Chapter 252 Battle of the Swamp Basin

The pressure from above is getting bigger and bigger. The situation has developed to this point. Even if Platt doesn't want to get hurt in the military station, he must bite the bullet and attack the northern defense line of Harland Territory.

The task given to the 59th Legion 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 Legion.

This time, the Orc Front's main offensive target is the Geda Province. From three directions, three and a half legions, more than 100,000 troops, were mobilized to fight against the Geda Province.

Including the Feiyan Legion, the army of the Geda Province is only 50,000, which is only half of the orcs. The strategic situation is 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 and can only passively defend.

The current situation is that because the Grizzly Legion underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, it was surrounded and attacked by the main force of the orcs. Although the Lahe Province has the most troops, the situation is also the worst.

The situation in Geda Province is slightly better, but it is also facing a great passive situation, surrounded and beaten by 100,000 orcs.

Now the situation in the three directions of Geda Province is quite critical. There are no strong soldiers in the provincial mansion, just like an egg. Once the hard shell is broken, it is like a beautiful woman taking off her clothes, allowing the orcs to ravage it.

Although the Sodamian Legion has gone north to reinforce, the combat experience of the Inland Army Corps is not as good as the second-line corps such as Feiyan and Feiying, and can only undertake the marginal defense mission.

If you want to really change the situation, you must mobilize the elite soldiers under the command of the great nobles, or dispatch the Royal Guard Corps.

However, the development of the situation has not reached this point, and there is no need for the Grant Kingdom to mobilize fully.

On the contrary, Gascoigne Province is not the focus of the orc invasion this time, and the defense pressure is the weakest. It has also won several small and medium-sized victories. It has cooperated with Duke Edward to drive the main force of the orcs out of the border.

With the situation like this, the defense pressure of Harland Territory is getting bigger and bigger. After several months of stalemate, the orcs have clearly discovered the defense fortifications of the military station.

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

If the military station is bypassed, the food route will be cut off by the defenders. However, Platt felt that there was no chance of winning by force against a strong fortress like the military station.

After careful consideration, Platt decided to find a way to mobilize the soldiers of Harland Territory from the strong castle. He decided to adopt the classic old tactics of besieging the point and attacking the reinforcements.

There are of course profound reasons why the classic tactics have been so popular.

Platt analyzed the situation of the northern defense line of Harland Territory and found that the Flower Castle was between the two castles of Graveson and the Military Station.

The rescue of the northern and southern armies can be obtained at any time. If the mobilized soldiers are few, the Flower Castle cannot be broken at all.

If more soldiers are mobilized, the defenders in the direction of Graveson will reinforce. If the main force is mobilized to the Flower Castle, the orcs will be attacked by the main force of the Harland Territory and be in a situation of being attacked from both sides.

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

The main strongholds must be stationed separately, on the contrary, the orc army is more concentrated.

The terrain of the Flower Castle is not suitable for siege and attack, so Platt decided to attack the swamp basin first. Through the harpy reconnaissance, Platt has discovered that there are Warcraft cavalry battalions in the swamp basin.

Platt has a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Warcraft cavalry battalion of the human kingdom. He decided to send three main battalions to attack the swamp basin, and then lead seven main battalions, plus 8,000 sheep-bodied auxiliary troops, to move the camp westward to block Richard's rescue route.

Relying on the reconnaissance of the magic hot air balloon, Richard also reconnaissanced the situation of the orc army's mobilization.

Seeing Platt divide his troops, Richard suppressed the smile in his heart. As the situation developed, the opportunity for war finally appeared.

Platt had calculated everything, but he did not expect that two wizard towers were built in the swamp basin.

These two wizard towers were built underground for special reasons.

One was a secret base operated by the Venus family for a thousand years. Of course, the wizard tower could not be built tall and big. It was completely an underground wizard tower.

One was the wizard tower built by the undead wizard, the Death Tower. It was also a wizard tower built underground. Although Richard built seven floors on the ground, it was still very different from a normal wizard tower and looked like a noble castle.

