Several heroes quickly began to act according to Richard's instructions. Although this unknown orc city was small, it was still a city. In addition to the five hundred defenders, there were thousands of orc civilians living in the city.
In fact, this was the first time that Richard encountered orc civilians.
In fact, without Richard's order, most of the civilians in the city hid in their houses and did not dare to come out before Mrak led his army into the city. The main road of the small town was deserted except for some scattered corpses.
Orcs are inherently braver than humans. Even though most of the orcs in this city have made a living by farming, their ferocity has not diminished much.
Even if these civilians are old and weak, they still have some fighting ability. If thousands of civilians in this city are mobilized, the defenders can actually have more combat capabilities to help. At least two thousand civilians can be mobilized to help defend the city, but Li
The police officers arrived suddenly, and the orc officers did not have time to mobilize the civilians.
Richard led the people along the main street of the city towards the core area of the city. He could feel the hateful looks from the cracks in the doors on both sides. Although the defenders had been basically wiped out at this time, there was no organized army anymore.
But with the hatred between humans and orcs, the orc civilians in the entire city are like a powder keg, and the slightest move by anyone can trigger a riot.
In other words, the people were there at the beginning, and the noise and noise could be heard from the end of the street, but it soon subsided with a few screams.
If the less than 2,000 men led by Richard were just ordinary troops, they would naturally not be able to suppress the city full of orcs. However, the suppressive ability of the system army completely exceeded the ability of the orcs to cause chaos. Under the leadership of Gru, many
The phantom shooter climbed directly to the eaves and courtyard walls. These commanding heights were completely controlled by the phantom shooter. The war dancers and halberdiers below were ready to support them. The orcs who wanted to cause trouble were suppressed as soon as they appeared. Gru and these system soldiers did not care about this.
Whether the orcs are soldiers or civilians, they will only strictly implement Richard's orders. No orcs are allowed to appear on the street. As long as they appear, whether they are children or women or old people, they will be within their attack. They will usually kill them with one arrow.
There is no chance of forming a group.
These hatred-filled orcs basically couldn't even get out of the house. At least on the way Richard entered the city, no orc could get out of the room. They could only hide in the room and try to kill Richard with their eyes.
Richard completely ignored these hateful looks. He could have some sympathy for the orc civilians, but he would never be the Holy Mother. If these people entered human territory, they would be more ruthless than him. This kind of war is not a sentence in the first place.
You can tell what is right or wrong, everyone has their own position.
We quickly arrived at a place similar to the city lord's palace in the center of the small city. Similar to the structure of a human city, the city lord's palace in the orc city basically has three main functions: administrative warehouse and military. The building is relatively tall, two meters higher than the ordinary courtyard wall.
meters, there are also arrangements such as watchtowers at the four corners, and the wall is also about one meter thick. From a military perspective, although it is not as good as the outer walls of the city, it still has some defensive capabilities. In addition, the area is small and needs to be defended.
It is also much smaller, which is very suitable for huddled defense with a small number of troops.
When Richard just entered the city, there were still a small number of orcs who stayed behind and closed the door of the city lord's mansion. They stood on the wall and tried to resist, but they were quickly taken one step ahead. Ron and Gru led people to take it down, and there was no splash at all.
Can't turn it over.
Behind the city lord's palace is the orc warehouse. There are several orc soldiers lying at the door, and some torches are scattered. Apparently these orc soldiers tried to burn the supplies after finding that they could not resist, but this does not mean that the fire can be burned.
, without preparation in advance, it was still a bit difficult to start a fire. After Ron arrived, he quickly killed these orc soldiers, led people to extinguish the little sparks that had just ignited, and grabbed a intact warehouse for Richard.
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There are a lot of supplies stored in the warehouse. Apart from some unusable weapons and armor, the most important thing is food. It is the autumn harvest these days, and there is also some newly collected food piled in the warehouse. You can see it as soon as the warehouse is opened.
Full of rice ears.
"Sir, the courtyard has been cleaned up. It is estimated that there are more than 100,000 kilograms of grain in the warehouse."
"Well, order the soldiers to eat the food here immediately, take out all the meat from the warehouse, open it up and eat it, and then replenish the food on your body after eating, so that you can carry enough for seven days."
"Yes, sir!"
"Come here, move the food out of the warehouse quickly!"
