Five days have passed since Xini and others left. At this time, the orc warriors who stayed under the Dragon Scale Castle knew that they had become the abandoned ones, even if they were slow to react. Most of them left with their elite troops from Xini.
Food began to run out that night. Except for a small number of regiment commander Devi's troops, the remaining orc soldiers had not had a proper meal of food for five days.
Most of the soldiers were so hungry that they were dizzy and didn't care about what to eat. They ate all the rats, insects and other protein-containing foods around them. Even turf and leaves became their choice to wrap their bellies.
Gru did a great job. When he retreated, he abandoned all the surrounding castles and burned all the supplies. The orcs could hardly find any food within a radius of several hundred miles.
"Lord Legion Commander, the food in the Guards Camp has also been eaten up. Starting today, the Guards Camp will also be without food."
"Um."
There was almost no expression on Devi's face. The lack of food was an expected thing. They were just an abandoned army. Although the Guards Battalion was supplied with food for a few more days by him as the last force to maintain order, overall,
There is only so much food, and even if there is preferential treatment, it will be time to run out of food by now.
"And one more thing…"
The officer who was reporting to Devi was hesitant to speak. It seemed that what he was going to report next made it difficult for him to speak.
"Go on, there's nothing else you can't say at this moment."
Devi's mentality at this time was already quite Buddhist. Ever since he took over the task of staying here to provide cover, he had put life and death aside, so there was no bad news that he couldn't bear to hear.
"The bodies of our soldiers buried in the east of the camp were stolen. The soldiers patrolling this morning found a large hole in the cemetery..."
Even the devastated legion commander Devi instinctively frowned after hearing the news.
Although there are many scavenging beasts on this plain, the lively beasts nearby have been almost eaten by the hungry orcs in the past two days. Facing tens of thousands of orcs armed to the teeth, no jackal or beast dares to approach.
In the orc camp, graves were dug up and corpses were stolen. It was only the orc soldiers who were so hungry that their eyes turned green that they stole the corpses of their own people.
Although the orcs are more ferocious than humans, in essence, they can be regarded as a civilized race. In the short period of time after the demise of the Elf Empire, the orcs can be said to be the dominant force on this continent, and they also have their own unique characteristics.
A unique civilization is actually a race that has broken away from primitive barbarism. Under normal circumstances, their diet will not include humans who are their enemies, let alone eat their own people.
But things are different now. When they are extremely hungry, some people can stick to their principles and resolutely not eat anything other than their own diet. Some people can also break their principles and eat some unconventional foods in order to survive. It’s just that
After so many days of fighting, there were not many corpses left by humans, and almost all of them were on the walls of Dragonscale Castle. Only the orcs left a large number of corpses outside the city. Some extremely hungry orcs had no choice, so it was natural that something happened.
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"Don't worry about it, let them go..."
After instinctively feeling a certain amount of resistance, Devi felt a little moved in his heart. If the corpses abandoned in the past few days were made into meat patties, maybe he could survive for a few more days?
"Yes, sir!"
Devi's attitude obviously acquiesces to the behavior of certain soldiers and does not force him to do so. He can eat whatever he wants, so that some people can preserve their physical strength for a while longer and fight against humans.
Corresponding to the orcs' side is the human army in Dragonscale Castle. Dragonscale Castle was originally a food storage place for the orcs. When Mrak and others led the army to seize the city, it was so sudden that the orcs guarding the city did not even
There was no time to completely burn the food and supplies in the city, and the food reserves prepared by the orcs in Dragon Scale Castle were enough for thousands of human defenders to eat for half a year.
Now the defenders in the city can not only eat three meals a day, but even occasionally eat some meat. Although they are currently surrounded by orcs in the Dragon Scale Castle, their lives are much better than those of the orcs outside the city. They even
Sometimes they even deliberately have meals at the top of the city, trying to let the orcs see them eating.
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Just when most of the orcs were already hungry and their eyes were glowing green, a human army appeared and also appeared around Dragon Scale Castle.
Shortly after Sean's withdrawal, Gru led an elite group of legions selected from Dragon Wing City and gradually approached Dragon Scale Castle.
