Chapter 51: Extermination
After a long and bitter winter, the whole North Talon savannah has a new look, the sky is no longer gloomy and dark clouds, the earth is no longer covered with snow-white snow, everything is so vibrant.
Orcs are not good at farming, mostly live by grazing and hunting, and usually live on water and grass, so their location is not fixed, although there are exceptions, such as the Fengpeng clan who occupy the Kerkosi pasture.
Under the blue sky, the Kerkosi Ranch is a thousand miles away, but not vast. The camp of the Fengpeng clan is located in the middle of the Kerkosi ranch, and it is in a very good location, with hills on all sides of the camp, which can provide some shelter from the cold north wind in winter. Spring in the North Talon savannah comes much later than in the south of the continent, and at this time, there will still be scattered snowflakes and biting cold winds, which is the last resort of the unwilling winter to prove its existence, but here in the Kirkosi Ranch there is no feeling at all the breath of winter that has not yet gone away.
The whole of the Kirkosi pasture was green, except for the stream that trickled like a winding belt. It was an early spring morning, and the entire Fengpeng Clan camp was silent, except for the occasional child's playful cry and the crackling sound of the barbecued food coming from the campfire. Everything was so peaceful.
Suddenly, there was a roar in the distance, and an orc woman with a whip in her hand who was about to drive out the Talon sheep in the sheepfold listened to it with her ears sideways, and the roar seemed to be silent again. The orc woman shook her head, thinking that she had misheard, and she opened the door of the sheepfold, picked up the whip in her hand, and struck it vigorously in the air, and began to drive the sheep outward.
The roar sounded again, and with the ground, the earth trembled slightly, and the orc woman was stunned, and she turned her head to look in the direction from which the sound came, only to see a faint dust floating in the air in the distance, enveloping the newborn sun in a layer of mist.
The orc woman felt as if she had heard of this scene, she looked down and thought about it, and suddenly remembered that her father's uncle, the old orc, who was almost 60 years old, had told them about the great battle between the wild wolf and the brute bear decades ago, and this was the sign of the advance of the army.
"Enemy attack! enemy attack!" the orc woman dropped the whip in her hand and cried out loudly.
There was chaos in the camp, and countless orcs ran out of their dwellings in a disorderly manner, then looked at others blankly, and then learned to let out a frightened cry of "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" resounded throughout Fengpeng's camp.
An old orc in his fifties slowly walked out of his camp, he was Elvis, the patriarch of the Fengpeng clan, and behind him were several sturdy female orcs, due to the issuance of the Beast Emperor's all-out war order, his personal guards were all replaced by women.
"Bastard!" Elvis, the patriarch of the Fengpeng Clan, scolded viciously, and the female guard behind him picked up the whip in her hand and whipped it at the orcs who were still screaming. The power of the whip was apparently more terrifying to the orcs, and the panic in the camp was slowly dispelled after dozens of unlucky guys were beaten to the ground and vomited blood. The two godless orcs crouched on the ground with their heads in their hands, most of them women, and the men were either young or old.
Soon, the guy who made a roar and made the earth vibrate also appeared in front of the Fengpeng Clan, and the bronze chariots pulled by the mammoth war elephants were lined up in a neat formation, pressing towards the Fengpeng Clan's camp in a semicircle.
Elvis, the patriarch of the Fengpeng clan, gasped, and he shouted out in a lost voice: "Mammoth Chariot!"
At least a few thousand mammoth chariots came to a neat stop on the grass three hundred meters away from the Fengpeng camp, and there was a gap of about five meters between each two chariots, but don't think that you can pass through between them, because the sides of each chariot are covered with sharp blades and strong spikes, which glow blindingly in the nascent sun.
Elvis, the patriarch of the Fengpeng clan, of course, knew the horror of the mammoth chariot, and when the mammoth war elephant was running with all its might, the terrifying force was enough to ruthlessly crush all the life in the path, and even if he was lucky enough to avoid the frontal impact, he would be cut open by the sharp blades and strong spikes on the side of the chariot. The only way to survive is not to become the target of the mammoth chariot attack.
When the thousands of mammoth chariots were parked, one of them slowly drove towards the gate of the Fengpeng clan's camp. When the chariot came to the closed gate, an orc on the chariot shouted loudly into the camp: "General Lei of the Mammoth Legion, I am ordered by His Majesty the Beast Emperor to check the situation of the troops of all races!"
Elvis, the patriarch of the Fengpeng clan, frowned when he heard it, he naturally knew the order of the Beast Emperor, and he also knew that this Lei was a close confidant of the Beast Emperor, and he had already inspected the seven or eight clan camps led by the Mammoth Legion. The discipline of the entire Mammoth Legion was not bad, and they had not heard of a single case of harassment of women or robbery of property, except for strict inspections.
