It was getting light, and the pursuing cavalry had returned to camp.
Looking at Hardmen's excited expression and the few heads hanging on Chi Yan's head, he knew that they had gained a good harvest. He also fought against the orcs at Longxi Pass. Basically, he mostly defended passively and took the initiative to attack.
There was little time, and it was difficult to take advantage of the few attacks. Anyway, fighting with orcs in the past was frustrating.
This time, it was quite enjoyable. It was a crushing advantage. Facing more than 30,000 orc warriors, three giant dragons fought together, as well as a dozen earth knights and more than 200 knight-level masters dispatched at the same time. Hardman had originally
There has never been such a big battle at Longxi Pass.
In this battle, coupled with the defeat of the orcs, more than twenty orcs died in Hardman's hands alone. Each member of the Red Flame Knights gained a lot, but the losses did not exceed double digits.
It was definitely a real victory.
On the battlefield, in addition to Hardman and others, the soldiers of the Dragon Army and the Silver Wing Army were also full of excited smiles. They no longer felt any discomfort in the smell of blood and burnt food. They were thinking about it when they were cleaning up the battlefield.
More will be the reward to come.
According to human tradition, the war merits of the orcs are the highest. After this battle, most of the people alive will have half of the head share of the merits. There will always be a lot of land and silver, no matter how good it is.
A little bit is enough to change to the Steel Breathing Method.
Ordinary soldiers have gained a lot, let alone officers. For example, the outstanding officer Matt, who has become a centurion leader, has already considered further things.
When the Dragon Army was established, he took the initiative to apply for the Dragon Army to be a centurion leader because of his good performance, strength and talent, and his ability as a quasi-knight.
Facts have proved that Lailongjun is really right. He has accumulated merits by fighting the orcs as soon as he arrived. Matt, who has already changed the Steel Breathing Technique, is now accumulating credits for exchanging the Qi Entrainment Art. After this battle, he has at least three
The merit of the first level, combined with the merit he accumulated before, is enough to switch to the Qi-Entraining Technique.
But now he has more choices. As an officer who has just entered the quasi-knight stage, he has not accumulated enough strength. He has been idle for the time being. If he can get a place in the training camp, he will first use his strength.
After polishing the Steel Breathing Technique to the extreme, and then redeeming it for the Qi Entrainment Technique, the probability of being promoted to a Knight will be greatly increased.
The training camp is a new functional building that Richard built in Stone Castle. In addition to improving the system soldiers, it can also affect the indigenous soldiers. When Richard went to the south to deal with the Sea Tribe, he asked Moriel to use the training camp.
stand up.
The twenty training quotas per week were also put to practical use by Moriel. The improvement effect of the training camp decreased with the strength of the trainees. Elite soldiers can be 100% promoted to quasi-knights in the training camp, and new quasi-knights can also be promoted.
It can be polished to the peak state with a high probability, but it is a hurdle for a would-be knight to be promoted to a knight. There are certain changes according to the talent of the trainee, but the success rate is only about one-third.
A week of training for knight-level masters can be equal to several months of normal training outside. Several knight-level officers in Ironwood City have improved to a certain extent, but the breakthrough effect from knight level to great knight level is very poor, Molly
I've tried it with several people without success. It just brings people closer to the bottleneck, but it still has some use.
From the Grand Knight to the Earth level, you basically don’t need to rely on the training camp. This building can upgrade even the seventh-level soldiers of Invincible Heroes, but it has no effect on the natives above the Grand Knight. Maybe it has something to do with the rules.
After basically understanding the effects of the training camp, Moriel quickly formulated a set of rules for using the training camp. Military merit and talent are the two channels for using the training camp.
A small number of places can be allocated to those with outstanding performance in Ironwood City Academy to help them complete their early strength accumulation, and more of them will be used on officers with sufficient military industry. In less than a month, the training camp has trained a number of officers for the Hunter family.
With the recruitment of more than 60 senior quasi-knights and more than a dozen knights, the several legions of the Hunter family have gradually lost the shortcomings of the lack of backbone officers. After a while, the Hunter family's army may even be like the royal guards of the royal capital.
Just like the army, knights directly served as captain-level officers.
Matt is the quasi-knight of the Dragon Army who is about to take advantage of this wave of bonuses. He has just stepped into the quasi-knights. This time he will soon be heading towards the senior quasi-knights. It is also a high probability that he will become a knight in the future.
