Chapter 595 [The Young Lion’s Roar]
After about an hour of fierce fighting, the human warships finally collapsed under this embarrassing predicament. The warships were sunk one by one, and countless sailors jumped into the water. At this time, it was not
A large number of sailors took the initiative to enter the water to meet the enemy. Seeing the critical situation, they had to jump off the boat to survive. For a while, the river was crowded with people. These sailors swam towards the river bank in an attempt to escape.
However, in this chaos, the hippo orcs were hunting human sailors wantonly. Some sailors were devoured and bitten by the hippo orcs in the water, some were injured and drowned, and some even fled in panic.
But he forgot to identify the direction and swam to the north shore instead! As soon as he landed on the shore, he fell into the claws of the orcs' wolf cavalry who had been waiting on the shore and stared at them eagerly.
General Dominguez's face turned pale when he saw it on the shore. He roared and screamed in pain, but he could do nothing about the situation on the water.
Seeing that the fleet was destroyed, the entire river was filled with broken ship planks and dead bodies, and the blood dyed the entire nearby river red!
On the water, the sailors' screams and howls shook the sky, and the human soldiers on the shore changed their colors.
Although there were some soldiers on the shore who were familiar with water and jumped into the river first to try to rescue their colleagues, most of those who jumped fell into the prey of the hippo orcs.
On the water, beast shadows can be seen everywhere, and the hippopotamus orc tribe stole the show in this battle!
In this battle, the Hippo tribe among the orcs, which was originally just a small tribe with less than 8,000 members in total, invested more than 3,000 Hippo orcs at once this time. The water in this area was suddenly covered with water.
.It turned into a hell-like death zone.
Before evening, the sun was still slightly setting in the west, but the battle on the river had come to an end. The fleet stationed in the eastern fortress, all eight Imperial Sea Spirit-class warships, were sunk!
More than 3,000 sailors died, the water surface was full of floating corpses, and the color of the river water has completely turned into a frightening dark red.
At the end of the battle, densely packed heads of terrifying hippo orcs appeared on the river. Thousands of hippo orcs roared crazily on the water, shouting intimidatingly at humans.
The human soldiers on the shore fell into a deathly silence. Many soldiers bit their lips and looked miserable, but they watched their colleagues on the water being killed, while General Dominguez clenched his fists and stabbed his fingertips.
The palm is broken and dripping with blood!
In the evening, humans tried to prevent a counterattack. A group of 150 airships were mobilized under orders. After receiving strict orders from Domingos, they immediately went into battle... However, what was waiting for them was...
It is a more miserable outcome than a battle on the water!!
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When airships flew overhead, it once boosted the morale of the human army! Those airships with the Empire's thorn flower totem flew towards the north bank in formation, with bombs like eggs hanging under the airships.
, with a faint cold light.
However, in the sky, a large number of densely packed shadows of stars soon appeared in the north. From a distance, they looked like a large and dense flock of birds.
When they flew closer, they revealed their true colors!
A large number of elves flew in. Those elves used their gifted wings to soar in the sky. After approaching the airship, they quickly broke into pieces and dispersed!
One by one, the elves flew dexterously, holding the bows in their hands, and started a clever encirclement and suppression of the airship. All the elven archers had magical talents, and thousands of elven archers joined in. They immediately provided guidance to the human airship troops.
Disaster is coming!
In front of the dexterous elves, the airship's bulkiness, slow flying speed, and lack of air-to-air counterattack capabilities were all exposed!
One by one, the airships seemed to be stuck in a quagmire. They were often surrounded by dozens of elves. Those elves were like flying flies, flashing around, and arrows with the purple magic light of the elves were shot out. Although the humans'
The airship and those leather balloons have been thickened before the war, but no matter how thick the leather is, it still looks so fragile under the bows and arrows of the elves with magical properties...
Just like the sky blooming with sparks, each balloon, after being shot through by magic bows and arrows, exploded under the light of magic and turned into balls of fire.
This group of human air forces were all air forces that had received strict training in the northwest. Many bravely took up bows and arrows to shoot at the elves, but those dexterous elves flying in the sky were so easy to be shot.
? Even if you accidentally hit it, the elves are a race born with magical talents. These elves are covered with gorgeous armor, and those hollow patterns may seem fragile, but they often have some strange magic blessing attributes. Humans
It is difficult for warriors to use ordinary bows and arrows to effectively kill them.
A large group of airships seemed to be trapped in a sea of ​​clouds. One by one, the airships were quickly engulfed. In the sky, some airships turned into a ball of fire after the balloon exploded, while others turned into a ball of fire.
The balloon fell from the sky after being punctured.
Less than a tenth of the airships dropped their bombs in a hurry. Unfortunately, the accuracy of this hasty bombing was not worth mentioning, and it hardly caused any effective damage to the orcs on the ground.
Compared with water, humans lose more miserably in battles in the sky!
One hundred and fifty airships were completely wiped out, and not a single airship could fly back!!
More than a thousand air force soldiers died in battle. More than half of these dead soldiers died tragically under the sharp bows and arrows of the elves, while the other half turned into flames in the air when the airship exploded. The rest
Some, in despair, fell from the sky to death. Some fell from the sky, and even if they miraculously landed on a tree and survived their injuries for a while, they were quickly captured by the orc wolf cavalry patrolling the north shore...
