After several days of fierce fighting, how many corpses are there in the city? In order to speed up the advancement, the orcs' attack regardless of casualties left at least more than 100,000 corpses, and they were basically not cleaned up. The losses on the human side were not much less than those of the orcs.
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Including civilian casualties, there are at least more than 200,000 corpses in the city that have not been dealt with. At this time, half of them have become members of the undead army. When more than 100,000 undead warriors began to fight back with the cooperation of the remaining human armies,
At that time, the orc army that was still besieging humans was immediately caught off guard.
"Lord Legion Commander, the streets to the east are full of monsters, and the First Flag Regiment can no longer withstand them!"
An orc soldier hurried to a temporary orc command post in the city. When he reported the news, his face was pale and he was trembling slightly when he spoke. He was obviously frightened by the undead army.
This orc army is one of the main forces responsible for attacking Slgrad from the east. The first orc army that was wiped out by the undead army belonged to this army.
"Didn't you say you can deal with those monsters? Why can't you stand it all of a sudden?"
"There were so many of them, they were everywhere, like they were crawling out of hell."
"How many are there?"
"There are so many of them, they keep popping up on the streets. It's impossible to estimate the number."
In street fighting in the city, it is difficult to estimate the number of the enemy and ourselves. The orc warriors who came to report could only use many such vague numbers to describe the number of the undead army.
"There are also dragons. There are at least ten bone dragons. We also need the support of dragon hunting crossbows..."
Although the combat power of the bone dragons was a shame for seventh-level soldiers, it was at least the combat power of the earth-level soldiers. Ten of them suddenly appeared on the battlefield, fighting in conjunction with the ground troops, which also brought a lot of pressure to the orcs.
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"kill!"
"Hold these bones and scum away. Reinforcements will be here soon."
After sending out soldiers for help, the orc flag regiment at the front was almost overwhelmed by the undead army.
Fortunately, the defeated soldiers who had escaped earlier gave them a warning. The orcs, who were still in an offensive posture, immediately retreated and defended with their houses. If they were still in the dispersed attack posture before, I am afraid they would not even have a chance to send out soldiers for reinforcements.
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But even with preparations, they still could not sustain it until reinforcements arrived. The Undead Legion had absolute combat power and numerical advantages in this direction.
"boom!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
A black warrior kicked open the door of a courtyard. The debris piled behind the door flew all over the floor. Several sharp arrows were immediately shot from the courtyard, but they didn't even touch the black warrior's body.
He was swept away by the long sword in his hand.
Contrary to zombies, not only has the Black Warrior not become slower due to undead transformation, but its flexibility has also been improved, and its strength is completely comparable to that of a fifth-level soldier.
"kill!"
The orc warriors guarding this courtyard were unambiguous at all. They didn't care whether the arrows they fired just now were successful. After firing the crossbow, they immediately picked up their weapons and rushed over. Five or six orc warriors surrounded them and immediately attacked the black warrior.
The posture of dismemberment.
"clang!"
"Chi!"
"ah!"
When the leading orc warrior struck the black warrior with an axe, the black warrior also grasped the black knight's long sword and swung it.
The orc's battle ax fell on the head of the black warrior. The huge force caused the black warrior to tilt his body and his whole head to the left. The posture looked very strange.
Because a normal person is hit by an orc with a tomahawk. No matter how strong the helmet is, if he is hit by a tomahawk, the huge impact will at least make his head buzz.
But the black warrior was not affected at all. The long sword in his hand slashed accurately. The dark fighting spirit was not obvious on the long sword, but the energy fluctuations could still be barely seen.
The orc warrior who was fighting against the Black Warrior was chopped into two pieces by the Black Warrior along the gap in his armor. He fell to the ground and screamed several times before his companions who couldn't bear it were able to patch him up and end the pain.
The Black Warrior also took the opportunity to stop, straighten his head that had been smashed just now, and soon returned to its original appearance.
A group of skeleton warriors following him also took the opportunity to rush into the courtyard. The dozens of orcs who were guarding the courtyard were still resisting.
They swung the battle axes in their hands and knocked down several skeletons. The leading orc warrior directly faced the black warrior who was not easy to mess with at first sight.
