To the north of Hurricane Castle, the Harland Legion and the Orc Army have been facing off for more than ten days.

In the past 10 days, the two sides launched a number of tentative attacks.

After more than ten days of contact battles, Richard found that the combat effectiveness of the top-numbered orc legions was indeed stronger.

According to Richard's years of war experience, the combat effectiveness of the numbered orc legions is not comparable to that of the Northern Legions, let alone the main legions of the Harland Territory.

The numbered orc legion, because of the strengthening of the snake body heavy infantry brigade, the silver moon wolf cavalry brigade, and the number of harpy scouts are also full, and the combat effectiveness is obviously stronger than that of the northern legion.

Listening to the information from the Soros Ministry, the 13th Legion also has orc archers participating in the battle. This orc elite is good at long-range projection, which can be compared to the Harland Leader Officer.

If it weren't for Thoros' heavy trebuchet and the help of the Scorching Ray Gun, he might not be able to stop this orc legion.

This time, although the Eastern Front of the Prairie Governorate could not be transferred to the legendary commander, it strengthened an elite legion, and also transferred the orc legion used to attack Duke Jonathan's territory to the side of Harland's territory.

On the first day of April, there was no April Fool's Day in this world, and Richard led his army out of the fortifications of Hurricane Castle and took the initiative to fight the orcs.

When the commander of the 17th Legion of the Orcs, the mad wolf Somur, saw this scene, he suddenly had some doubts in his heart, and he didn't know why the other party gave up the advantageous terrain and wanted to fight with him in the field?

After more than ten days of trial, the two sides gradually weighed the details of their opponents.

With the same strength, if you fight the field orcs, you can give full play to your advantage, and the elite orc army has a better chance of winning.

However, since the enemy was going to take the initiative to fight a decisive battle, the mad wolf Somir was of course not afraid of the opponent, and immediately began to arrange his troops, and the elite snake body brigade was at the front. Next were two brigades of minotaurs with strong combat effectiveness, ready to follow the serpentine heavy infantry to widen the gap and tear through the defensive line.

On the side of Haaland's territory, they almost poured out of the nest and drained the troops in the rear.

The first Demon Beast Cavalry was in a large formation, guarding against the flank attack of the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry, and could bypass the formation at any time to fight against the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry.

The third brigade, the fourth brigade, and the guard brigade have relatively strong combat effectiveness, have been tested for a long time, and are in the middle of the array. The headquarters command organ, the Harland Territory Mage Regiment, fights with the Chinese army.

The 7th, 12th, and 21st Brigades were on the left flank.

The 8th, 9th, and 22nd Brigades were the right wing.

The 1st, 6th, and 8th squadrons of the Magic Hot Air Balloon all took to the air with the Lion Cavalry squad led by Haaland to fight the Harpy Scouts.

Only one of the 26th Brigade and 7,000 second-line corps remained. In addition to guarding the castle in the rear, they also had to cooperate with the Archbishop of Seine to guard the undead stronghold.

In a field duel between the main forces, the second-line corps with weak combat effectiveness cannot be rashly used.

Because of the troops with weak combat effectiveness, the military formation is easy to be penetrated by the orc elite, and when the time comes, not only will they not be able to help, but they will also have to be distracted by the main force.

The collapse of the second-line corps on the battlefield will also affect the morale of the main forces.

The two elite teams face off, and the critical time is to fight in one breath.

If this breath is vented in advance, failure is difficult to avoid.

Richard, Sophia, and Wendy all followed the Chinese army to fight, watching the snake-body heavy infantry slowly move forward, and the iron spears they held up were more than 100 catties, and the head of the spear and the barrel of the gun were as thick as the mouth of the bowl, six meters long, like an iron spear jungle.

Even the first brigade, the most elite infantry in Haaland's territory, has a worse frontal impact than the Serpentine heavy infantry.

If the third brigade is allowed to collide head-on with the snakes, the casualties will be not shallow.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and he was about to enter the range of the archers, the snake man raised the giant shield in his hand, and seemed to be ready to block the arrows.

Before the main battle, Richard had already adjusted his tactics and was ready to use the starlight bomb above the orcs' heads.

Anyway, the starlight bomb has been used twice near Princess Offalain's mausoleum, and it can't be hidden from the personnel of the church, since this legendary fourth-order magic prop has been leaked, Richard is ready to let the people in the shadows take a look.

As soon as the snake man raised the giant shield, Richard handed the Starlight Necklace to Wendy.

In an instant, a thick pillar of light crashed into the orc formation, and with a boom, there was a loud sound that shook the earth and the earth. A dazzling ball of white light appeared in the orc formation.

The intense white light was extremely dazzling, and it was accompanied by a scorching temperature, and even if it was two hundred meters away, there was still a burning and stinging feeling. The soldiers raised their shields to protect themselves behind them, reducing radiation damage.

The orc army array was in the center of the explosion, and in an instant, countless snake-body people had been wiped out.