Although this legion only has more than 20,000 people, its combat strength is extraordinary. In addition to this legion itself being the main legion of the Northern Route Army, Gru also concentrated most of the knight-level masters and above in the Longyi City garrison.
After being used in this legion, the number of knight-level experts in the entire legion reached an unprecedented number of 300. Coupled with some of the system troops brought by Gru, there are at least more than 600 knight-level experts in the army of 20,000 people.
master.
"Lord Gru, the orc camp is less than twenty miles away from us. The camp is in chaos and doesn't seem to be on alert."
Of course, the orcs were not on guard at this time. An abandoned army did not have enough food, and was in a sluggish state both mentally and physically. How could it maintain normal operations? On weekdays, no matter whether Gru brought 20,000
No matter how low-key the army is, they should have been discovered by the orcs when they approached the range of twenty miles of the orc army. However, most of the orcs now are so hungry that they have no strength, and a small number of them rely on the corpses of their companions to maintain their strength. They have no time to worry about whether they are still alive.
A human army was approaching, so much so that after Gru approached with his army, the orcs didn't even react at all.
"Keep investigating!"
"Command the army to prepare for battle."
"Yes, sir!"
"Ron!"
"Lord Gru!"
"In a moment, you will lead the crusaders and fanatics to attack directly into the orc camp. The four snake monsters will also be under your command. You must destroy all the organizational power of the orcs."
"Yes, Lord Gru!"
Ron is the first hero to follow Richard. Although his basic qualifications are not good, he is still a system hero with a heroic template. After fighting so many battles, coupled with the investment of various resources, his strength has reached the level of the earth. He can then lead a group of
In the Crusade battle, you can definitely kill three in and three out of a group of chaotic orcs.
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"Lord Legion Commander! There is a human army approaching us again!"
Finally, when the human army approached within several miles, the orcs finally discovered the approaching human army, and finally a few dedicated soldiers passed the news to Devi's camp.
"It's finally here, earlier than I thought."
When Devi heard the news that the human army was approaching, not only did he not panic, but he looked relieved. He was not afraid of the human army coming to attack, but what he was more afraid of was that the humans would just sit there and starve to death.
Let them not even have a chance to die in battle.
However, he didn't know Gru's needs. How could Gru be willing to let them starve to death after spending so much effort to surround the experience packs?
"Can the Guards Battalion still fight?"
"The Guards Battalion is still the sharpest knife in the hands of the Legion Commander!"
"good!"
Devi stopped talking nonsense and put on his battle armor with the help of his soldiers. He took the battle ax from the weapon rack and walked out. More than a thousand orc warriors from the guards camp were already neatly dressed and waiting outside the tent.
Devi's main tent is almost separated from the soldiers outside. Compared with the chaos in the main camp, the orc soldiers around Devi's main tent still maintain basic order. After all, these guard camps have not been hungry for long enough, and there are still
With a little sense, a certain amount of resistance could still be organized at this time, but when facing Ron and others as the vanguard, the orc army on the periphery could not even hold their weapons.
"kill!"
"clang!"
As the vanguard, Ron led the Crusaders and Zealots to attack the orc camp with little effective resistance. It was a completely disgraceful massacre.
Under the command of officers, some orcs reluctantly raised their weapons to resist, but the war in the cold weapon era required more physical strength than the hot weapon era. The weak orcs could not launch any decent attacks at all, while the crusaders could easily block them.
They attacked softly, harvesting the lives of the orcs.
Except for some of the orcs who resisted, there were also some orcs who were already in a state of numbness. They just stared helplessly at the human soldiers who came in and killed them without even trying to escape, as if dying by their swords was a relief.
If Ron were to evaluate the situation of this camp, it would be lifeless. If there were no skeleton soldiers in the camp, Ron would have thought that this camp was controlled by Dia's necromancer.
"Go directly to the big tent in the center of the orcs, don't get entangled here!"
Ron was not very interested in killing some orcs who were almost unable to resist. After killing a few waves of orcs who had weak resistance, he led his men directly to attack Dvina's camp.