Chapter 18: A Long Day (5)
The orc warrior dangling in the air watched as the human archer on the wall drew another arrow. He roared angrily, and simply stopped relying on his two feet to climb, and simply used the strength of his arms to grab the two ends of the wooden ladder and move forward quickly. The human archer fired two arrows in quick succession, one of which he dodged, while the other hit him in the left shoulder, without affecting his crawling speed.
The orc soldier climbed up in a few steps, and he kicked the wooden ladder with his foot, and actually jumped more than a meter high, and his whole body jumped up directly. The orc soldier was still in the air, and he had already clenched the short sword that had been bitten in his mouth with his right hand, and aimed it at the human archer who had repeatedly shot him.
The longbow in the human archer's hand was simply unable to resist it, and he staggered back, his hand reaching his waist, ready to draw his short sword for self-defense. But the orc pounced much faster than he could draw his sword, and the human archer was about to die under the short sword of the orc warrior. A snort was heard, and a drill swept through from top to bottom, cutting the mid-air-eared orc in two, but it was the human warrior with a tomahawk who attacked and rescued his companion.
The orc was cut in two by an axe, and of course the momentum of the forward attack faded, and fell to the ground with a pop, and the human archer escaped death, he withdrew his right hand to draw his sword, and took advantage of the situation to draw a feathered arrow from the quiver behind his back, and shot it into the head of the orc soldier who fell to the ground, reaping his life.
The human warrior with the battle axe in hand slashed off the axe, and without stopping at all, his body rushed directly to the edge of the city wall, and at the same time, another orc warrior appeared. Before the orc warrior could react, the human giant axe warrior once again rounded the axe in his hand and chopped off half of the orc's head in one fell swoop.
Blood spurted out, spilling the human giant axe warrior in the face, who didn't even bother to wipe it, but picked up the axe in his hand again, as the third orc climbed up again.
"Poof!" a feathered arrow swept past the human greataxe warrior, striking the face of the climbing orc, who covered his face and fell.
No need to ask, it's the masterpiece of that human shooter. The human giant axe warrior let out a loud roar: "Brothers, come on, kill these green-skinned mongrels together!"
"Yes, kill them!" a human soldier echoed not far away, accompanied by a scream from an orc, who slashed down an orc soldier who was about to climb the wall.
Inspired by the human giant axe warriors, the human soldiers became more courageous, and their cooperation became more and more tacit. In fact, the human soldiers stationed in Thor's Fortress have been training almost every day for today's battle, fighting skills, and teammate cooperation...... Each of these was practiced thousands of times, and they had an absolute geographical advantage by waiting for work and guarding the fortress from a high position.
The orc warriors, most of whom were herdsmen a few months ago, were hastily gathered together, crossed the vast Northern Talon savannah, rested for a period of time in the Beast Blood Fortress, and barely received the most basic military training, without cooperation, completely relying on instinct to fight.
The weapons of orc soldiers are far inferior to those of human soldiers, they have no defensive armor, only a few people have self-made wooden shields, when climbing the city wall, there are no large siege equipment, and even climbing the city wall with the help of wooden ladders is a mess of bees, everyone is huddled together, and many times a large number of people are injured when a stone is dropped.
Orcs don't have archers, so they can't talk about suppressing the defenders with long-range shots, and human soldiers can kill and wound the enemy as they want while standing on the walls. Under such circumstances, it is not uncommon for the war to be one-sided. However, the human soldiers still saw the strength of the orcs, and many of them even forcibly climbed the city wall. However, under the superior strength of human forces, almost all of them were killed as soon as they stepped on the city walls.
"Whoosh!whoosh!" Dozens of rockets were nailed to the orc's battering rams, and flames soon burst into flames. The orc soldiers, who were still trying to push the stakes against the walls below, could no longer continue, so they had to escape. They were greeted by boulders, logs, and feathered arrows, of course.
The battle is still going on, but there are less than 3,000 orc soldiers left in the tens of thousands of them, and everyone knows that the outcome of this battle is already clear.
When the last orc fell into a pool of blood with seventeen arrows in his body, the entire Thor's fortress suddenly fell into a strange silence, but this silence only lasted for more than ten seconds, and the human soldiers stationed on the city wall immediately let out a victory cheer, and this huge cheer suddenly spread throughout the entire Thor's fortress inside and outside.
