Although the latitude of Croni City is not high, the temperature in autumn and winter is not too low, but the cold that can penetrate into the bones cannot be stopped no matter how much clothes you wear. For Lorraine, this is actually
More uncomfortable than the cold winter.
Lorraine could only burn the indoor fireplace all night to drive away the air conditioning in the room. The dancing fire in the fireplace illuminated Lorraine's back.
The orcs are almost blocking the entrance of Croni City, and Nadel City is about to be attacked by surprise.
At this time, Lorraine didn't feel at ease at all. When Vera went out for a walk and came back, it was just after midnight, and Lorraine couldn't sleep anymore, racking her brains to think about the current situation.
After Vera completed her night patrol, she patted her mouth and yawned non-stop. At first, she kept talking to Lorraine. After waiting for a long time, Lorraine asked questions again and found that Vera was silent, so she turned to Lorraine.
At first glance, I realized that she was lying on the table and asleep.
In order to be on guard against the Orcs still having a back-up plan, and Lorraine being caught off guard again, Lorraine asked Vera to expand the search scope to detect whether the Orcs had any new reinforcements arriving.
After this incident, Lorraine has put away his contempt for the orcs and no longer thinks that they are just a group of brainless savages who will never be able to pull off any tricks.
Instead, he treated the orcs as experienced strategists and considered every situation that might arise.
There were night shifts every day, and despite Vera's physical condition, she was exhausted. Vera was also a sleepyhead, the type who fell asleep when she was stuck in bed. At this time, she lay down on the table and fell asleep.
Lorraine sighed softly, gently touched Vera's long, smooth blue hair, and then picked up Vera.
Vera's little nose wrinkled, and she snorted dissatisfiedly. She still didn't wake up, but twisted twice in his arms, found the most comfortable position, and continued to sleep soundly.
Lorraine grinned and said to herself: Silly girl, what did you eat all day long? Why is it so heavy?
He put Vera on his bed and pulled the quilt over her.
Lorraine threw two pieces of wood into the fireplace, sat at the table again, marked the whereabouts of the orcs detected by Vera on the map, and then compared the map with the sand table to deduce the battle plan.
The sky was getting darker, and it was still gray outside. The fire in the fireplace in the bedroom was getting brighter and brighter.
Vera murmured twice in confusion, and rolled up the quilt dishonestly.
In the quiet morning, a sound suddenly came. It was very weak at first, just a buzzing sound, and soon it became noisy, followed by a loud bugle.
A group of officers quickly ran out of the courtyard, asking each other: "What happened?"
There was a hurried knock on the door in Lorraine's bedroom. He probably saw the light in the room and knew that Lorraine was not asleep. An officer didn't wait for Lorraine to speak, opened the door directly, and said hurriedly: "Sir, they are coming
Got it!"
Lorraine turned her head and glanced at the officer, and said calmly: "Laurie, please be polite. Who is here?"
Laurie first glanced at the messy documents on Lorraine's desk, and then saw Miss Vera lying on the bed with her back to the door, hugging the quilt at the moment, exposing her smooth shoulders.
Laurie quickly turned to face the door, with his back to Lorraine and said, "I'm sorry, sir, the orcs are out in force and are approaching us."
Lorraine smiled and said: "What is supposed to come will come. Let's go and see."
Laurie admired Lorraine's calmness and thought: No wonder someone can be the governor. No one can match this magnanimity.
Just now, when the orcs broke through the early morning dusk and approached the city of Croni, the whole of Croni was shaken. The soldiers threw their clothes on the city wall.
Lorraine walked over first and covered Vera with a quilt again, then put on a piece of light armor, hung her sword on her waist, and followed Laurie on horseback towards the city wall.
Along the way, residents who were awakened by the continuous sound of bugles and noisy commands came out of their homes and looked at the soldiers running along the long street in panic.
Regular troops, militiamen, and citizens who volunteered to participate in the war quickly headed to their respective posts with their own armor and weapons in accordance with the assigned mission areas.
The whole city of Croni has already woken up before the sun even appears.
Lorraine led the guards to the city wall, jumped off his horse, and ran up the city wall in a few steps.
The city wall was already densely packed with soldiers, and soldiers carrying arrows and rolling logs nervously shuttled on the city wall.
General Larry was on duty in the city at night. He nodded to Lorraine with a solemn expression and said, "Sir."
"Yeah" Lorraine nodded slightly and looked at the orcs outside the city.
White mist rolled on the ground in lumps. The visibility in the early morning was only about ten miles, and beyond that was a gray world.
At the edge of the fog, there are black shadows of orcs. They stand there quietly like a forest.
The two army commanders also climbed up the city wall in heavy armor. Seeing that his field of vision was limited, General Firdolis shook his head and said, "It's a pity, I can't see how many of them there are."
Lorraine said: "More than 70,000, but never less than 90,000."
The three generals have worked with Lorraine for a long time, and they all have blind trust in Lorraine's intelligence, because Lorraine has never missed the truth.
