The archers rushed up to the city wall, drew the hard bows in their hands, and shot at the densely packed orc heads under the city. They didn't even need to aim. Every arrow could definitely hit the orcs.
On the barricade built in two days in the city, the shield car underneath that blocked the door was pulled open with a creaking sound. The orc cavalry was surprised to see that there was finally a way out, and suddenly they saw a line behind the barricade.
Soldiers of the Naian Legion in neat formation.
The soldiers in the front row held up the tower shield, and the soldiers in the back row stretched out their spears with cold light. Several rows of spears formed a forest-like spear array.
The bugle sounded loudly, and the soldiers roared "kill" and marched in neat steps towards the orcs on the long street.
Several phalanxes advanced simultaneously from several streets, attacking the orcs trapped in the city from three sides.
The spears were thrust out, brought back, and thrust out again. The orcs in front spurted blood and fell to the ground howling. Even the wolf cavalry, which the orcs were proud of, was useless in front of the dense spear array.
Although he rushed towards the Naian soldiers bravely, he was stabbed into a honeycomb by several spears in an instant.
The militiamen on the top of the barricade were holding bows and arrows and shooting desperately below. As soon as the clever orcs climbed onto the roof, they were shot into hedgehogs by the dense bows and arrows in the blink of an eye.
When the orcs wanted to withdraw from the city in panic and turned around to rush towards the city gate, they discovered that behind the fire, the phalanx deployed by the Nai'an Army was particularly deep, and behind the phalanx, there were several mages.
It kept throwing out terrifying magic.
Above their heads were bows and arrows falling overwhelmingly, and in front and behind were human soldiers armed to the teeth, harvesting the lives of the orcs every second.
The orc soldiers shouted in despair: "Oh my God, we are finished!"
At this time, on the slope outside the city, the three orc chiefs, who had been so complacent just now and thought they had a chance to win, watched in stunned silence as Croni's city gate slammed shut.
The three clan leaders were completely stunned at that time. They even rubbed their eyes at the same time, thinking they had seen it wrong.
Chief Dorieta, who had always thought he had the Pearl of Wisdom, and even imagined that he would dominate the grassland, exclaimed: "How is that possible~!"
Veridu turned his head back and forth nervously, looking at the city gate, and then at Chief Dorieta. He suddenly took a step forward and grabbed Chief Dorieta's shoulders, shook him hard, and yelled into his ear:
"What to do? What are we going to do?"
"Charge up." Chief Orelchi gritted his teeth and shouted with a ferocious face: "Climb the wall and charge up. They only have a few thousand soldiers. As long as we charge up, we can still knock down the city gate."
Chief Viridu let go of Doretta and said fiercely: "That's right. Send an order for the soldiers to climb the city."
Doretta breathed heavily, twisted his thick eyebrows and thought for a while, then suddenly reached out to grab the other two people and said urgently: "We can't fight, let's retreat quickly."
The two men turned back and stared at him, pointed at the city gate, spitted and shouted: "Our people are still inside, and there are eight thousand of us outside. I don't believe it. Humans can conjure soldiers. I must do it today."
Take this city."
Dorieta stamped his feet repeatedly, pulling the two of them and saying, "Listen to me, this is a human trap. They have been waiting for us for a long time. There must be ambushes around. Let's go quickly, otherwise it will be too late."
Chief Viridu stared at Doretta with his small triangular eyes, like a poisonous snake, with a fanatical light in his eyes. He grabbed Doretta's collar with both hands and said in a sharp voice: "Listen,
, if we cannot win this battle, we will all be bitten to death by that little scorpion. Now success is in sight. I will never let you escape at this time. If you dare to run, I will deal with you first.
, let’s go to hell together.”
Orelchi also stared at Dorieta fiercely, pulled out his big sword, made two false blows in front of him, touched the city gate of Croni with the tip of the sword, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Boys, get up here!"
, climb up the city wall. Anyone who dares to escape, no matter what tribe he is from, will be killed first."
