Chapter 145: Opponents
"And what about the food?" asked the old marshal with great interest, and although his brain was completely disturbed by what these men were saying, he was still very interested, and the enemy on the other side was so strange that it had aroused the old marshal's long-standing curiosity, so the tavernkeeper and Tina's grandfather repeated the story.
During the siege war, all the buildings near the city wall were destroyed by falling rocks, including a granary, because they didn't want the orcs to get food, so the defenders lit all the granaries after the city wall was breached, and the grain in the warehouse was almost all turned into ashes, and the grain in the granary was scavenged from the hands of the people in the city, mainly to supply the daily needs of the defenders, the food left for himself is just enough to last for a few days.
But no one thought that Kangtan City would fall in this way, so on the fifth day after Kangtan City was breached, many people began to go hungry.
At this time, there was a minotaur who should be the chief after understanding the situation, he set up more than ten cauldrons in the square in the city, and boiled porridge with the dry food they carried with them plus the food rescued from the granary and found in the city lord's mansion, and distributed it regularly and at a fixed point every day, for nearly half a month, no one in the city was starved to death, and the small handful of things that Tina said was meat powder, and indeed the porridge after adding that meat powder was easy to fill people's stomachs, and an adult only needed to drink half a bowl each time to completely survive the next mealγ
By the time he got to this point, Pixar's face had become a little surprised, he knew what these people were talking about, it seemed to them that it was meat powder, but in the military system, it was called marching rations.
According to their descriptions, almost everyone in the city has orc troops, and the elite troops of the empire will also be equipped with this type of food when carrying out rush missions, but the effect is not as high as these people say, and the quantity is not so large.
In addition, the amount of meat required to make this kind of marching food is very large, and it is impossible to do this if there is not enough meat source, which means that the orc empire has made great achievements in breeding, there is no doubt about it.
Shifting his gaze to a woman whose arm was caught by several sturdy wooden planks, with a white bandage wrapped around her outside and hanging from her neck, Pixar asked with concern, "What's the matter with your injury?"
The woman was nervous for a while, and then took a few deep breaths before she spoke: "Lord Hui, this is because I didn't evacuate my house in time, and I was crushed by the collapsed beams and broke my arm. When I went to get the porridge, I was discovered by a werewolf and called a member of the rat clan, and brought two minotaurs to help me connect the bones, saying that it would grow in two months, but during this period, I could only hang like this. β
Pixar turned his head to look at the two soldiers who had sent people over and asked, "Are there a lot of people like this in the back camp?"
"Back to the marshal, there are probably nearly five hundred people who have been treated like this, and some of them are bandaged in the leg and have difficulty moving, so we didn't bring it. β
Pixar nodded and asked, "Has the chaplain seen it?"
"Lord Hui, I've already seen it, just like this lady said, if you don't use healing techniques for injuries of this level, it will be healed in two months, and it will have little effect on the future. β
"Oh, yes, are there any seriously injured people?"
The soldier shook his head no, and Pixar frowned, a hint of confusion on his face, and his eyes flickered to see that the tavern owner was about to say something, as if he knew something.
Feeling the gaze of the old marshal, the tavern owner immediately said: "My lord, the seriously injured people are now in Kangtan City, they can't move out of the city, and they are taken care of by the orcs, there are more than forty seriously injured people in the villain's tavern, but now there is no danger, this is what those orcs said." β
Asked about the number of people, the old marshal knew that there were still nearly a thousand people in the city of Kangtan, but these seriously injured people seemed to have been carefully cared for, and their lives were not in danger, hearing this, Pixar gently stroked his chin, the gaze in his eyes wandered, he didn't know what he was thinking, but the henchmen and generals around the big tent gathered together in twos and threes to whisper to each other, and during the conversation, everyone showed an unbelievable look, obviously, what these people said, so that they were also shocked.
When the conversation grew louder and louder, and even some people began to glare angrily, Pixar put down his hand and stood up and said to the people, "Did they say anything when they let you out of the city?" Silence immediately returned to the account, and the tavern merchant clearly hesitated before saying, "They asked us to stand behind the cavalry, as a border, to block the retreat of the cavalry, so that the enemy army could be completely annihilated." β
Hearing these words, Pixar's face changed greatly, and the same color changed as a general with the troops, the old marshal was first shocked and then puzzled, and finally his brows furrowed into contemplation.
