Chapter 14: A Long Day
"I'm fine, it's a little cold here, but it's good to eat, don't worry about me, dear, don't worry about me.The green-skinned mongrels are running again, but we've all driven them away for the last 200 years, and this time will be no exception, and ......," the priest wrote, looking up at the soldier William standing in front of him, waiting for him to continue, in order to help him finish the letter.
Soldier William, a farmer in Fernando, was drafted into the army only last year, and after undergoing rigorous training, William was selected along with many other excellent soldiers to be stationed in Thor's Fortress. According to the rules of the Empire, the soldiers stationed in Thor's Fortress can bring their families here after a year, and the garrison of Thor's Fortress will build a small cabin for them in "Camp 2", and when William is on vacation, they can reunite with their families.
Since most of these soldiers were civilians and could not read or write, the Church of Light also had a small church in Thor's Fortress, where the priests stationed here wrote letters to help these soldiers in addition to preaching the teachings of the gods of light. In order to prevent the soldiers from running to the church in a swarm out of the line, General Kissunst specifically asked the only three priests in the church to come to the walls of Thor's fortress and write for the soldiers stationed on the front line.
William thought for a moment and said, "Excuse me, please keep writing." Also, the rule here is that you can bring your family to live with you, my dear, and if you want, you can follow the convoy when we get rid of these pesky green-skinned mongrels. The general will give us a small cabin, and my salary will also feed the family, and if you are idle, you can also raise a few cows, so that our son can drink fresh milk every day. β
"William, don't go on and on, we'll all wait. Several soldiers standing behind William said loudly that they were all William's comrades-in-arms, joined the army together, trained together, and came to Thor's Fortress together.
William turned his head away, made an apologetic expression, then turned his head back and said to the priest who was writing with his head down, "Excuse me, so be it." β
The priest nodded, and he had finished writing the last word on the parchment, and was about to fold it, when suddenly he remembered something, and said with a smile, "I almost forgot, I didn't write the date." These letters are on the road for almost a month, so it's not a good idea not to date them. Oh yes, William, it's May ......"
"It should be May 7th, well, I think about it, the day before yesterday was Couren's birthday, and the roast lamb he invited us to eat, he was the fifth birthday, so today, yes, today is May 7th. β
The priest nodded after hearing what William had finished, spread out the parchment again, dipped a quill in ink, and wrote in the last line of the letter: "May 7, 202 ...... Bright Calendar"
Just as the pastor was about to finish writing, suddenly there was a strong vibration in the earth, and the pastor did not watch out, his hands trembled, and the last word was written crookedly. But no one cared about that anymore, so the soldiers surrounding the priest immediately rushed to the outside of the wall, trying to look over the savannah of North Tallon.
In the distance, the gate of the orc camp was fully opened, and countless orc soldiers poured out like a tide, slowly converging into the open space south of the orc camp, forming a neat phalanx. Twenty huge unknown demonic beasts were mixed in the orc army, and they walked out of the beast camp, and the kind of vibration just now came from these demonic beasts.
On the back of this unknown demonic beast, there is a huge war drum, and two orcs stand on either side of the war drum, and these four orcs wave their eight drumsticks together, beating the war drum with all their strength, and the war drum also produces a huge vibration, and spreads around with this as the center. The war drum was so strange that every time it was beaten, the soldier who heard it felt his heart beat as well, as if his heart was beating at a controlled rate.
"Bell, bell, bell!" was rung on the city wall, which was a signal of an enemy attack. More human soldiers poured out of the tents at Camp 1, expertly picking up their weapons and walking up to the city. General Kissernst was among them, and his lieutenant Hans followed closely behind.
General Kissernst stood on the wall of Thor's fortress, and looked into the distance, only to see that ten kilometers away, more than countless orc armies lined up in a neat phalanx, standing there quietly. In the center of each phalanx, there is an unknown magical beast, and the orc soldiers of the entire phalanx are completely commanded by the drums coming from the back of the demonic beasts, and they are stepping on the drums and slowly advancing towards the Thor Fortress with neat steps.
"Knock! knock!"
"Whew!Whew!"
There is a wide gap between the phalanx formed by the orc soldiers, and I don't know what the purpose is. But now I don't have the energy to think about it, because the deep and loud drum sound combined with the footsteps of the orc soldiers advancing has brought great psychological pressure to the human soldiers on the Thor Fortress.
