Chapter 125: You Can't Run Even If You Run (Ask for a Monthly Pass)
Of course, others don't understand what the True Monarch is who walks on ice and crosses the sea. This is already a joke.
After McDonald's time travel, he had no chance to contact him again, but his style of play was actually the same.
It is true that the entire southern defense line of Andorhal is perfect. Orgrim's main force attacked for several days, but other than the loss of troops and generals, no progress was made at all.
The only stone bridge connecting Andorhal is only wide enough for four carriages to run parallel to each other. It is enough for pedestrians and carriages to run at ordinary times, but in the event of a war, the army will not be able to deploy.
Orcs who dare to step onto the bridge will not be able to use the city gate as a shield because there are four huge thirty-meter-high turrets next to the city gate. Real fortress cannons are installed on them.
This front-loaded cast-iron cannon, which weighs over one ton, is quite powerful and has a range of up to one kilometer. Before the orcs can reach the bridge, they will be baptized by the cannon on the other side of the river.
When the distance is far away, there are curved cannons.
Closer is the cannon.
Rush to the bridge and there will be shotguns.
Coupled with the large number of trebuchets that hurled rubble behind the city wall, even if the main force defending the city were militiamen, the Duke of Andorhal was still able to defend it impregnably.
If this continues, maybe Duke Andorhal will have a chance to become a famous general.
After all, fighting and fighting, as long as you can hold on to it, you will become a general.
Who knew that what went wrong was Lake Dallonmere to the east.
This is not to say that the Barov family, who deserved the crime for their crimes, did not work hard. They sent twenty destroyers to the east of Andorhal to help monitor the orcs, and beat anyone who came near the water with ballistae and bows and arrows.
Although these destroyers are only small warships about 20 meters long, this is an inland lake. Do you still expect Duke Barov to build an aircraft carrier or a dreadnought here in advance?
Under the suppression of the bed crossbow with a range of 200 meters, the orcs could not even send the sampan into the water.
That's how it should be.
The Barov sailors, who had never seen an orc army before, were frightened by Orgrim's generosity.
"Oh my God! What is that?" one of the lookouts exclaimed.
At the end of the field of vision, there were countless green humanoid monsters. There were so many of them that they quickly filled up the entire Ridge of Regret amid the majestic chants of "Lok’Tar!"
They held the rough sampans high, withstood the long-range fire of the destroyer fleet with their flesh and blood, and rushed to the water's edge.
It was the middle of winter, and some waterside areas where the water flow was not turbulent had already frozen. It was purely because the water flow was relatively strong that the entire lake did not freeze. The ice layer was not thick, and if a human child stood on it, the ice would break and fall.
These orcs, naked to the waist, pounced into the biting mixture of ice and water, rowed simple oars, and launched a death charge against the destroyer fleet using sampans.
Too many!
Even if everyone on the destroyer fires with all their strength, they can't stop the orcs' crazy advance.
After two hours of fighting, the corpses of dead orcs were enough to fill the water within a hundred meters of the shore.
The destroyer fleet had used up all its arrows and ballistae and had to retreat.
At this moment, [True Monarch Who Walks on Ice and Crosses the Sea] appeared.
The Duke of Andorhal never imagined that Orgrim could actually tame the snow monsters in the Alterac Mountains. These furry snowmen with thick white hair can spit out large mouthfuls of ice mist and condense water.
Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for them to freeze a river.
Firstly, the weather has already dropped below freezing, and secondly, the orc corpses floating on the water provide a carrier for the frost element.
The Duke of Andorhal was on the city wall, watching helplessly as more than a thousand snow monsters took turns to attack. The orcs used corpses, sampans, and messy driftwood as foundation stones to freeze the mouth of the river, which was more than a hundred meters wide.
By noon, a huge floating bridge with a width of more than 100 meters and a total length of more than one kilometer was formed.
The elite Blackstone Clan orc warriors wore non-slip animal skin boots with animal teeth as spikes (speaking of which, they learned this from the boots of human soldiers), crossed the ice, detoured to the southeast of Andorhal City, and launched an attack.
All-out attack.
Even if the Duke of Andorhal quickly mobilized troops to go to the east side, the height and thickness of the city wall on the east side are weaker than those on the south side. The city wall is only 10 meters high, and the density of arrow towers is only that of the south side.
Less than half.
Very simply, Orgrim asked the orc laborers to carry sandbags, and in a short time they filled in a slope of earth leading directly to the city wall. The powerful orc warriors were able to successfully enter the chaotic fighting state they were best at.
Don't say anything, just go up and kill randomly!
The war has been going on for so long that it is almost impossible to kill orcs casually with crossbows.
The equipment technology of both sides is improving. After capturing the capitals of the three kings, Orgrim ordered the captured human armors to be rebuilt.
Of course, the orcs don't have the ability to go back and redo it.
Their method is to break apart the armor pieces, such as three or four pieces of human breastplates, smash them flat with a hammer, and then tie them up randomly with straw ropes and tie them to the chest.
It looks ugly, but it actually improves the defense of the orc soldiers.
There are also helmets. The leather hood is equipped with metal spikes or a carapace, which can effectively resist the blows to the head from human swordsmen.
What rushed up were the elite soldiers of the orcs.
It's okay for Andorhal's peasant soldiers to let them defend the city, but once they enter into chaotic close combat, it's time to focus on courage and combat skills.
Many peasants and soldiers were overwhelmed almost immediately upon meeting them.
This large city of 300,000 people actually fell after holding on for a long time. At around six o'clock in the evening, the Duke of Andorhal ordered people to open the west, north, and east gates of the city, allowing the soldiers and refugees to escape on their own.
"My lord! Run to the east... retreat! The Duke of Stratholme just asked someone to clear the snow not long ago. The road is better that way!"
A series of old and new hatreds came to mind.
From the fact that the royal capital was 'robbed' of the Arena by MacDonald, to MacDonald refusing to return it, and then refusing to join him in raising the market price of Thorium ingots, because of damn MacDonald, the Duke of Andorhal felt that he had simply 'missed out'
A hundred million'!
Thinking again of McDonald's brutal use of the high combat prowess of his soldiers, often with large armies entering and exiting the territory of Andorhal, without taking him seriously as a lord, the stubbornness of the fat pig Duke Hadorhal emerged.
Already.
"No! Never! Even if I am a lost dog, I will never take refuge in that bitch McDonald! I feel like vomiting when I think of his despicable face."
The Duke of Andorhal, who was sure that McDonald would not give him good food, asked his guards to take most of his belongings and go west... to escape.
In fact, he succeeded.
After basically controlling the city of Andorhal, Orgrim urgently evacuated the orc army in the city, divided them into several open spaces outside the city, set up temporary military camps, and prohibited the army from pursuing them.
"Don't stay in the human city, be careful of explosions and fires! Also, the Rivendell Legion passed here before, be careful of them ambush us in the dark!" Orgrim ordered.
Yes! He was tricked so badly by someone that he developed paranoia of persecution.
Who would have thought that even though he released the water so generously, the Duke of Andorhal still didn't escape? When the Pig Duke fought tooth and nail, the remnant army of more than 5,000 people passed the Andorhal Fortress and entered Tirisfal Glades.
I bumped into the war-singing warg troops of Howling Dad...
"Ah——" Duke Andorhal, who tried to escape on a gryphon at the last moment, was struck by a gorgeous jump by Howl Dad, and became the most beautiful blood flower in the sky...
