Lord Harland.

The pressure from above is increasing, and the situation has developed to this point. Even if Pratt doesn't want to suffer a bloody blow at the depot, he must bite the bullet and attack the northern defense line of Haaland's territory.

The mission given to the 59th Army by the Orc Front is not to contain the defenders of Harland Territory, but to require them to cooperate with the Eastern Army to eliminate the Northern Army.

This time, the Orc Front's key offensive target was the Gerda province.From three directions, three and a half legions were mobilized, and more than troops fought against Gerda Province.

Counting the Flying Swallow Legion, the army in Geda province is only , which is only half of the orc strength.The strategic situation is also not very good, because the orcs have the advantage of reconnaissance, and the human legion has become deaf and blind. They don't know the distribution of the enemy's forces, so they can only defend passively.

In the current situation, because the Grizzly Legion underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, they were surrounded by the main force of the orcs to fight for reinforcements. Although Lahe Province has the largest number of troops, the situation is also the worst.

The situation in Gerda Province is slightly better, but it also faces a great passiveness, being surrounded by orcs.

The situation in the three directions of Gerda province is now more critical.The provincial mansion no longer has strong soldiers, just like an egg. Once the hard shell is broken, it looks like a beautiful woman who has taken off her clothes, allowing the orcs to ravage her.

Although the Sodamian Army has gone north for reinforcements, the inland army's combat experience is not as good as that of the second-line armies such as Feiyan and Feiying, and can only undertake marginal defense tasks.

If you want to really change the situation of the war, you can only mobilize the elite soldiers under the great nobles or dispatch the Royal Guards Corps.

However, the development of the situation has not reached this point, and the Grant Kingdom does not require full mobilization.

On the contrary, Gascoigne Province was not the focus of the orc invasion this time. The defensive pressure was the weakest, and there were a few moderate victories. Already cooperated with Duke Edward to drive the main force of orcs away from the border.

The situation was like this, and the defensive pressure on Harland's territory was also increasing. The troops were stationed in a stalemate for several months, and the orcs investigated and cleared the fortifications of the Fortress.

The location of the military station is very critical, and it is a key point that the orcs must attack.

If you bypass the military station fort, the food road will be cut off by the defenders.However, Platt felt that there was no chance of winning by storming a strong fortress like the Fortress.

After careful consideration, Plett decided to find a way to mobilize the soldiers in Harland's territory from the strong castle. He still decided to adopt the classic old tactic of surrounding the point to provide reinforcements.

There are of course profound reasons for the enduring popularity of classic tactics.

Platt analyzed the situation of the defense line in the north of Harland's territory, and found that the Castle of Flowers was located between the two castles of Gravessen and Fort Garrison.

Rescue from the Northern and Southern armies can be obtained at any time. If few troops are mobilized, the Flowery Castle cannot be breached.

If more troops are mobilized, the garrison in the direction of Graveson will be reinforced. When the main army is mobilized to the Blossom Castle, the orcs will be attacked by the main force of Harland Territory, and will be in a situation of being attacked from both sides.

The defensive front of Harland Territory is relatively long, more than 100 kilometers from the swamp basin to Graveson Castle.

The main strongholds must be stationed separately, on the contrary, the orc legion's strength is more concentrated.

The terrain of Blossom Castle was not suitable for encirclement and reinforcements, so Plett decided to attack the swamp basin first. Through harpy reconnaissance, Plett had discovered that there was a Warcraft Cavalry brigade in the swamp basin.

Plett had a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade in the Human Kingdom. He decided to send three main brigades to attack the swamp basin, and then led seven main brigades, plus 8,000 goat-like auxiliary troops, to move the camp towards Moving west, blocking the only way for Richard to rescue.

Relying on the reconnaissance of the magic hot air balloon, the situation of the orc army's mobilization was also clearly detected by Richard.

Seeing Platt's division of troops, Li Cha suppressed the smile in his heart. With the development of the situation, the fighter finally appeared.

Pratt did all the calculations, but he didn't count the construction of two mage towers in the swamp basin.

These two mage towers were built underground for special reasons.

One is a secret stronghold that the Venus family has been operating for a thousand years. Of course, the mage tower cannot be built high and big. It is completely an underground mage tower.

One is the Tower of Death, a mage tower built by a necromancer. It is also a mage tower built underground. Although Richard has added seven floors to the ground, it is still very different from a normal mage tower. It looks like a noble castle. generally.

The secret of the construction of the mage tower, coupled with the fact that there are very few mage tower buildings in the Kingdom of Grant, and the harpy has never seen the mage tower.There were omissions in the intelligence investigation, and the orcs seriously underestimated the power of the swamp basin.

