"Kill! Give me some energy, don't be careless, and drive these bastards away."
A Jingbei Army officer cut down a kobold who tried to climb up the wooden wall with a sword, and loudly warned the Jingbei Army soldiers around him.
"Don't worry, boss. Even if there are ten of these bastards coming up to me, I can kill them all by myself."
"Bullshit, if you put ten kobolds in that section, I will twist your head off."
"puff!"
While he was talking, another kobold climbed up the wooden wall. Before he could cross the crenellation, his head was cut off by the sharp-eyed and quick-handed captain of the Jingbei Army.
These kobolds are not strong in combat power, but they are more flexible. They can climb up the wall without any tools. However, it is difficult for them to cause any substantial damage to the defenders when they climb the wooden wall. They can only serve as a harassment.
The real threat is still the ogres mixed in.
"Captain! There are ogres approaching our area!"
A soldier discovered an ogre among the kobolds trying to climb onto the wooden wall, and loudly reported to the officer, his tone no longer as relaxed as he had been when facing the kobolds.
"Prepare the hammer! Don't let him climb up!"
The captain of the Jingbei Army also became nervous instantly. Although he was also a quasi-knight, if the ogre climbed up, he had no confidence that he could withstand it.
Two strong soldiers quickly brought a thick hammer with spikes nailed on the surface.
"put!"
In response, the two soldiers threw the hammer down from the wall. The next moment, an ogre's roar came from under the wall, and the roar was interrupted with a muffled "bang".
The log just hit the ogre's head. The ogre's rough skin and thick flesh couldn't bear the hundreds of kilograms of falling objects, and he lost his life when he landed on the ground.
Fortunately, Marquis Wade listened to some of Lint's suggestions and made arrangements at Fort Hel. He prepared a lot of materials such as hammers and stones for the defense of the city, and the food was enough to last for a period of time.
Now these Jingbei troops are guarding the stronghold outside Hell Fort. This military stronghold is all made of iron wood and is very solid. The garrison stationed in the stronghold echoes that of Hell Fort. These days, it has
Interrupted several waves of ogre attacks.
However, the situation seemed to have changed a little today. When the soldiers cheered for easily killing an ogre,
The sharp-eyed soldiers discovered more ogres approaching, and it seemed that today was not as simple as a tentative attack.
"Team, captain, look over there!"
Looking in the direction of the soldier's finger, a phalanx of hundreds of heavily armored ogres, surrounded by a large number of kobolds, began to approach this wooden wall.
What's even more frightening is that a dozen ogres are pushing a huge battering ram as they approach the formation.
"Fake, just fake."
The captain was obviously frightened by the ogres' formation. In his impression, the ogres had no ability to build siege equipment.
What's up with this thing that's so much bigger than an ordinary battering ram?
"Ready to fight!"
In fact, he didn't need to shout. The soldiers who had just relaxed had already picked up their weapons and were preparing. They were all veterans of the Jingbei Army and their basic combat qualities were not bad.
"boom!"
The ogre pushed the battering ram and hit the wooden wall hard, causing the entire village to tremble obviously.
No matter how well-built a stronghold is, it is still made of wood. It is still inferior to a castle built of hard stones.
If the battering ram is allowed to hit, it is estimated that this section will be directly opened in a short time.
The defenders on the city naturally understood this truth, but what was embarrassing was that they were unable to cause effective damage to these ogres pushing the siege ram.
These heavily armored ogres did not get close to the wooden village. It was difficult to throw wooden objects and other objects accurately to cause damage to them. Bows and arrows were even more of a joke in front of their heavy armor.
"Why are you standing there, pouring kerosene?"
"But……"
"boom!"
There was another collision, and the wooden wall shook more violently than before.
"But what, go quickly!"
The one who called out was a commander. When he discovered that this section of the wooden wall was dangerous, he had already brought people over to support him.
The defenders usually prepare some kerosene, but this village is made of wood after all. Even though it has been treated with fireproofing, it is still easy to set yourself on fire if you use kerosene here.
However, we can’t worry about so much in this kind of crisis, let’s get through this first.
"fall!"
"Wow..."
Most of the kerosene poured directly onto the battering ram, and when the torch was dropped a little, the entire battering ram ignited like a torch.
Several ogres around were also frightened by the flames and dispersed.
Fortunately, the fire did not ignite the wooden stronghold in the end, and the ogres who lost their battering ram began to retreat gradually, and finally the disaster was over.
At this time, Marquis Wade and several senior officers of the Jingbei Army were standing on the high tower of Fort Hel, observing the entire battle. Seeing that the ogres were finally repulsed, Marquis Wade turned around and ordered
"Let all the surrounding military strongholds withdraw."
