Chapter 56 Running away all the way
The situation on the Orc Wasteland changed much faster than Arthur's expectations.
Arthur originally planned to rest for three days at the secret supply point troops. The orc hunting range would never be expanded to three hundred miles away within three days, but he underestimated the anger of the lion King Elliot.
The lion king's anger almost moved half of the tribe in the orc wasteland. All orcs, both young and old, were mobilized to find the traces of the human cavalry.
The next day outside the supply point where Arthur's cavalry regiment stationed, the orc showed signs of orcs flashed out, and the sentry located on the periphery did not even have a chance to catch up.
Out of caution, Arthur immediately made the decision to transfer the troops.
Less than an hour after Arthur's cavalry regiment left the place, a group of more than 200 orc cavalry rushed over.
Arthur and his team evacuated too hastily, and some traces of life and camping activities were too late to cover up. Therefore, although the orc cavalry was empty, they also locked in the position of the human cavalry.
While transmitting the information back as soon as possible, the orc cavalry also chased after the silver-horned buck's hoof prints.
The Orc Cavalry caught up on the evening of this day when Arthur and his friends stopped to rest.
Since entering the wasteland, Arthur has never relaxed his vigilance during his garrison, so he immediately discovered the orc cavalry that followed him all the way.
Given that the size of this orc cavalry was not large, Arthur and Gori decided to kill him after a brief discussion.
Although the Human Cavalry Regiment lost a lot of personnel in the battle to assassinate Hicks five days ago, and some seriously injured people had not even recovered their combat effectiveness, that battle allowed the Cavalry Regiment to gain momentum and the belief of victory.
How could a cavalry that even the Orc Guards and the Golden Lion Guard take the ordinary Orc Cavalry seriously?
This is true. The human cavalry will completely defeat the orc cavalry after catching up with one charge, and the rest will be one-sided massacre.
The human cavalry only paid two deaths in battle, and the more than a dozen injured completely defeated the orc cavalry of more than 200 people. This record was more than two months ago, and the soldiers of the Seventh Squadron could not even imagine when they first entered the Orc Wasteland.
The only regret is that this orc cavalry was not killed. Twenty orc cavalrymen fled without resistance after being washed away.
Arthur and Gori didn't take it seriously at the time, but later facts proved that it was these escaped cavalry that Arthur and his friends would be the root of the disaster that they would go through thousands of miles and fight along the way in the future.
Although it was another big victory, the battle was like the beginning of a nightmare. From this battle, Arthur and his cavalry regiment never stopped fighting again.
Arthur did not dare to stay there, but only asked the soldiers to replenish their food and water, and then moved overnight after a short rest.
The cavalry regiment ran all the way until the middle of the night to stop and rest. There was no camp at all. Many soldiers jumped off their mounts and lay on the ground.
Before the sky was completely bright, the soldiers were awakened by the sound of beastly hooves rushing from the earth, and another orc cavalry chased after them.
The orc cavalry is still far away, but the vibrations from the earth can tell that the size of this cavalry will never be small.
The human cavalry had to immediately embark on the path of transfer again.
They ran all morning. Even eating and drinking were done on the back of the mount. Fortunately, Arthur and the others rode on their own, otherwise even the Silver Horned Bucks would be exhausted and paralyzed.
It was only when noon that they completely got rid of the pursuers, but Arthur and the others still did not dare to stop, but just slowed down their pace.
In the evening of this day, Arthur and his friends encountered the intercepted orc troops for the first time. Two or three hundred orc warriors set up checkpoints on a major traffic artery.
There are pursuers behind and there are interceptors in front of them, so the human cavalry can only choose to break through the rush.
After paying the price of more than a dozen soldiers' casualties, the cavalry regiment broke through this orc level.
If in normal times, the troops would find a place to hide and rest after casualties. Now they can only move forward, and only by constantly moving can they avoid being surrounded by orcs. The injured warrior can only be simply bandaged. Alia's current healing magic can only give priority to protecting the most injured warriors.
In the next three days, Arthur and his cavalry regiment were chased by waves of orc cavalry. As long as they stayed in a place for a while, orcs would soon catch up. The first cavalry that caught up was not large in size, with only one or two hundred cavalry fewer, and only four or five hundred cavalry more.
Arthur's cavalry regiment could easily defeat the pursuers, but it also had to pay the price of several to dozens of casualties. After defeating the two pursuers, Arthur tried his best to avoid fighting with the orcs, because the human cavalry could no longer withstand any slight reduction, while the orcs were constantly replenishing their energy sources.
After three days of running around and fighting, the soldiers' butts were worn out, and they could fall asleep directly on the back of the bucks. Every day, the silver-horned bucks were exhausted to death.
What's even more terrifying is that the wounded did not have the chance to recover at all, and the situation of many injured people began to deteriorate and could only rely on Alia's healing magic to maintain their lives. Alia's magic is always in a semi-exhausted state, and every minute of recovery is immediately used on the most serious wounded person.
In the evening, after confirming that he finally got rid of the pursuers again, the Cavalry Regiment took the risk of camping on the upper shore of a stream to rest. If they didn't stop and rest, even if the soldiers could hold on, the Silver Horned Bucks could not hold on. If they ran for two consecutive days, the Cavalry Regiment might become an infantry regiment.
A group of silver-horned stags were drinking water by the stream, and the soldiers seized the time to clean their bodies. The marching pot was set up to make a fire and cook for the first time in a few days.
Before the water in the pot was fully boiled, the sentry issued an alarm again, and more than a hundred orc warriors touched it from the downstream.
The soldiers' expressions have become numb, and many soldiers subconsciously step onto their mounts, and new running around will be staged again.
Arthur was completely aroused of anger, "Don't run away, the soldiers and mounts came opposite him. The soldiers and mounts continued to rest on the spot. The War Captain and the above followed me and we will kill them all first."
Arthur's words, including Jose and the monkey, walked out of the warriors and stood silently behind Arthur.
Jose and the monkey successfully broke through the Warrior the day after assassinating Hicks. The life-and-death battles squeezed out the potential of every warrior.
Arthur, Gri and the others rushed up after the orcs approached. There was no accident. Because of the force of crushing, Arthur and the others solved more than 100 orcs without any casualties, and did not let one orc escape back.
In this battle, Arthur deliberately left a few survivors because the pursuers they encountered in the past few days, including these orcs today, obviously several groups were coming to die.
Chapter completed!