As Grom passed away, Uhtred looked at the battlefield in front of him, so shocked that he couldn't speak to himself for a long time.
Many recruits who saw blood for the first time vomited when they saw the terrifying battlefield.
More soldiers looked at the piles of fighting corpses in front of them with pale faces.
Often there are two or more human corpses on an orc corpse. These soldiers who call themselves the Karst Army make those who have ridiculed them blush and regret!
They are also heroes. They have said that their lives are not for themselves, but for the people who died in Karst.
They did it, they did what they swore.
The remaining soldiers, less than five hundred, showed no expression. They just bandaged their wounds silently, then picked up their weapons and lined up to wait for orders.
Uhtred looked at the neatly arranged soldiers in front. They had only one purpose in life, and that was to kill all the orcs! Nearly 30,000 soldiers completed their oath with blood. However, the price was too high.
It makes Uhtred feel like a knife! There are fewer and fewer elites left in the empire! The Far North Fortress has lost more than 50,000 people, and now there are only less than 500 of the more than 30,000 elites left! There will be more.
How many sacrifices are needed to completely kill all the invading orcs? Ten thousand? One hundred thousand? Or one million? Will the orcs in the far north give up hope of going south? No, it's impossible, they hope for it all the time
Return to the rich south!
Uhtred sighed, what's the use of thinking about it now? There are still more than 100,000 orcs ahead. If they are not captured and let them go back again, or go south to get new supplies, then for the empire,
What a complete disaster!
Taking a deep breath of the cold air filled with the smell of blood, Uhtred signaled the more than 500 Karst troops to return to the phalanx. The army continued to advance, leaving thousands of reserve troops to deal with the remains of the war dead.
When more than 500 soldiers walked into the phalanx, one by one, the Northern Army soldiers and generals drew out their weapons, pointed the sword down, held the hilt in their hands, and stretched their arms across their chests.
"Salute!" a general shouted loudly while saluting.
"Salute!" He was greeted by the salute of all the soldiers of the Northern Army.
The five hundred soldiers just walked to their positions silently, with no expression on their faces.
However, the two lines of tears falling from the corners of their eyes showed that their hearts were not so peaceful!
Uhtred watched them walk through the saluting squares one after another. Until they finally stood still, he slowly turned his horse's head and waved his hand towards the front.
The army set out again, chasing the remaining orcs in front. However, they could never catch up.
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More than a hundred kilometers away from the Far North Fortress, the remaining army led by Thor supported the advance.
They had been walking for almost five days without any supplies of food and grass!
More and more orcs fell on the road, and their traveling speed became slower and slower.
From nearly 100 kilometers a day at the beginning, to less than 20 kilometers now!
Thor didn't know how many orcs could insist on returning to the Far North. He just wanted more orcs to come home!
But the cruel reality tortures them. If they can't find a way to replenish their physical strength, even taking a step forward will become out of reach, let alone going home!
Thor walked silently at the front, and he had reached the point where he was running out of fuel. Only with the obsession in his heart, he kept leading the orcs behind him.
Thor, who was in a daze, suddenly saw a human team appearing in front of him. He suddenly woke up, waved his hand to stop the team, and squinted his eyes to look at the team in the distance.
This team is exactly the logistics team used by the Northern Army to transport food and grass!
Maybe the Tianbujue orc, when he saw a few humans escorting grain and grass, he simply couldn't believe such good luck!
Without any consideration, more than 100,000 orcs rushed towards the grain and grass team with strength they didn't know where they came from.
In just ten minutes, less than a thousand human troops were killed, with only a few cavalry running out, heading towards the Far North Fortress!
The food and fodder used for the 150,000-strong army was looted by Thor. With this food and fodder that was enough for the Northern Army to use for a month, Thor knew that as long as this batch of food was transported back, there would be hope for the orc tribe to rise again!
When the satisfied orc troops passed by the Far North Fortress, there were only less than 10,000 defenders in the fortress! And most of them were recruits! These recruits looked at the orc army passing by the fortress with trembling eyes.
There were only more than 3,000 fortress troops, watching the orc army slowly leaving with hateful eyes! Ian Sale looked at the orcs going north with red eyes, and yelled hatefully at the logistics officer who ran back: "Asshole
! Bastard! Why don’t you die! Why didn’t you burn the food when you saw the orcs? Do you know the consequences of the orcs taking this food and grass! You idiot! Why don’t you die! I’m going to kill you
You!" After saying that, he pulled out the sword from his waist and killed the trembling logistics officer!
