It has been a full twenty-two days since the orcs launched their attack, and the human defense line has been repeatedly torn apart by the soldiers of the Barbarian Bear Clan, and now the orcs have invaded the central area of Fernando City, and the high royal viewing platform in the distance is already in sight.

However, it was not all smooth sailing for the orcs to be able to fight here, the Brute Bear clan paid the price of at least 80,000 soldiers dying on the battlefield, and the other three major clans together also paid more than 50,000 casualties, as for those smaller tribes, many elite warriors have been completely wiped out and have to withdraw from the battlefield.

Although the price paid by the orcs was great, the loss of humanity was even more terrible, at least 1.5 million humans died in the catastrophe, and more than 2 million people were homeless and had to live in the center of the imperial capital, whether it was the palace or the residences of those nobles, they were crowded with ragged refugees.

Since the city of Fernando was built, it has been hoarding supplies all the time, so humans can barely survive even though millions of people are crowded together, while the orcs can get enough food as long as they plunder those human farms, manors, etc. outside the city, although the orcs mostly live on meat and don't like the wheat and other food grown by humans, but it is absolutely no problem to satisfy hunger.

The battle has reached this point, there is nothing left to say, hold on to victory or be dragged down by the opponent, there is no third way to go. The orcs want to break the imperial capital in order to consolidate their newly occupied lands on the Southern Talon steppes, and the humans must fight to the death, because the Holy Alliance Empire has no actual control area in the south, and lacks enough strategic space, once the imperial capital falls, these millions of people will be slaughtered by the orcs, and the tragic fate will make people shudder to think about it.

"Whew!" dozens of huge stone projectiles whizzed through the air, this is an attack launched by the orcs, under this high-density stone-throwing attack, the human defenders can no longer form a phalanx against the enemy, which means that the most effective infantry phalanx used by humans to resist the orcs is difficult to use.

In order to reduce casualties, a large number of human warriors had to take refuge in buildings, relying on stone structures built of strips to defend against stone projectiles thrown by orc stone throwers. The stone projectiles sent by the orcs flew in the air for more than ten seconds, and then plunged headlong, or hit the building headlong, stirring up dust in the sky and bouncing off the ground, or piercing through the not very solid buildings, and falling directly into the house.

After about twenty stone-throwing attacks, the orcs stopped this attack and began to send warriors forward, ready to take away the human defenses, while the human warriors slowly walked out of the bunkers in groups of three or five, clenching the weapons in their hands, and looking at the orc warriors who were getting closer and closer with expressionless expressions.

Due to the lack of enough archers on the human side, there is no way to form a suppressive arrow rain attack, only when the orcs get closer, use feathered arrows to sneak up on those orcs with feathers on their heads, the two sides have been fighting for so many days, and the humans have figured out that this feather is a unique mark of the orc commander.

However, such sneak attacks usually do not work very well, because orcs respect force, and those who can be promoted to commanders have a much higher combat effectiveness than others, even if they are attacked by human archers, most of them can dodge or block directly at the first time, even if they are careless for a while, being shot a few arrows will make these strong orc commanders feel unbearable pain, but it will stimulate their ferocity even more.

When the orcs attacked the human defenses, the hand-to-hand combat began, and the humans formed small phalanxes to resist the orcs desperately with the help of the terrain, while the orcs relied on their own bravery to force a breakthrough. The fierce and not static orcs attack the human defenses, and from time to time a few orcs will form a charge formation to break through the human defenses, but they will soon be surrounded by more human reinforcements, and then use their own numerical superiority to kill. However, these humans will take advantage of the local numerical advantage to launch a counter-charge to suppress the orcs, but once the human formation becomes larger, they will be attacked by stone-throwing attacks from the rear of the orcs, and soon have to retreat due to heavy losses, so more orcs will use this as a breakthrough and start to force the assault again.

The battle was deadlocked, but on the whole, the human defense line was still being eaten by the orcs little by little, and the royal viewing platform in the distance became clearer and clearer. The streets are littered with corpses, mostly human, but there are also quite a few orcs, and many times both sides even pile these corpses together to form bunkers as their own temporary defenses. The human side has long been free of the fear of the beginning of the war, and under the baptism of blood and fire for more than twenty days, a large number of human warriors have grown from recruits to veterans, and these veterans will soon be replaced, treated by the rear priests, and after a short rest, they will bring more recruits back to the front line.

