Mount & Blade: Wind of War

No general can tie all the troops under his control to his side, so they must be sent out and stationed in different places.

This is the case with the orc vanguard, and so is the Lonely Mountain Castle.

The predecessor of the Lonely Mountain Castle, the Mountain Fortress, was built entirely on the mountain. The mountain shape and terrain of the fortress are combined with each other, and it is extremely steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It can almost be called a natural defense.

After the Mountain Fortress became the Lonely Mountain Castle, its strength was greatly enhanced, and the population size also skyrocketed. Therefore, it had to expand its scope greatly. Now, it can accommodate more than 200,000 people, and the level of defensive advantage has also decreased.

However, the Lonely Mountain Castle has no shortage of labor, no shortage of financial resources, and even great engineers with extremely sophisticated skills. Therefore, the heavy city walls were laid on the ground. Atiman can be said to have fully utilized the natural situation and labor advantages to the relative limit.

Under such circumstances, the deployment of troops by both sides becomes extremely meaningful for reconnaissance, where are the gaps, where are the key points for defense...

"Scout!"

"Roar!"

Both sides are knowledgeable about military affairs, so the fight for air supremacy has never stopped since the day the confrontation began.

In such a large-scale army battle, the Golden Eagle Scout, which the Qingyu tribe originally relied on the most, became useless. It dared to fly into the sky, and hundreds of two-legged dragons besieged it, the shaman's spell attacks, and the archer's arrow attacks all covered it in an instant.

No matter how majestic and spiritual the golden eagle is, it will become a turkey in such a moment, and releasing it is just to die.

In this case, the only ones who can be used are the air knights riding on the backs of two-legged dragons/griffins. They have a very high intelligence, can judge the opponent's attack distance, have a greater chance of self-protection, can use telescopes for reconnaissance, and there are enough of them to have a tolerance rate.

Kress is the leader of the Griffin Knights and also the most powerful air knight. She knows the significance of intelligence advantage very well, so she leads the Griffin Knights to fight first and is extremely brave.

However, the actual combat capability of the Orc Wyvern Cavalry should not be underestimated. Every time Kress leads the Griffin Knights to conduct reconnaissance, they will first be attacked by the rain of arrows from the Centaur Archers below, and then they will soon be quickly surrounded by the Orc Wyvern Cavalry.

Wyvern, a fifth-order, fifteen-level soldier. Legend has it that the ancestor of the Wyvern was a lizard (some say it was a degenerate dragon), which was mutated due to special magic radiation. But this is just a guess, because the ancestor of the Wyvern has long been killed by these descendants.

Wyverns are known for their tyrannical temperament and special hunting habits of cruel killing. They are cruel and bloodthirsty, like to kill opponents, and kill everything they hate.

Soldier skill: Regeneration. This creature can convert the blood it swallows into nutrients and store them in its body. Once attacked, it can quickly restore its life.

After years of cultivation by the northern orcs, the fifth-level peak venom dragon, lightning dragon, and mutant dragon have been advanced. Among them, the mutant dragon has completely become a legendary soldier, but the number is rare and there is rarely a chance to see it in conventional wars.

In the sky, between the strong winds, the air knights led by Cress and the orc wyvern knights are strangled together. From time to time, there will be lives wailing and screaming and falling down. It may be a human or an orc, or a beast with damaged wings.

Falling from this height, no matter what it is, it will instantly fall into a bloody pulp after landing, and even merge with its former enemies.

Coincidentally, the leader of the Wyvern Cavalry among the other orcs was also a female orc. However, when Kress rushed to the front line and fought bravely, she did not take action. Instead, she watched Kress with interest under the protection of the guards around her.

Kress was frightened by the stare of the other party, and at this time, the horn sounded from the back, ordering him to return. After throwing a few bloodthirsty javelins, Kress retreated. The military orders on the battlefield were like mountains, and even Kress would not easily disobey them.

After returning, Kress complained: "Master, the situation has not been fully explored. Why did you ask me to come back?"

In the process of the previous fight, because Kress had four mutant griffins (a few days ago, Gale also mutated), Kress even had a certain advantage in the small-scale battle.

She had enough confidence to open up the situation after eating the orc Wyvern Cavalry.

"The female orc you fought with is probably a spellcaster. She is already observing you. If you wait until she attacks before calling you back, I am afraid that even if you can come back alive, the Griffin Knights will suffer heavy losses."

The Griffin Knights of Lonely Mountain Castle are one level weaker than the Orcs' Wyvern Knights. It is only because Lonely Mountain Castle is the out-of-town scouting party that it has a certain initiative advantage. In addition, the activeness of Kress and her four subordinates has made up for the gap in combat power between the two arms. There are even some advantages, but once surrounded by others, Kress may die in the siege.

The gap is the gap. The large number of Wyvern Knights of the Orcs' advance army are no less difficult to deal with than a fifth-level legendary extraordinary person.

Of course, it cannot be called a legendary legion. The legion is different from an individual. An individual is legendary if he is promoted to the fifth level by his own ability. If a fifth-level legion wants to become a legendary legion, it needs to meet some special conditions. The conditions required by each arm are different.

