Chapter 8 The Offensive and Defensive Battle of the Extreme North Fortress! (Part 2)
The battle broke out in silence.
Different from yesterday, this time the orc army mobilized with all its strength. A steady stream of orc warriors braved the rain of arrows pouring down from the city and rushed towards the fortress without hesitation.
Hundreds of ladders were placed against the wall. Even though they were pushed by humans, there were still a large number of ladders behind them. As the orcs climbed onto the wall one after another, a cruel battle broke out again. More than 40,000 fortress troops firmly occupied the
The city wall resists the continuous charges of the orc army!
The sounds of slashing, screams, and roars, accompanied by blood, severed limbs, and the shadows of swords and swords, painted a scene of hell on the walls of the Far North Fortress.
At the beginning, the fortress army still held a local numerical advantage and maintained basic command and formation.
It was this advantage that in a short period of time, the orc army did not even have the most basic foothold, and could only come forward one by one to die.
But as more and more orcs gathered, the human side fell into a melee.
Slowly, the fortress army went crazy, and when they met on a narrow road, the brave one would win. At this time, any strategy and command were useless. The competition was that whose spear was longer and sharper, whose knife was faster and sharper, and whose movement was faster!
In the array of swords and spears, people were constantly having their limbs and heads cut off, and blood was sprayed into the air. The entire city wall turned into a bright red hell. The murderers were killed immediately, while the murdered were pushed off the city walls.
The situation became increasingly chaotic, and the fortress army still had the advantage as a whole. In a short period of time, its numbers overwhelmed the orc army. In this way, during the fighting, more and more blood was shed on the city, like a waterfall, flowing along the wall.
The surface falls, and from a distance, it looks like the city wall is covered with a bright red blanket.
The fortress army tried to push the orcs out of the city wall, but the orcs who were also crazy tried their best to resist the several spears that stabbed themselves, roaring and grabbing the spear shafts to prevent the humans from pulling them out!
The soldiers on both sides went crazy. They bent their swords and jumped directly on each other, killing the enemy with their teeth and fists!
At the moment when many fortress soldiers were killed by orcs, they fell off the city wall with the orcs in their arms.
Ian held the hilt of the sword tightly in his hand, fighting fiercely against the city wall.
It’s not the time yet, wait a little longer! It’s not the time for the impact yet, just a little more! Just hold on a little longer!
As a reserve, Bolt watched the battle ahead without saying a word. The soldiers behind him tried their best to control their desire to rush forward, and their trembling hands showed that they were extremely excited!
As the casualties of the city wall fortress army increased, they gradually changed from suppressing the orcs to a stalemate, and even suppressed the orcs in some places.
After Ian found out, he immediately ordered more than a thousand militiamen to rush to the city wall with weapons to support the fortress army.
After the new force arrived, the fortress army broke out. They launched a small charge and once again suppressed the orcs to the city wall!
The battle had lasted for half a day. From the morning until noon, the orc army had no gaps and continuously attacked the defenses on the city wall.
Thor looked at the anxious battle front and remained unmoved. He just signaled to continue charging!
In half a day, more than 20,000 orc warriors fell on the city. But the battle was not over. A new batch of orcs received the order and couldn't wait to climb up the ladder and the city wall, and then turned into cold corpses and fell down the city.
The twelve-meter-high city wall seemed to have become shorter due to the constant dropping of corpses. The thick pile of corpses was frozen into a small wall by the blood flowing out!
The fortress troops on the city wall, supported only by the faith in their hearts, mechanically thrust out the spears in their hands and waved the swords that had been cut!
The archers fired their last arrows, and regardless of their sore arms, they drew their weapons from their waists, shouted and rushed into the battle circle to join in.
Seeing more and more orcs, Ian turned back and signaled the reserve team to charge.
The soldiers, who could no longer hold their nerve any longer, shouted "Kill the enemy! Kill!" brandishing their sabers and charging up the city wall!
The charge of the reserve team was like a shot in the arm, and the crumbling city wall suddenly burst out with unimaginable fighting spirit!
Charge! Charge! Charge again! Bolt killed an orc indifferently, completely ignoring the horrific wounds on his body! He strode forward and rushed forward.
"Kill!" With the roar, the fortress army launched a large-scale counterattack! One ladder after another was pushed down the city, and thousands of orcs were driven off the city wall. When the last orc on the wall was thrown off, the fortress
The army regained control of the city wall!
Thor couldn't wait any longer, so he ordered all subsequent ladders to be put up, and Grom also led the orc warriors to rush to the top of the city again.
In the charging team, several orcs quietly turned to the city gate, each of them holding a wooden box in their hands.
Since the city gate was blocked, all the soldiers guarding the city gate joined in the melee.