Sure enough, after three brigades of orcs appeared in the swamp basin, they discovered that there were two castles in the basin. The orc army had just surrounded the Lightning Tower. The Warcraft Cavalry brigade immediately came out from the Flame Tower Castle and pinned the orc army.

Soros personally commanded the monster cavalry, preparing to attack the rear of the orc army while the orcs were attacking the city.

Seeing this, the orc commander did not choose to attack the Tower of Lightning. Instead, he chose to divide his troops and mobilize a brigade to attack the Tower of Flame from behind, hoping to mobilize the monster cavalry to fight at the location preset by the orcs.

Although the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade is very powerful, it only has 600 people, and the Warcraft Cavalry only has 200 people.

The combined strength of the three orc brigades exceeds 6,000. With a strength of ten to one, fighting on the battlefield prepared by the orcs, the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade had no chance of winning.

Teams of orcs appeared around the tower of flames. The elite orcs wore iron armor and kept making various hissing sounds. Then, heavy footsteps stepped on the ground and approached the city wall with murderous aura.

The dense mass of spears was like a towering forest, and the armor on his body made a rattling sound.

Groups of orcs appeared continuously from all around, quickly filling up the surrounding area of ​​the castle. At first glance, they were all covered in black orcs, which made people's scalp numb.

Auxiliary soldiers such as sheep-headed men and stag-headed men who cooperated with the orcs also began to cut down trees and fill them with earth bags, as if they would launch a siege operation at any time.

The castle where the two mage towers are located is relatively small, with a total area of ​​only a few hundred thousand square meters, about 200 acres, and the perimeter of the castle is about 1.5 kilometers.

The height of the city wall is also relatively low. Although it is covered with bricks, it is only about six meters high.

It seems that the defense ability is much weaker than that of ordinary baron castles.

Baron castles in the northern Xinjiang region are rarely less than twelve meters in height, and their area usually exceeds one square kilometer. Otherwise, it would be impossible to carry out the order of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields.

The orcs were about to attack the Tower of Flame, but the beast cavalry remained unmoved, and had no plan to mobilize rescue at all.

Seeing this situation, the orc commander had no choice but to issue a siege order.

The commander-in-chief stationed at the Flame Tower is Sophia. She is accompanied by four or five magicians and a dozen or so mage apprentices. In addition, the second guard squadron is responsible for guarding the Flame Tower to protect Sophia's safety.In the castle, there are auxiliary soldiers who are responsible for manipulating the trebuchet.

The trebuchet players in Harland's territory have shooting watches in their hands.Among the towers of flames, there are many people who can calculate trigonometric formulas and ballistic parabolas.

The ten trebuchets hit very accurately, and the two hundred kilograms of stone bullets could hit the orc army formation almost every time.

In the short distance of two to three hundred meters, they were hit by dozens of stone bullets. Just as they approached the city wall, the orc casualties were close to 200. Even three snake-like people were killed by stone bullets.

After finally crossing this road of death, the auxiliary soldiers immediately withdrew the city wall.

Without encountering any resistance, the orc soldiers had just climbed up the city wall. They shouted excitedly, opened the city gate and prepared to advance towards the center of the castle. Next was their time to plunder.

Seeing the orcs enter the magic range, a dazzling magical aura burst out from the energy chamber of the Flame Tower, and ten large-scale fire attribute magic flame storms were released continuously in an instant.

Flame Storm is a six-ring group magic with very powerful lethality, especially for clearing miscellaneous soldiers.

Each of the ten six-ring magic hit the place where the orcs gathered. In an instant, more than three hundred orcs died, and more than a thousand orcs were burned by the flames.

This sudden blow stunned the orc brigade for an instant.

Before the orcs woke up from their fear, Sophia had already led the guard squadron to launch a counterattack against the orcs.

The magicians released control spells such as Grease Spell and Spider Web Spell one after another. The soldiers of the guard squadron immediately drew their bows and arrows and shot the still ignorant orcs to death.

In just a quarter of an hour, the guard squadron and the mage group killed more than orcs.

After several blows, nearly soldiers were killed in the orc brigade, and almost everyone left was wounded. Such heavy casualties immediately defeated the orc's will to resist.

At this time, the fear of death was overwhelming. The orcs quickly withdrew from the castle and were hit by trebuchets again.

A large group of orcs entered a spell trap and barely caused much damage to the enemy. Almost half of them were killed. Many of the remaining people were severely burned. This group was almost completely wiped out.

