Chapter 0290 Rohan War (9)(1/3)
"Roar~!!!"
In the battlefield of the Grassland at the entrance of the Holy Helmet Valley, which was filled with black and red blood stagnant, a strong orc whose left arm was broken by a bullet was grabbing its large hooked knife, revealing its hideous fangs and blood marks on its face, making shrill roars at the sky.
Although it did not understand what the enemy did, it did not admit defeat!
The names of these powerful orcs are Zagrag. They just barely struggled out of a pile of corpses. Then, they discovered in surprise and indignation that the army of strong orcs, the iron armored formations of super spears and the sword shield plate armored formations, all fell here, and fell in this huge area about two hundred to eight hundred yards from the enemy formation.
"Roar~!!!"
Zagrag could not remember what happened just now, and the roar continued...
It was originally a team leader of the sword and shield quadratic formation, in charge of the 155 strong orc sword and shield iron armor soldiers under its command. It itself is the strongest among their strong orcs, so, naturally, it became a team officer and was responsible for leading its own team during this battle and leading its own team first!
Before this, when attacking the horn fortress, Zagrag's team fell to the last, so it was not assigned any combat missions. Because of this, they were not able to grab any broken limbs and arms in the feast of the front troops. This made them feel very dissatisfied, who had been marching for several days but could only eat the black bread with maggots!
Fortunately, when they were about to try their best to squeeze into the high walls of the horn castle to see if they could find one or two corpses from the ruins outside to open some meat to replenish some meat, there were bursts of strange horns behind them?
Then Zaglag was surprised to find that in the direction of the entrance of the Holy Helmet Valley, a group of stupid human soldiers blocked their retreat? So Zaglag, together with other powerful orcs, was ordered to attack the ridiculous sparse formation of the opponent and resolutely eliminate those stupid enemies!
They didn't spend much time in the whole team outside the wall of the Horn Fort, and then they couldn't wait to press towards the valley entrance!
While marching, Zagrag was yelling at his men excitedly, but he did not forget to explain to them: Later, no matter what, they would take time to grab a few enemy bodies for their team, and slightly improve the bad military food recently!
Since the enemy does not look strong, in order to gain enough benefits, Zaglag specially won a front position for his team, and he has always been complacent about his wise decision.
At the beginning, Zagrag felt very strange because when their large troops gradually approached the strange human troops four or five hundred yards in front of the strange human troops, the other party still did not move at all, and was still fiddling with the strange... iron stick in their hands?
Although Zagrag himself was a little puzzled, not knowing what the new group of enemies without armor and sharp blades wanted to do? However, this did not weaken its longing for the meat and killing that was about to be obtained!
So, when their forwards reached the enemy's three hundred yards distance, Zagrag began to raise his shield excitedly and shout loudly, because the distance was already very close, and he planned to let his subordinates start to accelerate and charge with him, and directly defeat the little girls who were heading to the not far away!
At that time, the other strong orc formations walking in the front row also did the same. With a distance of 300 yards, they only need twenty or thirty breaths to rush over, and then, they stormed their formation, cut off their heads, and then, then, eat them?
This is better for them to be strong orcs. They don’t need to waste time cleaning the battlefield, burying or burning corpses like those stupid humans. Their practice is usually the winning side to eat the enemy directly!
Even the same kind who died in battle on their own side, they would be eaten! So, it is not unreasonable that their strong orcs have a high morale. At least, they do not need to feel sad about their companions' deaths at all, but will be happy? Because the companions who died in battle mean that after the battle, they will have an extra source of meat and a less share of competitors?
However, what Zagrag might never imagine is that the final result is the scene in front of him?
It still remembers that when it held its shield high and began to shout loudly to boost morale and prepare to accelerate the charge, the strange people on the opposite side, their first row of band-shaped battle lines, actually held up the iron sticks in their hands towards them?
Then, when fire and smoke came out of the mouth of the iron stick in the other party's hand, Zagrag heard the subsequent explosion and found that the arm and shield on his left hand were knocked away directly? Then, he felt something that seemed to have rubbed against its head armor, making it look dark in an instant, and it fell down...
"No...no!!!"
Finally, when Zagrag regained consciousness and woke up, and tried hard to climb out of the pile of corpses with his remaining hand, he only discovered the scene in front of him: their powerful orcs, countless corpses in blackboard armor, were all lying silently here, falling on the wilderness at the entrance of the Holy Helmet Valley...