At this time, Ian was looking at the battle line anxiously. He knew that if he could not block this wave of attacks, the Far North Fortress would be lost!
The Far North Fortress has dispatched all the combat forces it can, leaving only a thousand wounded soldiers with multiple injuries and broken arms and legs!
These wounded soldiers knew how hard the battle was, and they supported each other. Those who could pick up weapons had rushed up the city wall again, and the rest were soldiers who couldn't even pick up weapons.
Supporting each other, they walked close to the city wall. They wanted to let the robes know that they were not fighting alone!
Sudden.
"Boom!" There was a loud noise. All the fighting fortress troops and orcs, including Ian, were knocked down by the huge impact!
Standing up in a daze, Ian patted his dizzy head vigorously and turned around to look. In an instant, his face turned extremely pale.
There is a huge gap at the city gate!
Thor was also shocked by the impact. When he came to his senses and saw the gap at the city gate, he couldn't help shouting: "For the tribe! Charge!"
The faces of the people who were awakened by his words had different expressions.
The orcs rushed towards the gap like chicken blood, and their speed was surprising!
And the fortress army, after experiencing the impact, was at a loss when they saw the huge gap in the fortress. The city was broken like this? The extreme north fortress that was as solid as a rock for three hundred years was broken like this?
Just as the orcs were rushing towards the gap, the wounded soldiers who had been supporting each other shouted: "Long live the Empire!" One after another, they used their bodies to fill up the broken city wall!
"Crack!" A wounded soldier was split in half by an orc!
But with the shouts of "Long live the Empire!", wounded soldiers with bandages one after another supported them and squeezed to the gap in the city gate. With tears in their eyes and a smile on their faces, they shouted in a weak roar: "
Long live the Empire!"
The orcs who rushed towards the gap angrily chopped down the wounded soldiers, but a thousand wounded soldiers shouted "Long live the Empire!" and blocked the gap with their own corpses!
As the wounded soldiers turned their bodies into embankments to block the tide of orcs, the fortress troops on the city wall shed tears and rushed towards the orcs like crazy. There was only one word in their minds: "Kill!"
Thor looked in shock at the gap that had solidified into a wall of corpses in the cold. He never thought why humans, who have always been cowardly, could have such courage!
The current situation is too unfavorable for the orcs. With the sharp reduction of the orcs on the city wall, when the last ladder is pushed down, the orcs are unable to wait for the tall city wall, and when the last orc dies on the city wall.
The fortress soldiers rushed down the city wall with Ian, who was covered in blood, and blocked the orcs in the gap again!
The sun slowly sets, and the battle at the Far North Fortress is over.
More than a thousand wounded people who turned their bodies into city walls were all killed in the battle. It was them who blocked the charge of hundreds of thousands of orcs!
As the sun set, both sides, who had been fighting for a whole day, unanimously gave up their plans to continue fighting.
The orcs were unable to break through the gap and did not climb the ladder on the city wall again. The human side was no longer able to fight. When the soldiers dragged their tired bodies and re-stacked the stones in the city, the Far North Fortress changed again.
Returned to the rock.
In one day's battle, the orc army lost 80,000 warriors! Almost all of them died on the city walls!
Including the brave Grom, the hero of the tribe, all had their arms cut off! If it weren't for the cold corpses cushioning him after falling from the city wall, he might have died.
And it was Bolt who cut off one of his arms! But Bolt was not easy either. A day of fighting left him covered with horrific scars. After the battle, he lost too much blood and fainted. He is being rescued.
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As for the fortress army, there were more than 45,000 people before the war, and more than 30,000 died! No one survived without injuries! Nearly a thousand militiamen who joined the battle were all killed! After the 3,000 wounded before the war joined the battle, only one survived
Hundreds of people came down! In the end, the most heartbreaking thing was the more than a thousand wounded who blocked the army with their bodies!
In this battle, the orcs totaled more than 300,000 troops, and nearly half of them were lost after two days of fighting! The Far North Fortress had a total of more than 53,000 troops before the battle, but after two days of fighting, only more than 7,000 people remained! Count them all.
Wounded! A total of 164 generals and officers were killed!
However, the hardest battle has passed, and the unsustainable orc army can only evacuate this place, otherwise the human army chasing behind them will kill them all!
Thor looked at the fortress behind him unwillingly. After two days of fighting, the originally smooth city wall was covered with dried blood. The thick wall of corpses piled under the city wall witnessed this cruel battle.
The helpless orc army had no choice but to circle west and go to human territory to snatch food. However, how many orcs could hold on until then?
The setting sun is like blood, just like retaining the soul of a hero, slowly and slowly disappearing along with the vicissitudes of ancient trumpets.