Chapter 28: Attack and Defense (3)

The Beast Emperor Andreas and the Prophet Evan appeared on the battlefield, and the entire orc position became silent in an instant, and the orc soldiers of the 100,000 Barbarian Bear Clan all looked at their emperor feverishly, as long as the beast emperor said a word, these elite warriors could die for him.

The Beast Emperor stood on the chariot and looked out over the Thor Fortress, which was the sturdy fortress that held back his ancestors for 200 years, forcing the orcs to fight against the cold weather in the north, to live in water and grass, and even to kill each other. However, it is precisely because of this that the orcs have survived in the cruel environment and have maintained their strong combat effectiveness, and those humans who are obsessed with peace and happiness have lost their former glory.

"As long as you step through this fortress, the vast desert steppe to the south, the rich human city, you can claim it. The Beast Emperor Andreas shouted loudly: "Now, warriors of the giant serpent, embark on the road to restore the glory of your ancestors!"

Ignati Woods, the patriarch of the Giant Serpent Clan, received instructions from the Beast Emperor, he raised his head to the sky and let out a scream, and then recited a series of incantations that would only be used during orc sacrifices, and the battle flag of the Giant Serpent Clan fluttering in the wind suddenly stood still in the air, completely displaying the giant snake that spits out the snake core painted on the battle flag.

Under the influence of the spell recited by the patriarch of the Giant Serpent Clan, Ignati Woods, the appearance of the 30,000 warriors of the Giant Serpent Clan also changed slightly, their eyes began to turn red, their faces were full of hideousness, and they could no longer find a look of fear, and the bodies of these warriors also became slightly larger.

"Hulala!" The battle banner with the serpent stood still for a while, then began to flutter again, and Ignati Woods's spell was completed, and he gave the order to attack: "Warriors of the serpent, forward!"

After receiving the orders of the patriarch, the warriors of the Giant Serpent Clan embarked on an offensive journey. The two phalanxes in the front, with a total of 10,000 people, began to move forward slowly, while the four phalanxes in the back, with a total of 20,000 people, and the 1,000 patriarch guards, stayed in place. Immediately behind this forward phalanx were dozens of improved siege engines and stone-throwing vehicles.

The 10,000 orcs did not line up in a neat phalanx, but walked more and more scattered, after entering the Grand Canyon, these 10,000 people have been completely scattered within a radius of 5 kilometers, it seems that they are sparse, and it seems that there is no such dense advance as the momentum of the previous few days, but it is this scattered formation, but it is easier to reduce the damage caused by various human attack methods.

When the orcs entered the area two kilometers away from Thor's fortress, the normal human catapult began to fire stone projectiles. The attacking orcs did not move at full speed, but observed the area attacked by the human catapult and marched selectively, while many orcs simply hid in the siege vehicle, using the thick wooden planks on the cart to defend against the attack of stone bullets.

"Woo!" A 100-kilogram stone projectile roared down, hitting an advancing orc siege vehicle, but the siege vehicle had a fairly thick plank on it, and the stone projectile did not hurt the orc hiding below after hitting the plank, but the impact force it carried slightly hindered the progress of the siege vehicle, and then it ejected away and fell to the ground next to it. The battered siege vehicle stayed in place for a short time and then began to move again.

"Woo!" another stone bullet fell, smashing an unlucky orc to the ground at once, the upper body of the orc was crushed under the stone bullet, killing him on the spot, and the stone bullet did not disappear, bounced on the ground a few more times, and rolled out dozens of meters away. However, due to the loose attack formation adopted by the orcs, this stone bullet only hit an unlucky guy, and did not cause more damage to the orc soldiers.

Dozens of catapults placed on the city wall by humans fired with all their might, but the effect was very bad, except for the frontal hits that killed some orc soldiers, only one siege vehicle was hit by several catapults in a row, and the protective planks on it shattered, killing a few orcs hiding below.

The catapult that had been used to great power in the defense of the city was unexpectedly ineffective, which made the human soldiers who were responsible for the launch of the catapult very unconvinced, and they even showed their whole body to attack those siege vehicles that were moving slowly with more accurate launches. As a result, the firing frequency of the human catapult gradually slowed down, but the hit rate increased steadily, and the orc siege vehicle also received more attacks, resulting in heavier losses.

Just when the human catapults were persistently attacking the orcs' siege engines, the orcs' light catapults also came into range. The orcs weren't trained in this area, but the human soldiers stood so densely packed on the walls that the orcs only had to smash stone projectiles at the walls.

The orc stone-throwing carts began to fight back, and one after another stone bullets were thrown back to the Thor Fortress and fell on the city wall, killing many human soldiers, and some stone bullets smashed directly into the human stone-throwing vehicles, destroying those stone-throwing vehicles that had no protection in the first place.

