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Chapter 80 Bloody Battle at Blackstone Castle
As the orcs and flying monsters approached within 200 meters of Black Rock Fortress, the crossbowmen on the city wall also raised their crossbows one after another, aiming at the densely packed enemies in the sky.

Among them, the more than 2000 flintlock rifles equipped by Ling Zhendong's soldiers stood out from the crowd.

And as these flintlock guns and crossbows were fired together, the huge gunshots immediately suppressed a large number of crossbows, and even frightened some orc soldiers and flying behemoths.

Ling Zhendong happened to see that an orc sparrow warrior lost his balance in the air because of fright, and then rolled and fell to the ground, turning into a ball of flesh on the spot.

However, despite the amazing momentum, the real results achieved by these muskets were not many. After all, these muskets were too primitive and their accuracy was seriously insufficient. It was extremely difficult to hit enemies flying fast in the sky, and their range was also limited. Seriously insufficient, not even comparable to the arrows shot by some more powerful archers.

For example, those archers with better archery skills mostly hit an orc warrior accurately.The orc corpses that keep falling from the sky are proof.

Although they suffered some losses, the remaining orc warriors and flying behemoths had no intention of retreating and were still approaching Blackstone Castle at full speed.

After rushing to the sky above Blackstone Castle, these orc warriors and flying giants dropped their stones towards the city wall below.

Seeing tens of thousands of stones falling from the sky, even those veterans with rich combat experience couldn't help becoming nervous, and all of them raised their shields and blocked them on top of their heads.

However, being thrown from such a high place, even the small stones carried by ordinary orcs have terrible lethality. Some wooden shields of relatively poor quality were directly smashed by the stones, and the soldiers under the shields also had terrible lethality. They were all beaten to death.

As for the lethality of the huge boulders carried by those flying behemoths, it is even more terrifying. A single drop can often kill seven or eight people. No matter what kind of shield you use, even a steel shield can't stop it.What's even more frightening is that these boulders sometimes bounce and roll on the ground, overwhelming and knocking down a large group of human soldiers again.Being touched and rubbed by such a huge boulder, even if these soldiers did not die, they would inevitably break their bones and completely lose their combat effectiveness.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Shen Rufeng still stayed on the city wall when the orcs launched an attack, so he was accidentally hit on the forehead by a small piece of sputtered gravel, and a small gash was drawn on the forehead. After a while, half of his face was covered with blood.

But she didn't even wipe it off, and asked the lieutenant beside her calmly, "Are you ready? If this continues, those militiamen will not be able to hold on!"

"General, it's ready."

And as soon as the deputy general's voice fell, black smoke pillars suddenly appeared on various sections of the city wall.As these plumes of smoke floated into the sky, the vision of those flying orcs was immediately blocked, and they could no longer accurately throw stones on the heads of human soldiers, and the black smoke was very choking, which made these flying orcs feel very uncomfortable After a while, they were all choked to tears and coughed continuously.

At the same time, the human officers below, under Shen Rufeng's order, distributed pieces of soaked cloth to the soldiers below, allowing these soldiers to cover their faces to block the thick smoke.

Seeing that the situation was finally temporarily stabilized, Shen Rufeng finally breathed a sigh of relief.Speaking of it, it was really difficult for her. Most of the soldiers under her command were militiamen from various places, and there was a serious lack of weapons and armor, and the troops were insufficient. It was impossible for her to confront the orc army head-on in the wild. In the castle, stall for time, waiting for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements.

According to Shen Rufeng's estimate, she only needs to hold on for a day or two before she can wait for other reinforcements. After all, she had specially contacted the military officials who were in charge of the troops who were going to sign the omen, and asked about the current situation of the various armies. Location, found that the farthest army is only about two days away from Blackstone Fort.

"Marshal Greedy Wolf, our army's air strikes did not cause a fatal blow to the human defenders. Will the infantry continue to attack?"

On the other side, an orc general asked a werewolf in blood-red armor.