General Lao Di exhaled heavily and said: "Good fellow, there are 70,000 to 80,000 people, and our baskets may not be able to hold such a big fish."
Lorraine sneered and said: "It doesn't matter. Cut them in half first, and I'm afraid the rest will run away. If they can come to the prairie, I can go too. Prepare for war and execute as planned."
"Yes, sir."
When the number of orcs gathered on the west side of Croni City reached about 80,000, they suddenly advanced overwhelmingly towards Croni City.
The sun jumped out from below the horizon, dispersing the fog on the grassland, revealing the entire lineup of the orc troops below the city.
The orcs were divided into three camps around Croni, each camp five miles apart. Here the orcs temporarily put aside their differences and united for food and wealth.
The orc chiefs, whose faces were painted with gold and white stripes, were riding on their respective mounts, looking northward against the fierce wind and sand.
The dark figure of Croni City lay in front of them.
One of the clan leaders pointed at the city of Croni and said, "Maybe the young governor there is looking at us like this."
Another clan leader sighed heavily and said: "Before coming here, I never thought that human beings could be so powerful!"
After hearing what he said, the clan leaders fell silent.
They have been fighting humans for several months. They used to think that humans could only defeat humans because they had metal armor and stainless steel swords. Without these equipment, humans would not be able to match the bravery of orcs.
of.
Before the war started this time, the orcs generally believed that their number was several times that of humans, and that even with a large number of people, they could consume all the human troops.
Then those cities that store countless grains, gold and all kinds of wealth will be in their pockets. By then, with slaves and women, the orcs can live a paradise-like life without starving or freezing.
Even before the war started, the Orcs confidently believed that they did not need to cooperate with the Scorpion King's tricks at all, they were just waiting to take advantage of the Scorpion King.
After two months of fierce fighting with humans, the orcs finally saw clearly how powerful humans were, and found that humans were not cowards hiding in iron tortoise shells as in the legend. The bravery and combat skills of human soldiers were not inferior at all.
Half-orcs raised in battle.
On the battlefield on the southern front, a large group of a thousand human cavalry could easily drive three thousand orcs around.
Even if the orcs gathered a team of 5,000 people, they would not be able to surround a human brigade. Instead, they would usually be dispersed by the human troops arriving for reinforcements.
Later, the orcs even reduced the scale of their infiltration to about a hundred people. When they encountered Nai'an's army, they did not engage in combat and just ran away with their heads down.
"I doubt that the Scorpion King can capture a human city. If he can't capture a human city, then what's the point of us gathering here to fight bloody battles with humans."
"In today's situation, we have no retreat. If we can't capture any human city within half a month, we will starve to death here. My tribe has already killed horses to satisfy hunger."
"Sigh... me too, the soldiers even started to dig up gerbils to eat. Damn the Scorpion King, it was he who pushed us to where we are today."
"Yes, that's right, we were deceived by him. I know the city he mentioned is hundreds of miles away, and there are four human cities passing through along the way. Even if he captured it, we wouldn't get any benefit."
"Hmph!" Another clan leader snorted heavily from behind and said angrily: "No one put a knife on your neck to force you to come here."
"you……"
"You can leave if you want. Well, the people in Wenneri withdrew a few days ago."
"I heard that the Wenneri people who stayed on the grassland were about to be wiped out by a group of unknown people. Do you think they can stop going back?"
"Actually, I never counted on that dead scorpion. Our goal is the city in front of us. I heard that the food stored in this city is enough to feed 100,000 people for a year, a year~! Think about it.
, we don’t have to do anything for a year, but we can have enough to eat every day.”
The half-orc chiefs all exclaimed, "One hundred thousand people need to eat for a year, and they need to get as much food as a mountain."
"So, we not only have to work together this time, but we also have to cooperate with the Scorpion King. When the news comes back that the human city has been taken down, the human governor will definitely take people back to rescue him. He left the protection of the city wall and left the protection of the city wall in the wilderness.
We, 80,000 people, can definitely eat them to death. If we destroy the human army, not only the city of Croni, but all the cities here will be ours."
"What the hell is this? I heard that the big city that the dead scorpion went to fight now has no soldiers, but we have to fight with tens of thousands of human soldiers. After all, it's cheaper for the dead scorpion.
It’s all taken up. Let’s just forget about the Human Ark and let them fight that dead scorpion, and we can just hit an empty city.”
"What do you know? If we don't wipe out the human army and beat them until they can't fight back, how can we take root here?
That big city is in the heart of mankind. Even if he captures Vechin and Torek, he will definitely not be able to hold it. But as long as the city here is captured, it will all be ours from now on.
Think about that kind of life, living in a house covered with gold, having endless amounts of wine, human women with fine skin and tender flesh, and I heard that humans use hot water to bathe every day."
"Fuck, the Scorpion King is the Scorpion King. We will never share anything he defeats. If we Lexovites want to live a good life, we only have to rely on ourselves."
