The five hundred and fortieth chapter [although the victory is still defeated]
Chapter 541 [Victory but Defeat]
It was August 4th, nine hundred and sixty-five years in the calendar of the Roland Empire.
This morning, the soldiers waiting on the wall of Kaspersky's main fortress finally saw the enemy who had been waiting for a long time!
With the rising sun, a dark trail appeared on the northern horizon.
It started as a black line, and as it moved slowly, it turned into a black cloud like ants.
On the city wall, the soldiers could hear the movement in the wind, the heavy footsteps trampling on the ground, the clanking sound of weapons and armor as the large group of enemies walked, and the thick breathing... tens of thousands
The enemy's movement comes with the wind! Looking from a distance from the city wall, the black mass of enemies is like a black torrent, moving along the flat plains in the north towards the Kaspersky defense line.
Swords and guns are like forests, and armor is like clouds!
Although it was August, the climate in the north was still not warm. Especially when tens of thousands of orcs were marching, the white air breathed by tens of thousands of orcs seemed to be clearly visible. And then, what shocked the soldiers on the city wall was that the orcs
Among the queues, in the front row, next to each huge square formation, walking at the front was a tall monster that they had never seen before!
From visual inspection, the monster is over five or six meters tall. It is huge and strong, like a giant bear. It is also covered with giant-like iron armor. It looks very rough, but it is full of hardness.
And these giant beasts also have thick iron chains around their necks, and each giant beast also has a huge hexagonal hammer hanging on its waist!
As they walked, their huge bodies trampled on the ground step by step, making a heavy bang bang bang sound! And each of these giant beasts held a giant drum on their chests as they walked.
, while raising the wooden stick high and beating hard, forming a peculiar rhythm!
And the tens of thousands of orcs marched slowly forward according to the rhythm of the drum, until they arrived in front of the Kaspersky defense line!
Still about one kilometer away from the trench beneath the city wall, the orcs finally stopped.
On the city wall, the officer held a telescope purchased from the northwest and nervously looked at the enemies in front of him.
Sure enough, the news sent back by the scouts was the same! It was a monster that no one had ever seen before! They were like growing human beings with animal heads, but their bodies were stronger and taller than humans. They had fangs and mouths that spurted blood. They covered their entire bodies with blood.
He is wearing fur, but he is holding weapons and wearing armor...
When the orc army finally stopped, a huge flag was raised from among their ranks.
From the perspective of human civilization, the flag is so simple that it is almost ridiculous. It seems to be a huge animal skin, and all the surface hair of the animal skin has fallen off, and various ghost symbols that humans cannot understand are probably drawn on it with blood.
The same messy pattern.
Just after the human officer saw the flag, he was about to make a casual joke to ease the nervousness of the soldiers around him...
When the flag was raised, tens of thousands of orcs seemed to have received some great encouragement. All of those orcs suddenly raised their weapons and roared into the sky!
As you can imagine, it was like tens of thousands of wild beasts howling at the same time. The movement and sound immediately made many human soldiers on the city wall change their expressions.
All the beasts roared loudly, and the wind and clouds changed color!
"Make way for the general!"
Following a majestic shout from behind, a group of people quickly walked up from behind the city wall, and the soldiers on the city wall pushed aside one after another.
Many generals of the Storm Legion surrounded their commander, General Rostock, and walked onto the city wall.
The supreme commander of the empire's northern defense line stood by the city wall, holding his hands on the wall and stamping his feet, looking coldly into the distance, and then took a telescope produced in the northwest from the hands of the attendant beside him. He looked at it for a while.
"The number is not large." General Rostock said coldly.
"Yes. Sir, according to visual inspection, there should be no more than 20,000 people." A division commander immediately replied.
"Hmph. They are not 'people'. I think they should be 'twenty thousand'! Hahahaha!" A mighty general laughed deliberately loudly. His voice spread far away, with incomparable confidence.
Many soldiers who looked frightened suddenly became more relaxed.
