Heavy drumbeats sounded one after another, and each drumbeat seemed to hit the hearts of the imperial soldiers on the city wall. The drumbeats gradually became more urgent and became like a reminder.
The orcs' shouts became no longer chaotic, and several black phalanxes let out neat and rhythmic shouts.
Roar! Roar! Roar!
Standing on the city wall, the soldiers of the empire seemed to be able to clearly see the white gas emitting from the monsters' mouths and the ferocious faces.
"Baistin! Show the bravery of our orcs!!"
Standing on the high platform of the camp, Rhinoceros King Rock, one of the giants of the orcs, roared loudly.
Just below the stage, a giant rhinoceros man who was more than two heads taller than the surrounding orcs immediately roared. This rhinoceros named Bastine is one of the leaders of the Ox Tribe who is deeply trusted by Rock. He is a hero.
Good at fighting, he is the most powerful leader among the Ox tribe in training and commanding warriors.
Different from the ordinary cattle tribe, this rhino man named Bastine is an extremely rare white rhinoceros among the orcs. His rough skin is covered with hard horn, and even a sharp blade cannot cut into it.
skin! What's more, it is now covered with a thick layer of iron armor, and the rhino horn on the tip of its nose is pierced with a huge silver metal ring. This is a noble bloodline among the rhinoceros family.
and a status symbol!
As for the thick body, in addition to its thick natural skin, it also possesses more terrifying power than ordinary rhinoceros warriors. After receiving the order from the rock, Bastine roared and grabbed his own.
The weapon was a nearly two-meter-long mace full of iron spikes. He ran out in large strides.
The battle begins immediately!
Bastine is a well-known warrior and commander among the orcs. He ran to the front of the team, raised his right hand high, and roared loudly with a thick voice: "Prepare the stone cannon!! Adjust the angle!!"
Under the row of catapults outside the camp, the cattle warriors immediately got busy, loading the polished round boulders piece by piece onto the launcher. Other cattle warriors nervously adjusted their angles.
The catapult was pushed forward a certain distance again, and the wooden wheel underneath was pressed against the heavy stone, making a creaking sound.
"Pay attention to concealment!!! Catapult attack! Stay at your post! No one else will enter the tower!!!"
Milo was still standing at the highest point of the city tower. Behind him, on the city wall, a thorn flower flag symbolizing the empire was fluttering in the morning wind.
Bastine saw the armored human on the distant city wall. The guy stood on the highest point of the city tower without any hesitation, and even stepped on the wall.
Bai SiTing opened his mouth and laughed ferociously, then raised his arm high and swung it down hard!!
Intensive roars suddenly sounded from behind it! One by one, the catapults launched huge stones towards the human city wall!
Dozens of arcs were suddenly drawn in the sky, and as heavy stone bullets hit the city wall one after another, there was a roar like a mountain collapsing and the earth cracking!
This Kaspersky room of mankind is built extremely solidly. Those stone bullets that hit the outside of the city wall can only crack the wall on the outside of the city wall. The stone fragments burst out and scattered in all directions, but the main body of the city wall remained motionless.
.
But some stone bullets landed on the city wall, immediately smashing many human soldiers who were still standing at their posts to pieces! The stone bullets were each nearly two meters in diameter. And they were still there.
The dwarf's superb craftsmanship polished it into a round shape. Once it landed on the city wall, it would not only smash the wall into pieces, but if it landed on the city wall, it would roll with inertia! Amidst the screams,
The soldiers on the wall were unable to dodge, and were immediately crushed under the rolling boulders, turning into a ball of meat!
"Look for cover!!!!" General Milo's majestic voice still sounded from the highest point of the city building. When the wall of the main fortress of Kaspersky's defense line was built, enough design was left to deal with enemy slings!
The towers at regular intervals on the city wall became fortifications for soldiers to take shelter, and more and more soldiers crowded into the towers in large numbers.
Those towers are made of the strongest monolithic boulders, and are fully designed in terms of resistance to attack, and... the catapult, an ancient heavy siege weapon, although powerful, is huge.