It had just looked around. At this time, the corpses that were supposed to be companions were closest to the enemy, and the distance was about two hundred yards, while the more, they were facing the enemy's back and fell in the area of three hundred to eight hundred yards!
Obviously, when they charged before they had already disintegrated... They shamefully handed their backs to the enemy...
"Kill you! Zagrag is going to kill you!"
After great fear and grief, what follows is endless madness!
"Kill you...eat you..."
So, Zagrag grabbed a sharp-grossed knife on the ground with his only left right hand, with blood on his face. He made a beast-like roar in his mouth, and roared fiercely, and walked step by step towards the formation of the enemy in the distance, which seemed to have not yet dissipated smoke...
“…”
The battle has been over for a long time. Queen Ofina, who was standing in front of the formation on a unicorn, did not order to clean up the battlefield, because there were more enemies in the distance!
So they stood leisurely in their respective positions, began to urgently load medicine or check their respective weapons, and looked at the bodies of nearly 10,000 powerful orc troops who were defeated by them.
Except for a few lucky ghosts who were left behind and were able to escape back to the horn castle by chance, all the other powerful orcs who launched the attack fell here...
Occasionally, three or two strong orcs got up from the pile of corpses and wanted to escape, and were killed by their sharpshooters one by one. They were not able to escape far.
However, this was the first time that Ofina saw like this strong orc in front of her. After being seriously injured, the other party not only did not run away, but she also dared to pick up the guy and walk towards her battle line step by step?
This made her feel a little interested, so she did not order her subordinates to shoot, but allowed the other party to walk within the two hundred yards area.
"Lend me your weapon, soldier!"
At this time, when Ofina saw the powerful beast soldier still roaring, staggering towards her side step by step and starting to charge with her weapons, she finally smiled, possessed herself directly on the back of the unicorn, and snatched the other party's Minni rifle that was so hot that the barrel was faintly hot from a soldier beside her.
After confirming that the ammunition had been loaded inside, she took the gun and began to aim at the powerful beast soldier who was still running and staggering step by step.
Regardless of whether the other party was brave or stupid, Ofina had decided: this time, she took action herself and gave the other party a more decent way to die?
So when the mechanical sight of the Minni rifle in his hand trapped the ugly and hideous head of the other party, Onina gently pulled her index finger.
"Bang!"
When the fire sickle hit the edge of the medicine pool, a pile of sparks emerged, and the gunpowder in the medicine pool suddenly exploded after it hits Mars. After a crisp gunshot, the medicine pool and muzzle on the right side gushed out at the same time, blocking Ofina's sight, forcing her to squint slightly.
But she could still clearly see that the head of the strong orc in the distance exploded like a corrupt black watermelon, and the other party's iron helmet also shattered into two pieces and flew out! At this time, the headless corpse, which was almost completely broken on the other party's neck, finally pounced on the ground after shaking slightly twice...
Actually, this is a small strong orc leader called Zagrag. It is already amazing! Because it is the closest among the ten thousand strong orcs just now, to the red-bottomed gold-edged vulture flag before the Musketeers in the United Kingdom of Alicia!
It died nearest to the enemy, which is an extremely glorious thing after all, isn't it?
"Ha! It seems that their strong orcs are finally starting to get anxious..."
After returning the musket with bullets in his hand to the admiring musketeer beside him, Ou Feina looked into the distance with interest.
Outside the wall of the Horn Castle, countless powerful orc troops began to be driven out of the Horn Castle by their generals and began to gather directly outside the wall.
Soon, they lined up into a tight array, with only one or two people standing between each other, so when the Alicia soldiers in the distance looked over, they felt dense, like a large group of man-eating black ants gathering together.
"Groyin! Have your artillery position been set up?!"
After calculating that the enemy should have a long time to maintain order and arrange the formation side by side, Onina stopped looking at it, and rode backwards and ran to the artillery array on the high ground, shouting loudly at the dwarf Ge Luoyin who was building the artillery position.
Just now, because the strong orcs came up too quickly, she did not expect the slow artillery. Now, once the tens of thousands of strong orcs and Denlanders rushed over desperately, it would be necessary for her to suppress the artillery and destroy the morale of the enemy in order to reduce some of the pressure on the musketeers.
"It's ready, Her Majesty, please relax!"
Ge Luoyin, who was carefully stuffing a large round iron ball into the cannon chamber, quickly waved his hand and shouted, indicating that their artillery positions had been constructed and loaded.
"Now, as long as you order, we can even bombard their powerful orcs with the big position outside the castle now!"
