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

Apart from the soldiers of his own clan who were still willing to follow him, even the orc clans that had been incorporated into his legion before had already treated him as air.

When escaping, he was only concerned with running away and was not willing to obey any orders.

The consequences of this behavior are obvious.

Except for the three thousand orcs who gathered around Baru, the other orcs who fled were surrounded and attacked by other human armies on their way back. It was three days later when the orcs completely withdrew from the human-controlled area.

During these three days, apart from simple water supplies, the orc soldiers had almost nothing to eat while fleeing. Even the giant wolf under Baru's crotch couldn't hold on and fell down halfway, leaving Baru to use his own legs to travel like other orc warriors.

"Chief Baru." At night, in the temporary camp of Baru's troops, an orc soldier found Baru with a sad look in his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Baru looked at the other party, not understanding why the other party came to him.

"You may not know me, but I'm already fifty years old." He sighed as he said this.

"Fifty?" Upon hearing this, Baru immediately showed a look of respect, and then he looked at the soldier for a long time.

For ordinary orcs, being over forty years old is equivalent to entering old age, and their combat effectiveness will decline rapidly. In other words, an orc warrior who originally may have the combat effectiveness of a third-level human may only have the combat effectiveness of a first-level human after the age of forty.

Baru is only in his thirties now, which is considered to be a very senior figure in the orc tribe.

Judging from the other party's appearance, although he is fifty years old, his mental state is still very good. As for his fighting ability, the fact that he was able to participate in this march proves that his fighting ability is definitely not weak.

"Please take a seat, old sir." Baru said this and gave up his seat to him.

Orcs have always respected the strong. The fact that the other party is still able to join the army at the age of fifty means that he must have been even more powerful when he was young.

"Okay, thank you." The old orc said this and sat down next to Baru. "Chief Baru, is our attack a failure?"

Listening to the other party's words, Baru's mood sank.

"I guess so." He nodded.

"I am very sorry that so many people suffered losses in vain because of me."

“I understand that this is not Ba’s fault.

Chief Lu, you." The old orc said this and waved his hand.

"Although I am old, I am not stupid. I have participated in three wars, and the result was the same every time." He sighed.

"The first time I participated in the war, the chief told us that we were fighting for the future of our tribe. We wanted to regain the land that originally belonged to us and take back everything we lost from humans, and make humans pay for their evil deeds."

The old orc said this with a look of reminiscence.

"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 losing all their victories after each victory against humans.

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 fellow, as expected, he is colluding with humans.

It's connected, 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.

If things develop beyond expectations, it proves that Orson must have made mistakes in his assessment of the intelligence here, and a re-evaluation is needed.

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, which he ruled, was a border territory with its own unique defense line.

In the frontier, Lucius provided 2,000 border garrisons, and allocated funds every year to support these 2,000 people. However, in reality, Earl Karls only deployed 200 people as standing troops on this front. After the outbreak of this war, although he gathered 5,000 people to guard his territory, it seemed that there were a large number of people, but 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 could hear the sound of the huge axe chopping the wooden door, as well as 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.