The drawback is that the accuracy is very low!
Even the best warriors can hardly control the impact point of stone bullets, so they can only use dense coverage to kill the enemy to the greatest extent. It can be said that weapons like catapults are not about technology, but about skill.
Fighting for character.
Following a wave of projections from the orc army, hundreds of stone bullets were blasted towards the human fortress! The city walls were cracked everywhere, looking miserable, with stone debris flying everywhere, and screams one after another.
However, after the orcs ended this round of projection, although the human city wall seemed to be covered with wounds, in fact, the main building had not moved at all, and the bursting of some stone chips on the surface did not reduce the defensive ability of the city wall much.
Just some stone bullets that were thrown into the human fortress crossed the city wall and landed in the city. The huge round stone bullets rolled up after landing, but they caused some unexpected trouble to the humans.
When the dust gradually dispersed, General Milo still stood proudly on the city wall!
The human soldiers who had taken refuge in the tower also rushed out again. For a while, the city wall was crowded with densely packed human soldiers. It was not known who picked the first one. The human soldiers began to laugh loudly at the orc army in the distance.
He stood up and shouted curses one after another, seeming to be mocking the other party.
"Haha! Monsters are monsters!!"
"Did you see that? Grandpas haven't even lost a hair!!"
"Do you only know how to throw stones?"
Some soldiers simply lifted up their leather armor, turned around, slapped their buttocks hard at the orcs in the distance, and made various actions to humiliate them.
The human soldiers on the city wall were shouting and laughing almost crazily. This was a way to encourage their own morale.
Although the orcs in the distance didn't understand what the humans were shouting about, they were also angered by the actions of the human soldiers.
At this time, Milo, who was standing high on the city wall, had already issued an order.
"Let those savage monsters who can only throw stones have a taste of our power! Prepare the ballistae!"
As his order was conveyed quickly, from the towers on the city wall, the elite heavy ballistas equipped by the empire were pushed out. From the stomping mouths of the towers, giant crossbow arrows were fired one after another like steel thorns.
It also protrudes from the city wall.
"Aim their slings!"
The gunner of the ballista immediately began to adjust the scale on the ballista. These precision heavy weapons made by humans are naturally much more advanced than the primitive catapults. The experienced gunner aimed the ballista at the opponent's targets in the distance one by one.
A sling thrown behind the phalanx.
After a moment, humans launched their powerful counterattack!
On the city wall, in the stomping mouth of the tower, dozens of ballistae were fired at the same time. In the sky, dozens of huge crossbow arrows flew out! These giant ballistae use the mechanical elasticity of the noose to launch, with the longest range.
The distance can reach about 1,500 meters. It was originally a sharp weapon on naval warships. It can easily pierce the enemy's hull at a distance of 1,000 meters! This shows how powerful it is!
More importantly, the accuracy of these ballistae is much better than that of ancient trebuchets. Under the control of experienced gunners, the accuracy of the crossbow can reach more than 30%, which is better than the catapult that can only use covering bombardment to pursue lethality.
The weapon is naturally many times stronger!
Dozens of giant crossbow arrows flew out powerfully. The metal crossbow arrows reflected in the sun and streaked across the sky, like dozens of meteors!
As the humans on the city wall let out bursts of cheers and shouts, they saw the slingshots in front of the orc formation in the distance. They were hit one by one!
Obviously, this time, humans are far better than orcs in terms of character! Usually the accuracy is only about 30%, but today it is as high as nearly 50%!
With huge impact, when the crossbow arrow hits the opponent's sling, the powerful force can immediately penetrate several wood of the opponent's sling! Then with the roar, the tall sling suddenly collapsed.
In the orc camp, Bastine and many orc soldiers roared angrily. However, they were unable to do anything against such long-range weapons of humans.
Looking at the cheering humans on the city wall, Orc General Baistin waved his hand fiercely: "Attack! The front team sets off and fills the enemy's trenches!"
