Chapter 400: Stalemate (1st Update)
When the 400,000 soldiers of the Iron and Blood Banner Sect came to the defense line of the Condor Army at the foot of Qianshan Mountain, the defensive situation of the Condor Army was immediately greatly improved.
In the face of the destruction of the hostile players, the soldiers of the Great Banner greeted them without showing weakness, while the elven archers of the Condor Army only needed to shoot arrows behind them, and with the soldiers of the Great Banner as meat shields, they no longer had to worry about being besieged by the enemy.
After discovering that the Iron Blood Banner Gate had joined the camp of the Condor Empire, Lin Xiao immediately organized a large-scale raid, wanting to give the other party a dismount.
Millions of player swordsmen rushed out from different directions of the Thousand Mountains and Mountain Range, and rushed straight to the Condor Empire's defense area near the foot of the mountain.
In the face of the enemy's onslaught, the players of the Iron and Blood Banner Gate launched a counter-charge without fear of death, and they withstood the enemy's onslaught to the death, creating a good output environment for the elven archers of the Condor Army.
This great battle ended from sunrise to sunset, the million-player army of the Eagle Hoof Empire was wiped out, and the soldiers of the Iron and Blood Banner Gate fought to the end with less than 100,000 people.
Although the million players who died in the Eaglehoof Empire were quickly revived, this defeat was still a heavy loss, because this raid was very different from previous suicide attacks, and players were carrying swords to attack, and defeat meant losing all weapons.
Although the quality of the weapons used by the players is not very good, but with so many weapons captured at once, Ning Yuan is still a dragon.
In order to thank the soldiers of the Great Banner for their efforts, he not only sent a large amount of wine and food to reward the three armies, but also provided 300,000 magic potions to the Iron and Blood Banner Gate free of charge, hoping to help those reborn soldiers of the Great Banner to grow to their peak state as soon as possible.
After this defeat, although the players of the Thousand Mountains Mountain Range will often come down the mountain to sneak attack, it is already difficult for them to achieve any decent gains.
Faced with this situation, Lin Xiao was also very helpless, although they had an army of 200,000 orcs stationed in the Thousand Mountains Mountain Range, the main role of these 200,000 troops was to defend the mountain and contain the army of the Condor Empire.
Don't look at the army of the Condor Empire that can't fight the mountain now, but their army of 200,000 orcs also doesn't dare to attack it.
On the Thousand Mountains, the orc army occupies a geographical advantage, and the air superiority of the owl warriors is extremely huge, they can instantly form an absolute superiority in strength on a certain mountain, and can easily go around the rear of the enemy to outflank them.
And once they go down the mountain, this advantage disappears.
In the endless plains, the elven archers can easily catch up with them, and if they are not careful, they will suffer heavy losses.
After losing a large number of wolf knights, the Eagle Hoof Empire was left with the Owl Legion, a highly mobile and powerful army, so Lin Xiao easily did not dare to let them go into danger.
Although this orc legion did not dare to go down the mountain easily, as long as they stayed on the mountain for a day, the elven archers of the Condor Empire would not dare to leave.
So even if he couldn't make any big breakthroughs, Lin Xiao still let this legion be stationed in the Qianshan Mountain Range for a long time, because being able to contain the enemy's annoying elven archer legion was also a victory.
Although Ning Yuan was not satisfied with this delicate situation, due to his lack of strength, he could only choose to accept it temporarily, he was ready to fight a protracted battle with the enemy.
As a result, in the Qianshan Mountains, the two armies fought a dozen times a day, and fought once or twice a month, maintaining a delicate balance.
Although the border areas of the Condor Empire are often harassed by the enemy, the Condor Empire still has an advantage in the overall situation, so Ning Yuan can accept the situation of maintaining a balance with the enemy in the Thousand Mountains Mountains, but in other places he can't give the enemy time to breathe.
Now the Eaglehoof Empire has adopted a defensive strategy of shrinking on all fronts, and they are recuperating in the area east of the East Liao River.
Due to the existence of the Liao River and the Eastern Liao River, it was difficult for the cavalry regiments of the Condor Empire to break through to the area east of the East Liao River.
In order to allow his cavalry to reach the royal city of the orcs (Changchun), Ning Yuan gathered an army of 200,000 and launched a fierce attack on Shuangliao City, an important city of the orcs located at the intersection of the Western Liao River and the Eastern Liao River.
As long as Shuangliao City is captured, the territory of the Orcs on the Northeast Plain will no longer have any natural dangers to defend, and no one will be able to stop the cavalry regiment of the Condor Empire from grazing horses under the Orc King City.
Shuangliao City, as the most important defense line in the Eagle's Hoof Empire, could not be lost, so Lin Xiao arranged 100,000 defenders in Shuangliao City.
10,000 totem warriors, 20,000 minotaur warriors, 10,000 boar warriors, 10,000 bear warriors, 20,000 owl warriors, 20,000 werewolf warriors, 10,000 leopard warriors.
From the composition of the soldiers defending the city, it can be seen how much the orcs attach importance to Shuangliao City.
In order to reduce losses and hit the morale of the defenders in the city, Ning Yuan transferred a hundred trebuchets and carried out a seven-day stone bomb attack on Shuangliao City regardless of day or night.
It was only after the stone bullets brought with them were exhausted that the Condor Army began to officially attack the city.
Although the rain of stone bullets caused a lot of casualties to the orc defenders in the city, it failed to dampen their morale.
When the Condor began to attack the city, the orcs took full vent on the besieging soldiers for the humiliation they had suffered during the seven days, and the enemy and the enemy launched a fierce attack and defense battle around the city walls.
Although the Eaglehoof Empire lacks long-range troops, they have an absolute advantage in terms of infantry.
The mighty minotaurs and bears defended the city, and it was simply unstoppable, and the siege soldiers of the Condor Army were driven down by them as soon as they attacked the city, and they even attacked the siege tower along the pontoon bridge on the head of the city.
Even the Condor Army's proudest siege arrow tower failed to take advantage of the orcs.
When the orcs found the elven rangers sniping the defenders on the city wall on the siege arrow tower, a group of owl warriors immediately chose to take to the air, and they braved the enemy's arrow rain to rush to the siege arrow tower, and started a desperate fight with the elven rangers above.
Under the desperate attack of the owl warriors, a large number of siege arrow towers were captured by the orcs.
Without fire support from the siege towers, it was even more difficult for the siege soldiers to rush to the top of the city.
After seeing that the siege was hopeless, Ning Yuan had to choose Mingjin to withdraw his troops and let the soldiers withdraw.
In this siege battle, although the orcs suffered heavy losses, the Condor Army also failed to bargain for anything, and the enemy and us were both defeated.
After seeing the orcs' ability to defend the city, Ning Yuan finally had to give up his plan to continue attacking.
Although he was very unwilling, he could only choose to continue the stalemate with the orcs on the current border.
The current situation is that the Eagle Hoof Empire is afraid of the cavalry regiment of the Condor Empire, and they dare not easily divide their troops and dare not take the initiative to attack.
Ning Yuan was afraid of the Eaglehoof Empire's infantry legions, especially the ultimate totem warriors of the Minotaur clan, so he didn't dare to start a frontal war easily.
The Eagle Hoof Empire needs time to recuperate, and the same is true for the Condor Empire in Ningyuan.
The Horqin Steppe and Nurul Tiger Mountain region have just been incorporated into the territory of the Condor Empire, and it will take a long time to completely digest the population and resources of these places.
As a result, there was a temporary stalemate between the two empires.
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