Volume Two: The Fallen Light, Chapter 127, The Fierce Battle
Gray Dwarf King Mag Bronzebeard knew very well that although his army was elite, its number was much smaller than that of the orcs. If he dared to fight in the field on the ice field, his previous defeat would be a good example.
Those lowly orcs will devour their own living strength with the fearless sea of beasts tactics. Even if the exchange ratio with the orcs is one to three, it is still inappropriate. After all, the gray dwarf population is too small.
Therefore, the strategy set by the gray dwarf king and generals was to avoid fighting in the field as much as possible, and to use the terrain advantages of the fortresses in the mountains to bring down the orc army through tunnel battles, ambush battles, etc.
The strategy was good and the plan was perfect, but the gray dwarves did not expect that the city gate of the imperial capital's Eight Peaks Mountain Fortress would fall so quickly, and the acidic breath of hundreds of dragons would be enough to destroy the city gate of any major city on the continent.
But fortunately, in the following battle, Yalong was unable to enter the mountain fortress of Bafeng Mountain due to its size limit. This undoubtedly greatly weakened the orcs' combat power.
Moreover, the orc wargs are too large and cannot adapt to the underground and mountain environments, so this major threat has been eliminated.
However, the orc commander also knows that to defeat the dwarves in a world that belongs to the dwarves, the bloodshed and sacrifice required will undoubtedly be huge, and the saw-saw process will be cruel.
But they still have no fear, because they firmly believe that killing and dying in battle can please the beast god. After death, the soul will enter the beast god's kingdom, where there is endless meat and wine, as well as endless Makgora.
Although the mountains and tunnels are the home ground where the gray dwarves are good at fighting, it is indeed a place where the orcs cannot take advantage of the wolf cavalry and the dragon. However, the orcs still poured into the Eight Peaks Mountain Fortress without fear of death, using their flesh and blood to fight.
and life draining the duergar's ranged weapons and spells.
Now, a wave of thousands of orcs is approaching, and countless clan flags are floating in the depths of the tunnel. Those flags are covered with gray dwarf skulls and their beards.
The number of orcs was almost endless. They quickly broke through the defense lines set up by the Gray Dwarves under the attack of a large number of crossbows and spells, and finally entered the Hall of Ancestors. The stench of the sky filled the entire Hall of Ancestors.
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Their number is uncountable. After filling all the sight lines of the gray dwarf warriors, there are still endless orc armies marching into the battlefield from the entrance in the distance.
Although the physical strength of the gray dwarf warriors has been greatly weakened, their willpower and determination to fight to the death have not been weakened so far. Although the gray dwarfs also suffered heavy casualties, they have killed the orcs who suffered ten times as many casualties as themselves.
"For the empire, for the Eight Peaks Mountain, for the dead compatriots and warriors, the time has come to settle the hatred!" The gray dwarf king Mag. Bronzebeard also loudly ordered the gray dwarf warriors to prepare for battle, and behind them
, is the legendary Ancestral Tunnel and the last line of defense.
Once it is broken through, countless gray dwarf civilians will be exposed to the eyes of these evil orcs, which will be the fate of the country.
Under the crazy counterattack of the gray dwarf warriors, thousands of orc troops began to die. These orc warriors wore tattered armor and only held crude axes and war hammers in their hands.
Their number was almost uncountable. When the gray dwarf crossbowmen poured out arrows wildly and fired at these orc warriors, this group of fearless orcs kept moving forward under the command of the commander.
The violent storm of crossbows could not stop the orcs' attack, and the orc commander at the rear cruelly signaled all the orcs to continue the attack.
On the contrary, the most elite orc troops stopped in place, waiting for the battle.
"Today, these graybeards will all die here!" A twisted smile appeared on the face of the orc commander: "Come on! Come on, boys! Ho...ho...ho..."
"Ho...!" The endless orc warriors came one after another. Under the influence of bloodthirsty and blood sacrifice, they completely forgot about the fear of death and physical pain, leaving only the desire for bloodthirsty killing.
Sophisticated crossbows have done a lot to stop the orcs' attack. The charging orcs alone suffered more than 5,000 casualties in a short stretch of time, which was more than a kilometer long from the entrance of the Hall of Ancestors to the gray dwarves' final formation.
The road was paved with orc corpses.
Conservative estimates put the number of orcs killed in the battle at more than 40,000.