In the aerial battle just now, the orc flying dragon knights suffered some small losses. When they were surrounded from all sides, Kress and the others retreated in time, so at this moment large groups were approaching.

Although he was quickly forced back by the large crossbow shot from Gushan Castle, he still made various provocative and insulting gestures from a distance, but Rhodes turned a blind eye to this.

Scolding array?

The skills were already broken in the previous world, not to mention the lack of brains of the orcs. Even they couldn't think of any way to insult the enemy that directly addressed people's hearts.

Kress next to Rhodes was extremely dissatisfied, but Rhodes held his shoulders to stop him.

"Don't fight them just because you're crazy. They have been taming the flying dragons for hundreds of years, and they have accumulated a lot of them. How many griffons do we have in Gushan Castle? Especially the elite soldiers, one less one will die."

"But...if we don't respond for a long time, our morale will decrease, right?"

"We have large bed crossbows as armor. It is difficult for them to peek into our specific situation. However, your knights have the active advantage. Kill a few more of them every day in battle. After a few days, morale will be low. It’s just them. If it’s useful for spraying, what’s the point of using a sword?”

Kress thought about it and found that this was indeed the case. The more you curse, the more people you will die. If that's the case, then if you want to provoke, go ahead.

"When Kress goes into battle next time, ask Likiya Qiusha to pair her with two intermediate mages for spell counterattack. I don't want Kress to be plotted against."

"I obey, Your Majesty the Duke." Lesarit, who was guarding the defense of the city wall here, leaned over and obeyed.

The fifth-level bipedal flying dragon knights are definitely one of the best high-level units among the northern orcs. Although the northern orcs have the national master Kedar to exchange the knowledge of hell for them, allowing the northern orcs to practice many years earlier than other races on the mainland, the overall average The quality is better, but only just a step above.

Advantageous geographical location, exquisite military arrangements, and fluctuations in morale can all offset the advantages of one side.

Of course, strong strength means strong strength. If it is the orcs' advantage in geographical location, military layout, and morale, then the superposition may often lead to a one-sided situation, and tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of large legions will be defeated in a decisive battle.

"Your Majesty Duke, in this case let's use the cannon of destruction. I am confident enough to completely destroy these beasts with the power of the cannon!"

At this time, Artiman came to Rhodes' side, rubbed his hands and said.

Artiman is a man who is very interested in fame and fortune. He dreams of being famous in history. However, this temperament also makes him easier to be exploited by Rhodes.

"It's not the time yet, Bachelor Artiman. I am the commander of Lonely Mountain Castle. I don't think it's the time yet." Rhodes, who was wearing a purple silk coat with gold patterns over an armor, looked into the other person's eyes and stretched out his hand to pat him. Artiman's shoulder said this.

"...Well, of course, of course, Lord Duke, you know I have no other intentions. I just hope to reduce the losses and don't want those young people to die like this."

"I understand you, and please understand me. If you use gold coins to convert them, it would be better to let them die like this if they use the thing you transformed."

After saying that, Rhodes no longer paid attention to the sarcastic engineering master Artiman, but quickly entered the castle to discuss and study the information that Kress had just returned from reconnaissance with other senior knights.

Although the time was short, he still brought back some useful information. Today, Kress's intelligence attributes are not low, whether it is the panel value or the actual attribute data used.

In the military conference room, the little girl with short red hair first closed her eyes, and then quickly used a pen to draw what she saw and remembered on the map.

Beside the table, Fatis, Raymond, Alleyn, Likiya Qiusha and others were waiting silently. There were also some senior knights stationed outside, but there were enough people in the room.

"Judging from their defense arrangements, they still chose the White Stone Fortress as their main base. It's no wonder that the White Stone Fortress has a water source passing through it, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. It also has watchtowers and some basic defense facilities."

Looking at the mark of Kress on the map, Fatis stroked his chin and said this.

"This should be a place to store food, right? It looks like it's heavily guarded." Aileen pointed to a place on the map and asked.

"No, there is a wyvern camp there. I noticed that most of the wyvern knights flew from here."

"That's normal. Although an aerial knight unit like this is a strategic unit, its absolute combat strength is one level weaker."

Aerial knights, whether they are gryphon knights or bipedal dragon knights, have the characteristics of reconnaissance, high mobility, high security, etc. At the same time, the actual combat effectiveness is one level lower than the level of their own arms, except for dragon knights. This is generally the case outside this type of arms.

Just like cavalry is much more expensive than infantry, but once it loses its initiative and mobility, it may not be able to fight better than infantry of the same level standing there.

"There are actually hundreds of bipedal flying dragon knights in this advance army. If you look for an opportunity to devour them, even if the Hoffman Empire has a great cause, it will be enough for them to feel distressed." Rhode said while looking at the map.

"Judging from the deployment of troops, this advance army should be planning to cut down wood and make siege equipment. They will suppress and test us while waiting for the arrival of the larger force."