The system army has strong endurance and can accept some supernatural bonuses, but it is still a living creature in essence. If it does not eat or drink, it will not lose morale but will lose strength. After a long time, it will also lose physical strength and cannot move. At this time, it takes up this
Naturally, the small town where some food was stored should be opened to allow the troops to have a meal and replenish the supplies carried by the army.
"Master Richard, the dragon needs fresh meat, and there are not enough livestock in this house."
In addition to ordinary soldiers, the ones that are more difficult to serve are the giant dragons flying in the sky. They are carnivores. Generally, they do not eat food. On weekdays, they can only accept a portion of pancakes made of flour and eggs to eat with meat. The main thing is
They have to eat meat. There is no time to prepare egg cakes for them now, so they can only eat pure meat.
"Aren't there enough livestock?"
The so-called "insufficient" only refers to the insufficient amount in the city lord's palace. In this small city with thousands of people, there is no way that there is no meat to feed the giant dragon.
"Moriel, take your people and collect enough livestock immediately. Any rebels will be killed."
"Yes, sir!"
Moriel, who was wearing a black armor, quickly accepted the order, took a few people with her and left. This kind of thing was recruiting at best, and robbing civilians at worst, but with Moriel's temperament,
Not to mention robbing orcs, she felt no pressure even when robbing human civilians.
"Sir, let me go too!"
"Um?"
It was Elena who spoke. Since entering the city, Richard has not left the matter of suppressing civilians to him. After all, he knows Elena's character. Killing civilians is somewhat stressful, and Richard has no shortage of people.
People who can do this kind of work don't need to ask Elena to do these things.
It's just that Elena offered to do the collection mission with Moriel, which surprised Richard a little.
Elena raised her head to meet Richard's gaze, her eyes firm and unyielding in the gaze.
"Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself. I think I should understand this truth."
Since Elena took the initiative, Richard had no reason to refuse. After thinking about it for a while, he ordered:
"Take Zealot and Moriel together to execute it. Remember not to be soft-hearted and fast. We can't stay here for too long!"
"Yes, sir!"
After receiving Richard's permission, Elena also brought dozens of fanatics wearing red jackets around her to follow Moriel's footsteps. Moriel looked at Elena with a serious face and smiled playfully, showing a smile.
The deputy looked slightly interested, but in the end, perhaps because he was in front of Richard, he didn't say much and just assigned the task in a light tone.
"After leaving the gate, you take the people to the east, and I will take the people to the west to quickly complete Lord Richard's mission."
"Um."
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The sun gradually sets in the west. Under the bloody sunset, the corpses of orcs lying around the city looking even more desolate.
Elena and Moriel had brought back enough cattle and sheep at about the same time, just the sheep. Those cattle were used for plowing the fields, and they were considered the lifeblood of an ordinary farmer. So what?
It can be handed over easily. Looking at the dark red traces on Elena's silver armor, you can tell what happened.
By the time the sun was about to completely set, the soldiers had basically finished resting, and the food bags on their bodies had become bulging, and the bellies of the more than 20 giant dragons standing around seemed to be rounder.
The City Lord's Mansion certainly couldn't accommodate so many people. The soldiers did not go to the surrounding areas to collect houses, nor did they set up camp to build a stronghold. Instead, they held torches one by one, and were fully equipped with armor, as if they were about to go out.
"Ron, are everything set up?"
"Well, the grain that was not brought in the warehouse has been drizzled with oil, and it can be set on fire after we leave."
"Okay, order the troops and let's go."
"Yes, sir!"
Richard had no intention of spending the night in this city. First, he was on guard against the possibility of being surrounded by an army of orcs. Second, he couldn't sleep well at night in a city full of orcs, with the cover of night.
, The orcs who did not have the courage to start a riot during the day were in trouble at night. Richard could even feel the faint movement in the night. After all, they were a strong fighting race that could fight with a stick. These orcs
The bloodthirsty wildness of the civilians seemed to be stirred up at night.
Although the army in Richard's hands was not afraid of another suppression in the city, it was really not necessary.
"Tap, step, step..."
At night, the sound of neat marching footsteps sounded, and the orcs who had just started to have some thoughts were so startled that they did not dare to act rashly. Everyone knew that facing these brightly armored human soldiers, basically anyone who dared to take the initiative would die.
At this time, in a dark alley, a group of orcs were gathering together, each holding a tomahawk, iron rod, broadsword and other weapons in their hands, because the orcs had always been full of martial virtues, and the armor was expensive and civilians could not afford it, but the weapons
But everyone has it.
