Durin's Diary

Chapter 517 Eastern Front
At 7:11 in the morning, the damn kittens from the Eastern Elf Territory actually gave us alien meat as food!
At 7:17 in the morning, the roasted alien meat made by Lord Durin's Nicholas the kitten was surprisingly delicious.

At 7:25 in the morning, Warmaster Tygus ate three servings by himself.

At 7:32 in the morning, Lord Zhulong from Changtang praised the barbecue.

At 7:41 in the morning, Mr. Du Lin's most loyal chefs, Nicholas, prepared the most delicious breakfast for everyone.

Du Lin squatted on the battlement of the city wall and watched the young soldiers who came and beat their chests and shook their heads at the empty barbecue plates.

"I never thought that the meat of these alien species could be eaten." Yara stood beside Dulin, her hands behind her back, looking at the scene in front of her and could only sigh.

"There are so many things we don't know. Anyway, why are you here?"

"When you serve in the Great Woodland, I always have to accompany you, otherwise people will say I'm ignorant. Anta said that people's words are scary, that's the truth." Yara said this, looking at the green-skinned orc camp outside the fortress: "The green-skinned orcs have changed from their past, which is very strange."

"Indeed, they're using a large number of warships to block the route from the Great Wood to Evercast Fortress, while simultaneously deploying troops along the coastline close to them. It's quite cunning, and it's unlikely that the greenskins would come up with such a plan." Durin sighed as he stood up. "Let's go, today's military intelligence has arrived. Let's go see if there's any good news from the sea at Evercast Fortress."

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The good news at sea is that today the fleets of Evercast Fortress completed an armed reconnaissance and confirmed that the green-skinned orc supply fleet is still continuously sending people and supplies to this salient.

They even found stone-cut cannons on a supply ship that fired stone bullets.

Although it is very old, it is at least a cannon.

This caused some headaches for everyone involved, and what was even more troublesome was that no one knew how all this happened - before this, the green-skinned orcs even had trouble building a catapult.

But the good news is that the cannon can't fire far - the fleet brought it back and tested it on the old city wall of Evercast Fort. It can only fire 500 meters on flat ground, no further.

As for the killing power, the stones of the old city wall could not be cracked.

"It is possible that the mortar on the Chang Tang ship was copied by them." After hearing about the appearance of the cannon, the old man analyzed this.

"Ah, your cannons can clearly fire farther than ours." An acolyte from the Eternal Fortress asked curiously.

"Because our cannons are reinforced with inscriptions, it would be strange if they could fire if they just imitated the appearance. How do you fire stone bullets?" The old man looked at the fleet commander of the Eternal Fortress.

The latter also looked embarrassed: "We fired stone bullets with our own powder bags, and the barrels would explode, but we couldn't find any powder bags on that ship, so we can't be sure."

Could it be that the green-skinned orcs are still using my gun to fire cannons?

Daju said curiously.

It shouldn’t be possible, otherwise the green orcs would have already flown the ship into the sky.

This is true.

However, these things are not within the scope of Du Lin's discussion - after all, this is no longer engineering.

Without the real object, Du Lin didn't know how to trigger this thing.

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The next few days were rather uneventful for Durin. The Great Woodland, now restocked, was gathering strength and stockpiling ammunition, while the Greenskin Orcs were eager to break through. The two sides engaged in daily battles from dawn to dusk. The result was heavy losses for the Greenskin Orcs, and the Great Woodland was also in dire straits. Their logistics were on the verge of collapse every day. Ammunition? They simply couldn't stockpile it.

The grassland elves have already used trains to transport ammunition, but considering the cost of supplies, it is not a good solution.

The Farol people did have ammunition, but it was of a different caliber.

Mr. Yan cursed at this: "I said, without a unified country, each country has its own standards, how can we fight a war?"

This view was unanimously affirmed by the people of Chang Tang, but it could not withstand the practical problems on the Western Continent.

Du Lin was helpless - it was not that he didn't want to unify the caliber of everyone's new guns, but he couldn't resist the fact that everyone had their own national conditions.

After hearing what Du Lin said, everyone in Changtang was helpless.

Fortunately, they had muskets. The green-skinned orcs fought for five days and lost 130,000 corpses on the front line, but still failed to break through the defense line of the Great Forest.

As for the sky, it was even worse. With Zhulong in charge, the griffin knights stood up again and even dared to throw heavy wooden-handled grenades at the green-skinned orcs' charging formation.

But this was just a small fight. The battle mage even dared to drop the mother of bombs from the air, causing an air explosion at a height of fifty meters.

After two explosions, the green-skinned orcs no longer dared to charge in groups.

They didn't know that the grassland elves only had time to bring two missiles today, both of which were thrown to protect the safety of the defense line.

But each shot can cause about 10,000 casualties among the green-skinned orcs.

Because of this, the green-skinned orcs finally did not dare to launch an attack in dense formations.

But without numbers, it became even more difficult for the green-skinned orcs to shake the defense line of the Great Forest - with the addition of major powerful war races, tall-hoofed soldiers with huge bodies appeared in the defense line. These should be yaks called Yak species, a strong race of nearly two and a half meters tall, with arms thicker than Durin people, and fists bigger than Durin's head.

It is said that it can easily defeat two green-skinned orcs in hand-to-hand combat, and even the Tygus tiger dare not provoke it.

They were holding heavy shotguns and using No. 4 shotgun shells, which was almost like shooting directly with a cannon.

With them here, the green-skinned orcs' charge just now was ridiculous - when the Yak race launched a counterattack, they watched these minotaurs push forward like a wall, and then the green-skinned orcs collapsed.

"Did they fight like this before?" Du Lin specifically asked the commander on the front line.

The latter nodded and said, "This is how the green-skinned orcs fought in the past. There were no guns or machine guns, so we had to fight them desperately. But it's different now." The commander was a Tigerman named Tygus, an old commander. His answer made Durin feel somewhat relieved.

It seems that the green-skinned orcs really don't have enough brains. Being able to imitate the stone cannon is already very difficult for them.

Just as he was thinking this, Du Lin heard a whistle coming from the front line.

"I'm really convinced. The orcs are coming again! Are they really impossible to kill?" The old commander walked towards the front line cursing.

Of course, Du Lin understood his pain - the fighting had been going on all day, with bullets on the front line being in short supply, and it was not even a joke that each person had only five bullets.

(End of this chapter)