The top of the Thor Fortress is made of stone slabs, etc., and the ground is naturally hard and solid, not as soft as the grass outside the city walls. After the stone projectile thrown by the orc hits such a ground, it will not get any cushion, but will bounce up like this, fly forward again, hit the ground and bounce again. Often, the human soldier in front was killed on the spot by a direct hit by a stone bullet, and the stone bullet continued to fly up and roll over the body of the soldier behind, severely injuring several people, and finally hitting the stone throwing cart or protective wall at the southern end of the city wall, causing cascading damage.

"Damn it! Attack those stone throwers, they're doing too much damage!" shouted a **. But before the human stone-throwing vehicle patronized the attack on the orc siege vehicle in front, if you want to attack the orc stone-throwing vehicle behind, it must take a little time to adjust, in just a few minutes, the orc stone-throwing vehicle carried out 5** blows, causing a lot of casualties to humans.

"Whew!" the human stone-throwing vehicle finally adjusted its range, and a stone projectile was the first to be ejected. Soon after, several more stone-throwing trucks also fired stone projectiles. Coincidentally, the first stone bullet launched directly hit the stone projectile thrown by the orc stone throwing vehicle in the air, and directly hit the stone bullet back. However, after experiencing such an impact, the flight power of the two stone projectiles was greatly reduced, and after drawing two arcs in the air, they fell to the ground, and one of the stone projectiles also hit an orc, smashing him directly into the dirt.

The orc screamed in pain, he wanted to push away the stone bullet that was pressing on his waist, but one of his hands was also pressed under the stone bullet, and his left hand alone was of no avail, and after such a violent blow to his abdomen, he directly tore a wound, and even his intestines were left out, and he couldn't see that he was alive.

One of his companions next to the orc could not bear to bear the pain he was suffering, so he cut off his head with a sword, and then smeared his hand with gushing blood and wiped it on his mouth, a ritual of the orc, indicating that he would bless himself with the blood of the dead orc, so that he could kill more enemies.

This small episode of the impact of the stone bullet lifted the spirits of the human soldiers, and they twisted the winch even harder, put in the stone projectile, and then pulled the bracket open, allowing the horizontal catapult rod to eject the 100-kilogram stone projectile. The stone projectile flew more than 1,000 meters in the air, and then smashed down, either destroying the orc stone throwing cart, or harvesting the lives of the orc soldiers.

Not to be outdone, the orcs responsible for the launch did not have the skills of human soldiers, but they were more powerful, usually only two people could twist the winch, and then one person directly carried 50 to 70 kilograms of stone bullets into the "spoon" at the end of the projectile rod, and then launched out. Moreover, these orcs have also learned a lot smarter, and after every few firings, they immediately push the catapult to move its position with all their might, so as to avoid being countered by the human catapult calculated distance.

Human catapults are superior to their high ejection power and high attack accuracy, but their position is fixed and they are vulnerable to orc attacks. Although the catapult power of the orc catapult and the stone projectile launched are not as good as that of humans, the orcs have a large manpower, and only four or five orcs are needed to operate a catapult, unlike humans who need at least 10 people, and the launch speed of the orc catapult is very fast, it only takes dozens of seconds to pull the catapult rod horizontally, and it can also keep moving the position to avoid the retaliatory strike of the human catapult.

The stone bullets in the sky kept whistling, and the two sides launched a big battle between the stone-throwing vehicles at a distance of 1,500 meters. At this moment, the orc siege vehicles and those orc warriors entered an area about 500 meters away from Thor's fortress, which was the best attack range for human archers.

"Release!" With the command of the human archers, the 10,000 human archers standing on the city wall released the bowstrings in their hands, and 10,000 straight feathered arrows flew high into the sky, and the clear sky immediately became dark and dull, as if a large dark cloud suddenly came. The feathered arrows flew at high speed in the air, and when they reached the highest point, they quickly changed the direction of their flight, and the arrows fell down at full speed, and their destination was none other than the orcs and their siege vehicles.

The "rain of arrows" fired by the human archers had too obvious characteristics, and when the sky suddenly became dark, the orc attackers raised their shields in their hands and curled up as much as possible to resist the bow and arrow fire.

"Hum!" 10,000 long arrows swept by, and more than three hundred orcs died in this round of arrow rain, they were covered with long feathered arrows, and fell to the ground unwillingly. There are also hundreds of orc warriors with a few feathered arrows stuck in their bodies, but they can still move on. And the orcs hiding under the siege engine did not suffer any damage at all, but the thick wooden planks on the siege vehicle were full of feather arrows, which looked shocking.