Prehistoric Calendar

Chapter 1457 The Siege Begins

"...What a big battle."

Gu looked down at the sky, and he saw that almost the entire range of the plain where he entered his eyes was densely packed with black and various variegated circles.

These black and variegated colors are the torrent of the orc army.

So far, more than [-] million orcs have besieged the Iron Fortress, and there are naturally many ordinary orcs among them, just like the orcs who participated in the first siege campaign when the Iron Fortress was still a mine fortress. Civilians in cities and towns are the most numerous group, and there are not many professional soldiers among them.

But when the number of orc swarms reaches hundreds of millions, even though the vast majority of them are civilians, professional armies still appear as an organic system. In the case of Gu alone, there are thousands of large and small organic armies, and among them There are also many orcs and even the famous elite troops among the ancient orcs, or strong fighting races, such as the ancient orcs' long-haired mammoth heavy infantry, each soldier is 15 meters high, covered in fine steel armor, and the weapons in their hands are at least ten meters long , although the number is only about [-], but its power is enough to rival an army of one million. This is a powerful fighting race among the ancient orcs. , but there are too few behemoths, there are hundreds of millions of orcs gathered here, and all the behemoths and beasts add up to only three hundred.

In terms of combat effectiveness, each of these woolly mammoth heavy infantry has at least the strength of a third-tier extraordinary fighter. Except that most of them are mortals, they have no factors such as extraordinary energy, but their physical strength and physical fitness are enough for them. Fight hard against the third-order extraordinary fighters without losing, and they are really armed to the teeth. They are covered with enchanted steel plate armor, and they are enchanted with ten-meter giant heavy weapons. As long as they run on the battlefield, they are the well-deserved overlords of the battlefield.

In addition to the wooly mammoth heavy infantry, which can be called the overlord of the battlefield, there are also moon wolf light cavalry, thunder rhinoceros assault heavy cavalry, yak heavy infantry, Bimon warriors... and other strong fighting races and troops.

As for the number of other regular orthodox troops, they are at least in the tens of millions. They are not the kind of civilians who will charge wildly under the influence of the war tide. These troops often belong to various cities before the war tide. The army is all full-time professional soldiers. Even under the influence of the tide of war, they often have discipline and formation, and they will not charge blindly, but this is the most terrifying thing. It is a very terrifying thing to have the characteristics of no fear of life and death, and the stronger the more you die, and the fighting skills and fighting discipline of a soldier.

In fact, neither Gu nor Zhang Haohuan knew that when the tide of war appeared, the area around the orc territory had been completely wiped out. A local war broke out, and even the royal capital of the elves was defeated. It can be said that the influence of the orc war tide has begun to spread to the entire prehistoric continent, and many powerful clans have already set their sights on this place. An area, and these big and powerful clans have already begun to prepare their troops.

Gu looked at the countless orcs below. Although his face was cold and disdainful, the vigilance in his heart had already been raised to the peak.

Even if he hasn't started attacking yet, just looking down from high altitude makes him feel a slight threat, which is the huge sense of threat generated after the number of clusters reaches a certain critical point, once he dares to personally attack the people below If the orc army launched a direct attack, if the thunder came down immediately, he might not be able to kill him with one or two shots, but if the continuous sky-punishment blue thunder bombarded him, then he would have black flames to recover, and his end could only be ashes. Ash.

(It seems that in future wars, the army is really important, high-level extraordinary is important, and the army is equally important, and I have a feeling that if I use this fierce flame to attack the orc army in the steel fortress, I will suffer The backlash will be reduced, but there are too few people on our side, so the reduction is very small. If there are millions of troops on my side, then it is estimated that in addition to mortal battles, there will be high-level extraordinary melee battles...)
Gu thought for a while, but he couldn't imagine that scene, but he had a premonition that such scenes might happen frequently in the future.

When the number of orc troops on the periphery broke through to around 5000 million, at noon that day, the first round of attacks finally arrived.

The scene that appeared first was not the scene that appeared in the previous two siege battles. There were no low-level orcs all over the mountains and plains starting to attack. In fact, the orc swarms besieging the steel fortress were very careful this time. They didn't even set foot on the metal ground. The camps were also established hundreds of kilometers away... Although the Gauss cannons were within the shooting range, the orcs didn't know about it, and they were already very cautious.

The catapults appeared in the first round, which looked very primitive and large catapults. The manipulators of these catapults were also some low-level orcs. Occasionally, there were a few high-level orcs or ancient orcs as commanders, and there were a few orcs from the legal system. professional.

The actual range of these catapults is only two to 300 meters at most, but it is different with the magic blessing. According to the strength of the magic blessing, the range can exceed a thousand meters or even reach a maximum of nearly [-] meters. Just don’t think about it. How strong it is.

