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"Now we just need to wait for the right time. Once the time comes, the orcs will naturally withdraw, and we will take back our lost land without bloodshed."

"And..." Orson said this and turned his eyes to look in the direction of the empire's border on the map.

“New land.”

Chapter 7.1: The Troubles of Happiness (K)

As night fell, the orcs of the Bloodfire Clan began to evacuate in batches. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the Bloodfire Clan's Chieftain Swain did not let his clan evacuate first, but arranged them in the middle.

In fact, the design of this location is very particular.

The troops of your clan are in the middle of the retreating team. On the one hand, it can allow the troops who evacuated earlier to find out the situation of the road ahead for you and avoid ambushes. On the other hand,

It can also allow the troops that evacuate later to block the enemy's pursuit for them.

In short, the Bloodfire Clan took all the benefits.

Although other clans knew the benefits of this arrangement, they dared not speak out.

Even before, when supplies were distributed, the Blood and Fire Clan received the most.

The reason is simple, that is because the Bloodfire Clan is the strongest in the legion.

On the other side, Virgil gathered a group of mercenaries behind the orcs, numbering about five thousand.

Because they were unfamiliar with the terrain, the orcs ignored Virgil's army during their search.

After Virgil got the troops, he contacted Orson immediately. After discussing with Orson, he decided to act according to circumstances.

The bad weather these days gave Virgil an opportunity.

He then contacted Orson via a magic carrier pigeon and eventually worked out an ambush plan.

Although a large area of ​​the forest here was burned by the orcs, there were still several independent forests behind the orc camp that were spared from the fire.

The reason was that the orcs who set the fire were negligent, and there had never been any human mercenaries ambushing the orcs here, so the orcs relaxed their vigilance here and believed that humans would not appear from these forests.

Therefore, this forest usually provides cover for Virgil's mercenary corps.

When Sven led his troops to withdraw, he happened to pass through this forest.

He looked at the terrain nearby and asked the military officer beside him.

"Wasn't the forest burned when we came?"

"Uh... yes." The military attaché nodded. "Because we had already advanced to a place further ahead of here, and there were no traces of human troops nearby, so we did not burn this mountain forest, otherwise there might be a mudslide here as well."

"Okay." Sven nodded and suddenly burst into laughter.

"General, why are you laughing?"

"Hahaha, look at the terrain here." Sven said, pointing to the mountains and forests on both sides.

"This place is high at both ends and low in the middle. We are passing through the valley. If an army happens to ambush here at this time, what will we do?"

Then he laughed again.

Upon hearing this, the military officer looked towards the woods on both sides in surprise.

If the enemy really ambushed an army here, the losses on our side would be quite large.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the march, our side had already wiped out the enemy.

Just as the military officer was thinking this, there was a sudden sound of gongs and drums from the woods on both sides, followed by countless bows and crossbows shooting out from both sides.

The orc army in the middle suddenly became panicked.

No one expected that in the hinterland where they thought they were safe, there was an enemy ambush.

Moreover, Swain never expected that the enemy would not attack the retreating troops in front, but choose to besiege his own army.

He couldn't understand it, but Virgil was fighting Sven's army.

After several rounds of volleys, the orc army began to flee in all directions, and no matter how Sven scolded them, he could not stop the fleeing army.

Their spirits were as tense as a fully drawn bowstring. When they finally relaxed a little, they were suddenly ambushed by the enemy. Before the bowstring could recover, they pulled it again, and the result was that it broke.

Even the warriors of the Sven Kin tribe behaved like this. Obviously, the performance of other tribes was even more outrageous.

What was originally a normal path was now crowded with people. Those at the back kept pushing forward in order to escape, while those at the front were also trying desperately to escape.

Swain killed several of his men in succession, and a group of surrounding troops barely regained their organization and began to obey Swain's orders.

Sven glanced at the soldiers around him, then at the scale of arrows being fired from the woods, and finally gritted his teeth and ordered his soldiers to evacuate with him.

After this round of ambush, more than 5,000 of Swain's men were ambushed, leaving behind more than 1,000 bodies. More importantly, after the rout, the number of soldiers Swain could gather was no more than 1,000.

