Mo Bei didn't expect to go on the expedition so soon, the general didn't do too much mobilization, didn't say too many sensational words, and the most he said was to let the soldiers survive as much as possible.

The Beida Battalion now has less than 3,000 people, a total of three battalions, the first assault battalion has a total of 1,500 people, the second transport battalion, a total of 800 people, the third first aid battalion, a total of 300 people, the rest are wounded soldiers, and they are people who have lost their combat capability, and the ordinary wounded are all according to normal personnel.

In fact, this scale can only be described as miserable, when the Beida Camp was at its peak, there were one million people! Now it is less than 3,000, and there are many old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is a reason for the crisis of the empire, otherwise this situation would not have occurred.

And the place of this expedition is the Great Northern Desert, also known as the Great Northern Wilderness, which has the same name as Mobei, and it is the border of the empire, but for some reason, a group of orcs suddenly appeared, these orcs were only active on the border at first, and then the scale became larger and larger, and finally they began to capture the city, causing the entire northern defense line to collapse!

It is precisely because the battle with the orc race is becoming more and more fierce that the empire has discovered how weak the existence of magicians is, and physical fitness is a hard injury, so it has strengthened the education reform of physical arts.

But this kind of educational reform is very effective in three or five years, because the improvement of physical skills is very difficult, and now even if the physical arts education is strengthened, most people are still used to the cultivation of physical arts, and no one will take physical skills seriously.

The army marched to the battlefield through a special teleportation array, and it took less than a day to complete it.

Arrived at the Great Northern Desert, here is another scene, there is a bad smell of blood in the air, the cold wind is biting, the whole body is cold, there are no trees here except for stones and sand, even ordinary creatures are difficult to see.

"General, where are we going to set up camp?"

The commander of the first battalion was always in front of the general, and he looked more like a guard.

"Let's be here, Mobei is full of crises, and it is not appropriate to take risks at will, but we must destroy the teleportation array first. ”

As soon as the general said this, everyone was silent, because once the teleportation array was destroyed, it meant that none of them could go back, at least not through this teleportation array, which meant that they were likely to all die here!

But the commander of the first battalion still carried out the order very resolutely, he asked people to destroy the teleportation array, and then let everyone rest in place.

"Bald, you take a few brothers to patrol around, hemp pole, you let the brothers take turns to rest, not every three hours. ”

Because this is in Mobei, we must be cautious, the three-hour rest time is just to keep the human body fully rested, and the shift changes every three hours are also to let everyone cope with the surrounding situation with abundant energy.

Over time, all the tents had been set up, and Mobei had built his own residence.

Because magic attracts enemies, it can only be done with physical strength, which is a big reason why the Empire needs to let mages improve their physical fitness.

At night, the weather became colder and colder, and it was snowing!

In a hidden cave, a group of orcs gathered.

"Humans have been found ahead, the number is about 3,000, are we going to attack?"

"No, we sneak attack, attack is only the choice of the stupid, and the person who sneaks up is always the smartest!"

An orc with a fox head said with a smile, feeling that a sneak attack was a very honorable thing.

"I still think it's more comfortable to go straight to the war, so that it is like fighting, otherwise it always feels like a bad fight. ”

A minotaur said in a loud voice, and at first glance it was the kind of very warlike warrior.

The tiger-headed man at the head said: "Although our orcs are much stronger than humans, but the cunning of human beings is beyond imagination, let's do it according to the plan said by the fox patriarch, otherwise we will have a great loss, the number of orcs is far from catching up with humans, so there can be no mistakes, the lives of each of our warriors are very important!"

A group of orc patriarchs agreed with these words, although each of them was very good at fighting, but compared to battle, casualties will always appear, and once the number of casualties is too large, even if the final victory is meaningless.

"Tiger King, can we really find the Fountain of Youth?" asked the orc patriarch.

"The Fountain of Immortality is a legend, I don't know if I can find it, but if we kill all the humans, there will be a blood moon, and at that time, we orcs will be able to gain tremendous power, even if we can't be immortal, we will become even more powerful!

The main purpose of the orcs attacking humans is the Fountain of Youth, because only by obtaining the Fountain of Youth, can they have immortal life, and with life can the orcs become strong and prosperous, otherwise they can only be banished to the barren land forever.

In terms of reproductive ability, the ability of orcs to reproduce is still higher than that of humans, but their lifespan is only half that of humans!

The lifespan of ordinary human beings can reach 100 years without illness or disaster, but orcs only have a lifespan of 50 years at most!

Moreover, the probability of orcs being infected with the virus is very high, once they get sick, the chance of death is hundreds of times that of humans! Because human beings have advanced medical spells and excellent medicinal treatment, but orcs have nothing, they can't master magic, and they can't know how to match anti-locking medicinal materials, so they have always lagged behind humans.

But the strength of orcs is undoubted, born orcs are much stronger than adults, and once orcs enter a berserk state, even four-star magicians can only escape, and even if they run slower, they will be killed!

Therefore, the purpose and determination of the orcs is very large, and they want to let future generations live a good life, because if they don't fight hard, they will disappear in the entire history in a few hundred years.

Orcs are very adaptable to the harsh climate of the desert, and their physical defense can catch up with the defensive shield of a three-star magician, so it is difficult for ordinary magicians' magic to cause substantial damage, which is why the million-strong army of the empire before was defeated all at once.

Among the orcs, the fox is responsible for the sneak attack, because their bodies can emit a special white light, which can be integrated with the snow, and it is difficult for ordinary people to find, although this skill has no attack power, but it is very easy to hide.

