Lord Harland.

Chapter 252 The Battle of the Swamp Basin
The pressure from above is increasing, and the situation has developed to this point. Even if Platt doesn't want to be bloodied at the barracks, he must bite the bullet and attack the northern defense line of Harland's territory.

The task of the Orc Front Army for the Ninth Legion was not to restrain the defenders of Harland's territory, but to ask them to cooperate with the army of the East Road to destroy the Northern Legion.

This time, the Orc Front's key offensive target was the Gerda province.From three directions, three and a half legions were mobilized, and more than [-] troops fought against Gerda Province.

Counting the Flying Swallow Legion, the army in Geda province is only [-], which is only half of the orc strength.The strategic situation is also not very good, because the orcs have the advantage of reconnaissance, and the human legion has become deaf and blind. They don't know the distribution of the enemy's forces, so they can only defend passively.

In the current situation, because the Grizzly Legion underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, they were surrounded by the main force of the orcs to fight for reinforcements. Although Lahe Province has the largest number of troops, the situation is also the worst.

The situation in Gerda Province is slightly better, but it also faces a great passiveness, being surrounded by [-] orcs.

The situation in the three directions of Gerda province is now more critical.The provincial mansion no longer has strong soldiers, just like an egg. Once the hard shell is broken, it looks like a beautiful woman who has taken off her clothes, allowing the orcs to ravage her.

Although the Sodamia Legion has gone north for reinforcements, but the combat experience of the Inner Army Corps is not as good as that of the Feiyan, Feiying and other second-line legions, and can only undertake marginal defense tasks.

If you want to really change the situation of the battle, you must mobilize the elite soldiers under the command of the nobles, or dispatch the royal guards.

However, the development of the situation has not reached this point, and the full mobilization of the Grant Kingdom is not required.

On the contrary, Gascoigne province was not the focus of the orc invasion this time, and the defensive pressure was the weakest, and it also won several moderate victories.Already cooperated with Duke Edward to expel the main force of orcs from the border.

The situation was like this, and the defensive pressure on Harland's territory was also increasing. The troops were stationed in a stalemate for several months, and the orcs investigated and cleared the fortifications of the Fortress.

The location of the military depot is very critical, and it is the main point that the orcs must attack.

If you bypass the military station fort, the food road will be cut off by the defenders.However, Platt felt that there was no chance of winning by storming a strong fortress like the Fortress.

After careful consideration, Platt decided to find a way to mobilize the soldiers of Harland's territory from the strong castle.He still decided to adopt the classic old tactic of surrounding the spot for reinforcements.

There are of course profound reasons for the enduring popularity of classic tactics.

Platt analyzed the situation of the defense line in the north of Harland's territory, and found that the Castle of Flowers was located between the two castles of Gravessen and Fort Garrison.

Rescue from the northern and southern armies can be obtained at any time. If there are few soldiers mobilized, it will be impossible to break through Fanhua Castle.

If there are more soldiers mobilized, the defenders in Graveson's direction will reinforce them.When the main force is mobilized to Blossom Castle, the orcs will be attacked by the main force of Harland's territory, and they will be in a situation where they are attacked from both sides.

The defensive front of Harland's territory is relatively long, more than 100 kilometers away from the swamp basin to Graveson Castle.

The main strongholds must be stationed separately, on the contrary, the orc legion's strength is more concentrated.

The terrain of the Flowery Castle is not suitable for encirclement and reinforcements. Platt decided to attack the swamp basin first. Through the harpy investigation, Platt has discovered that there is a monster cavalry brigade in the swamp basin.

Platt has a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade of the Human Kingdom. He decided to send three main brigades to attack the swamp basin. Move west, blocking the only way for Li Cha's rescue.

Relying on the reconnaissance of the magic hot air balloon, the mobilization of the orc army was also clearly reconnaissance by Li Cha.

Seeing Platt's division of troops, Li Cha suppressed the smile in his heart. With the development of the situation, the fighter finally appeared.

Pratt did all the calculations, but he didn't count the construction of two mage towers in the swamp basin.

These two mage towers were built underground for special reasons.

One is a secret stronghold run by the Venus family for 1000 years. Of course, the mage tower cannot be built so tall, it is completely an underground mage tower.

One is the Tower of Death, a mage tower built by a necromancer. It is also a mage tower built underground. Although Richard has added seven floors to the ground, it is still very different from a normal mage tower. It looks like a noble castle. generally.

The secret of the construction of the mage tower, coupled with the fact that there are very few mage tower buildings in the Kingdom of Grant, and the harpy has never seen the mage tower.There were omissions in the intelligence investigation, and the orcs seriously underestimated the power of the swamp basin.

