Lord Harland.

Chapter 218 Annihilation Battle II
Because the trajectory can be calculated, the accuracy of the trebuchet is relatively accurate.

The throwing rhythm of the trebuchet was very steady. In just one or two minutes, sixty alchemy bombs were thrown out.

Alchemy bombs exploded around the snake-body continuously, and the sputtered shrapnel flew around, sweeping away the nearby snake-body.

Although I didn't look at the statistics, the casualties of the snake-bodied people were already serious. There were [-] or [-] casualties, and about one-fifth of the staff was reduced.

The serious casualties made the snake-bodied people furious. They speeded up and broke through the range of the catapult.

In just 1 minute, I came to the camp 200 meters away.

Just when the snake was about to launch the final charge, Butler, who commanded the trebuchet, recalculated the trajectory, adjusted the counterweight, and marked the range between 150 meters and 200 meters.

Butler gave an order, and the trebuchet threw out the alchemy bomb again.

The alchemy bomb exploded in the Snake Army formation again, and the smoke rose slowly, and the Snake once again ushered in a serious attrition.

After being continuously hit by alchemy bombs, the snake-bodied people finally felt a sense of fear. They roared crazily, moved forward with all their strength, and finally rushed out of the range of the catapult.

The snake-body man is less than 100 meters away from the battle line, and within such a short distance, it only takes tens of seconds to rush to the front of the battle line.

In such a short time, Butler had no time to calculate the trajectory and adjust the counterweight.

There were only about 120 snake-bodied heavy infantry, and they were hit by trebuchets twice, causing more than [-] casualties, and nearly half of them were reduced.

Looking at the companions who died tragically, the scene was tragic, shocking, but also frightening.

The remaining snake-body people screamed vigorously and rushed to the front of the line.

Faced with the impact of the snake-bodied man, the veterans did not panic.They took out alchemy bombs from their waists one after another, and threw them precisely in the snake-body formation.

The veterans of Harland's territory are not only excellent archers, but also qualified grenadiers.

Although the alchemy bomb weighs two kilograms, veterans can easily throw it 60 meters away, and the accuracy is also extraordinary.

There are more than 4000 soldiers in the Harland Territory, and only a thousand recruits have been trained for just one year. Although the recruits have excellent equipment and complete training, no matter how good the recruit training is, they are still recruits. They have not experienced the pressure of the battlefield. The experience between them and the veterans Never insurmountable.

In order to reduce the impact in this regard, except for the three backbone forces of the first squadron, the second squadron, and the third squadron, Li Cha tried to mix recruits and veterans as much as possible.

But only after fighting a few hard battles and experiencing the test of blood and fire can he pass the recruiting period and become a qualified soldier.

The snake body entered the range of the grenadier, and ushered in another reduction in personnel.

This time, there were more casualties. Thirty or forty snake-bodied people had fallen in a short distance of tens of meters.

The serpent officer looked at his companions and found that less than a quarter of the soldiers had rushed out.

As soon as the snake-body man appeared in front of the formation of the two armies, the monster cavalry immediately launched a surprise attack from the flanks. In just one or two minutes, the monster cavalry rushed hundreds of meters away.

In three years, the number of monster cavalry in Harland's territory has exceeded a hundred cavalry, and there are more than forty professional officers.

After nine years of struggle, the combat effectiveness of the monster cavalry in Li Cha's hands has surpassed that of Baron Harden's Knights,

The monster cavalry attacked from the snake man's flank and fired a round of magic missiles.

Hundreds of magic missiles exploded on the back of the snake-body man. Although it also affected its own personnel, the loss of the snake-body man was even more severe, with more than [-] casualties.

The continuous blows almost completely wiped out the Snake Scorpion Squadron.

Fear finally overwhelmed everything, and the remaining dozen or so snake-bodied men wanted to escape, but they were targeted by the monster cavalry and died under random arrows.

With the consumption of [-] alchemy bombs and the cooperation of the monster cavalry, the army of Harland Territory annihilated the Snake Man with relatively small casualties.

Seeing this scene, Durham was immediately terrified.

In the orc army, there are two full-professional armies, the first is the snake body heavy infantry, and the second is the harpy scouts.

Now the snake-body heavy infantry has been completely annihilated, and the harpy is not good at attacking fortifications.

Moreover, there is no shortage of sharpshooters in Harland's territory, and the harpy does not dare to support operations at low altitudes.

Seeing the monster cavalry rushing towards the orcs' flanks again, crushing a squadron of orcs, Durham knew in his heart that the defeat of this battle was inevitable.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Durham immediately ordered to retreat and ordered the orcs to drill into the woods.

If it is possible to get into the jungle, it will be inconvenient for human soldiers to chase after them, and they will be able to preserve their vitality as much as possible, and they will be able to continue fighting humans when they gather defeated troops.

The barracks is still barren outside the fort, and the forest is less than one kilometer away from the battlefield.

But the distance of this one kilometer has become the road of death for the orcs, and the number of orcs who fell on this road exceeds two thousand.

Durham fled quickly, but Li Cha had already set his sights on him.

