The overnight rush made everyone in the exploration team physically and mentally exhausted.

However, a gust of wind blew in the evening, which made their journey more difficult, but it also completely obscured their tracks.

Come to think of it, those orcs shouldn't be so easy to hunt down.

Thinking of this, Rowling immediately ordered and motioned for everyone to rest here for a long day and eat something by the way.

And at the same time, the other side.

After a fire, the Explorer's camp was in shambles, already occupied by orcs.

At the back door of the camp, a fox man with a somewhat embarrassed figure was whispering to Ali about the situation.

In the face of the deliberate interception of kobolds and werewolves, it is obviously too difficult for these foxes who have not received professional training to track down.

By now, they have completely lost all traces of those humans.

Ali, who got this answer, didn't look good.

It had managed to gain Bey's trust with great difficulty, and now was the most critical juncture, and if he couldn't produce some decent results, his position would definitely become precarious.

Thinking of this, Ali immediately spoke: "Take another group of clansmen, follow the direction of those humans to find the past, the other party has been on the road for a day and a night, and it is inevitable to stop and rest during the day, speed up the movement, and there is still a chance to find them." ”

Now Ali's prestige among the fox people is needless to say, after hearing this order, the fox man hurriedly answered, and then went to do something.

A big battle has just been fought, and the bears, in a short period of time, obviously need to rest for a while.

That is, Ali still has a few days to go.

The other end.

After half a day's rest, the group had somewhat regained their spirits, and then set out again on the road to another camp.

However, less than an hour after they left, a group of fox people found the place.

This place, although they have also been covered up a little, still left some traces.

A fox man tore away the ashes, reached out and felt the dirt below, and finally concluded that the humans must have just left.

Subsequently, a group of fox people immediately chased after the traces left by the exploration team.

Two more days followed.

One of the largest rooms in the Explorer camp, which was originally used as a meeting room, is now occupied by Bey.

Bey sat down at the conference table with a big sting, and asked the fox man in front of him, "Ali, how is the matter entrusted to you before?" ”

"Lord Bey, the fox people I sent out have followed the trail along the way, and have roughly confirmed the location of the group of humans, and according to my estimate, they must be moving towards the next camp."

Here in the Explorer camp, there are regular deliveries of food.

The fox people know this.

As for the matter of the other camp, it was deduced by Ali based on some clues.

Hearing this, Bey raised her eyebrows in some surprise.

"It's almost time to rest, bring food, and early tomorrow morning, officially set off!"

Obviously, Bey, who had already breached one camp, no longer took humans seriously, let alone the next camp for humans.

On the other side, after several days of trekking, Rowling and her group finally arrived at another camp.

The incident at the Explorer's camp happened so suddenly that the troops stationed in the transit camp did not receive any notice at all.

After seeing the members of the Investigator unit who were basically injured outside, the members of the garrison looked a little dazed.

Then, after confirming his back, he quickly opened the entrance and let Rowling and the others in.

The group quickly poured into the camp, and the people in the explorer camp finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But unlike them, the first thing Rowling did was to quickly find the general stationed in this transit camp and ask for an urgent report.

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Watching a small team gallop in the direction of Great Xia City on war horses, Rowling's heart finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then she began to explain the situation to the generals stationed in the camp.

Although he had vaguely expected it in his heart, when he heard the news that the orc troops had attacked and the Explorer's camp had been breached, the garrison general couldn't help but sigh.

This camp is actually a staging station, which is responsible for delivering supplies to the Explorer camp.

Therefore, the materials consumed by Great Xia for this reason, his heart is clear.

Now that he heard that the explorer camp had been captured by the orcs, he couldn't help but feel a little pity in his heart.

"Your Majesty, I have already explained in detail in the letter, with the strength of this camp alone, it is impossible to stop the orcs, and I ask the general to send a letter quickly, requesting the nearest North Wind City to send troops to support!"

After hearing this, the garrison general didn't think about it, and another letter was quickly sent.

After doing all this, everyone began to confirm the deployment of troops in the transit camp.

Actually, there is not much to say, after all, this is just a transit station.

Under normal circumstances, there is a prospector camp in front, and in the transit camp behind, naturally there is no need to deploy too many troops, so the total number of troops here is only five hundred.

In the face of today's orc army, the strength is obviously insufficient.

However, this camp has an advantage that the Explorer's camp does not have, and that is the geographical advantage!

The road leading from the northland mountains to the bitter cold is a long and narrow mountain stream.

And this mountain stream is in the shape of "Φ (not so fat)".

And this camp is in this location.

And in order to increase the defense of this camp, the goblin craftsmen also deliberately carved many platforms of different heights into the mountain walls of the mountain streams on both sides.

Archers, crossbowmen, and even eight-bull crossbows can be placed on the mountain wall to snipe enemies pouring in from outside.

The mountain stream is not wide, so no matter how many orcs come, there is a limit to the number of orcs that can pass through each time.

This camp is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but considering the number of troops, it is obviously impossible to repel the orc army.

At the very least, after consuming the werewolves and foxes, it is unlikely that Bey will retreat.

