Blood tax

Chapter 300 Griffith's Storm Commando
Pairs of big feet stepped on the rain and mud, making frantic pattering sounds.A few panicked deserters crossed the ditch with hands and feet, climbed over the low wall that blocked the catapult bullets, and jumped back.

As soon as they landed, seven or eight feathered arrows shot over, nailing half of the deserters to the earthen wall.

"Wow! Stop it, stop it, I'm Oak from Papa Rube's team!"

A goblin yelled, waving his arms. He had been shot in the arm by an arrow, and his comrades in the party had been shot through the throat.

"Come here!" An orc sergeant's majestic voice came from the darkness, "Quickly, idiot, what's the situation? Where is the enemy?"

The shouts of killing came one after another, and the entire front was shaken.There were bursts of explosions and flames in the rushing rain, but there were no incendiary bombs thrown by trebuchets flying across the sky.In order to intercept human messengers and reinforcements, they dug several trenches under the outer wall and sent many soldiers, wargs and dogs.

But they are of no use.The sounds of fighting and screams spread all over the outer wall and the inner camp, as unstoppable as the snow water pouring down from the top of the mountain seeping into the sand. .

"No, I didn't see clearly!" The orc who escaped stammered, "Papa Lu Bu's neck was broken suddenly. Humans are everywhere, at least three or four thousand!"

"Shut up! I only ask you where the humans are!" the orc sergeant shouted.

"No, I don't know!"

Oak flew out as soon as he finished speaking, and rolled a few times in the muddy water.The orc sergeant who kicked him over glanced at the soldiers around him, "Keep an eye on the front, if any humans climb over the low wall, shoot them into a sieve."

"No, aren't you going to retreat?" Several soldiers replied uncertainly.

"Don't retreat! Hold here!" The orc sergeant grabbed the ax and swung it twice.

The outer wall was lost in a blink of an eye, and it was unknown where the human army had infiltrated.If they escape at this time, the flanks of other squadrons will be exposed, and the entire camp will be penetrated.

So stay here!The orc growled inwardly.He wanted to shout a few more words to boost morale, but he was worried that the shout would attract the enemy.

Everyone just squatted in the dark, staring at the front, and only waited for the captain to give an order before releasing arrows.

Sweat mixed with rain drenched the clothes, and the strange explosion stopped for a while, and there was a tsunami-like shouting and fighting sound from farther away.This chaotic sound gradually approached, mixed with the screams of many orcs.

The camp was beginning to crumble.

Suddenly, a small round pot was thrown from behind the earthen wall and rolled around at the feet.The matchlock on the pot hissed and burned.

"What!" Oak, who was highly nervous, was the first to yell.

As soon as the words fell, the iron pot made a loud noise.There was a vast expanse of whiteness in the darkness, and the orc sergeant and all the soldiers suddenly couldn't see anything clearly, and there was only an annoying buzzing echo in their ears.

"Kill all the human dogs!" The orc growled and swung his axe. He couldn't see or hear clearly, but he knew with his toes that the enemy had rushed to him.Suddenly, his throat was tightly strangled, and there was a sharp pain in his chest, and then he didn't know anything.

……

"Assault, assault towards the inner wall!"

Griffith issued an order and threw the orc who had just been stabbed to the ground.Beside him stood a large group of half-orcs covering their eyes, slowly waking up from dizziness and blindness, looking at the humans who suddenly appeared beside him in confusion.

"Wow!"

Half the enemy saw the quasi-knight running in the dark, and the rest grabbed their weapons and jumped at him.Four or five short spears stabbed at him back and forth, first breaking through the ice shield, and then blocked by the breastplate.

Griffith clenched Hanguang and chopped away.The holy sword hummed and hummed in the rainy night, like thunder and lightning thrown by the gods, tearing pieces of flesh and blood.The broken stones chopped off by this blow fell to the ground like felled logs.

More intensive explosions sounded one after another, and the soldiers of the Storm Squadron followed in the dark.Some of them carried torches, others took out grenades, ignited them and threw them forward.

Lien rushed up with a few people. They first used grenades to stun the enemy, and then directly split their heads with the shovel.

Orcs galloped behind a maze of ditches and earthen walls.There was half a squadron running with him, and everyone disappeared after running.The crackling sound of the skull opening continued, and from time to time, a piece of bone stuck to the scalp bounced from a distance.

There seemed to be a monster in the darkness, biting the orcs who fell behind and eating their brains.

"Stop!" A group of soldiers had gathered behind the front fortifications, and a certain orc officer shouted, "Give your name!"

"I'm Orc from Papa Rub's team!" The half-orc yelled, clutching the wound on his arm, "Humans are here, Brother Kuadu's team has just collapsed!"

"You, come here," the orc officer shouted majestically, "How many enemies are there? Where are they? What weapons are they using?"

"They used iron cans and threw them on the ground. We couldn't see or hear anything!" Oak said in horror.This poor answer will probably give him another kick.

The officer commanding here is a capable and wise warrior.He nodded, and said to the warriors who were waiting solemnly beside him: "The deserters said the same thing. This is some kind of mysterious item that can release the light technique, which can be used in the army formation, and has the effect of dizziness and blindness.

"After discovering that this thing was thrown, everyone lowered their heads and turned around. As long as the eyes can see, we can repel humans. It is almost dawn, and we will hold our positions and wait for the brigade to come to support."

"Okay!" The orcs responded with a low growl, grabbing their weapons and hiding them, waiting for the attackers in the night to show up.

There was a rustling sound of running in the darkness.The explosion and flash that appeared more than ten minutes ago have invaded the interior of the camp, and even spread around.