On the other side, Virgil was leading the soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

Virgil had this idea in mind when he first set up the ambush: to cut off the enemy's head and tail and attack the middle. Compared with attacking the enemy's vanguard or rear guard, attacking the enemy's middle troops would often have a greater effect.

By doing this, Virgil actually achieved the effect he wanted.

Although the number of enemies killed was not large, the morale of the army was weakened after the enemy was defeated. It took a lot of energy to gather and boost morale again.

This is what Orson proposed: winning the heart is the best approach.

Five days later, the orcs' army gathered together again. Compared with the high-spirited appearance when they marched, the returning orcs looked somewhat dusty and like a defeated army.

After the Bloodfire Clan was attacked, all the legions except Baru's main legion were also attacked to varying degrees, suffering casualties ranging from two thousand to five thousand. This casualty ratio can be said to be quite tragic.

After gathering together, everyone held a meeting in the central military tent.

"We really didn't expect this heavy rain..." Baru said, lowering his head. "As the battlefield commander, I didn't understand the climate here in advance. I really didn't do my job well. I should bear the blame for the failure of the operation."

"Hmph." On the other side, Sven of the Bloodfire Clan did not give Baru any face at all. He had already communicated with other chiefs that everyone's troops had suffered more or less losses. Only Baru's troops had no casualties at all, except for the loss of a dozen people due to disease caused by heavy rain.

"How can you blame Chief Baru? Your troops carried out the 'evacuation' mission perfectly without any losses."

"..." Baru looked at Sven with a calm expression, and then he said: "I'm sorry about your losses. I will add more soldiers to your legion."

"Hey, Chief Baru, are you feeling sorry for us?" Tucker, another chief of the Gray Bone Clan, said unhappily.

In this battle, apart from Sven, Tucker of the Greybone Clan suffered the greatest losses.

"Then I don't know how to satisfy you." Baru said this, frowning.

"Shouldn't the question be asked to you, Baru?" Tucker slapped the table, stood up, and pointed directly at Baru himself.

"You said you had information about a human spy, so we believed you. Think about it, our ancestors never attacked humans at this time. But you convened an orc meeting in advance and asked us to attack at this time. As a result, we lost tens of thousands of our compatriots here in vain!"

Yes, the reason why this war broke out was because Baru said at the meeting of the united orc tribes that he had an insider on the human side, and the mastermind behind the insider seemed to be of quite high status. That's why a group of orc chiefs pinned their hopes for the future of the tribe on this attack.

Baru is now completely speechless.

He also didn't know that the climate here was so strange at this season, with the rain so heavy that it could directly wash away the mountains and forests.

Moreover, before this, according to the intelligence from the human insiders, the orcs' attacks had been very smooth, and everyone praised Baru's own abilities.

As a result, now, just because of one failure, these chiefs are dissatisfied with me and want to pull me down from the position of chief.

Of course Baru knew what these people were thinking. They just wanted to gain the most benefits for their tribe in this war and to gain enough capital for the next attack twenty years later. However, for the sake of the overall situation, he did not say it out loud.

"Well, tell me, under the circumstances at that time, besides retreating, what other options did we have?"

Baru said this, looking at Tucker with burning eyes.

"Or do you think that our previous strategy of burning the mountains and destroying the forests, and taking advantage of the internal discord among the human race to make a breakthrough was wrong?"

"Things like climate are determined by God. We have no control over them. Who could have predicted this result?"

Tucker was speechless now, he could only sit down angrily.

"Then, Chief Baru, tell me, what should we do now? Our food reserves are only enough for three or four days. It seems that we can only retreat, right?" Sven asked from the side.

"But if we just retreat like this, the results we have now will not be enough to last us for long. And if we want to fight back, the human race should be ready by then. It won't be as easy as before."

"That's right." At this time, on the other side, Chief Oni of the Helmet Clan raised his hand.

"I want to know who is the commander of the opposing team in this battle? He has such courage and determination, and relies on the weather to make such a thorough plan. He must be a very terrifying opponent."

