The pressure is increasing, and the situation has developed to this point, even if Pratt doesn't want to break his head in the fort, he must attack the northern defense line of Haaland's territory.

The task given to the 59th Legion by the Orc Front is not to contain the defenders of Haaland's territory, but to require them to cooperate with the Eastern Route Army and eliminate the Northern Legion.

This time, the main offensive target of the orc front was the province of Geda. From three directions, three and a half corps were mobilized, and more than 100,000 troops fought against the province of Geda.

Including the Flying Swallow Legion, the army in Geda Province is only 50,000, and the strength is only half of that of the orcs. The strategic situation is also not very good, because the orcs have the advantage of reconnaissance, and the human legion has become deaf and blind, and it is not clear about the distribution of the enemy's forces, so it can only be passively defended.

The current situation, due to the Grizzly Legion's rash advance and being surrounded by the main force of the orcs, although the province of Lah has the largest number of troops, the situation is also the worst.

The situation in Geda Province is slightly better, but it is also facing a great passivity, being beaten by 100,000 orcs.

At present, the situation in the three directions of Geda Province is relatively critical. There are no strong soldiers in the provincial mansion anymore, like eggs, once the hard shell is broken, like a beautiful woman who has taken off her clothes, let the orcs ravage.

Although the Sodamian Legion has gone north to reinforce it, the combat experience of the Inland Legion is not as good as that of the second-tier legions such as Feiyan and Feiying, and it can only undertake the task of garrisoning on the edge.

If you want to really change the tide of the war, you can't do it unless you mobilize the elite soldiers under the command of the great nobles, or send out the royal janissary legion.

But the development of the situation has not yet come to this point, and there is no need for a full mobilization of the Grant Kingdom.

On the contrary, it was the province of Gascoigne, this time it was not the focus of the orc invasion, the pressure on the defense was the weakest, and it also fought a few small victories. He has cooperated with Duke Edward to expel the main force of the orcs from the border.

With such a situation, the defensive pressure on Haaland's territory was also increasing, and the troops were held for several months, and the orcs reconnoitred the fortifications of the fort.

The location of the fort is very crucial, and it is the main point that the orcs must attack.

If you bypass the fort, the grain route will be cut off by the defenders. But attacking such a strong fortress as the fort, Pratt felt that there was no chance of victory.

After much deliberation, Pratt decided to find a way to mobilize the soldiers of Haaland's territory from the fortified castle. He still decided to adopt the classic old tactic and encircle the point to send reinforcements.

There are of course profound reasons why classic tactics have endured.

Pratt analyzes the situation of the northern defense line of Haaland's territory, and finds that Blossom Castle is located between two castles, Graveson and Fort Soldier.

At any time, you can get the rescue of the northern and southern armies, and if you mobilize a small number of soldiers, you will not be able to break the flower castle at all.

If there are more troops mobilized, the defenders in the direction of Graveson will be reinforced. When the main army is mobilized to the Flower Castle, the orcs will be attacked by the main force of Haaland's territory, and they will be in a situation where they are attacked on their backs.

The defensive front of Haaland's territory stretched relatively long, more than a hundred kilometers from the swamp basin to Graveson Castle.

The main strongholds were to be stationed separately, on the contrary, the orc legions were more concentrated.

The terrain of the Flower Castle is not suitable for encirclement and reinforcement, and Pratt decided to attack the swamp basin first, and through the Harpy reconnaissance, Pratt has discovered that there is a Warcraft cavalry brigade in the swamp basin.

Pratt had a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade of the Human Kingdom, and he decided to send three main brigades to attack the swamp basin, and then led seven main brigades, plus eight thousand sheep-like auxiliaries, to move the camp to the west, blocking the path of Richard's rescue.

Relying on the reconnaissance of the magic hot air balloon, the movement of the orc army was also detected by Richard.

Seeing Pratt divide his troops, Richard suppressed the smile in his heart, and as the situation developed, the fighter finally appeared.

Pratt did not count the two mage towers built in the swamp basin.

These two mage towers are built underground for special reasons.

One is a secret stronghold operated by the Venus family for a thousand years, and of course the mage tower cannot be built tall and big, it is completely an underground mage tower.

One is the Tower of Death, a mage tower built by a necromancer, and it is also a mage tower built underground, although Richard has added seven floors to the ground, it is still very different from the normal mage tower, and it looks like a noble castle.

The secret construction of the Mage Tower, coupled with the fact that there are very few Mage Tower buildings in the Grant Kingdom, the Hippogriff has never seen the Mage Tower. There was a lapse in the intelligence investigation, and the orcs had a serious underestimation of the power of the swamp basin.