But this is a test in itself. These orcs are very wary of technology. It can be said that the biggest nemesis of the orc war is actually the flow of technology. There were enough cases at the end of the war of ten thousand races in the old era. The orcs and ancient orcs of the old era hated the so-called civilization and technology very much, and even suffered so much that they regarded civilization and technology as their deadly enemies, and even their own side did not develop civilization and technology.

At this time, these catapults were blessed with high-level magic, and thousands of catapults were deployed far away from thousands of meters away. Thousands of catapults were launched at the same time, and thousands of huge rocks flew in the air. This scene It can also be called spectacular.

But this is useless, the current steel fortress is not the mine fortress of the past, the trenches and fortifications made of all alloys, not to mention stone throwing, even powerful shells cannot be smashed.

The primitive humans in the position divided into two different reactions. Most of the primitive humans stared straight and their legs trembled, watching the throwing stones flying, even though they had extremely solid fortifications above their heads, these primitive humans Many humans still shouted, and even dozens of people threw away the guns in their hands and started to run backwards. Before running a few steps, the primitive human soldiers who had been waiting for a long time came up with a sneer. Before, they were easily knocked to the ground, and then directly pulled to the nearby pillars and tied up. The first ten people who dropped their guns and escaped were shot and killed, while the rest were whipped.

Unlike most of the primitive humans, there are also primitive human soldiers who account for about one-third of the soldiers. They are silent, just holding their guns and watching the stones fall quietly, on the metal ground, in the fortifications On the ground, they were smashed against the surrounding metal cliffs, and they didn't even blink their eyes, all of them were calm and calm, and even some primitive humans took out something from their arms and put it in their mouths. There are sweet grass roots, some dried fruits, and some compressed dry food.

Yuan Yuan stood behind and watched all this. He looked at the one-third of the soldiers who kept nodding, and looked at the pale Yuan soldiers looking around with disgust. As for the ten people who were shot dead, he even Not even a second glance.

"...It doesn't need to be so violent, does it?"

Bei Mingkun didn't know when he appeared behind the original, he looked at the primitive human soldiers who were whipped and said: "We just don't have enough time, otherwise we don't even need to shoot those ten people. The army needs to be raised and trained. As for the battle, it is a process of qualitative change, just like the metals you see, after smelting, they need to be tempered, hammered, and forged..."

Yuanyuan turned around and said: "But with the advancement of technology, all these processes are unnecessary. According to the engineer, as long as there is enough energy, we can even create things in the void."

"Uh, that's what I said." Bei Mingkun said with some embarrassment: "In short, those primitive humans who just joined, they are just afraid of being killed, as long as they face the battle of orcs, tell them In fact, that's all. As long as they have weapons, are organized, and dare to fight, the orcs are nothing but scum in front of them. If they continue to fight like this, those who survive will be quenched, and they will have the heart to fight. For example, you can see Those veterans, they are not afraid of orcs at all now, so, what you did before was too cruel."

Yuanyuan was silent for a while, and then said: "I admit that I was a little too impatient before, but I don't think it is cruel. These days, I have also heard some thoughts from those humans in the forbidden area. Internal purge is necessary at any time. If necessary, I am willing to use it as a knife for internal cleanup, even if it attracts the hatred of thousands of people, it is better than letting those alien races slaughter ours."

Bei Mingkun sighed, looking at Yuan Yuan now, he thought of Prime Minister Ziya inexplicably.

Seriously speaking, the thoughts of the two are very close, but Ziya, as a wise man, often knows the pros and cons better, and his ideals are also more ambitious, so even if he wished to kill all the people in the first place, he would I am also willing to obey the orders of the great lord and plan it slowly.

But Yuanyuan is different, his self-destructive tendencies are too strong, and he has reached the point where he will attack as soon as he has the opportunity, but fortunately Yuanyuan still has reason, although he is crazy and rational, but at least he still has a little bottom line for his own people , The bottom line is that you must never involve any races, such as sympathizing with all races, sheltering all races, or fearing all races. Humans with these thoughts are no longer considered human beings here in the primitive world.

As for himself... as long as he can destroy all races, he doesn't care what he does, which is exactly the same as Ziya.

On the other side, the thousands of boulders projected by the catapults had no effect at all. There was no collapse of the fortifications or the collapse of the defensive walls. Even the boulders hit the ground without obvious dents.

After throwing about ten rounds in a row, most of the catapults had fallen apart, and an order was sent to pull the catapult back slowly, and then the magic crystal cannon appeared again.

As the most widely spread weapon with high technology content, even the orcs have it. Although the quality and performance are definitely not as good as those of the big and powerful clans with technology, the power is actually not much different.

The range of the magic crystal cannon is usually around 5000 meters, so you have to step on the metal ground.

