Chapter 258: Out of the City The orcs are well aware of their purpose in battle, if they can't break through the city in front of them in one day, then they will face a steady stream of human reinforcements, although the orc kingdom is also constantly sending reinforcements from the beast plateau here, but obviously those cold wildernesses are not comparable to the smooth roads in the human kingdom.
After the whole army repaired for two hours, after lunch, the orcs began the second wave of siege, and with the beast dragon as the vanguard, these ferocious and huge, and fast-reproducing monsters completely mastered the sky, Duke Reese's private air force once tried to leave the air defense area to prevent these black lizards from destroying the city wall, but they were hit by these monsters that were nimble in the sky, after losing nearly two hundred fighters in a row, Duke Reese was distressed and strictly ordered the air force to only defend and not to attack, The exchange ratio of the two is almost 10 to 1, which is really not cost-effective, and the plane has no advantage at all when it comes to melee combat in the sky.
In order to deal with these raging beast dragons, the mages defending the city squeezed out the last of their mental power, and the powerful war magic easily slaughtered those beast dragons, and then the mages had to temporarily withdraw from the battlefield for deep sleep to make up for their lost mental power.
After all, the battlefield depends on the sword to decide the victory, the orcs climbed the city wall under the rain of bullets, and then the warriors armed to the teeth of the human beings fought with the orcs, the city of Torriso has been resisting the attack of the orcs before, the city is stationed in the city of 200,000 elite troops of the Duke of Rees, and the elite of the entire Dukeship of Rees is gathered here, and the rest are responsible for cooperating with the city guards to defend the vast land of the dukedom.
Of the 200,000 troops, 60,000 had already been killed in one morning, and if it weren't for the fact that most of these soldiers' homes were in the city of Torriso, I am afraid that there would have been soldiers who were afraid to fight or even flee.
The battle in the afternoon was even more fierce than in the morning, and although there were no long-range attacking Crystal-tailed Dragons and Elven Mages, the orcs were twice as strong as before.
There are constantly orc soldiers climbing the city wall and falling off the city after being killed after a fight, the cold weather of about minus fifteen degrees in the northern territory of winter makes the orc corpses that have been frozen in the wild for most of the day as hard as stones, and the increasing orc corpses have become stairs, according to this speed calculation, the orcs can directly walk up the city wall more than ten meters high without even a ladder tonight.
"We can't go on like this, or the orcs will rush into the city tonight."
Duke Reese said, calculating the speed at which the orc corpses were increasing.
He was aware of this problem when he was directing the battle this morning, but there was no way to deal with the corpses for the time being, and a short rest time was not enough to clean up the huge pile of corpses under the city walls, and if it was burned, the current wind direction would disturb the entire city of Torrizo with smoke, and if this happened, it would be easier for the orcs to attack, because there were no people standing on the walls.
"Little Alex, I said before that we would just go and kill their boss, if we continue to toss like this, the soldiers will definitely not be able to hold it at night."
The middle-aged woman with curly flaxen hair said happily.
"Auntie, I won't stop you if you want to go, but please take my knights with you, and please take care."
The Duke of Reese was still a little worried, but as things were going, it seemed that raiding the opposing boss was the only way to keep the city.
"That's right!
Good nephew, wait for my good news!
After hearing her nephew's consent, the chubby woman immediately narrowed her eyes into a crescent moon shape with a smile, and patted the face of the Duke of Reese, who was nearly thirty years old, as if she were a child, and the middle-aged woman happily led the knights down the city wall.
The woman's name is Daphne Reese, the half-sister of the Duke of Reese's father, because she was born to a lady-in-waiting, this woman was married to a guardian knight of the Fourier family by the old duke at the age of sixteen, and the Duke of Reese, who was only seven years old at that time, was very good with this young and lively aunt, so even after Daphne married the guardian knight, the connection between the two was not broken.
Originally, Daphne Rees was supposed to be a virtuous wife like the concubines of other aristocratic families, and then live a life without worrying about food and clothing, but after marrying into the Duchy of Fourier, Daphne did not choose to live a stable life, but followed her husband to serve in the knights of the Duke of Fourier's family.
As long as there is strength in this world, women can be competent for almost any job, even if someone has an objection, as long as the dissident is silenced forever with a sword, there is no problem, Daphne Reese has a very good talent, she was already an intermediate warrior at the age of sixteen, and then in the first year of entering the Knights, Daphne advanced to become a high-level warrior, and in the third year, Daphne chose the path and officially became a great knight, and then every few years there will be news that this genius female knight is promoted again, until six years ago, While everyone was watching to see how the eldest prince would handle the rebellion, the female knight quietly rose to become a legend.
