Seventy, years like a song (6)
It is true that the fortress of human beings can not be broken by the force of orcs, but in the orc empire, there are some races that are not very good at fighting, but they are good at digging tunnels, such as rat people, although this kind of rat people do not have much combat power, and their bodies are not big, they are about the same size as a dwarf, but their ability to dig tunnels is innate, and they also domesticated a kind of pangolin, which has thick skin and meat, and has no combat effectiveness, but digging tunnels is a good hand.
The commander in charge of commanding the attack on Gebiye Fortress is Yinyue, she commanded 300,000 nezumi to dig five tunnels from the outside, and dug into Gebiye Fortress from a distance of 30 kilometers away, with the ability of the nezumi to dig tunnels, human beings did not notice at all, after two months of excavation, the nezumi finally dug out five tunnels, but Yinyue still did not move, and used miscellaneous troops to attack Gebiye Fortress, taking the opportunity to paralyze the defenders. The defenders knew nothing about the tunnels, so they would only be happy when the orcs lost their troops in front of the fortress, but they would not think of anything else.
When Nicholas surrounded Xuantian and Xuantian was in a more dangerous situation, Yinyue began to act, taking advantage of the night, a large number of Beamons and Tigers entered the fortress from the tunnel, and launched a fierce attack on the defenders in the fortress.
After capturing the fortress, Silver Moon did not pursue the remnants of the defenders of those fortresses, but concentrated the 90 million wolf cavalry of three legions, and quickly moved south with the rapid mobility of the wolf cavalry, breaking through Nicholas's encirclement network, and then, the army arrived and launched a fatal blow to Nicholas.
Nicholas didn't expect the orcs to be able to break through the defense of Gebiye Fortress and suddenly killed, caught off guard, and was killed by Yinyue to a big defeat, coupled with the internal and external attacks of Xuantian and Yinyue, Nicholas had to order a retreat after a fierce battle for a day, and the losses were extremely heavy, however, the retreat of humans is no longer as easy as before, a large number of wolf cavalry with their high mobility to hunt down the human army, although Nicholas personally commanded the army to break off, but still lost a number of elite troops. This battle is known as the Battle of Gebiye.
In the battle of Gebiye, on the orc side, the total number of troops lost reached more than 32 million, and the loss was more than 20% of the troops, but the Temple of Light lost more than 100 million troops, and the loss was more than half, which can be described as a heavy loss. And the evil result of this battle is that the orcs chased and killed Nicholas for more than 5,000 kilometers, so there are no more human defenders within 5,000 kilometers south of Gebino Fortress, that is to say, this area is already the meat of the orcs' mouths, and the Temple of Light has suffered a big loss this time.
Xuantian is not greedy for merit, he did not continue to go south, but all the way to the division of troops to loot the cities of the human race, of course, the defenders of the human race are naturally not the opponent of the orc soldiers, Xuantian only robbed property, but did not kill a lot of people, this can be regarded as an improvement of the orcs.
In December of the same year, the orc army began to retreat, Nicholas reorganized the army, and pressed towards the orc army step by step, and Xuantian had no fighting spirit, so the orc army retreated step by step, but although the retreat was not chaotic, Nicholas had no chance at all. Nicholas was extremely depressed, but he was helpless, and he had no other way to think about it in the face of an opponent like Xuantian.
Xuantian led the orc army to withdraw from the scope of the power of the Temple of Light, and returned with countless trophies, this time he went out to fight, killing more than 300 million people in the Temple of Light, and his own loss was only more than 50 million. In this battle, the total value of the materials lost by the orcs was as high as more than fifteen trillion gold coins, but the orcs ransacked nine kingdoms of mankind, thirty-four principalities, thousands of cities, and countless materials obtained, and the number of gold coins also had to mobilize the reserve army to move, although it has not been fully counted, but it must have made a lot of money.
After Nicholas forced Xuantian out of the range of the power of the Temple of Light, he stopped, and if he continued to force it, Xuantian who was supported by the follow-up troops might counterattack, and in the case that Nicholas's current strength was not dominant, if Xuantian was allowed to counterattack again, the consequences would be unimaginable, so Nicholas stayed in the border area, on the one hand to appease those refugees, on the other hand, to re-establish the fortress, set up permanent fortifications, and reorganize the defense line. The taste he brought to the Dark Temple last time was his turn to bear it this time, and it was really uncomfortable.