"Reuenthal, don't underestimate the enemy." Rostock glanced at the subordinate who was laughing and scolding... This general looked about thirty years old, with a majestic appearance, a square face, sharp edges, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and the
His beard was not cleanly shaved, and there was still a faint green stubble. Moreover, his appearance was 67% similar to General Rostock.
"Yes...Father." The general named Reuenthar immediately responded in a low voice. He glanced into the distance a few times, with a look of eagerness in his eyes.
"Call me Sir." Rostock said with a serious face: "Remember your identity! General Reuenthal!"
The surrounding generals looked at the father and son, and no one interrupted. Everyone knew the old general's sternness and impartiality.
Rostock stood on the city wall, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance.
At this time, the tens of thousands of orc troops had dispersed. They left a square formation in the front row and quickly opened it to form a human wall.
Behind them, the orc army began to work quickly. They carried a large amount of wood from the rear and began to set up camp in the distance...
"This is just the vanguard, they seem to be setting up camp here." Rostock sneered.
"The news came from General Andre's airship. It was visually inspected that there were no reinforcements near their rear! Obviously, this is their vanguard." A general said: "Hmph, it seems that these monsters can also fight."
"Smarter than Warcraft." Rostock snorted and looked into the distance.
In less than a minute, those orcs had set up a rough wooden wall. Those orcs were strong. It was very good labor.
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"Father...Sir!" Reuenthar immediately shouted: "Sir! This is their vanguard. They are here to set up camp and attack the front position. I think we should send people out to charge for a while now and kill them.
The energy to kill them! If you're lucky, you might be able to eat these people in one bite!"
"There are 20,000 of them." Another general also said: "But it seems that half of them are working as engineers, and they are setting up camp in front of us so arrogantly, they don't take us seriously!
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"It's not easy to eat them." Rostock made a decision: "Since we have strong walls and fortifications, there is no need for us to waste the lives and blood of soldiers fighting in the field with them."
His words immediately made his son Reuenthar look disappointed.
However, the old general changed the subject: "However, it would be too weak for us to do nothing while we watch them set up camp, and it will hurt our morale! I need to take someone out to fight them, and it doesn't take too much."
, did you see the long formation they put in the front? That is the battle formation they used to defend against our attack. Send a cavalry battalion out to teach them a lesson."
"Sir, send me!" At the same time, four or five generals shouted to fight.
Rostock turned his eyes around the faces of these people, especially his son. Reuenthar looked excited and expectant.
"Can't delay, don't be greedy. I don't want to eat 20,000 people in one bite. I just want to show them how powerful they are. More importantly, what I need is to test their combat effectiveness in the field! See how powerful they are.
Strong...I need a smart person, not someone who doesn't know how to advance or retreat when his brain is hot."
The old general's eyes deliberately missed his son, and he slowly said these words.
Reuenthal became anxious, and he pushed forward two steps with all his strength: "I'll go! Sir, I will not be impulsive!"
"Miro!" The old general announced a name, and an officer about forty years old came up from behind: "Sir!"
"Go and lead a cavalry battalion. Three thousand cavalry is enough. Remember, I just want to test the combat effectiveness of these enemies! Of course, if it can expand the results, you are welcome. But be cautious!"
The officer named Milo looked excited. He immediately saluted and turned around to leave. Reuenthar, who was standing by, sighed helplessly and looked at his father aggrievedly.
"Watch carefully, kid, you are too hot-tempered and too impulsive. What I want now is to get the accuracy of the enemy's combat effectiveness. You are a brave general, but you don't know how to use your brain!"
Following the order, the three city gates at the back of Kaspersky's front main gate were opened at the same time. A cavalry battalion of the Storm Legion opened out of the three gates.
Among the many trenches, a passage was left. Three thousand-man troops quickly assembled under the city.
The cavalry of the Storm Legion raised their sharp spears, and with a shout, the three thousand cavalry burst out with a voice: "Fight for Roland!!"
Tens of thousands of defenders on the city wall also responded to the shouts, and in the midst of the boiling, they were trampled by horse hooves!
The cavalry of the Empire's most elite Storm Legion quickly started galloping, like a torrent, rushing towards the long formation of the Orcs at the front!
