Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Bloody Battle of the Imperial Capital

Although it is already the end of August. But the temperature in Fernando was still very hot, and soon after the sun rose in the east in the morning, it was unbearable hot. There was a creaking sound from the gate of the beast camp, and a large group of orc warriors rushed out and formed a phalanx in the open space outside.

Soon, these orc warriors had formed a neat phalanx, and they had done similar things in Thor's Fortress, but this time it was to show off their strength and force the warriors of other clans to attack, and this time, they were the main force of the Brute Bear Clan's attack.

The Beast Emperor and the Prophet Evan slowly appeared in front of everyone standing on the chariot, and the leader of the Mammoth Legion, Ray, personally drove for the Beast Emperor, and the chariot of the Mammoth Legion and the Blood Guard of the Beast Emperor followed closely behind. And the last thing that appeared was a large number of warriors from other clans, these warriors did not have the momentum of the warriors of the Barbarian Bear Clan at all, not only were they far from each other in terms of physical appearance, but even their eyes showed a look of timidity and fear towards the warriors of the Barbarian Bear Clan.

The orcs mainly live by herding and hunting, and their army is actually the young adults in the clan, who are busy with their lives when they have nothing to do, and when war breaks out, they immediately bring their own weapons and become warriors in battle. This has been going on for thousands of years, but with the Beast Emperor and the Prophet Evan it has changed. At the suggestion of the prophet Evan, the Beast Emperor sorted the clansmen of the Bear Clan, and the strongest men were selected separately for intensive training and became qualified warriors.

The Brute Bear Clan took advantage of this method and quickly gained a powerful army, thus quickly establishing itself as absolute dominance among the orc tribes. These elite warriors are the foundation of the Brute Bear Clan, and as long as they are around, the Brute Bear Clan will remain the ruler of the Orcs. Now, the Beast Emperor has led all the orcs to the outside of Fernando, the imperial capital of mankind, realizing the dream of the orcs to return to the South Talon grassland for hundreds of years, and as long as the Beast Emperor brings them one step forward, this huge empire composed entirely of humans can be disintegrated, and the orcs will take advantage of the situation to rule the entire continent.

The Beast Emperor stood high on the battlefield, he looked at the walls of the imperial capital several kilometers away, and gave his warriors a final encouragement: "We have finally waited for this day. The honor of the orcs, the dreams of our ancestors, and the future of our people are in your hands. Go forward, my warriors, destroy everything that stands in our way with the greatest power, conquer this city, conquer this empire, conquer all of humanity!"

"Kill!" The warriors of the hundreds of thousands of Barbarian Bear Clan shouted in unison, and the huge momentum also shocked the other clans that were also orcs, and many people had a frightened look on their faces, and they no longer dared to have the idea of resisting the Barbarian Bear Clan, and now the greatest hope of these orcs is that the Beast Emperor can keep his promise, allocate himself the corresponding land and wealth, and let himself live a good life.

The Beast Emperor gave an order, and the orc attack began. 50 stone-throwing trucks loaded with wooden wheels were slowly pushed and placed less than 3 kilometers away from the imperial capital city wall, and soon, the catapult rods of these stone-throwing trucks were pulled horizontally by the noose, and pieces of heavy objects removed from unknown buildings were placed in the "spoons" behind the catapult rods. Most of these dismantled weights are stones, which can be regarded as stone bullets. These stone-throwing carts were obtained by the orcs from the walls and storehouses of the Thor Fortress, and after a brief study, the orcs mastered how to use them, understanding that their range was about 2000 to 3000 meters.

Hundreds of siege engines were scattered over an area of about ten kilometers, these siege vehicles were much larger than when they were in Thor's Fortress, and they looked more sturdy, especially the baffles on the siege vehicles, which could protect many orc warriors who followed behind the vehicles. This is mainly due to the fact that the orcs have obtained some of the human siege equipment crafting technology in Thor's Fortress, which can make this siege vehicle bigger and stronger. Each siege vehicle is pushed by 8 orcs with full force, and each siege vehicle is followed by more than a dozen people, who will be the first wave of warriors to reach the city walls.

Since the walls of the imperial capital are only 5 meters high, orcs who are generally more than 2 meters tall can easily carry a wooden ladder less than 5 meters long, and these orc warriors carrying wooden ladders are also protected by orc warriors with shields to prevent them from being attacked by human archers.

A huge whistling sound swept through the air, and the 50 stone throwing vehicles of the orcs began to fire "stone bullets", more than 100 kilograms of "stone bullets" flew in the air for more than ten meters, and smashed on the walls of the imperial capital, and the stone chips suddenly flew sideways, and these "stone bullets" either bounced up fiercely, continued to roll and fly out, or directly split apart, covering the surrounding range of several meters.

