"Phew, it's really cold today." A soldier rubbed his hands vigorously and looked at the white mountains in the distance.
This is the northernmost point of human society on the entire continent, the Far North Fortress. Along with a heavy snowfall, the cold winter of Ross Continent swept across the entire north of the Byvost Empire.
In the cold winter, the soldiers put on thick sweaters and stood on the cold city wall, staring at the mountain pass in the distance.
The mountains were closed by heavy snow. At this time in previous years, it was the time for the orcs to go south to plunder due to hunger and cold. But this winter, no news came. Everyone thought that last year's operation failed, causing the orcs to give up this year's plundering operation.
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But for Ian Sale, the less news there is, the more it means that the coming wave of orcs will be greater than ever before.
In the past few days, Ian has always been restless and always felt that something big was going to happen. But he had no choice but to order to strengthen the alert.
The thick snow made it difficult for the cavalry to go out for exploration and patrol. The contact with the forward sentry points was interrupted when the heavy snow fell a few days ago.
The entrance to Hengduan Mountain, which was discovered by the orcs last year, had only a few thousand troops stationed there due to the chaotic political situation in the empire. Presumably, in the minds of the empire's top brass, they were just cannon fodder used to provide some resistance and facilitate sending back information.
However, it is hard to say whether the station with only a simple camp can survive such a heavy snowfall.
Ian frowned and looked into the distance anxiously.
Unfortunately, he guessed it right.
A rare heavy snowfall completely buried the camp. The soldiers who survived by chance unanimously chose to be deserters after they could not find their commanders. These unorganized and undisciplined militiamen were abandoned.
Carrying weapons, they walked in twos and threes in the heavy snow, heading towards their home in the south.
Counting a few days, the more than 3,000 soldiers used as outposts, except for the nearly 1,000 soldiers who died in the snowstorm, all fled back to the south.
At this time, the empire has not received any news!
In this way, the most critical and important stronghold of human society was completely turned into an undefended gate, welcoming the orc army heading south. A total of 200,000 orcs!
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There was no human army as imagined, only the vast white snow in front of us.
Grom watched the warriors slowly walk out of Hengduan Mountain. The unexpected smoothness made him a little worried. He was afraid that this was a trap set by cunning humans. Therefore, he specially selected the most courageous orc warriors to form a small group.
The detachment radiated out from the entrance of Hengduan Mountain to explore the human army.
For several days, Grom was worried, until the teams returned one after another, bringing him unbelievable news.
"You mean, there are no human troops within a hundred miles? Not even the most basic patrol? Do you dare to guarantee it with your life! This is related to the future of our orc family!" Grom asked loudly.
warrior.
"Sir! We guarantee with our lives that we will never find any trace of humans!"
Grom got this shocking news. God, what does this mean to the orcs! It means that they don’t have to worry about being surrounded and ambushed by the human army! There is no need to face the strong fortress of the far north with blood.
City wall! Every inch of stone slab on that city wall is soaked with the blood of orc warriors!
Thinking of the fertile land in the south, the large amount of food prepared by humans for the winter, and even the sharp weapons and strong armors of humans! These are all so tempting to the orc army, which cannot even use weapons! But these
Nothing compares to the war in which they bet on the survival of the race. The winner can survive! The loser will face genocide!
After repeatedly confirming that there were no humans, Grom led the 30,000 vanguard of the orc army, which was also the strongest force in the orc army, and walked out of the Hengduan Mountains. Heading to the south, towards the land that haunts the soul!
When Thor received the reward, he was as wise as he was, and was caught off guard by this sudden happiness. No orc understood the difficulty of this operation like him. He knew that his actions last year were likely to cause trouble on the human side.
Attention, today's action is more likely to encounter unimaginable resistance. For this reason, he specially appointed Grom, who had made great contributions to the orcs, and asked him to lead the entire tribe's most elite 30,000 warriors to serve the entire tribe with
Blood and life, open a road to the south.
But who knew, things went surprisingly smoothly! They didn't even see a human being, not even a patrolling ranger!
From the initial worry, to the shock after receiving the report, and then to the huge excitement!
Yes, he will lead the orcs out of the Far North, out of the Hengduan Mountains, to their homeland hundreds of years ago, and live a life without having to worry about hunger!
After contacting Grom again and learning that they had walked out of the Hengduan Mountains, Thor commanded the remaining army and slowly entered the Hengduan Mountains and headed south.
