The orc camps stretch for dozens of miles, with barriers, pits, observation towers, and exterior walls of civil structures arranged in a very systematic manner. It is not easy to get benefits from the orcs like those of the Sea Tribe.
Facing the arrangement of the orcs, the army actually has no other good solution except to attack by force. If only ordinary soldiers are fighting, then they can really only keep filling the soldiers into a millstone of flesh and blood.
But the attacking human army now is different. Not only are they pushing traditional siege equipment such as shield carts and ram carts, but there are also explosive thunders that the orcs have never seen before, which are constantly falling on the orc camps.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
The weight of the new mine has not changed much. It still has a charge of ten kilograms. It is sealed by a metal shell and filled with some messy iron slag. The person responsible for throwing it is not a stupid guy like a trebuchet, but a human soldier who ignites it.
The giant behind the lead rope directly picked up the ten-pound thunder and threw it into the orc camp.
At this time, hundreds of thunders weighing ten kilograms had fallen on the orc camp that was attacked by humans. There were craters everywhere, and several gaps appeared in the originally solid wooden walls.
Although the gunpowder after improving the formula ratio and realizing granulation is still not as good as the explosives of later generations, its power is still considerable. At least with the current power and stability, it is no longer useless for use in war, but becomes
It has become a sharp weapon.
And based on the idea that the power is not enough and the weight is insufficient, the explosives made by Beidi Ordnance Factory have at least ten kilograms of explosives, and there are even large mines such as twenty kilograms and fifty kilograms. Some of them explode when they fall to the ground.
The power is no less powerful than the cannonballs of later generations.
The orcs had no preparations to avoid the artillery fire. The stronghold where a legionnaire was stationed was plowed by hundreds of thunderbolts and became a mess. Some of the horses blocking the road were directly thrown away, and they did not know how to roll after landing.
Wherever it goes, it can be said that the defensive capabilities of this stronghold have destroyed at least half of the mine.
What's more serious is the blow to the soldiers in the village. When the thunder hits the ground, its huge power can lift all the orc soldiers five or six meters around to the sky. Their heavy armor, which can block strong crossbows, is very powerless in the explosion.
, the power of the shock can directly impact the orc warriors under heavy armor. Some of the orc warriors who fell to the ground in the explosion seemed to have no scars on their bodies, but the cloth except the armor was torn to pieces, and a small amount of blood flowed from their ears and nostrils. It is very likely that
His internal organs had been shattered.
As for the shrapnel and iron sand splashed by the thunder, the damage range is even wider. The range of thirty to forty meters around the impact point is their damage radius. The slightly unlucky orc warriors were beaten like honeycombs by the splashed iron sand, and their bodies were damaged.
Even the armor can't stop the damage from this kind of shrapnel.
Several rounds of mines were dropped, and at least two to three thousand orc warriors were killed or injured in the camp. A small number were killed directly in battle, and some were not injured by iron sand and shrapnel, but were injured by the iron sand soaked in strange liquid.
, even if you don’t die on the spot, there is a high probability that the wound will become infected later.
There had been such heavy casualties before a close encounter. It can be imagined that the morale of the orcs at this time was not very high because they had been unable to conquer the city for a long time, but now it fell to the bottom.
Logically speaking, hundreds of mines should not cause such heavy losses to the orcs, but the orcs have no experience in dealing with mines. The regular camps they set up are always aimed at cold-weapon troops. Otherwise, digging a few trenches to hide soldiers will not work.
Can avoid most explosion damage.
Many orc warriors didn't even do the most basic movements of lying on the ground when the mines fell. They just stood there stunned and were swept away by iron sand and shrapnel, without any awareness of precautions.
Only later did they discover that the more they gathered, the higher the chance of being attacked by thunder, which in turn caused the orc warriors to subconsciously spread out. Instead of learning to lie on the ground to reduce the probability of being injured, they first learned to form a sparse formation.
There should have been a lot of people gathered around the shabby wooden wall, but now there are only a few orc warriors stationed there.
