Chapter 384

In response to the letter, after learning that other legions were also trapped by mudslides and unable to provide support, his mood instantly fell to the bottom.

Then, he ordered the orc warriors to stop clearing the road, and instead piled baggage trucks and other items behind the team.

Then, when night fell and humans could no longer pursue, he gathered all the little bosses together.

"You should have realized that Chief Balu responded to the letter and said that their situation is also quite difficult. It seems that they cannot support us."

As he finished speaking, the little bosses present were either understanding or surprised.

"So, now for the sake of the lives of the soldiers, we can only evacuate lightly, otherwise we will only be annoyed to death by humans here."

The baggage carried by the orcs mainly consists of food and grass, spare weapons, armor, and siege equipment. But in this situation, let alone siege the city, it is good to be able to return behind them.

The little bosses also understood what Swain meant. After arranging the evacuation batch, they went back to prepare.

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"Even if we are trying to catch a turtle in a jar, we must be careful of the dog jumping over the wall." In Fenik City, Orson looked at the information in his hand.

It has been nearly a week since he took over as the commander-in-chief of the frontline army. During this week, the war situation has changed rapidly.

"Then, Orson, are you ready to let these orcs go back like this?" Lite asked curiously, sitting next to Orson.

She has learned a lot of military knowledge from Orson these days. Orson's war-related experience, at least at the strategic level, is at least one Carlisle ahead of the lecturers in the academy.

Now according to the battle report, the orcs have buried many corpses on the way forward, but the losses of the troops directly under the Duke of Antica are so minimal that they can almost be ignored.

"The top priority is to attack the city, and the bottom priority is to attack the heart." Orson said and smiled. "Once a group becomes large, it means that the group will not always remain united."

"There must be something that divides the individuals in this group into several factions. These factions will be united by common interests in some cases, but this does not mean absolute unity."

"We only need a small push to disintegrate the enemy from the inside. Isn't it interesting to watch the enemy kill each other?" Orson said.

Knowing the history of the empire well, he certainly knew the common pattern in several orc invasions, that is, the orcs often retreated on their own initiative in the end.

Although the Imperial Army has contributed to this, it also has a lot to do with the internal conflicts of the orcs themselves.

What Orson needs to do is to let the conflicts within the orcs come in advance, and then follow his arrangements to solve the orcs' problems once and for all.

Of course, this strategy of his can only be stated so straightforwardly in front of Li Teuk.

"Now we just need to wait for the opportunity. Once the time passes, the orcs will naturally withdraw their troops, and we will take back the land we lost without bloodshed."

"And..." Orson said, turning his eyes to the direction of the empire's border on the map.

"New land."

Chapter 8: The Troubles of Happiness (7.1K)

Time came at night, and the orcs of the Bloodfire Clan Legion began to evacuate in batches. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Sven, the chief of the Bloodfire Clan, did not let his clan evacuate first, but arranged it in the middle.

In fact, the design of this location is very particular.

The troops of one's own clan are in the middle of the retreating team. On the one hand, the troops who evacuated early can find out the situation of the road ahead for themselves and avoid encountering an ambush. On the other hand, the troops who evacuated late can block the enemy's pursuit for themselves.

In short, all the benefits were taken by the Bloodfire Clan.

Although other clans knew the benefits of this arrangement, they dared not speak out.

Even before, when the supplies were distributed, the Blood and Fire Clan received the most supplies.

The reason is very simple, it is because the Bloodfire Clan is the strongest among the legion.

On the other side, Vergil gathered a group of mercenaries behind the orcs, numbering about five thousand.

Because they were unfamiliar with the terrain here, the orcs ignored Vergil's army when searching.

After Virgil obtained these troops, he contacted Orson immediately. Later, after discussing with Orson, he decided to act according to the situation.

The bad weather these days gave Virgil his opportunity.

Then, he contacted Orson through a magic carrier pigeon, and finally formulated an ambush plan.

Although the mountains and forests here were burned by orcs,

It was a large area, but behind the orc military camp, there were still several independent mountains and forests that were protected from the fire.