This werewolf named Tanlang is the Orc Marshal chosen by the Leopard Demon to command this battle. Tanlang looked at the thick smoke billowing and couldn't see the real and false walls of the Black Stone Castle. After thinking for a while, he replied: "According to Your Majesty's plan, continue to attack! But remember to let the soldiers cover their faces with wet cloths before attacking, so as not to be choked by the thick smoke."

"Yes! Marshal!"

Following the order of Greedy Wolf, those orc warriors who were about to attack also soaked the cloth strips one after another, and some even used their own urine if they couldn't find water for a while.

After all the orc warriors covered their faces with wet cloths, the orc officers in charge of the specific command waved their hands and rushed towards the black stone castle shrouded in thick smoke.

Seeing the orcs coming again, Shen Rufeng immediately ordered the ballistas on the city wall to start firing.

It's a pity that although this ballista is very powerful, the rate of fire is too slow. It takes more than a minute to reload every time it is fired, so the orc infantry rushed within 200 meters after only two rounds of shooting.

At this time, the crossbowmen on the city wall also fired arrows one after another.However, due to the influence of the thick smoke, the aim of the crossbowmen was also greatly affected, and they could only roughly aim at the figure and shoot their own arrows.
Under such circumstances, it was very difficult to hit the vital points of those orcs. They shot each other with one arrow. One of the pig warriors, relying on his rough skin and thick flesh, was hit by seven or eight arrows and still did not fall down. Continue He rushed towards Black Rock Fort, but was finally pierced by a lead bullet in the chest, and finally fell down.

"Fire arrows!"

Accompanied by the roar of the orc officers, the archers on the orc side also shot arrows at the human defenders.

Compared with the defenders on the human side, the average strength of the orc soldiers is much stronger, and the weakest are all level six swordsmen. The power of the arrows shot can be imagined, and it is impossible for those leather and cloth armors to block them. The arrows shot by these orc archers can only be blocked by those armors and steel armors, and this is only when the quality of the arrows is passed. If the quality is not passed, it is normal to be shot through.

So as the rain of arrows shot by the orcs fell, the soldiers on the human side immediately began to fall in large numbers, especially those militiamen from the backing city. Since they did not have any good armor to protect themselves, they were completely crushed into pieces like wheat. Harvest in pieces.

Such huge casualties soon caused the militiamen, whose morale was low, to collapse completely. They ignored the supervisors one by one, dropped their weapons and fled to the rear.

Shen Rufeng looked at all this with a helpless expression. If the soldiers under her were the elite Imperial Field Army, this situation would definitely not have happened.

As the militiamen from the backing city fled, only the soldiers from Cannes and the original defenders in the Blackstone Fort remained on the city wall.At this time, the orcs had only released a few rounds of arrow rain, and hadn't climbed the city wall to start the most cruel and bloody hand-to-hand combat!

"Why are those orcs only attacking Blackstone Castle? Why don't we go support them? We are so busy here!" Hai Zijing looked at the battlefield on Blackstone Castle that had already started, with a look of confusion on his face.

Su Li had already fully understood the stupidity of His Royal Highness, so this time she was not very surprised. She pointed to the tens of thousands of orc soldiers not far from the camp and explained to Hai Zijing: "Do you see that?" , Those orcs are responsible for monitoring us, once we go to support Blackrock Fort at this time, they will take the opportunity to attack and make us difficult."

Looking in the direction Su Li pointed, Hai Zijing saw a large group of orc warriors, and he even sensed dozens of orc warriors with sword master cultivation.

"This group of orcs are so annoying! Why don't we take the initiative to kill them? It's too boring to wait like this!" Hai Zijing said as he pretended to kill them alone.

Su Li looked at this Tie Hanhan who lacked IQ, and was completely speechless. At the same time, he thought to himself that it was really a miracle that this guy could survive till now.