"Get up, don't lie on the ground!"
"Orcs don't need cowards! Get back to your place!"
"Supervise the battle team! Supervise the battle team!"
"All soldiers who leave their positions without authorization and run around in the camp will be executed immediately. All soldiers lying on the ground are equally guilty!"
The commander of the orc army commanded here obviously didn't know how to adapt. Even when the mine explosion caused a large number of casualties to the soldiers, he still followed the old rules and required discipline. The soldiers were not allowed to disperse or lie on the ground to avoid damage.
After all, in war, it is easy for deserters to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, so in the eyes of most officers, lying on the ground is basically equated with deserters.
At the request of the legion commander, some of the soldiers were hacked to death by the guards supervising the battle. Others stood up and gathered together fearfully, continuing to withstand the huge damage caused by the thunder, until an orc flag captain with great warrior strength was directly killed.
The thunder that fell next to them created a hornet's nest, causing the entire flag regiment to collapse.
The leader of the orc flag regiment was also in bad luck. The explosion of thunder caused a lot of damage to ordinary soldiers, but it actually posed little threat to officers of the level of a great warrior.
Unlike in modern warfare, officers are mortal bodies, and generals cannot withstand an ordinary 7.62. Orc officers are all extraordinary beings whose physical fitness is several times that of ordinary soldiers. They have mastery of fighting spirit, and their armor is thicker than that of ordinary soldiers.
It's a lot better. Whether it's defense, physical fitness, or reaction speed, it's not on the same level as ordinary soldiers.
The destructive power of thunder is only at the elementary level of gunpowder weapons, and has not developed to the crazy power later.
Some of the iron sand that had been splashed out earlier had not even hit the orc warrior, but he had used his battle ax to deflect it in advance. Some of the iron sand that was missed had penetrated his armor, and its kinetic energy had basically reached its limit, and it was basically stuck.
In terms of muscles, the Dou Qi can still be squeezed out after it circulates, so there is basically no serious problem.
Therefore, during the explosion, these officers were able to look calmer, and could stand upright amidst the flying soil, iron sand, and explosion fire, which also played a role in stabilizing the morale of the military.
However, due to the different lengths of the fuses, a 20-pound thunder accidentally exploded in mid-air less than a foot away from the orc flag leader.
The leader of the Orc Flag, who was at the center of the explosion, almost withstood the full power of the mine. The iron sand and shrapnel hit him like a honeycomb. The originally fine armor was full of dense holes, and blood flowed down the holes in the armor.
seeped out.
The worst thing was the head. Shrapnel almost cut the entire face into a flat surface. Because of the powerful vitality of the great warrior, after being knocked down by the thunder, the leader of the orc flag regiment even struggled on the ground. The surrounding orc soldiers also planned to
He went up to the rescue, but a second mine fell, which completely killed him, and the soldiers under his command were also completely shattered by this mine's will to fight.
After the death of the orc flag leader, more than 4,000 orc soldiers could no longer maintain their formation and began to evade on their own. Even the personal guards supervising the battle stopped forcing the soldiers and allowed the troops in the camp to run around randomly. Be smarter.
Some lay on the ground protecting their heads, and some even got into the tent in the camp before they understood the situation.
In short, the entire camp of orc soldiers fell into chaos after encountering the thunder attack for the first time. The wrong command of the orc army commander made this chaos become irreversible.
At this time, it was also a good time to attack. An orc camp that was originally well-positioned now completely opened its arms to the attacking human army.
…
"Stop throwing bombs, the First Flag Regiment starts attacking."
"yes!"
The general commanding the attack is Quill. He is considered to be the fastest-growing general under Richard. It is no problem to stand alone. In this battle, he was assigned to the left-wing army under Gru, leading the Flying Bear Army.
After launching the main attack, the orc camp stuck in the main route of their attack was the first target he wanted to capture.
Although this was not the first time Quil had seen thunder, there was still a big difference between his usual experimental viewing and actual combat. At least the power and effect were greater than he had imagined.