The reason is that the orcs who set the fire were negligent, and there was indeed no time when human mercenaries ambush the orcs here, so the orcs relaxed their vigilance here, thinking that humans would not appear from these mountains and forests.

Ever since, this mountain forest provided cover for Virgil's mercenary army in peacetime.

When Sven withdrew his army, he happened to pass through this mountain forest.

He glanced at the nearby terrain and asked the military attaché beside him.

"Didn't this forest burn down when we came?"

"Uh...yes." The military attache nodded. "Because we had already advanced to the front here, and there was no trace of human troops nearby, we did not burn this mountain forest, otherwise there might be a mudslide here."

"Okay." Sven nodded when he heard this, and then suddenly laughed.

"General, why are you laughing?"

"Hahaha, look at the terrain here." Sven said, pointing to the mountains and forests on both sides.

"It is high at both ends and low in the middle. We are passing through the valley. If there happens to be an army ambushing here at this time, what will happen to us?"

Then, he laughed again.

When the military attache heard this, he looked at the woods on both sides in surprise.

If the enemy really ambush an army here, our losses will indeed be quite large.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the advance, our side had already wiped out the enemy.

Just as the military attaché was thinking this, gongs and drums suddenly sounded loudly in the woods on both sides, and then countless bows, arrows and crossbows were shot out from both sides.

The orc army in the middle instantly panicked.

No one expected that in the hinterland where they thought they were safe, there would be an enemy ambush.

Moreover, Swain never expected that the enemy would not attack the retreating troops in front, but would choose to besiege his own army.

He didn't understand, but Virgil was fighting Sweyn's army.

After several rounds of volleys, the orc army began to flee in all directions. No matter how much Sven yelled, he could not stop the fleeing army.

Their spirits were already as tense as a fully drawn bowstring. When they finally relaxed, they were suddenly ambushed by the enemy. Before the bowstring could recover, the bowstring was fully drawn again. As a result, the bowstring broke. .

And even if the warriors from the Sven tribe behave like this, it is obvious that the performance of other tribes is even more outrageous.

What was originally a normal path was now crowded with people. The people behind were squeezing forward in order to escape, while the people in front were also desperately trying to escape.

Swain killed several of his men in succession, and then a group of surrounding troops barely regained their organization and began to obey Swain's orders.

Sven glanced at the soldiers around him, then at the scale of the arrows shot in the forest, and finally gritted his teeth and ordered the soldiers to evacuate with him.

After this round of ambushes, a total of more than 5,000 of Swain's men were ambushed, and more than a thousand corpses were left behind. More importantly, after the rout, the number of soldiers Swain was able to gather was no more than one. A thousand.

On the other side, Virgil was leading the soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

Pinch off the head and tail and hit the middle. Virgil had already planned this idea from the beginning of his ambush. Compared with attacking the enemy's leading or rear troops, he often attacks the enemy's middle troops, which will have a greater effect.

Virgil did this and actually achieved the effect he wanted.

Although the number of enemies annihilated was not very large, after the enemy was defeated, the morale of the army was also weakened. It would take a lot of energy to gather and rebuild morale.

This is what Orson proposed, attacking the heart first.

Five days later, the orc army gathered together again. This time, compared to the high spirits when they marched, the orcs who returned looked somewhat disgraced and looked like a defeated army.

After the Bloodfire Clan was attacked, other legions besides Balu's main legion were also attacked to varying degrees, suffering casualties ranging from 2,000 to 5,000. This casualty ratio can be said to be considerable. It was tragic.

After gathering together, everyone held a meeting in the Zhongjun tent.

"We really didn't expect this heavy rain..." Balu said, lowering his head. "As a battlefield commander, I did not understand the climate here in advance this time. I really did not do it properly. I should bear the responsibility for the unfavorable start."

"Hmph." On the other side, Sven from the Bloodfire Clan had no face at all.

He did not give it to Balu. He had already exchanged messages with other chiefs. Everyone's troops had suffered more or less losses. Only Balu's troops, except for the loss of more than a dozen people due to diseases caused by heavy rain, had no fighting at all. damage.

"How can you blame Chief Balu? Your troops performed the 'evacuation' mission perfectly without any losses."

