Chapter 70: The Battle of Fort Vic VI
After completely annihilating the Sheep-headed squadron, Richard once again divided his forces and asked four squads of soldiers to escort the prisoners and return the wounded.
The saved people are enriched into Haaland's territory.
With two war gains, the population of the Haaland domain increased by about 5,600 people.
Counting the original 4,800 people in the territory, the total population of Haaland's territory has exceeded 10,000.
Successive victories and annihilation of two sheep-headed squadrons naturally alerted the orc brigade.
Shamok was seriously injured and had not yet woken up, and Bastruan, the deputy captain of the Minotaur Group, took over the command.
Compared to Shamok's recklessness, Bastruan is the other extreme, and his personality is a little too cautious.
Unable to figure out the situation of the attackers, they did not dare to throw the main forces into the siege battle.
After the division of the Shamok brigade, the losses were already not small.
Two squadrons of sheep-headed men were completely annihilated, and more than half of the two squadrons of kobold suffered casualties.
The two squadrons of boar men suffered a third of the casualties, and the remainder, although the main squadron, had already lost half of its combatants.
Heavy trebuchets were installed on Fort Vik, and if you wanted to break through the castle, you would have to pay heavy casualties, and the Shadevil brigade would be crippled.
The enemy appeared nearby to prevent a sneak attack by the enemy, and Bastruan sent the only cavalry squadron to look for traces of Richard and others.
Richard was just about to lead his team back after dividing his troops, when he found a wolf cavalry in the distance.
Richard was not in a hurry, and immediately drew his bow and arrows and shot the wolf cavalry off his horse.
A terrible howl was heard, and a cloud of smoke and dust was raised in the distance, and their whereabouts had been discovered by the wolf cavalry.
Now four squads of soldiers are escorting prisoners, accompanied by 4,000 unarmed civilians.
Their position was not very far from Richard, and in order to attract the enemy to him, Richard took the initiative to appear with his soldiers.
The troops were divided twice, and the soldiers directly under Richard were no longer more than a squadron.
Spotting Richard's traces, the wolf cavalry squadron couldn't bear it, and wanted to make an impact and try the quality of the human soldiers.
But the squadron leader Larmin was very sober and suppressed the urge of the wolf cavalry, and instead followed Richard from a distance.
The Wolf Cavalry Squadron is the only cavalry force in the Shamok Brigade.
If the losses in the battle are too great, the situation of the Tsarmok Brigade will become more passive.
When Duke Roger entered the battlefield with the Royal Cavalry Regiment, his erratic fighting style caused the orcs to suffer heavy losses.
In just half a month, four orc brigades were annihilated by Duke Roger.
In order to detect the whereabouts of Duke Roger, a large number of Harpies were transferred to the province of Lach.
Now there are only four Harpies under the command of Shamok, and a large number of reconnaissance tasks can only rely on wolf cavalry.
Orcs are fighting without rear, and they can take the initiative in the war completely by relying on powerful reconnaissance forces, and the harpys in the air are very crucial.
Now that the reconnaissance force is insufficient, the werewolf cavalry is not willing to risk the battle.
Seeing that the werewolf cavalry did not charge, Richard also had some regrets in his heart.
He learned the magic greasy technique, and was very restrained from the cavalry charge, and several greasy techniques were released in a row, and the impact of the cavalry was weakened by more than half.
Cavalry without impact can only be reduced to live targets.
The importance of the magician to the war is evident from this.
Finding that the wolf cavalry was too close, Richard drew his bow and arrows, and shot arrows that hit the wolf cavalry.
The wolf cavalry fell off their horses and wailed, and a brave soldier ran quickly, broke away from the formation and came to the side of the fallen wolf cavalry, violently cut off the head of the wave head, and then led the horse away.
The remaining wolf cavalry was extremely angry and approached to throw stone projectiles, and Richard immediately commanded the archers to shoot at the wolf cavalry.
The slings and the strong bow and crossbow are of course very disadvantageous.
Larmin realized that it was not worth it, and immediately asked the wolf cavalry to step back a little to avoid getting too close to Richard's squadron.
Under the attack of the wolf cavalry, Richard's squadron walked for two days and came to the predetermined location.
Hayden had completed his mission of escorting the captives and arrived at the meeting point with six squads of soldiers.
Finding that Richard and others had entered the forest, the wolf cavalry squadron did not dare to enter the jungle, so they could only return to the Vicburg camp and tell Bastruan about the situation of Richard and others.
"In this way, there are two squadrons of soldiers hiding near Fort Vik. They can not panic in the attack, and dare to fight with the wolf cavalry in the field, they must be the main legionnaires of the human race.
Fort Vik was already difficult to overcome, and there were reinforcements outside. Even if this battle is won, our brigade will be crippled. I don't think it's better to attack the Barony of Dirham and capture the castle of Malte so that I can grab more loot. ”
With such a plan, Bastruan naturally did not continue to attack Vikburg. With a part of the wounded, he withdrew his troops to the southeast and entered the barony of the dirham.
The Baron dirham fled the war, but it still came to his door.
Orcs are not fools, of course they like to pinch soft persimmons. The lords of the northern frontier, if they expose their cowardice to the orcs, will often usher in the orcs to take the initiative to attack.
Baron Dirham first rejected Sofia's request for help, and when the Sheep's Squadron invaded the territory, he chose to avoid the fight.
Richard despised his cowardice and decided that Baron Dirham was not a partner who could support each other.
Sophia also complained that he didn't send reinforcements.
Both neighbors decided not to send troops to the rescue, and the end of the Dirham territory was already sealed. Soon fell in the orc attack.
A few days after the fall of the Barony of Dirham, Richard's battle exploits in annihilating two squadrons of orcs were also released.
The war to rescue the Stopa territory rewards one medium merit, the annihilation of two auxiliary squadrons of orcs rewards one medium merit, and the killing of two third-order sheep-headed people, one second-order sheep-headed person, and two first-order sheep-headed people are combined into one medium merit.
Sophia won the Battle of Vic's Castle, but it was far less important than the Battle of William's Castle, rewarding only two modest merits.
Although relying on trebuchets to kill a lot of orc professionals.
But if you don't get control of the battlefield, you can't grab the head of the orc professional, and the credit you have made cannot be calculated.
Richard and his soldiers entered Vikburg to join Sophia.
When the two met this time, Sophia suddenly had a feeling of the aftermath of the disaster.
During the siege of the orcs, Sophia was under a lot of pressure.
Baron Dirham, who she had high hopes for, refused to send troops to the rescue, which once made Sophia very desperate, and fear gnawed at her heart all the time.
She was so young that she was not even married, and she was about to die at the hands of the orcs. Every time she thought about such an ending, Sophia burst into tears.
But she is a baron of Stoppa's territory, and her weakness must not be seen by the soldiers, so she can only hold on, hoping to hold on until the situation changes.
Sophia never expected that Richard, who was under great pressure, would send soldiers to the rescue, and also broke the siege of Vikburg by the orcs and rescued himself from danger.
The moment Richard led his troops into the castle, Sophia suddenly had a feeling of excitement and felt that she had found someone to rely on.