The drums sounded again, and with a burst of shouting, the first two rows of warriors in the orc queue were holding various things in their hands, including sacks filled with soil, huge stones, or some discarded wood. In the orcs' queue,
Amidst the sound of the advancing drums, there was a roar and a fierce roar. They rushed towards the human city wall!
Milo, who was on the tower, immediately turned his face and shouted loudly: "Archers, prepare!"
"Archers prepare!"
"Archers prepare!!"
In this era of cold weapons without battlefield communication systems, the commander's orders can only be conveyed through the shouts of each soldier.
Under the inside of the fortress wall, humans have gathered more than two thousand archers. They formed a standard three-row queue. After receiving the order, these elite archers of the Storm Legion immediately took off their long swords in neat movements.
bow!
Every archer in the human army is ready. Each of them maintains absolute silence and has a resolute expression. The standard equipment of each archer is a pair of military bows made by the Imperial Army and a suit of leather armor.
, the dagger at the waist, and fifteen iron-spine heavy arrows.
At this moment, five arrows were planted on the ground in front of each archer. After hearing the order, the three thousand archers immediately used unified movements to pull out a heavy iron-spine arrow from the ground in front of them.
Arrow coming.
Then, three thousand imperial archers drew their bows and nocked arrows.
At this time, the order soldiers of the imperial army who had been standing on the city wall to observe the position of the archers roared loudly with strong voices, conveying the news of the enemy.
"The enemy is close!! Eight hundred meters!! The sky is 40 degrees! Projectile!!!"
Buzz!!
Three thousand bowstrings vibrated at the same time, making a terrifying buzzing sound! Following this sound, countless sharp arrows soared from the inside of the fortress wall like flying locusts, and rushed toward the sky in dense numbers!
Thousands of sharp arrows rushed into the sky instantly. In a moment, it was like a dark cloud rising into the sky. This dark cloud almost blocked the morning sun! Then, with the inertia, thousands of sharp arrows shot out one after another.
Falling like raindrops all over the sky!!
The orcs' stormtroopers were running hard, breathing heavily, holding heavy sacks, rocks, wood, etc. in their hands.
But before they could get close to the human trench line, a hail of arrows fell from the sky!
Immediately, the rain of arrows, which was like dense rain and dark clouds, accurately covered the heads of the orcs' charging suicide squad! In just a moment, the orcs at the front fell down like wheat!
The sound of squeaking was endless. On the battlefield below the city, the orcs ran one after another, and screams and angry roars kept coming. One by one, the orcs fell unwillingly to the arrows. Some of the orcs relied on their physical strength to protect themselves.
, his skin was so thick that even after being hit by five or six arrows, he continued running for more than ten steps before falling down.
Some orcs were shot in the ankle and fell to the ground howling like wild beasts.
Although the orcs have a naturally strong physique, their thick fur and muscles give them a natural ability to withstand blows when faced with bows and arrows. However, in the previous first battle of the human race with three thousand cavalry,
But got enough information!
During the trial of the cavalry battle, the cavalry who came back alive brought a full assessment of the combat effectiveness of the orcs, the strength of these orcs' bodies, and the hardness of their armor. The commander of the human army
Immediately ordered to give up most of the wooden arrows! So today the three thousand elite archers under the city wall are using iron-spine heavy arrows that are expensive but more lethal!
After one round of projectiles, nearly a third of the orcs fell during the charge. The remaining orcs immediately dispersed the formation spontaneously and continued to rush towards the trench without fear of death.
"The enemy is close! Six hundred steps!! Projectile!!"
The observers on the city wall issued the order again! The observers who can become archers are the most experienced veteran warriors and archers selected. They have undergone strict training and archer observation of enemy distances on the battlefield.
Learn all shooting ranges. From the observation position, faithfully act as the archer’s “eyes”!!
"The enemy is close! Four hundred steps! Projectile!!"
Buzz!! The bow vibrates the string!!
Sharp arrows were shot out one after another, depriving the orcs of their lives one after another.