But they hold on for a while, and it's okay.

The order was given, and the entire camp quickly entered a state of first-level alert!

The weapons defending the city on the mountain walls on both sides of the mountain stream began to be arranged and replenished, and the number of troops patrolling, guarding, and reconnoitring at the periphery was directly doubled.

The whole camp is like a great enemy.

Three days later, the messenger finally arrived in the city of the north wind.

Now the North Wind City and several nearby cities, including New Stone City, are all guarded by Li Chuan.

Li Chuan is also an old man of Great Xia, originally responsible for guarding the eastern border of Great Xia, but because of some things that happened some time ago, Peng Chun, the original city lord of New Stone City and the general who defended the city, was dismissed.

Considering the particularity of this side, Xia Qi sent Li Chuan over.

After reading the content of the letter asking for help, the inside was like water.

The orc forces attacked, and the Prospector camp had fallen......

As the core general of Great Xia, he knows some things, and as far as he knows, Great Xia attaches great importance to the bitter cold land.

After thinking for a while, Li Chuan immediately ordered: "Come on, quickly go and gather the troops in the city!" ”

Hearing this, the face of the adjutant general standing on the side changed suddenly.

"General, is something happening?"

Hearing this, Li Chuan quickly said, "The Explorer's camp has been captured by the orc army, and they still have a tendency to go south. ”

Hearing this, the adjutant general instantly understood, and immediately began to gather troops after running out of the tent.

While the adjutant general went to gather troops, Li Chuan began to write a report, and after writing it, he sent it to Daxia City.

The total strength of troops in the city of Boreas

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There are three thousand, but as the northern border in the true sense of Great Xia, it is obviously impossible for Li Chuan to withdraw all the troops in the city.

Therefore, in the end, he personally led 2,000 troops to support, and the remaining 1,000 troops were left in Beifeng City, handed over to his lieutenant general to command, and sat in Beifeng City on his behalf.

Early the next morning, Li Chuan officially set off with 2,000 troops and hundreds of truckloads of grain and grass.

And during this period, the orc troops that tracked all the way also appeared outside the mountain streams of the Northland mountain forest!

The loud sound of the trumpet echoed in the mountain stream, telling everyone that the enemy was approaching!

On the platform on the mountain wall on both sides of the mountain stream, groups of soldiers quickly took up their positions.

Following the trail, the orc troops tracked all the way here, and after a short rest, they poured into the mountain stream in groups.

This time, the werewolves took the lead, while the bears and foxes followed.

This posture is clearly to let the werewolves attract firepower.

For this practice, the werewolves can be said to dare to be angry but dare not speak, and in the end they can only rush forward.

The guards on the platform waited for these werewolves to enter the firing range, and immediately began to greet them, and crossbow arrows and arrows flew in unison.

With the advantage of the terrain, as well as weapons and equipment, and hoarded resources to defend the city, from the beginning, the defenders of the camp fought extremely fiercely.

The werewolf below can be seriously injured or even killed if he is not careful.

The bear man and the fox man who were following behind hurriedly retreated some distance behind when they saw this.

I was shocked by such a human attack.

"On the mountain wall, those humans have opened a hole in the mountain wall, and they are standing there beating us!"

Ali looked at the platforms on the mountain wall and screamed.

Bey was immediately dumbfounded when he saw this, so high, how can they fight?

"Roar!!

Bey let out a roar, trying to deter the soldiers on the hill platform.

A deafening roar echoed through the mountain stream, but the soldiers did not panic.

Unless the orcs could fly, or break through the camp first and follow the passage, they wouldn't be able to hit them at all.

In the face of such a stormy fire suppression, the first round of the orc's attack failed, and a large group of orcs fled directly towards the mountain stream.

The garrison did not pursue, because once pursued, the shortcomings of their insufficient forces would be exposed.

When the time comes, it is estimated that it will be directly destroyed by the group of orcs outside.

Amid the victorious cheers of the soldiers, the garrison general quickly dispatched several teams of soldiers and began to recover the resources of the defending city.

Although they had just repelled the enemy, the few people in the camp who were in the general class did not relax at all.

Because they know very well in their hearts that they can crush this wave of orcs' offensive, one is by surprise, and the other is by relying on the resources of defending the city to smash desperately!

But the resources of defending the city are consumables, and those that can be recycled can be recycled as much as possible, and those that can't be recycled are helpless.

If this continues, their fortification materials will soon be depleted.

But they did it anyway, because only in this way would the group of orcs be jealous, so that they could buy a few more days.

However, they ignore the ferocity in the bones of the orcs.

The orc race has always been known for its strong aggression and aggressiveness.

This little battle was not enough to scare them to the point where they did not dare to attack.

Only a day later, the orc forces launched a second round of attacks.

In this second round of attack, the opponent's offensive formation has undergone some changes.

I saw those werewolves with shields raised in their hands.

Seeing this scene, Rowling and the others instantly turned ugly.

There is no doubt that these armor and equipment in the hands of the orcs on the opposite side were obviously scavenged from the corpses of their dead comrades, and were used against them by this group of orcs at this time.

The mood of everyone can be imagined.

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