Chapter 18: The Hunt Begins

Fighting is intensifying in the border areas.

Although a full-scale battle has not yet broken out between the armies of the two clans, small-scale, low-split battles are staged on the battlefield again and again every day.

The orcs still had no intention of attacking the city, and a large number of orc troops were scattered to plunder the Terran villages and towns, and transported the looted food and population back to the orc camp.

Against the cavalry of the Blizzard Legion, the Orcs expanded the size of the hunting party, and several hunting teams acted at the same time. Once one of the hunting teams was attacked, they desperately dragged the Terran cavalry units and waited for the rescue of the surrounding troops.

On a few occasions, small groups of orc troops were deliberately sent as bait to lure the Terran cavalry to take the bait and then surround them.

The Breezard Legion cavalry regiment suffered several losses at first, and a besieged cavalry regiment even lost nearly half of its cavalry before rushing out of the encirclement of the orc troops.

However, the Terran cavalry quickly made targeted adjustments, and left the orc hunting team with one blow, only seeking to kill and wound but not to annihilate them completely, never fighting with them, and withdrawing in advance before the other orc troops formed an encirclement.

In addition, several cavalry regiments have discussed the route and scope of the sweep in advance, and once one unit is surrounded, other cavalry regiments can be quickly reinforced.

It was a war of attrition in which hundreds of soldiers were killed every day in a tug-of-war between the two clans.

On the other side of the battlefield, Arthur's Seventh Squadron encountered the first Orc tribe the day after it broke into the Orc border area.

It is a werewolf tribe with a tribal camp built on a low hill with sparse vegetation.

Arthur and Jose ventured close to the camp, slaughtered two werewolves patrolling the perimeter, and after some reconnaissance, quickly moved away from the orc tribe with the squadron.

Things were far from being as easy as imagined, the scale of the camp was too large, and a rough look from a distance revealed forty or fifty werewolves in the camp. The size of the 7th Squadron of forty people is not at all sure that this camp will be swallowed in one gulp.

On the third day, the 7th Squadron discovered two orc tribes perched on the river beach.

These two orc tribes are not as big as the previous werewolf camp, but the distance between the two tribal camps is too close to each other, and if one of the orc tribes is attacked, the other will most likely rush to the rescue.

After weighing it up, Arthur retreated with the others.

On the battlefield Arthur himself can be crazy and desperate, but as a captain, he must be responsible for the entire squadron of soldiers. In the absence of any supplies and backup, the 7th Squadron could not withstand any major losses, and as long as there were more than 30% of the battle losses, the morale of the troops would be completely broken, and it would be even more difficult to move forward.

After missing several orc tribes in a row, a tribe of jackals next to the forest entered the target of the seventh squadron.

Jackals belong to the smaller orcs, shorter than the Terran soldiers, although the individual combat power is not strong but very cunning, belongs to the more intelligent of the orcs, the jackal tribe is generally a vassal of the werewolf tribe.

The scale of this jackal tribe in front of me is not large, the wooden tribal walls are a little dilapidated, looking through the cracks in the wall, there are only twenty or thirty orcs active in the village, and there are few adult orc warriors.

"Captain, that's it, it's not a big problem to take down this tribe. The monkey's eyes lit up with excitement as he leaned down beside Arthur and whispered.

"To be on the safe side, you take two brothers to keep an eye on it, find out as many orcs as possible in the stockade, and then let's do it at night." ”

"When did you become so timid?" muttered the monkey.

"Hold on!" Arthur slapped the monkey and led the men down.

The waiting time was so difficult, watching the sun in the sky slowly turn west, the soldiers of the 7th Squadron stayed up little by little until dark, and then stayed up until late at night. Fearing that the igniting fire would be discovered by the orc tribe in the distance, the soldiers ate only two pieces of dried meat each.

"Captain, it's time to do it, we have been staring for a long time, except for a dozen orcs who came back in the evening to go out to collect, there is no change in the camp. The monkey slipped back quietly.

As soon as the monkey returned, the soldiers all gathered around him, looking eagerly at Arthur.

"Okay, let's get ready to do it! Be clever for a while, don't put your life on this small tribe. ”

One by one, the soldiers rubbed their hands and silently drew their blades.

Arthur looked around at the soldiers around him, and suddenly his heart was sour, and when he gave an order, these soldiers followed him desperately without a trace of complaint.

"Wait a minute. ”

In the suspicious eyes of everyone, Arthur shook off his spatial bracelet, and weapons and armor fell out of it, and soon piled up in a large pile.

Arthur's space bracelet has more than a dozen pieces of level 3 and level 4 enchanted equipment, and there are nearly twenty pieces of level 3 equipment that are not enchanted. These are all of Arthur's inventory that he hadn't disposed of when he ransacked the Merchant House last time, as well as the materials he bought to prepare for the enchantment.

The eyes of the surrounding soldiers widened one by one, including Jose and several of their captains, how could these soldiers usually have access to enchanted equipment, but now there are a pile of them in front of them, how rich their captains are!

No matter how valuable the equipment is, no matter how valuable it is, no matter how valuable it is, Arthur urged: "Put on all these equipment, take one each, and familiarize yourself with the new equipment first!"

The monkey's eyes lit up, "Captain, I will be your man from now on! I will do whatever you ask me to do!"

", I don't want you. Although Arthur cursed in his mouth, he casually threw his fourth-level "wanderer's sorrow" bow to the monkey, "Now these things are only temporarily lent to you, but if you can go back with me alive this time, I will give you a third-level equipment each, and a third-level enchanted equipment for each of you." ”

The soldiers rushed forward excitedly and lifted Arthur up, and if it weren't for the fear of making a big noise, they had to cheer and throw Arthur into the air.

Weapons and equipment are the second life of soldiers, and there is no soldier who does not like magic weapons, but as the most basic soldiers, they can only get the most basic standard weapons.

After this arming, the combat effectiveness of the 7th Squadron directly doubled, and a squadron of 40 people could be worth a brigade of 100 people.

Arthur led the squadron slowly close to the camp of the Jackal tribe.

Many orc tribes have mount beasts or beasts that protect the courtyard, and before the attack is officially launched, Arthur first ordered a mixture of wild chrysanthemum and three-colored mandala at the upwind position, allowing the smoke to slowly drift into the orc camp.

When there was no more movement in the camp, a swift figure pounced on the orc camp, and a vengeful killing began......