However, of course, the bigger the power of the thunder thrown at the orcs, the better, without giving the opponent a chance to react. After hundreds of thunder exploded the opponent to pieces, Quill immediately ordered the ground troops to launch an attack.
attack.
"Come on!"
The thousands of soldiers who served as the vanguard rushed into the orc camp with almost no difficulty. The arrows that should have been flying in densely only fell on the heads of these soldiers. The horses blocking the road were quickly lifted away.
No orc soldiers came to stop them.
Even the originally strong village wall was in some tatters, with at least a few large holes for several people to pass through.
The attacking first flag regiment was particularly dissatisfied. Before they even got close to the wall, a group of soldiers with several gunpowder packets weighing hundreds of kilograms pressed against it.
"Prepare to explode, everyone get out of the way!"
"quick!"
After the improvement of gunpowder, Richard proposed a variety of methods for use on the battlefield, and then various generals repeatedly demonstrated and tried them. The original big guns and artillery that were always ineffective have not left the experimental field.
But the most basic application method has been practiced for almost all time. This method of burying a large amount of gunpowder directly under the camp, igniting it and then blasting it has been tried many times. The soldiers responsible for burying the gunpowder have also been specially trained for a period of time.
Because there was basically no resistance from the orcs on the outside, the process of burying the gunpowder was extremely smooth. It only took about ten minutes to fill the prepared gunpowder packets to the bottom of the wall.
After the surrounding soldiers retreated hundreds of meters away and lay on the ground, the soldier in charge of the explosion lit the fuse, and a loud bang broke out ten seconds later.
Thick black smoke rose tens of meters high and could be seen almost from the entire battlefield. The orc soldiers who were still behind the village wall estimated that they would not even be able to find a complete body now.
"Rush in."
"kill!"
The commanding officer did not wait for the black smoke to completely dissipate. He knew very well that after that amount of gunpowder exploded, it would be impossible for the earthen and wooden stronghold built in several days to withstand it.
A large group of human soldiers rushed into the orc camp almost unscathed amid the thick black smoke.
At this time, the orc camp was still in chaos. Facing the rushing human soldiers, most of them did not resist and ran away. Soldiers who have lost their will to fight are unlikely to be effective. Even these orc warriors
On average, they are a full head taller than human warriors.
"Line up! Stop these humans!"
"Explode thunder, throw it!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
The army invaded the orc camp for at least 500 meters before finally encountering decent resistance. The orc army commander led his personal guards and gathered thousands of soldiers around him to fight against the human soldiers who invaded the camp.
go.
Although there are only a thousand orc soldiers, it is not easy to eliminate them with a flag regiment. If the orc soldiers do not lose their fighting spirit, even the most elite human army will not be able to get any advantage in a frontal battle.
However, the human soldiers who acted as the vanguard did not use the familiar tactics of the orcs. Instead of charging with big guns after firing a salvo of bows and crossbows, they came up and threw hundreds of small thunderbolts.
The explosive charge of these mines, less than two kilograms, is not large, but the advantage is that they are large in number and can be thrown accurately. They fell into the orcs dozens of meters away and exploded, causing a period of chaos. Dozens of orcs were bombed.
Killed and injured.
However, the orcs following the legion commander obviously had stronger fighting will. They did not collapse after being thrown by thunder for a while, but instead gritted their teeth and continued to move forward.
"Rush over and mingle with these humans."
"kill!"
The orc commander finally issued a correct order at this time, and the orcs no longer adhered to any formation, and charged forward with weapons in hand and shouts.
"clang!"
"clang!"
"Chi!"
The two sides fought fiercely together, with steel colliding and blood flying everywhere, and the orcs were suppressed to the extreme by the thunder.
The attacking first flag regiment was particularly dissatisfied. Before they even got close to the wall, a group of soldiers with several gunpowder packets weighing hundreds of kilograms pressed against it.
"Prepare to explode, everyone get out of the way!"
"quick!"