Several of the orcs were still wearing standard heavy armor. They should be the remnants of the orcs who escaped from the battle, and got mixed up with the orc civilians in the city who wanted to resist.
"Captain! The human army is out, do we want to join?"
"What are you going to do? You are looking for death!"
The captain of the ten-man team was already the largest surviving official among the surviving orcs. Naturally, he was pushed to be the commander by the orcs in the city who still wanted to resist. They did not dare to do so during the day.
Move around, and only at night can you rely on your familiarity with the terrain to take action.
The original plan was to create some noise in the city with another team, cause chaos, and risk the lives of half the people in the city to tear off the human army that entered the city. Unexpectedly, the human army actually came out at night.
They gathered together and prepared to leave. How dare he take these 100 people to attack the large army? He could only continue to wait and see the situation.
"Captain, look over there, it's burning!"
Suddenly, the warehouse behind the city lord's palace burst into flames. Because oil had been poured in advance, the fire spread instantly, and soon the whole city could see the raging fire in the center.
"Damn it, that's a warehouse, there's still grain collected in the past two days!"
The captain quickly realized what was happening. It seemed that these humans were leaving, and before leaving, they burned all the food that could not be taken away.
It's just that although he was angry in his heart, in reality, he could only be helpless and furious. He could only hope that after the humans left, he could organize people to rescue some food and come back.
Fortunately, there is still a large amount of food that has not been harvested outside the city, and the losses are not particularly heavy after all. After the humans leave, as the largest official in the city, I should reorganize the order, and maybe I can get some credit...
"Roar!"
Before the orc captain could continue to think, dragon roars came from the sky, interrupting his thoughts about the future.
Then pillars of flames lit up in the night sky, and the giant dragon began to spit out its dragon breath indiscriminately in the city. The temperature of the dragon's breath was extremely high, and the flames were fierce. Compared with modern flamethrowers, it was only slightly stronger.
Except for the warehouse, half of the city was on fire. There were screams everywhere, and some panicked figures were fetching water and trying to extinguish the flames.
"Run!"
"Hide in the basement, hide in the well!"
"boom!"
A breath of dragon breath came straight towards the dark alley, lighting up the entire alley. A group of orc warriors holding weapons and wanting to fight the human army were instantly turned into charcoal.
All preparations were in vain when Richard violently burned the city. The entire city would soon be wiped out.
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At the city gate, Richard glanced back at the city that was half ablaze. Through the flames, he could see figures moving back and forth, and screams seemed to reach Richard's ears through the screen.
However, Richard didn't have much trouble in his heart. He just raised his horsewhip again to urge the troops to take action. The dragons in the sky did not return directly to the team after setting half the city on fire. Instead, they flew to the surrounding areas under the leadership of Moriel.
Large areas of green rice fields and unharvested crops are also within their scope of destruction.
In order to speed up the destruction efficiency, hundreds of gryphon knights and silver pegasus knights even joined the dragon in throwing prepared oil cans on top of the large green rice to support combustion, making the flames become more intense.
Tonight, all that is left for the orcs is an empty city and a white field.
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barren stone city
Inner castle
Compared with the small city that Richard captured, Huangshi City can be considered a big city. For defense, it not only has dragon hunting crossbows, but also an inner fortress. Its defense is several levels stronger than the city lord's palace in the small city. However, the defense of this city is limited.
It didn't have any effect. After waiting for a long time, Richard's army still didn't arrive.
Orc commander Ruel was constantly checking the map in the main hall of the inner castle, trying to find Richard's location.
"Lord Ruhr, there is urgent news!"
At this time, a messenger hurriedly entered the hall.
"Um?"
Ruhr walked a few steps outside, took the letter from the soldier, glanced at it, and had an incredulous expression on his face.
"Little River City? How is that possible!"
It's not that Ruhr lacks imagination, but that Mrak, who is equipped with speed equipment, led the army and ran too fast. No matter how hard Ruhr thought, he couldn't think that Richard could run so far, and he was still searching for their traces nearby.
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"Where did this information come from?"
"It was sent by the Bat Rider near Xiaohe City. He said that he saw the entire Xiaohe City burned with his own eyes, and the surrounding green rice was not spared."
Orc General Ruhr clenched his fists and remained silent for a long time after hearing this, as if he was digesting this information.
"Go and call some of the legion commanders to come to the main hall to discuss matters, and also ask the Bat Knight who delivered the message to come over."