The construction of the wizard tower was secretive, and there were few wizard tower buildings in the Grant Kingdom, and the eagle-man had never seen a wizard tower. There were omissions in the intelligence investigation, and the orcs had seriously underestimated the power of the swamp basin.

Sure enough, after the three orcs appeared in the swamp basin, they found two castles in the basin. The orc army had just surrounded the Lightning Tower, and the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade immediately came out of the Flame Tower Castle and pinned the orc army.

Soros personally commanded the Warcraft Cavalry, preparing to attack the side and rear of the orc army while the orcs were attacking the city.

Seeing this, the orc commander did not choose to attack the Lightning Tower, but chose to split his troops and mobilize a brigade to attack the Flame Tower from behind, hoping to mobilize the Warcraft Cavalry to fight at the location preset by the orcs.

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

The three orc brigades have a total of more than 6,000 troops. With a force of ten to one, the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade has no chance of winning in the battlefield preset by the orcs.

Teams of orcs appeared around the Flame Tower. The elite orcs wore iron armor and kept making various hissing sounds. Then, heavy footsteps stomped on the ground and approached the city wall with murderous intent.

The dense spears were like a towering forest, and the iron armor on their bodies made a rustling sound.

Teams of orcs appeared from all directions and quickly filled the surroundings of the castle. At a glance, it was full of black orcs, which made people's scalps numb.

The auxiliary soldiers such as sheep-headed people and deer-headed people who cooperated with the orcs in the battle also began to cut down trees and fill earth bags, as if they would launch a siege at any time.

The castle where the two wizard towers are located is relatively small, with a total area of ​​only more than 100,000 square meters, about 200 acres, and the circumference of the castle is about 1.5 kilometers.

The height of the city wall is also relatively low. Although it is a brick-clad city wall, it is only about six meters high.

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

The baron castles in the northern border area are rarely less than 12 meters high, and the area is usually more than one square kilometer, otherwise it would be impossible to execute the order of fortifying the city.

The orcs were preparing to attack the Flame Tower, but the Warcraft Cavalry was unmoved and had no intention of mobilizing rescue.

Seeing this situation, the orc commander had to issue an order to attack the city.

The commander-in-chief stationed at the Flame Tower was Sofia, who was accompanied by four or five magicians and a dozen magician apprentices. In addition, the second squadron of the guard was responsible for guarding the Flame Tower and protecting Sofia's safety. There were also 300 auxiliary soldiers in the castle, responsible for operating the trebuchets.

The trebuchets in the Harland territory all had shooting tables in their hands. In the Flame Tower, there were many people who could calculate trigonometric formulas and ballistic parabolas.

The ten trebuchets were very accurate, and the 200-jin stone bullets could hit the orc army almost every time.

In just a short distance of 200 to 300 meters, they suffered dozens of stone bullets. As soon as they approached the city wall, the casualties of the orcs were close to 200, and even three snake-bodied people were killed by stone bullets.

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

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

Seeing the orcs enter the magic range, the energy room of the Flame Tower burst into a dazzling magic aura, and instantly released ten large-scale fire attribute magic flame storms continuously.

The flame storm is a six-ring group magic with very strong lethality, especially for clearing miscellaneous soldiers.

Ten six-ring magics, each hit the place where the orcs gathered, and more than 300 orcs died in an instant, and more than 1,000 orcs were burned by the flames.

This sudden attack stunned the orc brigade in 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 and Spider Web, and the soldiers of the guard squadron immediately drew their bows and arrows, shooting the orcs who were still confused.

In just a quarter of an hour, the guard squadron and the magic regiment killed more than 200 orcs.

After several attacks, the number of soldiers killed in the orc brigade was close to 700, and almost everyone left was injured. Such heavy casualties immediately defeated the orcs' will to resist.

At this time, the fear of death overwhelmed everything. The orcs hurriedly retreated from the castle and were hit by catapults again.

A brigade of orcs fell into the spell trap and caused almost no casualties to the enemy. Nearly half of them died, and many of the remaining people had serious burns. This brigade was almost wiped out.

Seeing Sophia leading the guard squadron and the auxiliary soldiers rushing out of the Flame Castle, chasing the orcs' fleeing soldiers. Wendy of the Lightning Tower made a prompt decision and released a chain of lightning spells at the besieging orcs.