In a 600-strong heavy infantry brigade, 260 snake-body people turned into ashes on the spot, and the rest were also severely damaged by radiation and were basically unable to fight.

The Minotaur Brigade, which was very close to the snakes, was also not spared, and even if there were no statistics, Richard could see that the casualties had exceeded a thousand.

It's just that they are a little farther away from the center of the explosion, and there are fewer direct casualties, and more lightly wounded.

After Wendy used the Starlight Necklace, she consumed 360 points of mana, and the mana in her body was basically depleted. The mana was consumed so much that Wendy became very tired, as if she was about to fall asleep. Wendy cheered up and handed the Starlight Necklace to Sophia.

Sophia didn't spare her hand and immediately unleashed a second starlight bomb.

This shot was aimed at the orc army, and a thick pillar of light hit the orc guard team fiercely.

After the first blow, the wild wolf Somur had a bad feeling in his heart.

He had the intention to order the soldiers to disperse to avoid the damage of the Starlight Bomb, but if they spread out on the battlefield, they could not be the opponents of the enemy who formed a tight formation, and they would also be slaughtered by the enemy, and the defeat of this battle was inevitable.

The wolf hesitated slightly, and the second starlight bomb had already hit his command office.

Once the Starlight Bomb is launched, the speed is extremely fast, and this powerful energy is as fast as the speed of light. Even though the mad wolf Somur was a ninth-order professional, he couldn't react, let alone dodge in advance.

In an instant, there was another earth-shattering explosion, and more than half of the guards squadron were killed and wounded at once, more than 600 were directly killed, and nearly 1,000 were injured.

Even the orc legion leader Somur couldn't dodge the blow.

Because Sophia's goal was to target him, Somur was immediately wiped out.

After the second Starlight Bomb landed, Richard took the Starlight Necklace from Sophia and launched a third attack, decisively unleashing the third Starlight Bomb.

This time, Richard aimed at the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry in the rear, and the cavalry formation was relatively scattered, and the casualties of the Starlight Bomb attack were a little smaller.

Although the shot released by Richard was the most powerful and covered the widest area, it only killed more than 120 people and wounded more than 200 Silver Moon Wolf cavalrymen, with just over half of the casualties.

Three rounds of starlight bombs hit directly, annihilating the Serpent Heavy Infantry Brigade and the Guard Brigade, and severely damaged the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Brigade and the two Minotaur Brigades.

The two sides have not yet met, and the casualties of the orc elite have exceeded three thousand.

The Seventeenth Legion of Orcs is a large legion, with a total of fifteen brigades in the main force, even if the Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry and the Serpent Heavy Infantry Brigade are smaller, the total strength is 27,000.

It stands to reason that with 3,000 casualties, it should not affect the operation.

But the 3,000 orcs killed and wounded today are the trump cards of the 17th Legion, these three trump card troops have lost their combat effectiveness, and the combat strength of the Orc Legion has been reduced by half.

In addition, the powerful power of the starlight bomb has been deeply imprinted in the minds of the orcs, and the casualties of 3,000 people have been broken in an instant, which has broken the will of the orcs, and with the loss of command organs, some orc armies have begun to collapse.

Although the wolf Somur was killed in battle, the 17th Legion was the elite of the orcs after all, and after sensing that the situation was not good, the remaining middle-level officers immediately disposed of the deserters and organized the orc soldiers who had lost the will to fight.

However, without the command of the headquarters, the scheduling was obviously ineffective, and the orc formation was already in chaos.

Taking advantage of the chaos in the orc formation, the soldiers of Haaland's territory immediately drew their bows and arrows and released the first round of feathered arrows.

The common human legion fights against the orcs, and its greatest advantage is archery.

The vast majority of the orc legions can't shoot arrows, and the half-orc archers are a scarce class, and the entire orc empire adds up to thirty or forty thousand. Scattered in a huge territory, it can only be placed in the main direction of attack and act as a killer weapon.

And every free man in Northern Xinjiang, when he was seven or eight years old, began to learn archery under the guidance of his father.

After soldiers enter the army, archery is also the most important combat skill, after years of combat training, the archery skills of soldiers in northern Xinjiang are generally good.

Coupled with excellent physical fitness, the lethality of arrow rain is extraordinary.

More than 10,000 soldiers shot arrows at the same time, and the rain of arrows suddenly covered the sky and the sun, looking black and oppressive, which made people feel shocked.

After the rain of arrows fell into the orc army, it achieved a very good killing effect.

The soldiers of Haaland's territory shot arrows very quickly, shooting three volleys in just one minute, and the orcs who were hit by the arrows had exceeded a thousand.

Seeing that the army of the Haaland territory wanted to keep a distance and use long-range projection to enhance the killing effect, the commander of the orc army invariably issued an order to speed up the march and engage in close combat with the army of the Haaland territory.

The quality of the 17th Legion is very good, this part of the orcs marched quickly, and it took a minute to break through the distance of more than 100 meters, enter the range of their own strikes, and use the slings to fire stone projectiles at the army formation of the Haaland territory.