, completing a transition that ordinary peasant families may not be able to complete after several generations of accumulation.
"Quick, quick, quick... Let's gather!"
Matt, who was quietly watching his soldiers cleaning the battlefield and counting his military merits, suddenly heard a sharp whistle.
Then he stood upright like a conditioned reflex and shouted to the soldiers under his command. The soldiers under his command also reacted very quickly. They did not care about the battlefield that had not yet been cleaned and quickly completed the formation preparations. This army went from soldiers to
The officers responded to orders very promptly.
"There are still some tails to clean up. Do we need to bring so many people with us?"
Looking at the army that was summoned in front of him, Richard asked with some confusion.
The orc army here was wiped out overnight, but there is still an orc army sent out by the clever Geert to perform a roundabout mission.
Originally, according to Moriel's plan, the orc army that was detouring from the Ironwood Forest would be led by Siel and part of the army from the fortress (elves) to delay it as long as possible. After the situation here was resolved, they would immediately go to join Siel.
Eliminate the so-called roundabout orc army. This tactic has not changed now, but the time is much earlier than planned.
"It would also be good for them to accumulate more battlefield experience."
It can be seen from Moriel's attitude that the usually aloof Dragon Queen is really interested in the army and does not miss any opportunity to improve them.
Otherwise, in the current state, it would be a simple matter to take a short rest, lead all the system troops to quickly catch up with Xi Aier, and deal with a circuitous partial division.
Soon, after resting on the spot for three hours, except for leaving some necessary troops to clean up the battlefield and take care of the wounded, the army chased in the direction of the third orc army.
Generally speaking, the army should not quickly jump into the next battle after a fierce battle. After all, everyone will get tired. Once tired, morale will be affected in all aspects, especially in the feudal era. Most of the troops still have nutrition.
For bad problems, if you continue to fight, your body will be unable to bear it at first.
But looking at the troops under Richard, it goes without saying that the system troops have bug-level physical strength and morale.
Even ordinary troops are now more excited to fight than tired. From a physical point of view, their usual training and nutrition are very scientific, and there is no situation where the body cannot bear it. There is no problem with morale, and the fighting will is absolutely
He is the best in the kingdom. In a word, his military morale is available.
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Tiemulin
Riggs, the commander of the Third Orc Legion, was in a very solemn mood.
Following Geert's orders, he led the Third Army to make a detour from the Iron Wood Forest, trying to encircle and annihilate the main human force, but he encountered trouble the next day.
His troops were attacked by tree people. Damn it, why did this magical species that had disappeared for hundreds of years appear in the Ironwood Forest?
At first, the scouts who were exploring the path kept disappearing mysteriously. Later, small groups of troops simply lost contact. Sometimes I thought some troops were lost. When marching in the forest, especially when large groups of troops were marching, they fell behind.
It's normal to get lost, but when more and more troops disappeared, Riggs realized that something was wrong and they were attacked by unknown enemies.
After chasing several times, Riggs finally discovered the identity of the opponent. They were actually a group of tree men with the strength of a great knight. Dozens of tree men attacked and killed a small group of orcs in the ironwood forest. It was not easy.
These tree men are of course the deadwood warriors under Xi Air. The deadwood warriors will slow down after leaving the forest, and their combat power will be greatly reduced. Richard has never used them outside, and has always kept them in the forest city as a
As for the defensive force, the orcs now cleverly divided their troops and took detours in the iron wood forest, which happened to hit the muzzle of the gun, giving the soldiers of the barrier (elf) forces a chance to show their full potential.
In addition to dozens of Deadwood warriors, Xi Aier now has more than two hundred war dancers, dozens of Silver Pegasus knights with elementary strength, and more than a dozen sacred unicorns and elite centaurs with elementary strength of the earth.
Most of the big elf archers and archers were brought along by Moriel and used by the main force.
"kill!"
"Those half-elves are here again!"
"To the southwest!"
"Go to support!"
"Watch out for the unicorn!"
The troops in Forest City caused more trouble to the orcs than imagined. Although they were not many in number, they were everywhere in the forest, and the quality of their individual soldiers was extremely high. In this kind of terrain, the orc troops could not deploy. Many times
You can only passively take the beating and watch your troops being eaten away.
