The battle was already very fierce, and the orcs didn't have time to extinguish the fire, and the orcs hiding inside the ladder cart instantly turned into fire men, constantly fleeing under the city walls, and let out bursts of terrible roars.

Some brave orcs braved the fire, climbed the city walls, and were killed by elite soldiers.

Seeing that the battle was stalemate, Morsa immediately sent an elite orc army, hoping to open up the situation with elite soldiers.

Ten squadrons of serpents were scattered on all sides of the city wall and attacked from all directions.

The Serpents were involved in the battle, putting a lot of pressure on the defenders.

Clearly, Moelsa wanted to crush the defenders in one fell swoop, and recklessly threw in his killer move, hoping to quickly upset the balance.

Seeing the snake man quickly approaching the city wall, the soldiers of the Northern Legion were still not chaotic.

"Bed crossbows, hurry up and push them up, the archers are equipped with burst arrows, focusing on shooting snakes."

A hideous-looking heavy ballista was pushed out by the soldiers, and the bed crossbows were wound early, and the huge arrows installed were more than three meters long, and the steel arrows were more than a foot long.

The arrows flashed with cold light, fiercely waiting for the snake to approach.

The previous combat experience of the orcs showed that the snakes would be relatively scattered when they attacked the city.

Although the snake formation is very powerful and can easily break through the defense line of human soldiers, it can also be hit by the concentrated fire of human heavy weapons.

Trebuchets, bed crossbows, alchemy bombs, monster cavalry, and mage regiments can all effectively fight against the serpent army formation.

Generally speaking, when the orcs are fighting in the field, the snake people will fight in formation, and most of the time during the siege will be scattered.

Only when the commander wants the final word to be heard, will he gather the squadron of snakes and climb to the top of the city in one fell swoop, crushing the human soldiers' defenses.

This time, the snake pros attacked from all sides, and they were scattered among the ordinary orc army.

If the defenders are inexperienced, it is easy for the snakes to climb the city without notice.

Dozens of serpentine professionals climbed to the top of the city, relying on their strong melee combat strength, they were able to defeat the defenders of the city, stabilize their positions, open gaps, and wait for follow-up reinforcements to break the city in one fell swoop.

If the defenders are the Swift Legion, the number of archers is small, and they are not equipped with too many bed crossbows. Once the orcs attack the city with all their might, it will inevitably be extremely stressful to defend it, and as long as there is a loophole in one place, the battle line will be chaotic.

It was because of this that the Flying Eagle Fort was lost, and the core reason was that the defenders were weak, allowing the snakes to break through the defense line.

The second-line legions such as Flying Eagle and Feiyan have a big difference in combat effectiveness from the main legion, and even if they fight a defensive battle, they can't stop the attack of a legion of orcs.

Now Feiyan Castle has two elite brigades of reinforcements from the Northern Legion, as well as reinforcements from the Cavalry Regiment of the Kingdom Knight Academy, and the number of elite reinforcements is as high as 5,000.

With the main legionnaires as the backbone, the strength of the defenders of the city almost doubled. Under the aim of the archer, the snake man was constantly shot by the burst arrows, and the casualties suddenly increased a lot.

Huge arrows shining with cold light shot down from the head of Feiyan Castle, as long as they were shot by the bed crossbow, even if the snake body was rough and thick-skinned, it was like wearing a sugar gourd, and it would not survive at all.

As the defenders focused on attacking, the casualties of the snake men gradually increased.

Seeing this scene, the face of the orc commander Morsa became very ugly.

The defenders did not break up as easily as he expected, but the battle was stalemate, and the orc casualties continued to increase.

The orc legions have always been bullying the weak and fearing the hard.

Seeing that the enemy would not retreat, the orc brigades continued to report the battle situation, and they all had plans to retreat.

However, Morsa's will to fight was very strong, and despite the heavy casualties suffered by the orcs, he still demanded to continue the siege and crush the defenders.

The orcs were routed by a squadron, and Morsa was immediately reorganized.

The Serpents also continued to climb the city, and the casualties of the defenders increased, and the resistance became more and more fierce.

Even the commanders Peron and William, two high-level professionals, were on the front line to fight the fire, leading the team to hunt down the snakes who climbed to the top of the city.

The soldiers of the first and sixth brigades were also very brave, and William witnessed many familiar junior officers, and the backbone of the soldiers rolled down the city with snakes in their arms, and they all perished.

The fighting was brutal and fierce until the evening.

William saw that the orc army had lost its sharpness and had exhausted all its strength, and was already very tired. Immediately and decisively throwing himself into the last reserve, he ordered the soldiers to open the city gates, and let the cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy launch a counterattack against the orc army.

