The orcs retreated, and this attack was a great loss of vitality to them, and they also lost a high-ranking commander, and the orcs should not be able to organize the next attack in a short time. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Leon learns from the townsfolk that the town is called Canaan, and that the mayor of the town had died in battle a long time ago, so he moved into the mayor's house as a matter of course. After all, Leon's contribution is obvious to all, and most of the townspeople already see him as the legendary savior sent by the central empire - and he certainly is.

"How many more people do we have that can move?" asked Leon, putting down the parchment in his hand and turning his head. To his left sat a well-dressed middle-aged man with a goatee, who had been serving as an assistant to the mayor of Canaan. He had been temporarily acting as mayor after his death, and now that he had parachuted into Leon, he naturally retreated into the background.

"The total number of fully sound laborers and minor injuries that are out of the way is about two thousand. ”

"The repair of the house must be delayed, and the most important thing now is to repair the wall, after all, we don't know when the orcs will attack next. Leon knocked on the table and gave another order: "The corpses on the streets must be cleaned up as soon as possible, and the most feared thing after the great war is the plague." ”

"What about the defenses?" Leon asked, "How much defense is left in the town now?"

"Militia Captain Harris is not seriously injured, but it will take nearly a week to recover, two hundred militia have lost sixty-eight people, with the current defensive strength, even if we repair the wall, we will not be able to stop the orc attack at all, unless it is ......" Carrot glanced at Ang, Leon nodded knowingly: "With your magic help, we will have a much better chance of preventing the next wave of attacks." ”

"In other words, to train the soldiers, to send the untrained townspeople to the wall is to kill them, and we need more soldiers who have at least simple training. Leon said, "What about the grain, what about the food reserves? In our current situation, we would not be able to leave the town, let alone cultivate and gather." ”

"Food is not very urgent, although the orcs rushed in before, but they did not find our grain depot, the grain depot is enough to support us for another half a year. ”

"Alright, let's get the order down. Leon paused: "Tell me about the specific situation of this world later." ”

The Broadland Plane was originally a place where humans and dwarves coexisted peacefully, and while the power of humanity has been weakening since the first emperor unified the plane, the real catastrophe began a hundred years ago. The green-skinned orcs suddenly appeared in every corner of Broadland as if out of thin air, and the declining human forces simply could not stop the wild and numerous orc army. These green-skinned bandits ransacked trade routes, destroyed cities, enslaved inhabitants, and did all kinds of evil, so that the living space for human beings became smaller and smaller, until now only one town of Canaan remains.

"The situation of the dwarves is similar, but their fortress is quite strong and difficult to attack, and it is not so easy for the orcs to take it......" Speaking of this, Karot sighed: "The nearest dwarven city to us is the Iron Felt City on the peak of Fangs in the west, but because the orcs cut off the road, the last contact was three months ago. ”

"What about the human race, is there no other human force besides our Canaan town?"

"As far as I know, almost all of the cities have been captured, but the orcs do not massacre the cities when they break them, but use most of the inhabitants as slaves...... Not only that, but there should also be small settlements in the mountains and wilderness outside. ”

"I see. Leon thanked Karot, who was in charge of the explanation, and he already had a general impression of this plane in his heart: the orcs were very strong, occupying almost the entire land of the plane, but there were still many dwarven cities and human settlements resisting.

"Tell me about the orcs, what's going on with those green-skinned orcs? ”

"Orcs are stupid, not even the smartest shaman among them is very smart, their armor is all tattered and torn metal, and their weapons are almost all the weapons that have been stolen from us. The orc battle is completely undisciplined, and we can kill and injure dozens of times the orcs with the help of the wall, but-" At this point, Carrot suddenly changed his words: "But they are strong and numerous, and our militia are all good young men, but they can't stand them surging up like waves." ”

"I've got the situation. Leon clapped his hands: "Carlot, you go outside and command the townspeople, I have to think of specific countermeasures for myself." ”

"I see. Carrot bowed to Leon and left.

"The technological prowess of this frontier plane is quite backward, and it seems that it has suffered a technological regression after losing contact with the center of the empire - the technological level of other planes of the empire is probably between the Renaissance and the age of steam, and here it is directly regressed to the Middle Ages of cold weapons. They didn't even have paper, they were still using heavy, foul-smelling parchment. Leon let out a sigh of relief as he watched Carot leave, and then took out a small black notebook from his pocket, and wrote down something with a pen.

He did not write the words of this world, but a kind of writing that no one but him could understand—the Chinese square characters.

Leon is a time-traveler, and it has been twenty years since he crossed over. For the past twenty years, Leon has maintained the habit of taking notes in Chinese, not because of how secret his notes are, but simply because of his efforts to remember his hometown. But Rao is like this, his former hometown, relatives, many things are gradually fading away, and the small black book used to remember is increasingly mixed with square words and imperial letters.

Leon shook his head, trying to recall the Chinese words one by one, and filled them in the notebook: "Orcs are low-IQ brute creatures, but they are numerous, so the combat methods of medieval cold weapons cannot cope with the attacks of orcs, so it is necessary to develop technology, and only long-range weapons can curb the orc frenzy." ”

Orcs rely on stronger flesh and sheer numbers than humans, and ranged weapons are the weapon that erases both of these advantages!

There are many types of ranged weapons, and traditional bows and arrows are simple to make, but it takes a considerable amount of time to train a good archer - and the towns of Leon and Canaan are short of time right now.

The crossbow is a cheap and excellent long-range projection weapon, but with the current technical strength of Canaan Town, it is obviously impossible to produce qualified crossbows and crossbow arrows on a large scale, and a small number of crossbowmen will not help - the long-range projection troops must be formed in size in order to exert their due combat effectiveness.

As for gunpowder weapons, don't think about this for now. Although Leon remembered the recipe for gunpowder, Canaan did not produce sulfur - let alone the barrels and bullets that were the most important weapons of gunpowder, which could not be made with Canaan's current technology. It may be that there will be such technology in the big cities of humanity that Carrot said before, but that is honestly too far away.

In other words, the most reliable weapon at this stage is a cheap and convenient crossbow arrow. Although it is more troublesome for Canaan Town to build this thing by itself, just because you can't make it yourself doesn't mean that others can't make it.

Leon stood up, pushed open the door and walked out of the house. The mayor's office was located at the highest point in the town of Canaan, with unobstructed views on all sides, and Leon took his eyes off the townsfolk who were repairing the fence not far away, and cast his eyes to the west.

A mountain as wide at the top and narrow as a snake's tooth loomed in the distant clouds, and that was the Fangs Peak where the dwarven Felt City was located, as Carrot said.

Just because humans can't make it doesn't mean that dwarves can't make it. Therefore, the only way out for the town of Canaan is to restore the communication link with the dwarven city first.