The horse's hooves trampled the ground and the dust flew up, and the heavy armor of the cavalry made a clear and crisp collision sound.
The dust was flying, a thousand steps, a hundred steps... The cavalry lowered their bodies and clung to their horses, their spears pointed forward horizontally, like a forest of sharp edges!
"kill!!"
Thousands of voices shouted together!
The phalanx placed at the front by the orcs gathered quickly, and the orc soldiers quickly took off the huge iron shields they had been carrying on their backs! Each iron shield was nearly two meters high!
Thousands of iron shields were driven into the ground. The orcs' huge strength was enough to drive these iron shields into the hard frozen soil!
Then, the orc soldiers behind crowded together and struggled to hold up the shields! The long row of iron shields glowed with a cold metallic sheen under the sun, like an iron wall!
boom!!
The torrent of cavalry finally hit the iron wall head-on!
The front of the empire's cavalry slammed into the iron wall, and a burst of blood and fire suddenly burst out! The cavalry in the forefront tried to break through the opponent's iron wall with the help of their horse power, but less than half of the cavalry successfully broke through.
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Those orcs are strong and strong. Although they are infantry, the average height of each orc is more than two meters, and the stronger ones, even standing there, are almost as tall as the cavalry sitting on the horse! Plus they
With the power of a powerful beast, even though it was a galloping horse, with the help of the charging power of the war horse, the first wave of attacks by the empire's cavalry broke through the iron wall, but they immediately paid the loss of more than a hundred people!
After some shield walls were breached, the Empire's cavalry just broke in, only to find a helpless situation...these enemies were really too tall!
If human cavalry is dealing with human infantry, as long as it breaks through the opponent's frontal fortifications, the cavalry's charge, even through collision and trampling, can cause great damage to the enemy. But these enemies... they are standing on the ground.
The height is no lower than that of a horse, and sometimes it is even higher!
A few cavalrymen who broke through the shield wall had just broken through a gap. After rushing in, what awaited them was the ruthless blade of the orcs!
The first wave of charge. The cavalry in the forefront suddenly fell on their backs!
However, as the most elite northern main battle legion in the empire, the cavalry of the Storm Legion did not lack courage and loyalty! Despite the screams, the cavalry behind them still showed no fear on their faces. With the courage to die, they rushed forward one after another.
Go up!
Soon, the originally continuous shield wall was broken through everywhere, and in the center, the main stream of cavalry broke out a huge gap in the iron wall! The cavalry behind rushed in quickly, with the spears in their hands
Facing the huge monsters around them and stabbing them fiercely, the opponent's huge body also has advantages for the cavalry who are sitting on the horse to assassinate them, because they hardly need to observe. Although the opponent's huge body has strong power, it is
Seems rather bulky!
Finally, although the orcs were strong, they used infantry to deal with the human cavalry, and their defenses began to collapse.
However, the speed of the cavalry charge has been completely slowed down. The human cavalry that broke through the enemy's shield wall seemed to be stuck in a quagmire! There were people crowding around them, and they couldn't use their horsepower at all!
The cavalry charge turned into a strangulation battle!
The combat effectiveness of the orcs far exceeds the imagination of human soldiers! Often they use all their strength to thrust out the spears, but they cannot immediately make the opponent lose their combat effectiveness!
More orcs showed strength that left humans helpless! Some orc warriors were even hit by several spears and had several spears stuck in their bodies, but they could still roar and cut off the spear soldiers with one knife, and then use their huge bodies to directly attack them.
Pounce, throw the cavalry off their horses!
"Draw your sword!! Draw your sword!! Kill them!!!"
Milo, the general leading the army, was covered in blood. It was hard to tell whether the blood on his armor was his own or his opponent's!
He quickly discovered this entangled situation. The spears in the hands of the cavalry could not be used at all. He had already grabbed his cross sword. As an intermediate knight, the general had already erupted with a sword.
The vindictive light shines!
He split the head of an orc in front of him in half with one sword and shouted loudly.