"Humans are coming so fast, which legion's elite soldiers are they?" the orc officer said silently.

He stared nervously into the darkness, glancing around now and then for a human attack on his flank.His spirit is highly concentrated, his thoughts are clear, and he is confident that there is no ghost in this world that can escape his sharp eagle eyes.

Before dawn, as long as a surprise attack can be blocked, human beings will also fall into chaos.They have penetrated so far into our ramparts, and it is not so easy to gather their forces.

The heavy rain had stopped, and the dark sky seemed to have suddenly quieted down.The highly nervous orc officer forgot for a moment that this was a dangerous battlefield, and his focused thinking diverged.

For no reason, he felt that the ancestor spirit was calling him.As a warrior with a mind, he doesn't trust much in the invisible, and he doesn't trust the stone statues in the temple.But the priestess girls are really good, if... ouch, it's over!
A metal can was suddenly thrown from behind the opposite low wall, rolling around at the feet.

"Turn around!"

The orc officer yelled, turning to avoid the oncoming glare.Suddenly, he heard the sound of flying footsteps, and a figure rushed towards him like a gust of wind before the jar exploded.

"Bah!"

The flash exploded around him, making Griffith feel like vomiting.With his back to his assault grenade, he swung his sword through the chest of an orc officer.

This warrior was strong and burly, with a steel ax in his hand, and his reaction was very sensitive. When he found the grenade, he turned his head to avoid being blinded.

What a great guy, he learned to dodge attack grenades so quickly!Griffith sighed in admiration, pulled out the conviction, and shot the orc officer in the eye.

The hot lead shot exploded the orc's eyeball, splashing a large piece of warm flesh and brain on Griffith's face.He kicked the fallen orc away, swung his sword and stabbed down an orc who rushed forward with his eyes closed.

The orc's muscles and muscles gripped the sharp sword like steel, and the blood-stained hilt was so slippery that he couldn't pull it out after the sword was stabbed out.Griffith hurriedly let go, grabbed the fixed ammunition at his waist and stabbed it into the barrel of the gun.

"Ulla!" The orc nearby roared, grabbed the weapon at hand and rushed forward.The three half-orcs also raised their crossbows and aimed towards this side.

"Attack!" The Storm Squadron behind them crossed the low walls and trenches, raised their shovels and axes, and fought with the orcs here.

Griffith, who had no time to reload, turned around to convict, held the barrel of the gun like a hammer and knocked a jumping orc to the ground. With a twist of his wrist, he stood there straight and continued to reload.

"Bang bang bang!"

After a series of dense strings, the ice shield burst open, and the arrows nailed to the breastplate at close range made a dull sound.Griffith reeled from the impact of the arrow.However, he quickly stabilized his figure, stared at the three half-orc crossbowmen in front of him, and continued to reload his flintlock.

Lean led Paxiu and the others to wrestle with the enemy in the muddy water. Joshua smashed the heads of the orcs with a mace.The half-orc who had just shot a round stared at the quasi-knight who opened the hammer, and hurriedly wound the crossbow.

I do have a shield.The corners of Griffith's mouth curled up slightly, looking at the three crossbowmen who were shooting at him, he raised his musket, pressed it down, and aimed at the half-orc in the middle.

"Bah!"

The orc on the far left flew half of his head, and the other two let go of their hands, and the crossbow arrows flew to nowhere.Before they could wind up again, Ace and Desai rushed to kill them with swords and small shields in hand.

……

Oak continued to escape.He didn't know how many times he ran.

He fled from the outermost walls to the inner camps and trenches, and then to the inner walls towards the town.The solid camp was like paper, with countless holes poked into it before dawn.

A large group of soldiers had assembled beneath the inner wall.They were originally on guard against the troops in the town breaking out of the encirclement, but at this time they had all gathered together and lined up in a tight battle line, holding javelins and big axes at the ready.

"Deserters, come here!" The commander roared angrily.

Hearing the mighty roar, the panic-stricken Orc and the deserters' legs went limp.With their heads down, they hurried to both sides of the line, arming themselves with sticks and stones.

The loud bugle resounded between heaven and earth.The twilight of dawn appeared in the charred camp.Many human soldiers appeared on the line of defense that had been breached.

Armored and armed with javelins and great shields, they flooded out of the shattered encampment and assembled before the Orcish army beneath the inner walls.

"Ready to fight!" Commander, "Throwing spears, bows and crossbows are ready!"

As soon as this infantry approached, he would order a salvo.Although the army gathered around him was fragmented, as long as he killed some humans with long-range shooting and then launched a charge, there was still a lot to do.

Suddenly, he found that many scattered soldiers rushed out of the human battle.They were covered in mud, without shields and swords, and everyone was holding torches and blackened iron balls. They were as dirty as beggars.

"It's this thing again!" Oak screamed, and ran away with his head in his arms.

"Steady!" The orc commander did not order to attack.Throwing spears and crossbow volleys were reserved for the charging infantry ranks.

Those sloppy soldiers lit the iron balls one by one, and then threw them into the orc formation with all their strength.

Some archers couldn't bear it anymore, and shot down some humans who were throwing iron balls.But most of the soldiers stuck to the order, did not shoot a volley, and did not avoid the iron ball rolling to their feet.

The black thing was smoking right at their feet, and the match hissed.

"boom!"

One after another, the sound of explosions rang out.The orc team that was finally organized fell down like a summer harvest, and even the leader was overthrown to the ground.

"Big team, go forward!"

The orc leader struggled to get up.He heard the human battle orders, and saw their battle infantry stepping forward, stopping at a position of 20 meters, showing densely packed spears, and firing an overwhelming volley at his side.

(End of this chapter)