Throne of the North

In the dust and smoke, the dark hair was floating in the strong wind stirred up by the huge power. The Black Goatman Chief stood in the empty position of the city gate. He walked forward and looked at the demon-like figure in the dust and smoke. Black Goat Man, everyone is retreating crazily.

"Humans..."

The black goat man grabbed a human and smashed him on the city wall with great force. A pool of blood spattered on the stone. The soldier's body fell down and was trampled by the black goat men one after another.

"It's over, it's all over."

Above, Viscount Landa said desperately, and then his eyes became crazy.

"Hold them off and don't let the orcs enter the city!!!"

He shouted loudly that as the highest-ranking noble in the city, he was the commander of all the armies. Although the soldiers were frightened by the sudden change, thousands of soldiers still bravely rushed to the city gate.

"Stop them!"

The knights raised their swords to their chests, chanting the glory of the knights in their mouths, and then attacked the Black Goat Orc Chief without fear of death.

"Humans, you are too weak!"

The Black Goatman Chief roared and laughed. He punched a golden knight and sent him flying away. On his horns, a dark vortex was condensing. The terrifying energy was condensing to penetrate the flying knight. Out came the knight who fell to the ground.

At this moment, a thunderbolt fell above his head, and the Black Goatman chief jumped away nervously. When he raised his head, he saw a magician chanting, magic surged in the void, and powerful magic gathered in groups and struck towards him.

The strength of the Sanctuary allowed him to use countless magics, but he had to pay attention to the magic scrolls held by some of the magicians. These were things given by the empire out of pity for Viscount Landa, and they could be preserved for thirty to fifty years. Unexpectedly, Used it so quickly.

Boom! ! ! ,

The power of magic came, and the eyes of the Black Goatman chief flashed with violence. This feeling was too suffocating, and he kept jumping, trying to get closer to the magicians.

At the gate of the city, densely packed black goats and human soldiers were crowded together. The small space was their battlefield. The things they trampled under their feet gradually turned into corpses. The brutal orcs kept pushing past the human defense line.

"Damn mages! You can't stop the great black goat."

The Black Goatman Chief roared and ran wildly on the city wall with his hooves. As the black light on the goat's horns flowed like a whirlpool, a huge black goat head rushed out from the black mist. He lowered his head and pointed the horns at the magicians. Push back.

The magic array in the void was shattered inch by inch. The Black Goatman chief fell from the sky and hit the middle of the human soldiers. The power of the sanctuary exploded at this moment, like a human but with only four-fingered claws, tearing apart the flesh and blood of the surrounding human soldiers. , and then reached out and pulled out the two curved horns on the top of his head, turning them into two scimitars to chop and sweep across.

The black scimitar blade tore open a huge gash, and dozens or hundreds of human soldiers were killed as if they were cutting grass. Behind the Black Goatman chief, a large number of Black Goatmen were finally able to swarm out.

Hanshan City was finally defeated. Thousands of humans began to flee in all directions, with the orcs chasing after them wantonly.

Of course, the nobles were the fastest, but some nobles were still caught up. They were lucky enough to survive the last orc invasion, but now they no longer have the same luck.

The entire Hanshan County was in a mess, with not many human beings visible. The surrounding noble territories on the edge of Beifeng County, Longshan County and Leiyun County were also in turmoil. The knights of the nobles patrolled day and night, and the nobles' families all hid in the castle. Among them, at least the existence of the castle allows them to fight against the large numbers of wandering orcs.

The only problem is what to do with food.

Black goat people will also eat human food, especially wheat, which is a delicacy for black goat people.

And without food, most people can't survive this thing.

"We must snatch back the food. Although it is not fully mature yet, we cannot leave it to those orcs no matter what."

The nobleman yelled and ordered his people to fight for the food. He didn't want to make ends meet and go hungry this winter.

However, after organizing several counterattacks, many went out and few came back. The nobles finally became afraid.

