Chapter 32: Attack and Defense (7)
Orcs sacrifice their lives to attack, while humans go all out to defend.Orcs are better than individual soldiers, although these orcs are not the most elite, most of them are elderly orcs, but that ruthlessness is very difficult for the human defenders, even if these orcs have seven or eight feather arrows inserted in their bodies, and more than a dozen bleeding wounds have been cut out around them, they still fight hard. The human defenders have the advantage of the terrain, after all, they are condescending, and the opponent only has ordinary wooden ladders to climb, and the main forces of the two sides are simply not able to make full contact like on the plains, as long as they firmly hold the wooden ladders that the orcs put on the city wall, they can cause a military advantage in the area. What's more, the number of human defenders originally exceeded that of the orc army, and if a human soldier was killed or seriously injured and fell, there were immediately companions who took the previous position, while the orc warriors died one less and one was injured, and they could only fight to the death in place after being severely damaged.
General Clark is deeply aware of the horror of the orcs, in the past few decades, the orcs have recuperated, only symbolically sending tens of thousands of troops to attack the Thor Fortress every year, and just leaving a few thousand corpses to flee north, so that the defenders of the Thor Fortress slowly have the idea of underestimating the enemy. Now the front-line commander General Clark commands 40,000 elite soldiers, and at the same time occupies a favorable terrain, still being pressed by the orcs step by step, and there are many openings in the city wall, and the subsequent orcs are still climbing upwards in a steady stream, once the orcs stand on their feet, it will threaten the entire defense line.
In order to drive the orcs down, General Clark eliminated almost all the troops at his disposal, including the defeat that had been lightly wounded in the previous day's battle. Originally, Clarke's army had a total of 70,000 troops, but the battle losses in the past few days were very large, and the number of dead and seriously injured was not small, which could not be replenished in a short time, and some of the team formations had been defeated and needed a little time to reorganize, so General Clarke's legion only had more than 50,000 soldiers, which was why he would carry out General Killster's order to hire mercenaries to assist, because his soldiers needed time to rest. Rest, otherwise, with General Clark's character, those mercenaries would have gotten out of the way a long time ago.
To the surprise of General Clark, the orcs attacked too fiercely today, and there were faint signs of breaking through their own defenses, if they couldn't drive the orcs down, either he General Clark could only use the last card and personally attack with his own direct guards, if it didn't work, he would have to ask General Killster for help and ask him to mobilize the soldiers of another legion to support, how could this make the arrogant General Clark bear.
The only bright spot on the entire defense line is Ryan and some of his new subordinates, General Clark just arranged it casually at first, the enemy is now, that Bruce actually took the initiative to provoke, and was beaten by the enemy lightly, I don't know if he deserves it. But Bruce is a warrior after all, and in this kind of fierce battle, often a warrior's brave fight can boost his own morale, so General Clark simply did not punish Ryan, but gave Ryan the opportunity to show his strength, but he didn't expect to get a big surprise.
General Clark witnessed Ryan's majesty under the guard, and the young man's magical energy seemed to be exhausted. There are also magic missiles, General Clark has seen other magicians cast spells, so he can naturally recognize them, but he never thought that a magician could continue to cast spells for more than 1 hour and release hundreds of magic, because it is impossible to be distracted on the battlefield to calculate the results, General Clark does not know how many enemies Ryan has killed, but seeing that this young magician is slowly gathering a lot of soldiers around him, and the orcs are the most fierce on the entire front, Ryan will take the people around him to quickly support the past, and ruthlessly harvest the enemy's life with accurate magic and feather arrows, and relieve his own crisis。
Soon, the human defenders regained many of the lost positions and consolidated their defensive lines, and there were only a few orcs left on the walls of the entire Thor's fortress that were still resisting, but those few were far away from Ryan, so those orcs held out until now.
Seeing that the crisis was resolved, General Clark thought to himself: "Maybe you don't need to use my guards, they are the most elite, but they are the last trump card, if the 100,000 elites of the orcs outside suddenly attack, I'm afraid"
"General, look!" General Clark's train of thought was interrupted by his guards, General Clark retracted his thoughts, and followed the guard's fingers to see, a few hundred meters away, about 1,000 orc wolf cavalry were heading towards the walls of the Thor Fortress at full speed, and his own archers mobilized hundreds of people to intercept them with bows and arrows, but to no avail. Immediately behind these wolf cavalry were 10,000 orc troops.
"General, the 10,000 orcs originally attacked, but those wolf cavalry were faster. One of General Clark's guards whispered.
