Chapter 18: Sun Lin's Secret Weapon
After last night's heavy cavalry night attack, the half-orc warriors who could participate in the battle this time were directly reduced from the original more than 5,500 people to about 5,000 people, and the half-orcs found that the "God Blessed" canyon had two breaches before the next day's attack, and the commander of the half-orcs, that is, the leaders of the four tribes, immediately changed the battle policy, from the original single knife straight into two ways, by 3 or so half-orc warriors led by the small leader plus the wounded who were still capable of fighting after last night's night attack formed a team, heading"God's Blessing" moved forward at the mouth of the canyon, while the other team was led by the Orc Chief, 3,000 orc warriors with all their combat strength preserved, and attacked the difficult to defend Nottingham Castle area.
However, due to the geographical location, the battle for Nottingham Castle had already begun before the 2,000 or so orc troops led by the three orc leaders began to attack the canyon rift defense. Taking advantage of the geographical location, Sun Lin's 180 civilian crossbowmen began to pour out the head of the orcs when they just emerged on the winding mountain road.
Although there are many natural bunkers on the winding mountain road that can be used by the orcs to avoid the extremely lethal stepping crossbows, because the orcs do not know what legion combat is, this group of orcs only knows how to charge forward when attacking, and the winding mountain road is not wide, and each orc thinks that he will be the first warrior to attack the wooden wall. The result was tragic, this group of half-orcs moved forward completely in a human-squeezing manner, and even a few poor half-orcs were directly squeezed out of the road by other half-orcs, falling from a cliff dozens of meters high and falling into a meat pie.
And for this kind of half-orc commando with a group of live meat targets, how can the civilian crossbowmen on the city wall not shoot? Just listen to the sound of "Shoot the arrow!" "On the wooden wall on the outskirts of Nottingham's wooden fort district, 180 civilian crossbowmen armed with treadmills and wearing light chain armor loaded their sharp crossbow arrows, and under the command of a member of the general's guard, they fired at the orc legions outside the wall, and as soon as the crossbow strings sounded, 180 crossbow arrows were deeply inserted into the body of the orc slinger with the roar of a human. More than 500 orc slingers who were assault soldiers were hit by crossbow arrows, and more than 10 orcs died directly in an instant, and more than 20 orcs were injured to varying degrees and lost their combat effectiveness. This casualty is like an itch for the orcs with an army of 5,000.
Fortunately, over the next few years, the casualty rate of the orc warriors began to double, as more than 500 orc pioneers finally entered the first trap area of Nottingham Wooden Castle after suffering three rounds of fire and about 100 soldiers died.
Speaking of the Nottingham Wooden Castle trap area, in fact, the trap area is very monotonous, because there are not many wood, not many fish (unable to refine fish oil) in this area of Nottingham, but there is one thing that is very special, that is, large stones. So I don't know which lucky orc warrior squeezed out of the chaotic ranks of 400 warriors of the same clan to become the first place, he was very tragically trantified by an inconspicuous hemp rope tripped, and with a huge round stone suddenly fell from the cliff at a high place, smashing all the more than 10 orc warriors who caught up with him into a part of the winding mountain road, and then took a few "new" orc warriors from the cliff to the wasteland.
"Well.......... these brainless orcs are so brave! If this commando team were replaced by any of my existing troops, it is estimated that they would have begun to lose their morale and even begin to break up and flee, and only this group of poor orc warriors with small heads could continue to advance without fear of death............." Looking at the battle situation in front of him, although the tone in Sun Lin's mouth was very relaxed, his face became unprecedentedly solemn, as the saying goes, "Those who are stunned are afraid of the horizontal, and those who are horizontal are afraid of not dying." "In a war between countries with the same or a slight difference in combat effectiveness, it is not about which side has more population, better weapons, or more money, but how many people in the army will die for their own victory, just like this group of half-orcs in front of them, although they are poorly equipped and have average combat effectiveness, but they are better than the number of people, and they are all not afraid of death, even if you let these half-orcs stand and line up for 180 civilians to shoot, it will take hours, And this is also under the condition that the number of crossbow arrows in Nottingham Castle is sufficient, but a few hours is enough time for 3,000 orcs to force their way into the city walls and wreak havoc on the Nottingham Wooden Castle district, although Sun Lin believes that the final victory will definitely be his own, but this kind of victory in exchange for a heavy price is not what Sun Lin wants.
"Ready to go!"
"Knock Knock Knock ............"
"! These orcs actually know how to use their wits to fight?! Just when Sun Lin was thinking about how to defeat the orcs at the lowest cost, something changed on the battlefield, but when the first 500-person commando team touched several traps in a row and was attacked by several rounds of crossbow arrows, only more than 100 people died, and the orcs under the mountain pass began to send a new team of 500 orcs to attack, but this time the orc army not only came, but also brought the tent where the tribal leader lived.
Although there are no trees on the wasteland, there are many wooden and hard trees growing in the center of the oasis in the desert area, and the tent of the leader of the half-orc tribe is mostly made of wooden planks except for some places that are wrapped in animal skins, that is, the second team of half-orc commandos also carried a huge wooden shield as they advanced.
Although the shooting power of the stepping crossbow is extremely powerful, and it can even shoot through some light chain mail directly, it is still a little powerless in the face of these planks with a thickness of nearly half a decimeter, especially with the kind of wood with extremely hard quality, and because of the relatively long distance, the crossbow arrows that shoot at the plank do not penetrate the plank, on the contrary, if this group of orcs learn to use crossbows, then these crossbow arrows that shoot out are completely sending ammunition to these orcs.
"Learned? Or are the heads of the orcs knocked out? But do these orcs really think they can advance to the wooden gates with the help of a plank? Leo! Tell the logistics troops to carry the two big guys out, so that the orcs know what the real crossbow bolts are. โ
"Yes!" After receiving Sun Lin's signal, Leo, a member of the new general's guard, hurriedly ran down from the city gate tower, and after less than half a minute, borrowed the simple crane built by Sun Lin's pulley knowledge, and asked the 20 logistics soldiers to put two things wrapped in gray linen into the lifting platform, and hoisted the two mysterious weapons with a length of 10 meters, a head width of 7 meters and a height of half a meter into the two shooting towers on the city gate tower.
"Leo! You control the one on the left, I'll control the one on the right, let's compare and see who ignites that plank first! The winner can get a bottle of rum from the other party! โ
"Good!" After making a bet, Sun Lintou would not climb from the stairs to the shooting tower, and the place where the shooting tower could stand at this time had been completely occupied by this mysterious weapon, and the civilian crossbowmen who were originally shooting in the shooting tower had also left. Sun Lin slowly walked to the mysterious weapon, and with his slightly trembling hands, he opened the ash covering the mysterious weapon.
"It's up to you how many orc tribes will be consumed in this battle, and the amount of vitality will depend on youโthe bed crossbow."