"From the perspective of the orcs' cultural attributes, no matter whether the commander of this army is willing or not, after making the siege equipment, it will try to fight with us once. If it does not move, there will be no flaws. Once it moves, the flaws will appear. Although it is 20,000 people against 50,000 people, I have enough confidence in our Lonely Mountain army. Take advantage of the situation and crush them!"

"Yes!"

In the conference room, many knights and civil servants of Lonely Mountain Castle responded in unison.

In the next half month, the Griffin Knights of Lonely Mountain Castle (actually called War Vultures) and the orcs' Wyvern Knights have completely forged a blood feud.

Crice led his men to fly high for reconnaissance, and the Wyvern Knights could not help but intercept, because Lonely Mountain Castle took the initiative and could conduct reconnaissance from any direction. Therefore, although there are more people, the arrangement of the orcs' Wyvern Knights is actually more scattered, so as to facilitate timely response.

But this would easily turn into a situation where the human Griffin Knights outnumbered the enemy. As for the female orc spellcaster, Rhode noticed her in time. Every time Cress went into battle, the two high-level mages, Likia Qiusha and Yamila, could counterattack the high-level priest and prevent her from using any abilities.

However, Likia Qiusha and Yamila also admitted that the other party was strong. It was hard for their two mages to suppress one of the other mages, and they had no more strength left... You should know that the magic level of both the human race and the elves was far higher than that of the orc civilization.

In other words, the orc female priest on the opposite side was actually more talented than Likia and Yamila.

After being bled continuously for more than half a month, even though the later stage was mainly a tug-of-war for self-preservation, the Wyvern Knights still lost more than 20, and the Griffin Knights also lost two. This made Rhode feel heartbroken, but when he thought that the other party's commander should be ten times more heartbroken than himself, Duke Rhode felt much more comfortable:

"I feel much better when I hear that others are worse off than me."

"Come on, tell us about your recent unhappiness and make us happy." This may be the psychological commonality of most ordinary people, and it is basically universally consistent in all worlds.

At this point in the war, the most reasonable thing for the other side to do next is to shrink and defend in place, waiting for the arrival of the rear army.

They also have reasons to do so, after all, the commander Mokali underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, so he died in battle. The human castle in front of them is definitely not a city that 50,000 people can easily capture.

However, as Rhode said before, due to cultural attributes, the orc camp cannot accept a general who does not attack. After enduring for so many days, the orc army also needs to vent, whether it is with the blood of the enemy or their own blood.

Therefore, the siege began.

The Orc Empire is also an empire, especially after fighting with the other two human forces for so many years, even if only the most basic technical exchanges are carried out, siege ladders, siege towers, and arrow towers, all of which can be built.

At this moment, more than four siege towers and four arrow towers are slowly advancing from multiple angles, and there are orc soldiers holding siege ladders below.

After the siege towers approach, they can put down the reinforced wooden bridges to allow their own soldiers to quickly attack the city wall. At a long distance, they can also be used to hide soldiers to block the rain of arrows.

Mobile arrow towers can make their own long-range shooting disadvantages no longer so huge, and soldiers on both sides can shoot at a level distance.

Even the siege ladders are covered with a layer of hollowed-out large tree shells, which are painted with special paint. It is not easy to ignite in a short time, and it is also difficult to attack.

Compared with humans, the northern orcs are naturally warlike and bloodthirsty, so they can be called the strongest army in the world.

At this moment, when they slowly pressed over like a black cloud, the lips of many crossbow soldiers on the city wall were bitten white by themselves subconsciously.

Boom, boom, boom... Charge!

With such a roar, the orc army that was originally advancing slowly under the city wall rushed forward like a black tide.

In order to achieve the highest killing effect, Raymond, as the archer commander, ordered all the crossbowmen and longbowmen under his command not to shoot. He hoped to reach the best attack distance...

Whoosh, at this moment, before Raymond gave the order, a crossbow arrow was shot out from the west wall, and then the crossbow archers on the entire city wall began to shoot.

"Who is it, who is the one who disobeyed the order?"

Although Raymond was angry, he immediately ordered the supervisory team to catch the guy who violated the military order. But at this moment, he couldn't take care of it, because the war had already begun.

"Training is training, actual combat is actual combat. These recruits have never seen blood, and their psychological quality is still not good enough."

On the other side, on the top of the city, Rhodes and Fatis stood together. At this time, the position where they stood also began to be attacked.

The centaur archers of the orcs are really the most powerful in the world. Although they are low-level soldiers, their average riding and archery skills are so good that no other race in the whole continent can compare with them.

At this time, an arrow flew in front of Rhodes. Rhodes saw it, but he stood there motionless. Fatis, who was beside Rhodes, suddenly moved and grabbed the arrow before it hit Duke Rhodes.

"My Lord Duke, let's go down. The war has begun."

"They have the power to start a war, but I have the final say on when the war ends. Fatis, help me get the power to stop the war."

"I am happy to serve you, Your Excellency the Duke." As they spoke, the two walked down the city wall.