As they reached a distance of ten kilometers from Thor's Fortress, the drums suddenly beat loudly and then abruptly stopped, and the orc soldiers let out a loud and unanimous roar, which also stopped their progress.
General Kissernst gasped, with more than 100,000 orc troops in front of him, they were so elite that they were not inferior to the infantry phalanx of humans, when would those brainless barbarians also train like this? Wouldn't they just swarm to Thor Fortress, and then swarm to attack the city, and the last swarm to be beaten away?
General Kissernst turned to his lieutenant Hans and asked, "What are those monsters?"
Hans said yes, and ran away, and after a while, Hans hurried back, and said to General Kissernst, "I have checked, and some people recognize this monster, and say that its name is 'Thundermon', and although they are large, they only eat grass. However, they have rough skin and thick flesh, and it is difficult for ordinary weapons to damage them. β
At this moment, a large number of soldiers came out of the orc camp again, but these soldiers were different from the soldiers who formed a phalanx just now, and these soldiers were obviously inferior to the previous ones in terms of individual quality. Most of them were old, and they carried not sharp iron weapons, but bronze weapons, and some of them actually carried wooden sticks and leather whips, which were clearly used for grazing.
These orc soldiers who came out later were far inferior to the former in terms of discipline, and they rushed up in a chaotic manner, passing through the gaps between the orc phalanxes in front of them, and came to the front of the entire orc position, standing together in a messy manner. Behind these undisciplined orc soldiers were dozens of siege engines of all kinds, and the huge ones, although they were rough in appearance, were of great use to General Kissernst, who was good at military affairs.
The high shelves were siege ladders along which orc soldiers could climb the city walls, while those vehicles with thick planks on top and heavy logs hanging below were rams, and the heavy objects dropped on the walls were separated by the planks that were placed diagonally together, and the hanging heavy logs were a great threat to both the gate and the wall, and the thing with a tow bucket behind it was a stone thrower, which could throw dozens of stones of more than fifty kilograms at the wall, which could not only kill and injure the enemy army, but also open a gap for the follow-up siege troopsγ
The more General Kissernst looked at it, the more surprised he became, these siege machines were not something difficult to make, but they were limited to human beings, how could these green-skinned orcs with simple limbs actually learn to make this kind of thing? General Kissunst suddenly remembered that in the information handed over by Ryan, a detail was described, that is, the mysterious convoy, the vehicle style was exactly the most commonly used style by humans, and the iron ore picked up was simply excavated from the ore in the mountains of the northwest of mankind. Could it be that there are people among the humans who provide all this for the orcs?
"Hmm~Woo~Woo!" The orc soldiers suddenly let out a wild cry together, and a small army came out of the orc camp. The army numbered no more than a thousand, and the soldiers were ** Wearing the upper body, revealing the scars all over the body, their lower body is only wearing a pair of black linen shorts, but every soldier in this army is holding a huge battle axe, this kind of battle axe is specially made, its axe surface is almost the size of the upper body of an adult human man, under the sunlight, it emits a jet black and translucent color, this is the scene that only weapons made of pure steel appear, I didn't expect this orc army to be equipped with weapons made of pure steel. The weight of such a huge pure steel battle axe must not be small, but these orcs did not show any tired look when they held it in their hands, as if what they were holding in their hands was nothing more than a child's toy, and the thousand giant axe warriors guarded a chariot pulled by thirty-six Talen oxen. Standing on the chariot stood an orc man in a black cloak, who was about the same size as a grown human man, which was rare among orc tribes that respected strength, as orcs were usually more than 2 meters tall. Behind this orc man, stood a diminutive old orc, this old orc was so thin that it seemed as if a gust of wind could blow him away.
The orc man waved his hand, and the whole world seemed to be quiet. The orc man looked at the Thor Fortress from afar, suddenly bowed his head and said a few words to the old orc behind him, and then greeted him loudly, and a beast ** of medium stature and about forty years old stepped onto the chariot.
Although General Kissernst did not know the identity of the orc man, he knew from what he saw in front of him that his identity was not trivial among the orcs, but unfortunately the distance was too far, otherwise General Kissernst would definitely order the giant catapult to attack the location of the chariot.