"What should I do? Where is the coalition of nobles? Why haven't you come to me to kill those damn orcs?"

He was not the only one who was anxious. Lord Hora was equally anxious. He led the Flying Wolf Cavalry Legion to save the situation. However, there were too many orcs and they were scattered in too many places. Facing those huge orc legions, he was worried. The loss of the Airwolf Cavalry, and a small number of orcs kept running away after seeing the Airwolf Cavalry. The terrain of Beifeng Province was not smooth to begin with. As long as they put some effort, the orcs could avoid the attack of the Airwolf Cavalry.

After they left, the orcs continued to cause chaos. To them, all humans on this land were their enemies, and all resources were targets for them to plunder.

The lands of several surrounding counties are filled with chaos, and humans fear the arrival of the orcs.

…

call out!

The arrow flew through the air and penetrated into the orc's chest. Watching the orc in front of her fall, a human woman moved her feet in shock to keep herself away from this horrific corpse.

After a moment, she turned her head and raised her head to see tall war horses walking past her. These war horses had a layer of metal armor on their heads, and their eyes were revealed from the holes. Their eyes fell on the woman. As cold as the northern snow.

The woman reacted and quickly knelt on the ground, thanking the noble man for saving her.

In the distance, dozens of war horses were galloping back.

"Lord Ryan, the orcs in the village have been cleared."

Ryan nodded, and the 1,000-strong Bucks Legion slowly moved into the distance. The woman behind him looked at the flag flying in the legion, and suddenly realized which nobleman's badge it was.

"It turned out to be Lord Lane."

The woman's eyes widened in surprise. She still remembered that Baron Lane led the army to drive away the orcs time and time again.

"It can be saved, we can be saved."

The woman cried and ran towards home. She was frightened and would never dare to go out to pick wild vegetables alone next time.

As the cavalry advanced, a noble knight ran towards this side in surprise. He also had a war horse under him.

"Lord Baron Ryan, my Lord Baron would like to ask you to support the territory."

He told Ryan that a baron named Carlson was trapped in the castle. There were seven or eight hundred people in the castle, and the outside was invaded and occupied by orcs.

"Go back and tell Baron Carlson to defend his castle, and the glory of his family will be covered by him."

After Ryan finished speaking, the attendants beside him drove away the knights, and the army continued to approach Hanshan City.

Hanshan City has been occupied, but the orcs will not stay in a place that is not beneficial for a long time. After the initial raging, the orcs began to disperse on a large scale. In addition to the bare city and buildings in this city, the number of orcs left behind was not the same. not much.

"This city was captured by the Holy Domain?"

Ryan Yuanyuan looked at the location of the broken city gate. The attendants around him were already cleaning up the orcs who found them. Seeing so many human cavalry, the orcs wanted to give up, but the powerful bows and arrows that followed made him They have no retreat.

In the sky, there were flying wolf cavalry falling. An army of thousands of people came here from the tundra territory. Of course, they couldn't be invisible.

When he heard the words brought by the Airwolf Cavalry, Ryan had a strange expression.

"Viscount Landa wants to ask me to help him regain Hanshan City?"

Shaking his head, Ryan said to the Air Wolf Cavalry.

"Go back and tell him to gather all the troops he can and follow me to the Xiangshan Plain."

"We can take back the fortress of Xiangshan Plain, his Hanshan City, and his land."

"But……"

What else did the Air Wolf Cavalry want to say, but Ryan's eyes made him swallow all the words that followed. The Air Wolf Cavalry Legion was once commanded by Ryan, but what impressed them more was the hostile war between the two sides in the different world of the mountains and forests.

Because Ryan's direction has always been on the edge of the North Wind Province, he has not encountered large-scale orcs. Those orcs are now raging inside the province.

He arrived at the Xiangshan Plain, looking at the endless flatness in front of him, he couldn't help but marvel at the miraculous craftsmanship of nature.

