The castle garrison was numerous, with the help of strong fortifications, and the weapons in their hands were far more advanced than the orcs, such a castle could not be conquered by a single orc brigade at all.

The orcs still knew the canyon fort the same way they did three years ago, and without detailed reconnaissance, they rashly launched an attack, and as a result, they fell into the trap of the defenders.

The Orc Forward Brigade was easily surrounded and annihilated by the defenders of Fort Canyon and fought a losing battle.

The defenders of Fort Canyon had sixteen squadrons of infantry, two squadrons of scout cavalry, a squadron of magic hot air balloons, and a squadron of gendarmes, totaling nearly three thousand men.

Among them, the core is the third brigade of Haaland's territory, although this brigade is not as elite as the first and second brigades, but it is also the first four brigades established by Haaland's territory, and there are many veterans who have been in the army for more than ten years.

The commander of the defenders of Fort Canyon is Norman, the captain of the Third Brigade, who is the nephew of Soros and has some talent.

Norman was in his forties and had served the Haraland family for more than a decade, and was a fifth-order warrior who was relatively shrewd in appearance.

Soros was transferred from the captain of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade to Grotta River County as a commander, and the officers below naturally had to arrange people he was familiar with.

After receiving the military information from Fort Canyon, Soros immediately transferred troops from Fort Norman and Fort King.

However, there are three navigable gorges in the northern part of the Grotta River Shire, and forts are now established, and the only ones with complete fortifications are the Canyon Fort, and the Castle on the Banks of the River.

Fort Canyon was the focal point of the defense of Grota River County, with a total of 4,000 defenders including auxiliaries.

The riverbank castle is relatively close to the Iron Lion Castle, with only two squadrons of regular troops, plus five hundred auxiliaries, for a total strength of less than a thousand.

Soros is a cautious person, receiving the news of the orc invasion, decisively abandoned the western passage of Grotta River County, placed his troops in the eastern and central passages, and ordered the villages west of the two castles of Norman and the king to carry out the order of fortified walls.

Twenty-three villages were abandoned, wells were filled, and 20,000 people were relocated to the east of the two castles of the Norman and kingdom.

Although the Grotta River County was incorporated into the Harland Territory, the focus of the development of this territory was still in the east, and in the face of the orc invasion, it could only get closer to the Iron Lion Legion.

Normanburg was close to 300 kilometers from Fort Wilhelm, and the distance between the two sides was too far to work closely together. In an emergency situation, it was simply impossible to count on reinforcements from Fort William.

The Soros Legion needs to rely on the strength of the Iron Lion Legion to ensure its survival.

The western passage of the Grotta River County did not form a complete defensive line, and the defenders could only rely on simple camps to stop the orcs.

Now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, Soros only has a regular army of 7,000 people in his hands, and it is impossible to give up the strong city fortifications and set up a fortress in the field to intercept the orcs.

Moreover, Soros also considered politically, and decided to open this passage and let this half of the legion orcs enter the province of Rahe, relying on the power of the province of Rahe to completely annihilate this enemy.

If half of the orc legion breaks through the Harland Territory, the first opponent will be the Flying Eagle Fort defenders and the Viscount Nelson.

In the last orc invasion, the Viscounty of Nelson suffered heavy losses, and tens of thousands of people were swallowed by Harland's territory. Today, the remnants of the Viscount Nelson family are still running the territory.

Soros knew in his heart that his nephew Richard had already taken a fancy to this territory, but because of the aristocratic order of the Grant Kingdom, he couldn't directly snatch the territory.

But you can borrow the hands of orcs and swallow the Nelson Viscounty.

King Grant is a great nobleman in the northern frontier, and this operation is almost instinctive. The minor nobles wanted to be safe, and could only pray that their fiefdoms were not favored by the big nobles, or that they were far from the borders.

After the Haaland family made its fortune, they only ate two baronies, Stottan and Dirham, of which the Stoldan family still relied on marriage.

Compared to other great nobles, it is already very civilized.

The Viscounty of Nelson is located in the southern part of Salt Lake County, this territory is surrounded by the Haraland family on three sides, once swallowed, the east and west counties of the Harland territory will be connected, not only expanding the hinterland, but also becoming more complete in the defense line.

There is also a reason why Soros left a hole for the orcs.

The orcs invaded, and in addition to issuing the order to clear the wilderness, Soros also sent a letter of help to the Iron Lion Legion.

The Iron Lion Legion's Legion Commander Zachary is a veteran who is more than a few points more capable of commanding battles than Martins. Despite his ups and downs in northern Xinjiang, he is one of the few people who has a big-picture perspective.

