Chapter 591: Total Annihilation!
Without the food for logistics support, if the orcs want to survive, they can only stop marching and search for food.
But food on the prairie is very hard to find, second only to the desert. Even if the orcs eat dung beetles and feces, they can't sustain food for so many people.
And even if they want to find the tribe of Rohan to plunder food, it will be impossible to find it in a short time, not to mention that the captain of the orcs has already understood that this Rohan cavalry has set their sights on them!
If they don't completely deal with this Rohan cavalry, they will be exhausted and annihilated!
Then at this time, the captain of the orcs received news of the attack from the front.
"Impossible!"
The captain of the orcs was shocked. Are there two Rohan cavalry?
The armor of the orcs is front armor, and most of them have no armor on the back, so the Rohan cavalry left by Chang Wei shot and killed nearly a hundred orcs this time.
Such a loss made the orc captain's pupils burst. His army had not advanced much, but more than a hundred of the more than a thousand orcs were gone. Counting the previous losses, it was equivalent to a broken bone.
"Damn Rohan people!"
After the orc captain cursed, he ordered the orcs who were shot dead to be used as food.
The bodies of nearly a hundred orcs were enough to satisfy the remaining orcs, and then they could starve for a while.
The Rohan cavalry in front did not want to fight. When the orcs turned their spears, they ran away like the wind, and the orcs could not catch a hair.
This was not over yet. When the orcs finally started eating, those orcs who ate voraciously soon foamed at the mouth and died!
"It's poisonous!"
"Their arrows are poisonous, and the orcs who shot them dead are also poisonous!"
"Captain, more than 300 of our soldiers were poisoned to death!"
The orc captain was about to collapse. How could there be such a despicable and shameless Rohan who actually used poison arrows!
Chang Wei is such a shady guy... No, a tactical master + military strategist, how could he not prepare for pollution tactics? Poisoning the water source is a basic operation, but this is the territory of the Rohan people after all. Poisoning the water source is too cruel, which can easily harm other Rohan people and spread the poison endlessly.
On the prairie, running water is a very precious water source, so it is impossible to play the operation of poisoning the water source unless it is forced.
However, he still let the Rohan cavalry bring highly toxic drugs, which is to prevent emergencies.
Before leaving, Chang Wei told them to use poison arrows. With the orcs unprepared, it should not be a problem to shoot down many of them.
It doesn't matter if they use poison arrows, but the amount of poison arrows is not easy to produce an effect, but it can't withstand the large number.
More importantly, the orcs don't have the habit of making fire. They eat raw meat and drink blood, so they are poisoned.
The wolf cavalry before must be very particular to make fire and cook food.
Apart from anything else, after such an operation, they dared not eat the remaining orc corpses. They did not know that the poison would be diluted. It would be rogue to ignore the dosage and not talk about the toxicity, but they did not dare to gamble.
The immunity of the orcs is very strong, but poison is not included in it.
So they could only bear the pain and leave here with salivating mouths.
"Burn all the corpses to avoid causing plague. Next year, this grassland will be more fertile. Use the corpses of the orcs to fertilize our land!"
Chang Wei said to the Rohan cavalry.
"Yes!"
The general and the cavalry piled the corpses together and burned them with a fire.
Of course, before burning them, they dug a circle and made a simple firebreak to prevent the fire from spreading to other parts of the grassland.
"We killed an enemy that is ten times larger than us. This is simply a miracle!"
The Rohan cavalry in the past was not impossible to do, but that was when there were many people, for example, 10,000 Rohan cavalry fought against tens of thousands of scattered troops, rather than facing a hundred thousand troops at once.
Even so, it was enough to make them excited.
"Keep going, don't let these orcs have a chance to breathe, wherever they go, we will follow!"
After Chang Wei joined other Rohan cavalry, he gave the order.
Now the orcs have known the horror of this Rohan cavalry, so they basically gave up resistance, and then the captain of the orcs found that this Rohan cavalry was too terrible. They kept biting the orcs tightly, like ghosts.
But every time they made a move, there must be orcs falling down. With the lessons learned from the past, no one dared to eat these fallen orcs. They were driven like a group of stray dogs. Now the Rohan cavalry can follow closely with short bows, and their archers dare not fight back.
The most unsolvable and brainless time began. Chang Wei held a short bow and shot down three orc archers, chasing them far away, until the last orc captain was shot in the eye socket by the general and fell to the ground.
Nearly 2,000 strong orcs were annihilated by them, and the only casualties were three horses, which died of exhaustion during the chase!
Everyone's three views were refreshed. Can the war be fought like this?
"More than half of our longbows and shortbows have been used up and lost their elasticity."
Although they were very happy, the logistics problem could not be underestimated. More than half of the longbows and shortbows could no longer be used.
These losses are inevitable, and more importantly, food and arrows!
They brought a lot at the beginning, but when they really used them, the loss was beyond imagination. They had to use the arrows of the strong orcs.
It’s just that the arrows of the strong orcs are rough, with many burrs or wooden thorns. The strong orc archers don’t care because their armor has metal burrs that have not been worn off, but they can ignore them.
But the Rohan people can’t do that. Many of them have their hands pierced by wooden thorns and their ten fingers are broken.
This is still protected by calluses from holding swords and drawing bows for many years. If it were an ordinary person, the palms of both hands would probably be bloody and scarred.
As for food, they brought three days of food at the beginning. They originally planned to fight to support themselves, but they couldn’t accept the food of the strong orcs. In addition, the fierce battle also increased the food consumption.
“Find the tribe of the Rohan people to see if they can replenish it.”
After hearing these problems, Chang Wei could only seek help from the masses.
The nearby Rohan tribes were probably plundered by the Uruks, but the Rohan cavalry should be able to find things that the Uruks couldn't take away to sustain themselves.