Elvis, the patriarch of the Fengpeng clan, turned his head to look at the clansmen who still had a panicked expression on his face, and then looked at the mammoth legionaries who were waiting outside, shook his head helplessly, and thought: "It seems that he is going to give me a little color to see, alas, if you can't do it, just spend something." ”
"Squeak!" The gate of the Fengpeng Clan's camp was slowly opened, and Elvis, the patriarch of the Fengpeng Clan, walked slowly and methodically towards the Mammoth Legion in the distance.
Lei fought quietly on the mammoth chariot, and behind him was one of the most powerful legions under the Beast Emperor, the Mammoth Legion.
In the battle with humans two hundred years ago, 450,000 elite orc warriors faced the impact of 10,000 holy knights, and the tight formation was torn open by the opponent, and no matter how the orcs attacked, it was difficult to severely damage these knights wearing golden armor, which made the orc army scheduling and morale a big problem. Eventually, the human army used the knight's charge to tear through the lines of defense and inflict heavy damage on the orcs, annihilating their main force.
After settling in the Northern Tallon grasslands, the orcs slowly searched for a way to fight the Holy Knights. Orcs are not good at training horses, and there is a lack of horses in the Northern Tallen grasslands, some people think of capturing wolves and training wolf cavalry, but wolves are not as heavy as horses, and their amount is comparable to that of human Clay light cavalry, which is okay to harass intelligence gathering or conduct skirmish battles, but it is not good if it is the main force in the decisive battle of hundreds of thousands of legions.
Later, the Northern Bear Clan, to which the Beast Emperor belonged, rose to prominence, when they lived in the northwest of the Northern Talon Prairie, which was close to the northern frozen plateau, and after more than ten years of hard work, the Wild Bear Clan learned to capture and tame the mammoths living on the northern frozen plateau, and in this way created a bronze chariot army drawn by mammoths.
In the life-and-death battle with the Wild Wolf Clan, less than two hundred Mammoth Chariots suddenly appeared on the side of the Wild Wolf Clan, and the powerful impact of these Mammoth Chariots was like that of human knights, inflicting immeasurable blows to the warriors of the Wild Wolf Clan, both psychologically and physically.
The difference is that the Holy Knights rely on the "common hatred" of the followers of the god of war to gather all their strength and share the damage caused by the enemy to avoid attrition caused by serious injuries, while the mammoths have thick skin and flesh, and the Barbarian Bear clan has a thick layer of armor strung together at their vital points, almost without fear of the enemy's sword and arrow.
After this battle, the Mammoth Chariot established the main position of the Barbarian Bear Clan, and not only was the number of chariots expanded to five thousand, but after decades of improvement, the chariots were equipped with sharp scythes and spikes on the sides. This way, even if the enemy does not take damage while charging head-on, it can still inflict fatal damage on the vehicle as it passes by.
In this expedition, the Beast Emperor Andreas handed over the task of urging the orcs to send troops to the commander of the Mammoth Legion, Ray.
Lei was not originally a member of the Barbarian Bear Clan, he was picked up by the Beast Emperor's father by chance, when the Beast Emperor's father saw that Lei, who was less than a year old, had survived in the snow for three days, and was very surprised by his vitality, so he adopted him.
When Ray grew up, after going through a lot of things, he was trusted by Andreas and became Andreas's retinue. On the day Andreas was promoted to the Beast Emperor, Andreas handed over the Mammoth Legion, one of the most powerful legions of the Brute Bear Clan, to Ray, and since then Ray has become one of the most powerful generals under the Beast Emperor.
Lei stood high on the chariot and looked coldly at Elvis, the patriarch of the Fengpeng clan who was humble in front of him. Although the population of the Fengpeng clan is small, everyone is good at bows and arrows, and the entire clan has 40,000 archers. When the Wolf Clan and the Brute Bear Clan were fighting for dominance, they occupied the water-rich Kirkosi pasture, and they were not at all worried about food supplies like most of the other clans.
The Kelkosi Ranch is located in the middle of the North Taron Prairie, which is an important passage between the east and west of the North Taryn Prairie, and over the years, the Fengpeng clan has accumulated a lot of wealth by taking advantage of its convenient geographical conditions, and if it were not for the population of the two million people far less than the two million people of the Barbarian Bear Clan, it may have rebelled long ago.
For these other orc clans who have always been dissatisfied with the rule of their barbarian bear clan, the Beast Emperor has long wanted to deal with them, but over the years, the Beast Emperor has been committed to retaking the South Talon grassland, and does not want to cause unease among the other orc clans because of the forcible conquest, if it triggers another civil war among the orcs, it will definitely not be conducive to the war against humans.
This time, the Beast Emperor issued a mobilization order for a full-scale war, and the patriarch of the Fengpeng clan did let his eldest son take Terence 30,000 shooters to the battle, but he privately let his second son Fred secretly move to the north overnight with 10,000 young warriors, obviously to preserve his strength, which made the Beast Emperor find a reason to use force.