Zachary knew in his heart that the northern defense line of Grotta Province could only be considered complete with the cooperation of Haaland's territory. Once the orcs break through the Harland Territory, they will be able to cross the Grotta River and move into their hinterland.

In the current situation, Haaland leads the eastern region with himself with both glory and loss. So he didn't think about it for long, and sent reinforcements from twelve squadrons to the riverbank castle.

Just when Soros and Zachary were deploying troops, the orc army had already appeared nearby.

The orcs attacking this area belonged to two fronts, and the Middle East Front had three legions, two of which were east of the province of Grotta, attacking the Duke of Jonathan.

After Duke Jonathan succeeded him as Archduke of Starnick, he did not give up the title of Grant Kingdom, because he traveled west with the main force and entrusted the Duke of Jonathan to his eldest son Macmillan.

Macmillan was a ninth-order epic knight with a regular army of 20,000.

In the face of the attack of the two legions of orcs, the army of Duke Jonathan's army fell to the upper hand for the first time.

In the past hundred years, the Duke of Jonathan has not been broken through the defense line by orcs and entered the core of the territory.

The orc commander knew that the Jonathan family was strong and would tend to avoid all-out war with the Jonathans.

The two sides often face each other outside the border, and even Duke Jonathan will take the initiative to lead troops to attack the orcs, and often the losses of the orcs are not light every time they fight.

Richard has experienced many orc invasions, the loss of the Jonathan family is minimal, and the situation in the northern frontier of the Grant Kingdom has relied on Duke Jonathan to break the balance and force back the orc army many times.

Now Duke Jonathan has entered the Grand Duchy of Starnik with the main force, and the two legions of orcs seem to have entered a no-man's land, overcoming the border defense line of Duke Jonathan in one fell swoop, and annihilating the three vassals of the Jonathan family.

Even though the Jonathan family used a lot of alchemy bombs, the orc troops acting as the vanguard suffered heavy losses, but they still broke the balance and gained the upper hand for the first time in a hundred years.

The Orc Eastern Front had three legions, two attacking the Duke of Jonathan and one attacking Grotta Province.

Ten orc brigades rushed through the eastern part of the Eagle Mountain Range, appeared near the Twin Star Castle and the Iron Lion Castle, the main force of the orcs appeared, and the pressure on Zachary began to increase greatly.

The Iron Lion Legion led by Zachary is, after all, the newly expanded main legion. The weapons and equipment are relatively average, the number of alchemy bombs and exploding arrows is small, there are only 200 Warcraft horses, and the quality of soldiers is also a few points different from that of the Northern Legion. The most troublesome thing was that in order to expand the army, 8,000 recruits were recruited.

Although the number of people went up, they did not have the strength to fight with the orc legions, so they could only defend the city. They relied on the castle camp to fend off an orc legion.

The orcs that appear in the northern part of Fort Canyon are the Midway Army.

The Midlane Army is the core of the Orc Legion, and the commander who leads the team is the legendary kobold Kiram.

Kiram is an orc general, active in the northern region of the Grant Kingdom for sixty years, this time Kiram personally led the main force of the Central Route Army, wanting to destroy the Harland Territory.

The Orcs of Canyon Fort are the partial division of the Middle Route Army, with a total of five brigades of orcs, plus the auxiliaries who transport food in the rear, adding up to about 15,000 people.

The deputy commander of the orc legion, Gatlin, had a gloomy face, listening to the information about the defeat of the vanguard brigade, and saw that the captain Tanamo was constantly defending himself and shirking responsibility.

Gatling is a lion, the core of the orc race, while Tanamo is only a fifth-order kobold, and normally his status is not comparable to that of Gatling.

But Kiram, the commander of the Orc Mid Lane Army, is also a kobold, and in order to take care of the commander's face, Gatling will take care of Tanamo.

It was because of Gatling's care that Captain Kobold stood out from his peers and became the vanguard of the army.

As a result, the kobolds, the vanguard, actually fell into the trap set by the defenders of the Canyon Fort, and the forward brigade suffered heavy losses, only three or four hundred people ran back.

Although he didn't want to offend the commander, in order to enforce military discipline, Gaitlin was still ruthless and decided to use Tanamo's head to make an example of the monkey and deter everyone.

"Your army has been surrounded and annihilated, why didn't you die? Give me the order to put this shameful deserter to death. ”

Gatling gave the order and executed the kobold captain, and he looked around with both eyes and saw many orc officers trembling.

"Plani, tell me about the investigation."