After three rounds of ejections, the orcs' charging suicide squad finally rushed to the edge of the human trench position after losing nearly half of them! Even among the living orcs, most of them were injured. Even more orcs were injured.
A few arrows missed the vital point, but due to the innate orcish fierceness, even though he was covered in blood, he still rushed to the edge of the trench!
Sandbags, stones, and piles of wood were thrown into the trench!
But the fate awaiting them is still not safe!
On the city wall, human archers rushed out of the towers one after another! The bows held by these archers were shorter than those of the longbows behind the city wall, but against those on the city wall
The enemy who has already rushed to the trench is enough!
"Overshoot!!"
An order was passed down, and sharp arrows were shot accurately at the orcs who had completed their mission! The black orc figures fell down one by one, some of them fell to the ground and survived for a while, but they spontaneously let out some roars that humans could not understand.
Voice.
Some orcs even roared fiercely after being hit by arrows, and simply jumped into the trench dug by humans! There were long sharp thorns arranged by humans in the trench! The orcs' heavy bodies fell, and they were immediately struck.
The long protruding thorns pierce through!
However, more orcs who were hit by arrows had no intention of turning around and retreating after dropping the things in their hands to fill the trench. More orcs jumped into the trench with roars, and even after they died, they used
Use your own corpse to try to fill the trenches of mankind!!!
Although mankind has not faced such an enemy who defended himself bravely for a long time. However, under the strict orders issued by the officers, the strictly trained archers still suppressed the shock in their hearts and kept shooting out of their hands.
sharp arrow!
Just this morning, under the almost suicidal charge of the orcs, row after row of death squads, with roars, rushed towards the human defense line in wave after wave under the dense rain of arrows behind the human defense line.
Humanity’s defense line! Using what they had in their hands and their own corpses, they desperately filled in the trenches dug by humans!
The team of long archers behind the city wall has already been transferred to the reserve team, and has gone through several rotations! Because even an excellent archer can only shoot about ten arrows, and then his arms will become weak.
.Unable to continue shooting.
Reserves move up! Shoot!
The reserve team is withdrawn and the home team is redesigned!
Rotate! Rotate again!!
Throughout the morning, even the voices of the observers on the city wall were shouted hoarse. Those orcs seemed to ignore their own lives at all, and waves of death squads were like waves. They came over again and again!
On the battlefield, there were more than 5,000 orc corpses left behind, and the trenches dug by humans that reached 100 meters long were almost filled under the city wall!!
Facing the almost numb suicidal charge of the orcs, even the rigorously trained officers among humans and the soldiers who usually pride themselves on their courage couldn't help but be moved!
Those orc death squads, in the end, even seemed to inspire their bestial nature. The death squads behind even took off their armor and went into battle shirtless, just to get rid of the armor so that they could run faster!
The battlefield is littered with animal corpses!
General Milo, who had been standing on the city tower, had already been filled with gloom!
It has been hundreds of years! How has mankind ever encountered such a powerful enemy?! In hundreds of years of peace, has the human army ever encountered such a fearless and powerful enemy?
Compared with these orcs, those grassland cavalry who were once enemies of the empire immediately seemed like nothing!
It cost more than 6,000 orc death squads their lives! But just to fill the trench! And the death of thousands of orcs, but the eyes of the orc general Baistin who stood in front of the command remained coldly calm. This white rhinoceros nobleman
General, ignore those casualties at all!
Because those orc death squads are just some criminals and low-born people in the orc tribe. According to the tradition of the orc tribe, these people are organized into the death squads. Only by desperately sacrificing and completing tasks can their sins be offset. Or they die.
Only then can their family members’ status within the clan be improved!
They are standard cannon fodder! Just cannon fodder!
Bastine looked at the trench that originally had a winding depth of a hundred meters under the city wall and had mostly been filled in. It finally gave the order to attack!
"The trench has been filled! Push up the siege equipment! Soldiers, charge forward! I want to capture the human city wall before sunset today! Be the first to climb the wall and advance to level three! Bounty of 100 kilograms of bone!"
