Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Battle of Chesym (I)
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"Woo......"
Under the gloomy sky, a majestic horn tore through the dreary atmosphere, and outside the city walls, the orc army began to launch a general assault on the city of Chetsum.
"See?"
"Hmm. β
"Do you think we're going to die here today?"
"No, it won't. β
"Why?"
"Believe in your faith. β
After a brief conversation, Tarence drew his sword at his waist and ran towards the highest tower of the castle, while Abdul-Jabbar stood still, looking at the most spectacular sight he had ever seen in his lifeβan army of orcs!
It's a magnificent sight, even more spectacular than in the movie, with a dense army of orcs in black armor, endlessly, spreading to the end of the sight, looking at the city walls like a black ocean, and the neat steps are like a black tide, shocking. It was as if the ground trembled with every step the legion took. Jabbar also finally knew what Tarens meant by the concept of 100,000 orcs.
It's a decisive battle that will come sooner or later, but it's still a little early.
"Archer!"
The chief commander of the Longbow Guard shouted from the tower, and two thousand human archers on the walls were now filling every corner of the outer walls of Chessem. Compared to the terrifying roars of the orc armies outside the city, the human archers on the walls were much quieter and calmer.
"Abdul-Jabbar, we're going to fight here today. Courage and glory, partner. β
Under the gloomy sky, the once glorious Chessam Castle now looked bleak, and the Knights' Master, Leo, stood beside Abdul-Jabbar and spoke to Abdul-Jabbar in the tone of a brother.
Looking at the orc legion outside the city, which was like a doomsday army, and then looking at the human knight chief next to him, who was still eyeing him two months ago, but now standing beside him, trying to fight side by side with him, Abdul-Jabbar suddenly felt a sense of sadness, a kind of tragedy......
"Roar. β
The camera returns to the orc army outside the city, and Marlowe, the commander-in-chief of the orc legion, is standing in the middle of the black wave at the moment, and a powerful roar almost reaches the sky, and the entire orc legion suddenly stops. The collective roar responded to the shouts of their generals, and this collective roar poured down on the walls of Chetham like a sound wave, creating momentum before the battle, so that the enemy was intimidated, this is a common tactic of the orcs, and it is also the nature of the orcs. The roar that lets go of their throat can make them more excited, the more excited, the more violent they will be, and every time they go berserk, the louder they roar, the louder they get, the louder they get, and then they fall into a loop, this is the combat habit of orcs, so when you fight orcs, orcs will get more and more excited, more and more furious, when you hear their furious voices, you know.
"Roar, roar, roar. β
The sound continued for a few waves under the gloomy sky, scaring some of the timid human soldiers to the ground, and then the real siege began.
"Archer, prepare!"
Under the hazy sky, the first drop of rain fell on the faces of the Terran soldiers defending the city. The last dark clouds covered the sky, and the orc army began to attack the city. The Iron Legion began to advance, covering the goblins to dig tunnels beneath the city. And the human bow captain also kept an eye on the orc's action, raising his arm like the baton of the entire bow guard, just waiting for the opponent to enter the firing range.
At this moment, under the city, the sound of the orc steel legion was constantly coming, and the iron combat boots stepped on the ground and made a neat stamping sound, which was imposing.
Jabbar stood on the outer city wall and watched all this clearly, guessing that if the sound of this step was a little more neat, it would form a resonance, and maybe the city wall of Chesem would collapse without attacking the city, but how could these orcs understand this.
"Launch. β
The first lightning flashed in the sky, and the voice of the commander of the human longbow guard was quickly drowned out in thunder. But the drooping arm told the archers that the time had come to shoot the beast.
"Whoosh. β
The moment the commander of the Longbow Guard gave the order to shoot, he could see that thousands of white-feathered arrows were issued in unison and neatly over the entire outer city wall, and the arrows from the string shot quickly towards the orcs who were advancing, standing in the position of the archers, and even the sound of thousands of arrows cutting through the sky and rubbing against the air.
But in the next second, such a rain of arrows quickly drowned in the wave of orcs' attacks. The Iron Legion collectively raised its shields before the rain of arrows flew in, protecting the dwarf goblins, while the human rain of arrows fell on top of the orc shield wall like a torrential rain, making a sparse beating sound, and did not pose any threat to the advancing orc legions!
"Roar. β
After blocking the first wave of arrows, the vanguard of the orcs continued to advance.
Seeing that the goblins were about to approach the city and began to dig tunnels, all the human archers present couldn't help but sweat. The rain of arrows continued to strafe, but only a few scattered orcs fell.
But there is not only one kind of bow and arrow that humans use to defend the city.
"Soldiers. β
On the platform of the tower in the inner city, a crossbow machine full of giant crossbows has been loaded, and the siege troops are pulling the cables to the tightest state. This is the most effective lethal weapon in Cessam City, and no orc armor can withstand the attack of this siege machine.
The next moment, only the sound of the trigger being pulled and the cable being loosened was heard, and a giant crossbow more than two meters long flew towards the orc phalanx.
So, on the scene, the most tragic scene so far appeared. The great shields of the Orc Iron Legion were shattered by a single burst of giant crossbows, some of which even pierced through the large shields, piercing through the solid steel armor of the orcs, stringing two or three orcs together like meat skewers, blood gushing out like a fountain, sprinkled with black shields and armor. Suddenly, the iron phalanx of the orcs, which had just been extremely strong, collapsed.
"Whew. β
The victory of the human defense weapons has boosted the morale of the archers on the city walls, and the captain of the archery guard has changed the order to free fire, and the human archers have fired wantonly, shooting the goblins that were still arrogant just now into a sieve.
The first wave of siege failed, but this was nothing to the orc army with tens of thousands of warriors, or rather, the soldiers of the first wave of attack were just their cannon fodder. Those orc recruits, goblins, can only be regarded as a weak existence among orcs. Soon, the orcs, under the command of Marlowe, began a second round of attacks.
"Roar. β
This time, Jabbar meets the one-eyed beast he once saw in the dwarven mines.
The beast stood in the crowd of orcs like a giant in the sea of people, just like the tactics that had been deduced before, the one-eyed beast moved the boulder through the crowd of orcs, and those orcs consciously got out of the way. Tall and sturdy body, the boulder in his hand was the size of a human hut, and the appearance of such a behemoth suddenly turned the situation on the field to the orc army again.
"Be careful!"
Tarence shouted, but the human soldiers had not been trained in this way, or that the orcs had never used this behemoth in previous siege battles. In the next second, huge stones hit the walls of Chessem, like an earthquake, the walls began to crack, although the walls of Chessem were reinforced, and the outer city was five meters high and six meters thick, but in the terrifying stone-throwing attack of the one-eyed giant, it still began to collapse one after another. The archers standing on the city wall also fell one after another, and the scene was bloody and miserable.
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