Legendary knights, in this world, the army led by legendary knights can be said to be undefeated, and Daphne is not the kind of rookie who has no actual combat experience, over the years in the army there have been several noble rebellions in the Duchy of Fourier and the surrounding areas, and this short-tempered handling of territorial affairs has always been simple and rude, the Duke has never compromised on the rebellion, Daphne's knight has conquered other noble lords several times, which is completely different from the kindness of treating relatives, The knightess was as ruthless as winter in her enemies, and was once known as the butcher in the Duchy of Fourier.
However, in recent years, due to Daphne's advanced legend and the replacement of equipment in the Duke's territory of Fourier, even other minor nobles who are oppressed do not dare to have any complaints, Daphne has not had a chance to make a move for several years, and this woman who is known as a butcher on the battlefield should be full of expectations for this battle.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, dusk had come, the winter sun was setting very fast, and in another twenty minutes, according to experience, the land would be plunged into darkness, and by that time the orcs' night vision would give them an absolute advantage in battle.
In front of the eight-meter-high bronze gates of Toriso, some orcs were slamming into the gates in vain with logs, and they were leaning against the bottom of the walls to be difficult to be attacked by human soldiers.
When the ancestors of Duke Reese came to this land, the forest was full of fierce beasts and various barbarians, in order to defend against the attacks of these extremely aggressive guys, the ancestors of Duke Reese used several precious eighth-order magic crystals from the black iron dwarves to exchange hundreds of tons of bronze when building the gates of Toriso City, which were cast into Torriso's gates, and each time the door was opened, it took a hundred soldiers to push it with all their strength.
Of course, the orcs did not understand the glorious history of Duke Rees's family, and in their simple minds, they could only bump and bump and continue to bump into the gate until they opened it, and they did not even think of giving up this option.
And the gunfire on the city gate has been sparse and has made them more focused on the great and glorious cause of slamming the door, because the height of the city gate here is five meters higher than the other city walls, and no orc will try to climb up from here, so the soldiers on the city head have not fought with the orcs since the beginning of the war, and on this battlefield, the city gate near the city gate seems to have become a paradise of escape.
Whether it's the hard-working orcs below or the lazy soldiers on the castle tower, it seems that they have no intention of changing the current status quo.
But they didn't plan, it didn't mean that others didn't plan, just when the orcs kept knocking on the bronze gate full of patterns like a bell, the gunfire on the city wall gradually stopped, the deafening sound of the city gate and the noise from other places had already numbed the ears of the orcs, so they didn't notice that the human soldiers who kept the peace on their heads and with different eyes from them had obediently stood in the corner with their weapons.
"The last thirty seconds, everyone is ready!"
An officer spoke to the soldiers who were replacing the riflemen, the pocket watch he had received from Rodnik turning the hands with precision.
Unlike those who are pitiful with semi-automatic rifles, these new soldiers who have taken their place also use gunpowder weapons, but the guys in their hands are much more powerful than semi-automatic rifles.
A hundred soldiers were divided into four groups, one using grenades, a weapon that would have been prepared to destroy the foolish orcs under the city gates.
The second group is a heavy machine gun, the riflemen have only heard of it before from the craftsmen in charge of repairing firearms in the barracks, for this kind of large-scale killing weapon that can shoot hundreds of rounds in one breath, the riflemen's hearts are full of illusions, the third group uses a rifle similar to the riflemen, looking at the slender appearance It seems that it can only shoot a single shot, but the size of the weapon is too big, and the gun is almost as tall as a person.
As for the ten soldiers in the fourth group, the riflemen who had been guarding the city gate were most incomprehensible, they had no weapons in their hands, and these soldiers carried some strange metal boxes on their backs, and they also carried something like lanterns.
The soldiers were quite curious about the effect of these things, but at this time they didn't even dare to come out, let alone talk about it, because now it was not only those strange soldiers on the city gate, but also Lord Alex St.
Rees.
"Ready!
Bombing!
Thirty seconds passed in an instant, and the first group of soldiers quickly threw the grenades in their hands down the wall as ordered.
The bombs that fell from the sky exploded, and the orcs in front of the city gate were swept away in an instant.
Dozens of knights quickly pushed the gate open with muscle entanglement inside the gate, and then the butcher Daphne led the knights of the duke in silver armor to rush out of the city.
"Hahaha, I'm finally able to make a big kill!"
Daphne laughed happily as she wielded her long-handled battle axe in one hand and slashed the orcs in her way.