By the time Nicholas had dealt with the front line and re-established the defensive line, it was already May 237, and he returned to the Holy Mountain of Light and received numerous rebukes, indeed, Nicholas fought a great defeat, and Ovate and others strongly blamed Nicholas, believing that his command error led to the defeat. Nicholas also did not defend himself. However, someone defended him: " The most fundamental problem in this battle is not that Nicholas is not in command, nor is it that our soldiers are not brave in fighting, but because our intelligence department knows too little about the situation in the orc empire, since Hu Xuantian came to power, it has strengthened the secrecy of the orc empire, so that our intelligence in the orc empire has suffered a great loss, it is precisely because of the mistake of intelligence that we are ignorant of the changes in the army of the orc empire, we still look at the army of the orc empire according to the old eyes, but we did not expect that the orc army has been reborn。 ”
"I think there are three main reasons for the defeat of this war. First: the orc army has been reorganized, forming an independent professional army, no longer the previous army of soldiers and people, the combat effectiveness of the improvement is very fast, from the command ability of commanders at all levels of the orc empire, the orc empire has initially completed the professionalization of the army, and, also set up a certain amount of officer training courses, which makes the orc empire's command system has been greatly improved, because of this, the combat effectiveness of the orc empire's army has been qualitatively improved. Second: It is the Orc Empire that has produced a powerful commander, and Hu Xuantian's ability is definitely no less than any commander in our human race, and it is precisely because of the command of Hu Xuantian that the orcs have made strategic mistakes to a minimum, and a soldier is a nest of bears, and an excellent commander is the biggest key to the Orc Empire's ability to defeat us this time. In the past, the Orc Empire only relied on its own shallow knowledge to fight, and there was not much strategic consideration at all, but this time, what about the attack, the orderly retreat, and the strategic aspect has reached the point of being impeccable, and not being greedy for merit and not rushing forward is the foundation of the orc's victory. Third: The equipment of the orc empire has been greatly improved, on this issue, on the one hand, it reflects the results of the reform of Hu Xuantian, and on the other hand, it is also because of the results of the orc empire's own efforts to develop various science and technology, from the perspective of the orc equipment, most of their equipment is relatively crude equipment made by themselves, a small part of the equipment imported from the Yanhuang clan, in addition, there are some war machinery, although the equipment of the orc empire is still relatively poor, but, compared with the past, it has been improved many times, and the improvement of equipment has greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the orcs。 These three reasons are the main reasons for our defeat in this war, so it would be very unfair to the commanders at the front to blame one person for the failure not to attribute the cause of the defeat to any one person. "The one who defended Nicholas was none other than Kegula.
In response to Kaigula's remarks, there was an uproar in the Temple of Light, in this way, wouldn't the orc empire become stronger and stronger, and the consequences would be too serious. The Pope summoned Kaigula to the Holy Mountain of Light to participate in the post-war discussion meeting, and at the meeting, Kaigula said: "This improvement in the Orc Empire has indeed greatly increased their strength in a short period of time, and it will indeed become a strong opponent for us, but in the long run, this change is a good thing. "Everyone looks at Kaigula with contempt, and that's a good thing, and Kaigula can't have a problem with his brain.
Facing everyone's incomprehensible gaze, Kaigula said: "A race, if you only know the brutal killing of the Dao, then the combat effectiveness of this race is extremely amazing, even if he does not form a strong country, on the whole, they are barbaric and evil, they only know the killing of the Dao and do not know the construction of the Dao, therefore, fighting against them, our losses will be very large, especially the ordinary people and soldiers, because they will not show mercy, they will only kill all the living lives in front of them." The Orc Empire used to do this, for our wounded soldiers, they basically won't take prisoners, they will only kill, and for ordinary people, they will also massacre a lot, so for the people on the border between the two countries, orcs are their nightmare. ”
"It's just that this war is different, with the constraints of Hu Xuantian, the orc army did not carry out large-scale killing of wounded soldiers, let alone slaughter ordinary civilians, although they are still robbing property, but, compared to life, no property at all, so, from a certain point of view, the orc empire is actually progressing, from a race that only knows how to brutally slaughter to a relatively civilized race, I am sure that if you give Hu Xuantian another hundred decades, the entire orc empire will become a civilized country, at that time, the Orc Empire is no big difference from us. In the process of civilizing a barbarian race, they will notice more problems, they will no longer slaughter indiscriminately, and it can even be said that the combat effectiveness of the army of a civilized country will decline a lot, therefore, in the short term, the strength of the orc empire is indeed strong, but, in the long run, their threat to us is reduced, because the purpose of their war is no longer just some goods, but when there is a big strategic purpose, they will start a war, so I welcome this change. ”