After the general's order was passed down, the orc phalanx in the rear immediately began to move!
After the leaders roared one by one, the orc warriors in the phalanx immediately took off the huge iron shields they were carrying behind them. The orcs in the front row held their shields in front of their faces, and the orcs on the left and right held their shields at their sides.
, the orc in the middle holds his shield flat above his head!
Soon, one by one, the phalanx slowly crawled towards the defense line of the city wall!
The orc phalanx on the front, back, left, and right, as well as the top covered by dense shields, was like a turtle hiding in an iron shell, slowly approaching the human city wall!!!
After the first round of firing by the long archers under the human city wall, dense rain of arrows fell on several square formations, hitting those dense iron shields, but they could only make a feeble clanking sound.
!Only some unlucky orcs on the edge were accidentally shot in the calf, which was exposed outside the shield, or in some places where the arrangement was not close enough. Bows and arrows penetrated through the gaps, causing sporadic kills to the orcs. But.
In addition, there is nothing that can be done against the "iron phalanx" approaching the city wall one by one!
The commander of the city wall, General Milo, immediately saw the power of the opponent's phalanx, and he immediately ordered the longbowmen to stop firing. The archers on the city wall designed freely, aiming at the opponent's lower legs exposed outside the shield.
At the same time, in all the surrounding towers, the ballistae opened fire with full force!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, arrows kept flying in the air, and there was the sound of the heavy noose when the crossbow was fired. The crossbow arrows were shot out one by one. Only this kind of heavy weapon can penetrate the opponent's subway.
Square formation. But after all, the power of crossbow arrows lies more in penetration, rather than coverage and killing.
Although occasionally a few heavy crossbows hit the opponent's phalanx, the huge penetrating power of the noose, each crossbow can make the orcs who were shot immediately become pierced in a row!
But these phalanxes were obviously the elite among the orcs. When there was a gap in the phalanx, the orcs inside quickly squeezed out and raised their shields to fill the gap!
As for shooting the opponent's exposed calf under the shield... after all, this is too difficult. Not every archer soldier in the empire is a marksman who can pierce the enemy with a hundred steps.
The attack on the orcs' iron phalanx was still very limited. But at this time, finally, the opponent's phalanx had rushed under the city wall!
At this time, amidst the roaring sounds, looking down from a bird's eye view, the orcs removed their shields one after another and dispersed the turtle-shell-like metal walls. At this time, the humans on the city wall were surprised to find that it turned out that
Under the protection of the outer layer of the iron shield of each phalanx, there are several groups of orcs carrying long ladders hidden in each phalanx!
At this time, the archers on the city wall began to shoot from a nearly vertical distance. And more soldiers carried the stones they had prepared earlier and smashed them towards the bottom of the city!
Although the soldiers on the city wall fought back desperately, the ladders were still erected one by one! Those orcs also had courage that was not inferior to the previous death squads! One by one, the orc soldiers, after removing their shields,
Their heads were hit by rocks, and some were shot by sharp arrows. But as long as they didn't die, they would still hold the ladder firmly with their shoulders!
Then, very quickly, a dozen ladders were quickly set up on this side of the city wall, and the orcs climbed up one by one with blood-red eyes...
"Counterattack with all your strength! Fight them down! Fight them down!!"
Milo had raised his sword high and kept giving orders.
One by one, the orders were conveyed quickly. The human soldiers used long swords to slash at the opponent's ladder, trying to cut off or push the enemy's ladder down. Occasionally, a few people would be seen on a ladder on the city wall.
The orcs were struggling to climb, but were suddenly pushed away by the combined force of humans, and the orcs above fell from the air with a scream.
Moreover, pots of hot oil were poured down, and some of the orcs who were climbing up the ladder had hot oil poured on their faces and bodies, and they suddenly let out a wave of anger.
The terrible smell, like barbecue, fell with a cry, and even knocked down the companions behind it!
But everything seems to be unable to shake the desire of the orcs to attack! The ladder fell down, and dozens of orcs below immediately ignored the opponent's arrows and stones, struggled to lift it up again, and pushed it hard.
