Thunder Mountain Fortress was built two hundred years ago, in order to permanently resist the southward movement of the Orcs, the first majesty of the Holy Alliance Empire, Fernando I, used huge manpower and material resources to build a strong fortress in the naturally formed Hengduan Mountain Fracture Canyon, which is the only passage connecting the South Taron Savannah and the North Taron Savannah.

In order to effectively resist the attack of the northern orcs, the Thor Fortress is actually divided into three parts. In the far north, there is a strong wall blocking the passage between the north and south Tarun grasslands, it is five kilometers long in the canyon, and the canyon is built on both sides of the canyon, about two kilometers long, a total length of seven kilometers, is the first line of defense of humans against the orcs, and it is claimed that only the wrath of Thor's can destroy this place. This is also the Thor Fortress in the true sense of the word.

The fortified walls were quite thick and well defended. At all times, it is on alert, and no non-Thor garrisons are allowed to enter or leave. In the middle of the wall is a gate that allows ten knights to enter and exit side by side, if fully opened, and is the only way to enter and exit the Thunder God Fortress from the northern Talon steppes. In that battle fifty years ago, the orcs pressed all the fronts, posing a great threat to the walls of Thor's fortress, but the commander of the defenders at that time boldly led 10,000 knights to break through the orc position from here, disrupting the rhythm of the orc attack, and finally crushing the orc attack.

For the sake of safety, the inside of this gate is blocked, and the huge gate with a thickness of up to three meters, an iron gate weighing more than 10,000 catties, and various deadly mechanisms on both sides of the passage of the city wall will discourage attackers: instead of entering the Thor Fortress from there, it is safer to climb directly over the city wall, and the damage will be smaller.

The walls of Thor's fortress are completely small streets, and eight carriages can easily travel side by side on them. If the enemy starts to attack, the commander on the wall can easily deploy his forces according to the enemy's forces, and there is a battlement wall about one person high on the outward side of the wall, which can effectively defend against the enemy's long-range bow and arrow.

Every 100 meters or so, there is a section of the wall that protrudes out of the outside of the wall, which is called the tower. With the tower, the soldiers stationed inside can interact with each other with the soldiers stationed on the city walls, eliminate the dead spots under the city, and attack the enemy from three sides from top to bottom. Towers are usually manned by quite elite marksmen who can cover up to the two towers on their left and right, maximizing long-range fire support.

About a kilometer south of this section of the city wall, that is, the exit of the Grand Canyon in the south, is the military camp of the Thor Fortress garrison, which stretches for more than ten kilometers and can garrison more than 100,000 troops in peacetime. Between the camp and the northern wall was a smooth, leveled avenue, and in the event of an enemy attack, the garrison here could rush to the front line as quickly as possible. Usually, the garrison here would call this barracks: "Camp No. 1." ”

"Camp No. 1" is not only home to soldiers, but also twelve giant stone throwing carts. With a range of about three to five kilometers, these catapults can shoot tens of thousands of boulders at a time of crisis ahead, and when the timing is right, these boulders can break the enemy's attack and shatter their will.

About five kilometers further south, in the South Tallon Prairie, there was another barracks, where the Lane and their rest were. In fact, strictly speaking, this place can no longer be called a military camp, it contains almost all the facilities that a city should have: bars, churches, magic guilds, mercenary guilds, all kinds of shops...... Merchants from other parts of the continent would dump their wares here, and the defenders of Thor's fortress would take turns taking vacations and coming here to relax.

Since the garrison of Thor's fortress is one of the most elite armies in the empire, it is basically impossible for many soldiers here to return to their hometowns to visit their relatives before retiring, so the leader of the garrison of Thor's fortress acquiesced to them taking their families and building a wooden house or a tent here. On vacation, they can do whatever they want, and many soldiers have married the daughters of the Clay herdsmen here and multiplied. So in the past two hundred years, it has formed a rather lively city, but the predecessor here is a military camp after all, and most of the people living in it are related to the garrison, so the name here is still habitually called "No. 2 military camp".

With Bart as a qualified guide, Ryan and the others quickly became familiar with the place. The soldiers here mainly come from the north of the continent, the area actually controlled by the Fernando royal family, but the vast majority of the merchants who come here to do business come to the south of the continent, among which the merchants of the Free Paradise are the most. However, due to the fact that it has now entered a state of alert, the "barracks" seems to be much deserted, and there are basically no soldiers wandering around, and even if they occasionally see one, they are in a hurry.