It's just that the leading orc warrior was no match for the black warrior. He was killed by the black warrior after more than ten moves. The remaining orc warriors were quickly overwhelmed by the undead army.
The orc army of a flag regiment has basically no resistance against an army of more than 100,000 undead. More than 5,000 orcs have become new materials to enrich the army.
The Orc Legion to the east no longer needs to consider the issue of support. The Undead Legion is advancing very quickly. They are also entangled by the Undead Legion at this time, and even retreat is a luxury.
"boom!"
In mid-air, the bone dragon breathed out, burning at least seven or eight orc warriors into charcoal. One skeleton warrior was also affected, and the soul fire was extinguished directly under the high temperature.
The advantage of the undead is that there is no morale. When the bone dragon breathes dragon breath, it only needs to consider how to maximize the damage. If you hurt eight enemies and lose two, you will still make a profit.
After a few dragon breaths came down, the orc warriors in front were afraid to fight the skeleton warriors and zombies, fearing that they would be breathed down by the bone dragon once more people gathered together.
"Dragon-hunting crossbow!"
"Where's the dragon-hunting crossbow? Shoot down all those bone dragons for me!"
"Buzz, buzz..."
"boom!"
Under the order of the orc army commander, regardless of whether the dragon-hunting crossbow would be exposed at this moment, the dragon-hunting crossbows hidden in the two courtyards were immediately launched, aiming at a bone dragon at the same time.
One arrow missed the target and flew past the bone dragon's tail. The other arrow accurately hit the bone dragon's wing. The bone dragon, which had one of its wings broken off, failed to stabilize its balance and fell to the ground.
On the ground, the orc warriors immediately cheered.
Although he only shot down a bone dragon, it was still a good start. After all, he had been bullied by the bone dragon before, and now he finally had some means to fight back.
Fortunately, although the bone dragon fell to the ground, it landed among a group of undead warriors and did not fall into the orcs. There is still a possibility of recovery after the war.
The exposed dragon-hunting crossbow had no chance to make a second attack.
"boom!"
In the courtyard where the dragon-hunting crossbow was located, a dozen orc soldiers were still reloading, but a few black warriors directly broke open the door and rushed in with a group of skeleton warriors. Dozens of orc soldiers took up their weapons and fought fiercely.
Although they resisted, they were no match at all. In a short time, everyone including the leading warrior fell in the yard, and the dragon-hunting crossbow became a trophy for the defenders.
Soon human soldiers came over and took over the dragon hunting crossbow.
Without the means to deal with the aerial bone dragon, the decline of the orc army became more obvious. After the army commander was killed by several death knights in the chaos, it completely collapsed. The orc army of nearly 30,000 people in the east regained its strength after losing more than half of it.
Most of them had no intention of fighting and fled along the streets. They just wanted to escape from the city and stay away from the undead army in the city.
After defeating the orc army to the east, the defenders followed the breach and surrounded both sides, breaking the siege of the orcs in the city. The orc general Skaar who commanded the battle reacted quickly, and the orc army in the east collapsed.
On this occasion, we quickly made adjustments and issued the order to retreat.
Only after leaving tens of thousands of corpses and voluntarily exiting Slgrad did greater casualties be avoided.
On the river north of Sirgrad
The dense white sails almost completely obscured the sky. At first glance, one might think that large clouds from the sky had fallen onto the water, completely covering the river.
There are thousands of large ships. This is a huge fleet capable of transporting 500,000 troops and supplies that Richard managed to scrape together after taking away almost all the ships in the North.
As for the various types of small boats, the number was almost impossible to count. A large number of small boats transported soldiers towards the landing point on the river. By this time, tens of thousands of soldiers had arrived on the river and controlled the entire landing site.
More than twenty giant dragons and hundreds of gryphon knights patrolled back and forth in the sky, and all enemies who tried to invade could not escape their sight.
According to the current speed of action, it is estimated that it will take two days for all the troops to land.
"Quil, how are the soldiers doing?"
When the fleet arrived at the landing point, Richard, Quil and others came to the shore first. After staying on the ship for such a long time, they felt a little bored even if they didn't suffer from seasickness.