"Isn't this the Lucius who killed my father eighteen years ago?" Swain asked puzzledly.

"No, Lucius has been away from the front line for a long time because of the assassination." Tucker shook his head.

"It's Orson." Baru said.

"Orson?" Oni looked at Baru with a puzzled look. "Who is this Orson? When we were preparing, we had never heard of such a general in human history."

"He is Lucius' son." As Baru finished speaking, everyone present suddenly realized.

In the war more than ten years ago, some of these people were still young men and had not been to the battlefield, but among the chiefs who had been to the battlefield, the name of Lucius was well known to everyone.

Although the orcs plundered a lot of spoils and returned to the desert in that war, the price they paid was also huge.

And the person who made them pay a huge price was Lucius.

Before this attack, the orcs were waiting for news from the inside. After learning that Lucius had been assassinated and could not go to the battlefield, the morale of the orcs was boosted.

Unexpectedly, Lucius couldn't get up, and his son gave him a heavy blow.

At this moment, a scout suddenly ran in from outside the military tent.

"Chief, something terrible has happened!"

"What's going on?" Baru had received nothing but bad news these days. After hearing the scout's report, he already had a bad feeling in his heart.

"The spies ahead reported that the towns we occupied on our way back have now been hoisted with human flags for some reason!"

Upon hearing the news, all the orcs present were surprised, and then they all looked at Baru.

"Chief Baru, what's going on?"

Baru looked at everyone's eyes on him and suddenly became panicked.

Think about it carefully, why can humans suddenly have an extra troop descending from the sky from behind to harass themselves?

Are they mercenaries? Impossible. The number of mercenaries fighting the orcs in recent days has been counted.

There are only more than 5,000 people in total, but he has arranged 10,000 orcs in the rear to defend these cities. Even if he really can't win, it is more than enough to defend the city.

Thinking about it this way, there is only one possibility.

That is, the human troops that were originally independent of Orson's command according to the intelligence abandoned their own bases and took the initiative to encircle him.

But according to the intelligence given to me by the insider, the human allies have already discussed among themselves that no one will send troops and they will only hold their own positions. Could it be that I have been deceived?

As soon as this thought came into Baru's mind, his heart felt like it was falling into an icy cave.

Could it be that this attack was just a strategy from the beginning to the end, a strategy to lure the main force of the orcs out of the desert and then encircle and annihilate them all?

Thinking of this, Baru's back was suddenly covered with cold sweat, and his body was trembling slightly with surprise and anger. He felt a pair of eyes examining him with the look of examining prey.

I have been cooperating with the human insiders for twenty years, from the last orc invasion until now, and they have been in more or less contact. Why would they betray me this time?

At this time, other people's voices pulled Baru back from his suspicion.

"Chief Baru, you have to give us an explanation!" Sven said, with a hint of anger in his tone. "Didn't you say that the other human armies would not move?"

The orcs arranged an army on the periphery to contain other human troops. Although there were 100,000 of them, most of them were ordinary orcs who were gathered together. They usually had no obligation to fight in the tribe. This time they were dragged onto the battlefield just to show off and use it as a trick to delay other human troops.

As a result, their plan now seems to have been discovered, and even their retreat has been cut off.

"..." Baru was silent for a moment, and then asked: "Everyone, how much food and grass do we have left in our army?"

"There are less than three days left. In our original plan, we could return to the rear city for direct supplies, but now the city is gone. We must retreat to the rear and join up with the outer troops to get supplies." A chief said.

"Then, let's just take down the city." Baru said this and looked at everyone.

"Think about it, the enemy has just captured our city and must have suffered a lot of losses. In addition, our outer troops are holding them back. Even if they split up their forces, their numbers will definitely not be large. The best way is to capture the city while the enemy is still unstable and has few troops."

"Otherwise, if we risk bypassing the city and the enemy comes out of the city to harass us, it will take at least four or five days for us to join up with the outer troops, and by that time our supplies will have been exhausted."

"That's a good point. Then, whose troops should be sent to lead the attack?"

At this time, Tucker asked.

As soon as Tucker asked this question, the atmosphere on the court instantly became cold.

Everyone present remained silent.