Sure enough, after the three groups of orcs appeared in the swamp basin, they found that there were two castles in the basin, and the orc army had just surrounded the Tower of Lightning, and the Warcraft cavalry brigade immediately came out of the Tower of Fire castle and nailed the orc army.

Soros personally commanded the Warcraft cavalry, preparing to attack the flank of the orc army while the orcs were attacking the city.

Seeing this, the orc commander did not choose to attack the Tower of Lightning, but instead chose to divide his troops and mobilize a large group from behind to attack the Tower of Flames, hoping to mobilize the Warcraft cavalry to fight in the location preset by the orcs.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade is very strong, the number of people is only six hundred, and the number of Warcraft cavalry is only two hundred.

The combined strength of the three orc brigades is more than six thousand. With ten to one troops, fighting on the battlefield preset by the orcs, the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade has no chance of winning at all.

A group of orcs appeared around the Tower of Flames, the elite of the orcs wearing iron armor, constantly making various hissing sounds, and then, heavy footsteps stepped on the ground, and murderously approached the city wall.

The dense spears were like towering forests, and the iron armor on their bodies rattled.

Groups of orcs appeared from all sides, quickly filling the castle around, and at a glance it was full of black oppressive orcs, and the scalps of people watching were numb.

The sheep-headed men, deer-headed people and other auxiliary troops who cooperated with the orcs also began to cut down trees and fill bags of earth, as if they would launch siege battles at any time.

The castle where the two mage towers are located is relatively small, with a total area of more than 100,000 square meters, about 200 acres, and the circumference of the castle is about 1.5 kilometers.

The height of the wall is also relatively low, although it is a brick wall, only about six meters high.

It seems that the defense ability is much weaker than the average baronial castle.

The baron's castle in the northern region is rarely less than 12 meters high, and the area is usually more than one square kilometer, otherwise it would be impossible to carry out the order of the strong wall and clear the wilderness.

The orcs were ready to attack the Tower of Flame, but the Warcraft cavalry was unmoved, and had no intention of mobilizing the rescue.

Seeing this, the orc commander had no choice but to give the order to siege the city.

The commander-in-chief of the Tower of Flames was Sophia, who was accompanied by four or five mages and a dozen mage apprentices, in addition to the second squadron of guards guarding the Tower of Fire and protecting Sophia's safety. In the castle, there are also 300 auxiliaries, who are responsible for operating trebuchets.

The trebuchet in Haaland's territory has a shooting watch in his hand. In the Tower of Flames, there are many people who can calculate trigonometric formulas and ballistic parabolas.

Ten trebuchets hit very accurately, and the 200-pound stone projectiles could hit the orc army almost every time.

In a short distance of two or three hundred meters, they were hit by dozens of stone bullets, and as soon as they got close to the city wall, the casualties of the orcs were close to two hundred, and even the three snake-body people were killed by stone bullets.

Having finally crossed this path of death, the auxiliaries immediately withdrew from the city walls.

Encountering no resistance, the orc soldiers had just climbed the walls, and with their excited shouts, they opened the gates and prepared to advance towards the center of the castle, and it was time for them to raid.

Seeing that the orcs entered the magic range, the energy room of the Tower of Flames bloomed with a dazzling magical aura, and ten large-scale fire attribute magic flame storms were continuously released in an instant.

Firestorm is a six-ring group magic, and its lethality is very powerful, especially when it comes to clearing miscellaneous soldiers.

Ten six-ring magics, each of which hit the place where the orcs gathered, more than three hundred orcs died in an instant, and more than a thousand orcs were burned by the flames.

This sudden blow stunned the orc brigade in an instant.

Before the orcs could wake up from their fear, Sophia had already launched a counterattack against the orcs with a squadron of guards.

The magicians unleashed greasy spells, spider web spells and other control spells, and the soldiers of the guard squadron immediately opened their bows and arrows, shooting the orcs who were still ignorant.

In just a quarter of an hour, the squadron of guards, plus the mage regiment, killed more than two hundred orcs.

After several blows, the soldiers killed in the orc brigade were close to seven hundred, and almost all of the rest were wounded, and such heavy casualties suddenly broke the orc's will to resist.

At this time, the fear of death overpowered, and the orcs hurriedly withdrew from the castle, and were hit by trebuchets again.

A large group of orcs, entering the spell trap, almost did not cause much damage to the enemy, their own death was close to half, and many of the remaining people still had serious burns, this brigade was almost completely annihilated.

