Chapter 9: Chess pieces

In the endless South Tarren savannah. The patriarch of the Orc Black Eagle Clan, Alexandra, fled with less than ten guards around him, and they were exhausted from seven or eight days of escape, but they were still gritting their teeth and insisting, because a few kilometers behind them, five or six hundred wolf cavalry of the Barbarian Bear Clan were chasing them closely, although Alexandra had exhausted all her means, she could only stop them for a short time at most, if it weren't for the fact that more than thirty Black Eagle guards protected Alexandre at the cost of their lives a day and a half ago, they would have been wiped out by now, but even so, there were only 8 of the original nearly 2,000 guards, including Alexandra herself。

A guard wolf could no longer bear such a wild run, and suddenly its front legs weakened, and it fell to the ground, throwing the orc riding on its neck directly out, and slammed it to the ground. With this first, there is naturally a second, a third...... Soon, Alexandra's own wolf couldn't hold on anymore and fell directly to the ground, allowing Alexandra to have an intimate contact with the ground.

Alessandra didn't care about the physical pain, struggled to get up, desperately looked at the pursuers who were less than a kilometer behind him, and now the guards around him were all injured, and they had not rested for many days, and they didn't have the strength to fight at all, even if they wanted to fight hard, they couldn't do it, they just waited to be captured.

"Am I going to die here?" said Alessandra with a grim smile as she pulled out a dagger decorated with countless gems, his favorite plaything on a daily basis, and he didn't want to end his life with it today. When Alexandra put the dagger to her throat with trembling hands, the surprised voice of the guards suddenly sounded in her ears: "Cavalry!

Alexandra's heart was overjoyed, he immediately looked south, and sure enough, he saw a small group of human cavalry galloping towards his side, obviously discovering them, but when Alexandra turned her head to the north again, her heart was sinking rapidly, the chasing soldiers of the Barbarian Bear Clan were less than 500 meters away from them, if there was no accident, they would be caught up by the group of wolf cavalry first, and even if the human cavalry arrived, they were only about two dozen people, how could they fight against hundreds of orc warriors?

"Run!" Alexandra roared through gritted teeth, he dropped almost everything on his body, and struggled to lift his heavy legs and run in the direction of the human cavalry, and his guards naturally did the same, they even threw their weapons to resist on the ground, just to be able to run faster.

After all, Alexandra was old, and he really couldn't hold on after only running a few dozen steps, even if the guards around him were half-dragging and half-dragging, they let him move about ten meters to the south, and at this time, the wolf cavalry of the Barbarian Bear Clan behind him was already less than 150 meters away from them, which was enough distance to launch a charge.

Just as Alexandra was exhausted, he suddenly noticed that the ground beneath his feet began to tremble, which made Alexandra feel very strange, but after a few seconds, there was no more doubt in his heart, but there was no more shock: a huge battle flag fluttered in the wind, and thousands of heavy cavalry appeared in Alexandra's field of vision like a city wall, and pushed towards the pursuing wolf cavalry.

If those wolf cavalry are willing to speed up, they can probably catch up with Alexandra first, but they will definitely fall into the attack of the human heavy cavalry, after all, these wolves have also been running for several days in a row, although there are sufficient supplies, but the physical strength is still not enough, absolutely unable to run the assault of the heavy cavalry with a high load, in the end it is equivalent to dying with Alexandra and them.

Without giving these wolf cavalry time to hesitate, a passionate horn sounded on their sides again, but this time it was a light cavalry holding a scimitar, and the two human cavalry slowly closed together from the northwest and due south, faintly encircling and outflanking the wolf cavalry of the Barbarian Bear Clan.

"Retreat!" The leader of the wolf cavalry who took the lead immediately made a decision and immediately gave the order to retreat, but the wolf cavalry who were running wildly all the way wanted to stop and then turn around and go back, it must take a while, and this time was enough for Alexandra to be rescued by the human cavalry, and the human light cavalry armed with scimitars also blocked the route of the wolf cavalry returning north.

"Fight your way out of the encirclement and let these cowardly humans know how powerful our brute bears and orcs are!" The leader of the wolf cavalry let out a series of shouts, picked up the weapons in his hands and rushed to the front, under his leadership, these hundreds of wolf cavalry put on a desperate posture and broke through to the north with all their might.

The group of human light cavalry really did not dare to confront the orc wolf cavalry head-on, and when they found that the orcs were ready to fight hard, the captain who led the team immediately roared, and pulled the team to make way for the orcs to return north, and seemed to be very afraid of the orc's force. The leader of the orc wolf cavalry sneered in his heart, thinking that if it weren't for the fact that there were more than ten times more of you than us today, and we were too tired from continuous pursuit, I would definitely leave you all behind.