Gaitling turned his head and focused his eyes on the Harpy squadron leader.

"Deputy Legion Commander, through aerial reconnaissance, the human race has stationed about four thousand soldiers in the castle in front of us, of which three thousand are better equipped, and they should be the elite soldiers of the Haaland Territory.

The castle along the Grota River in the east was garrisoned by three thousand people, and the elite soldiers numbered about two thousand.

In addition, the castle of the king and the Norman castle in the rear of the human race had garrisons, which combined with about six thousand people, and the number of elite soldiers exceeded four thousand.

Because there are magic flying items in the Canyon Fort, our aerial scouts can't get too close. ”

Hearing the intelligence summary of Harpy Squadron Leader Prani, Gatelin frowned and said, "Since when did the Human Front Castle have magic flying props?" ”

"It should be a new item that has been invented in the last two years. When we were scouting in Duke Jonathan's three years ago, there was no such fire-breathing magical creation. A few days ago, we received a summons from the headquarters that this kind of flying magic prop appeared in the four central provinces of the Harland Collar and the Grant royal family, and our losses were not light. ”

"Human creativity is far superior to ours!

More than a thousand years ago, humanity relied on the magical revival movement to defeat us in one fell swoop, suppress the elves, and occupy the core land of the Middle Continent. Seven hundred years ago, human beings created the warrior breathing method, which allowed ordinary people to break through the shackles of blood, and their foundation skyrocketed.

In the last few hundred years, humans have begun to build Warcraft cavalry again, and now even aerial magic items have appeared. Could it be that we orcs only have the fate of being suppressed? “

Hearing the information of the Harpy, Gatling suddenly became pessimistic in his heart. But he was the deputy commander of the orcs, commanding the army, and he must not let his pessimism affect the junior officers and soldiers.

"The human soldiers are stationed in the four castles, and there are more than 13,000 people combined, which is not much different in number from us, and the strength is relatively close. Humans have strong castles, and we can't storm them. ”

Gatling listened to the speech of the werewolf captain below, and immediately nodded.

There are a total of 10,000 main forces under the command of Gatlin, of which more than 1,600 people have lost the kobold captain Prani, and now the strength in his hands is not much different from the strength of the army led by Soros. As for the more than 5,000 auxiliaries in the back, a considerable number of them were sheep-like soldiers, and the sheep-like soldiers could not play a role in field battles at all.

The situation in this direction, where the human soldiers have fortifications, actually has the upper hand.

"Looks like we don't have a chance to break through the human defenses."

The Harpy Squadron Leader retorted, "Not necessarily, the humans are not stationed in the Tani Gorge, we can break through the Harland Territory along the Tani Canyon and attack the Eagle Castle." Or march east into the Nelson Viscounty. ”

"Why didn't Count Haaland build a castle and build a defensive line in the Thani Gorge?"

Gatling sighed, "The first may not have so many people, and the second may want to use our hands to annex the Viscounty of Nelson. The great nobles of mankind have done this many times. If it weren't for the disunity of humanity and relying on the power of the Holy Aura Empire, we would have been defeated.

Everyone in Savaran has seen the magicians of the kingdom of Makholm, who have been supporting us all these years. ”

Staring at the map, Gatling thought for a long time, and finally decided to pass through the defense line of Haraland's territory from the Tani Gorge and go around to the belly of Haraland's territory to attack the enemy, which was also the order given to him by Kiram.

Although Gatlin knew in his heart that the operation was dangerous.

Although there are no extra soldiers in the Harland Command, the province of Lahe is the focus of the garrison of the Kingdom of Grant, with a main army and two second-line army corps, with more than 50,000 troops.

The move of the Gatling to go behind enemy lines was in fact a military adventure.

As soon as the province of Lah cooperates closely with the army led by Haaland, the Gatling will immediately be besieged.

Three days after the eastern defenders of Haaland's territory engaged the orcs for three days, the main force of the orcs appeared in the northern area of Haaland's territory with the overwhelming force of Mount Tai.

In front of Salt Lake County, there was an army of 20,000 orcs, and there were more than 10,000 auxiliaries who escorted grain and grass to guard the back road.

A half-legion of orcs appeared in the northern part of Fort Garrison, and the total number of auxiliaries was 45,000.

In the western part of the swamp basin, the orcs marched along the Bernie River, because the roads along the way were not easy to walk, and there were about three brigades of six thousand orcs.

In addition, in the direction of Platos, seven brigades of orcs pressed together.

The four-way army exerted its strength at the same time, with a total of more than 100,000 orcs, which made Haaland's territory feel very stressed.

(End of chapter)