After the improvement of gunpowder, Richard proposed a variety of methods for use on the battlefield, and then various generals repeatedly demonstrated and tried them. The original big guns and artillery that were always ineffective have not left the experimental field.
But the most basic application method has been practiced for almost all time. This method of burying a large amount of gunpowder directly under the camp, igniting it and then blasting it has been tried many times. The soldiers responsible for burying the gunpowder have also been specially trained for a period of time.
Because there was basically no resistance from the orcs on the outside, the process of burying the gunpowder was extremely smooth. It only took about ten minutes to fill the prepared gunpowder packets to the bottom of the wall.
After the surrounding soldiers retreated hundreds of meters away and lay on the ground, the soldier in charge of the explosion lit the fuse, and a loud bang broke out ten seconds later.
Thick black smoke rose tens of meters high and could be seen almost from the entire battlefield. The orc soldiers who were still behind the village wall estimated that they would not even be able to find a complete body now.
"Rush in."
"kill!"
The commanding officer did not wait for the black smoke to completely dissipate. He knew very well that after that amount of gunpowder exploded, it would be impossible for the earthen and wooden stronghold built in several days to withstand it.
A large group of human soldiers rushed into the orc camp almost unscathed amid the thick black smoke.
At this time, the orc camp was still in chaos. Facing the rushing human soldiers, most of them did not resist and ran away. Soldiers who have lost their will to fight are unlikely to be effective. Even these orc warriors
On average, they are a full head taller than human warriors.
"Line up! Stop these humans!"
"Explode thunder, throw it!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
The army invaded the orc camp for at least 500 meters before finally encountering decent resistance. The orc army commander led his personal guards and gathered thousands of soldiers around him to fight against the human soldiers who invaded the camp.
go.
Although there are only a thousand orc soldiers, it is not easy to eliminate them with a flag regiment. If the orc soldiers do not lose their fighting spirit, even the most elite human army will not be able to get any advantage in a frontal battle.
However, the human soldiers who acted as the vanguard did not use the familiar tactics of the orcs. Instead of charging with big guns after firing a salvo of bows and crossbows, they came up and threw hundreds of small thunderbolts.
The explosive charge of these mines, less than two kilograms, is not large, but the advantage is that they are large in number and can be thrown accurately. They fell into the orcs dozens of meters away and exploded, causing a period of chaos. Dozens of orcs were bombed.
Killed and injured.
However, the orcs following the legion commander obviously had stronger fighting will. They did not collapse after being thrown by thunder for a while, but instead gritted their teeth and continued to move forward.
"Rush over and mingle with these humans."
"kill!"
The orc commander finally issued a correct order at this time, and the orcs no longer adhered to any formation, and charged forward with weapons in hand and shouts.
"clang!"
"clang!"
"Chi!"
The two sides fought fiercely together, with steel colliding and blood flying everywhere, and the orcs were suppressed to the extreme by the thunder.
The attacking first flag regiment was particularly dissatisfied. Before they even got close to the wall, a group of soldiers with several gunpowder packets weighing hundreds of kilograms pressed against it.
"Prepare to explode, everyone get out of the way!"
"quick!"
After the improvement of gunpowder, Richard proposed a variety of methods for use on the battlefield, and then various generals repeatedly demonstrated and tried them. The original big guns and artillery that were always ineffective have not left the experimental field.
But the most basic application method has been practiced for almost all time. This method of burying a large amount of gunpowder directly under the camp, igniting it and then blasting it has been tried many times. The soldiers responsible for burying the gunpowder have also been specially trained for a period of time.
Because there was basically no resistance from the orcs on the outside, the process of burying the gunpowder was extremely smooth. It only took about ten minutes to fill the prepared gunpowder packets to the bottom of the wall.
After the surrounding soldiers retreated hundreds of meters away and lay on the ground, the soldier in charge of the explosion lit the fuse, and a loud bang broke out ten seconds later.
Thick black smoke rose tens of meters high and could be seen almost from the entire battlefield. The orc soldiers who were still behind the village wall estimated that they would not even be able to find a complete body now.