king of the castle

Chapter 296 Battle!

Repeated failures have made the orcs extremely angry. 【】Brutal by nature, they only want to enter the castle and burn, kill and loot wantonly to avenge their dead clansmen.Actuated by this emotion, the orcs had already lost their minds, completely disregarding their own life and death, and only thinking about killing the enemy.

Humans call this state of orcs "madness", which is what every army commander fears most.A group of crazy orcs can increase their combat power by at least [-]%. Such a huge advantage on the battlefield is simply impossible to overcome. Naturally, the orcs have the upper hand in battles with humans.

At this time, the orcs under the city wall had already entered a state of berserk.Their original black eyes turned crimson, and their usually inconspicuous fangs also protruded from their lips, making the orcs who had already had a ferocious appearance even more terrifying.

The orcs howled and erected the ladder against the wall. A few orcs below pressed the ladder with force, and the other orcs climbed towards the city wall with their weapons in their mouths.

The siege equipment built by the orcs is very simple. It is said that the ladder is actually just a thick and long piece of wood.Cut out some gaps on both sides of the logs that can be used for strength, and sometimes use the original branches of the wood to replace the gaps. In short, these ladders are all extremely simple things.

It is precisely because of this that the orcs can make so many ladders in one day.If they were to seriously build that kind of formal ladder, they would definitely not be able to build so many within ten days and half a month.

Although the simple ladder speeds up the construction speed, it also slows down the climbing speed of the orcs.At this time, the beast's carefree character finally revealed its fatal flaw, which made them pay a heavy price.

Because the climbing speed was too slow, many orcs couldn't climb to the city wall at all. They were often killed by arrows shot from the top of the city just after climbing halfway, and fell down screaming.Orcs on ladders move slowly and are the best targets to shoot.Of course, the crossbowmen who already had basic intelligence would not miss such a good opportunity. They all took the orcs climbing the ladder as their targets, and shot down round after round of arrows, taking the lives of many orcs.

However, the orcs who have entered a state of berserk will not give up the attack because of some casualties.They completely ignored the rain of arrows that shot down, and just climbed up silently with their weapons in their mouths.Those orcs who hadn't had time to climb the ladder surrounded them and yelled, cheering for their own race.

The orcs were not idiots with no brains at all, nor would they all huddle together to launch an attack, but separated a certain distance from each other, which could disperse the human defense forces and create conditions for them to attack the city.Nearly a hundred ladders is not a small number. In addition, the orcs are relatively scattered, and the city wall attacked by them is very long. Roger had to disperse the soldiers to defend a larger area.

Naturally, the scattered forces inevitably weakened the defensive force on the city wall. The crossbow technique eliminated all the orcs who climbed the ladder, and some orcs quickly climbed to the top of the wall.

However, before these orcs climbed up the city wall, a number of shining weapons greeted them, and the soldiers who had been waiting on the city wall for a long time also joined the battle.

Roger's soldiers stood on the safe city wall and had an absolute advantage over the orcs climbing the ladder.They were scattered around each ladder, and as soon as the heads of the orcs popped out of the city walls, they would attack them without hesitation.

In order to climb the ladder, those orcs held their weapons in their mouths, and their hands and feet were all tightly grasping the ladder. How could they resist the attack of human soldiers?Many orcs watched the enemy's weapons attacking them, and then there was a sharp pain, and then they yelled and fell from the top of the high ladder.

Even with the strong physique of an orc, a fall from such a height would be fatal.Most of the injured orcs fell to their death directly, and the few who survived for a while would not live for long in this golden wasteland where there was little medical care and medicine. If they were seriously injured, they could only die.There were even some particularly unlucky guys who were waiting to climb up by the ladder, but were smashed by the clansmen who fell from the city wall, and died at the hands of their own people before they really entered the battle.

Roger watched the progress of the battle with a serious expression, commanding the soldiers to make corresponding adjustments at any time according to the movements of the orcs.Although the soldiers can respond to the battle situation on their own after possessing elementary intelligence, their reactions are half a beat slower than real people's after all. Roger thinks it's better to command in person when he has time to take care of it.

As the battle continued, Roger was also secretly shocked by the orcs' fear of death and their extraordinary fighting spirit.After these orcs entered the mad state, they were not much different from undead creatures who didn't know what fear was, but their strength was much stronger than ordinary undead creatures.If Roger hadn't upgraded the castle to the fourth level and trained more powerful troops, it is very likely that they would not be able to withstand such a fierce attack and let these orcs occupy the castle.