Sure enough, after the three brigades of orcs appeared in the swamp basin, they found two castles in the basin. The orc army had just surrounded the Tower of Lightning.

Soros personally commanded the monster cavalry, preparing to attack the rear of the orc army while the orcs were attacking the city.

Seeing this, the orc commander did not choose to attack the Tower of Lightning. Instead, he chose to divide his troops and mobilize a brigade to attack the Tower of Flame from behind, hoping to mobilize the monster cavalry to fight at the location preset by the orcs.

Although the monster cavalry brigade is very powerful, there are only 600 people, and the number of monster cavalry is only [-].

The combined strength of the three orc brigades exceeds six thousand.Ten to one troops, fighting on the battlefield preset by the orcs, the magic beast cavalry brigade has no chance of winning at all.

Teams of orcs appeared around the tower of flames. The elite orcs wore iron armor and kept making various hissing sounds. Then, heavy footsteps stepped on the ground and approached the city wall with murderous aura.

The dense spears are like a towering forest, and the iron armor on his body makes a rattling sound.

Teams of orcs appeared continuously from all around, quickly filling up the surrounding area of ​​the castle, and at first glance, there were all black orcs, and everyone's scalp felt numb.

Auxiliary soldiers such as sheep-headed men and stag-headed men who cooperated with the orcs also began to cut down trees and fill them with earth bags, as if they would launch a siege operation at any time.

The castle where the two mage towers are located is relatively small, with a total area of ​​10,000+ square meters, an area of ​​about [-] acres, and the circumference of the castle is about [-] kilometers.

The height of the city wall is also relatively low. Although it is covered with bricks, it is only about six meters high.

It seems that the defense ability is much weaker than that of ordinary baron castles.

Baron castles in northern Xinjiang are rarely less than 12 meters in height, and the area usually exceeds one square kilometer. Otherwise, it would be impossible to carry out the order to fortify the walls and clear the fields.

The orcs were about to attack the Tower of Flame, but the beast cavalry remained unmoved, and had no plan to mobilize rescue at all.

Seeing this situation, the orc commander had no choice but to issue a siege order.

The commander-in-chief stationed at the Flame Tower is Sophia. She is accompanied by four or five magicians and a dozen or so mage apprentices. In addition, the second guard squadron is responsible for guarding the Flame Tower to protect Sophia's safety.In the castle, there are [-] auxiliary soldiers who are responsible for manipulating the trebuchet.

The trebuchet players in Harland's territory have shooting watches in their hands.Among the towers of flames, there are many people who can calculate trigonometric formulas and ballistic parabolas.

The ten trebuchets were very accurate, and the [-]-jin stone bullets hit the orc formation almost every time.

During the short distance of 300 meters, dozens of stone bombs were hit. As soon as they approached the city wall, the orc casualties were close to [-]. Even the three snake-bodied men were killed by stone bombs.

After finally crossing this road of death, the auxiliary soldiers immediately withdrew the city wall.

Without any resistance, the orc soldiers had just climbed up the city wall. They shouted excitedly, opened the city gate and prepared to advance towards the center of the castle, and it was time for them to plunder.

Seeing the orcs enter the magic range, a dazzling magical aura burst out from the energy chamber of the Flame Tower, and ten large-scale fire attribute magic flame storms were released continuously in an instant.

Flame Storm is a six-ring group magic with very powerful lethality, especially for clearing miscellaneous soldiers.

Each of the ten six-ring magic hit the place where the orcs gathered. In an instant, more than three hundred orcs died, and more than a thousand orcs were burned by the flames.

This sudden blow stunned the orc brigade for an instant.

Before the orcs woke up from their fear, Sophia had already led the guard squadron to launch a counterattack against the orcs.

The magicians released control spells such as greasy spell and spider web spell one after another, and the soldiers of the guard squadron immediately drew their bows and arrows and shot the orcs who were still ignorant.

In just a quarter of an hour, the guard squadron and the mage group killed more than [-] orcs.

After several blows, nearly [-] soldiers were killed in the orc brigade, and almost everyone left was wounded. Such heavy casualties immediately defeated the orc's will to resist.

At this time, the fear of death overwhelmed everything, and the orcs hurriedly withdrew from the castle, only to be hit by the catapults again.

A large group of orcs entered the magic trap, barely causing much damage to the enemy, their own deaths were close to half, and many of the remaining people still had severe burns. This group was almost wiped out.