I saw Sophia leading the guard squadron and fighting out of the Flame Castle together with the auxiliary soldiers, chasing the orcs and defeating them. Wendy from the Lightning Tower made a prompt decision and unleashed a series of lightning spells on the orcs besieging the city.

The Tower of Lightning uses the legendary magic core as energy. Although the total amount of energy is not as high as that of the Tower of Flame, there is a legendary level of magic equipment in the tower, the Lightning Staff.

Relying on the ability of the thunder staff, releasing thunder spells can not only reduce the consumption of magic energy, but also increase the power by 30%.

With the blessing of the lightning staff, the lethality of the Tower of Lightning is even higher than that of the Tower of Flame.

The magic of Chain Lightning has a farther range than Fire Storm. Wendy estimated the distance and saw that the orc camp was within the magic attack range of the mage tower.

Immediately holding the thunder staff, he unleashed ten consecutive lightning bolts on the orc army.

Huge thunder exploded in the orc army formation, and lightning struck the orc soldiers continuously. In an instant, a large number of the orc army was killed or injured.

Ten streaks of lightning had just been released, and before the orcs could breathe a sigh of relief, a lot of stone bullets were shot from above the camp.

This sudden scene shattered the orc's three views.

In the orcs' inherent impression, the range of a counterweighted trebuchet is only two hundred to three hundred meters. They never expected that the Harland Territory trebuchet could throw stones five hundred meters away.

It is very simple to say. It is nothing more than reducing the weight of the stone bullets, increasing the weight of the counterweight, and adding the height advantage on the city wall. After complex calculations, a ten kilogram stone bullet can be launched five or six hundred meters away.

Although the ten kilogram stone bullets are weak, ordinary orcs will die if they are hit, and the fortifications in the camp will also be smashed.

Thoros led the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade and stared at the orcs under his nose. His eyes were shining, and he held the bow and arrow tightly with five fingers. A strong sense of excitement suddenly appeared in his body.

"Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, attack with me, let us use the sword in our hands to kill the orcs and gain merit."

The soldiers of the Beast Cavalry Brigade drew their bowstrings one after another, and approached the orc camp to shoot arrows at the orcs.

Being attacked by the Tower of Lightning, the orcs had already lost hundreds of soldiers, and the original rhythm had been disrupted.

No one knew how many spells could be released by the magic tower opposite. The orcs in the camp were in a panic, packing their bags and planning to retreat.

It was too late to organize an effective defense, and the monster cavalry brigade rushed to the vicinity of the orc camp and started shooting arrows on the horse.

Generally speaking, cavalry bows are softer than infantry bows, and their shooting range is not as good as infantry bows. Cavalry and soldiers shooting at each other are asking for trouble.

But the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade is different. The officers and key veterans are all professionals, and the ordinary soldiers are also advanced warrior students. Their strength far exceeds that of ordinary soldiers, and the cavalry bows they use are at least three-stone bows. The enchanted bow in Thoros's hand is more powerful than ten stones. Even if it is not ten times stronger than an ordinary person, it cannot draw the bowstring.

For soldiers who have been in the army for many years, the most proficient skill is often archery.

When the two armies are at war, the bow and crossbow are the first.

After soldiers join the army, the most important skill is to practice archery all year round.Ordinary serfs who have never been exposed to bows and arrows need three years to raise their archery level to the second level, and eight to ten years to upgrade to the third level.

To upgrade your archery skills to the fourth level, you not only need to practice hard, but you also need to be very talented in archery and have a special intuition.

The soldiers of the Demon Beast Cavalry Brigade have been in the army for at least three years, many of them are five-year soldiers, eight-year soldiers, and some even ten-year soldiers. Some officers have been in the army for more than ten years.

There are eight people who have practiced archery to the fourth level, and more than a hundred people who have surpassed the third level.

This team of sharp archers is concentrated in one unit, and the lethality is evident.

The Warcraft Cavalry Brigade did not go straight to the orc camp, but only circled around the orc camp, shooting five or six rounds of feather arrows, and killed more than 500 orcs in the surprise attack.

It is equivalent to another series of lightning strikes by the orc army.

The orcs managed to straighten out the queue, and the orcs who were good at archery also organized to shoot at the monster cavalry. Some powerful orcs used slings to throw stones at the monster cavalry.

The Warcraft Cavalry is a very expensive unit, and Thoros will certainly not waste it by shooting against the Orcs. He turned his horse's head and led the Warcraft cavalry out of the bow and arrow range, waiting for the next opportunity to attack.

Seeing that the orcs had no plans to withdraw, Soros sent out auxiliary soldiers to assist the soldiers of Fire Castle in chasing down the orcs' rout.

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