Chapter 28 The Beginning of the Semi-Decisive Battle
“The results are important, but what really makes people grow is the process.”
The aquatic orcs' sneak attacks were no longer effective, the humans also had certain logistical supplies, and the entire military camp returned to calm, but other crises lurked under this calm.
The epidemic gradually spread. Although the season was winter, many soldiers began to have fever and diarrhea, and non-combat attrition began to occur.
Wails and moans spread in the camp every day, stimulating the nerves of the middle and junior generals. The senior generals can sleep with their wings at night, but the middle and junior generals can't even drink. Anxiety began to spread, and everyone was suffering.
, the most painful thing in war is not the defeat, but the torture of each other in the stalemate. The enemy cannot defeat us, and we cannot defeat the enemy. The longer the stalemate lasts, the more mentally damaged we will be.
After seventeen days, the situation finally changed.
Xing Jun stood by the river and looked at the island in the middle of the lake. This was the crossing point suggested by Yi Ren's high-altitude reconnaissance. Liao Zan worked hard for seventeen days and finally completed the mission with the help of others, creating a passage for the entire army.
The "freezing jug" used.
Xing Jun stretched out his palm towards the island in the center of the lake, covered the "larger" palm in his field of vision on the "smaller" island in the center of the lake, turned around and said to Mo Huijun behind him: "You can cross the island today."
Mo Huijun immediately said: "You cannot cross the island today."
Xing Jun was slightly confused: "Why?"
Mo Huijun said: "The main combat power of the aquatic orcs on the Lake Center Island is the lizard people. Although the lizard people are orcs, their body temperature is different from ordinary orcs. Their body temperature is low.
There are many similarities between this world and the earth. The lizard people may be similar to the lizards on the earth. Their body temperature is low and they move slowly at night. They use the sun to increase their body temperature during the day. The higher the body temperature, the more vigorous their movements."
Xing Jun was slightly surprised and said: "Is there such a thing?"
"It has been tested on captured lizard men, and the information is true and reliable." Mo Huijun said: "The lizard men have hard scales on their bodies, which are equivalent to the armor of our human soldiers. They are stronger than our human soldiers, and their feet are
There are also flippers for treading water, which are very beneficial to them.
This island-crossing operation is equivalent to a decisive battle, and their advantage must be reduced as much as possible before the battle, so I suggest crossing the island at night and conducting the operation in the form of a sneak attack."
Xing Jun thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, let's fight tonight."
"Tomorrow night!"
Mo Huijun said firmly: "This is not the earth. There is no modern information transmission device. We have thirty to forty thousand people here. It will take time to fully mobilize."
"It's up to you." Although he was anxious, Xing Jun still nodded.
Xing Jun came to see Shi Qianqian, and Shi Qianqian made a new weapon for him. It was a long-handled ax with a handle four and a half meters long. One side was a wide and flat axe, and the other side was a dragon's tooth-shaped curved pointed cone.
The war mobilization continued. The orcs on Lake Center Island discovered frequent human activities during the day, but they arrogantly believed that humans did not have the means to cross the river and missed the opportunity to prevent it.
In the first half of the night on the day of the battle, the Winged Man took the frozen kettle into the sky and dropped the ice in the smooth water from one bank to the other to create two straight lines crossing. The human soldiers who had been prepared began to throw the kettle from the shore.
Fill the area within the two "ice lines" all the way to the shore on the other side.
It's so easy to say...
But the scene of tens of thousands of people holding torches at night, like luminous ocean currents in the dark night, shouting slogans and working together made Xing Jun's blood boil.
The scene was grand, and the orc sentinels, who were not blind, could naturally see it, but they were just watching stupidly at first. They had grown up here since childhood, and had grown up here for generations. The water here had never frozen, and they even continued to freeze.
Haven't seen any of them.
They whispered to each other in the darkness on the other side. Although they were curious about human actions, they did not feel the danger. In their minds, if they wanted to cross the river from now on, they would either swim over or paddle across by boat.
So standing on this side of the river and looking at humans is like looking at lions in a zoo. The danger is so close, yet so safe, and you can't help but feel a little numb and careless.
They kept watching until the torches in the dark began to appear on the water and move on the water. They finally noticed something was wrong. Some returned to their residence to call more people over, and some went into the water and swam to find out.
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There were no boats to cross the river, but they saw humans walking on the river and throwing things into the river. It was pitch black in the night, and after a while they were able to continue moving on the river where they had thrown things.
The orcs were frightened and swam back quickly. The winged men discovered them and threw javelins at them. They dived under the water and continued to swim back.
The orcs at the lake finally began to gather, but in a hurry there were very few people, not even a hundred people. Since the first wave of orcs who went back to warn people did not realize that this was a decisive battle, they went back to inform people, but the ones they notified were not
They were all leaders, acquaintances, villagers and the like.
Those usually farsighted leaders were frightened when they came to the river. Seeing the seriousness of the matter, these people quickly sent people to inform the big boss.
Humans are halfway across the river. There is a small orc leader who wants to lead people to swim across to stop humans from crossing the river, but he is like a mantis trying to use his arms as a chariot, unable to do so.
The horn finally sounded in the center of the island, but it was already too late, and humans had already set foot on the island in the middle of the lake with sufficient preparation.
Yiren Changkong watched in the air as the river of light formed by the torches poured into the island in the middle of the lake. The light spread and burned.