My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

"In that war, the human side fought hard, but we still broke through their defenses and gained a large area of ​​land."

"But the good times didn't last long. The chieftain who had said he would unite the orcs suddenly turned against us and annexed several other small tribes. After that, everyone began to imitate the chieftain's behavior. The orcs were in chaos, so the humans drove us back."

"The last war was probably the most successful of the three wars I've experienced. We invaded the interior of the human empire and looted wealth from them that we couldn't even imagine. Even though we were defeated by humans in the end, we had already brought back enough food and fodder to last us several years."

"However, the orcs did not become better because of this war. On the contrary, because of the sufficient food and grass, we fought for this batch of supplies after returning to the desert. The good comrades who had fought side by side in the war against humans instantly became enemies."

Listening to what the old orc said, Baru was also deeply touched.

He also participated in the last war. At that time, he was not a chief, but just a senior officer. He also participated in the subsequent orc civil war. It was through that civil war that he realized the importance of uniting the orcs.

However, before an absolutely powerful force emerged, the orcs always had their own thoughts, and there were too many tribes with ulterior motives.

After receiving secret assistance from humans, Baru did manage to grow his tribe and become the only large tribe among the orcs. He also successfully "united" all the orcs. However, it turned out that when things are going well, the orcs may indeed be united, but once they fail, everyone wants others to take the blame, and conflicts and rifts arise.

"So, Chief Baru." The old orc raised his head and looked at the silver moon in the sky. "For us orcs, is the real enemy really humans? Or ourselves?"

"..." Baru remained silent after hearing this.

"We orcs can survive the harsh environment of the desert and even develop our own civilization in it."

"But every time we try to really unite to do something, we always end up falling apart from within."

"You're right." Baloo sighed.

In order to deal with humans, Baru carefully studied humans through the few orc documents, but the real problem actually lies within the orcs.

"Chief, this is the truth that took me fifty years to figure out. I'm telling you this not to ask you to give up fighting against humans." The old orc said this and patted Baru on the shoulder.

“The difficulties we face are indeed created by humans, but at the same time, we can only fight against humans if we truly unite.”

"I understand." Baru nodded after hearing this.

The problem the orcs are currently facing is that this loose tribal alliance has led to too many conflicts due to differences in various decision-making, which prevents the orcs from realizing their true war potential. Only by uniting as one, establishing an orc kingdom, and establishing a centralized rule, can the orcs' war potential be brought to the extreme.

Only in this way can the orcs avoid giving away their achievements every time they fight against humans.

All lost.

With this idea in mind, Baru prepared to start his own plan to unify the orc tribes after returning.

At the same time, the leaders of other orc tribes also gathered together to discuss plans to fight against Baru.

"If you ask me, we can't defeat humans now, so we might as well just withdraw our troops." Tucker, the chief of the Gray Bone Clan, said.

"It's all Baru's fault. He insisted that this was a perfect time to attack humans, but in the end we didn't even touch a few human cities." Oni, the chief of the Helmet Clan, also complained at this moment.

"I say, could it be that Baru actually wants to weaken our strength through this war, and then eliminate us one by one when he returns?" At this time, another chief spoke up.

"Yes, it's very likely!" Tucker was alert when he heard this. "I was wondering why he always wanted to exclude us from the central army. It turns out that he wanted to increase our losses and let the humans attack us."

"Good man, as expected, he has colluded with humans, but they are just colluding to mess with us!" Oni also spoke at this moment.

"What do you mean? Do you want us to start early?"

"Sure, we should strike first. Anyway, the few supplies we looted in this war should all have gone to Baru."

"Right, right, right. Let's defeat his tribe before he comes back. We'll divide the supplies in it equally!"

"Okay, it's decided!"

Several orc chieftains had already planned to stab the joint chieftain Baru in the back, and they immediately ordered their soldiers to set out overnight.

Although they escaped earlier than Baru, they were still faster, whether out of concern for their own safety or the desire to share the spoils.

During the rout, the front, middle and rear armies were completely disorganized, and whoever ran slower would be the rear guard.

……

"What?! Why is the loss so great?" Orson frowned as he sat in the military tent and looked at the battle report handed over by the scout.