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Grom led 30,000 warriors, marching in the wind and snow. According to the map left behind from last year's operation, they were marching towards the important town in the north, Karst City.
Karst City, located in the north of the Byvost Empire, is a logistics support transfer center dedicated to the Far North Fortress and other fortresses.
There is a large amount of logistics supplies here, and it is also an important northern transportation hub. The developed roads connect the commerce in the northern part of the empire. Of course, its convenient transportation is also an extremely important link in logistics transfer.
Last year, this place was attacked by orcs. In order to rescue the Karst City, the eldest prince personally led half of the Royal Knights to the city for five days and defeated the orc troops. This move certainly made the eldest prince famous.
, but more importantly, it exposed the fragile defense of Karst City under the threat of the new Hengduan Mountain entrance.
If the eldest prince and the others hadn't rushed all night, thousands of orcs would have captured this important town in just a few days.
The lack of defense in the Karst City also made the eldest prince very worried. For this reason, he has repeatedly instructed the Canterlot family to improve the defense of the Karst City, either by strengthening the defenders or by deploying mobile troops around it to assist in defense at all times.
Unfortunately, with the arrival of winter, rare heavy snow blocked communication with the outside world, and the most important outpost died without a fight. All of this put the Karst City into a dangerous situation.
There are only two thousand city guards with little combat effectiveness in the city, and the mobile army station dozens of kilometers away is suffering from heavy snow and has no time to take care of itself.
Grom led the warriors, using the cover of wind and snow, to advance step by step towards the important logistics center, Karst City.
"There are still two days to get there." Grom looked at the map in his hands in the wind and snow. Under the heavy snow at night, the orc warriors only ate some cold dried meat and grabbed a few mouthfuls of snow to their mouths.
They put it inside. The cold and biting wind was blowing, and the warriors huddled together in twos and threes, relying on each other's body heat to keep warm. They had no tents, no bonfires, and no hot food. Some of them only had fur clothes sewn by their relatives.
Have that burning hope in your heart.
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Far away in Longcheng, Zhou Yunfei has been busy with snow disaster rescue work these days. This very rare heavy snow caused many residents' houses and shops to be crushed by the snow.
To this end, Zhou Yunfei went all out to carry out rescue and disaster relief work. In the military camp, soldiers put down their weapons, picked up shovels, and cleared the snow. A large number of soldiers also participated in rescuing the trapped people and rescuing lost materials.
Zhuge Liang has gone deep into the front line to guide the disaster relief work. Zhou Yunfei is sitting in the governor's office, reviewing the reports that arrive like snowflakes.
Zhou Yunfei asked people to sort out these reports into two parts: civil affairs and military affairs, and distributed them to Pang Tong respectively.
"Fortunately, the second-season grain harvest a few days ago has ended, otherwise the losses would have been huge." He rubbed his sore shoulders. He had been busy reviewing documents all day. He was very glad that he had harvested grain a few days ago. Otherwise, this would have been a huge loss.
Heavy snow will cause Dragon City to lose a lot of food.
"It's exactly what my lord said. The heavy snowfall this time is indeed unusual. I'm afraid something big will happen." Pang Tong had already finished processing the documents, but he did not disturb Zhou Yunfei.
"Shi Yuan, what's the situation at the Far North Fortress now? Is there any news back?"
"Lord, there is no news yet, but Shi Yuan is not worried about the orcs attacking the Far North Fortress." Pang Tong waved his hand, indicating that there was no news yet.
"Oh? Is Shiyuan worried about Karst City? Yes, why didn't I think of that? With this heavy snowfall, the empire's 50,000-strong mobile force may be in trouble now. A mere few thousand soldiers want to stop the orcs.
How difficult!" Zhou Yunfei suddenly thought, slapped his forehead, and then thought that Karst City is the most important and weakest link in the entire northern defense system. "It seems that Karst City is in danger, no! Once the Karst City
If the city falls, then the Far North Fortress is also in danger!" Zhou Yunfei stood up abruptly, wandered for a few steps in the room, then turned to Pang Tong and asked: "Shiyuan, send someone to inform Yuna and ask her to prepare four of her family's
The fortress does not seek to annihilate the enemy, but only seeks not to be captured. In addition, let her prepare to receive a large number of refugees." Zhou Yunfei sighed helplessly as he spoke.
"Shi Yuan understands." After saying that, Pang Tong stood up and left.