The northern tundra is the home of the orcs, and no one is more familiar with the terrain here than they are! The second line of defense that Muru chose to build is perfectly positioned for the defending side, but for Davenport, it is a big headache!

It was originally a small mountain range, perhaps after an earthquake that caused a geological fracture. The slope, which should have been low and flat, was broken into strips, as if combed by a rake, and the ravines were rugged, thick, weedy, and extremely even, stretching for hundreds of miles, and the only way to pass was to take the path between the ravines. Idiots know that if they set up an ambush here, humanity will have to fill it with countless human lives before they can rush through.

Davenport didn't think about detours, but there was a dense forest and swamp to the east, and Davenport would only walk a swamp full of traps and mud pits unless he was crazy. If you take a detour to the west, you will encounter a series of lakes, and the water in those lakes, because of the accumulation of snow and ice for a winter, overflows with sufficient water, forming rivers that are neither deep nor wide. The cavalry may be able to wade through the water, but most of his team is infantry, and you let more than a million soldiers walk in the water every day, and you still have to maintain a defensive formation, is it possible?

In the end, you can only take the ravines and paths of the broken mountains. The army stopped for the time being, and Davenport was ready for anything. Send out the Wind Scouts to survey the terrain from the air, and then send some squads of soldiers into the ravine road to explore the road once. At the same time, he sent out all half a million human cavalry to wade through the lake to the west, and rushed around to the north of the Fractured Mountain, driving as many orcs there as possible. Only when it is safe to do so will he let the army through.

Davenport's approach is very safe, after all, half a million human cavalry. There is no need to worry about being besieged by orcs, let alone being attacked. You must know that among them is Audreya's elite cavalry regiment [Crown Stag]. Although it was newly formed later, Roxana still trained them in the Kudore Heavy Cavalry Battle Formation, and there would be no problem in dealing with the orcs.

But Baroque, who was cruising in the rear, didn't see it that way, and when he realized that Davenport had finally divided his troops, he smiled! Sometimes things develop in the process. It is not up to man. Although Davenport must have planned to cross the Fracture Mountain and reassemble again, how could everything be at his will?

These days under the guidance of the Baroque, Tulayan and Angre, they are familiar with the tactics of guerrilla and wolf packing. The more skilled they became, the more they inflicted more and more damage on humans. Obviously, the speed of the human march is slowed down. You must know that if they hadn't delayed behind, Muru in front might not have had enough time to deploy on Fracture Mountain!

Knowing of Davenport's division of troops, Baroque immediately left, giving back command of the army to Tulayan and Anglei. This time they were much more cautious, and Baroque was confident that they would not make the same mistakes as they had done at the beginning.

Soaring into the sky, Baroque did not rush back to Muru's side. Instead, I went to the lake strip to the west. He was familiar with the terrain and bypassed the advancing human cavalry legions to find a dense forest by a lake. Quietly falling. In the dense forest, there is an elite army of orcs, not many, only a few thousand. Their job is only to protect others.

When the Baroque arrived, the Grand Magician Majaro led his group of magicians to greet him. There were dozens of nearly hundreds of magicians behind him, and except for those who defected and surrendered from the Holy See with him, the others were all magician scum recruited by the Baroque in Shoton City—————— of course, only for humans.

These magicians may be treacherous people who do all kinds of evil in the human realm, or they may be greedy. Can't resist the baroque's heavy investment, the guy who can sell his soul and his ancestors for money. Of course, there are also some who are persecuted by the Holy See. People who are ready to retaliate. In short, they are willing to help the orcs against the Holy See army. It can be said that this is a group of magician mercenaries formed by the Baroque.

What are a group of magicians doing in the lake? There must be a conspiracy! Unlike Pahomi and Savat. Because the two of them were the first to follow the Baroque, they were reused by the Baroque and respected by the orcs. The status of the two humans among the orcs made Majaro feel jealous. Even in order to show loyalty to the new owner Baroque, Majaro had to show himself well. A great magician with a noble status, but wagging his tail in front of the orcs to beg for mercy and flattery, indescribable irony and weirdness.

"Baroque master, your arrangements have been prepared, and we will be able to dig a gap in the lake at once and flood the human cavalry. Majaro said with a smile, his neat beard curled up and down, very funny.