What happened in the afternoon, everyone looked at it really, the fierce rain of arrows, the tsunami-like attack was impressive, shuddering, the people who went out of the city behaved very strangely at that time, but as the owner of this tavern said, these people did not play a blocking role, and all the five thousand cavalry were directly annihilated in one face, and the speed was so fast that it did not even leave time for the army behind, it was a completely one-sided massacre, yes, none of the five thousand cavalry returned to the camp, and even those wounded cavalry did not escape the fate of being mended and diedγ
But what role did these people play, and what did the orcs want to do, relying on the people of 10,000 people to block the attack of the large army?
"Of course not, I'm just afraid that those cavalry will run away, otherwise how will you complete the mission?" Bellows said with a smug look at the eagle man general holding a wooden bowl.
The eagle man was stunned for a moment, obviously not understanding the meaning of the bellows, "But we don't need it at all?"
Bellows shook his head and didn't continue, but asked, "Did it hurt humans?"
"No, uh, no, apart from destroying the five thousand and one human cavalry under the city, we didn't harm humans today. The Eagle Man general wanted to answer directly that there was no, but he kept an eye on it and picked out today's results, the bellows are now good at picking faults, so it is better to be careful, after all, the military stick is on his ass.
Hearing this answer, the bellows was obviously stunned for a moment, and then showed a strange smile that had been shown during the day and said, "You've become smarter!" The eagleman pretended to be embarrassed and shook his head and said, "The commander has taught well. β
"Less, when are your team going to leave?" Bellows turned his head to look at the dim sky and asked, this time the troops are fighting for the first time, mainly to test the combat effectiveness of the army, this afternoon has proved the air power, so it is the right choice to retreat quickly, after all, the Kotler Empire is as strong as a cloud, if the old guy on the opposite side suddenly has a lot of strong people around, it is unknown whether this elite army can survive.
"If there is no problem tonight, we will leave tomorrow morning when the sun does not rise. The Hawkman returned to his normal dark color and said with a serious face. Bellows nodded and expressed satisfaction with the choice of time, but he patted the Eagle Man general on the shoulder and said: "The team is led by your adjutant to leave here, you have to stay, if you can negotiate tomorrow, you can also play a deterrent role by my side." β
"Deterrent?" a general with a round face looked at Marshal Pixar with some confusion, indicating that he didn't understand it at all.
Pixar glanced at the subordinates in the entire tent and nodded solemnly: "Our opponent is like a cunning fox, extremely cunning, so far, their strange actions have successfully caused chaos in our army, so that those ignorant people in the city stand in front of our phalanx, not to deter us, but to deter the cavalry phalanx in front!"
Pixar shook his head and smiled bitterly in his heart, the commander of the other party is really a cunning fox, in the case of obviously having a certain advantage in troops, he still acts cautiously, and almost does not make any mistakes, this ability to control and command, even in the empire is rare, when did the orc empire have such a person or a group of people?
If it weren't for being startled by the sound of the horn, Pixar would not have thought of it so much, using a large number of ordinary people plus the phalanx of soldiers who had already left the barracks to cause invisible oppression, causing the cavalry phalanx in front to misjudge, rashly attack, and finally be completely annihilated, this is no longer an ordinary tactic, but a tactic that has been mixed with a lot of psychological warfare, although he has also used it, but like the orcs, he has never thought about it.
The command ability is superb, dare to think and dare to do, is this force in front of you really orcs?
"Marshal, should we negotiate tomorrow?" another general asked, this is the problem we are facing now, to go or not to go, if we go, how to go, if we don't go, how to fight the next battle?
Pixar slowly stood up, looking at the flames lit outside the big tent, swaying in the air, and the starlight flashing in the sky, driving the brightness in his eyes, looking back at the generals staring at him in the big tent, the old marshal's mouth showed a unique smile and said: "Talk, why don't you talk? I want to see what kind of surprise this group of orcs commander, this opponent who has aroused my interest, can give me." β
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