The middle of Xiangshan Plain is a flat land with only wild grass, but on the gentle slopes close to the mountains on both sides, there are dense camphor trees. They are a good source of spices. However, the extraction methods of the nobles in Hanshan County are not perfect enough, and the amount of spices produced is very small. There are not many gold coins earned from selling.

Thousands of cavalry were walking through the plains, and the number of orcs gradually increased. After putting away his contempt, Ryan ordered the army to charge.

The orcs were also charging. Thousands of orcs didn't understand what defense meant at all, so they shouted and charged towards the cavalry legion.

On the plains, the lethality of the cavalry was terrifying. The fully armed Stag Legion charged, and their lances penetrated the bodies of thousands of orcs. The collision of the war horses even knocked a large number of orcs away. In an instant, The battlefield became chaotic, and the orcs who reacted fled in fear, and were constantly pursued by the cavalry. The knights slashed and slashed with their long swords, killing the orcs.

Without chasing too far, the cavalry returned to Ryan's side. At this time, some figures suddenly ran out from the distance.

When I got closer, I saw that they were a group of soldiers whose faces turned purple from the cold. They once guarded the Xiangshan Plain Fortress. Later, their escape was blocked from the front and back. They finally fled to the mountains and forests on both sides to survive, relying on wild beasts and Fruits and weeds are used as food, but from the looks of it, it won’t last long if it continues.

"Lord Baron Ryan, you are finally here."

The soldiers knelt on the ground, their hands and feet stiff with cold. The linen clothes on their bodies came from the fortress. They found this after sneaking back to the fortress, but they paid a huge price for it.

Seeing Ryan's flag at this moment, these soldiers did not know Ryan, but they knew the flag of the Rhinohorn Mountain emblem in the army. This is the emblem of the Tundra Territory in the whole world. It is remembered by the soldiers because they also participated in those days. years of war, and even followed Ryan to the Kingdom of Andara to participate in the Kingdom War.

Lane has a strong majesty in their hearts. The most important thing is that when they followed Baron Lane, they never lost a battle.

During these days, these soldiers were also thinking that perhaps only Baron Lane could lead the noble army to expel the orcs in the north. Similarly, they were also thinking that if Baron Lane guarded the Xiangshan Plain Fortress, it must be the strongest in the world. fortress.

This is the majesty and trust brought by the previous wars.

Lai gave these soldiers some food and clothes, and then asked:

"How many people have escaped from the Xiangshan Plain Fortress and are hiding? Can you contact them?"

"Yes, there are still many people hiding in the mountains, but the north is too cold, and we don't know how many have frozen to death."

The soldiers don't know how to count. They have been farmers or even serfs for generations, and they don't have any knowledge in their minds to detect the number of soldiers, and they can't give the answer Ryan wants.

"You contact them to come here to find me, I will lead them to recapture the human fortress and drive out the orcs."

Ryan said this, and there was light in the soldiers' eyes. They didn't doubt that Ryan could do it at all.

Watching these soldiers go away, Ryan also opened the plane door to Bilki, and the soldiers shuttled through it to carry out food and warm clothes.

There are many warehouses in the Bilki world, which is also one of Ryan's methods. The extraordinary army he led does not need to carry logistical supplies that slow down the speed. As long as the door is opened, a large amount of supplies can be transported from the other world.

After waiting for almost two hours, a large number of humans appeared in front of Ryan. They were shocked to see Baron Ryan and the resources that saved their lives kneeling on the ground.

"Take a rest for half a day. Tomorrow morning, when dawn comes, we will attack the orcs on the Xiangshan Plain."

Ryan said loudly, and the soldiers in front of him had bright eyes, and then swallowed the food in big mouthfuls. When they couldn't swallow it, they directly grabbed the snow on the leaves next to them and stuffed it into their mouths. For the people of the North Wind Province, this is the most important way for them to get water.

