Chapter 58 Maruland

The news brought back by the orc messenger let the orc vanguard know that humans had built a solid fortress in the valley they passed last time.

Orc captain Maruland knew that the orc army was not good at attacking.

Every time they conquered a fortress guarded by humans, they had to pay a lot of blood, and a battalion of orcs might not have enough troops.

Soon several defeated soldiers fled back.

Maruland asked the defeated soldiers, and he immediately knew with his rich combat experience that it took only two squadrons of human soldiers to defeat the vanguard squadron.

Whether he admitted it in his heart or not, the human soldiers won a beautiful victory.

Through the story of the defeated soldiers, Maruland knew that the defenders relied on the power of long-range projection to injure the vanguard squadron.

The defenders could not come out in full force, and there should be soldiers stationed in the castle.

There were at least three squadrons of defending human soldiers, with a total number of about 500 people.

Maruland commanded a large group of orcs, with ten fully equipped orc squadrons under his command, as well as a guard squadron, a snake-like heavy squadron, an eagle-like patrol team and other direct forces, totaling more than 1,800 people.

In addition, Maruland also controlled a human slave squadron with more than 160 human soldiers.

These human soldiers were either prisoners captured by the orcs in previous wars, or human tribes living in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains. "

In the more civilized areas of the Orc Empire, such as the areas governed by Behemoths, Minotaur, and Sky Foxes, there are many human tribes living there.

There are also some dragon lords in the Orc Empire, and under the dragons, there are also some humans serving the dragon lords.

Compared to the Wald Battalion that Richard annihilated in the last battle, Maruland commands more troops and has human spies serving him.

Relatively speaking, civilized orcs like Maruland are more difficult to deal with.

Although he lost a squadron, Maruland still believes that he has a chance of winning.

"If we fight head-on, we have a great advantage. ”

Now the enemy situation is unclear, Maruland copied the intelligence and submitted it to the Orc Corps headquarters, and then took the Orc army and stationed in the north of Fort William.

Seeing that the Orc army was large in scale, a large group came with full equipment.

Richard did not dare to neglect it, and immediately wrote a letter for help and sent it to Black River Fort and Pratos Fortress Group respectively.

An Orc brigade is already a very strong force. Except for a few powerful baron families in the North, ordinary hereditary nobles are often unable to stop it.

The last time Baron Stopa's territory was breached by an Orc brigade.

Although Fort William was equipped with counterweight catapults and bed crossbows, if the orcs attacked regardless of life and death.

The war continued, Fort William with fewer troops would eventually not be able to withstand it.

The Orc army hurriedly ate a meal, and at Maruland's order, two squadrons of orcs slowly walked out of the camp , behind them followed the squadron of serpentines.

The harpys also flapped their wings and flew high, circling over Fort William. While scouting the enemy, if there is a chance, they can also launch a surprise attack from the air to help the orc infantry capture the city.

It was quiet on the top of the city. Richard carefully observed the orcs. Seeing that the heavy serpentine soldiers entered the range of the catapult, Richard suddenly waved his hand.

The messenger waved the bright red flag.

The auxiliary soldiers cut the rope on the catapult, and the counterweight box fell heavily on the heavy straw mat.

Sixteen 200-jin boulders were thrown high and fell on the open space 200 meters away.

The 200-jin boulder fell from the sky. Even if it was a powerful serpentine, this huge stone would smash it to pieces.

Because the shooting table was marked in advance, the counterweight and stone bullet were fixed, and the trajectory was calculated, the stone The bullets can be projected to a fixed area.

Sixteen stone bullets fell down and killed six snake-bodied people instantly.

At the same time, the crossbows on the top of the city also began to fire. Four long crossbow arrows shot down from the top of the city, easily piercing the heavy shields held high by the snake-bodied people and piercing the throat of a snake-bodied person.

The attack came suddenly and killed seven third-level professionals at once. Even the orc army with a large number of professionals could not bear it at all.

A snake-bodied heavy infantry squadron only has forty soldiers in total.

The eagle-bodied patrol team has only twelve eagle-bodied patrol officers.

These two elite orc soldiers are already the most elite forces of the orc brigade. Now they have not climbed to the top of the city, and the casualties have been so heavy.

Fortunately, the heavy catapults have a relatively slow firing speed. As long as they withstand two rounds of stone bullets, they will be defeated. Attack, and you can cross this devil's road.

The canyon in the north of William Castle is relatively narrow, with a width of about 300 meters. Even if the snake-bodied heavy infantry wants to dodge, there is no place to hide.

Besides, the bed crossbows and archers are all staring at this place. Instead of wasting time dodging, it is better to gamble on luck and rush to the bottom of the city wall.

Maruland widened his eyes and found that the second round of stone bullets caused more casualties, killing eight snake-bodied people.

Fortunately, they rushed past the range of the catapult, and the snake-bodied people were almost half injured or killed.

Seeing that the catapult was so lethal, Maruland immediately conveyed the task of destroying the catapult to the harpy.

The harpy swooped down from the sky, and Richard and Soros shot deadly cold arrows one after another.

A shrill cry came.

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

Richard's archery skills have been upgraded to level five. He is considered a rare archer in the main army.

Soros's archery skills are not weaker than Richard's. The two of them manipulated enchanted crossbows and easily shot and killed the harpy in a sneak attack.

The remaining ten harpies swooped down and released fireballs.

In an instant, dozens of soldiers were killed and injured, and even four catapults caught fire.

Just when the harpies were about to continue firing fireballs to burn all the catapults,

Wendy and Richard released the vine entanglement spell.

Two vines suddenly appeared and entangled the wings of the harpies.

The harpies were average in strength and could not get rid of the entanglement spell in a short time.

In an instant, they fell from the sky like a kite with a broken string and were stabbed to death by the soldiers on the top of the city.

The harpies were a noble army with a very high IQ. Seeing Richard and Soros draw their bows and arrows again, they knew very well that if they had to complete the task of burning the catapults, they would probably have to be wiped out.

Although the harpy team was under the command of Maruland, they had great autonomy.

The orc army could not do without harpy scouts in the battle.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the captain of the harpy immediately cried a few times, passed the message to each other, and flew away.

In just a few minutes, the harpy attacked the city head, causing dozens of casualties and burning four catapults.

If the harpy attacked the city head regardless of casualties and cooperated with the orc infantry attacking the city, it would be possible to defeat the defenders and capture Fort William.

But the harpy was afraid of casualties and was unwilling to bear casualties.

Although Maruland was angry, he had no good way to urge the infantry to speed up.

Finding that the orc infantry had entered the range, the defenders on the city head shot arrows and killed the orcs close to the city wall.