"Sir, most of the seasick soldiers have recovered. After arriving on the shore, they only need to adapt for a while before they can fight."
Because nutrition and training are guaranteed, the physical fitness of the Northland soldiers is quite good. Even a small number of those who suffered from seasickness adapted after two days on the ship. Now they can basically go to battle ashore without Richard.
Worrying situation.
"Where is the team led by Catherine now?"
"Lady Catherine is only slightly behind us. We may not have finished landing before Lady Catherine can arrive."
Quill still couldn't hide his surprise when he replied. It was true that the team led by Catherine moved too fast, and the land route was not much slower than them.
However, this was a very normal situation in Richard's eyes. Catherine led all system troops. The Titans and Ice Giants that took up too much space in the fleet were all sent by Richard to go overland.
The marching ability of these system armies is inherently better than that of ordinary soldiers. With the addition of Catherine's advanced logistics skills, the movement speed is not much slower than that of a light cavalry with one person and two horses. They set off two days in advance and actually caught up.
The speed of the fleet.
"Well, let's arrange for the landing soldiers to camp first to prevent the orcs from sneak attacks."
"Yes, sir!"
Setting up a camp to guard against a sneak attack by the orcs is actually just a complete preparation. To the south of the landing site is Sirgel. The main force of the orcs who have not captured Sirgel would not be able to bypass Sirgel to fight the reinforcements and get themselves trapped in a double-team.
In the orc camp, the atmosphere was a little dull at this time because the war was not progressing smoothly.
"Humans have landed north of Sirgrad. Let's talk about how to deal with it next."
When the undead army counterattacked in the city, Gro did not send a large number of reinforcements as before, but only asked some of Skaar's troops to be escorted out of the city.
Because it doesn't make much sense to capture Sirgele now. When Gru commanded the defenders to launch a counterattack, the Northland fleet had already appeared on the river, and more than twenty giant dragons were in Sirgele.
There was a circle in the sky near Le, and Gro's energy had been completely transferred to dealing with the landing of the Northland army.
"Your Majesty the Great Shaman, the human army landed here directly. They want to fight us in the plains. They must have something to rely on."
"No matter what they have to rely on, they still only have 500,000 people. As long as we eliminate this human army here, humans will have no ability to resist at all."
The direct landing of the Northland army was unexpected by the orcs. The orcs, including the great shaman Gro, generally believed that the human fleet would go directly down the Jinlong River to support the royal capital.
If the army of more than 500,000 people has the ability to resist the attack of the orcs, relying on the city of the royal capital and the navy on the Jinlong River, the orc army wants to capture Sirgel in order to block the passage of the fleet going south and let the Northland
It is difficult for the army to support Jinlongdu.
But now, although they did not capture Sirgler, the human army has no intention of continuing to move south. Instead, it landed from the north of the city, as if it wanted to fight the orc army here.
"The human army is more than 500,000, and those ghosts in the city have at least 100,000. If according to our judgment, they can resurrect the corpses to fight, you have to consider that those things may develop even more. The current city alone
There are enough corpses in there that they haven't had time to dispose of, so they can expand to 200,000."
The undead army suddenly appeared, and the orcs also did some research on it. Although they did not have anything like holy water to prevent the corpses from being used, they still found a way to deal with it, which was to destroy the corpses, either cremate them or chop off their heads.
Come down.
Whether it is a cremated corpse or a corpse with its head chopped off, spiritualism cannot resurrect it normally, and it can prevent corpses on the battlefield from being used. However, these two methods are easier said than done. In battle,
At that time, no one had the time to deal with it. Only the victorious party was qualified to clean up the battlefield and dispose of the corpses.
The orc army exited Slgrad under the pursuit of the defenders. Most of the corpses left in the city were not processed in time, and they could only become materials for the undead army.
"Whether it's 200,000 or even 300,000, we have an absolute advantage in military strength. Since humans dare to land and fight, then we will eliminate us here."
Although they suffered heavy losses when attacking Slgrad, the main force of the orcs is still there. There are more than 1.2 million combat troops alone, and there are hundreds of thousands of centaurs as mobile forces. They are still in an advantageous position in terms of military strength.