He had followed the central army to the city of Trava, but the city was severely damaged by the war and the houses were in ruins, so Orson simply set up military tents outside the city.

Previously, Baru ordered the orcs on the periphery to launch an attack on the front-line troops that were not directly under the Duke's command. This attack stunned the human soldiers who were in a sit-in battle.

The troops assisted by other dukes held their positions firmly, but the counts under Duke Antica were not so relaxed at this moment.

As we all know, the Duchy of Antica was established after the last orc invasion. It is a new duchy. These earls, especially those on the border, are mostly new nobles.

There are also differences in the ability of different nobles to govern their territories. Most of the nobles of the Duke of Antica can only be said to be barely qualified. It is completely impossible to expect them to do well.

Therefore, during this orc invasion, although many earls mobilized troops of several thousand people, only about a thousand of them were standing troops, and the rest were temporarily recruited peasant troops.

Even the so-called standing army, in most cases, had inflated numbers in order to save costs; the actual standing army of an earl was usually around 500 people.

The most outrageous thing is that some border earls clearly had the financial support of the Duke, who specifically allowed them to maintain a border garrison. However, in order to embezzle the financial allocation, those earls lied that the border garrison had a thousand people, when in fact they should have been thankful if there were only a hundred.

In this battle, when they were asked to gather troops, the earls were unable to suddenly gather so many well-trained soldiers. They had no choice but to use peasants to make up the numbers and lied that a group of untrained militiamen were the "standing army."

Even the second-rate orc troops still had the upper hand when facing the militia forces temporarily assembled by the count, not to mention the existence of troops that were just collecting empty salaries.

Not only were several border cities captured, but one border earl even lost his own capital.

This made the losses in the war much greater than those in Orson's plan. You know, in those earldoms, most of the people did not evacuate, they believed that their lords could guarantee their safety.

But I wonder what they felt when the orcs suddenly appeared in front of them?

All I can say is that there was a reason why humans suffered such heavy losses when facing the orcs' attack.

"This... I will investigate the reason right away." The scout said this, a few beads of sweat dripped down his forehead, and he knelt on one knee to apologize.

"Yeah." Orson nodded after hearing that.

Things turned out to be beyond expectations, which proved that Orson was very concerned about his own place.

There must have been errors in the intelligence assessment, which requires a reassessment.

Fortunately, the war on the front line has ended, and the direct troops can immediately go to support other fronts and drive back the orc troops.

After the scout left, Orson rubbed his temple.

"Why on earth did this problem occur..."

……

The County of Kars, with its capital in Kars.

At this moment, inside the Earl's mansion, a group of orcs were moving out the valuables from the Duke's mansion, and the Earl's wife and family were all huddled in a room inside.

And Count Karls himself was kneeling before a tall orc in a servile manner.

"Master Orc, you have already taken all the valuables in my house. Please, let my wife and daughter go."

Count Karls' heart was filled with regret at this moment.

The Earldom of Kars that he ruled was a border territory with its own defense line. In this line of defense, Lucius provided a border garrison of 2,000 people, and allocated funds every year to supply these 2,000 people. However, in reality, the Earldom of Kars only deployed 200 people as standing troops on this front line. After the outbreak of this war, although he gathered 5,000 people to guard his territory, which seemed a large number, most of them were farmers in the countryside who had not even received war training.

Therefore, facing the attack of the same number of orcs, Count Karls's troops quickly collapsed. These orcs burned, killed and looted in Count Karls's territory and soon reached the city of Karls.

By the time Count Karls learned that the orcs had broken through the outer defense line, the orcs were already at the gates of the city.

The huge city of Kars was defended by only about 500 regular troops, while there were as many as 4,000 to 5,000 orcs outside the city, making it impossible to defend.

After a brief resistance, the soldiers on the city wall gave up the wall.

Anyway, they usually get much lower salary than other troops, so firing three arrows in the battle can be regarded as doing justice to the Earl. After giving up the city wall, the soldiers just slipped away.

The city of Kars is an immigrant city, and most of the residents here are immigrants from outside. The soldiers have no sense of belonging here, not to mention dying in battle for this city.

Hence, this scene happened.

If he had known this situation would happen, Count Carls would definitely not accept the empty salary this year no matter what.

