Warlord: King of All Clans

Ten heavily armored ogres wearing bronze armor crept through the dense forests on both sides of the World Tree Avenue, and then approached Buck Fortress along the foot of the mountain.

It was not until they were almost close to the city wall that they were discovered by the defenders.

The guards on the city wall immediately blew the horn to alarm, and the archers guarding the city also used their westerland shortbows to shoot at the heavily-armored ogres.

The Buck Fortress was built hundreds of years ago, and the remaining defensive weapons have long been destroyed. The craftsmen in the West are of low skill and can only barely make some bed crossbows and stone crossbows. The rest are just a large number of rolling logs and stones.

Although Buck Fortress is a border fortress, it has not experienced war for twenty years since Talhanberk and Count Fruilov became sworn brothers.

If the relationship with Isenbol had not been tense this year, the defenders here would not have even thought of replacing the hollow logs that were eaten by insects.

At this distance, the crossbows on the city walls were in a blind spot, and rolling logs and stones could not hit them, so the defenders could only shoot arrows and beat drums, trying to drive the ogres away like scaring wild beasts.

Under the sunlight, the bronze armor on the ogre's body reflected golden light, and its huge body looked extremely terrifying.

Unknowingly, this group of ogres have grown taller and are now close to three meters and a half tall, and their weight has also increased further.

Wild ogres rely entirely on hunting and gathering. Their fat and tall bodies affect their survival, and the food is not enough to support their continued development.

A normal ogre would not be more than three meters tall, nor would he weigh more than a thousand pounds, in order to survive in the wilderness.

The current Krog Ogre Clan is completely different creatures from before they joined Riverbend.

Kroger and his tribesmen raised one hand above their heads as if to shield themselves from the rain, allowing the dense stream of arrows to hit their arms.

Amid the sound of clanging, most of the arrows were bounced off the bronze armor, and only one or two passed through the gaps in the armor and pierced Kroger's body.

But the arrows penetrated less than an inch into his thick hide, not even enough to attract his attention.

The tribesmen behind him were not as calm as him. They were harassed by the rain of arrows and slowly entered Hongwen. They raised their heads and howled at the city wall until they were hit by several arrows in the face and then they became obedient.

Arriving at the city gate under the hail of arrows, Kroger and another strongest tribesman, holding their big wooden sticks in both hands, pushed hard at the city gate.

The wooden sticks in their hands were originally as thick as an adult man and weighed a hundred pounds. Now they were inlaid with several circles of angular cast iron rings, and the total weight exceeded one hundred and fifty pounds.

Attacking the city with bare hands, the power is like a battering ram.

A miserable cry suddenly came from the foot-thick copper-clad wooden city gate.

Several logs as big as human heads fell from above the city gate and hit Kroger, making a loud bell sound.

A rolling stone hit one of his heads. The withered head with a bronze helmet was severely damaged, and his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

The sturdy head next to him laughed loudly and mocked loudly, "How pitiful! How pitiful! Useless thing! Cut your salary in half when you go back!"

"Ah, no, yours is mine too!"

He shouted with his mouth, but his hands did not stop at all. Under their heavy hammers, cracks soon appeared on the city gate.

The other ogre had worse luck. Both of his heads were hit. He staggered and fell to the ground, then was immediately dragged aside by his tribesmen behind him.

After lying on the ground and being hit by several arrows, he slowly woke up.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the defending commander Valhan decisively gave up the unicorn boar and led the cavalry towards the city wall.

Seeing the cavalry rushing towards him, Kroger became excited, waving the wooden stick in his hand and shouting at his fellow tribesmen to gather together.

They are now also elite infantrymen of the River Bend and have received training in regular battle formations. Although the effectiveness has been slightly reduced by 20%, they can still understand the command of their leader in battle and will no longer fight on their own and charge forward mindlessly as before.

Ten heavily armored ogres were like a city wall, blocking the way of the Western Cavalry.

Valkhan had killed more foreign races than ordinary people had seen domestic animals, and he had also killed a few ogres. He didn't believe that these ogres could stop his 500 cavalrymen.

"kill!"

Most of the cavalry in the West were archers, armed only with scimitars and short bows, but dozens of Valkhan's personal soldiers all had a spear.

These personal cavalrymen were far more courageous than ordinary cavalrymen, and they followed their commander in charging fearlessly at the giant ogre.