In just one day, the orcs had already suffered thousands of casualties, but the losses they caused to the troops in Linzhong City were minimal.
"How many unicorns are there?"
"At least four!"
"Order the troops not to go to support easily, and let the Second Flag Regiment try to surround them!"
"yes!"
After a day of entanglement, Riggs had basically figured out the enemy's tactics and strength, but he didn't have a good solution. He couldn't catch up and couldn't catch him, and he couldn't beat him. The strength of those white unicorns was terrifying.
He actually single-handedly killed one of his officers who was at the peak of the Great Samurai rank. Four unicorns appeared at the same time. If the numerical advantage of the army could not be used, even if he went there in person, the ship would capsize.
We can only order the troops to be concentrated as close as possible to reduce the possibility of being attacked, quickly support each other, and occasionally encircle them to see if they can achieve results.
"General! The Second Flag Regiment suffered heavy losses! The siege failed!"
After a while, his subordinates brought him bad news. However, he had heard a lot of this kind of bad news in the day, and he actually felt a lot calmer.
"what happened?"
"When the Second Flag Regiment surrounded the opponent, five more unicorns appeared. They caused a large number of casualties to the Second Flag Regiment and then tore apart the siege arranged by the Second Flag Regiment."
"That's nine unicorns appearing at the same time."
Riggs rubbed his forehead, obviously a little anxious, but because of his status as the commander of the legion, he couldn't show it too obviously in front of his subordinates.
"call"
After taking a deep breath, Riggs made a decision. He called the messengers over and issued the decision for the troops to march south immediately and break away from the ironwood forest. If they stay in this forest again, let alone take a roundabout way.
Now, whether we can go out intact is a question.
Fortunately, they didn't go deep into the Ironwood Forest in the first place. According to Geert's order, they just needed to march along the edge of the Ironwood Forest to reduce the possibility of being discovered by human detection. But now Riggs judged that they could no longer complete their strategic goals.
, changes must be made promptly.
As for whether Geert will feel that he disobeyed the order, that will happen later. Of course, Riggs still doesn't know yet. Gelt has no chance to restrain him again.
The messengers moved very quickly. After receiving the order, each flag regiment quickly changed its marching direction. Following Riggs's instructions, more forces were deployed at the rear to cover the retreat southward.
On the other side, Sielle was sitting on a unicorn in boredom and playing with her fingers. She was originally a salty character. Among many heroes, she had no ambition. The only thing that could give her some motivation was
There are only shining gold coins and various gems.
However, she was quite concerned about the important matter that Moriel told her this time. After all, she would be rewarded with gems and gold nards after completing the task.
"Ms. Siel, the orcs are escaping to the south."
After hearing the news from the Silver Pegasus warrior, Si Air came out of her daze. The battle before was really too easy, and she didn't feel any pressure at all.
Now that she heard that the orcs were about to escape, she thought carefully. If the orcs went south, they could leave the Ironwood Forest in one day. With the power she had, it was okay to bully the orcs in the Ironwood Forest, but after leaving the Ironwood Forest, their numbers would
The disadvantage is exposed. Ten unicorns cannot directly defeat tens of thousands of elite orcs.
"First send someone to report to Lord Moriel, keep a closer eye on the orcs, and try to slow down their speed."
This was the only operation that Siair could think of. It was true that she had pressed so hard in the forest just now that Riggs would rather disobey the military order and withdraw first.
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"Lord Richard, the news from Xi Air."
After Richard returned to the army, although most of them were still in command by Moriel and Richard did not interfere, in terms of status, he naturally became the leader. When the news came, it was natural for Richard to read it first.
"Changed direction?"
After reading it, Richard handed the note to Moriel at the side. Although the Royal Griffins scattered it, the third orc army was walking through the Iron Wood Forest. It was not easy for the Royal Griffins to spot these orcs in the sky.
, so their movements mainly relied on Xi Aier's side to use the Silver Pegasus knights to transmit information. These Silver Pegasus knights were extremely fast and sent the information to Richard in less than two hours.
"Pass my order, change direction and march southward, be sure to block the orcs!"
"yes!"
Following Richard's order, the army quickly changed its direction and ran towards the south.
From intelligence to strength, Richard's army has an absolute advantage in the North. What can the orcs win?