Now, all the money he earned from drawing a salary without doing any work was used to decorate his big house and improve his life. After the arrival of the orcs, all of it became nothing.

"Oh? You have a wife and daughter?" The orc said, pointing at Count Kars. "Bring them out to me."

Although Count Carls was extremely reluctant, he still gave in when he saw the sharp horns on the opponent's head.

In the orc tribe, in addition to the orcs with green skin and sharp fangs, there are also some orcs with other characteristics.

For example, the minotaur that now appears in front of Count Karls is a minority race among the orcs.

The Tauren race is much stronger and bigger than the average orc, but their numbers are quite small.

The reason for this has something to do with the living habits of the Tauren themselves.

In the Tauren tribe, there is a relatively ancient custom, the system of walking marriage. In this case, the child born only knows his mother but not his father.

Over time, due to some unknown reasons, the fertility of the Tauren has greatly decreased, and their population has gradually shrunk. From a group with considerable say among the orcs, they have become a small group today.

"This... this is not good..." Count Carls said. "My lords, you are here to rob us anyway, so just let us go."

"Who said that!?" the Minotaur said this, swinging his fist and punching Count Karls hard.

The latter was knocked several meters away, fell to the ground, and coughed while holding his chest.

"Cough, cough..." He felt his throat was as painful as if it was being cut by a knife, and blood kept being coughed onto the ground.

At this time, the orcs who were searching the house also came out.

"Boss, we found a locked house. Do you need to force it open?"

"Force it open." The Minotaur glanced at Count Karls and said.

Count Kars closed his eyes in despair.

If, if he had not mocked Litt at the banquet when Litt had just returned, making the Duke's family unhappy, at least he would have been able to get assistance from the Duke's army.

He has heard

He heard the sound of the huge axe chopping the wooden door, and the panicked screams of his wife and daughters.

It's over, all over, my territory, my wealth, my woman, my children.

He didn't know what would be left of him after this battle, but when he realized that this was an unexpected disaster that could have been avoided, his mental state was no longer stable.

After a long time, as if he had made a decision, he forced himself to stand up from the ground and walked in front of the Minotaur.

"Master, ahem... I, I know a place with a lot of food and weapons and equipment. It's enough for you to use for a long time. As long as you let my family go, I will take you there."

The Minotaur laughed out loud when he heard what Count Kars said.

Then he slapped Count Karls to the ground again.

The people in the room saw Count Karls's appearance through the broken door and shouted to come out, but Count Karls just stopped them.

Then he stood up again.

"I know I have no room for negotiation, but if you kill me, you won't get anything except these women... No, right?"

His body was shaking with fear and his words were intermittent, but they gave people a sense of firmness.

"Heh." Upon hearing this, the Minotaur snorted coldly, and then he ordered the soldiers who were breaking into the door to stop.

"Okay, but let me make it clear first. If you lie to me, not only you, but also your wife, children, your entire family, and all the residents of the city you rule will suffer because of you!"

"I swear, I won't lie to you. If I lie to you, my body will be torn into pieces." Count Carls said this and gestured to the sky.

"Okay, then you lead the way." The Minotaur pointed to a guard at the door of the Earl's mansion. "Take them with you. If they report back that they found nothing, you will die."

"I understand. I certainly wouldn't dare to lie to you."

……

On the other side, students from the Imperial Academy were advancing towards the city of Kars.

When the news of the fall of Kars City reached Orson, he immediately dispatched a troop to rescue. The Imperial Academy also believed that Kars City, as the capital of the Earldom, had great strategic significance and set its sights there.

Olivia and Elsa led students of the warrior and mage classes respectively. At this moment, when the two led the students to the city of Karls, they were shocked by the scene in front of them.

The city of Kars had been engulfed in flames. At the city gate, dozens of dead bodies were hung in the air with an iron chain tied to them. The bodies were curled into a ball, which was horrifying to look at.

Although the students had been to the battlefield, most of them couldn't help but vomit after seeing such a brutal scene.

The orcs here have withdrawn.

They learned in advance that the human army was coming, so they burned the place down, leaving nothing for humans.

Olivia and Elsa, who were in the lead, looked at each other and walked into the city.

In the city, there was at least one corpse hanging on the door of every house.