The orc army in the distance did not react to the outcome of the battle, they did not send follow-up troops to support, and just watched as their companions were all killed in battle. This was indeed very puzzling to General Clark, so he immediately sent the herald around him to report all this to General Kissernst, who was in the command post.
A moment later, General Kissernst, having received a report from the commander of the front, General Clark, immediately walked up to the city walls with his adjutant and a dozen escorts.
Looking at the few orc corpses on the city wall, and then at the large number of orc corpses lying in a pool of blood outside the city wall, as well as the corpses of many human soldiers, General Kissernst was slightly distracted, the strength of the orc army was even stronger than the legend said. Looking at the orc position in the distance, General Killster was surprised to find that the more elite orc warriors were slowly withdrawing and retreating to the camp in an orderly manner.
General Kissonster's heart was very strange, in the battle just now, although the attacking orc soldiers were all wiped out, it did not mean that the orcs lost, because those orc soldiers were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and their most elite army was still several kilometers away.
"Report to General Kissern!" General Clark strode up to General Kisser and said loudly, "The results have been counted." ”
"Speak. ”
"Yes, sir. General Clark said loudly: "Seventy-three of our soldiers were killed, forty-six were seriously wounded, and one hundred and fifty-nine were lightly wounded. Eight of the rubbish trucks were damaged, none of which could be repaired. More than 410,700 feathered arrows were consumed. Stone projectile cost ......"
"Tell me about the orcs. General Kissernst didn't intend to continue listening, because the reserves of these strategic materials in Thor's Fortress were quite huge, and this little loss was only a small fraction.
"Yes, sir. General Clark thought for a moment and said loudly: "The orcs have lost about 29,000 to 33,000 people, and the specific data needs to be further counted, and the orc stone throwers, siege ladders, and siege rams are destroyed twenty each." No orc captives were captured. ”
"What is the quality of these orc soldiers? You have been commanding on the front line, so you should have the most direct experience. ”
"Report to the sir, the vast majority of these orc soldiers are old orcs, and there are almost no young warriors. Their weapons are quite poor, most of them are equipped with bronze weapons, and they have little protection on their bodies. But they were very brave, yes, very brave, and were able to climb the walls many times with the most rudimentary wooden ladders, under the tightness of our army's defenses, although they were all killed as soon as they set foot on the walls, because our numerical superiority was too obvious. ”
General Kissern waved his hand, indicating that he knew, and he looked at the orc army in the distance, and at this moment, the more than 100,000 elite orc warriors had all withdrawn to the camp, leaving only a large empty clearing.
"It seems that this should be an orc testing the defense of Thor's fortress," General Kissunst came to this conclusion after thinking about it repeatedly, "Orcs can also make simple siege equipment, but it is obvious that their soldiers, at least in the first battle, are not very good at using them, maybe they are going to go back and study more effective methods, maybe they are going to make more siege equipment, right?"
"It seems that we need to reconsider the defense of Thor's Fortress, with only 60,000 troops stationed at a time, will it be a little less?" General Kissernst thought silently: "Perhaps, I should adjust the deployment of troops." However, the number of people has increased, and it was originally divided into three units that take turns to rest and recuperate, but now it is bound to be combined into two troops, which will cause the soldiers to not be able to take turns to rest and recuperate. ”
Hans, who was standing on the side, seemed to have guessed General Kissernst's thoughts, and suddenly whispered: "General, there are still many mercenaries, so it is better to use them." ”
"Oh? ”
"Yes, General. These mercenaries may not be as good as our soldiers in battle, but they should be used for vigils, lookouts, and carrying supplies, etc., so that our soldiers can get the maximum rest. ”
General Kissernst nodded, this is a good idea, it is best to use these mercenaries to keep vigil and lookout, most of them will have similar experiences when they are adventurous, they should be more experienced, as long as they send some elite soldiers to mix with them, they don't have to worry about them making mistakes. The rest of the soldiers can rest in the camp and recover their strength to the maximum. And the tasks of vigil and lookout are not very dangerous, as long as they are warned in advance, and then wait for the soldiers to take over the defense line on the city wall, there will be nothing for them.
"So be it. After thinking about all this, General Kissernst gave an order: "Go to the Mercenary Guild and issue a mission, first recruit 2,000 mercenaries, then select 8,000 soldiers, and mix with them." The 10,000 people were divided into two groups and took turns keeping vigil and watchout. It's up to you to make sure you're on the safe side. ”
"Yes, Your Excellency!" said Hans, who stood upright and gave a standard military salute.