Chapter 526 [It's Over]

The crucible rested on the fire, and the water inside was already boiling and bubbling.

It has to be said that thanks to this heavy snowfall, it is very convenient for the army to get water. Just use a pot to shovel a pot of snow in the surrounding snow to melt, and you can drink it as fresh water.

Chen Daolin's army did not need to go around chopping firewood to live, and his army carried some coal in its wagons, which were mined from the mountains.

At night, there was silence both inside and outside the fort.

Under strict rules of war etiquette, no one in the barracks was allowed to make loud noises to ensure that lookouts at the lookouts were not disturbed by noise.

A sheep that had been skinned and eviscerated was scrubbed inside and out of the snow by two warriors, then chopped into pieces with large axes and distributed to each squad, and then thrown into crucibles.

Dinner was sumptuous, with dehydrated dry food, and everyone was given a bowl of hot mutton soup with thick oil splashes, and an officer's bowl of lamb.

In the middle of the night, Montoya had already woken up from his sleep, he felt that the fatigue of the days had been removed, and when he walked out of the fortress, the adjutant beside him handed him a bowl of mutton soup, Montoya took it, did not speak, drank it all, chewed the fat mutton in his mouth fiercely, and swallowed it with a grunt.

"Where's Lord Darling?"

"Your Excellency took someone to the front to make rounds. ”

Montoya nodded, and just as he was about to say something, he saw Chen Daolin's disciple, the necromancer McQueen, running over.

"What's wrong, Your Excellency Mage?"

Despite his youth, McQueen was a magician after all, and a formidable necromancer, so the Holy Knight maintained respect and politeness towards him.

"The teacher has orders for you, Montoya-sama. ”

McQueen pulled a badge out of his bosom and gave it to him. Glancing at Montoya, Montoya recognized it as a token that Chen Daolin was carrying, so he nodded: "What is the order?"

McQueen took a deep breath, the young magician's face with some excitement, and whispered something in Montoya's ear.

“...... I will carry out the order!" Montoya's eyes lit up, "Please tell Lord Darling, my sword will always follow his orders!"

The teacher never doubted this. McQueen immediately said seriously.

Montoya left in a hurry, he left in a hurry. The Holy Knight rushed to the back of the barracks, and soon, there was a sound of alarm from inside.

......

It's almost dawn. Chen Daolin returned to the barracks.

The commander of the barracks had been replaced by Montoya's deputy, an officer selected from Sylvester's personal guard battalion, about forty years old, taciturn, and with a very common name, Adams.

"I've made a lot of preparations. ”

It's just Adams' report to Chen Daolin.

Chen Daolin nodded. He knows this guy very well, and he is very cautious and steady. Although the talent in all aspects is not very outstanding, whether it is Montoya or Martin. The evaluation of him is the same: a qualified officer, maybe not outstanding, but absolutely qualified.

"From now on, you are my herald. Chen Daolin glanced at him: "When the war started." You are responsible for specific commands. ”

Adams didn't speak, nodded, and stood beside Chen Daolin.

The orcs arrived earlier than expected.

Perhaps smelling something, these orcs seemed to be eager to go south. Seize this piece of fat in front of you.

The sun was still shining when noon had just passed, although the winter sun didn't provide much warmth.

on the ground. Above the snow line, the shadows of the orcs began to appear.

Soon there was movement on the lookout, and the warning horn was sounded.

By the time Chen Daolin walked out of the fort, Adams had already begun to carry out his task very conscientiously, and he began to supervise and urge all the troops to enter his post.

Low walls, fortresses, battlements......

Adams's hard shouting made Chen Daolin smile slightly.

The main fort of this fort has a three-story structure, two and a half floors to be exact. Half of its basement floor is exposed to the ground, and several ventilation openings are opened.

The top two floors are round, and the two wings are made of stones, which can be regarded as a permanent trench, and the two corridors lead to the secondary fortresses on both sides.

In terms of shape, the overall structure of this No. 7 fortress resembles a Chinese character for "mountain".

"From now on, you take over the command. Chen Daolin confessed to Adams.

Adams hesitated: "Your Excellency...... How are we going to fight?"

"Fight as you want. Chen Daolin said lightly: "You are an officer from the Northwest Independent Division, don't you even know how to fight? There are ready-made complete fortifications, 3,000 soldiers, sufficient ordnance and food, and we occupy a favorable terrain...... Now, Adams, show your abilities!"