Bacon observed everything in front of him expressionlessly, as the captain of the Royal Knights, Bacon is now a legion commander with 60,000 people, but there are only a few hundred people who can really be called elite, they are all Holy Knights and Trainee Holy Knights of the Royal Knights, and about one-third of the soldiers are soldiers with military training, and the rest are ordinary men who were temporarily recruited this time.

The attack of the orc stone-throwing cart caused Bacon's recruits to panic for a while, but they quickly regained their composure with the comfort of the captain of the Holy Knight and many veterans. Bacon looked at the siege vehicle slowly driving towards him in the distance and the large number of orc warriors behind the siege vehicle, and sighed helplessly, the city has enjoyed peace for too long.

According to General Orlando's estimate, the first wave of the orc's attack will be very violent, if the human elite are placed on the front line, it may be quickly exhausted, and when Bacon received the order to garrison the north gate of the imperial capital, he also received another order from Orlando in private, if the orcs attack is too fierce, Orlando allows Bacon to retreat immediately, relying on the buildings in the city to resist.

Orc siege equipment can cause great damage to the city wall, but in the face of the millions of houses in the imperial capital, Bacon does not believe that the orcs will destroy them one by one with a stone throwing cart, and there is no cover on the city wall, and many buildings on the imperial capital city wall are very strong, and they may not be able to withstand the stone bullets sent by the stone throwing trucks.

"Let's start firing back with our catapults. Bacon saw that the orc's siege engines were already within range, so he gave this order. The stone-throwing carts fixed by humans on the walls of the imperial capital immediately took action, and soon threw round stone projectiles, which also destroyed many orc siege vehicles and killed hundreds of orc warriors.

When the siege force in front of the orcs entered a distance of 500 meters from the imperial capital, because of the angle and range factors, the human catapult was powerless, and Bacon should have ordered to cover the orc troops with bows and arrows to maximize the damage to the enemy, but unfortunately Bacon did not have too many soldiers in this area at all, and the holy knights were limited to their own beliefs, and they were absolutely not allowed to use bows, crossbows, Daggers and other weapons, and the newly recruited warriors can't even hold spears and swords, how can they be expected to shoot feathered arrows with accurate heads? A potential recruit who wants to meet the standards of a marksman usually has to go through a whole year of rigorous training, and now there is no such time.

Without the support of the archers, the orcs took full speed forward, and soon someone was under the city walls. The orc with the wooden ladder did not hesitate to put the wooden ladder on the city wall, and then quickly began to climb. The walls of the imperial capital are only 5 meters high, which is also a helpless thing, after all, the walls of the entire Fernando City stretch for hundreds of kilometers, and here is the junction of grasslands and hills, where do you get so many stones?

"Kill!" Bacon roared with all his strength when he saw this, and commanded the human warriors to begin to resist the orc attack. Dozens of holy knights took the lead, brandishing their weapons to attack the orcs who climbed up, and under their leadership, the new soldiers also fought side by side with the veterans, and slowly adapted to this bloody fight.

The 5-meter-high city wall is difficult to prevent orcs from climbing, and more and more orcs appear on the walls of the imperial capital, and the pressure on the human defenders is increasing, and the casualties are increasing. These orc warriors are the most elite warriors of the Barbarian Bear Clan, except for the holy knights on the human side, who can deal with them more easily, those veterans need 3 to 5 people to resist the attack of the orcs, and those recruits who don't know how to fight at all need more than a dozen people to barely resist it, and sometimes an orc warrior starts a frenzy, and dozens of recruits are beaten and retreat in embarrassment.

Although Bacon had been fighting on the front line, he still kept an eye on the battle, and the first thing the orcs did after climbing the walls was to destroy the human catapults as much as possible or prevent them from continuing to use the catapults to attack their own people, and they were repeatedly successful. Soon, the density of the catapult attacks on the human side thinned out, which allowed the orc follow-up troops to advance faster without interference.

Those orc siege vehicles basically didn't come in handy, the orcs originally thought that they would encounter the kind of bow and arrow covered shooting when they were in the Thor Fortress again, which was the nemesis of the orc infantry, but on the side of the imperial capital, the battle began for a while, and they even controlled a lot of city wall areas, and they didn't see the feather arrows shot by human archers, which made those tough orcs directly give up following the slow-moving siege vehicles, and directly strode at full speed and forced.

Bacon stabbed an orc to death with his sword, picked up the shield in his left hand and slapped it at an orc who had just exposed his head, who fell without even snorting. Taking advantage of this gap, Bacon shouted, "Retreat as planned!"