575 Siege
After killing the surrounding orcs, Chu Qianqian did not encounter any more orc scouts on the way to retreat again.
When he rode the red rabbit up a hillside and looked in the direction of the orc army camp.
The camp was already on fire.
It seemed that the speed at which the orcs extinguished the fire was even slower than Chu Xiangqian had imagined.
But think about it, how can it be possible to carry so many barrels and tubs of water and the like when marching to war.
Since the fire is so big, it seems that the orc army will definitely not be able to continue to advance in the past few days.
Chu Xiangqian thought about it, and decided to go back to Gaoshan Fort first.
As for taking the opportunity to kill a few more orcs to gain experience, Chu Xiangqian didn't want to be chased by the orcs who were angry and had nowhere to vent.
Returning to the novice village, and then entering the Torrent Castle, riding the red rabbit to the high mountain castle for half an hour, although the dwarf town has long been closed, Chu Xiangqian has not only had a great reputation among the dwarves, not to mention that he still has important information to report.
Report what happened tonight to the lover lord, and then take out the ears of the orcs and centaurs killed tonight, and the surrounding dwarves immediately believed 80%.
Not long after, a griffin came out of the belly of the mountain and rushed into the sky with a dwarf to verify whether what Chu Xiangqian said was true or false.
It doesn't take much time to simply fly around the sky.
After more than two hours of back and forth, when the sky was slightly brightened, the dwarf who had gone to verify it finally flew back on a griffin.
Needless to say, not only was the orc's military ration burned, but last night's chaos almost caused the camp to roar.
It's a pity that at the critical moment, he was pressed down by the orc lord with the guards.
However, although the chaos was suppressed, there were hundreds of orcs who died at the hands of the orcs last night.
When the griffin dwarf said this, he couldn't help but look at Chu Xiangqian, and continued with admiration on his face, he saw the orc corpses piled up in a hill outside the orc camp.
To say the least, there are three or five hundred.
When the surrounding dwarves heard this, they looked at Chu Xiangqian's gaze with the same expression of admiration.
This confirmed that Chu had made a great contribution to the future.
And his original mission was to hunt down centaur scouts, and now that the night has passed, he has brought back a dozen centaur ears.
The dwarven lords had to thank each other generously.
He ordered someone to carry out a wooden box, opened it, and saw that it was full of gold coins.
It seems that there are thousands of them, to say the least.
Sure enough, the dwarven lord said that there were 5,000 gold coins in the chest, which was a reward for burning the orcs' grain and grass.
Seeing a box of gold coins, Chu Xiangqian understood in his heart that the 5,000 gold coins were actually only 50,000 grams or 50 kilograms, which were converted into US dollars, but in fact they were only 50,000 or 60,000.
But mankind's pursuit of gold is probably engraved in the bones.
5 or 60,000 US dollars were placed in front of Chu Xiangqian, he definitely didn't care at all, but with a box of 5,000 gold coins in front of him, everything was different again.
Putting away the gold coins, Chu Xiangqian and the dwarf lords and generals said some more information about their orc army, and then went back to the tavern to rest.
Three days passed quickly, and five days had passed since the dwarves asked the forest elves and other dwarves for help.
When Chu Xiangqian refreshes the orc plot map every day, he will come to the dwarf town once.
My own experience has also arrived, 392,000/600,000.
With 72,400 experience per day, you can upgrade to level 20 in three days.
After brushing the plot map today, on the way to the town on horseback from Riptide Castle, I saw a team of elves standing on the city wall from a distance, at least a hundred people.
It's a pity that looking at it carefully, Chu Xiangqian was suddenly a little disappointed.
These elves are indeed handsome, and their armor and equipment are mostly exquisite, but all the horsemen who ride the horses are male elves.
The elves were wary of Chu Xiangqian, and the two elves also drew arrows, and once there was any abnormal movement, they would attack.
After all, this is a special time, and the area where the mountain dwarves and forest elves are located has never had much human interaction.
In addition, the human race in this year is not good at force and magic, and has always been looked down upon by powerful and long-lived races such as elves and dwarves.
But the dwarves were very familiar with Chu Xiangqian, and they let people open the city gate from afar.
In the eyes of the dwarves, when Chu Xiangqian left every evening, he must have gone to hunt centaurs and orc scouts again.
And Chu Xiangqian only needs to let the, staring at the situation of the orc army every night, to know the situation of the orcs.
As for the evidence of hunting centaurs, Chu Xiangqian no longer needed to cut off the centaurs' ears at this time, and the dwarf spontaneously thought that he must have fought with the orcs at night.
