare you be so rude in front of so many generals?!"
"Ahem!" Prince Grantham coughed lightly at this time and introduced to everyone: "This is His Excellency the Grand Duke of Pritz, who has been famous in the mainland in recent years!"
There is a way that is the name of a man and the shadow of a tree, and when Prince Grantham introduced this, a voice of surprise suddenly arose among the generals: "Oh my God! This is the Grand Duke of Pritz!"
From a lowly family outcast step by step to the position of the Grand Duke, Leo has become a legend on the mainland, when he heard that this young man was the Grand Duke of Pritz, the face of the commander of Sova suddenly changed, and he immediately bowed and saluted: "I'm very sorry, honorable Grand Duke Pritz, please don't be surprised by the rudeness!"
Although he apologized as the commander of the kingdom and slightly lost his country, the Grand Duke of Pritz is also famous for his revenge, and all the Varu Empire, Lorraine Kingdom, Illumination Sect and Paris Empire that took the initiative to provoke him were deflated one by one in his hands, and even Lorraine is now facing the danger of losing the country. This commander of Sova naturally didn't dare to take it big in front of Leo, even if he lost some face, it was better than losing his lizi.
Commander Sova's concession was somewhat unexpected by Leo, he originally thought that he would find someone to stage a good show of slapping the face and give these generals a disgrace in order to establish their prestige, but he didn't expect the other party to be so neatly cowardly.
However, although Leo has the heart of slapping his face and finding fault, he is not the kind of person who is unreasonable after all, and the other party takes the initiative to soften and retreat, so he is naturally not good at using the topic to play again. At that moment, Leo bowed slightly to the commander of Sova and said: "No need to be polite, I also have inappropriate words, please bear with me!"
After speaking, Leo stood up and looked around at all the generals present, pointed to the north with his hand, and said loudly to them: "Everyone, after seeing those orcs so powerful, you may feel frightened, this is normal, and I also admit that with our current strength, we can't compete with those orcs at all!"
Leo's words caused a commotion among the crowd, who did not expect that the Grand Duke of Pritz would speak so frankly.
"But, please also think that when the cold winter comes, the orcs will fight with the troops of the country, and they will break through the blockade of mankind for thousands of years in one fell swoop. If we keep them in the wasteland, in a few days, when the cold winter comes, these orcs will be wiped out. They have no warm clothing or food to keep them fed, so they have no choice but to freeze to death or starve to death! When the time comes, there will be no more orcs threat to human beings, and everyone will no longer have to travel thousands of miles to support the border. ”
Listening to Leo's words, the faces of those generals showed a hint of excitement, after all, this scene was too ideal.