Although the cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy is not equipped with many Warcraft war horses, the quality of the officers and soldiers is very good, and the soldiers are all students of the Knight Academy, mainly middle and high apprentices, young and vigorous, and have some combat experience.

The officers are all teachers and principals of the Knight Academy, and there are dozens of professional officers inside, and the headmaster is also a powerful silver knight.

This new force, although small in number, was less than a thousand, and its combat effectiveness exceeded that of an infantry brigade of the main army.

This new force was put into the battlefield and immediately achieved immediate results. The soldiers of the cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy were very brave, and after leaving the city, they resolutely assaulted the orc army and fiercely penetrated the orc defense.

The orc army had been fighting for most of the day, and was very tired in the evening, and was powerless to stop the cavalry charge.

The soldiers of the Knights, spears in their hands, stabbed through the orc team's defenses with ferocity.

Seeing that the situation on the battlefield had changed, the orc captain personally went into battle, hoping to block the enemy and maintain the battle line.

The commander of the cavalry regiment, Kong De, was a seventh-order silver knight, he rode a fourth-order fire beast, took the lead, and rushed to the front with the young soldiers of the knight academy.

The dean of the Knight Academy has rich experience in the battlefield, and in a flash of his mind, he captured the key to the battlefield in an instant. He urged the Fire Beast and immediately spewed out a fire dragon that hit the fifth-order werewolf captain.

This fire dragon is a spell fire dragon technique that is born with the fire beast, and the spell level is already of the fourth order. The power of the fire dragon is not as powerful as the fireball technique, but it can be manipulated by the fire beast and can automatically pursue the enemy

The fire dragon attacked, and the orc captain hurriedly dodged. Barely dodging a blow, and before the orc captain could be happy, the fire dragon spun around, attacked from behind, and hit the orc captain in the back fiercely.

The armor on the back of the orc captain was weakly defensive, and he was hit by the fire energy, and immediately spat blood from his mouth.

The dean of the Knight Academy, Kong De, was experienced, and he jumped his war horse, and the spear in his hand was violently provoked, and it stabbed fiercely into the chest of the fifth-order werewolf.

In a flash of lightning, Comte killed the werewolf captain, and under his leadership, the cavalry figure broke through the defense line of the orc brigade in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the enemy's cavalry had entered the formation, Morsa could only order the soldiers to retreat.

Now withdraw the troops, and the orcs still have the initiative. Otherwise, it will be flanked by the enemy, and it will turn into a major rout.

The cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy rushed forward and fought a successful counterattack.

The orcs at the south gate of Feiyan Fort were crushed, and many orcs were driven into the Leyte River.

These orcs were not killed by human soldiers, but more than a thousand were drowned.

The siege of the South Gate Orcs failed completely, and the other three Orcs finally recognized the reality and retreated to the camp before nightfall.

If all the soldiers led by William were from the Northern Legion, taking advantage of the orc's rout to counterattack the orc camp, he would definitely be able to achieve major results and inflict heavy damage on the orc legion.

However, the main force of the defenders of Feiyan Fort was the Feiyan Legion, and William looked at the eyes of the Feiyan Legion soldiers for the rest of their lives, knowing that the counterattack task was difficult for the Feiyan Legion soldiers to undertake.

Relying on the three elites of the First Brigade, the Sixth Brigade, and the Cavalry Regiment of the Knight Academy, the number of soldiers is too small, and once they are besieged by the orcs and suffer losses, it will be difficult for the orcs to turn defeat into victory.

After weighing the pros and cons, William decided to focus on stability, take it when he saw it, hunt and kill some of the orcs, and then clean up the battlefield to treat the wounded.

When the sun had set and torches were lit at the head of the city, William returned to his temporary residence, took off his blood-stained armor, and had his soldiers smear their wounds while cleaning his armor and repairing the broken pieces.

William was left with two wounds, one by a spear, which pierced William's enchanted armor, pierced the flesh of his chest, and was blocked by his ribs. If William hadn't dodged in time, he took a step back, reducing the spear's piercing momentum, which could have pierced his body and punctured his lungs.

The other wound was a blunt force wound, and he had been hit with an iron rod on the shoulder, which was already black.

The blunt injuries came from the Snake Man, who, although only a third-order professional, was good at hand-to-hand combat. Even a high-level professional like William would still be injured when he was close to the Serpent. The stick hit him in the head, and William couldn't survive.

The gunshot wound came from a seventh-order kobold, this kobold was very insidious, he even disguised himself as an ordinary soldier, slowly climbed the city wall, and unexpectedly gave William a shot, almost killing William.

If it weren't for his strong strength, the timely rescue of the soldiers of the first brigade, and the desperate blocking of the seventh-order kobolds by several veteran officers, today's battle William would also be very dangerous.

