Chapter 120 The decisive battle at the royal viewing platform (9)
In the human position north of the royal viewing platform, the orcs launched another attack. Both the orcs and humans used trebuchets to fire at each other at the beginning of the battle to carry out long-range attacks on the enemy.
The stone bullets flew through the air with a whistling sound caused by piercing the air, and then fell to the ground, reaping the lives of enemy soldiers.
However, the killing effect caused by this method has become worse and worse, because as the war continues, both sides have summed up a set of methods to reduce the damage caused by trebuchet attacks, such as hiding the body behind a strong bunker as much as possible
, people should not gather together, try to spread out and avoid etc.
In fact, the scene of the two sides firing stone bullets at each other is quite spectacular, but the biggest effect of the falling stone bullets is to destroy the opponent's position. Even if the stone bullets fall to the ground and ricochet continuously, they will soon be blocked by the crisscrossing bunkers.
Down, as for the killing of personnel, as long as it is not a direct hit, it will not be very effective.
After firing nearly ten thousand stone bullets in one breath, the orcs finally launched a ground attack. Tens of thousands of orcs wearing messy armor and holding various weapons in their hands rushed towards the human position like a tide. The orcs' equipment was all taken from
However, due to the large size difference between the two races, most of the standard armor of human warriors cannot be worn by orcs. Therefore, most of the orc warriors wear the chain armor used by human warriors, or only wear those that can be penetrated.
part.
The protection of the orc warriors was somewhat effective in close combat, but it was of no use when faced with human catapults and ballistae. However, the orcs still shouted and launched a charge, because they had no way out. Under the strict order of the Beast King,
Next, the orcs' stag, gray wolf and lynx clans have used all their strength. If they run away timidly, they will surely die in the hands of the Barbarian Bear clan supervisory team behind them. They can only move forward with all their strength. If they can capture the human position,
There is still a glimmer of hope.
With the belief of death, the orc warriors exploded with great fighting power. Originally, the orc warriors were stronger than humans alone, but now they launched an attack with the determination to die. The chiefs of the Stag, Gray Wolf and Lynx clans
For the sake of their own lives, they also promised their soldiers that as long as they died on the way forward, their families would receive generous pensions. If they were found to have turned their backs to human positions, they would be immediately killed by the clan leader's soldiers without mercy.
Enforcement of military law.
When the battle began, the human warriors were surprised to find that the orcs on the opposite side suddenly became fearless. This was supposed to be the winning weapon for the human warriors to defeat the orcs, but now it appeared on the human enemy. The human warriors were not frightened.
It was discovered that even if the roaring crossbow arrows penetrated the orcs' bodies alive, they would still struggle to crawl towards them.
The overwhelming stone bullets and the endless flow of crossbows could not stop the orcs from advancing. Often the first orc would fall to the ground and die due to serious injuries, and another orc would come after him tenaciously. Many of the orcs held shields in their hands.
People directly put this shield on their heads to prevent small stone bullets and feather arrows falling from the sky. As for the crossbow arrows flying from the front, at least there are crossbow arrows as thick as an adult human waist. Even if they hold a few more shields, they can't stop them. They just leave it to fate.
Of course, the orcs will not adopt a dense formation. They still use a relatively loose formation to reduce the damage caused by human trebuchets and ballistae. Of course, the orc formation cannot be too sparse, otherwise it will form a
Without sufficient force, even if the vanguard troops attack the human position, all previous efforts will be wasted due to the inability to follow up.
A crossbow arrow penetrated the orcs' charging formation with a whistling sound. The powerful force not only cut off the orcs running at the front, but also continued to fly forward until the five orcs were pierced together.
.When the crossbow stopped moving forward, a small gap appeared in the orc formation, but it was quickly replenished by the orcs in the back row.
As the orcs approached, the human catapults were powerless and had to focus their attacks on interfering with the progress of the orcs' follow-up troops. All the ballistae accelerated their firing frequency in an effort to prevent the orcs from rushing in as much as possible.
to weaken the opponent's strength.
However, a scene that surprised the human warriors appeared. Even if the human ballistae accelerated the firing frequency, it was still unable to suppress the orcs' offensive. There was even a scene where the ballistae hit more orcs. This was because the orc warriors discovered that in order to
The best way to survive is to quickly reach the human position. As long as you can do this alive, you can directly face the human soldiers and no longer become the target of human crossbows.
Therefore, even though the human ballistae kept firing, the orcs were running faster and faster. Many warriors who were originally in the back row rushed to the front. This also caused the guards of the three orc clan leaders to run faster and faster.
, in the end, in order not to be chased by the supervising team behind them, all the orcs ran as hard as they could, and soon the leading troops stepped onto the human position.
The hand-to-hand combat began. The humans gave up the use of ballistae and instead used infantry to form a simple phalanx to resist the orc attack.