Seeing the commotion among the clan leaders above, the lower bodyguards also drew their weapons and started to confront each other. Dorieta's men were surrounded by people on both sides. These orcs were yelling at each other, waving their weapons randomly, and they seemed to be in disagreement.
There's going to be a big fight.
Doretta gritted his teeth, looked angrily at Viridu who was only a punch away from him, and said anxiously: "We will all die here."
Viridu shook Doretta and said: "We will die if we withdraw. At least we can still take a gamble now."
The orc warriors outside the city heard the clan leader's order. They didn't even have a ladder to climb the city, so they could only take out a rope, hang a grappling hook and throw it up the city wall, and then pull the rope and climb up the city wall.
For a time, the walls of Croni were covered with a dense layer of orcs, crawling upward little by little.
The soldiers on the city wall were naturally happy to see the orcs actually doing this. They waved their long swords and cut off the rope hanging on the city head. They watched the orcs howl and fall from the middle of the city wall into the crowd below.
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General Larry had been keeping a close eye on the battlefield below. The two thousand orc warriors who were released into the city were almost massacred in just half an hour under the siege of Naian Legion soldiers from three sides.
There were corpses spread out on the ground, and the bright red blood soaked into the ground of the street, even forming streams of blood that flowed into the sewers on the street.
As of now, only three to four hundred orcs are squeezed into a small area in front of the city gate. They are surrounded together, one next to the other, looking desperately at the phalanx of the Nai'an Legion that is surrounding them from all sides.
The orcs on the outermost side looked at the grinning human soldiers who were looking at them a few steps away, looked at the spears that were still dripping with blood, threw away the weapons in their hands, raised their hands high, and said in Ruman language
He shouted in a strange tone: "Don't kill me...slave, slave."
The orcs around him saw someone throwing down their weapons, and immediately threw their own weapons too, shouting in panic: "Don't kill, don't kill. Slave me."
Seeing General Larry staring at the orcs below in trance, the officer behind him asked: "General, what should we do? Should we kill them all?"
General Larry waved his hand and said: "There is no time, and the pressure on the city wall is also great. Accept their surrender, take them down, reorganize the team, and send a signal to the cavalry outside the city."
General Larry issued a series of orders, and his officers carried them out in an orderly manner.
First, the phalanx surrounding the orcs opened a small opening, and a Naian soldier from the Aquitan tribe shouted at the top of his voice to the surrendered orcs: "Drop your weapons, take off your clothes, and come over one by one."
Under the advice of the long spears that reached their bodies, these orcs obediently took off their furs and exposed their hairy thighs. Many of the orcs wore nothing underneath, just naked buttocks under everyone's gaze, looking embarrassed.
Passing through the ranks of human soldiers.
The militiamen on standby behind the phalanx tied up the surrendered orcs tightly and took them into the city guard's camp for custody.
At the same time, three huge fireworks rose from the city of Croni, and the orderlies puffed out their cheeks and blew their bugles.
The soldiers of the Naian Legion below the city did not bother to clean up the corpses of the orcs on the street. Among the dead bodies and blood, they quickly reorganized their team and prepared to rush out of the city to fight the orcs outside the city.
After drawing out their men, more militiamen and archers rushed to the city wall to resist the orcs who were about to climb up.
The orc chiefs outside the city were dumbfounded as they listened to the changes in Cloni City, but they could do nothing about it. They had no idea what was happening in the city, but humans were blowing bugles, so it was probably not a good thing.
Chief Viridu, who had been asking the orc warriors to climb up the city wall with his triangular eyes hanging, began to waver at this time, thinking about whether to retreat altogether.
At this time, an orc who went out to investigate ran back in panic. Without waiting for the clan leaders, he shouted: "Oh no, there are human cavalry coming from the east."
All the orcs who heard this were horrified. Dorieta clenched his fists, his eyes almost bursting, and said in a low voice: "How many people are there?"