A few dwarves who were familiar with him pushed open the city gate and asked if they had killed a few orc scouts last night.
It's a pity that Chu Qianqian entered the castle, and before he had time to set up a relationship with the dwarves he was familiar with, and let them take him to know and know the elven beauty, a bell rang on the city wall.
A few dwarves still cared about Chu Qianqian, hurriedly closed the city gate quickly, and called other dwarves to transport stones and pile them behind the city gate.
Seeing this, Chu Xiangqian naturally didn't dare to disturb the affairs of the dwarves, so he could only go up to the city wall first.
Then I saw groups and herds of armored orcs and bear goblins more than three meters tall in the distance.
Although the fire burned the food of the orc army, it only slowed down the orcs by 2 days.
It seems that this orc army is not small in its determination to attack the mountain dwarves.
But even if it's only for 2 days, let 300 forest elves come to the rescue.
The dwarves don't have to worry about the centaur archers, and the dwarves who will suppress the city can't raise their heads.
Once the orcs take the opportunity to attack the city, the dwarves will have to bite the bullet, and the centaur archers will take the opportunity to shoot the dwarves on the city walls, and the huge casualties may collapse the dwarves in a few days.
Of course, the dwarves actually have musketeers, but in real terms, the accuracy is not as good as that of the elves, let alone the rate of fire.
Even the lethality is actually not comparable.
The elves can do it, the arrows hit the target's neck, head, and heart, and in terms of the lethal effect, even if the attack power of the musket is actually greater, it is actually the elve's more lethal power.
The only advantage is that the musket does not consume much physical strength on the gunner, and no matter how powerful the elven archer is, he cannot shoot hundreds of arrows in a row.
This requires the elves to divide into several teams, one team to go up the wall to shoot, and the other two teams to recover their arm strength.
But after two or three rotations, the elf's arm strength will still be consumed about the same.
If it is the earth and the grassland condor archers, in fact, they can only draw twenty or thirty arrows in the big war.
Even an elite archer who shoots 20 arrows will have weak arms and must rest for a while.
It's a pity that the orcs are not stupid, and when attacking the city, they will inevitably use vertical shields and rush up with the elves' accurate shots.
With a shield in the way, the elves' lethality will be reduced a lot.
Otherwise, if 300 elven archers stand on the city wall and attack unarmored targets, one person will kill 30, which is 9,000.
Not to mention the siege, it's good that the morale hasn't collapsed.
Chu Xiangqian, the dwarves, and the elves all thought that the orcs would not attack the city today, after all, after walking for half a day, the physical exertion was not small.
As long as the generals of the unified army are a little clearer, they will set up camp first, rest for one night and then attack the city.
But what people didn't expect was that the orcs only repaired for more than an hour, and then pressed half of the army to attack the city directly.
An army of 5,000 orcs, lined up in more than a dozen formations to attack the city, not only the dwarves were a little flustered, but even the elves were shocked.
Fortunately, no one doubts whether the city wall built by the dwarves is strong, and it is not so easy to storm the wall of more than ten meters.
Nor did anyone doubt the dwarves' determination to defend the city.
When the orcs showed signs of siege, a large number of dwarves in full armor and armed with two battle axes, or a battle axe and a war hammer, ran out of the mountain, and the dwarven civilians in the town took the old and young into the city in the heart of the mountain.
Chu looked at this dwarven force and knew that it was an attack group.
Naturally, you don't have to worry about defense, so all that's left is how to slash and kill the enemy more.
And the other 2 elven hundreds, along with the dwarf lord Allison and the guards, also appeared in the town.
Chu Xiangqian also met Bosko, the lord of the forest elves, and his guards.
This group of elves with silver shining slim armor all over their bodies does look like the elite of a hundred battles, but this also benefits from the fact that as long as there is no accident, the elves can live thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years.
In such a long time, the longer the elves live, the more wars they have experienced.
If Chu Qianqian lived for two or three thousand years, even if he participated in one war in a hundred years, he would be able to experience twenty or thirty times.
But the more powerful the elves, the more obvious the shortcomings, not only the reproductive ability is generally weaker than other races, most of the elves in their lives, the proportion of couples with two or three children is not large.
Only by having 2 children can a couple ensure the inheritance of the race, and having more than 3 children can ensure the continuation and growth of the race.
Once the number is less than two, the population is shrinking.
Without the help of the enemy, time will slowly lead the race to its own demise.
If there were another war during this period, the rate of decline would be accelerated.
After the dwarf lord Allison finished introducing Chu Qian to the elven lord Bosko, the surrounding elves looked at him and couldn't help but show expressions of curiosity and admiration.
