Warlord: King of All Clans

The human knights returned to the city after a long detour and counted their numbers, finding that hundreds of heavily armored cavalry had been killed in battle.

Ten Wind Knights were left behind in the orc army, and even five of their dragon-scale horses were unable to escape.

But this price was paid in the form of chaos on the left wing of the Orcish siege army. They were unable to gain a foothold on the city wall due to lack of reinforcements.

After a whole day of siege, it gradually came to an end. As the melodious and majestic horns sounded from the Orc Legion camp, the siege troops, who had never been able to break through the city walls, retreated like a tide.

The Grand Duke of the North had a gloomy look on his face. The Knights of the Wind were the strongest force under his command, with less than three hundred men in service.

Like the Order of the Griffin and the Order of the Rose, the reason why the number of members of the order is so small is not the number of knights, but the number of mounts.

Like griffins and unicorns, dragonscale horses are also extremely difficult to breed, and the cost of daily maintenance is also extremely terrifying. Even for the Grand Duke of the North, maintaining a 300-man Knights of the Wind is already the limit.

If all retired Wind Knights were recruited, they could indeed form a Wind Knight Order of thousands of people, but there would only be about three hundred usable Dragon Scale Horses.

He came from Olenik this time with only two hundred Wind Knights, and after three months of fighting, more than thirty of them had been killed or wounded.

The Wind Knights, the Dragon Scale Horses, the Scarlet Armor, each one of them is more expensive than an ordinary extraordinary armored knight. The casualties of more than thirty Wind Knights are almost equivalent to the loss of the Earl of the North's three hundred armored cavalry.

In addition, the casualties of the defending troops on the city wall were not that serious. At the end of the day, there were only about a thousand casualties, most of whom were regular soldiers who could be recruited at any time.

At least 5,000 orcs and trolls who attacked the city were killed or wounded, and their corpses piled up like a mountain outside the city.

Originally this should have been a great victory, but the human commanders on the city wall were not in a very happy mood.

After all, this battle is not what they want. The ideal situation should be that the orcs retreat back to the northern snowfields.

Now is no longer the time when the empire was at its peak five hundred years ago. The division of the feudal lords has led to a significant decline in productivity, and the population base of the human race has decreased instead of increased.

The Empire's armored cavalry and heavy-armored elite infantry are both core troops carefully trained by the great lords, and it would be painful to see one of them die.

Even if only 500 armored cavalry and heavy-armored elite soldiers were killed in this battle, it was still a piece of meat cut off from them.

If it is an attack on the southern border, or a civil war among the human race, as long as more land and resources can be obtained, the elite troops who died can be recruited again.

But exchanging lives with the orcs who have nothing, whether it is one for five or one for ten, is still a huge loss.

Post-war cleanup is naturally the responsibility of middle-level officers.

They had to take the reserve corps and leave the city before dark to clear the siege equipment and burn the bodies.

To prevent the orcs from continuing to attack the next day, or their corpses from rotting and polluting the water source.

As for the spoils, apart from some javelins, iron swords, and shoulder armor, the orcs really couldn't produce anything valuable.

Before dusk fell, the Grand Duke of the North led the leadership group towards the city.

Seeing that Leo was a little confused, the Duke of the North explained: "Obviously, the beastmen have no intention of conquering Frovald. They are just consuming the excess population."

"The main army of 50,000 people has a lot of food for the people and horses. Once there is a shortage of food, they can only force an attack on the city and consume the excess population."

"Your clearing operation outside the city has already had an impact on the orc army camp."

With the patient explanation of the Grand Duke of the North, Leo had a clearer view of the overall situation of the war.

No one thought that Forovald would fall, not even the orcs. They were blocking the city of Forovald just to attract the main force of the human race for a confrontation.

After all, the further north you go, the colder the climate and the less food there is.

During the standoff at Varanger, the orcs had almost exhausted all the wild food resources in the North.

They could only take half of their people to block Frovald, and let the other half continue to go south to hunt, barely maintaining the entire orc tribe.

Except for the wolf cavalry, the mobility of the orcs is far weaker than that of the humans who have a large amount of animal power.

If the main force of the orcs is stationed in Varanger, and the light and heavy cavalry and mounted infantry of the human race are allowed to wipe out the hunting clans at will, they will lose 80% of their food source.

But as time went on, food resources north of Frovald became increasingly scarce, while the human defense line became increasingly solid.

The large number of orc hunting clans had difficulty feeding themselves, let alone providing food for the main legion.

In this situation, the Beastman commander could only forcibly attack the city. On the one hand, this would consume some of the excess population, and on the other hand, it would increase pressure on the human race and reduce the number of times they went out of the city to clear out the city, thereby gaining more living space.

The intelligence of most intelligent races is not very high, only slightly better than that of wild beasts. They do not have so much macro-thinking and always consider the fate of the entire race.

The same goes for the orc commanders, who are more concerned with the survival of their own clan rather than the survival of the entire orc tribe.

It is better to send a large number of orc cannon fodder to attack the city than to have internal strife in the legion camp due to lack of food.

No orc clan chief would think it was a problem if Frovald could not be captured, and it would not affect the authority of the orc commander.

But letting your own tribe starve is a big problem. Perhaps you should ask the Orc Shaman whether it is time to change the commander.

Sure enough, after losing 5,000 soldiers, the beastmen calmed down again and showed no signs of attacking the city again in the short term.

With five thousand fewer mouths to feed, their logistical pressure was greatly reduced.

At the same time, because of the movements of the Orcs, several human mopping-up armies were recalled to stand by. The hunting clans released by the Orcs took the opportunity to expand and regain food.

In this repeated tug of war, another month passed.

In addition to defending the city on a daily basis, Leo would also seek advice from the Wind Knight on combat techniques, and gradually became familiar with the personal guards of the Grand Duke of the North.

He coveted the scarlet armour and heavy lance of the Wind Knight, but no matter how he tried to hint at it, the Duke of the North ignored this lazy junior.

He just instructed the Wind Knights that they should take Leo's questions seriously and treat him as a colleague.

As Leo's skills in fighting Tsushima became more sophisticated, his understanding of weapons became more profound.

It is said that one practices sword skills for a hundred days, spear skills for a thousand days, and sword skills for ten thousand days. Leo created the long crescent blade because he could not master the lance charge in a short period of time.

After all, the long crescent blade only needs to be practiced for slashing. With Leo's talent and physical fitness, he will be able to demonstrate his combat effectiveness in a month.

Now that I have gradually mastered horse-fighting skills and have the powerful help of the dragon-scale horse, I have begun to become interested in lances again.

Leo had a deep understanding of the power of the lance through his experience in horse battles.

If he is not careful, an extraordinary knight can be stabbed to death by an ordinary knight, let alone him, a knight who changed his career halfway.

With the orc swordmaster heritage, he can fight on foot on equal terms with the wind knight.

In a horse battle, the opponent can fight one against three.

The lance of the Wind Knight is a combination of a gun and a sword, which requires more advanced skills and is not something that a novice can wield and use in combat.

As for the Griffin Knight's Fang Tian Hua Ji, it is more powerful, but also more complicated, requiring professional technical inheritance, so don't even think about using it by ordinary means.

If you are not proficient in any of the swords, spears, swords and sticks, you will not be able to unleash the power of the Fang Tian Hua Ji, and it would be better to use an ordinary weapon.

Leo's personality tends to be steady and cautious, and he does things within his ability. He is unwilling to go to the battlefield and die with unfamiliar weapons just to show off.