Chapter 120: The Decisive Battle at the Royal Viewing Platform (9)
On the human position north of the royal viewing area, the orcs launched another attack, and both orcs and humans, at the beginning of this battle, used the method of shooting catapults at each other to carry out long-range strikes against the enemy. Stone projectiles flew through the air with a whistling sound that pierced the air, and then fell to the ground, harvesting the lives of enemy warriors.
However, the lethal effect caused by this method has become worse and worse, because as the war continues, both sides have come up with a set of ways to reduce the damage from the catapult attack, such as hiding the body behind a solid cover as much as possible, not gathering people together, and trying to disperse and dodge.
In fact, the scene of the two sides firing stone bullets at each other is quite spectacular, but the biggest effect of the falling stone bullets is only to destroy the opponent's position, even if the stone bullets fall on the ground and catapult continuously, they will soon be blocked by the criss-crossing bunkers, and for the killing of personnel, as long as it is not a direct hit, it will not have a very good effect.
After firing nearly 10,000 stone bullets in one go, the orcs finally launched a ground attack, and tens of thousands of orcs wore messy armor and carried various weapons in their hands, rushing towards the human position like a tide. The equipment of the orcs is taken from the human material warehouse, but due to the large difference in size between the two races, most of the standard armor of the human warriors cannot be worn by the orcs, so most of the orc warriors wear the chain mail used by human warriors, or only wear those parts that can be worn in.
The protection of the orc warriors was somewhat effective in hand-to-hand combat, but it was of no use in the face of human catapults and ballistas, but the orcs still screamed and charged, because they had no way to retreat. Under the strict orders of the Beast Emperor, the Orc Buck, Gray Wolf and Bobcat Clan have all their strength, if they flee timidly, they will inevitably die in the hands of the Bear Clan Supervisor behind them, only to move forward with all their strength, if they can take the position of the human race, there is still a glimmer of life.
With the belief of death, the orc warriors burst out with great combat effectiveness, originally the orc warriors were stronger than humans in a single body, and now they are even more determined to attack with the determination to die. The chiefs of the stag, gray wolf, and bobcat clans also promised their warriors for their lives that if they died in battle, their families would receive generous pensions, and if they were found to be facing away from the human position, they would be mercilessly subjected to military law by the chief's own soldiers.
When the battle began, the human warrior was surprised to find that the orcs on the other side suddenly became fearless, which was supposed to be the winning weapon of the human warriors to defeat the orcs, but now appeared on the human enemy. Unfrightened by the horror of the human warriors, even if the whizzing crossbow arrows pierced through the orc's body alive, they would still struggle to crawl towards them.
The overwhelming stone bullets and endless crossbow arrows could not stop the orcs from advancing, often the previous orc was seriously injured and fell to the ground and died, and another orc would stubbornly come up later. Many orcs with shields in their hands directly put this shield on top of their heads to prevent small stone bullets and feather arrows from falling from the sky, as for the crossbow arrows flying from the front, there are at least crossbow arrows with the thickness of the waist of adult humans, even if they take a few more shields, they can't stop it, so they simply resign themselves to fate.
Of course, the orcs do not use dense formations, they still use loose formations to reduce the damage caused by human catapults and ballistas. Of course, the formation of the orcs can't be too sparse, otherwise it won't be able to form enough impact at all, and even if the vanguard forces attack the human position, they will be ruined because of the weakness of the follow-up.
A crossbow arrow pierced into the orc's charging formation with a whistling sound, and the powerful impact not only cut off the lazy waist of the orc running in front, but also continued to fly forward until the five orcs were pierced together. When the bolt stopped moving, a small gap appeared in the orc's formation, but it was quickly replenished by the orcs in the back row.
As the orcs approached, the human catapults were powerless and had to focus their attacks on interfering with the advance of the orc's follow-up troops, while all the ballistas increased their firing frequency in an effort to weaken the opponent's strength as much as possible before the orcs rushed up.
However, a scene that surprised the human warriors appeared, even if the human ballista accelerated the firing frequency, it was still unable to suppress the attack of the orcs, and there was even a scene where the ballista hit the orcs more and more, this is because the orc warriors found that the best way to survive is to quickly reach the human position, as long as they can do this alive, they can directly face the human warriors and will no longer become the target of the human ballista.
Therefore, despite the non-stop firing of human ballistas, the orcs are running faster and faster, and many warriors who were originally in the back row are struggling to rush to the front, which also causes the patriarch of the three orc clans to run faster and faster, and as a result, in order not to be caught up by the overseers behind, all the orcs are running desperately, and soon the vanguard troops set foot on the human position.
The hand-to-hand encounter began, and the humans abandoned the use of ballistas in favor of infantry to form improvised phalanxes to fend off orc attacks.