The more than three-meter-long cavalry spear stabbed into the ogre's bronze armor, causing it to crack immediately.

The ogre also swung his stick and hit the warhorse hard.

No matter whether it was a Northern horse weighing over a thousand pounds or a Western horse weighing seven or eight hundred pounds, they were all smashed to pieces by the ogre's stick.

The cavalry in front of Kroger flew backwards with their horses, and leather armor, iron pieces, and flesh and blood were splattered everywhere.

The smell of blood immediately filled the air, and the ogres' skin began to turn red as they entered a bloodthirsty state.

After all, Valhan had been promoted to the middle level. The iron spear in his hand pierced the plastron of an ogre and broke it, but the huge force also made the ogre vomit blood and fall to the ground. The heavy bronze pot upside down on its belly was actually deflated by the piercing.

The huge reaction force caused the injured warhorse under his feet to whine and retreat again, its body shaking.

Valkhan lost the chance to finish off the enemy, and could only urge his horse to detour, lead his troops in a circle, and then regroup and charge again.

In one charge, one ogre fell to the ground, three were injured, and the Western Cavalry lost at least twenty people.

Even though the ten ogres were wearing bronze armor, they were no match for his five hundred elite cavalrymen, but they were still being chased closely by the Boar Knights.

If they got into a melee with the ogres and were blocked by the Boar Knights, these 500 elite cavalrymen would probably be left outside the city.

The Western Cavalry's frontal combat effectiveness was not high, but their flexibility was far greater than that of the Southern Cavalry and the Northern Cavalry. After a battle with the ogres, the five hundred cavalrymen skilled in archery and horsemanship bypassed them from one side, broke away from the encirclement just before the approach of the Boar Knights, and slowly distanced themselves from them.

This is the biggest advantage of the Western Border Light Cavalry. If you can defeat them, the enemy won’t be able to escape. If you can’t defeat them, the enemy won’t be able to catch up with you if you run away.

That is to say, the Ogre Heavy Infantry and the Unicorn Boar Knights were not afraid of the shortbows in the hands of the Western Cavalry. If it were other troops, they would have been defeated and put on the defensive by the five hundred light cavalry riding and shooting in circles and charging back and forth.

It was precisely to address this problem that Strong came up with this tactic, luring the main force of the Western Cavalry out of the city, then sending ogres to block the gates, blocking them outside the city, and then surrounding and killing them together.

Defeating this cavalry unit severely damaged the morale of the defenders, and the subsequent siege would become much easier.

Unfortunately, the battlefield is always changing rapidly, and there are always unexpected changes. Strong still underestimated the stupidity of the ogre.

The Ogre heavy infantrymen who were hit in the face all fell into a red temperature state. Seeing the Western Cavalry fleeing, they immediately forgot the mission of blocking and breaking the door, and started to chase after them.

They couldn't catch up with the running horses to begin with, not to mention that they were now wearing bronze armor weighing hundreds of kilograms, so they couldn't even catch a fart.

Instead, they collided with the oncoming Boar Knights, and immediately became chaotic. The defenders on the city wall took the opportunity to operate the crossbow and shot and killed several unicorn boars in a row.

Fortunately, these ogres were not so stupid as to regard the hog riders as enemies and did not raise their clubs at them.

And Six also let out a wolf howl in time, commanding the Boar Knights to disperse and not to engage in entanglement with the ogres.

In just a short while, Valhan had seen the flaw and used a team of cavalry to attract the attention of the ogres and unicorn boars, while he went around and returned to the outside of the city gate.

The deputy general of the defending army on the city wall watched the whole battle and took the opportunity to open the city gate and let the main force of the cavalry back into the city.

Of the five hundred cavalrymen, one hundred were killed in battle, one hundred were abandoned, and three hundred returned safely to the city.

Strong watched from a distance and cursed, "Moo! Moo! Trash! A bunch of trash!"

Although judging from the outcome of the battle, the Western Cavalry was defeated and returned to the city, but in his eyes, his own plan had failed.

While cursing, Strong raised the horn and blew it hard.

This was the signal to launch a general attack. When they reached the fortress, the werewolf warriors, gnoll commandos, and kobold scouts that had been lurking for a long time all rushed out of the dense forest and headed straight for the city wall.

Strong also urged the mammoth, and with his dog-headed artillery and musketeers, he appeared on the World Tree Avenue and approached the city wall.