"I don't know, but there are a lot of them anyway. The sky was covered with ashes." The orc said with panicked gestures.
Alec completely lost his idea, trembling his hands and kept mumbling: "What to do, what to do."
Viridu sighed and said in despair: "Retreat, retreat to the south, as far as you can get away. Doretta, I shouldn't have believed your risky plan in the first place."
Dorieta clenched his fists and said angrily: "What's the use of saying this now? We can't retreat~! We still have seven or eight thousand soldiers who have formed a strong formation and can still stop the humans. If we retreat."
Doretta kept going south and said: "From here to the border, hundreds of miles are human territory. We can't outrun them."
Viridu scratched his neck and shouted loudly: "We don't even have food. If humans trap us for three days, we will all starve to death."
Doretta shouted with a louder voice: "That way we can survive for three days. If we withdraw like this, we may not even survive today."
Viridu pulled the sparse hair on his head hard, and finally roared, "Stop the siege, we will hold on."
Doretta said anxiously: "Okay, there is a small town about ten miles to the south. I think there is enough space. Let's evacuate there first."
Orelchi nodded vigorously and said: "Okay, okay, I will listen to you. Get out quickly."
At this time, the gate of Croni City opened again, and the orcs blocking the city gate saw it and rushed towards the city gate again.
I saw human soldiers lined up neatly inside the city gate. The soldiers in the front row were jokingly looking at the unlucky ghosts who had been put on the tip of their spears, and stabbed them hard with the spears in their hands. Suddenly there was a scream, and the orcs in front of them
They all fell down in a row.
With the sound of a military bugle, the Nai'an soldiers shouted "kill" and rushed out of the city gate with their weapons drawn.
Behind the orcs came the sound of horse hooves that shook the earth. Before the cavalry could see it, they saw horse hooves kicking up dust.
The three orc chiefs shouted: "Retreat, retreat, follow me." Then they left the orcs in front of the city wall and fled south with a group of men.
The orcs followed the direction from which the sound came, turned around and ran after the tribe's flag.
They once again showed their strengths and ran all over the mountains and plains in an instant.
The Naian army chased the orcs by the tail and pursued them.
At this time, the cavalry team also came up from the side. This cavalry team only had two squadrons and only 600 people. According to General Larry's order, they each tied a bundle of branches behind the horse and dragged it on the ground like a thick tree.
The fog-like smoke and dust were so impressive that from a distance, they could be regarded as a large team of two to three thousand people.
The cavalry cut off the ropes dragging the branches, brandished their sabers, rushed into the middle of the orcs, and slashed the orcs to the ground from behind as they hurriedly fled for their lives.
Seeing that the cavalry was ahead of them, the infantrymen pointed at the cavalry and yelled, "I have worked hard for so long, and you little brat jumped out to take advantage."
"You go ahead and chop the ones in the front, and leave the ones in the back to us."
Seeing that the cavalry was blocking the way of the infantry, the cavalry accelerated and rushed past, then turned and plunged diagonally into the scattered ranks of the orcs.
For more than ten miles, the orcs did not set up a rear group to block the Nai'an army. With the attitude that they could survive as long as they outpaced their comrades, they just kept running with their heads down.
The cavalry carried their heads and beheaded them, while the infantry killed them all the way down. There were more than a thousand orcs lying dead on the roadside.
The remaining orcs quickly rushed into a small town, filling the town densely, blocking all intersections to guard against the attack of the Naian Legion soldiers.
General Larry saw that the town had been occupied by orcs, and immediately waved his hand and ordered: "Stop."
The Naian Legion stopped a mile away from the town and stared at the orcs in the town.
General Larry shook his head and thought to himself: I'm in trouble, what should I do?
If you use three thousand men to attack a town full of orcs, you don't have to think about it. It will turn into a melee. If you use fewer people to attack more people, even if you win, the losses will not be small.
Croni's troops are already insufficient. One person is used as two people. A small loss will have a big impact.