Adams hesitated slightly, and said quickly: "The fortress does not require us to put all the troops into the post at the same time, so we can leave five hundred soldiers in the fortress as a reserve. Also, all the archers should go up to the second and third floors, my lord, I need your permission. ”

"You've got my authorization. Chen Daolin pulled out his saber and put it in Adams's hand: "If anyone doesn't obey the military order, you will cut off his head with my sword!"

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The afternoon sun was shining on the snow, and the land was white.

The orc legions began to advance slowly, and when they reached a distance of about five hundred meters from the fortress, they stopped.

Chen Daolin stood on the third floor of the fortress, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance, and couldn't help but sigh softly.

"What an old way of warfare...... Phalanx?hehe......"

The orc phalanx was located right under Chen Daolin's nose, and a simple eagle eye magic made him not need a telescope at all.

The phalanx of the orcs was indeed as Montoya described, there were more than ten large and small, and the number was more or less, the large phalanx may have two or three hundred people, and the smallest was only about thirty or fifty people.

Although overall, the array is fairly neat. But this arrangement made Chen Daolin can't help but sneer in his heart.

Tribal army...... Sure enough, it's ancient!

Of course, the orc warriors are powerful and ferocious—this is something that Chen Daolin has already experienced and observed up close when he first came to this world.

But from a war point of view, the orc armies still maintain their traditions: backward tribal structures.

The orc army in front of him should belong to a relatively powerful tribe in the orc kingdom.

But the structure of the orc kingdom is that there are large and small tribes under the tribe.

These tribes range from large to small, with the largest tribes having populations in the thousands or even thousands, and the smallest tribes having a population of 100 or 10.

When the orcs start a war, start a war order from the orc king. It goes down to the tribes, and the tribes go down to the tribes of all sizes under their command.

Then the tribes, large and small, will mobilize the warriors of their own tribes to participate in the war.

As a result, the orc army does not have a more scientific and reasonable army structure like the army of the Roland Empire, although it is a feudal army, but at least it has a more reasonable army structure.

The orc organization is more scattered. They are based on tribes, and large tribes may have a larger population base, and the number of warriors drawn out may be in the hundreds. And the small tribes. The population base is small, and the fighters pulled out may only be a few dozen.

Each tribe has its own phalanx, which is distinct from each other.

From Chen's point of view, this is definitely a big drawback.

The number of combat units in the army needs to be tight. When there are fighters. Do you need to send a company, or a regiment?

This is a fixed quantity value.

It's hard to imagine when you have an army under your command, and some of the army has a company of 100 people. Some armies have 300 men per company, while others have 300 men per company......

This is an absolute nightmare for the commander!

......

The orcs were not in a hurry to attack, and Adams watched by Chen Daolin's side for a while. "There are a few fewer of them than they looked like the other day," he whispered. ”

"Oh?" Chen Daolin glanced at Adams with interest.

"A thousand or two people at most. Adams shook his head: "The orcs we saw before will not be less than fifteen hundred." ”

"Could it be that they divided their troops?" Chen Daolin smiled.

"No, they are infantry, there is no point in dividing the troops, it seems that Lord Montoya's strategy has worked, the few hundred people, it should be that they occupy our fortress along the way, and divide their forces to occupy the guard. These orcs are used to being poor, and they won't let go when they grab a bone. ”

"Very good strategy. Chen Daolin smiled: "In order to start the war, the strength of the orcs has been weakened by two percent. ”

After laughing, Chen Daolin said slowly: "Okay, start now, get ready to work hard." They're going to attack soon!"

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The orcs attacked faster than expected.

After watching for a while at a distance of eight hundred meters from the fortress, they immediately began to beat the strange drums, with the sound of the trumpets.

The two phalanx of orcs began to move forward slowly, and as they strode forward, they were also deliberately roaring and roaring, as if this was the tradition of the orcs, as if to boost their own morale and intimidate the enemy with this crazy roar.

When the orcs of the two phalanxes entered the area of five hundred meters, the archers of the human defenders began to shoot.

The salvo of more than four hundred archers gave the orcs a hard blow head-on!

Someone in the two phalanxes of the orcs was soon hit by an arrow and fell to the ground. And they began to advance at a rapid pace. At the same time, the queue spread out quickly.

The orcs began to run as hard as they could, trying to trade their speed for casualties, and pushed as fast as they could to the bunker's defenses.

The orcs ran very fast, and the area of five hundred meters effectively covered by the archers, it took the orcs only about two minutes.

And in the case of humans, after the archers had only had time to fire three volleys, the commander gave the order to fire freely.

