Chapter 15: The Long Day (2)
At the same time, the orc position, on the Beast Emperor's chariot.
That orc man is the beast emperor Andreas, and the old orc behind him is naturally the prophet Evan, and the forty-year-old man is Alexandra, the patriarch of the Black Eagle clan.
"Alessandra," the Beast Emperor's majestic voice hovered over the orc position, "your clan will launch the first battle of the orcs to realize their dreams, and no matter what the outcome of this battle is, you and your clan will be remembered forever by the orcs for generations to come." For the sake of Mother Earth, for the sake of our ancestors, for our glory and dreams, Alexandra, I command you and your clan to attack, attack, attack, and attack again against Thor's Fortress!"
After the Beast Emperor said this, his right index finger pointed at the Thor Fortress, which happened to be pointed at General Kissern, and General Kissster at this time also happened to see the Beast Emperor's actions.
"Yes! His Majesty the Beast Emperor. Alexandra half-crouched down and made a gesture of absolute obedience, the most devout obedience of the orc tribe to those who possess power. When Alexandra stood up, she took a horn from her bosom and blew it on her lips.
"Woo~Woo~Woo~"
When the undisciplined orc soldiers heard this order, they sat down on the ground almost at the same time, took a large piece of roast meat from their arms, and ate it with great gusto. All of them took out a bag from their bodies and drank it with their necks tilted, and the air suddenly filled the air with the smell of inferior wine, it turned out that they were drinking the blood wine brewed by the orcs themselves.
The actions of these orcs made the face recognition of the people stationed in Thor's fortress very different, but under the strict orders of General Gainster, all the human soldiers held their weapons tightly to prevent the orcs from attacking at any time.
Soon, the orcs were eating and drinking. At this time, the second order sounded, and the dozens of siege machines were slowly pushed towards the Thor Fortress, and the tens of thousands of orcs sitting on the ground let out a shout and followed closely behind these siege machines.
Most of these orcs are not young, and if it weren't for this war, they might have herded cattle and sheep on their grasslands, watched their little grandsons roll in the grass, or drank goat's milk and ate fragrant barbecue. And now, they are on the journey of death.
There was no fear or regret on their faces, for their patriarch, Alexandra, had promised them that if they died under the fortress of Thor, their descendants would receive ten Talon oxen and twenty Talon sheep, and if they could kill a human soldier, they would also receive an additional war horse and an iron weapon. This is the best reward for the children and grandchildren who experienced the severe winter last year and a large number of dead livestock at home, and the latter one can make their children and grandchildren become real warriors. In the tribe of orcs, only the bravest warriors will be respected by others, in order to their relatives can live better, these elderly orcs, bravely picked up the weapons they got and marched towards the Thor Fortress without hesitation. Stimulated by the blood and wine of the orcs, they didn't care about the danger they were about to face, nor did they care about their own lives, and stared at their red eyes completely. They now have only one thought, and that is "forward, forward, forward." Climb up to Thor's Fortress and take out one human, and if possible, another. ”
Standing on the walls of Thor's fortress, General Kissernst, dressed all over, watched tens of thousands of orc troops attack him, calmly watched everything in front of him, and gave the order to prepare for battle. On the walls of Thor's fortress, the human archer bent his bow and set up a long feathered arrow, aiming at the dense orcs in the distance.
The best way to deal with dense bow and arrow shooting is to form a phalanx and raise the shield in your hand to defend, but those orcs don't have an orderly formation at all, and they are completely rushing forward, as long as these green-skinned guys enter the range of human archers, the feathered arrows that shoot casually can hit the enemy.
Seeing that the attacking troops of the orcs had forced into two kilometers outside the Thor Fortress, which was the distance that ordinary catapults could attack, General Gene gave the first order: "Catapults, 2,000 meters ahead, take out the enemy siege equipment!"
On the orders of General Kissernst, ordinary catapults mounted on the city walls began to be launched. Each ordinary catapult was in charge of ten human warriors, who had already measured the approximate direction of the catapult's attack, and after receiving the general's order, they immediately released the already taut winch rope, and the catapult rod of the catapult cart, which was almost bent at an angle of 90 degrees, immediately bounced back to the upright position from the horizontal position, and this huge elastic force also bounced out the stone projectile placed at the end of the catapult rod.
Fifty 100-kilogram boulders, coupled with this huge catapult power, roared in the air and flew towards the orc attack force, and after flying for more than ten seconds, the stone projectiles smashed to the ground like meteors falling from the sky.