"Master Great Shaman, our army failed to attack Slgrad and the morale of the soldiers is not high. We haven't figured out human combat methods yet. It would be too risky to conduct a decisive battle based on numerical comparison alone."
"Why don't we retreat south first and let the centaurs harass and test the human army along the way? We continue to concentrate our troops. As long as some time passes, at least more than one million troops can be mobilized on the Great Plains, and then we can eat them all in one bite.
Human reinforcements."
After defeating the Longxiguan defenders, the orcs have always had an absolute advantage in terms of military strength. Not only did they send almost all the existing domestic troops to the Longxiguan battlefield, they also continued to mobilize more troops and sent them to the Golden Dragon Kingdom in a steady stream.
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Although the population of the orcs is much smaller than that of humans, the number and proportion of the orcs' mobilized troops are much higher than that of humans. More than a year after the war began, the total strength of the orcs has continued to increase. Because of the material supplies from the Central Great Plains, the orcs' domestic and even
There is no need to worry about destroying production, almost all the young men of the right age will be sent to the battlefield one after another.
This orc general's proposal was obviously conservative and more prudent. Even Gro was a little moved after hearing it, but his suggestion was quickly opposed.
"Is General Kendum so quickly frightened by those skeletons?"
"We still have a total of 1.2 million warriors, all of whom are the most elite warriors, and more than 100,000 centaur warriors to assist us in the battle. We are fighting an upright battle on the plains. What reason do we have to be afraid of those humans."
"If as soon as we retreat, the humans save the defenders of Sirgrad City and then take the boat south again to the Golden Dragon City, then we will lose the opportunity to eliminate the main force of the humans here. Then we will have to face
A human capital with convenient water and land transportation and a million troops stationed there."
If the first sentence can be regarded as a sentimental statement and was directly filtered out by Gro, the second sentence made Gro shake a little. After reaching the level of Gro, he will never let the battle between emotions and morale affect his combat.
We will only consider the pros and cons.
If they don't look for an opportunity here to fight the decisive battle with humans, there is a high probability that humans will board the ship again, continue south along the Jinlong River, and stationed in Jinlong City.
Golden Dragon City originally had only 200,000 to 300,000 garrison troops stationed at full capacity. After breaking through Clays City, it would be a matter of course to seize Golden Dragon City. However, if the Northland army is allowed to enter Golden Dragon City, a quick victory may be possible.
It will become a protracted war of attrition.
"If humans go south, it will only take more time for us to concentrate our troops. Why take risks here? Although humans do not have many troops, those dragons and giants will need the lives of a large number of soldiers to fill them."
"And those soldiers who were resurrected from the dead must have been caused by human magicians. We need more information."
"Have human magicians recovered to this extent?"
"During the siege, there were many human magicians who released missiles. Although the threat was not as great as those resurrected soldiers, they still caused us a lot of damage. The recovery of magic power improved the human magicians even more than we imagined.
Hurry, we can’t delay any longer.”
The top brass of the orcs are aware of the recovery of magic power. It is precisely because of this knowledge that they have a sense of urgency to completely defeat humans. They do not know how powerful human magicians are, but they know how powerful the elven empire is. Human magic is even
It only takes one-tenth of the level of an elf to overwhelm an orc.
That is a power that even the gods are afraid of.
Although human magicians are recovering their ability to cast spells, the progress is definitely not as fast as the orcs imagined. Even in the current base camp of human magicians, the Magic Academy in Snowfield City, there are only a few dozen low-level magicians, except Messiah.
This special existence, Luo Lin, who has the best talent, has only reached the level of a great magician.
It's just that the spell units and heroes produced by the system successfully made the orcs misjudge the speed of magic recovery, and even Gro was a little anxious.
The orc generals were debating whether to retreat first and then concentrate their forces or to take this opportunity to fight on the spot, and even Gro was hesitant.
"The White Dragon Clan Leader's injuries have completely recovered, and fifty white dragons will come to support him within two days."
Adelillo, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke, which made Gro determined that he could no longer delay the time...