After judging the distance between the two sides, the old dwarf Ge Luoyin felt that the formations of those strong orcs were densely arranged, and they probably didn't need to aim at them. They could just hit them with just one shot and probably could lead to a long list of flesh-and-blood connections?
He calculated that if they didn't miss it, they only needed a volley. After thirty shells were shot, they could at least kill hundreds or thousands of powerful orcs? There was nothing that could better reflect the power of their artillery than fighting this dense formation. Before, they would only hit the city gate or bombard the city walls!
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On the mountain fortress of the Horn Fort, now, the strong orcs who were originally hitting the door have run out of the guard wall. They are walking in a hurry and even abandoned the huge bumping wood directly on the side of the stone bridge outside the door.
And now inside the guardrail of the Horn Fort, except for about thousands of Denlanders who are still destroying the fortress facilities or trying to find a way to enter the mountain fortress, only a very small number of powerful orc troops are left lingering inside and no one cares about it.
At this time, within the mountain fortress, in this hall, the generals, soldiers or refugee gates who had been incredible and discussed the rankings of the Kingdom of Alicia have collectively banned their voices!
While they were excited by the powerful support from their side, they were also instinctively afraid of the terrifying weapon that would emit flames and explode like bamboo sounds!
“Aragorn…”
After thinking about it, Xiyoudon finally spoke with difficulty.
"You have traveled around Middle-earth for so many years, have you ever seen a weapon that will bring fire and smoke? Or... similar?"
After observing the attack, destruction of the 10,000 powerful orc legions and the terrifying weapons of the United Kingdom of Alicia, Hieuson was now so shocked that he could hardly speak.
You know, that is a army of nearly 10,000 powerful orcs equipped with iron armor...
Xiyoudon felt that even if he gave himself ten thousand of the most elite cavalry, it would take at least several days to rush forward and lure the enemy, and lose at least half of the troops that had already lost, right?
And now, with the terrible fire-burning weapon, they blocked the valley entrance and almost wiped out the first batch of enemies without any damage? He just saw clearly that the number of powerful orcs who could escape by chance, the number of people who could escape successfully in the end would definitely not exceed one thousand!
Hieutun asked himself, if this was replaced by the ten thousand cavalry of their Rohanate to attack the formation of the Alicia Kingdom, he himself felt that with the same number of people on both sides, their cavalry would definitely be slaughtered on the way to charge!
He felt that at least a cavalry with an advantage of three to five times, and under the wide and flat grassland terrain, there was hope that they could withstand the shooting of those terrible weapons and forcibly rush to the enemy's formation, right?
Moreover, the most terrible thing is: under the huge casualties and huge blow to morale, it is still a matter of whether there is any unit that can withstand that kind of loss! The feeling of despair when he has not touched the enemy, he will lose half of it first, will definitely collapse any of the most disciplined army in Middle-earth world!
The strong orcs just now are the best proof! Their morale and discipline can be said to be excellent!
But what happened? When they were easily massacred by the enemy for three to five thousand, they could no longer be restrained and began to collapse and escape! Then, when they handed their backs to the enemy, they finally died to the point where only a few hundred lucky people escaped, and almost wiped out the entire army?
That terrible weapon just chased them and shot them in the back, and hit them to a position of nearly a thousand yards... Is it that what they were holding in their hands was a large catapult? Otherwise, how could it be so far?
“…”
"I'm sorry, King Hiyotun... Although I have been to many places in Middle-earth, I have never seen such a terrible weapon!"
"I haven't even heard of it..."
After a while of silence, Aragon shook his head with some difficulty. At this time, he only felt a wave of bitterness surge into his heart...
In the face of such a terrifying weapon that only devils possess, personal courage will become useless! When facing such a weapon, even the most elite ranger or knight may not be as powerful as a woman without any power?
Now, Aragon finally understood why there were almost no armor in the army of the Alicia Kingdom? He also knew why there were even a group of women in their formation...
If there is such a terrifying devil weapon, let alone a woman, even a child, as long as he can hold that kind of iron rod, he will probably be able to easily kill the bravest knight, right?
Moreover, it is an attack that can be launched at such a long distance...
"Maybe, they are really the devils from hell?"
Apart from the adjective of devil's weapons, Aragon can't imagine a better modifier... Those terrible weapons may not appear in this Middle-earth world at all!
He suddenly felt a little discouraged and lazy. Just by looking at their current military strength, Aragon knew that the other party would definitely be able to gain a firm foothold on the land of the Arno Kingdom north of the White Egg River!
To be continued...