I saw Sophia leading the guard squadron and fighting out from the Fire Castle with the auxiliary soldiers, chasing and killing the orcs.Wendy of the Tower of Lightning acted decisively and released a series of lightning spells on the besieging orcs.

The Tower of Lightning uses the legendary magic core as energy. Although the total amount of energy is not as high as that of the Tower of Flame, there is a legendary level of magic equipment in the tower, the Lightning Staff.

Relying on the ability of the lightning staff, releasing lightning spells can not only reduce the consumption of mana, but also increase the power by [-]%.

With the blessing of the lightning staff, the lethality of the Tower of Lightning is even higher than that of the Tower of Flame.

The chain lightning magic has a farther strike range than the fire storm.Wendy estimated the distance, and saw that the orc camp was within the magic strike range of the mage tower.

Immediately holding the lightning staff, he released ten consecutive lightning bolts to the orc army.

Huge thunder exploded in the orc army formation, and bolts of lightning hit the orc soldiers continuously, causing a large number of orc soldiers to be killed or injured in an instant.

The ten chains of lightning had just been released, and before the orc could breathe a sigh of relief, many stone bullets were thrown from above the camp.

This sudden scene shattered the orc's three views.

In the inherent impression of the orcs, the range of the counterweight trebuchet is only 300 to 500 meters away.They never expected that the trebuchet in Harland's territory could throw stones [-] meters away.

It is very simple to say, it is nothing more than reducing the weight of the stone bullets, increasing the weight of the counterweight, and the height advantage on the city wall. After complex calculations, the ten kilograms of stone bullets can be launched 600 meters away.

Although the ten kilogram stone bullets are weak, ordinary orcs will die if they are hit, and the fortifications in the camp will also be smashed.

Soros led the Demonic Beast Cavalry Brigade, staring at the orcs under his nose, his eyes shining, his five fingers tightly holding the bow and arrow, and a strong sense of excitement suddenly appeared in his body.

"Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, attack with me, let us use the sword in our hands to kill the orcs and gain merit."

The [-] soldiers of the Beast Cavalry Brigade drew their bowstrings one after another, and approached the orc camp to shoot arrows at the orcs.

Being attacked by the Tower of Lightning, the orcs had already lost hundreds of soldiers, and the original rhythm had been disrupted.

No one knew how many spells could be released by the magic tower opposite. The orcs in the camp were in a panic, packing their bags and planning to retreat.

It was too late to organize an effective defense, and the monster cavalry brigade rushed to the vicinity of the orc camp and started shooting arrows on the horse.

Generally speaking, cavalry bows are softer than infantry bows, and their shooting range is not as good as infantry bows. Cavalry and soldiers shooting at each other are asking for trouble.

But the Demonic Beast Cavalry Brigade is different. The officers and key veterans are all professionals, and the ordinary soldiers are also high-level warrior students. Their strength far exceeds that of ordinary soldiers, and the riding bows they use are at least three-stone bows.The enchanted bow in Soros's hand was more than ten stones strong, and without ten times the strength of ordinary people, he couldn't draw the bowstring.

For soldiers who have been in the army for many years, the most proficient skill is often archery.

When the two armies are at war, the bow and crossbow are the first.

After soldiers join the army, the most important skill is to practice archery all year round.Ordinary serfs who have never been exposed to bows and arrows need three years to raise their archery level to the second level, and eight to ten years to upgrade to the third level.

To advance to the fourth level of archery requires not only hard training, but also a very talented archery and a special intuition.

The soldiers of the Demon Beast Cavalry Brigade have been in the army for at least three years, many of them are five-year soldiers, eight-year soldiers, and some even ten-year soldiers. Some officers have been in the army for more than ten years.

There are eight people who have practiced archery to the fourth level, and more than a hundred people who have surpassed the third level.

This team of sharp archers is concentrated in one unit, and the lethality is evident.

The monster cavalry brigade did not go straight to the orc camp, but only circled around the orc camp, shooting five or six rounds of feathered arrows, killing more than five hundred orcs in a surprise attack.

It is equivalent to another series of lightning strikes by the orc army.

The orcs managed to straighten out the queue, and the orcs who were good at archery also organized to shoot at the monster cavalry. Some powerful orcs used slings to throw stones at the monster cavalry.

Warcraft cavalry is a very expensive unit, and of course Soros will not consume it by shooting at the orcs.He turned his horse's head and led the monster cavalry out of the range of the bow and arrow, waiting for the next opportunity to attack.

Seeing that the orcs had no plans to withdraw, Soros sent out [-] auxiliary soldiers to assist the soldiers of Fire Castle in chasing down the orcs' rout.

(End of this chapter)