The Lightning Tower used legendary magic cores as energy. Although the total amount of energy was not as much as that of the Flame Tower, the tower had a legendary magic equipment, the Lightning Staff.

Relying on the power of the Lightning Staff, releasing lightning 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 Lightning Tower is even better than that of the Flame Tower.

The magic of chain lightning has a longer attack range than the Fire Storm. Wendy estimated the distance and saw that the orcs' camping site was within the magic attack range of the Mage Tower.

Immediately holding the Lightning Staff, he released ten consecutive chain lightnings at the orc army.

Huge thunder exploded in the orc army, and lightning continuously hit the orc soldiers. In an instant, a large number of orc soldiers were killed and injured.

Ten consecutive lightning bolts had just been released, and before the orcs could breathe a sigh of relief, a lot of stone bullets were thrown from the top of the camp.

This sudden scene shattered the orcs' three views.

In the orcs' inherent impression, the range of the counterweight trebuchet was only 200 to 300 meters. They never expected that the trebuchet of Harland Territory could throw stones 500 meters away.

It's very simple to say, it's nothing more than reducing the weight of the stone bullet, increasing the weight of the counterweight, and having the height advantage on the city wall. After complex calculations, a ten-kilogram stone bullet can be launched 500 to 600 meters away.

Although the power of a ten-kilogram stone bullet is weak, ordinary orcs will die if they are hit, and the fortifications in the camp will also be smashed.

Soros led the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, staring at the orcs under his nose, his eyes shining, five fingers tightly grasping the bow and arrow, and suddenly a strong sense of excitement appeared in his body.

"Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, follow me to attack, let us kill the orcs with the swords in our hands and win merit."

The 600 soldiers of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade pulled the bowstrings one after another, approached the orc camp and shot arrows at the orcs.

The orcs had suffered hundreds of casualties in the attack of the Lightning Tower, and the original rhythm had been disrupted.

No one knew how many spells the magic tower on the opposite side could release. The orcs in the camp were in chaos, packing up their bags and planning to retreat.

There was no time to organize an effective defense, and the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade rushed to the vicinity of the orc camp and began to shoot arrows on horseback.

Normally, the horse bow is softer than the foot bow, and the range is not as good as the foot bow. Cavalry and foot soldiers shooting at each other is asking for trouble.

But the Warcraft Cavalry Battalion is different. The officers and veterans are all professionals, and the ordinary soldiers are also high-level 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 Soros's hand has a strength of more than ten stones. Without ten times the strength of ordinary people, you can't pull the bowstring.

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

When two armies fight, bows and crossbows come first.

After soldiers join the army, the most important skill for them is to practice archery all year round. It takes three years for ordinary serfs who have never been exposed to bows and arrows to improve their archery level to the second level, and eight to ten years to improve to the third level.

To improve archery to the fourth level, not only hard training is required, but also a great talent for archery and a special intuition.

The soldiers of the Warcraft Cavalry Battalion have been in the army for at least three years. Many of them have been soldiers for five years, eight years, and even ten years. 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 have exceeded the third level.

This group of archers was concentrated in one unit, and their lethality was obvious.

The Warcraft Cavalry Brigade did not charge directly into the orc camp, but only circled around the orc camp, shooting five or six rounds of feather arrows, and the number of orcs killed and wounded in the surprise attack exceeded 500.

It was equivalent to the orc army encountering another series of lightning strikes.

The orcs finally reorganized the ranks, and the orcs who were good at archery also organized themselves to shoot at the Warcraft Cavalry. Some powerful orcs used slingshots to throw stones at the Warcraft Cavalry.

Warcraft Cavalry was a very expensive type of soldier, and Thoros certainly would not waste his energy shooting at the orcs. He turned his horse's head and led the Warcraft Cavalry out of the range of the bows and arrows, waiting for the next opportunity for a surprise attack.

Seeing that the orcs had no intention of withdrawing, Thoros assigned 200 auxiliary soldiers to assist the soldiers of the Flame Castle in chasing and killing the orcs.