Even so, the orcs could not be stopped.
When the first orc rushed in front of the returning dwarves' military formation, his head was smashed by the gray dwarf general Stone Hammer. Furious Flame. When more orcs rushed in front of him despite the gray dwarf's attack, the gray dwarf
The soldiers know that the advantages of long-range strikes have gradually disappeared.
If you want to completely defeat the orcs, you still need swords, guns, swords and axes in your hands.
"Hey, damn green-skinned bastard! Go to hell!" Stone Hammer. Fury Flame held a hammer in one hand and a shield in the other. The dwarf general fought fiercely on the front line.
Hundreds of orc warriors rushed in front of him and his Ironbreaker Warriors. Fortunately, the Path of the Ancestors could only accommodate hundreds of orcs advancing side by side at the same time, otherwise the gray dwarf warriors would be instantly overwhelmed by the overwhelming number of beasts.
The gray dwarves' iron-smashing warriors are experts in tunnel warfare and underground warfare. They wear meteorite plate armor and collectively hold bucklers. They are lined up in several rows. The rune heavy armor can withstand the crude weapons of the orcs.
Their short stature turned out to be an advantage. Before the orcs' attack could arrive, the Ironbreaker Warriors swept across with their hammers, shattering the orcs' knees, and then struck the orcs' heads as they collapsed on the ground.
"boom"
Brains splattered everywhere, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.
Hundreds of orcs rushed into the gray dwarf army's formation. They barely lasted for a few minutes before they were all slaughtered. But then more orcs rushed over, Stone Hammer. Furious Flame kept waving his war hammer,
The pile of orc corpses in front of him was taller than him.
The gray dwarves' central army firmly resisted the orcs' attack. For a while, the orcs could not get past the thunder pool, and they suffered heavy losses.
The casualties were huge, but the first commander remained calm. Seeing the heavy losses of the orc army under his command, he even sneered.
Probably five more waves of offensive are needed, the orc commander thought in his mind.
In this way, a fierce battle lasted for a whole day.
The gray dwarves had the advantage at first, but as time went by, the situation gradually began to tilt towards the orcs.
The orc cannon fodder is as numerous as the crucian carp crossing the river, and every gray dwarf casualty will make their number smaller.
After a day of hard fighting, the angry flames and unyielding fighting spirit in the hearts of the gray dwarves gradually extinguished, and they became silent, just waving their weapons silently against the enemy.
Under the leadership of the gray dwarf general, although the dwarf army still stood like a stubborn stone in front of the Tunnel of the Ancestors, they were retreating steadily.
Finally, even the gray dwarf king picked up his weapons and went on stage.
"Hehe, damn the graybeards, they can't hold on any longer." The orc commander observed the battle situation.
Immediately, the orc commander issued a new order. Instead of sending out cannon fodder orcs with crude equipment, a group of larger orc elites wearing heavy armor appeared.
At this moment, the gray dwarf high priest is constantly praying to the gray dwarf god Moradin, but has not received any response.
Without Moradin's response and feedback, the gray dwarf priests were unable to use divine spells. Due to the blood sacrifice, their own spells had a high failure rate and were extremely mana-consuming.
A large number of gray dwarf priests and mages only played a role at the beginning of the battle. By now, most of the priests and mages have exhausted their mana.
The siege crossbows were all used up by the orcs using beast tide tactics, and the only means of long-range attack was the gray dwarf crossbowmen.
With all the previous cannon fodder orcs dead and wounded, the gray dwarves were shocked to discover that the orcs launching a new round of offensive were well-equipped and more powerful in size and strength.
Although the quality of the equipment of these elite orcs cannot be compared with that of the gray dwarves, the advantage is that it is heavy enough and thick enough, which basically offsets the advantages of the gray dwarves' long-range strike force.
Coupled with the influence of the blood sacrifice, the originally tenacious gray dwarf warriors felt a little desperate for a while.
"My Lord, why have you abandoned us? Why don't you respond to me? Why..."
The gray dwarf high priest cried in despair, and the gray dwarf king was also extremely desperate. The orc corpses in front of him piled up like a mountain. The gray dwarf king, with legendary strength, slaughtered more than a thousand orcs alone.
No one expected that the orcs, who had been like a pile of scattered sand in the past, would have such strong war potential after gathering together. Relying on the advantages of numbers and evil spells, they forced the gray dwarves into such a situation.