Li Cha drew the longbow, and the front end of the longbow rolled up a whirlwind, and the enchanted arrows resting on the bowstring were blessed with magic power, shining a little bit of luster.

Then the bowstring was loosened, and the enchanted arrow pierced through the air with a sharp whistling sound, and shot in the back of Durham's heart a moment later.

Durham wanted to escape wholeheartedly, so he exposed his back to Li Cha, and was attacked by Li Cha a little bit unprepared, with an arrow piercing his heart, the powerful kinetic energy directly knocked Durham to the ground.

Severe pain came, and Durham immediately broke the arrow shaft, and then pulled it out of his body.The orc shaman beside him hastily used healing to stop Durham's bleeding.

Of course, a heavyweight target like Durham was not only targeted by Richard alone.

Commanding the monster cavalry to hunt down orc routs, Soros, who wanted to be knighted, also drew his bow and set an arrow, aiming at Durham and shooting an arrow.

Hearing the whistling of the arrow, Durham didn't dare to neglect this time. Seeing the arrow shot towards his neck, he didn't have time to dodge and directly grabbed a scapegoat and stood in front of him.

Having escaped the fatal danger, Durham took a closer look, feeling a sense of regret in his heart.

It turned out that the person he pulled to block the arrow as a scapegoat was the orc shaman who had saved him twice.

Seeing that the forest was not far away, Durham pushed the orc shaman away and ran away.

Just when Durham ran to the edge of the forest, Li Cha raised the lightning staff again and released the four-ring magic lightning.

The lightning attack was extremely fast, and it hit Durham's back in an instant.

This time, Li Cha increased his magic power and invested [-] points of mental power at once. With the blessing of the lightning staff, the power of this spell has exceeded nine rings, which is equivalent to a weakened legendary lightning magic.

Hit by the powerful lightning technique, Durham died on the spot, and his body was also scorched black by the electricity, as if struck by lightning.

Durham is an eighth-rank orc, and his head can be exchanged for five great merits, which is equivalent to half a barony, which is quite valuable.

After this battle, plus the head of the orc professional, the meritorious deeds of the Harland family are enough to receive a new barony.

After driving the orcs into the forest, Li Cha didn't let the soldiers enter the forest to chase them.

Orcs are good at melee combat. After entering the forest, the lethality of bows and alchemy bombs will be greatly weakened, so they need to fight guerrilla warfare and melee combat with orcs.

The soldiers in Harland Territory are good at positional warfare, regular warfare, and fighting the orcs in the jungle is undoubtedly attacking the enemy's strengths with their own weaknesses, and the ratio of casualties is very uneconomical.

There are also soldiers in the territory of Harland who are good at jungle warfare, they are the demon hunters who have entered the Eagle Mountains many times to hunt monsters.But these people are all elites drawn from the main forces, and letting the demon hunters hunt down the remnants of the orcs will affect the next battle.

After defeating the orcs, the soldiers began to clean the battlefield and treat the wounded.

"Have you counted the casualties of each army?"

"Two monster cavalry were killed in battle, seven were lightly or seriously injured, eleven ordinary cavalry were killed, and 23 were lightly or seriously injured. The cavalry brigade killed 13 people and injured 30 people.

The first brigade killed 57 and injured 41, the second brigade killed 32 and injured 86, the third brigade killed 27 and injured 59, and the fourth brigade killed [-] and injured [-].The reconnaissance squadron and the guard squadron had relatively light casualties, and the combined casualties did not exceed twenty. "

Hearing the report from the combat staff officer, Li Cha nodded, and secretly calculated in his heart: "After all, this battle has lost four hundred soldiers, and no more than 120 people died in battle. It can be regarded as a beautiful victory."

"Have the results of the battle been counted?"

The combat staff officer replied: "The statistics have come out. In this battle, we wiped out more than 260 orc troops, cut off the heads of [-] orcs, and captured [-] orcs. We killed [-] orc professionals. Sixteen orc professionals were captured."

"Calculate to see if there are any orc captives needed by the Grant Mage Association, and then treat them and send them to the capital in exchange for resources. The orc captives that the capital does not want are sent to the mines except for the goats who are kept for herding. "

After cleaning the battlefield and counting the casualties, Li Cha arranged for the third brigade to divide into two squadrons to guard the fort, and one squadron to escort the wounded back to Fort William.

Then assembled eighteen infantry squadrons, five cavalry squadrons, and more than [-] soldiers marched eastward, along the valley in the northern area of ​​Gravessen, and together with the noble coalition led by Viscount Roman, surrounded and wiped out two Brigade of orcs.

The noble coalition led by Viscount Roman, numbered about [-].

Although the equipment and combat effectiveness of this noble coalition army is not as good as that of Harland's territorial army, the combat effectiveness is quite impressive.

Most of the nobles in northern Xinjiang have rich experience in war and are very willing to invest in military power.

The 3000-strong noble coalition has more than [-] pieces of enchanted armor. Although its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the main army, it is still stronger than the second-line army.

What's more, Viscount Luomen has a good reputation in Gerda Province, and he can be called brave and good at fighting.

(End of this chapter)