General Larry frowned and thought hard about countermeasures on the opposite side. If he just retreated, the orcs would still continue to attack the city.
The half-orcs stuck out their tongues in shock and panted for a long time in the town. Seeing that the humans did not pursue them anymore, they plucked up the courage to challenge the Nai'an army.
Seeing that there were only 3,000 humans chasing them, the half-orcs gained courage again and showed off their power at the entrance of the town, shouting: "You are here, come up and beat me if you have the guts, we are not afraid because there are so many of us."
There are few of you.
The orc leaders suddenly thought of something and planned a counterattack.
"Humanity is nothing without the city walls. Come on, patriarch."
"That's right, we orcs are invincible in the field. We have twice as many people as them. Take this opportunity to kill them and kill them. Then there will be no soldiers in the city. Let's fight back and seize the city."
Dorieta looked at the more than 10,000 orc warriors who were brought out, but now only more than 6,000 are left. They are still forced to live in this small place by humans. Listening to the nonsense of the leaders below, he wants to kill them all with one knife.
They immediately shouted angrily: "Shut up, everyone."
Alec looked at the human phalanx parked not far away and said, "They only have less than 3,000 people, why don't they kill them."
Dorieta said angrily: "I want you to go. I should have retreated a long time ago, but I was killed by you two idiots. Let the soldiers continue to tease the humans at the intersection, and it would be best if they can lead them to attack."
After finally catching their breath, the orcs swarmed on the road of the town, waving their weapons and shouting curses at the humans. Some even turned around and slapped their big buttocks at the Naian soldiers, trying their best to provoke them.
General Larry finally sighed helplessly, waved his hand and said: "Fire arrows, shoot them, and then we will retreat to the city."
The soldiers of the Naian Legion set up their crossbows and fired a hail of arrows at the orcs at the intersection. They cleverly hid behind the house, and a large group of unlucky ghosts fell to the ground with arrows stuck in their bodies.
General Larry waved his hand and said: "The rear team becomes the front team and retreats. The rear guard should pay attention to blocking the enemy."
The Naian Army turned around and walked along the way they came, preparing to return to the city.
When the orcs saw the humans, they actually turned around and wanted to go back, causing more trouble in the town. The Naian army responded with another round of bows and arrows.
At this time, a cavalry Pegasus came from behind and ran up to General Larry. He tightened the reins and said urgently: "Tell me, sir, there is an army approaching from the north. It looks like it has about five thousand people."
General Larry was stunned and asked anxiously: "Is he one of ours?"
The cavalryman took a breath and said: "I don't know, the captain has already gone up, I came back first to report."
"Got it. Report back immediately if there is news." General Larry waved his hand and thought to himself: It can't be the orcs. It was recently reported that the orcs have not crossed the southern city line. They should be our people, and there are five thousand of them.
It happened to be a legion. Well, it was probably the reinforcements sent by Archduke Julius as the governor said.
General Larry hurriedly ordered: "Stop the entire army, stop. Set up defenses facing the enemy."
The sound of the bugle changed, and under the surprised eyes of the orcs, the Naian Legion came back again and set up a defensive formation facing them.
Patriarch Viridu looked at the strange behavior of the human army and said, "What on earth is going on with them?"
Chief Dorieta shook his head and whispered: "I don't know, but it looks like the enemy may be planning to attack."
"attack?"
"If you don't leave, you will fight us. You don't know such a simple truth."
At this time, another fast horse galloped to General Larry's side. The cavalryman shouted loudly from a distance: "Inform the general, the Seventh Army of the East is coming from the north. The forward is more than ten miles away."
General Larry clapped his hands, laughed out loud, looked at the orcs in the town opposite, and said, "I came at the right time."
The leader of the Doretta clan in the small town suddenly slapped his thigh and said anxiously: "No, the enemy has reinforcements and wants to surround us."
Under the setting sun in the evening, a cavalry force of two thousand people appeared on the northern road and quickly advanced towards the town.
The leading knight held high the eagle flag of the Ruman Empire.