At the same time, the cost of magic crystal cannons is very expensive, more than a hundred times more expensive than catapults, so the number of magic crystal cannons in the second round is only more than 400. This is definitely not the total number of magic crystal cannons in the orc army, but Now it's just a trial stage. After these more than 400 magic crystal cannons were launched, a large number of low-level orcs mixed with ordinary orcs as commanding officers and a small number of high-level orcs, with the size of a hundred-man squad, began to move towards the metal ground. .

The walking speed of these teams was not fast, and they were already within the effective shooting range of Gauss rifles as soon as they stepped on the metal ground.

It’s just that Zhang Haohuan still ordered to remain silent. These are just temptations. Just killing these orcs is a complete waste of ammunition in terms of cost performance. You must know that the number of orc swarms surrounding the Iron Fortress exceeds 5000 million, and they are still there. Adding to the increase, the agreed time with Jun is ten days later when the first rays of sunshine appear, and they still have a long war to fight.

As for the power of the magic crystal cannon... Perhaps for the rocky city wall, the magic crystal cannon is a big killer, even the granite city wall reinforced with the magic of turning mud into stone cannot resist the power of the magic crystal cannon.

But what these orcs are facing is the crushing of at least two levels of technology generation gap. Now that the high-level extraordinary is resisted by the ancients, they try to use magic crystal cannons to break the fortifications. This is simply a dream. These all-alloy The defense indicators of the fortifications can match the attack depth of the legendary stage.

Hundreds of magic crystal cannons gradually approached, and then bombarded them. The energy beams ejected by the magic crystal cannons bombarded the defensive position in front. It looked very powerful, as if it could penetrate the fortifications immediately, but in fact After the explosion dissipated, there were very few scars on the fortifications, only a little charred black, a few cracks, and even more deep pits did not appear.

And this shooting and bombing lasted directly for several 10 minutes, and each magic crystal cannon fired at least [-] attacks until the spirit stones or high-concentration magic crystals carried by these hundreds of magic crystal cannons were gone. They were exhausted, and apart from looking scorched and embarrassed, there were only a few human soldiers who were too unlucky to be stunned. That's right, they were not killed by the bombing, but the shock of the explosion happened to penetrate the fortifications. So weak that they get stunned.

This situation is obviously beyond the understanding of the orcs.

In their cognition, weapons like magic crystal cannons are actually weapons that can harm or even kill extraordinary people. If hundreds of magic crystal cannons are fired in volley, even the legendary powerhouse will be careless. Seriously injured or even killed.

And these hundreds of magic crystal cannons fired more than 20 rounds, and they didn't even break the outermost defensive position of the steel fortress, and didn't even cause too much damage. This scene not only shocked the orcs who manipulated the magic crystal cannons , The commanders who had been watching the front line from the rear were also shocked.

Soon, these magic crystal cannon troops retreated back, and the commanders in the orc army, the ancient orcs, the extraordinary, and the lords and nobles, they also found that the morale of the orc army, which was watching all this, was showing signs of declining morale. .

Although there was a tide of war, the result of the two rounds of testing was that the enemy was unscathed, and the onlookers who did not go to the battlefield had little impact from the tide of war, and it was absolutely possible that their morale would drop.

And this is intolerable, this is almost like a backlash against the tide of war, if you continue to test, maybe this situation will really happen, and those high-ranking extraordinary people, as well as the great nobles, they are It is impossible to let this happen. For them, the tide of war is an extremely rare opportunity to ascend to the sky. They cannot make the tide of war invalid, and death can trigger the feedback of the tide of war. As for whether it is the enemy or the enemy who died A huge number of low-level and ordinary orcs... It doesn't really matter.

Ever since, after the second trial, no long-range weapons or long-range troops appeared.

Seen from a high altitude, the army of orcs hundreds of kilometers away began to move forward densely. They did not move fast. Infantry, cavalry, long-range units, various weapons of war, behemoths or other behemoths in the army, There are also troops formed by those strong fighting races, all moving towards the steel fortress.

At dusk, the orc army stopped moving and set up camp at a distance of about [-] kilometers from the mine fortress. Everyone could see that tomorrow morning would be the beginning of a crazy siege by the orc army.

but……

"Why do we have to wait until tomorrow morning?"

Zhang Haohuan looked at the dots on the ground, looked at the camp where the company and the battalion were stationed, and said coldly: "They can come to attack us, why can't we counterattack them?"

"Those low-level orcs, as well as most ordinary orcs, actually all have night blindness. Even if they have the blood of beasts, this can't reverse the reality of malnutrition, and who stipulates that they won't scream during the war tide? No Rather, as the number of deaths increases, their sanity will gradually decrease, their strength will increase, and at the same time they will become crazier and bloodthirsty.

"Pass me the order to recharge all Gauss cannons, confirm the ammunition, and check the cannons to confirm..."

Zhang Haohuan looked at the orc battalion under the night again and again, and he finally said: "After 5 minutes, all the Gauss cannons will fire, let these orc bastards take a good look, what is war!!"

(End of this chapter)