After all, even the elite of the elves can't guarantee that they can hunt more than twenty orc scouts and centaur archers in the wilderness and still be able to retreat with their whole body.
Not to mention, to burn the orc army alone.
Speaking of this, the two lords suddenly glanced at each other, and quickly understood.
The general of the orc army, this is because of the lack of food and grass, so he simply does not trim it, and uses the siege to consume the orc's bottom cannon fodder.
By the way, the physical strength of the mountain dwarves and elves is consumed, and before the 5,000 orcs show signs of rout, they will suddenly invest in elite orc warriors, and maybe they can really attack the city wall with one sentence.
The dwarven lord Allison, who was also short-tempered, couldn't help but curse in a low voice when he thought of this.
It is foreseeable that the orcs will attack with all their might this time.
After all, many low-level orcs have low intelligence, as long as the orc general is willing to die, the intensity of the first wave of attacks will be very large.
Allison immediately commanded the leader of his bodyguard, Vic-Skullcrusher, and soon about 200 dwarven musketeers landed on the walls.
Elven archers with a hundred-man team and 500 dwarven heavy warriors.
Subsequently, several weapons to defend the city were also pushed out by the dwarves.
Chu Xiangqian saw at a glance that in addition to trebuchets and large crossbow arrows, there was also a large weapon like a sprinkler truck.
After thinking about it for a while, Chu Xiangqian quickly realized that this thing might be an otherworldly version of a flamethrower.
Then another dwarf galloped back into the mountain, apparently ordering the civilians to start arming.
In the event of a crisis, the dwarves can retreat into the belly of the mountain, but it is foreseeable that it will not be so easy to defend the gate from the town to the mountain.
At that time, even if the dwarves defend the gate of the mountain, the orcs have the advantage of numbers and size, and the casualties of the two sides in melee will not be small.
And orcs are not afraid of casualties, for them, anyway, it is common for a child to have three or five, and it is not uncommon for a child to have seven or eight.
Compared with dwarves, whose birth rate is lower than that of humans, orcs are not afraid of fighting for population at all.
Chu looked forward at the large crossbow arrows and flamethrowers, which were carried up the city wall by the dwarves, plus the elven archers.
I really can't understand, why can the orcs still attack the city wall?
But when the orcs really began to attack the city, facing the army of orcs outside the city who could not see the edge, Chu Xiangqian couldn't help but be a little scared in his heart.
The so-called number of people is more than 10,000, and the mountains are all over the wilderness.
Coupled with the momentum of the orcs roaring, ordinary people encountered, let alone drawing their swords to face the battle, and they were considered to have strong willpower if they were not weak.
Busy revealing the full set of level 15 equipment in the character's equipment column, the surrounding elves and dwarves couldn't help but be surprised by the full body armor that was suddenly revealed on Chu Xiangqian's body.
Unlike the good-looking light armor, since it is a defensive city, there are not many places to move, so it is naturally more important to defend, so as not to be accidentally shot by the enemy's archers.
Therefore, the heavy armor on Chu Xiangqian's body is not only the whole body plate armor, but even the helmet on the head, the eyes and the nose are all gaps the thickness of two fingers, one horizontal and one vertical.
It can be said that in terms of armor coverage and defense, it is higher than that of dwarven heavy armor warriors.
And the dwarves also knew that Chu Xiangqian also had a set of light armor, which was also silver.
The elf couldn't help but be contrasted because Chu Xiangqian was also holding a bow and arrow in his hand.
After all, elves are famous for their bows and arrows, and it would be humiliating to be compared to a human.
But it wasn't until the orcs actually attacked the city that Chu Xiangqian realized why the dwarves and elves were so nervous.
Unlike the movie, the physical fitness of orcs is much stronger than that of humans, and the momentum of attacking the city is like a storm.
Rows of orcs slowly approached with vertical shields, and even if the elves could shoot the gaps between the shields with their bows and arrows, their lethality was reduced many times at once.
Even if some orcs are hit by arrows, as long as they are not fatal, the impact on the orcs is not as great as expected.
Moreover, this orc is basically armored, as long as he protects his head and takes an arrow on his body, it will not immediately incapacitate them.
Now the role of large crossbow arrows, catapults, and spray trains is revealed.
But what surprised Chu Xiangqian again was that if the human army attacked the city and encountered fire oil, there was a high probability that he would turn around and run.
But in the orc army, even the orcs who were ignited on their bodies only shouted and rushed forward, instead of turning around and running, and at the same time, they also disrupted the military formation of the army.
No wonder dwarves and elves are so jealous and nervous about orcs.
(End of chapter)