Occasionally, some powerful orcs threw alchemy bombs at the army of Haaland's territory.

The original alchemy bomb, because of the use of fire crystal, was twice as powerful as the knockoffs in Haland's territory, and a large number of alchemy bombs were thrown into the military formation, and a large number of casualties began to appear.

Seeing that the orcs were bombarded by three rounds of starlight bombardment, they did not disperse, but under the command of a middle-level officer, they exerted their subjective initiative to continue to fight against themselves.

With a wave of his hand, Richard played his second hole card, opened the Starlight Vial, and used the Iron Golem Legion.

Under the manipulation of the Harland Territory Mage Regiment, eighteen steel golems launched an attack, crushing the orc forward squadron in an instant, and fiercely embedded in the orc army.

Although the Golem Legion has some weaknesses, the ability it can exert in the positional battle of the two armies is more powerful than that of the ninth-order knights.

Moreover, the level of orc magic civilization is very low, and only a very small number of orc shamans have spell abilities, and they are not proficient in spells such as soul strikes, and they cannot grasp the weakness of the Iron Golem Legion.

Eighteen steel golems, like eighteen sharp arrows, fiercely nailed into the orc formation, breaking through the formation of an orc team.

The forward brigade was broken through by the Golem Legion, and the second echelon faced the Golem Legion, and there was also no good way.

The Iron Golem is six meters tall and has a very strong resistance to physical attacks, making it difficult for even a ninth-order orc to defeat the Iron Golem with physical attacks. Moreover, with the death of Somur in battle, the orc headquarters was wiped out, and it was impossible to draw enough high-level professionals to intercept it.

The Chinese army under Richard's command followed behind the Iron Golem, constantly tearing and expanding the breach. The three infantry brigades of the Chinese army are all capable veterans, and they have been in the army for more than ten years, and their combat effectiveness is somewhat stronger than that of the orc brigade.

With the steel golem as an arrow, and a large number of alchemy bombs equipped, in just ten minutes, the three echelons of the orcs, a total of four brigades, were penetrated through the military formation.

At the same time, the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade in the Harland Territory had defeated the Orc Silver Moon Wolf Cavalry Brigade and began to flank the left flank of the Orcs.

After the defeat of the Chinese army, the defeat of the left and right flanks was inevitable.

Richard and the Warcraft cavalry directly encircled the left and right flanks of the orcs into the encirclement.

The orcs had already fallen into the disadvantage, and now they were being attacked from the front and back, and the situation was extremely bad.

However, this orc legion was very tenacious, and did not break up after being flanked, but fought until it ran out of ammunition and food, and was completely annihilated by the soldiers of Harland's territory.

The battle lasted more than six hours, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Although it took Richard some time to annihilate the orcs, he hadn't run out of cards. At the very least, Richard's remaining magic power can still release two rounds of starlight bombs.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, the orc resistance was finally over. The soldiers began to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded.

Richard smelled the smoke wafting from the battlefield and watched as the auxiliaries in the rear acted as stretcher teams, constantly carrying the wounded, and the wounded let out a moan. Some people could not bear the severe pain, and the cries were very fierce.

The hygienists of the major teams treated the wounds briefly, and all the seriously wounded were sent to the Hurricane Castle Field Hospital.

Until nightfall, the battlefield was not finished.

Early the next morning, Richard asked the officers of the staff directly.

"Have we counted our casualties?"

"In yesterday's battle, we lost 383 casualties, 609 minor and serious wounded, and the total casualties were less than 1,000."

Although Richard had some estimates in his heart and heard the exact casualty figures, the pressure in his heart suddenly decreased.

The southwestern part of the territory is still being raided by orcs. Richard immediately ordered the division of troops, and he decided to personally command the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, the Third Brigade, the Twenty-first Brigade, and the Twenty-second Brigade to go to Barony Harden for reinforcements.

The Fourth Brigade, the Guard Brigade, the Seventh Brigade, the Eighth Brigade, the Ninth Brigade, and the Twelfth Brigade formed the North Detachment, with Marcus as the commander, to strike at the logistics line of the orcs and cooperate with the defenders of Nite Canyon.

Because there are supply depots in Haraland's territory along the way, the speed of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade is very fast, and it marches more than 200 kilometers in a day and a half to the former Barony of Harden.

The Warcraft Cavalry Brigade acted very suddenly, because there were lion cavalry in the sky to cover, and their whereabouts were not detected by the orcs.

The captain Sauron was very decisive, and immediately launched a surprise attack on the orcs who divided his troops to plunder, and fought four small battles successively, annihilating more than a thousand orc troops.

Sensing that something was wrong, some of the orcs immediately assembled.

The orcs rallied and immediately reduced the local threat.

After discovering the arrival of reinforcements, Viscount Rohmon and the head of the Knight Academy, Conde, mobilized the legion and took the initiative to fight this orc army.

With the arrival of reinforcements, the situation was reversed in an instant.

(End of chapter)