A group of Northern Army soldiers rushed forward to stop Ian. Ian gasped, stared at the trembling fat man for a while, sighed heavily, and turned to look in the direction where the orcs were leaving.
When Sol and the others passed the fortress, they were actually very careful.
This fortress has made the orcs terrified! Thinking of the human fortress troops who are not afraid of death, and the human wall that still makes people despair!
Thor silently stared at the city wall covered with blood, not knowing what he was thinking. However, from his tightly clenched fists, it was not difficult to guess the hatred in his heart at this time!
In this way, the remnant army of more than 100,000 orcs, carrying a large amount of looted food, walked along the rugged Hengduan Mountain Road north of the Far North Fortress towards the far north and the home of the orcs.
After Uhtred received a report from the soldiers who were rushing from the fortress behind him, he turned pale and shook his body.
He understood that he had fallen into a trap! The force of more than 10,000 people was indeed left behind to intercept them, but it was not to intercept them! It was to mislead them to continue pursuing westward!
An opportunity to annihilate the orc army just slipped away!
What's even more disgusting is that the Northern Army's food and grass have been robbed! What this means, he dare not even imagine!
That is enough food for the entire orc tribe to survive the winter! With that batch of food, the orcs can organize an army of 300,000 in the coming year!
When the time comes, what will the empire do to stop it?
In the end, the orcs lost 200,000 troops and replaced them with 80,000 elite elites from the empire, 300,000 border guards, and hundreds of thousands of civilians!
Not to mention the possible food crisis in the empire in the coming year! These even made him want to kill himself with a sword!
There is no point in continuing, as the empire no longer has the ability to support the Northern Army's operations.
When the Northern Army returned to the Far North Fortress, ten days had passed, and Thor's orc army had already walked out of the Hengduan Mountains and returned to the Far North.
After receiving the report from the Far North Fortress, the eldest prince suddenly vomited blood and fainted amidst everyone's exclamations.
Zhou Yunfei also received the report sent back, and the twists and turns and bizarre changes really left him stunned.
I thought that the orc army would be wiped out here this time, but the development of the last ten units took a turn for the worse! Zhou Yunfei sighed, the orc clan will never end!
However, this can only be said to be unexpected. Although it may affect Longcheng's next plan, Zhou Yunfei is still very confident.
In the second year of the Divine Calendar, the Byvost Empire's action to resist the invasion of the Orcs from the south ended in failure.
The orc invasion war that lasted for three months left the entire empire shattered.
The empire's financial system was severely damaged, a large number of troops were lost, and the most serious thing was the food crisis after the beginning of spring!
After returning to the far north fortress, the Northern Army left behind 50,000 defenders and headed south. When they arrived at the city of Dur, they disbanded their organization! The empire cannot afford to support a large number of troops!
After hearing that the Northern Expedition failed, the second prince, like the eldest prince far away in the imperial capital, was so angry that he fainted!
He spent a lot of time, money and energy to support the Northern Expedition, but in the end, the orcs were all advantaged! How could he not be angry! For this Northern Expedition, the Imperial Chamber of Commerce in his hands was on the verge of bankruptcy!
The third prince just sighed deeply after hearing that the Northern Expedition failed. Then he disbanded the reserve troops from the south. The same Claire family could not afford to raise so many soldiers!
The fourth prince was slightly better, leaving only 20,000 soldiers to build a fortress at the new entrance to Hengduan Mountain. Then he led the troops back to the east, allowed them to disband, and returned to the border garrison.
In the war against the invasion of the orcs in the second year of the Divine Calendar, the empire lost a total of more than 170,000 soldiers and nearly 430,000 civilians!
The major fortresses in the north survived in the end. Thanks to the basic food provided by Zhou Yunfei, 300,000 defenders and nearly one million civilians received rescue from Dragon City! As a result, they gained a lot of reputation! For a time, the entire northern border
Praise for Dragon City resounded throughout the sky!
Zhou Yunfei looked at the information sent by Jia Xu, walked slowly to the window, looked at the earth outside that was slowly returning to life, and silently counted the time in his heart.
In the winter of the second year of the Divine Calendar, with the invasion of the northern orcs from the south, the westward attack of the eastern elves, and the war of the Byron Empire in the south to encircle and suppress the centaurs, the entire Rus continent broke out into wars and disputes!