These three volleys dealt a painful blow to the orcs, and visually, the number of fallen orcs reached about half of the charging queue.

Behind the low wall on the ground, the soldiers also took bows and arrows and began to shoot horizontally. And coupled with the dive shots on the fortress and the dense rain of arrows, little by little weakened the ranks of the orc charges.

Chen Daolin was a little curious in his heart, it seemed that the attack of the orcs was too disintegrated, but soon, Adams said quickly: "These two phalanxes are just the first to test, that is, the so-called cannon fodder, their role is to consume our bows and arrows, and at the same time test our reality and reality, even if most of the casualties are killed." As long as they can rush under our lines and entangle with us, then the follow-up troops will come up, and at that time, when our soldiers are caught in hand-to-hand combat, the number of archers will be greatly reduced. ”

When these two orc phalanxes paid about a hundred lives and finally rushed to the front of the low wall, the orc brigade behind began to commotion!

The four phalanx of orcs suddenly began to charge! There was a roaring sound, and the formation dispersed. Charge towards the fortress at your speed!

Chen Daolin smiled coldly when he saw it: "Let's start!"

As he spoke, he glanced at Adams.

Adams rushed out of the battlement, picked up the horn and blew it.

Immediately, I saw the soldiers hiding at the front behind the low wall under the fortress. A few people rushed out and slashed off a device hidden behind a low wall!

When the rope was cut, there was a "buzzing" sound......

Outside the low wall, there is an area about thirty meters long. The snow on the ground suddenly slammed!

Beneath the ground, a fence filled with sharp sticks was turned out!

Each section of these fences is three or four meters long, and there are more than ten sections!

Originally buried under the snow. Once you cut the rope and jump up, it suddenly takes on a forty-five degree angle, pointing the sharp end to the sky!

The orcs who rushed ahead were immediately stopped! Some orcs ran before they had time to stop, and they crashed into it headlong and were immediately impaled through their bodies!

These more than ten fences almost blocked more than eighty percent of the defense line in the preface of the low wall!

The orcs faced the fences, stuck in place.

The heavy fences blocked the direction of the orcs, and in the face of the sharp sticks on the fences, they could not move forward, but could only let out a futile roar, and some orcs picked up their weapons and tried to split the fence.

But in doing so, their progress has reached a stalemate.

The defenders on the bunker began to use their bows and arrows to their heart's content, and wave after wave of arrows rained down on the heads of the orcs, and the orcs kept screaming and falling to the ground.

The four phalanxes that came up after had already rushed into the range of the defenders' bows and arrows at this moment - at this time, the orcs made a fatal mistake, their commander did not seem to make a judgment, nor did he order them to retreat, and the four phalanxes of more than five hundred orcs were still running forward.

The human archers fired two more volleys, and the running orcs fell to the ground as if they were harvesting wheat.

As more and more orcs crowded in front of the rows of fences outside the low wall, it was like a dam where the tide met.

More and more orcs crowded here, the orcs in the back tried to push forward, and the orcs in the front row roared in vain.

Despite the hard slashing, some of the fences were already crumbling, and some orcs tried to get around the fences......

But after all, the speed is blocked.

This bought the defending archers time to slaughter!

Huge numbers of orcs crowded in front of the fence, and in just a few minutes, they were almost a live target!

Archers don't even need to aim too much, as long as they shoot arrows at a pile of people, they will barely miss.

At this time, sporadic battles also began to appear in the low wall.

Although the fence line had achieved its effect, there were still gaps after all, and some orcs squeezed over, pasted the low wall, and directly attacked the soldiers behind the low wall.

But the strength of such an attack was too weak, and the sporadic orcs rushed to the low wall, and were immediately stabbed to death by seven or eight human soldiers on the left and right with spears.

Even though some orcs bravely crossed the low wall, after jumping into the low wall, it was greeted by swords slashing from all directions at the same time!

By the time the fence had finally been split several gaps, the orcs had already paid for more than three hundred lives!

After the largest gap was split, the orcs let out a roar and rushed to the low wall like a tidal wave, and the hand-to-hand combat finally began!

But at this time, the power of the orc's attack was less than one-third!

The qiē is like a remake of the small battle led by Montoya last time.

Behind the low wall, the orcs were greeted by rows of guns like a wood, and the orcs were seen to be more and more worn on their spears as if they were roasting meat.

Occasionally, some gaps were opened, but soon human soldiers filled them.

The spearmen put up only a short resistance. After inflicting a lot of damage on the orcs, they began to drop their spears en masse and retreated.

They were replaced by hundreds of sword-wielding soldiers who were already ready in the back!