An orc soldier heard a whistling sound in the air, he looked up, only to see a huge stone falling from mid-air, before he could react, the stone had already hit him, and immediately smashed his upper body into the ground, and the lower half of the orc's body was still exposed and kept twitching. Another stone projectile flew in the middle of a slowly moving battering ram, but unfortunately the battering ram was covered with a thick wooden plank, and this stone projectile smashed on the diagonal plank, and was immediately bounced out, breaking the thigh of an orc soldier next to him and crushing it underneath.
"Ahh
The flag-bearer of the stone-throwing truck on the wall of the Thor Fortress carefully observed the attack of the stone-throwing vehicle he was responsible for, and then after estimating the direction and angle, he immediately issued a series of instructions, commanding his subordinates to push the chassis of the stone-throwing vehicle and fine-tune the attack direction of the stone-throwing vehicle, so as to achieve better results in the next strike.
After adjusting the orientation of the launch, the fighters in charge of the catapult twisted the winch, pulled the catapult rod that was standing upright to a horizontal position, and then in groups of four, they lifted the stone projectile weighing about 100 kilograms and placed it in a "spoon" with a groove at the bottom of the catapult rod.
Three minutes later, ready together, under the command of the standard-bearer, one of the fighters once again loosened the taut winch rope and fired a second shot using the tremendous elastic force generated when the catapult rod of the catapult returned to its original shape.
This time, the hit effect was better than the last time, and the two siege ladders of the orcs were directly hit by stone bullets, and the wooden ladders used to climb were instantly smashed to pieces. Without the wooden ladder, the orcs would not be able to climb the city wall with the help of its siege ladder, and the siege ladder would naturally be scrapped. There was also an orc stone throwing cart that was hit by a stone bullet, and its catapult rod was accurately hit by the stone projectile, turning it into two on the spot. The orcs dropped their damaged siege engines and continued on their way.
The orcs' stone-throwing cart also entered the firing range, and they also began to twist the winch, slowly pulling the upright projectile rod of the stone-throwing cart backwards, and some stone-throwing warriors alone moved a stone bullet weighing about 80 kilograms from the ammunition truck that followed closely behind, put it in the "spoon" at the end of the catapult rod, and then couldn't wait to release the noose. And some orc warriors directly picked up the stone bullets thrown by the human stone-throwing cart and threw them into the "spoon".
"Whew!" the stone projectiles from the orc stone-throwing cart streaked through the air and flew towards the Thor Fortress. However, the first round of blows of the orc stone throwing vehicle was far less effective than that of the human stone throwing vehicle, and most of the dozen stone bullets smashed on the ground under the city wall, only three fell on the city wall, and one smashed into the open space on the city wall, and then a few bounces hit the battlements on the south side of the Thor Fortress, which made the human soldiers standing next to it a false alarm. The other two actually hit one of the human catapults together, not only destroying the catapult, but also killing a human warrior who was twisting the cable plate on the spot.
General Kissernst frowned, he felt that his luck did not seem to be very good, in the past two hundred years, basically only human catapults smashed orcs, and there were quite few cases of human catapults being damaged by orcs. Hans, the adjutant standing next to the general, whispered in his ear: "General, the attack of the orcs can hit the city wall, please come here at once, return to the command post." ”
General Kisson waved his hand, rejected the adjutant's suggestion, and gave the order to continue the attack, and at this moment, the orc vanguard had reached a place almost 1,500 meters away from Thor's fortress. In the previous battle, General Kissernst could see that the quality of the orcs' siege equipment was not as good as that of humans, but at a distance of 1500 meters, all orc stone-throwing vehicles could attack the human soldiers on Thor's fortress, and they must be completely destroyed in the first place, otherwise the human soldiers will pay additional casualties.
"Knock knock! knock!" The catapult rod of the catapult kept bending, upright, bending, and erect again, making a chilling sound, and in the sky, one stone bullet after another whistled and flew by, falling to the ground, or taking the lives of enemy soldiers, or destroying enemy weapons. Fifteen minutes later, all of the Orc's siege ladders and catapults were destroyed by the humans, but the humans also paid the price of thirty-nine lives and the complete destruction of eight catapults.
At this moment, the orc soldiers had entered a distance of about 700 meters in front of the Thor Fortress and had already entered the attack range of the human archers.