End of October

In early winter, life is depressed, and the cold wind gusts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The last giant city in the north of the Flame Empire, located thousands of miles away from the imperial capital, across the Wild Sand City is an endless orc territory! Winter here comes exceptionally early, and it can't wait for the snow to fall in October!

At this time, Wild Sand City has become a military city, and all the residents in the city have fled to the south, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of Blue Sky Ba are stationed in the city at this moment, and there are millions of troops waiting outside the city.

The howling cold wind and heavy snow seem to indicate that the smoke is about to rise!

In the cold winter, it was dark very early, and before six o'clock, the outside had already reached out to see the five fingers, in the marshal tent of the military camp, the brazier for heating was burning, and Lan Tianba and several generals were discussing the military situation

Lan Tianba sat on the main seat, frowning at the military map,

"Is there any news from the orcs?"

"General, according to the report from the spies, the orcs are currently gathering the fox clan, the leopard clan, the wolf clan, plus the royal clan, the tiger clan, the four major races, with a strength of more than one and a half million, and other small tribes are joining one after another, and it is expected that more than two million troops will be gathered soon!"

Million!

This number made the people present change color one after another, and a strong man who would be dressed up said in a thick voice

"Orcs have never gathered so many people in the past, two million orcs, with our current strength, this is not an opponent at all!"

Several other generals also nodded

"Yes, our troops are only about two million people, this one-on-one situation, how can our soldiers be their opponents, everyone knows the combat power of the orcs, three soldiers are not worth one!"

"Alas, two million orcs, I think this time the brothers are afraid that they will be in a catastrophe!"

Seeing that his subordinates were so pessimistic, Lan Tianba, as the commander, immediately shouted in order to stabilize the morale of the army

"What's the matter! I'm afraid! I'll tell you, don't say two million, even if there are two million, we can't retreat, if we retreat, once the orcs enter the southern hinterland, we will be in a state of no place to defend, and then the orcs will go straight in, and our empire will be over!"

"In addition, don't panic, the general has already sent the news back to the imperial capital, I believe that Your Majesty will send heavy troops to reinforce us, now what we can do is to firmly hold this city before the reinforcements arrive, and we must not let the orcs cross the thunder pool by half a step!"

After speaking, Lan Tianba slapped the table hard, and the loud noise made several generals in the tent tremble in fright

"Tell the order to go up and keep a close eye on the orc's every move!"

"Yes, General!"

As soon as the general took the order, Lan Tianba then asked

"Is there any movement in the Iron Blood Empire?"

"Report to the general, after the Iron Blood Empire sent more than 500,000 people to the border, it stopped moving, and Your Majesty has ordered General Zhu to go and guard it!"

"It seems that the person who came is not good!"

Lan Tianba snorted coldly

"This iron-blooded empire has always been eyeing the empire, and I'm sure they must not be at ease!"

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Tianxin City

The border is surging, this small city has lost its former peace, the news of the imminent war spread in the market in a few days, this is also a helpless thing, there are so many merchants in Tianxin City every day, it is impossible to block external news.

Tea houses, restaurants, roadside stalls, green houses and other places are talking about the topic of war

"You say, this time the orcs come to Fan, can the empire win?"

"Isn't this nonsense, the orcs have come to Fan less often, why haven't we beaten them back?"

"Let's all drink bars, I said that everyone has nothing to do with these idle things, you know, we are in Tianxin City, there is a city lord, and he can't beat the orcs!"

After the last beast tide, the people of Tianxin City have absolute confidence in Zhang Zheng, is the war orc as powerful as the beast tide?

What they don't know is that the city lord Zhang who gave them confidence is busy these days

What is the most important thing in fighting a war?

It's good for him now, it's a black eye, there is no news from both sides of the war, Lan Tianba seems to have made up his mind not to interfere, since the news came half a month ago, there has been no news, and no one in the empire has come to inform him!

"Is this looking down on me, or is it forgetting about me?"

Zhang Zheng looked at the border map he had gotten and smiled dumbly, and more than a dozen emperor-level masters such as Lan Yu, Huoyun, and Xiong Ren were all present

"Husband, what do you think of this war?"

