Lord Harland.

Chapter 216 Battlefield Initiative

Li Cha sent a lot of scouting cavalry. After a few days of scouting and cooperating with Zakli's troops, the enemy's situation in Platos Valley has been found out.

The orc force along this route is indeed relatively strong, with a total of five brigades, which add up to tens of thousands of people.

Richard went to Platos Castle in person and negotiated with Zachary about the distribution of the battle lines.The defense of the Platos Valley passage is still dominated by Zachary's department.

After the orc army approached, Zachary had mobilized the three brigades of the Atonement Legion to the Platos Fortress.

Since yesterday, the orcs have launched a tentative attack.The heavy trebuchets were erected, and the trebuchets on both sides began to bombard each other.

Because the Platos fortress group has geographical advantages, the trebuchets are all on the mountainside, and their range and power are much farther than the orc trebuchets.

The orc siege troops suffered a lot, and heavy trebuchets would also destroy a few of them.

There are 3000 people guarding here, and the orcs want to break through the line of defense. In a short time, [-] troops are not enough.

Although I don't know the specific battle plan of the orcs, since the information gradually became clear, the main force of the orcs is not in the northern part of Gerda Province, so Li Cha decided to take the initiative to attack and eat the three orc brigades in the northern part of the Fortress, and then cooperate with Viscount Luomen to surround and annihilate them. Two orc brigades on the road.

Now Harland's territory is strong and strong, and its strength is far beyond that of three years ago.

Knowing yourself and knowing your enemy can help you win a hundred battles.

Although the intelligence capabilities of the orcs are good, spies have been placed in Black River Fort.However, the territory of Harland restricts population migration, and the efficiency of information transmission is very low.The orcs haven't placed intelligence personnel in Harland's territory yet, and they haven't figured out the strength of Harland's territory yet.

The orcs overestimated their combat effectiveness, and did not pay attention to the development of Harland's territory.

Therefore, the plan was very rash, thinking that three large groups of orcs would be able to contain the army in Harland's territory.

If we look at the strength of the last battle between the two sides, the arrangement of the orcs is of course no problem, and there is even a lot of leeway.

The fighting power of the three orc brigades is enough to deal with Harland's territory.

But in three years, the strength of Harland's territory has doubled. According to Richard's assessment, a frontal field battle is enough to eat three orc brigades.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Cha gathered all his subordinates together, glanced at everyone's faces one by one, and said: "The fighter plane has appeared, it's time to give the orcs a hard blow, order to gather the troops, Follow me and kick the orc ass hard!"

Li Cha's voice was very powerful and his attitude was very firm. Now that he had made a decision, even some conservative officers liked to play the most secure defensive counterattack tactics.But his prestige is too high, all the officers can only follow Li Cha's opinion.

The conservative military officers in the territory are dominated by Richard's uncle Soros.Although Soros had different opinions in his heart, the chief military officer had made up his mind, and he could only keep his opinions in his heart.

At this time, the following cannot easily interfere with the commander's determination.

Soros has been in the army for many years and has rich experience, and he knows this very well.

"The orcs have an advantage in detection. Many times the information we detect is what the orcs deliberately let us discover. Would it be too risky to launch an attack rashly?

What if the orc lures me out of the castle and lays an ambush outside the fort?
We are the nobles' private army, and we have completed the mission by defending the territory, so why take the initiative to provoke a decisive battle with the main force of the orcs.Once the soldiers lose too much, it is difficult to replenish the veterans and officers who have been there for many years. I don't know if Li Cha has considered this point clearly? Soros thought to himself, he wanted to talk to Richard, but he was afraid that it would affect his determination.

When leading an army in battle, the most taboo is disunity of command.

Although superiors can promote military democracy and ask subordinates to raise their opinions, once the superiors make a decision, the subordinates must complete the task without compromise.

Soros hesitated for a while, and decided to trust Richard.

Judging from the results of several battles, Li Cha's battlefield feels much better than his.

Since Li Cha believed the scout's judgment and felt that it was necessary to fight this battle, Soros couldn't hold back and kept the words of persuasion in his heart.

There is a third brigade in the fort, plus an auxiliary squadron.

The orc camp was stationed in the north of the military depot. This time, the orc commander was very cautious and did not rashly send troops to attack the military depot.

The terrain of the military depot is very dangerous, and a tentative attack is useless except to increase casualties.