Just as the orc wolf cavalry quickly passed through the gap vacated by the human light cavalry, the human light cavalry took out the crossbow on their backs under the order of the captain, and pulled the machine at the almost defenseless orcs without hesitation. Although the crossbows of the human light cavalry are all modified, and the power is less than that used by the crossbow archers, they are only a few dozen meters away from each other, but they are still enough to penetrate the unarmored bodies of the orcs.

The screams of the orcs sounded again and again, they were killed at least a hundred people by this sneak attack, and at the same time, the formation was also a big chaos, at this time, the group of human light cavalry roared in unison and ran away, and the leader of the orc wolf cavalry who led the team was about to lead his men to pursue, but felt a violent vibration on the ground, and the human heavy cavalry hundreds of meters away launched a charge.

Although the orc warriors are much stronger than the human warriors, they are still flesh and blood, and naturally it is impossible to block the impact of the galloping war horses, and their formations are chaotic under the sneak attack of the human light cavalry, let alone form a formation to resist. So when the thousands of human hoplites ran over, the ground was a mess, and the only thing that could prove that there had been a war here was a bright red land.

Alexandra looked at her eyes straight, and he understood why only 100,000 humans drove all the orcs out of here back then, the charge of the human hoplites was really terrifying, if there were no preparations, even if there were millions of people, it would only add some new fertilizer to the land next year.

Dozens of war horses came to Alexandra in small steps, and the human hoplite cavalry commander led by him lifted his mask, revealing a thin face, he looked at the embarrassed Alexandra, and said in human language: "I am the commander of the heavy cavalry regiment under the First Legion of the Imperial Capital, von Wolfe. ”

"Alexandra. Alexandra was half-sitting on the ground, his legs already weak and unable to stand up, but the old orc still insisted on supporting his upper body with his hands, so that he could face the Wolf Commander as straight as possible, but he finally chose to answer stiffly in the continental lingua franca that he was not familiar with, that is, the human language: "The head of the Orc Black Eagle Clan." ”

"Oh, you're Alexandra, one of the three major orc clans, what happened to Thor's Fortress, and how could you be pursued by other orcs?" Wolf raised his eyebrows, and immediately thought of the crux of the whole matter, and he said in skilled orc language, "Could it be that the Bear Clan is fighting again?"

Alexandra was shocked, he suddenly found that humans are not as simple as he imagined, at least as far as he knows, there are not many orcs who can speak a few words of human language, but now the human legion commander can speak the orc language fluently, and from the other party's words, he can clearly understand the other party's understanding of his own situation, which obviously requires a lot of time to pay attention to on weekdays.

Alexandra looked up at the full moon in the night sky, and her mind was at a loss: perhaps the orcs had made a mistake by returning to the South Tarren savannah, because they had probably awakened humanity's ambitions for the lands north of Thor's fortress, and feared that the orcs would never have the same hard but stable life as before. 200 years ago, their ancestors could have traveled north to the North Taron savannah, but 200 years later, where will their descendants migrate?

――――――*――――――*―――――― "Whew!" Gagor, transformed into a wind wolf, howled at the full moon in the sky, and beside him, at least thirty torn corpses, all enemies who attacked the druid's village at night. There are a lot of these guys who don't know where they came from, and after the night raid on the druid village was discovered by the druid outpost, they simply changed to a strong attack. Although these people were far inferior to the Druids, the huge numerical advantage made the Druids fight and retreat, slowly retreating into the depths of the mountains, where the Druids had already arranged a retreat to rely on the treacherous terrain to stop the enemy.

As a druid with the strength of an oak warrior, Gagor was ordered to protect the old and weak in the druid village to evacuate, he fought and retreated along the way, and finally was blocked by the enemy when he reached the entrance of the mountain trail, surrounded by hundreds of enemies armed with sharp blades, even Gagor himself was slightly injured, but the other party also paid a lot of price.

"Archers, up!" Not far away came the command of the enemy leader, 30 archers with short bows walked up quickly, aimed at the druid's side and released arrows, with Gagor's speed, naturally he would not be afraid of this attack, he waved his hands quickly, and all the arrows shot at him fell to the ground.

It was obviously the first time that the leader of the enemy had seen someone shoot an arrow like this, but as soon as he rolled his eyes, he immediately pointed at the old and weak druid village that was surrounded and shouted, "Shoot them, quick!"

Gagor screamed in his heart, and he was about to pounce at full speed, when he saw a grizzly bear roar, blocking his fat body in front of the old and weak druids.