Chapter 22: Battle of the Walls
When the orc hand-to-hand warriors came up with stone axes, the 180 civilian crossbowmen who were originally guarding the city wall were left behind (Sun Lin's troops were generally a team of 60 people) to guard the various firing platforms on the city wall to continue long-range strikes against the half-orcs who had not yet climbed up, and the remaining 120 civilian crossbowmen had been replaced by 240 spear sergeants who were in the second line of support troops. But the effect did not make Sun Lin happy, on the contrary, at this time, Sun Lin's city wall front had been broken through several openings, and the battle situation was very critical for Sun Lin.
Although when the orcs were ready to attack Nottingham in advance, Sun Lin ordered the civilians in the city to transport all the stones left over from the original mining to the city wall to strengthen the defense, and when the orc trebuchet troops just started to climb the city wall, these stones also caused a lot of damage to these orc slingers who didn't even have clothes, and more than 10 orc slingers died under these stones falling from the sky in a few seconds, but when those orc elite troops- The situation changed again after the orc hand-to-hand warriors approached the walls.
Previous information has mentioned that the huge strength of the orcs can make them run from the canyon to the wooden castle of Nottingham from the canyon twice as large as themselves in advance without a trace of breath, although it is a bit exaggerated but it is indeed true, and as the elite of the half-orcs, these hand-to-hand warriors are not more than 30 decimeters taller than the average half-orcs, and their strength is twice that of the average half-orcs, so they can even throw a stone about the same size as their own body directly into the air more than 10 meters high.
So these spear soldiers defending the city were very tragic to find that those stones that were originally thrown by them from the city wall to kill and injure the half-orcs were thrown up by the half-orc hand-to-hand warriors who were crowded in the half-orc army, and in turn turned into sharp weapons to kill and injure human warriors, at the beginning, more than 10 spear soldiers were smashed down by these flying stones on the wooden wall more than 10 meters high and fell to death, but the spear sergeant who had learned a lesson also reacted immediately, Throw the stones on the wall towards the area where those orc hand-to-hand warriors are, and then hurriedly raise the kite-shaped shield in his hand when those flying stones are thrown up again, hoping to resist these powerful flying stones, but the effect is not very obvious, and the result is only two situations, either he was knocked down by the flying stones, or he was still smashed by the flying stones and flew to the old man's house to report............... This situation did not end until the orcs climbed the walls, and the battle ensued even more violently.
As a group of orc hand-to-hand warriors took the lead to climb the walls of Nottingham, the casualty rate of the human soldiers, who had been close to a narrow victory, began to increase dramatically, and the scales of victory began to waver. The half-orc hand-to-hand combat warriors with a stone axe melee basic attack power of 10 points began to be slowly stimulated after engaging with human soldiers, and the orc blood in the bodies of these warriors began to be slowly stimulated, although Sun Lin was up to 5 points plus Richard's new "Infantry Commander +1" This is up to 6 points of commander value, the attributes of the spear sergeants have become 7 + 6 attack power, 9 + 6 defense power, and 3 + 6 charge power, which is comparable to the existence of the Papal Guard, but the attributes of the enemy's generals are also very strong, Judging from the fact that those orc hand-to-hand warriors can directly cut off spear sergeants with shields and hands of up to 15 defense points, the enemy general's command point may only be 3 points, but its brutality value is definitely as high as 6 points, or even higher. (PS: Let's set it here, 1 point of virtue can add 1 point of combat morale to the troops, and 1 point of brutality is a bonus of 1 point of attack power, if the attack power of a certain class is 3 points higher than the attack power of the opponent's class, then this class with 3 points higher can cause armor-piercing attacks)
And what makes Sun Lin the most troublesome is that the number of these half-orc hand-to-hand combat warriors is definitely more than 200, and the melee attack power of the half-orc slingers who have been blessed by the half-orc generals is also very strong, although they can't cause substantial damage to the spear soldiers, but after surround the spear soldiers 7 or 8 by relying on the "human strength and large volume" style of play, they cooperate with those half-orc hand-to-hand warriors to begin to consume Sun Lin's strength little by little. If it weren't for the fact that these spearmen relied on the narrow terrain of the wooden wall to fight these orcs, it is estimated that these spearmen would have been wiped out in a few minutes.
"Guard the door! You can't let the orcs break these two scorpion crossbows! Also, you use my horn to give the order to the Hook and Scythe to join the battle, and the same chainmail knights dismount me and tell them all to block the staircase entrances to the lower walls! Not a single orc must be allowed to slip into the civilian area, not even a fly on an orc! Just go! After conveying the order to a member of the general guard beside him, Sun Lin stopped the operation of the scorpion crossbow, because at this time, all the orcs had been piled up under the city wall, and this was the shooting dead end of the scorpion crossbow, even if he wanted to kill a few half-orcs: "Come here, tell me how the battle on the city wall is now?" ”
"Report to the General, the attack of the orcs is extremely fierce, like ............ It's like you said it's bloody. However, the news is that although the casualties are still increasing, several important positions are still in our hands, and the 120 civilian crossbowmen who have been withdrawn have climbed onto the roofs of nearby houses and begun to make long-range interdiction against the orcs who have climbed up the city walls. ”
"What about the casualties?"
"The casualties of all the spear sergeant corps have already reached 1/3."
"Hmm............... No, it can't go on like this! You! Stay and watch! All the others will follow me out of the city wall to help! Hurry up, hurry up! Thinking that if these orcs were allowed to sneak into the civilian area to destroy, they would have to spend money to repair these buildings again, and the number of people who were about to reach the standard of upgrading the fortress would drop sharply, Sun Lin was very decisive, kicked open the door and led more than 10 generals and guards into the battle.
The generals' guards were worthy of being the elite of the army, and as soon as they joined the battlefield, they emptied the section of the road near the shooting platform where Sun Lin was originally located, and they themselves just consumed some physical strength, and Sun Lin was protected by these generals' guards on the grounds that they were inflexible in fighting in heavy plate armor as their commanders, and they were protected by these overly loyal ironclad soldiers.
"I wanted to see how high the defense of this armor is! It's good now......... It seems that I can't let these people stick to Richard in the future, otherwise I will have an extra group of 'loyal guard captains' in the future, how terrifying it will be............" Sun Lin, wrapped in heavy plate armor, couldn't help but shudder, and finally turned his gaze to the left city wall, because his intuition told him that there would be a half-orc he had been looking for there.