Through harpy scouting, the orcs had figured out that the castle defenders numbered more than a thousand.

The defenders of Harland Territory hit the trebuchets very accurately, and the soldiers' archery skills were accurate and ruthless, and they would throw alchemy bombs at critical moments. Even if a thousand soldiers defended the city, the three orc brigades would not be able to gnaw down the hard bone of the fortress. .

The task given to them by the orc army was to contain the army of Harland's territory, and they did not let them fight recklessly with Harland's territory.

The reason why the orcs camped outside the military depot was entirely to compete for geographical advantages. Outside the military depot was a three-fork terrain. If you guarded this three-fork, you would guard the back roads of the east and west passages.

At noon, the first brigade, second brigade, fourth brigade, monster cavalry brigade, two reconnaissance squadrons from the headquarters, the guard squadron, and the mage squad all gathered in Fort William, with a total of about 600 people.

Fort William is [-] kilometers away from Fort Garrison. If you speed up, according to the quality of the troops in Harland's territory, they will be able to appear on the battlefield before evening.

After resting for an hour or two, you can launch a surprise attack in the middle of the night.

In the famous battles in history, almost all famous generals will mobilize their troops before the battle to boost morale and gain stronger combat effectiveness.

Zachary, the former head of the Northern Legion, was very good at pre-war mobilization, and even William was a master in this area.

Before going to war, Li Cha also had to conduct a mobilization speech.

"Soldiers, we are going to fight tonight. Many of you are veterans who have participated in many battles. However, many of you are new recruits. Although you have trained for three years, you don't have much war experience.

From the faces of many people, I can see tension, anxiety, even fear and fear.

But let me tell you, we are from northern Xinjiang, living in this land, no matter whether they are nobles or serfs, no one can refuse to fight.

If we fail, the orcs will storm the castles of the territory, and your parents and children will become orc captives.

Many people in the territory have been orc captives, and even many soldiers have also been orc captives. Will they tell you what kind of day it was?Our relatives will have the same fate as pigs and sheep, and will be slaughtered at any time and become food for orcs.

For the fate of our loved ones, we must overcome the fear of death, overcome our own psychological weakness, and fight to the death with the orcs.

Many recruits are still indentured slaves and have no freedom in life. They are envious of the high salary and good treatment of the veterans.

Let me tell you today that you don’t need to envy these things. As long as you can kill an orc today and make a military exploit, the recruits can also be freed in advance.

If you unfortunately die in battle, your family members will be pardoned, the whole family will be free citizens, and there will be good pensions and subsidies.

In war, blood and death are unavoidable, but please supervise each other. I, Richard Harland, will never abandon you. If I take a step back, I ask the soldiers to cut off my head.

I will not back down. None of you can take a step back. Whoever dares to back down, regardless of seniority or official position, I will also cut off his head. "

After mobilization, the soldiers had lunch and left Fort William with a small portion of dry rations, heading towards Fort Depot.

After walking a few kilometers out of the city, they found the Harpy spying from afar.

Li Cha estimated the distance and found that it was beyond the range of the enchanted bow. He shook his head in frustration.

I planned to launch a surprise attack, but I didn't expect to be unlucky, and I was exposed just after leaving the city.

Now that the surprise attack has failed, we can only fight with real swords and guns.

After the harpy detected the information, he immediately sent the news back to the orc camp.

The officer commanding the three orc brigades was an eighth-rank wild boar named Durham.

Durham is the deputy head of the Orc Legion. He is in charge of commanding five brigades of orcs. His status is equal to that of Richard's old opponent, Gunderson.

After receiving the information detected by the Harpy, Durham was a little afraid to believe it: "Are the human commanders stupid? Do they still want to launch a surprise attack?"

In the last orc invasion war, Zakry, the commander of the Northern Territory Legion, achieved brilliant victories through two wonderful night raids.

After receiving the information from the harpies, the orcs immediately thought that Li Cha was going to repeat his old tricks and launched a surprise attack at night.

"Pass my order, tonight each squadron will send more sentries, let the soldiers take turns to rest, and guard against human night attacks."

In the evening, Li Cha led the soldiers to the Fortress. He climbed up the watchtower and observed the orc camp. He found that the orcs were preparing and digging trenches.

After dinner, Li Cha immediately gave the first reconnaissance squadron a combat mission.

