Lord Harland

The news brought back by the orc messengers told the orc forward group that humans had built a strong fortress in the valley they passed last time.

The orc captain Maruland knew that the orc army was not good at attacking fortresses.

Every time a human-garrisoned fortress is conquered, a lot of blood must be sacrificed. A large group of orcs may not have enough strength.

Soon several broken soldiers fled back.

Maruland asked about the defeated soldiers. With his rich combat experience, he immediately knew that the human soldiers who defeated the forward squadron were only soldiers from two squadrons.

Regardless of whether he admits it in his heart or not, the human soldier fought a beautiful victory.

Through the story of the defeated troops, Maruland knew that the defenders relied on the power of long-range projection, which severely damaged the forward squadron.

It is impossible for the defenders to come out in full force, there should still be soldiers stationed in the castle.

There are at least three squadrons of defending human soldiers, numbering around 500 people.

Maruland commanded a large group of orcs, with ten fully-manned orc squadrons under his command, as well as guard squadrons, serpentine heavy armored squadrons, harpy patrol teams and other direct forces, totaling more than 1,800 people.

In addition, Maruland also controls a squadron of human slaves, with more than 160 human soldiers.

These human soldiers were either prisoners captured by the orcs in previous wars, or human tribes living in the northern part of the Eagle Mountains. "

There are many human tribes living in the more civilized areas of the Orc Empire, such as the areas managed by Beamon, Tauren, and Sky Fox people.

There are also some dragon lords in the orc empire. Under the dragon's command, there are also some humans who serve the dragon lords.

Compared to the Walder Brigade that Richard annihilated in the last battle, Maruland commanded more troops, and he also had human traitors serving him.

Relatively speaking, civilized orcs like Maruland are more difficult to deal with.

Although he lost a squadron, Maruland still believed that his side had a chance of victory.

"If it were a head-on battle, our advantage would be huge."

Now that the enemy's situation was unknown, Maruland copied the information and handed it over to the Orc Legion headquarters, and then led the Orc army to station in the north of Fort William.

Seeing the huge size of the orc army, a large group came with all the troops.

Richard did not dare to neglect, and immediately wrote letters asking for help and sent them to Heihe Fort and Platos Fort Group respectively.

An orc brigade is already a very powerful force. Except for a few powerful baron families in the north, ordinary hereditary nobles cannot stop it.

Last time, the Stopa Baron territory was breached by an orc brigade.

Although Fort William is equipped with counterweighted trebuchets and bed crossbows, if the orcs attack regardless of life and death.

As the war continues, Fort William, which has fewer troops, will eventually be unable to withstand it.

The orc army ate a hasty meal, and Maruland gave an order. Two squadrons of orcs slowly walked out of the camp, followed by a squadron of snake-shaped men behind them.

The harpy also fluttered its wings and circled over Fort William. While scouting the enemy's situation, if there is an opportunity, you can also make a surprise attack from the air to help the orc infantry capture the city.

It was quiet on the top of the city. Richard observed the orcs carefully. Seeing the heavily armored serpentine soldiers entering the range of the trebuchet, Richard waved his hand suddenly.

The messenger waved the bright red flag.

The auxiliary soldiers cut off the rope on the trebuchet, and the weight box hit the heavy straw mat heavily.

Sixteen boulders weighing 200 kilograms were thrown high and hit the open space 200 meters away.

A boulder weighing two hundred kilograms fell from the sky. Even a strong snake body man would be shattered to pieces if such a huge stone fell down.

Because the shooting table is marked in advance, the counterweight and stone bullets are fixed, and the trajectory is calculated, the stone bullets can be projected to a fixed area.

Sixteen stone bullets fell down, killing six snake-like people immediately.

At the same time, the bed crossbow at the top of the city also started firing. Four long crossbow arrows shot down from the top of the city. They easily shot through the heavy shield held high by the snake-shaped man and pierced the throat of a snake-shaped man.

The attack came suddenly, killing seven third-level professionals at once. Even an orc army with a larger number of professionals would not be able to withstand it.

A squadron of snake-like heavy infantry only had forty soldiers in total.

The Harpy patrol team has only twelve Harpy patrol officers.

These two elite orc soldiers were already the most elite force of the orc brigade, but they had already suffered such heavy casualties before they even climbed up to the top of the city.

Fortunately, the heavy trebuchet fires at a relatively slow speed, and it only needs two rounds of stone bomb attacks to cross this devil's road.

The canyon in the north of Fort William is relatively narrow, with a width of about 300 meters. Even if the Snakeman heavy infantry wants to dodge, there is no place to hide.

Besides, the crossbowmen and archers are all staring at this place. Rather than dodge and waste time, it is better to gamble on luck and rush to the city wall.

Maruland's eyes widened, and he realized that the second round of stone bullets caused more damage, killing eight snake-like people.

Fortunately, they managed to escape the trebuchet range, and almost half of the snake-like people were killed or injured.

Seeing how lethal the trebuchet was, Maruland immediately conveyed the task of destroying the trebuchet to the Harpy.

The harpy swooped down from high altitude, and Richard and Thoros shot deadly cold arrows.

A shrill cry came.

"Killing the third-level harpy will reward you with 2,000 experience points."

Richard's archery skills have been upgraded to the fifth level. Among the main army, he is considered to be the best archer in a thousand.

Thoros's archery skills were no weaker than Richard's. The two of them controlled enchanted crossbows and easily killed the harpy in a sneak attack.

The remaining ten harpies swooped down and released fireball spells one after another.

Dozens of soldiers were killed and injured in an instant, and even four trebuchets were set on fire.

At the critical moment when the Harpy was about to continue firing fireballs and burn down all the trebuchets.

Wendy and Richard released wood and vine entanglement spells one after another.

Two wooden vines suddenly appeared and wrapped around the harpy's wings.

The harpy has average strength and cannot break away from the entanglement spell in a short period of time.

In an instant, he fell from the sky like a kite with its string broken, and was stabbed to death by the soldiers at the top of the city.

The harpies are an aristocratic soldier with a very high IQ. Seeing Richard and Thoros drawing their bows and arrows again, they knew very well that if they had to complete the task of burning the trebuchet, the only way out would be to annihilate the entire army.

Although the Harpy team is under the command of Maruland, it has great autonomy.

The orc army cannot fight without the Harpy Scouts.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the team leader commanding the harpies immediately cried a few times, passed the news to each other, and flew away with wings.

In just a few minutes, the Harpies attacked the city, causing dozens of casualties and burning four trebuchets.

If the harpies attack the city regardless of casualties and cooperate with the orc infantry attacking the city, it is really possible to defeat the defenders and capture Fort William.

But the harpies were afraid of casualties and were unwilling to bear them.

Although Maruland was angry, he had no other choice but to urge the infantry to speed up.

Upon discovering that the orc infantry had entered the shooting range, the defenders on the city fired arrows one after another, killing the orcs near the city wall.