This kind of improvised infantry phalanx of the human army, which usually has only three to five layers, is very effective against the orcs, and it is difficult for the orcs to break through, they often fall into a bitter battle in a local area, and then be surrounded and annihilated by the local superior forces of the human army. After causing a partial victory, the human army will slowly move the superior forces under the command of the commander, and continue to divide and encircle and annihilate more orc warriors, so as to maximize the destruction of the orc force.
However, this time the effect of this combat method of human beings is not very ideal, because this time the orcs who attacked are not the same as before, they are still brave, and they have become more indifferent to life and death, often there will be seriously injured orcs jumping high, using their bodies as weapons to pounce on the air of the human infantry phalanx, when the human spear warrior stabs the orc's body with a gun, it will be the dying orc who desperately grabs the barrel of the gun, and it is extremely difficult to break free.
A spear that has not been pierced is a threat to the enemy, and a spear whose head is already in the body of an orc and cannot be pulled out is meaningless to other orcs. Due to the dedication of some of the seriously injured orc warriors, the order of the human phalanx was immediately disrupted, and because the spear head stabbed out by the human pikemen was deeply embedded in the body of the orc warrior, the barrel of the spear was exposed to the outside and became a target for the orc warriors.
Soon, a strong orc warrior would raise his double-edged battle axe in his hand and slash at the protruding spear. The head of the human spear is naturally made of steel, but the barrel is generally wooden, otherwise the weight is too heavy, which is not conducive to long-term combat, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, this kind of wooden gun with the thickness of the human child's arm is light to use, but it is impossible to resist the chopping of the orc double-edged battle axe.
In order to protect the weapons of their pikemen, the sword and shield warriors in the front row of the human phalanx had to grit their teeth and come up, desperately blocking the slashes of those double-edged battle axes. The quality of the human shield is very good, even if this kind of axe is about the size of half the chest of an adult human man, the double-edged battle axe cannot completely damage it, but the beast manpower is heavy, and the human sword and shield warrior can block the double-edged battle axe, but it can't block the huge attack force, and it is often knocked out of blood, stumbling backwards.
In the short time that the human sword and shield warrior stumbled backwards and lost the ability to protect his comrades behind him, the orc spear thrower would seize this gap and throw the short spear in his hand with all his might. At a distance of more than ten meters, this kind of spear throwing can cause amazing results, and it is not uncommon for even a short spear to penetrate two people in a row.
With the effective cooperation of the orc warriors, the human phalanx faced an embarrassing situation. If you attack, it is easy to stab the spear, but it is difficult to take it back, and it is easy to be cut off by the orcs, causing the attack power of the entire phalanx to decrease sharply, without the spurs of these pikemen, the entire phalanx can only be beaten passively.
If they don't attack, these human spear warriors can only sit back and watch the sword and shield warriors in their front row fight alone, and once the sword and shield warriors in the front row fall into a bitter battle, they will be too busy to take care of themselves, and they will not be able to give the spear warriors in the back row the protection they deserve, resulting in the spear warriors in the back row repeatedly dying under the spears of the orcs.
Although this kind of life-threatening combat method is not cost-effective for orcs, as long as they can break through at a few points, orcs can severely damage human morale, and then collapse human defenses as much as possible. Once humans are unable to form an effective phalanx to defend, then the war will become a one-sided slaughter show for the orcs.
Finally, a human warrior with a spear in his hand could no longer endure the fear of life and death after his comrades in the front row were impaled with spears and blood sprayed on himself, and he suddenly dropped his weapon, turned around and ran away screaming with his head in both hands.
This action immediately set off a chain reaction, and the warriors around the human pikeman were also affected by him, and they all dropped their weapons and ran backwards, followed by the human warriors who saw the scene nearby...... When the sword and shield warriors who were caught in a bitter battle in the front row found that their comrades behind them had abandoned him, they also lost the will to fight and began to retreat.
When the first phalanx on the human position collapsed, a seriously injured orc raised the clan battle flag in his hand, and rushed through the mouth after the collapse of the human phalanx, holding the battle flag of the gray wolf clan high above the human position.
"Breakthrough?"
"Breakthrough!"
Although they were two identical thoughts, for the human warriors and the orc warriors, they were two completely different results, and after realizing that they had broken through the human defenses and attacked the human positions, the morale of the orc warriors increased and the attack became more violent. However, the human warriors no longer have the will to fight, because once the position is broken, no matter how brave they are, it will not help, if they do not retreat quickly, they will definitely be divided and surrounded by the superior forces of the orcs, and at that time, their personal combat strength will not be able to return to the sky.
More and more human warriors joined the rout, more and more orc warriors stepped on the human position, and when the patriarch of the orc stag, gray wolf, and bobcat clan arrived with his personal guards, he only saw more than a thousand orcs surrounding more than a dozen human warriors.