"In the middle of the night, you fire rockets at the orc camp in small groups, making the noise louder. Your mission today is to harass the orc camp, drain the energy of the orcs, and prevent the orcs from getting a good night's sleep. There will be no combat mission for you tomorrow. .”

In the middle of the night, the First Investigation Squadron made great fanfare and harassed the orc camp several times in a row.

Although Durham quickly saw through the intention of the reconnaissance squadron, but in order to be safe, he still left three squadrons up all night to prevent the human soldiers from making a fake show and launching a surprise attack in the middle of the night.

Early the next morning, Li Cha led [-] soldiers out of the fort and approached the orc camp.

At a distance of 500 meters from the orc camp, Richard began to set up camp, build fortifications, and assemble catapults.

The orcs have more than 6000 troops, and there are fortifications to help them. Li Cha is not willing to fight on the battlefield preset by the orcs.

Setting up camp at a position 500 meters away from the orc camp is equivalent to aiming a sharp sword at the throat of the orc.

If the orcs don't care about it, Richard installed a trebuchet, which can use ballistic calculations to display a longer range and attack the orc camp.

However, the orcs' use of trebuchets is very dull, and the accuracy is not enough. It is self-defeating to use trebuchets to shoot against Harland's territory.

If the orcs took the initiative to come out of the camp to attack, the battle of attacking the stronghold would become a battle in formation.

Such a change is of course beneficial to the territory of Harland, which is actively seeking war.

In the past three years, the Harland Magic Association has developed rapidly. Now there are many magicians who can burn explosive runes. Before the war started, there were already [-] alchemy bombs saved in the territory.

The alchemy bomb weighs only a few kilograms, and it can be thrown 500 meters away by using a lightweight counterweight catapult.

When throwing heavy stone bombs, the range of the trebuchet is only about 300 meters.

At a distance of 500 meters, the soldiers in Harland's territory had the initiative. When the camp was repaired, the orcs would definitely suffer.

Durham was at a loss when he discovered that humans were building camps outside the castle. Although he was a wild boar, he was more cautious and not sensitive enough to the situation on the battlefield.The reason why he was able to command five orc brigades and become the deputy commander of the orc army mainly relied on his high professional level.

With an overly cautious character, although it is not easy to fall into the enemy's trap, it is difficult to grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

Seeing Li Cha repairing the camp, Durham suppressed the opinions of the officers below and did not take the initiative to attack.

As a result, after the camp was built and the trebuchets were successfully assembled.

More than a dozen alchemy bombs were launched and thrown into the orc camp. In an instant, smoke billowed, and several alchemy bombs hit the orc tent.

In a blink of an eye, dozens of orcs were killed or injured.

The catapult continuously fired alchemy bombs, and the hit rate was very high, exceeding 90.00%, all of them hit the orc camp.

Such a high accuracy rate is because the magician calculated the trajectory in advance.

Although Richard submitted the blueprint of the counterweight trebuchet back then, he did not tell Nolan's engineer the method of calculating the trajectory.

Compared with the blueprint of the trebuchet, the method of calculating the trajectory is more critical.First, you need to be proficient in the principle of leverage, and second, you need to understand classical physics to calculate the gravitational acceleration of the dawn plane.The third is to know the parabolic calculation method, which uses a lot of knowledge in algebra, geometry, and calculus.

In Harland's territory, there are only four people who can calculate ballistics.Except for Richard, Sophia, and Wendy, only Butler, who is very smart, can undertake the task of calculating ballistics. Even the other two magicians in the territory, Anne and Heath, are not good at ballistics because of insufficient mathematical knowledge. with counterweights.

The trebuchet continued to throw, and after a dozen rounds, 120 alchemy bombs were thrown out.

These 120 alchemy bombs achieved very good results because of their high accuracy.

Durham counted the casualties and found that more than 190 orcs were dead and about [-] were injured.

Seeing that the human side was still throwing alchemy bombs, Durham couldn't just watch the orcs just get beaten and not fight back.

If the situation continues, the morale of the orcs will become very low.Maybe if there is no close combat with Harland's territory, it will be defeated by humans.

In desperation, Durham could only organize troops and take the initiative to attack the camp built by Richard, hoping to get close to the army of Harland's territory and defeat the opponent with close combat.

　Something happened tonight and I can’t code, there is only one update for the manuscript.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)