I saw Sophia with a squadron of guards, together with the auxiliaries, from the Flame Castle to chase down the orcs and rout. Wendy of the Tower of Lightning made a quick decision and unleashed a series of lightning spells on the orcs besieging the city.

The Tower of Lightning uses the Legendary Core as an energy source, and although the total amount of energy is not as good as the Tower of Flame, the Tower contains the Thunderbolt Staff, a legendary-level magic equipment.

Relying on the ability of the Thunderbolt Staff, releasing the Thunderbolt Spell can not only reduce the consumption of magic energy, but also increase the power by 30%.

With the blessing of the Lightning Staff, the Tower of Lightning is even more lethal than the Tower of Fire.

Chain lightning is a magic that strikes farther than a firestorm. Venti estimated the distance and saw that the orcs were camped within range of the mage's tower.

Immediately holding the Thunderbolt Staff, he unleashed ten consecutive lightning bolts on the orc army.

A huge thunderclap exploded in the orc army, and lightning bolts continued to hit the orc soldiers, and in an instant, the orc army was killed and wounded.

Ten chains of lightning had just been released, and before the orcs could breathe a sigh of relief, a lot of stone projectiles were projected from above the camp.

This sudden scene shattered the three views of the orcs.

In the stereotype of orcs, the range of a counterweight trebuchet is only two hundred to three hundred meters. They never expected that the trebuchet in Haaland's territory would be able to throw stones five hundred meters away.

It is very simple to say, it is nothing more than reducing the weight of the stone projectile, increasing the weight of the counterweight, plus the height advantage of the city wall, after complex calculations, it is possible to launch ten kilograms of stone projectiles five or six hundred meters away.

Although the power of ten kilograms of stone bullets is weak, ordinary orcs will die if they are hit, and the fortifications in the camp will also be smashed.

Soros led the Warcraft cavalry brigade, staring at the orcs under his nose, his eyes lit up, his five fingers tightly grasped the bow and arrow, and a strong sense of excitement suddenly appeared in his body.

"Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, attack with me, let us use the sword in our hands to kill the orcs and win the feat."

The six hundred soldiers of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade drew their bowstrings one after another, approaching the orc camp and shooting arrows at the orcs.

Attacked by the Tower of Lightning, the orcs have already killed and injured hundreds of soldiers, and the original rhythm has been disrupted.

No one knew that the magic tower on the opposite side could release a few spells, and the orcs in the camp were in a mess, packing their bags and planning to retreat.

There was no time to organize an effective defense, so the Warcraft cavalry brigade rushed to the vicinity of the orc camp and began to shoot arrows on the horses.

Normally, riding a bow is softer than a foot bow, and the range is not as good as a foot bow.

But the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade is different, the officers and backbone veterans are all professionals, and the ordinary soldiers are also high-level warrior cadets, their strength far exceeds that of ordinary soldiers, and the riding bows used are at least three-stone bows. The enchanted bow in Soros's hand has a strength of more than ten stones, and without ten times the strength of ordinary people, he can't pull the bowstring.

For any soldier who has been in the army for many years, the most proficient skill is often archery.

The two armies fought, with the bow and crossbow taking precedence.

When a soldier joins the army, the most important skill for many years is to practice archery. For ordinary serfs who have never touched a bow and arrow, it takes three years to raise the archery level to the second rank, and eight to ten years to upgrade to the third rank.

To advance to the fourth order, you not only need to practice hard, but you also have a very talented eye for archery and have a special intuition.

The soldiers of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade have joined the army for at least three years, many of them are five-year soldiers, eight-year soldiers, and even some ten-year soldiers, and some officers have been in the army for more than ten years.

There are a total of eight people who have practiced archery to the fourth order, and more than a hundred people who have exceeded the third order.

This group of sharpshooters is concentrated in one unit, and the lethality can be seen.

The Warcraft Cavalry Brigade did not go straight to the orc camp, but only circled around the orc camp and shot five or six rounds of feather arrows, killing more than five hundred orcs in a surprise attack.

It is equivalent to the orc army suffering another series of lightning strikes.

The orcs finally reorganized the queue, and the orcs who were good at archery also organized themselves to shoot at the Warcraft cavalry, and some powerful orcs used slings to throw stones at the Warcraft cavalry.

The Warcraft Cavalry is a very expensive class, and Soros certainly won't be consumed by shooting at the Orcs. He turned his horse's head and led the Monster cavalry out of range of his bow and arrows, waiting for the next chance to raid.

Seeing that the orcs had no intention of withdrawing, Soros sent 200 auxiliaries to assist the soldiers of the Flame Castle in chasing down the orcs.

(End of chapter)