The Ox Clan and the Sheep Clan are surrounded from both wings, the Tiger Clan is responsible for the final culling, everything is in order, the orcs patrolling the periphery are less than a hundred people in total, but this number dares to hunt nearly 3,000 humans! In fact, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened, sometimes if the orcs meet new soldiers, even if it is a hundred thousand troops, it may be defeated by a hundred orcs!

And these centaurs in the North Battalion are all veterans who have survived on the battlefield, although most of them are three-star magicians, but the combat power they can exert is at least four-star, because without four-star combat power, they can't break through the orcs' defenses at all, let alone protect themselves.

The middle of the night is the most sleepy time for human beings, and even if they take turns to rest, there are still many people who lack energy.

The bald heads who are responsible for patrolling the periphery are all tactics, they are all relatively strong, and after imposing a defensive shield on themselves, there is no big problem in resisting the wind and cold outside, but this is also a huge consumption of their own magic power, if they are replaced with a pure method such as hemp rods to patrol, I am afraid that within two hours they will lose all their magic power and freeze to death outside, and like the bald heads, they can still hold on to changing guards every three hours, even if there is really no magic support, they can also come back from the snowdrift.

And although the real force method can be compared to the orcs, there are too few people who cultivate the force method!

Generally, the people who practice the power method are the people who majored in physical arts before, and then they only practiced some magic a little, this kind of human physique is strong, not weaker than the orcs, but the magic is pitiful, and some people are even at the level of a one-star magician.

It's just that if it's a force method, if you want to protect yourself, you must reach a two-star strength, and if you want to kill the enemy, you must be at least a three-star level! If you want to survive for a long time, you must be a four-star force method!

And it is more difficult for a person to reach four stars in physical skills than to break through six stars in magic!

There are many six-star magicians in the Empire, but there are no more than ten people at the four-star physical skill level!

Therefore, there is still a long way to go on the road of human physical arts!

"Bald brother, should we go back to rest? Is it time?" The man on the side was a little overwhelmed, he really didn't want to crawl back.

"The time is almost up, I just informed a group of brothers that they are on the way, and they will be there in ten minutes, so bear with me a little longer. ”

The bald man is the most powerful of the many patrol officers, and he has reached the four-star combat method, but for him, these levels are not important things, and what he cares about most is whether everyone can survive tonight safely!

But at this time, the strong smell of blood is getting stronger and stronger, and there is also a very special unpleasant smell, which can only be exuded from the orcs!

"Oh no! There is an orc attack! Hurry up!"

The bald man didn't shout loudly at first, after all, now that the orcs had woken up, it would be difficult to escape.

So, the people in charge of patrolling began to pass messages to each other and slowly escaped.

After escaping a certain range, the bald man immediately sent out an early warning signal, and at this time, everyone in the barracks woke up!

"Don't panic, everyone, it's the orcs who came to harass them, and we should just happen to meet them here, because this is not a military fortress, everyone be careful, let the people who have just rested go out to defend, and the others continue to rest!"

The general is already very experienced, and this is a bloody price, because no amount of panic will help, it will only accelerate the rout of the army.

In addition, they have no intention of getting out alive at all, so naturally they have to stay in the best condition to fight!

The general has carefully studied the fighting skills of the orcs, they are amazing in terms of destructive power, and the durability of the battle is also very high, but they do not use tactics flexibly, and the cooperation with each other is not very perfect, the most important thing is that there are not many of these orcs!

Therefore, there is a great deal of improvement in combat skills.

After a real test, it was found that ten people are the best match for each orc, because if there are too many people, it is easy to mess up, and if there are too few people, it is easy to be defeated, and the battle formation of ten people is very powerful, even if a two-star level magician joins forces, it is enough to kill ordinary orc warriors!

Therefore, the more than 1,000 people who rushed out first quickly set up a large array, a total of more than 100 large arrays, and defended the surroundings like iron towers.

After all, he is a veteran, and he is very quick to act, and if he is replaced by a new soldier, I am afraid that it will be difficult to successfully deploy the formation even if the orcs rush over.

At this time, a bald man and several of them appeared hundreds of meters away, but all of them were injured, and there were orcs desperately chasing after them.

Mo Bei was also a member of the big array at the moment, and he didn't understand why no one stepped forward to rescue him at this time, so he asked, "Battalion commander, why don't you go and save people? The orcs are about to catch up with them!"

The commander of the first battalion did not answer, but stood quietly at the front of the large array, not knowing what was going on in his heart at the moment.

And the people in the distance did not mean to ask for help, and some people wailed at most twice when they were caught up by the orcs, even if their bodies were torn apart, they did not ask for help.

And the bald men, the few who rushed to the front, did not look back, as if the people behind them were not their comrades.

Eight human warriors had died in the space of a few hundred meters, and the only ones who had escaped were the bald man and a companion with a missing arm beside him.

"Battalion commander, I'm back. The bald man said lightly.

"Go back and rest, we'll try to give you as much time as we can to rest. ”

Speaking of this, the commander of the first battalion roared angrily: "All the miscellaneous pieces on the other side are here! Your grandfather is waiting here!"

Among the orcs, the fox clan rushed to the front, and they knew that these humans in front of them were not ordinary soldiers, because ordinary soldiers would not be so calm when they saw orcs!

"Send a message to the Tiger King, these 3,000 people are all veterans, let's see how the Tiger King decides. ”

The patriarch of the fox clan did not dare to rush forward easily, because they were afraid that there would be deception in this! In addition, the fighting power of the fox clan was relatively weak among the orcs, and there was no problem for them to engage in sneak attacks, but now that the sneak attack failed, they could only let the battle maniac like the Niu clan act as the vanguard.

Soon the Tiger King sent a message, let the fox clan stay put, contain the soldiers in front of the humans, and then let the bull clan attack from the side!