When the next group of veterans who can return to the rear alive begin to recuperate, the priests who treat their wounds will find it difficult to find familiar faces in them, such is the cruelty of war. So far in the war, the only people on the human side who can still maintain their formation are the Royal Knights of Orlando, these knights who have undergone severe training have become the backbone, they have fought bravely on the front line, brought out batch after batch of qualified veterans, but they never retreat to rest.

Although the orcs have been equipped with a large number of sharper iron weapons, it is also very difficult to split the magical armor of the holy knight, not to mention the holy knight, but in terms of personal combat strength, he can easily defeat the orcs ten times his own, and under their inspiration, more and more human warriors forget their timidity and bravely join the battle.

Ryan and the others never participated in the battle again after returning to the Royal Viewing Deck, because as the Orc offensive deepened, the Royal Viewing Deck, which was the command center of the human race, was also greatly threatened, and Ryan had to start fulfilling his duties to protect Catherine's safety. However, under the control of the Royal Magician, the magical defense of the Royal Observation Deck can completely block the stone bullets flying in the air, so there is no need to worry about accidental injury.

Standing in the rear to watch the battle, in fact, it is also a kind of torment, Ryan stood on the high viewing platform, he could see the scene several kilometers away, he could clearly see the front line of the battle between humans and orcs, seeing the orcs raise their axes high and cut off the heads of human warriors, seeing the orcs expanding their offensive step by step, seeing the humans consume the orcs' vital strength at a cost of fifteen to one, Ryan suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

Yes, Ryan's heart is full of confusion, he knows that his strength is very good among human magicians, but in the face of this kind of hundreds of thousands, millions of people fighting, even if Ryan can keep releasing thousands of fireballs, it is only to delay the enemy's attack, not to mention that once the orcs are overwhelming, if Ryan is attacked on his back, it is impossible for him not to be injured, and his spell casting cannot be undisturbed at all.

After all, the path that Ryan and Allendo are now going on is mainly inclined to play fast and slow, Allendo's speed is needless to say, and Ryan is also trying to preemptively as much as possible, and then frantically casting spells to suppress the opponent to fight back, until the final victory is achieved. This method is quite effective in skirmishes, but once faced with tens of thousands of enemies, if Lane can't have a large number of determined teammates to help support the defense, Lane can only do more than fight and retreat, barely protecting himself.

Tens of thousands of comrades-in-arms formed a phalanx, which was almost telling the orcs: "Hurry up and hit me with a catapult!", so this method is not feasible. Ryan thought about it, but he couldn't think of a perfect solution to the human predicament in front of him, and he had planned to take an elite unit to sneak up on the orc's catapult position. But the thought only took a spin in Ryan's mind before he threw it out of his mind.

Orcs and humans are very different in appearance, and it is impossible for either side to sneak in secretly after putting on makeup, and they don't have to worry about the opponent's spies, but this double-edged sword also makes it difficult for humans to grasp the exact location of the orc catapult position. The range of the orc's catapult is about 1,000 to 1,500 meters, and it is a difficult task to go deep into the back of the orc to find the target of the opponent's changing position without being detected.

Faras quickly sensed Ryan's thoughts, she knew that Ryan's thoughts were a bit extreme, after all, when fighting against the orcs, the entire human race, or at least the entire human race in the imperial capital, so it was possible for Ryan to take all the responsibility alone? So Faras found a suitable time to subtly enlighten Ryan, and Ryan also opened his heart knot under the reminder of his close lover, and he no longer thought about those meaningless things, because the military commander on the human side is Orlando, and he, Ryan, as long as he seriously completes his mission - to protect Queen Catherine, it will be fine.

Now Empress Catherine uses the amplification magic array to give a speech to the humans of the city almost every few hours, showing that she is still not leaving, and boosting everyone's morale. In the last three days, the orcs have increased their forces to attack the royal viewing platform seven times, and successfully confirmed the location of the royal viewing platform.

This is really not to blame anyone, because the orcs attack in other directions, as long as they increase their forces, they can advance a little, but only attacking the direction of the royal viewing platform is often fierce, and it is difficult to move an inch, if you don't understand which direction the command center of the human race is, the commander of the orcs is really an idiot. Originally, in the battle, the command center of the army was moved according to the actual situation of the battle, but in the entire imperial capital, only the royal viewing platform had a loud magic array, if Catherine left here, wouldn't it make everyone misunderstand that she had fled, and then the morale would definitely collapse in a large area.

Based on this kind of accident and inevitability, the offensive and defensive battle of the imperial capital ushered in the most fierce battle - the battle for the defense of the royal viewing platform.