Next, Hai Zijing actually walked out of the camp alone with a long sword, came to the orc soldiers who were responsible for monitoring their camp, and said with a provocative look: "Were you orc bastards killed by us yesterday?" Are you scared? You don’t dare to attack today! How about I give you a chance to fight one on one, so that you can always dare to take action!"

However, those orc warriors have long been ordered by the leopard demon, the orc emperor, and today they only need to hold back the human masters in this camp. They were all indifferent, they completely regarded Hai Zijing as a transparent person.

When Hai Zijing saw that these orc warriors dared to ignore him, he became even more furious, and rushed towards these orc warriors with his long sword raised.

As a result, as soon as he rushed within 200 meters, those orc warriors shot arrows at him one after another. Under the overwhelming and continuous rain of arrows, although Hai Zijing was able to protect his body with his fighting spirit armor for a short time, he couldn't. It was also unable to move forward under the blow of a large number of arrows.

"Your Highness, come back quickly! Don't be stupid!" Hai Zijing's personal guards all shouted at Hai Zijing from the camp behind when they saw this scene.

On the other side, the orc siege troops had already rushed under the walls of Blackrock Castle under the rain of arrows. At this time, some human soldiers had already prepared to roll logs and rocks, and were ready to beat them hard when the orc warriors climbed the wall. .

However, just when these human soldiers leaned out from the top of the city wall, and were about to hit the orc warriors who had started to climb up the city wall along the ladder with rolling logs and rocks, a large wave of powerful throwing axes and javelins came from below the city wall. Fly in and kill all these human soldiers on the spot.

The power advantage of the orcs was fully demonstrated at this moment. Those crudely made javelins and throwing axes became deadly killing weapons in the hands of these orcs with astonishing brute force, harvesting humans neatly. The lives of the defenders.

At this time, Ling Zhendong directed his soldiers to throw large grenades down the city wall.

It has to be said that the old fox Ling Zhendong is really smart, even without Su Li's guidance, he still figured out some other primitive firearms by himself.

For example, this original large grenade is one of them. The explosive power of this black powder grenade may not be as powerful as those of modern high explosives, but with many iron nails and scrap iron pieces inside, it is still suitable for those dense infantry. Has a lot of lethality.

Sure enough, with thunderous explosions, piece after piece of orc soldiers were blown up, and one of the ladders was even blown up together, and the long ladder was smashed down from the top of the wall, killing them all at once. More than a dozen orc warriors were injured.

Seeing this, Shen Rufeng hurriedly rushed to the wall with a group of veterans, and smashed pieces of rolling logs and stones towards the orc warriors below.

Those orc warriors had just been blown up by the grenade, and they couldn't fight back at all for a while, they could only watch those rolling logs and rocks fall down.

At this time, the orcs really suffered heavy casualties. Under the bombardment of those rolling logs and stones, tens of thousands of people were killed or injured, and many siege equipment were also smashed.

However, these orcs were really brave. Even without the siege equipment, some of the orc warriors still climbed up the city wall with their hands and feet.

After all, this Black Rock Fort was not originally a castle at the forefront, so the city wall was not high, only seven or eight meters, and some orc warriors with relatively strong climbing ability could climb up in a few seconds.

Just like some lizardmen and leopard warriors among them, they are all climbing masters. They climbed up the wall within a few seconds with both hands and feet, and then fiercely killed the human defenders on the city wall with a sword in their hands. .

"Kill! Those who stand in my way will die!" A black leopard officer screamed, and the one-handed ax in his hand repeatedly slashed out, smashing the forehead of a human defender until blood flowed, and fell down screaming. .

In the end, it was the Nord Templar Guards under a newly promoted knight from Cannes who blocked the Leopard Officer.This Leopard Man officer has the powerful strength of a ninth-level swordsman, and this Nord Templar Guard has the powerful strength of a ninth-level peak swordsman, especially his melee ability, which can be said to be the most powerful among the regular armies of the original Five Nations. The strongest one, every time he struck out with a giant iron-making ax in his hand, it would set off a gust of wind, which was astonishingly powerful.

(End of this chapter)