The simple infantry phalanx of the human army, which usually only has three to five layers, is very effective against the orcs. It is difficult for the orcs who fight on their own to break through. They often fall into hard battles in local areas, and are then defeated by local human forces.
Encirclement and annihilation with superior forces. After achieving a partial victory, the human army will slowly move its superior forces under the command of the commander, continue to divide, encircle and annihilate more orc warriors, thus maximizing the destruction and damage of the orcs' effective strength.
However, this time the human combat method was not very effective, because the orcs who attacked this time were different from the past. They were still brave when standing, and they became more indifferent to life and death. There were often seriously injured orcs.
He jumped up high and used his body as a weapon to throw himself into the air of the human infantry square. When the human warrior spear pierced the orc's body, he would be grabbed by the dying orc for dear life, making it extremely difficult to break free.
A long one that has not been stabbed out is a threat to the enemy, but a long one whose head is already inside the body of an orc and cannot be pulled out is completely meaningless to other orcs. Due to the sacrifice of some seriously injured orc warriors, the human race was immediately disrupted.
Due to the order of the phalanx, because the heads thrust out by the human long soldiers were deeply embedded in the bodies of the orc warriors, the long poles were exposed and became the target of the orc warriors.
Soon there will be a strong orc warrior raising the double-edged battle ax in his hand, slashing hard at the protruding long pole. Human heads are naturally made of steel, but the poles are usually made of wood, otherwise
The weight is too heavy, which is not conducive to long-term combat, but everything has advantages and disadvantages. This wooden pole as thick as a human child's arm is light to use, but it cannot withstand the slashing of an orc's double-edged battle axe.
In order to protect the weapons of their own soldiers, the sword and shield warriors in the front row of the human phalanx had to grit their teeth and block the slashes of those double-edged battle axes. The quality of human shields is very good, even if this kind of ax has a similar surface
A double-edged battle ax half the size of a human man's chest cannot completely damage it, but the beast's manpower is overwhelming. Human sword and shield warriors can block the double-edged battle ax, but they cannot block the huge attack power.
He was hit so hard that he vomited blood and stumbled back.
During the short period of time when the human sword and shield warrior stumbles back and loses the ability to protect the enemy behind him, the orc spear-throwing warrior will seize this gap and throw the short spear in his hand with all his strength. From a distance of more than ten meters, this kind of spear can be thrown
The effect is astonishing, and it is not uncommon for a short spear to penetrate two people in succession.
With the effective cooperation of the orc warriors, the human phalanx faced an embarrassing situation. When attacking, it was easy to take out the long thorns, but difficult to retrieve them. It was also easy for the orcs to cut off the poles, resulting in a sharp reduction in the attack power of the entire phalanx.
The entire phalanx could only be passively beaten by the thrusts of these long soldiers.
If they don't attack, these human warriors can only sit back and watch the sword and shield warriors in the front row fight alone. Once the sword and shield warriors in the front row get into a hard fight, they will be too busy to take care of themselves and cannot give the warriors in the back row the protection they deserve.
As a result, the long warriors in the back row were repeatedly killed by the spears thrown by the orcs.
Although this life-threatening combat method is not cost-effective for the orcs, as long as they can break through at a few points, the orcs can severely damage human morale and collapse the human defense line as much as possible. Once humans cannot
If an effective square formation can be formed for defense, then this war will become a one-sided massacre by the orcs.
Finally, a human warrior with a spear in the front row was pierced by a spear, and blood sprayed behind him. He could no longer bear the fear of wandering between life and death, and he suddenly dropped the weapon in his hand.
Weapon, he held his head in his hands, screamed and turned around to run away.
This action immediately triggered a chain reaction. The soldiers around the human soldier were also affected by him. They dropped their weapons and ran to the rear, followed closely by the nearby human soldiers who saw this scene... When the front row fell into
The Sword and Shield warriors who were fighting hard found that the enemy behind them had abandoned themselves and did not care about their rear. They also lost the will to fight and began to retreat.
When the first human phalanx collapsed, a seriously injured orc raised the clan war flag in his hand high, rushed in through the hole after the collapse of the human phalanx, and smashed the gray
The battle flag of the Wolf clan was raised high in the sky over the human position.
"Breakthrough?"
"Breakthrough!"
Although they are two identical thoughts, they are two completely different results for human warriors and orc warriors. After realizing that they have broken through the human defense line and invaded the human position, the morale of the orc warriors is even higher.
, the offensive also became more intense.
Come. But the human warriors no longer have the will to fight, because once the position is breached, no matter how brave they are, it will be of no avail. If they do not retreat quickly, they will definitely be divided and surrounded by the superior force of the orcs. At that time, their personal combat power will be reduced.
There is absolutely no way to recover.
More and more human warriors joined the defeated ranks, and more and more orc warriors stepped onto the human positions. When the orc stag, gray wolf and lynx clan chiefs came here with their personal guards,
Only more than a thousand orcs were seen surrounding more than a dozen human warriors.