Go up!
The orcs on the ladder have been knocked down, and there will be more orcs below who will still climb up again regardless of life and death!
Under the fierce attack of the orcs, an orc finally successfully climbed onto the city wall. What awaited the orcs were countless sharp swords that had been prepared on the city wall!
The first, the second, the third... As soon as the orcs jumped onto the city wall one by one, they would be cut into pieces by the human soldiers' swords, or they would be punched with more than a dozen bloody holes. But the orc warriors, even if they were
Even if you fight to the death, you will rush towards the dense swords in front of you! Even if you use the weight of your own body, you must try to knock the human defenders away even a little bit! So that your companions behind you can reduce their weight when they come up.
A bit of pressure!
Finally, the human defenders began to suffer casualties!
The powerful close combat capabilities of the orc warriors are undoubtedly revealed after they climb the city wall! Especially some of the higher-level orc warriors, after they climb the city wall, they often face simultaneous attacks from seven or eight human soldiers, but they can still survive
Tenacious resistance!
The powerful strength of the orcs, their weapons, and their super strong ability to withstand blows. Often human soldiers go up and stab their opponents with a sword, but they are unable to cause fatal damage at all. As long as the opponent turns around and stabs them with a backhand,
It can kill a human being!!
This is a huge gap in individual combat effectiveness!
On the top of the city tower, Milo saw a climbing place for a ladder on the city wall to his left. The human defenders at that place seemed to be gradually unable to resist them. Among the orcs, there were several particularly tall warriors.
He was obviously a warrior among the enemies. After rushing up, he relied on the city wall to resist the surrounding humans, allowing more and more orcs on the ladder behind to rush up!
Every time an additional orc comes forward, the pressure on humans will become greater and greater! Because in terms of individual combat effectiveness, even the most elite soldiers of the Storm Legion in the empire need three humans to compare with the combat effectiveness of the orc warriors.
Only a soldier can deal with an orc warrior!
When encountering senior warriors among the orcs, the human soldiers suffered huge casualties!
"Draw your sword!!"
General Milo uttered two words fiercely from his mouth! Behind him were his direct soldiers!
In the army, those who can serve as the general's personal guards are the warriors with the strongest combat effectiveness selected from the army! These warriors are a level higher in combat effectiveness than ordinary soldiers, and many of them have genuine
At the level of a samurai! At this moment, Milo gave an order. He led a group of elite guards behind him, jumped high from the steps of the city tower, and pushed hard towards the section of the city wall where the crisis appeared!
when!!
Milo struck a sword in front of him and hit an orc warrior's sword hard. The general's long sword burst out with the light of fighting spirit. The orc's long sword immediately broke into two pieces, and at the same time, the sword blade cut directly into
On the opponent's shoulder!
Poof! A stream of hot and smelly blood sprayed on Milo's face. He didn't care. He pulled out his long sword with his backhand and thrust hard, piercing the orc warrior. He kicked the corpse over and roared,
Pounced on the next orc!
This general with the strength of a mid-level knight, like a tiger like a flock of sheep, and with a group of personal guards behind him who all have the strength of a warrior, he immediately snatched back the city that was almost lost!
Milo slashed horizontally with his long sword and knocked an orc off the city wall. The orc fell down unwillingly with a long roar. Milo caught up and kicked the opponent's ladder hard.
, his kick directly broke the opponent's ladder! Then he pressed against the city wall and slashed down with a light blade from his long sword, immediately cutting off more than a dozen wooden steps in the middle of the ladder! The ladder finally fell apart.
Milo's face was covered with blood, and his long hair was stuck in bunches in the blood. There were still some pieces of meat hanging on the bright general's armor. Under the vigorous shouts, the morale of the human defenders was greatly boosted!!
"Kill!! Drive these monsters off the city wall!!!"
Under the city wall, phalanxes of orcs, like black ants, held their shields high, and continued to approach the human city wall with wave after wave of arrows that kept buzzing in the air!!