Ryan didn't know whether they had a good physique or died early. Anyway, this kind of thing is difficult to change in the frozen land territory. You need firewood to boil hot water, and firewood... firewood ranks first among firewood, rice, oil and salt.

Keeping warm is more important than hot water. Now the people of the frozen land territory will try to warm the snow water when they are cooking.

This is a problem that Ryan can't solve, because he can order that hot water must be drunk, but he can't solve the problem that comes with it, that is, energy.

So they could only sit back and watch the choices of their people in real life. Just like at this moment, except for Ryan himself, most of the knights and attendants behind him were grabbing the snow to replenish water. The water bottles only accounted for a small part of the supplies they carried with them, just two or three sips.

Those few sips of water, even the priority of supplying war horses, was higher than the soldiers themselves drinking.

This is also because the soldiers living in the North do not need to worry about the problem of water sources. At least they will not die, so things like physical inability to bear are trivial.

The physical fitness of knights and attendants is of course stronger and more resistant.

In the mountains and forests, the night is cold, but fortunately there are tents among the supplies moved out. The number is not large, but now the soldiers don’t care about these. Dozens of people squeezed in one tent are also snoring like thunder.

"A total of 3,640 people."

Brand counted the number of soldiers and reported it to Ryan. Early the next morning, Ryan handed the spears to the more than 3,600 soldiers like a magic trick, which shocked these people again.

"You have witnessed the breach of the Xiangshan Plain Fortress. You know best how many orcs have entered the North Wind Province. Now, Hanshan City has been captured. This area is full of orcs. Do you know where your own way out is?"

"How can you soldiers who have to hide in the mountains and starve and freeze survive? Do you know it yourself?"

"Go south, you want to return to your villages and towns, return to your homes, ask yourself, can you go that far? Can you get back to your home among so many orcs?"

"You can't even get out of the Xiangshan Plain. Without me, all 10,000 of you will freeze to death or starve to death here."

"Your only way out is the fortress of the Xiangshan Plain, where there are supplies supported by the nobles and the empire, and countless of food and meat, a lot of clothes, and most importantly, the houses there only have a crack in the windows, so the cold wind and snow can't blow in at all. "

"Occupy there, you can survive, you don't have to starve, you don't have to freeze, and you don't even need to return to the territory to work day after day."

"It's not easy to farm the land in the North Wind Province. On the contrary, it's easier to become a soldier and participate in the war."

"You are afraid of death, but now that death has come once, I think you are not so afraid of death anymore."

"There are 10,000 people here, and I have 2,000 knight attendants behind me, a total of 12,000 people. How many orcs are there in the Xiangshan Plain Fortress? Only 10,000 at most."

Ryan said loudly, looking at these not-so-wise soldiers, he knew that such a white lie was the best result.

Looking at the densely packed heads around, the soldiers certainly believed Ryan's words, not only because it was Ryan who said this, but also because they really had no way out in the past few days. Hiding in the mountains is death, but rushing into the Xiangshan Plain Fortress may survive.

I didn't have the courage before because I didn't have a leader, and I didn't have a strong knight to fight against the strong orcs, but now everything is ready.

"Charge!"

Orcs are very sleepy, but this is not their bad habit, but because they live in the ice and snow of the northern border all year round, sleeping is the best way to relieve hunger and keep warm.

Moreover, the Xiangshan Plain Fortress is a fortress belonging to humans after all.

The reason why the fortress is called a fortress instead of a city is not only because it is located on the edge of human land and faces powerful enemies, but also because there are a lot of mechanisms in the fortress itself. The most powerful thing about humans is not strength or speed, but the wisdom of using all tools.

Thousands of people came to the fortress, and the orcs inside did not find anything. Then, the soldiers who were familiar with the fortress found a way to quietly enter it.

In fact, the gate to the south of the fortress was not closed. The orcs did not have this habit, but for the sake of safety, Ryan still chose to take the secret passage.