"Okay, take down this city and share everything equally. Now, let's start attacking the city! We don't have to actually fight the humans on the city walls. We just want to bring the humans down."
After noon, the orc camps on three sides of Croni City began to take action. The orcs in the camp came out in full force and formed three huge formations.
Under Lorraine's watch, about 30,000 orcs broke away from their formation and advanced towards the city of Croni.
The whining bugles sounded on the city of Croni. The soldiers of the Seventh and Tenth Legions of the East were on standby under the city wall. Those responsible for resisting on the city were the Naian Legion and the Croni Militia. They held tight
Weapons, quietly waiting for the enemy.
The orcs were more prepared this time. The orcs at the front were carrying crude ladders, and many of the orcs behind even had crude shields.
General Larry looked at the orcs' actions, but smiled and said in a low voice: "Sir, it seems to be as we expected."
Lorraine said "Yeah" and said: "If we hadn't seen through the enemy's plan, and if Nedl hadn't had the best means, the actions taken by the orcs at this moment would undoubtedly be the most correct.
It is conceivable that once we were unprepared to receive the news that Nidel City was besieged, and we ourselves were surrounded by orcs in Cloni City, in a hurry, we were afraid that there was only one way to withdraw our troops and return to Nidel City."
General Larry was silent for a while and said solemnly: "We are very lucky to have you in charge of Nai'an."
Lorraine thought for a while, if it were not for Belen's venture capital company, without Vera's high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, and if she did not come to Nai'an, Nai'an would probably not be able to survive the orcs' attack this time.
Lorraine smiled slightly, then shook his head and said: "None of this is due to me, I just happened to meet the opportunity."
Of course General Larry would not understand that Lorraine was not being modest.
With the command to "shoot arrows", full of conspiracy and calculation, the Battle of Croni City, later known as the classic of a hundred battles, began.
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After the martial law was promulgated in Naider City, intense war preparations began.
Although the official statement is that a large flow of orcs are invading the place, the common people start from a basic truth - official statements are always deceptive. This point of view, coupled with the tense atmosphere they see in the city, especially
The order of no entry and no exit caused complaints among the people of Nadel, and many shops were closed.
The people of Nadel made bold assumptions, carefully verified, and introduced various versions of the theory.
Some say that the south has been defeated, our governor and tens of thousands of troops on the border have fled to unknown places, and orcs have invaded.
Those who held such alarmist rumors were immediately invited to tea by people from the venture capital company and officers and soldiers from the guard station.
Especially at this critical moment when Catherine and Adele are upset and angry, just two girls with endocrine disorders and early menstrual cycles are already very scary, not to mention these two girls hold great power.
After being scrutinized and re-examined, it was confirmed that these people were just a group of boring people who had failed in life and had twisted minds, harming others and not benefiting themselves for the sake of happiness.
The soldiers at the guard station quickly persuaded and educated them with a gentle stick and a stick of virtue.
Usually at this time, there will be a moral and ethical model recommended by the street, with a serious face and a serious voice, telling them: "You can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense. Our big boss and two boss ladies in Nai'an in Lorraine, tusk tusk...
…”
When the moral model talks about this, most people will be fascinated and sigh affectionately: "Two boss ladies~! Where are you talking about? Oh, our Lord Governor is a peerless great man, an extraordinary military strategist, and a great man who is so benevolent and virtuous.
Protected by humans, loved and trusted by the people of Naian
Chest, the creator and practitioner of advanced military thought, a wonderful strategic tactician, a victorious combatant, a general among generals, a symbol of invincibility... (I can only say this word for word without gasping.
Only after this is completed can you receive the special allowance issued by the Governor's Office)
We Naian people are so lucky to be guided by Lord Lorraine and Miss Catherine and Adele. Under their wise leadership, our situation in Naian is very good.
A few orcs are not a threat. How can our Lord Governor defeat Zhan Na? What is your intention in saying this? What is your motive? Say it! Say it! Say it~!"
Soon the tavern obediently posted a sign saying "Don't talk about national affairs" in the room, reminding everyone to be careful behind your back.
However, the majority of the people of Naian gave full play to their unruly nature and soon put forward a more reasonable and convincing statement: Our young governor had lost the war, and he didn't dare to let anyone talk about it. Now he is hiding in the city of Colony.
Don't dare to move inside, the orcs ran in unscrupulously, we are in danger~!
For a time, rumors were flying all over the sky, various uncles and other sources emerged one after another, and the people of Nadel were also surprised.
Those who knew the truth were strictly ordered to shut up by Catherine, and naturally they did not dare to go out to spread the word. Catherine could only arrest the most annoying people among them, and left the others alone. The more you clarify things like rumors, the more likely they will be.
It will become darker and darker.
Anyway, the Nedel people will know the truth within a few days. Catherine and Adele are counting the time every day and calmly waiting for the arrival of the orcs.
Although the atmosphere in Nidel City is solemn, it is still calm. Nidel City, which has not been exposed to war for more than a hundred years, is silently waiting for another test.