"..." Balu looked at Swain with a calm expression, and then he said: "I'm sorry, regarding your loss, I will add more soldiers to your legion."

"Hey, Chief Balu, are you pitying us?" Tucker, another chief of the Gray Bones clan, said with an unhappy expression.

In this battle, apart from Sven, Tucker, who belonged to the Ashbone clan, suffered the most losses.

"Then I don't know how to satisfy you." Balu said, frowning.

"Shouldn't the question be asked of you? Balu!" With that said, Tucker slapped the table, stood up, and pointed directly at Balu himself.

"You said that you had information about the human beings, so we believed you. Think about it, our ancestors have never attacked humans at this time before, but you convened the orc meeting in advance and asked us to attack at this time. As a result, we were in trouble. Tens of thousands of compatriots have been lost here in vain!”

Yes, the reason why this war broke out was also because Balu said at the meeting of the United Orc Tribes that he was an internal agent from the human race. The size of the leader behind the internal agent seemed to be quite large. That's how a group of orc chiefs put it. The tribe's future hopes rested on this attack.

Balu is now simply speechless.

He also didn't know that the weather here was so strange this season, with heavy rains that could directly wash away the mountains and forests.

Besides, before this, according to the intelligence from the human insiders, the orcs' attack had been very smooth, and everyone praised Baru's ability.

As a result, now, just because of a failure, these chiefs are unhappy with him one by one and want to pull him down from the chieftain position.

Baru certainly knows what these people are thinking. They just want to gain the most benefits for their tribe in this war and make enough capital for the next attack in 20 years. However, for the sake of the overall situation, he did not say it out loud.

"Then, you guys tell me, in that situation at that time, besides retreating, what other options did we have?"

Baru said this, looking at Tucker with burning eyes.

"Or do you think that our previous strategy of burning mountains and destroying forests and taking advantage of the internal discord of the human race to make a breakthrough was wrong?"

"Things like climate are determined by God. We have no way to do anything. Who can predict such a result?"

Tucker was speechless now, and he could only sit down angrily.

"Then, Chief Baru, tell me what we should do now. Our food reserves are only three or four days long. Now it seems that we can only retreat, right?" Sven asked.

"But if we retreat like this, the results we have now are not enough for us to last long. If we want to fight back, the human race should be ready by then. It won't be as easy as before."

"By the way." At this time, on the other side, Chief Ouni of the Helmet Clan raised his hand.

"I want to know who is the commander of the opposite side in this battle? He is a very terrifying opponent who has such courage and courage and relies on the time to plan so well."

"Isn't it Lucius who killed my father eighteen years ago?" Sven asked doubtfully.

"No, Lucius has been away from the front line for a long time because of the assassination." Tucker shook his head.

"It's Orson." Baru said.

"Orson?" Ouni looked at Baru with a puzzled look. "Who is this Orson? When we were preparing before, we had never heard of such a general in the human race."

"He is the son of Lucius." As Baru said this, everyone present suddenly realized.

In the war more than ten years ago, some of these people were still young and had not been on the battlefield. However, the chieftains who had been on the battlefield at that time knew the name of Lucius.

Although the orcs plundered a lot of spoils and returned to the desert in that war, the price they paid was also huge.

And the person who made them pay a huge price was Lucius.

Before this attack, the orcs were waiting for news from the inside. After learning that Lucius was assassinated and could not go to the battlefield, the morale of the orcs was greatly boosted.

Unexpectedly, Lucius could not go to the battlefield, but his son gave him a blow.

At this time, a scout suddenly ran in from outside the military tent.

"Chief, something bad has happened!"

"What's going on?" Baru has been receiving nothing but bad news these days. After hearing the scout's report, he already had a bad feeling in his heart.

"The scouts ahead reported that the towns we occupied on our way back have now been flagged by humans for some reason!"

Hearing this news, all the orcs present were surprised, and then they all looked at Baru.

"Chief Baru, what's going on?"

Baru looked at the eyes everyone was looking at him, and suddenly he panicked.

Think carefully, why can humans suddenly send an extra army to harass him from behind?