Because he didn't hurt the vital point, William didn't let the military priest use healing spells, but used the hemostatic ointment of Harland's territory, and tried to use the magic power to treat the seriously injured backbones who were dying.

William's army has always led by example, so he can win the hearts and minds of the army and make the soldiers fight for him willingly.

"I feel better about this invention than the terrible heavy trebuchet." William has always had a grudge against Richard's invention of the heavy trebuchet, and often chatters about it.

William cleaned his armor and wrapped his wounds, and finally had a little more leisure. But his adjutant Knoll was very busy, constantly going back and forth between the squadrons, counting the results and casualties.

"Have the casualties been counted?"

"Eighty-six men were killed in the First Brigade, and two hundred and eleven were slightly or seriously wounded. Fifty-three of the Sixth Brigade were killed and one hundred and thirty-two were seriously wounded. Cavalry Regiment of the Knight Academy, twenty-six killed, one hundred and three lightly and seriously wounded. ”

Hearing the casualty figures reported by Knoll, William suddenly grimaced and continued to ask, "What about the casualties of the Feiyan Legion?" ”

"The casualties of the Feiyan Legion have not yet been counted."

William waved his hand and said, "You go and urge them, let them hurry." ”

After Knoll left, William secretly thought in his heart: "The casualties of the main force have exceeded six hundred, and there are one hundred and sixty-five killed, and there should be some dead and wounded today and tomorrow." The total strength of the two brigades is only 4,000, plus the cavalry regiment of the Knight Academy is only 5,000 elite soldiers, and the casualties in a battle are more than 600, and it seems that it will take a while to make up. ”

After waiting for about an hour, Knoll returned to William's mansion.

"The casualties of the Feiyan Legion have been counted, about four hundred killed and nearly a thousand wounded."

"No exact casualty figures?"

Knoll shook his head and said, "The Feiyan Legion gave me this approximate number, and it is estimated that their casualty statistics are a bit confusing." ”

After listening to Knorr's report, William was suddenly a little angry about the Feiyan Army's procrastination and careless style. But he is not the commander of the Feiyan Legion, so it is not good to be angry with the Feiyan Legion directly.

"Has the battlefield been cleaned? Have you counted the results? ”

Noel nodded and said, "We cleaned up the battlefield and counted 3,200 orc corpses. Nine hundred orcs were captured, including more than 400 wounded soldiers, all of whom were the result of the battle at the South Gate. The number of orcs who were driven into the Wright River and drowned was estimated to be more than a thousand. In addition, when the orcs retreated, they also took some of the corpses and wounded with them. ”

William estimated in his heart: "It seems that the loss of the orcs is almost six thousand, of which about four thousand are the main force, and the loss of the auxiliaries should be two thousand." ”

The two armies were at war, and the victorious side was able to keep the wounded, resulting in a difference in casualties between the two sides.

In fact, before the orcs fled, the casualty ratio of the two sides was not so serious. About 500 human soldiers were killed in battle, and more than 1,000 orcs were killed in direct battles.

As soon as the orcs retreated, the wounded soldiers were all lost to the defenders of Feiyan Castle, and they were ambushed by the cavalry, and the casualties were extremely heavy, which caused such a serious casualty ratio.

After the defenders of Feiyan Castle cleaned up the battlefield, the orcs also counted the casualties.

William's estimate was more accurate, and after this battle, the orc army lost no less than 6,000 in a day.

After this battle, Morsa finally recognized the reality and knew that relying on the strength of his legion, he was unable to conquer Feiyan Castle.

Because the defenders of Feiyan Castle had strong combat effectiveness and an elite cavalry, Moelsa did not dare to divide his troops to plunder.

The situation on the eastern side of Geda Province has thus stabilized and has fallen into a stalemate.

After the flanks entered the stalemate, the thirteen brigades of the main force of the orcs also entered the south bank of the Black River from the province of Lahe, approached the Black River Fort, and started an outpost war with the northern legions and the noble alliance of the Viscount of Rohmen.

The situation has developed to this point, and the 59th Army Corps commanded by Pratt has also begun to tentatively attack the fort of the station, exerting pressure on Richard, pinning down the soldiers in Haaland's territory, preventing Richard from transferring troops south, and cooperating with the Northern Army to encircle and annihilate the orcs.

It has been nearly two months since the start of the war, and a main army has been blocked by the human viscount in the Eagle Mountains, which cannot be explained in the upper echelons of the Orc Empire. The commander of the orc front, Kiram, reprimanded him harshly, making Captain Pratt a little disgraced.

However, the orc high-level did not know the situation on the front line, which obviously made Pratt take on an unaccomplishable task.

(End of chapter)