What Roger didn't know was that at the same time, the orc's Great Chief Boulder was also furious.It thought that as long as it had a ladder, its men could easily break through the castle.Who knows that the battle has been fought until now, and even a single orc has failed to climb the city wall, let alone break through the castle!

The boulder smashed everything in the tent to pieces, roaring loudly with red eyes: "Two thousand orcs! Two thousand blackwater orc warriors can't take down a small human castle! If word of this gets out, , how will our Blackwater tribe gain a foothold in the orc kingdom in the future!"

For Jushi, the Blackwater Tribe is the basis for him to ascend to the position of Beastmaster. If the Blackwater Tribe is crushed by other orcs, then Jushi will never have a bright future.Angry and unwilling, Jushi decided to put all his eggs in one basket. It strode out of the tent, grabbed a beast and roared: "Send people up again, I will flood that castle with the beast army!"

"Obey!" The orc responded and walked away.This guy quickly conveyed the chief's order, which immediately caused a burst of cheers among the orcs.

The orcs are a warlike race, and they will feel uncomfortable if they don't fight.Seeing the clansman attacking the human castle, the orcs who stayed behind did not know how envious they were. If it weren't for the prestige of the boulder here, most of the orcs would have rushed up.

Now that the great chief has spoken, the orcs, who have long been unable to hold back, will naturally not let go of such a good opportunity.When the charging drum sounded, more than 2000 orcs rushed up immediately.If it weren't for a few chiefs who tried their best to stop them, all the orcs would rush forward, even those little orcs who were not yet adults.

Orcs are strong, male and female, and equally warlike.In fact, even female orcs are much stronger than ordinary humans, and they are definitely qualified soldiers on the battlefield.Therefore, the Blackwater Tribe with more than 1 people has at least 9000 orcs who can go to the battlefield. If you count those half-sized people, there is no problem in gathering an army of [-] people.

This is also the reason why Jushi is so confident and dared to attack the castle after losing so many men.For it, as long as it captures the castle, it is worth losing thousands of men.Here is so close to the human world, enough food can be easily obtained, as long as those women let go of their stomachs to give birth, the lost population can be made up in a few years.But if the castle cannot be breached, then the food for the entire tribe for the winter will be lost.More orcs would starve to death by then, and it would be more valuable to let them die on the battlefield than that.

Jushi almost launched an attack with the attitude of breaking a jar, which put a lot of pressure on Roger.Seeing thousands of orcs rushing up, Roger's expression also became serious.These orcs launched an attack regardless of casualties. Naturally, such an enemy cannot be underestimated.

"Continue to train soldiers, I don't think there will be enough manpower!" Roger secretly ordered the castle master, and then said to Bonnie apologetically: "Can you go to the wall near the city gate to supervise the battle? I think the orcs There will be big moves, and it may not be safe if there is no strong person in charge there."

Bonnie wanted to go into battle a long time ago, but Roger didn't speak up, so the female knight has always stayed by his side as a subordinate.Now that Roger finally wanted Bonnie to join the battle, she was of course very happy, and couldn't help but glance at Roger and said, "You finally think of me?"

"Hehe, the situation was pretty stable before. Of course I don't want you to take risks." Roger smiled slightly at Bonnie: "But the situation is different now. I don't feel relieved without you at the city gate."

The phrase "I don't feel at ease without you" made Bonnie happy secretly, but she didn't show much joy, but immediately walked towards the city gate.

The weakest link in the defense of any castle is the gate, which is also the place most easily breached by the enemy.Although the orcs have not taken any action against the city gate for the time being, no one can guarantee that they will never attack the city gate.The female knight had already made up her mind, since Roger entrusted herself with such an important task, she would guard the city gate even if she died.

At the same time, the added orcs had already climbed up the ladder screaming, and they climbed up the city wall without any fear of death.

The battle became fierce again, and both sides were like bowstrings being stretched to the limit. As long as one side bears a little more pressure, it may collapse first.There was fierce fighting here and there along a long stretch of the wall, with orcs trying to climb it and human warriors desperately trying to stop it from happening.

However, a military strategist on Earth once said that any strong defense line will be conquered, and the same thing happened to Roger.When several orcs climbed to the top of the ladder, they threw handaxes at the soldiers above, knocking several soldiers to the ground.These orcs took the opportunity to climb up the city wall, raised their hands and howled excitedly.