Most of these soldiers are escorts made up by the Chamber of Commerce, and these people may not be able to fight tough battles, but this kind of beating of water dogs is still done decently.

No more than a hundred orcs were lucky enough to break into the low wall, and most of them were wounded!, and the battle lasted less than five minutes......

The orcs exerted the attack force of six phalanxes, almost half of their strength, and the result was dead and wounded!

The orc brigade behind seemed to be in a tangle. Obviously, their leaders don't possess the qualities to kill decisively.

The orcs seemed to be torn between rushing up and fighting again, or retreating—after all, they had lost nearly half of their forces.

Even in Chen Daolin's opinion. The ranks of the orcs began to disperse, some phalanxes seemed to be trying to move forward, while others slowly wriggled backwards......

"Damn it...... If I had a longbow team......"

Chen Daolin sighed secretly in his heart.

Of course, he wanted to make a class like the English longbowmen. But the longbow is not an easy class to develop - although the longbow has a very impressive range.

If there is a longbow team, the distance of 800 meters should also be within the range of the longbow, and at this time, just one salvo will completely throw the enemy into chaos.

"Let the signal go!

Chen Daolin nodded to McQueen, who was standing beside him.

McQueen immediately pulled out a wooden tube from his bosom and broke it with all his might.

Suddenly, a puff of red smoke rushed straight into the sky......

A few hundred meters behind the fortress, behind the woods. Immediately, there was the sound of horses' hooves!

Where, Montoya, on the orders of Chen Daolin, concentrated the three hundred most elite cavalry in the cavalry here...... These 300 cavalry are all the personal guard battalions of the original Northwest Independent Division!

This is the real elite!

The three hundred horsemen got the signal and sped out from behind the woods where they were hiding. With a whistling sound, he rushed towards the orc brigade that was still standing there in the distance!

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With a tomahawk in his left hand and a mace in his right, Montoya was the first to rush into the orc's phalanx!

The orc phalanx seems to have been a little disorganized.

The scene of the loss of the attacking troops. Let these orcs fall into a panic.

When Montoya rushed into the phalanx first, the shield in the hands of the orcs in the front row was smashed by the fighting spirit of this holy knight!

The mace smashed into the face of an orc warrior and flew out with a mass of flesh and more than a dozen teeth. Montoya's other hand. The tomahawk also slashed an orc with a shield at the same time!

The phalanx was violently knocked open a gap, and the cavalry frantically crashed into this gap!

The first phalanx was quickly chiseled through!

At this time, the problem of the backwardness of the orc army was exposed!

Each of their phalanxes is distinct, resulting in a lack of connection with each other, and a lack of coordination between large and small phalanxes.

When one phalanx was chiseled through, the rest of the surrounding phalanx seemed to be in chaos, some phalanxes tried to come and fight, some seemed to be retreating, and some seemed to be hesitating what to do.

The three hundred horsemen pierced the orcs like a sharp knife!

This charge, Montoya was not greedy, when the team chiseled through a phalanx, before the orcs could react and come to their senses, Montoya had already led the cavalry away quickly, far away from the battlefield towards the flank!

This is Chen Daolin's method of suing Montoya, which is also known as ......

Kite flying.

Montoya retreated as soon as he fought, picked up the bargain and ran. This practice finally angered the orcs.

Two phalanxes broke away from the brigade at the same time and pursued Montoya's cavalry team in a fierce pursuit.

But in the wilderness, where can a two-legged orc outrun a four-legged warhorse?

After running for a while, when Montoya found that the pursuers behind him were scattered, he made a detour lightly, then turned back, and bit off a piece of meat on the orc's body!

In fact, the cavalry did not kill the orcs so much, but the disturbing effect on the team was very obvious.

And here in the fortress, Chen Daolin is ready to fight back.

Adams, with five hundred sword-wielding soldiers, had already crossed the fortress and formed a charge queue, rushing towards the orc's main team!

And at this time, the orc team is already a plate of scattered sand!!

Chen Daolin did not personally participate in the fighting...... With the strength of a saint-level powerhouse, even if he makes a single move, he can clean up this orc.

But he always stood by and watched, and his purpose was very clear!

"After this battle, this rookie army should be considered advanced, right?"

He shook his head.

McQueen next to him seemed to be a little eager to try: "Teacher, let's ...... Are we just here watching?"

"Do you want to go up?" Chen Daolin waved his hand and smiled: "This battle is over." ”

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(6,000 words sent to the big chapter~)

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............ (To be continued......)