When the sun went down, the battlefield fell into silence!
The human fleet was completely wiped out on the river, and the airship troops in the sky were wiped out.
Watching this scene blankly, General Dominguez, the supreme commander of the Eastern Fortress, turned pale. Finally, he swayed, opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood, and then fell off his horse. The soldiers around him quickly went up to hug him.
Got him.
At this time, the orcs on the north bank began to cross the river!
On the river, those hippo orcs became the vanguard of building the pontoon bridge. These hippo people, who were huge and terrifyingly powerful, could hold the wood and fall into the water directly without spending much effort, and then use their natural strength to
Water-based. Bridge piers were quickly erected on the river.
The humans on the south bank still fought back, the archers continued to shoot, and the catapults were roaring. But after finishing dealing with the human airship troops, the dense elves flying in the sky immediately pounced on the human army on the ground on the south bank.
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These elves, flying like the wind, wantonly plundered the lives of human soldiers with their precise and tricky arrows.
Facing the enemy in the sky, the human army finally experienced the terror of the "air force" firsthand!
On the river, the orcs' pontoon bridge was being built faster and faster. Under the influence of the hippos, planks were soon put up one by one, and the bridge piers stood on the water one by one.
The human army resisted to the death. The archers had to deal with the elves attacking from the air, and at the same time they shot at the other side of the river. The infantry raised their shields and formed square formations to resist the elves' arrows flying in the sky.
From time to time, arrows penetrated through the gaps in the shield, and the soldiers screamed in agony.
The human catapults and ballistae on the shore became the priority targets of the elves. As the catapults were destroyed one by one, some human soldiers even lay down on the crossbow in order to protect the ballistae.
On the cannon, they used their own bodies as shields, and some people were directly penetrated by the long arrows of the elves and nailed to the ballista stand!
Despite this difficulty, the orcs still paid a considerable price in the process of crossing the river. During the construction of the pontoon bridge, the hippos, who had shown their ferociousness in the water battle just now, finally emerged from the water and were attacked by human archers.
Heavy damage, each of the huge hippopotamuses, if they were not hidden underwater, then their huge bodies would be the best targets for archers.
Those huge hippos often have dozens or even hundreds of arrows stuck in their bodies. They are covered in blood and are struggling and roaring in the water...
When night fell, the pontoon bridge was finally built. When the pontoon bridge extended to the south bank, the human infantry immediately ignored the rain of elven arrows and rushed to the river bank crazily. Some even swam to fight against the hippos in the water.
past.
In the shoal, the river water only reached a person's waist. The soldiers tried their best, holding up their shields to resist the rain of arrows, and holding their swords to chop at the hippos.
The battle for the shoal was extremely fierce. This shoal even turned into a meat grinder! In just an hour, large numbers of infantrymen died on the river beach. Many soldiers' bodies were still floating in the river after their death.
On the water, the scene was extremely tragic. The Hippo tribe suffered the biggest collision since the war began. In the battle to seize the river beach, more than 300 Hippo orcs were killed or injured in just one hour. Facing the huge
Although the hippo orcs and humans are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of size and body, they swarm up like a swarm of ants, stabbing the enemy desperately with the spears and swords in their hands.
The corpses gradually accumulated, and the river beach almost became a huge corpse field!
On the shoal, when the first team of orcs stepped on the pontoon bridge built by the hippo orcs on the river, and finally rushed across the river to the south bank, the bank was almost piled with corpses, and there was no place to stay.
Without the warships on the water, the "half-crossing and attacking" strategy previously expected by humans on the river was completely impossible to realize. The only threat the orcs had to face when crossing the river was just the shooting of human archers.
The intensity of the archers' shots became weaker and weaker. After all, the human soldiers still had to face attacks from elves in the air.
First team, second team, third team...
Team after team of orcs finally rushed to the south bank on the pontoon bridge. During the process of crossing the river, humans launched two desperate counterattacks. The south bank was once recaptured, but under the counterattack of the hippos, the orcs re-established their
They reached the bridgehead on the south bank. As more and more orcs crossed the river, they formed a thick phalanx formation on the south bank, resisting the human counterattack.
Finally, when the moon rose into the sky and the stars began to appear in the sky, human morale inevitably weakened.
After fighting from dusk to midnight, humans suffered heavy losses such as the annihilation of three infantry regiments and the maiming of two infantry regiments. On the shoal on the south bank, there were corpses of dead human soldiers, orc warriors, and hippopotamus tribesmen.
Those who were separated from each other fell together. Some of them still maintained their fighting posture after death.
The orcs finally established a firm foothold on the shoal on the south bank. One by one, the phalanx was tightly split, and they guarded the position. More and more orc troops were behind them. They strode forward from the pontoon and rushed to the south bank!
General Dominguez had already mobilized two more regiments of reserves from the city, but seeing that the situation was over, he knew in his heart: the river defense line had been lost!
In fact, ever since the human fleet was sunk on the river bank, this fact cannot be changed!
To be continued...