The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

"Oh no! Looks like we can't rest!" Omske frowned.

"Hurry up, the situation has changed! The enemy has bypassed us and attacked our territory!" Omske shouted.

"Mount up! Mount up! Let's go back to our land!"

Omske's voice echoed in the darkness, and the soldiers spurred their horses and galloped northward.

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"Shoot! Shoot those trolls! Don't let the siege towers get close to the walls!" Lafitte Anthony shouted as he fired a crossbow.

"Catapults, focus on attacking the orc gathering points! Use oil!" Lafit Antonid immediately ordered as he watched the orcs attempt to form a shield formation. It seemed that by not attacking, the fortress's catapults had made the orcs forget the fear of being dominated by them!

"call!"

"Bang!" The oil canister with the ignition spark was thrown out, and the oil exploded with a deafening roar as soon as it touched the spark! A fiery dragon swept up!

"Ahhhh!"

"Ow~"

The orcs' shrill screams echoed across the battlefield as a group of orcs, seemingly possessed by the god of fire, stumbled and rampaged across the battlefield, frightening the others into hiding.

"Bang! Crack!" An orc, set ablaze by oil, crashed headfirst into a siege engine and was instantly crushed under its wheels, convulsing in pain.

Fortunately, it was freed! Unfortunately, it brought oil with it to this siege engine. The burning oil ignited the fresh wood, and thick smoke mixed with flames billowed out. Tragically, the flames rising from below blocked any possibility of escape for the orcs. Before long, the tower became a giant pyre! The mournful cries made the defenders of Lulong Fortress frown.

"By the Dragon God! Dragon Flame is nothing more than this!" Lafit Anthony shaded his eyes with his hand and exclaimed in amazement. Dragon Flame only had this effect, but this thing was much easier to obtain than Dragon Flame!
"Watch out for those siege towers! They're too close! Catapults, fire!" Lafitte Anthony ordered the catapults to begin attacking the approaching siege towers!

"Poof!" Flames exploded, and the entire siege tower was engulfed in flames.

"Oh! Dragon God! Damn it! They have a layer of iron on the outside! The oil can't burn through!" the soldier shouted in panic. At this moment, the siege tower was like a burning mountain, rushing over madly. The flames did not stop its progress for a moment. It continued to advance steadily under the push of the ogres!
“Stone projectiles! Those things are covered in mud!” Lafitte Anthony quickly figured out the situation. The siege towers covered in mud couldn’t be ignited by the oil, and the falling oil was quickly extinguished by the orcs with sand, after all, they had already seen the miserable state of one tower.

"Bang!" A stone projectile flew out, and the siege tower, which had been struggling to resist the oil, was instantly riddled with holes, as if a dog had bitten it. A gaping hole several meters wide appeared, and a huge skylight was torn open on the back, smashing the internal support pillars. The entire siege tower creaked and shook violently. Most fatally, the oil was carried into the siege tower by the stone projectile, and soon the tower was billowing with thick smoke. The shaky half of the tower crashed into another tower from the side to everyone's horrified eyes... "Awesome!" Lafitte Anthony was dumbfounded. This time, the orcs had done a great job!
It wasn't over yet. After hitting another siege tower, the top of that tower wobbled and was ripped off, smashing into a shield tower below! (With shields, they provided cover for soldiers entering the siege machinery beneath the city walls.)
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"Attack the shield carts! Fire the heavy crossbows at the shield carts!" Luke Leopold was also shouting at the top of his lungs. He had just discovered in a panic that the sandbags the orcs were using to fill the moat were hidden under the shield carts!
This is outrageous! The moat of Lulong Fortress must either be filled with corpses, or it should never be filled at all! You think you can fill the moat with sandbags? Dream on! If the moat is filled, won't your siege weapons be able to be sent over in an endless stream?
Soon, the orcs returned empty-handed once again under the targeted attacks of the heavy crossbows. The shield carts were riddled with bullets, and beneath them lay the remains of orcs...

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"Beware of the enemy!" Renault felt a sense of powerlessness instead of joy as he watched the orcs retreat like a receding tide. In just this short time, the stamina of the soldiers at Lulong Fortress had been depleted at an alarming rate! Although there were no casualties, Renault could clearly sense that the soldiers' attack accuracy had decreased!

"Let everyone rest! Let the rangers take over the guard and defense!" Renault's messenger relayed this order. Renault had given this order considerable thought. After all, the other soldiers' energy was being used to fight the orcs, while the Elnino rangers, who were in charge of the Meteor Dragon Tower, rarely had a chance to use their skills. Since they weren't very useful during the day anyway, he might as well hand over the night watch to them! This way, the main force could rest a little longer!

The Elnino Rangers readily accepted this outcome. For them, anything was acceptable as long as they could kill enemies, defend the kingdom, and serve the king. They'd been bored out of their minds all day! The Meteor Dragon Crossbow was aimed at the orcs outside again and again, but Renault wouldn't allow it to fire, and the rangers were reluctant to use it either—after all, every shot was one less! These magical arrows were different from the mass-produced black arrows of the dwarves; their technology was more advanced and their production more complicated!

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"They're here!" whispered an Elnino ranger on night watch.

"What? The enemy is here? Sound the alarm!" Another ranger turned and prepared to run!
"Don't panic! It's not a large army! It's a small group of orcs! They... are trying to fill in our moat?" Elnino Ranger looked at the orcs throwing mounds of dirt into the moat, somewhat bewildered.

"Shoot! Kill them! The moat cannot be filled!" Another ranger reacted quickly, his dragonbone longbow firing instantly! With a blur of motion, at least 10 orcs fell into pools of blood!

"Die, you scum!" Following the example of the previous soldier who unleashed his battle aura skill, this ranger immediately activated his own ultimate! He unleashed a torrential downpour of energy from a single person!

Soon, dozens of orcs fell asleep immediately, prompting the Lagrange brutes to remark on the advantages of youth—they could fall asleep instantly! The rangers, having just finished their slaughter, didn't forget their mission and immediately sent someone to inform Reno, who had just gone to sleep.

Renault wasn't annoyed at being dragged out of bed. He simply listened to the guard's report in detail and then nodded in praise: "Well done. While ensuring safety, try to shoot down any orcs that try to approach by smearing your way!"

Renault wasn't surprised at all by the orcs' little tricks; if they didn't do something, would they still be orcs?

The orc officer whose mission had failed had fallen at the feet of the orc lord, his purplish-black blood gushing out. Akhorn and Adanna glanced at the corpse on the ground with disdain. They had long anticipated the failure of the cannon fodder, but since they were all cannon fodder anyway, it didn't matter if some were lost!