The cavalry also gave up the spears in their hands, grabbed the cross-cutting swords and started fighting with the opponent's orcs! There were screams and blood everywhere!!
The human cavalry was in a tough fight! Because the orcs' armor was very hard and thick! Because they had a naturally excellent physique, wearing iron armor weighing tens of kilograms or even hundreds of kilograms did not reduce their physical strength at all.
Combat power!
Compared with humans, the armor of orcs is crude, but it is very thick!!
Many Roland soldiers found that they had worked hard to cut down the opponent, but could not break through the opponent's hard armor. However, in such a stunned effort, the opponent had already cut off the human soldier's head with his backhand!
Humans, however, cannot wear that level of thick armor. These cavalry are not really heavy cavalry. Their armor only weighs about twenty kilograms, and is only thickened in some vital parts...
But these orcs possess huge power, and with one strike of their swords, they can even dent the armor of human soldiers!
There are also weapons used by some orcs that are sledgehammers. With one hammer blow, even if the armor on your chest is thickened, it can directly dent your chest deeply!
More and more cavalrymen were knocked off their horses.
In the distance, General Rostock on the city wall had a gloomy face! And behind him, Reuenthar, who looked confident just now, also showed a shocked expression!
A frontal charge between cavalry and infantry!!
This is a frontal charge between cavalry and infantry!!! And the strength of both sides is almost equal!!
Based on most of the previous battles of mankind, when the strength of the troops is almost equal, as long as the cavalry rushes in front of the infantry queue, it will be a massacre!
But these orc monsters used their super strong defensive qualities and their flesh and blood to block the frontal charge of three thousand cavalry!!
With the help of horse power, humans managed to break through the opponent's array, but they were unable to penetrate! They actually fell into a strangulation!!
Finally, amid the heroic fighting of the human cavalry, the orcs slowly began to retreat, and the cavalry behind them kept rushing forward. More and more cavalry rushed in from the gap, like a wave.
A wave of waves slapped the opponent's array hard.
Looking from the city wall, the orc array began to be pressed thicker and thicker, becoming more and more scattered. Then it kept moving back.
But every time the cavalry advanced a little, they paid a huge price in blood!
Finally, after the leader Dimiro chopped down the last orc in front of him with one sword, there were no living enemies around him.
The orc warriors retreated on a large scale, and they ran back one after another. Milo was about to shout for chase, but when he glanced around, his eyes suddenly went dark!
There were almost no soldiers standing around him!
Most of the Roland Empire soldiers who rushed into the orc array were knocked off their horses.
Although these orcs retreated, they were not in chaos. Milo was injured in many places. His horse had been killed long ago, and his long sword had just collided with the hammer of an orc warrior.
It deformed after a few times.
The orc soldiers retreated, and behind the erected wooden wall, groups of orc soldiers lined up and came out.
Looking around, I was afraid that only half of the three thousand cavalry were left. Milo gritted his teeth and said, "Retreat!"
This is the first time in ten thousand years that the human army has faced off against the orc army in a large-scale field battle.
Three thousand human cavalry faced four thousand orc infantry, but the losses on both sides were almost equal...but the human casualties were heavier!
Under Rostock's order, another cavalry battalion left the fortress. However, this cavalry did not go up to fight, but withdrew in response to Milo's army.
The orcs were far away behind the newly erected wooden wall, watching the movements of these human troops coldly.
Because he knew that these orcs were cannibals, Rostock ordered that every soldier's corpse left on the battlefield be taken back as much as possible.
Three thousand supporting cavalry lined up and faced off against the orcs in the distance, while the others nervously carried the corpses. The orcs did not come forward, but General Rostock, who was standing on the city wall, had a solemn look on his face!
"Strong enemy."
Reuenthal suddenly said this.
"They are indeed powerful enemies." The old general sighed and looked at the generals with different faces behind him: "They used no more than four thousand infantry to withstand the frontal charge of our three thousand cavalry, and they persisted for more than two seconds.
Bell! I don’t think a human infantry army would be able to do this.”
After a pause, the old general suddenly muttered in a low voice: "This is the first battle...even though we won, we still lost."