The idea of digging a lake to flood the human army was also the work of the Baroque. Of course, in this area, humans do not necessarily march from the lake, and the Baroque is only prepared in advance, just like in the dense forests and swamps in the east, there is also a group of orcs lurking, digging and setting a lot of traps. It's just that Davenport didn't choose that side, and it was useless to prepare there.

The magicians led them along the web-strewn rivers and streams, bypassing a few smaller lakes, and came to the highest point where they saw a large lake with no end in sight. The lake resembles a round basin lifted high by the ground, and Baroque speculates that it was once a volcanic crater, which was accumulated by heavy snowfall and rain over the years. At this time, the water in the lake is like a small sea because the snow has melted just after the winter has passed.

The orcs had long since manipulated the weakest part of the circular lake. Majaro and his group are mainly water magicians, and they can manipulate the water of the lake, attacking the weak wall of the lake, and if the last layer of dirt and a few boulders are knocked down, the water in the lake will immediately pour out. Because of the high terrain, it is facing the plain. And that plain is exactly where the human cavalry must pass!

Since ancient times, water and fire have been ruthless, and this vicious idea of the Baroque even made the orcs shudder at the beginning. However, when they thought that it was the humans and not the orcs themselves who suffered the disaster, they were relieved, and with it a great deal of excitement and anticipation. For the orcs, as long as they don't hurt their own people, the more other humans die, the better!

Thousands of orcs were sent to follow Majaro and them, saying that they were protecting, but in fact there was more of an element of surveillance. Baroque was skeptical that the magicians would not do anything to their own kind. But now everything in front of him showed that he was really thinking too much, and once the traitors of the human race lost their integrity, the cruelty to their fellow people made even the orcs look sideways.

Baroque waited with them by the lake, and many scouts and beast armor warriors had been scattered in the sky and on the ground, monitoring the advance of the human cavalry. The Baroque leaped ahead of the human cavalry army and reached the edge of this great lake, which was only a hundred miles away. If the human cavalry had had, it would have taken less than two days to reach the small alluvial plain on the shore of the lake.

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Davenport has been a little restless in recent days, always feeling that something bad is going to happen, but he has thought about it many times from beginning to end, and he has not found anything unsafe. Helplessly, this bad feeling lingered, so he recruited the excellent commanders in the army to join him, looking at the map of the northern tundra, and analyzing the surrounding terrain little by little, where the orcs would have ambushes, and where it was not conducive to the march...... Everything has been scrutinized.

Unfortunately, the level of civilization in this world is only equivalent to that of the Middle Ages, and their maps are flat, although the lake area to the west is marked, but it does not show a large lake and the surrounding topography............ Even if they knew that the lake was high, it was only a few tens of meters higher than the surrounding area, and it did not attract special attention. In particular, there has never been a precedent in the history of Sauron to use natural forces such as floods against the enemy. At best, it is only the magic of the magicians, but how can it be comparable to the power of heaven and earth? Therefore, this heavy loss of mankind will be doomed.

After analyzing for a long time, he still didn't find anything wrong, and Davenport not only did not relax, but became more and more uneasy. The feeling was so bad that he had to halt all preparations for the rest of his army, and camp on the edge of the Broken Hill until the cavalry army detoured back to the opposite side, and then re-encamped and advanced.

As if a little firefly lit up the night sky in an instant, Davenport suddenly thought that he had gone into a misunderstanding———— orcs may not have ambushed heavy troops in the Fractured Mountain, but set their sights on the cavalry army?

Almost immediately, all the dozens of Phantom Warriors were summoned, and Davenport was not left behind to guard them, and let them chase after the cavalry army, telling them to be cautious in everything.

The Phantom Armor warriors then rode away on horseback, and a few Wind Whispering Scouts were the first to fly into the sky.

It's a pity that it's still a little late, just as the Phantom Armor Warrior is on his way, hundreds of miles away by the Great Lake, Baroque has also received information from the Thunder Eagle Beast Armored Warriors, and the human cavalry army has entered the small alluvial plain more than ten miles away from the Great Lake!

After waiting patiently for a long time, Baroque suddenly turned back to Majaro and smiled deeply: "Great Magician's Pavilion, it's time for you to show the power of magic!" (To be continued.) )