Although the orcs are menacing this year, the residents and merchants here don't care at all, because the orcs haven't crossed the Thor Fortress for two hundred years, and this year, probably won't be, right? Besides, the more this state of war, the better the business of those merchants, all because the warriors of the Thor Fortress face life and death every day, maybe they don't enjoy it today, and they won't have a chance to survive tomorrow. As long as it withstands the initial fierce attack of the orcs and enters the stalemate phase, the garrison of Thor's fortress will be rotated and repaired in a planned manner, and that is also the time when this place becomes lively.

All the supplies brought by Lille and York were loaded into a warehouse three kilometers outside the barracks, where a thousand soldiers guarded it, and it should be foolproof. The sets of equipment used to lift the heavy loads had been assembled and transported to Camp 1 for standby, while Lille and York had divided into four groups and were stationed at the machines in turn, ready to fix any problems that arose.

Seeing that this place was shrouded in the clouds of war, Ryan calculated, it has been almost three months since he got the news from Thor's Fortress and sent messengers, and he has arrived here now, and he doesn't know how the war is now, and we have suffered a lot of losses. So Ryan couldn't help but ask the question.

Bart's reply surprised Ryan and the others, they thought that the war should have entered a state of life and death, but they never thought that until today, the defenders of Thor's Fortress have been in full battle, but the huge army of the orcs still hasn't appeared, but their vanguard has stayed about fifty kilometers away from Thor's Fortress, Thor's Fortress sent a large number of scouts, but there was no way to pass through the orc's blockade, and after a few months, Thor's fortress's scouts suffered heavy losses. Now it has to shrink back.

Ryan couldn't help but wonder, "What the hell does orcs mean, is it a bluff?"

"What the hell does the orcs mean, is it a bluff?" General Gainster, the supreme military commander of the Thor Fortress, sat alone in the combat command room, looking at the map around the Thor Fortress, thinking repeatedly. It has been almost three months since the discovery of the beasts gathering the army, and according to the previous situation of the orcs, they would soon come to the Thor Fortress and launch the most ferocious attack, but now, the orcs are unhurriedly mobilizing, and they are not at all as fierce as their ancestors.

General Kissonster was already worried about this matter, and his head was full of gray hair. A native of the Royal Order, General Kissernst was sent to the Fortress of Thor, the Empire's northern defensive line, ten years ago, and three years later he took over as the retiring former general as the region's supreme military commander. In recent years, although the orcs have occasionally attacked Thor's Fortress, their forces are very weak, less than 50,000 at most, and their combat effectiveness is not very strong, and General Kisser easily led the garrison of Thor's Fortress to defeat them. If it weren't for the more than 10,000 corpses left by the orcs, General Kissernst would even think that they were just fulfilling a tradition left by their ancestors, just as the nobles of the imperial capital had the habit of taking a boat south for a holiday in advance in the cold winter.

Now, General Kissunst has gone through the descriptions of the orc attacks of the top military commanders of the Thor Fortress for the past two hundred years, but he can't find any attempts by the orcs, so General Kissunst is in a dilemma: continuing to maintain a state of alert will make the garrison quickly consume morale and fall into a kind of mental exhaustion, which will affect combat effectiveness; 。

After thinking about it, General Kissernst felt that the best way at the moment was to break through the blockade of the orcs and find the main position of the orcs, as long as he figured out the intentions of the orcs, it would not be difficult to deal with it. From the day the Thor Fortress was built, the intention of mankind has been unmistakably expressed, that is, only defending, not attacking. After all, if the orcs are defeated, it is a big deal to retreat north, but once the humans lose the Thor Fortress, it means that the orcs can drive straight in, through the steppes thousands of kilometers to the south, and directly attack the imperial capital of the Holy Alliance, Fernando City.

In the case of passive defense, General Kissernst had to rub his head helplessly, and continued to think about countermeasures: how to find a breakthrough in the current situation where the enemy situation is unclear and the scouts have suffered heavy losses due to the enemy's strict blockade?

"We still have to continue to investigate, if the enemy situation is unknown, our army will not be able to rest for a day. It is not good for our army to drag on like this. General Kissernst said a few words to himself, then he picked up a quill and wrote three lines in the notebook in front of him: "Intelligence, orc main force, mercenaries." ”

"Perhaps, I can use the power of these mercenaries. ”