Chapter 161 Fighter Plane Appears

With the reinforcements, two options were presented to Gunderson.

The first option was to storm Fort William and open the passage from the front.

With the arrival of reinforcements, some heavy trebuchets were brought. Now the orc army commanded by Gunderson has twelve heavy trebuchets.

The terrain of Fort William could not accommodate too many heavy trebuchets. Judging from the number of heavy trebuchets, the orcs were not far from the defenders of Fort William.

With the suppression of heavy trebuchets and the advantage of military strength, if they were not afraid of casualties, they would have the hope of breaking through Fort William and breaking through this defense line from the front.

The second option was to bypass Fort William and break through from the direction of Graveson Castle.

Graveson Castle is the gateway to Black River Castle and is located on the northwest bank of the Black River.

The Black River is the most important river in the northern border of the Kingdom of Grant, with a length of more than 1,000 kilometers. The river originates from the Duke of Edward, passes through the three northern provinces, passes through the Duke of Jonathan, enters the barren highland forest along the coast, and finally flows into the sea.

Graveson Castle is located downstream of Black River Castle, 60 kilometers northeast of Black River Castle.

Richard's father William led the Sixth Battalion of Soldiers to defend Graveson Castle six years ago, and was awarded the title for his military exploits.

This time, the orcs invaded from multiple directions.

In the province of Geda, there is still one main force and two detachments.

The main force of one and a half corps entered from the province of Rah, and broke through the vast area from Eagle Castle to Black River Castle. It has reached the provincial border and is less than 80 kilometers away from Black River Castle.

This orc army is next to it. The Northern Frontier Corps is stationed at Black River Castle. They dare not leave Black River Castle too far, and can only implement the defense of the fortress and clear the fields, so that the main force of the orcs cannot plunder.

According to the marching speed of the orcs, this orc army will arrive near Black River Castle in about two days.

One of the two detachments is the Gunderson Division, with five corps of troops stationed in the northern part of the Harland Valley, and is in a stalemate with William Castle.

The other route is the Maruland Division, with three battalions, which has entered the Pratos Valley and fought with Baron Harden and Baron Sharp.

Due to the heavy pressure from the Eastern Orcs, the Northern Legion has withdrawn some troops from Graveson Castle. The garrison of Graveson Castle has only two main squadrons and four city defense squadrons, with less than 1,000 troops.

According to common sense, Graveson Castle has more defensive forces than Fort William, and it will be more difficult to attack Graveson.

In fact, this is not the case. Fort William has a more rugged terrain than Graveson.

Although Graveson Castle has a moat, the terrain is relatively flat.

This terrain is more suitable for the power of heavy trebuchets.

The main city of Fort William was built in the middle of the valley, and two mountain cities were built on the hillsides on both sides.

The city wall blocked the entire valley. The trebuchets stand on the high ground on the hillsides on both sides. The defending trebuchets have a range advantage, and it is obviously more difficult to attack.

The most important factor is that there are still many reinforcements in the Harland territory, which can be easily supported.

The Black River Fort was besieged by the main orc army, and the Northern Army could not send reinforcements, so the Graveson Castle became an abandoned and isolated army.

After analyzing the intelligence from the reconnaissance, Gunderson decided to attack Graveson Castle with four main battalions, and the remaining battalion was stationed at the northern fork of the Harland Canyon to expand the camp into a large-scale military station.

In fact, building a city can be fast or slow. If you build a brick-wrapped rammed earth city, it generally takes two or three years.

Fort William and Fort Sophia took two years to build.

If you only build rammed earth walls, the foundation requirements are not strict, and the speed will be much faster, and it can be completed in one or two months.

If you use wooden mud walls, the construction speed will be faster. If there are many people, you can build a castle with good defense in a few days at the fastest.

There are huge trees everywhere in the Eagle Mountains, and there is no shortage of wood resources.

Since the orcs had decided to hold on, they spent several days reinforcing the camp.

After Gunderson left some food and grass, he saw that the main force of the orcs had surrounded Black River Castle, so he immediately led his troops eastward and took a detour for two days to the side of Graveson Castle.

Because Black River Castle was besieged by the orcs, the defenders of Graveson Castle could only ask for help from Fort William in the northwest.

After receiving the letter of help from the defenders of Graveson, Richard fell into a long period of thinking.

The situation changed again, and new opportunities for war had emerged.

Richard summoned officers from each squadron and wanted to hear everyone's opinions first.

Roland was the first to speak: "There are still two plans now. The first one is standard, taking reinforcements to Graveson Castle and fighting a war of attrition with the orcs.

The second plan is a bit risky, concentrating the main force to raid the orcs' rear and burn the orcs' food storage points."

Martin saw that Roland was inclined to the second plan and immediately raised objections.

"Will we encounter a trap if we implement the second plan? Some time ago, the orcs pretended to withdraw their troops to lure us into a field battle."

Because the scouts were suppressed by the orcs, Richard was not sure whether it was a trap set by the orcs?

The orc camp was not far from Fort William, so he decided to carry out the reconnaissance mission himself and make plans after confirming the intelligence of the orcs.

As for the messenger sent by Graveson Castle, Richard also decided to cheer them up and lied that he would set out with the soldiers tomorrow and reinforcements would arrive in three days.

In war, all means are used, and sometimes a little white lie, or even deception, is needed.

Anyway, there is no possibility of reinforcements in Graveson Castle, and Richard is already their life-saving straw.

If the Graveson garrison can really contain the orc army for a day or two, Richard can seize the opportunity to break through the orc military station.

If the war develops to that point, the orcs' military advantage will be smaller.

"The cavalry squadron is ready to set off. Perform a reconnaissance mission tonight to see if the main force of the orcs is at the Sanchakou military station?"

"I'll go on the reconnaissance mission, you don't have to take risks."

Seeing that Richard was going to lead the team to perform the reconnaissance mission, Thoros shook his head in opposition.

"We still have to go to the front line to take a look. If the intelligence is unclear, how can the commander make a decision?"

The style of the army is vigorous and resolute. After the meeting, Richard asked the third-level knight Lost to command the Williamburg army, and he and Thoros took the cavalry to the orc camp to scout the enemy.

They had just left Williamburg and were heading towards the orc military station along the river valley. They saw two black spots in the sky from a distance.

These two black spots were the third-level eagles.

The snake-bodied man discovered the abnormality and was about to descend to take a closer look.

Richard and Soros had already drawn their bows and arrows and released the bowstrings.

Both of them were rare archers among the soldiers of the Northern Frontier, and they had enchanted bows and arrows in their hands. The harpy was not careful for a moment and was immediately hit by the arrow. It was like a kite with a broken string, falling from the sky.

The harpy was still trying to struggle, and Richard and Soros shot the second arrow.

"Kill the third-level harpy, and reward 2000 experience points."

Hearing the prompt from the attribute panel, Richard put away the bow and arrow, and looked up to see that his uncle Soros had also successfully killed another harpy.

Without the harpy's reconnaissance, the orcs were like blind people.