"But, Lord Marquis, without the surrounding stockades, Helburg would become a completely isolated city."
"If we can't defend it, it's better to withdraw our troops first to conserve our strength."
"According to the reservation plan, withdraw now."
"Yes, Lord Marquis."
Marquis Wade did not want to abandon the outer fortresses, but after the ogres built siege equipment, it was obvious that those outer fortresses could not withstand it. It was better to withdraw the full force as soon as possible and defend Fort Hel to wait for reinforcements.
…
"Withdraw, withdraw, move faster!"
An officer of the Jingbei Army was shouting at the city gate, commanding the Jingbei Army to retreat to Fort Hel.
"close the door!"
As the last soldier passed through the city gate, the flag captain stationed at the camp outside the city also turned around and rushed back to the city gate.
"boom!"
As soon as he entered the city gate, the heavy iron gate was slammed shut.
A group of pursuing kobolds stood stiffly under the city and were shot to pieces before finally retreating.
Although the kobolds suffered heavy casualties, the ogres' strategic goal was still achieved. After more than ten days of siege, the ogre army finally captured all the camps outside Helburg.
Hullburg has completely become an isolated city.
At this time, Marquis Wade was standing on the wall of Fort Hull watching all this, with no expression on his face.
However, anyone with military knowledge can realize that the real crisis at Fort Hel is about to come.
Originally, the stronghold formed by the Jingbei Army on the outskirts of Fort Hel was relatively strong. The ogres only besieged it for the first two days, and drove the kobolds to make a tentative attack with their lives.
It did not pose any substantial threat to these villages. Although the Jingbei Army was newly defeated, it was an elite army that had been trained for a long time. The enemy was a monster like the Ogre Kobold, so there was no chance of surrender.
The Jingbei Army defending the stronghold was still able to calmly repel weak creatures like the kobolds.
But just a few days after the good days, the ogres, who had never had the ability to siege cities, actually brought out siege equipment of reasonably good quality. These tools could not deal with the strong Fort Hel, but they could easily deal with the wooden village outside the city.
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Ogre Camp,
Grugesh is sitting in a huge gold-rimmed tent. The decoration inside the tent is becoming more and more exquisite, from carpets to ornaments, everything is extremely exquisite.
If it weren't for the group of ferocious-looking ogres inside the tent, just looking at the decoration, one might have thought it was a banquet hall belonging to a noble family.
"Lord Grugesh, humans have abandoned the outer camps and have all retreated to the castle."
"Um"
Grugesh responded at the same time. When these sounds were overlapped together, a simple "hmm" sounded very scary, but fortunately there was no one sitting there who didn't sound scary.
"Surround it first and don't allow anyone to leave the city. We'll start making some siege equipment in a few days."
"yes"
"How many of the surrounding human castles have been removed now?"
"Lord Gru, our four major tribes are still here surrounding Fort Hel. We can only rely on the small tribes to fight. Those human castles are quite strong, and not many have been conquered now."
This time only Gru was the one who asked questions, and it was difficult for the ogre chiefs to separate them for conversation.
The four major tribes are now regarded as the basic base of Grugesh, plus some small and medium-sized tribes absorbed with the power of victory this time,
Now Grugesh can command at will the strength of approximately 20,000 ogre warriors, nearly 100 ogre warriors and the four ogre chiefs.
There are also a large number of small and medium-sized tribes wandering around. They did not directly accept orders from Grugash, but only followed the call to invade the North.
In line with the mentality of using waste, Grugesh asked them to attack the castles of human lords, attack the territories of each family, cut off roads and connections, and try to prevent the lords from uniting.
"Let's give them some siege equipment after a while."
"Also, let your subordinates catch the human craftsmen and take good care of them. As long as they are willing to build weapons and equipment for us,
There must be enough food and drink, and those who have family members must ensure their safety, and no indiscriminate killing is allowed.”
"Yes, Lord Gesh."
"Is there anything else?"
"Lord Gru, there seem to be several tribes in the northeast that have been wiped out by humans."
"what happened?"
"There should be some human lords who have united."
An ogre chief got incomplete information from nowhere. After all, he was too far away, and those who were wiped out were not his direct tribesmen.
This information was quite vague, and there was only a general idea. I only knew that some human lords there probably formed a coalition and wiped out several small tribes that they couldn't even name. They didn't even know the true strength of the coalition.
Grugesh knocked on the table in front of him,
"This sign must be extinguished. Send a thousand-man team over, recruit a few small tribes, and make sure to eliminate them."
"Yes, sir."
Although the information was unclear, Grugesh responded decisively. Richard, who was far away in Bander, did not know that he was actually slightly targeted by the ogre leader...