Lan Yu has been following Zhang Zheng every step of the way these days, and now it is not peaceful, she is afraid that Zhang Zheng is in danger.

Huoyun also said

"Young master, we don't have any experience in this large-scale war, can we fight this?"

"You can spank a fart!"

Zhang Zheng angrily threw the ballpoint pen in his hand onto the map and said indignantly

"As soon as the cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold, to be honest, in my eyes, the orcs are a bunch of garbage, if you don't pay any price, it won't take a minute to destroy them, but I ask you, why fight?"

These people have been influenced by Zhang Zheng's war theory for a long time, and this kind of small problem naturally cannot be difficult for them, and they said one after another

"To grab the territory!"

"Grab the resources!"

"Plunder the riches!"

"That's right! Wars are all about profit, but look at this!"

Zhang Zheng pointed to the orc's territory with a disgusted expression

"This orc territory is cold, the land is barren, the mountains and rivers are poor, it's just a place where birds don't, what do they have, they don't have a single hair, fight with these poor pens, and pay a proper loss!"

"This group of grandsons is barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, they win a lot of money, and they can solve the population problem if they lose, but I heard that there are not many entertainment activities for this orc, and they will nest at home to play and make people as soon as it gets dark, and there are more people in such a ghost place that naturally can't be raised, so they can only solve the problem by fighting!"

Zhang Zheng has always been a vegetarian when he speaks, although Lan Yu is already a wife, but he still feels a little unbearable when he hears Zhang Zheng's words such as creating a man in public, so he can't help but stab him quietly and reprimanded him in a coquettish voice

"You speak carefully, your mouth is not a door, why do you dare to say anything?"

"What's this?"

There are good and bad things in this feudal society, the good thing is that girls are very conservative, and they can't stand the topic of a little color, and the bad is bad at this point, and they have been married for almost half a year, Zhang Zheng is proficient in one hundred and eight postures, struggling every day, and unlocking is also more than a finger, which makes Zhang Zheng, an expert, feel particularly sad!

There is a sense of immediacy that you don't meet.

To get back to the point, although Zhang Zheng said it very roughly, everyone thought that what he said was very reasonable, and Xiong Ren couldn't help but ask

"Young master, if this battle starts, will we go up or not!"

"It depends! If my father-in-law can handle it, then we won't get involved, in case he can't do it, then even if it is a loss, we have to do it, the orcs are inhumane, if they are beaten, it will be ruined, we can't sit idly by!"

"So, now I'm going to tell you about the plan......"

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As later generations often said, war can come at any time, and in mid-October, on an ordinary early morning, the calm of the villa was broken by the sound of hurried footsteps

Zhang Zheng was having breakfast with Xiao Xueqing and Lan Yu, and a guard hurriedly ran over

"Report to the young master, the war broke out, according to the merchants who came and went, five days ago, the orcs gathered an army of more than two million and went straight to the Wild Sand City, and the two sides fought several small-scale tentative battles, and the imperial side fell into a disadvantage, with many casualties!"

"I see, you go down first!"

"Yes!"

After the guard who reported the news left, Zhang Zheng put down the dishes and chopsticks and muttered to himself

"The war actually started so quickly, it should be a cold winter over there, this heavy snow, what do the orcs think, aren't you afraid that the food and grass can't keep up with the large-scale use of soldiers?"

Lan Yu was also very strange, and said

"The husband is right, although the orcs would also gather troops in winter in the past, but the war will generally take place at the beginning of spring, because the weather is warm in spring, and the spring war will affect the spring cultivation of the empire, why did it suddenly change this time?"

"Madame doesn't know, if the grain and grass keep up, the orcs have more advantages in winter, they are strong and strong, and live in a harsh environment all year round, and their strength is much stronger than the soldiers of the empire, at this time, I guess, the orcs either have enough food and grass, or plan to break the cauldron and sink the boat, and fight against the water, no matter which one it is, it is very bad!"

At this moment, Zhang Zheng is like a wise man who is strategizing, although he is not at the border, but the situation on both sides can be guessed.