Clark immediately issued an order, asking his archers to send another man to intercept, and then ordered the catapult to move immediately, no matter what, to delay the orc reinforcements. At this moment, there was a scuffle on the city wall, although General Clark's order was quickly conveyed, but it would take a lot of time to really mobilize the soldiers who were caught in the melee and to strike at the enemy in the distance as a whole team, but those galloping orc wolf cavalry did not give the human defenders these time, and before the archer commander mobilized enough manpower to fire a salvo, the orc wolf cavalry running in the front had already come to a place less than 50 meters under the city wall.
These wolf cavalry of the orcs were actually the personal guards of the Giant Serpent Clan Chief, but they used the speed of the wolf to quickly pass through the human defenses. The leaders of the Orc Giant Serpent Clan who were running at the front saw that the front line of the battle was already in front of them, and the ground was littered with boulders, logs, siege engines, and corpses killed in battle, so they jumped off the wolf and strode forward, they ran as fast as they rode on the wolf, and came to the city wall in a few breaths.
The patriarch of the orc giant snake clan roared, and he didn't hold on to the wooden ladder with his hands, so he jumped so hard, stepped on the wooden ladder in the air, and then jumped up with his body, and stepped on the city wall with a few ups and downs. The human soldiers who guarded did not expect these orcs to be so powerful, and the two human warriors who had just moved a log saw an orc come to the city wall at a glance, and when they jointly lifted the log, the orc had already appeared in front of them.
Of course, these patriarchs' personal guards would not be soft, and the one who rushed to the front immediately flew up and kicked the soldier who lifted the log, and the soldier screamed and fell to the ground holding his lower body. The weight of this log is not light, and another human soldier suddenly felt a sinking in his hand, and was trying to stabilize it to prevent it from falling to the ground, when he saw a flash of white light in front of him, and then he found out how he was getting shorter and shorter, and the back of the person in front of him was very familiar.
"Kill!" Several human warriors armed with spears saw the chief of the orc giant snake clan jump up the thick city wall, kick one companion to death, and then cut off the head of another companion with a knife, so they raised their spears in their hands with hatred, formed a small gun formation according to the method usually taught by the instructor, and stabbed at the orc side by side.
The chief of the orc giant snake clan was not in a hurry, he waited until a few spears arrived at his side, and immediately jumped high, pressed the shield in his hand down hard, and pressed the heads of those spears under the shield, and then the patriarch and the guard rolled on the spear. The human spear warriors only felt a sinking in their hands, and when they saw that the orc patriarch's personal guards used their shields to suppress their weapons, they all used their hands to provoke the head of the spear, and the orc just rolled over from high to low, approaching these pikemen.
Ben came to this situation, abandoning the gun and retreating was the best choice, but these human pikemen hesitated, after all, it was the greatest shame for the warrior to throw down the weapon in his hand and flee, but he hesitated for a moment, and it was too late for them to retreat, the orc rolled to their side, and immediately picked up the axe and slashed wildly, the screams were endless, and these human spear warriors fell down covered in blood.
After the orc serpent clan leader slashed several human pikemen to death, he did not continue to advance, but cautiously raised his shield in front of him and cautiously retreated. A human archer drew a long arrow, ready to give the orc a fatal blow, but unexpectedly, another patriarch personal guard stepped on the city wall, and when he saw that the archer wanted to sneak attack him, he threw out the axe in his hand without saying a word.
At a distance of more than ten meters, the throwing axe thrown with all his strength was a very terrifying weapon, and the human archer had no time to dodge at all, and the bowstring was split by the axe, and then slashed into his chest, and fell to the ground limply.
The patriarch who threw the axe touched his right hand on his waist, and pulled out another bronze axe, he raised the shield in his hand, blocked the spear stabbed by a human warrior, and then swung the axe in his hand and slashed at a human sword and shield warrior, the human sword and shield warrior hurriedly raised the shield in his hand to block, the axe slashed on the shield, and sparks popped, the human sword and shield warrior was not as strong as the patriarch of the giant snake clan, and he was hit on the shield by this blow, unable to stand, and stumbled backwards.
The orc didn't continue to pursue, because another human sword and shield warrior stabbed at him with a long sword, and at this time, the orc had not yet recovered the axe, so he simply picked up the shield in his hand and slapped it hard at the human sword and shield warrior who attacked him. "Bang!", the human sword and shield warrior couldn't stand this violent impact, and with a "wow" spitted out a mouthful of blood and fell backwards.
In just a few minutes, the personal guards of the patriarchs of these giant snake clans opened up multiple footholds on the city wall, and they did not continue to slash, but just stuck in place, trying to stabilize the positions they had occupied, waiting for their compatriots to climb with all their might, and the human warriors went all out to seize the lost positions, but these patriarch personal guards were far from being comparable to those ordinary orc warriors just now, even if the human soldiers used several times the strength, they couldn't even tear through their defensive lines, and they saw that the human defensive lines that had been consolidated were about to be gradually broken through by the orcs。