Lord Harland.

Chapter 166 of Lord Harland's text volume: Stop as soon as possible. Before the war started, Harland's territory had a reserve of 500 alchemical bombs.

Some were consumed in the last battle, but the reserves are still very sufficient.

In order to defeat the orcs this time, Li Cha carried two hundred alchemy bombs.

Half of them are in the hands of the Warcraft Cavalry Squadron, and the other half are in the hands of the First Squadron.

The first squadron is the squadron with the most veterans in the territory, and has many bombardiers.

The bombardier's strength exceeds five points and can throw alchemical bombs sixty meters away.

Now the orcs have just entered the attack range of the bombardier.

The soldiers raised their arms and threw a hundred alchemical bombs.

One hundred alchemical bombs fell from the sky, looking like an iron lump.

This squadron of snake-bodied men had never seen an alchemy bomb and was inexperienced, so they didn't even use shields to protect themselves in the first place.

The alchemy bomb was thrown beside the snake-body man, and it exploded suddenly, billowing smoke and dust.

In this round of attacks, the snake-formed man was unprepared and suffered heavy casualties immediately.

One hundred alchemy bombs killed more than twenty third-level snake-like people on the spot, and injured a dozen more.

Li Cha led the reinforcements of the first squadron to the top of the city, and turned the tide of the battle in a short time, killing and wounding more than fifty snake-bodied heavy infantry.

Relying on Richard's powerful spells and the Alchemy Bomb of the 1st Squadron, the Snake Man was hit with heavy casualties in an instant.

The snake body heavy infantry was shrouded in gunpowder smoke, and the formation immediately became chaotic.

The second and third squadrons also climbed up to the top of the city.

In these two squadrons, more than ten soldiers were equipped with enchanted crossbows. The sharpshooters in these armies drew their bowstrings and shot at the snake-shaped man.

At the same time, ordinary archers also shot arrows one after another, shooting a rain of arrows, suppressing the progress of the snake-bodied heavy infantry.

Seeing that the casualties are getting bigger and bigger, there are more and more defenders on the top of the city.

The orcs were suffering more and more casualties, especially the loss of snake-body professionals, which made Maruland's heart ache.He estimated the situation, felt that it would be difficult to capture the castle, and planned to retreat.

With a roar, Maruland forced Sharp back with incomparable bravery, and quickly jumped off the city wall.

Platos Castle is more than ten meters high, and the tauren was unharmed after jumping down.

When Richard saw the Minotaur retreating, he immediately decided to fight a counterattack and defeat his opponent in one go.

He ordered the city gate to be opened, and the monster cavalry rushed out.

The cavalry suppressed their speed, and slowly moved forward in a dense formation, approaching the Snake Squadron, and threw the alchemy bomb in their hands.

Another hundred alchemy bombs were thrown into the snake body formation, killing and injuring twenty or thirty snake body professionals.

Then Thoros commanded the cavalry to bypass the snake body and attack the kobold squadron on the flank.

The Snakeman heavy infantry is a professional army. Like the Warcraft cavalry, it is an important force in the orc army.

Attacking the Snakehead heavy infantry will definitely cause a lot of casualties.

Soros is also an officer who has led troops for many years and will not make such stupid mistakes.

Warcraft cavalry swept past. They were well-equipped and powerful, and their numbers were greater than that of the kobold squadron.

The two sides fought, and the Warcraft Cavalry rushed past and easily defeated the opponent.

The orcs were originally in retreat, and faced with the powerful impact of the Warcraft cavalry, they could not withstand it at all.

In the span of a stick of incense, four orc squadrons were defeated, and more than four hundred soldiers were killed or injured.

The loss of Harland Territory cavalry was only more than thirty people, more than half of whom were auxiliary cavalry.

The monster cavalry chased ahead, Li Cha followed behind with the infantry from Harland's territory, and the Heihe County coalition army was the third echelon.

Platos Castle was garrisoned by Barons Sharpe and Leon.

The pursuit battle went very smoothly. It was not until Marurand returned to the camp that he managed to stabilize his position and block the counterattack.

The orcs had the advantage of the camp, and Richard was unwilling to fight a brutal attack on the camp with the orcs.

In this way, even if the orc is defeated, he will suffer heavy losses, and it will be difficult to recover in a short time.

After a little weighing, Li Cha chose to let it go.

After the war, Marurand counted the casualties and found that there were casualties, almost a large group of orcs were killed outside the city of Platos.

What deplored the most was the casualties suffered by the snakemen. Thirty-nine were killed and fifty-six were injured.

The siege failed, and the snake body heavy infantry casualties exceeded half.Fortunately, most of the injured snake-body people can recover after being treated by the orc shaman.

The orc casualties were not light, and the total casualties of the Platos defenders were only five hundred, and most of them were soldiers under the command of the two barons Sharp and Leon.

Because the soldiers who used the catapult behaved very badly, after returning to the castle, Li Cha immediately ordered that several officers who commanded the catapult be executed by military law, to kill chickens and monkeys.

After Marurand's defeat, he temporarily stayed in the camp and stood firm.

Richard sent cavalry to attack the rear of Maruland's troops.

It was easy to defeat a squadron of food transport teams and rescue a group of human slaves transporting supplies for the orcs.

This group of slaves were all prisoners captured by the main force of the orcs from the Earl of Martins. The total number of slaves exceeded 6,000.

The grain road was unstable, and the Marurand camp had only hoarded grain for less than a month.

Although he wanted to retreat, Richard was unwilling to let him go and even set up camp two kilometers behind the orcs.

The total number of soldiers under Richard's command was more than 3,000. These people were all fresh troops. They had just won a battle and had sufficient morale.

The main force of the orc soldiers under Maruland's command is only two thousand, and the remaining one thousand are wastes such as sheep-headed men.

He is now barely relying on the fortifications of the camp to hold on, and he is no match for Li Cha in field battles.

Seeing that the situation was deteriorating day by day, Maruland could only place his hope on Gunderson.

He sent a harpy to deliver a letter to Gunderson, hoping that Gunderson would move his troops north to attack Harland's territory.

Once the Harland territory is lost and the soldiers' relatives, wives and children are captured by the orcs, the morale of the army will inevitably be chaotic. The two orc armies can defeat Richard in one fell swoop and eat the wealth accumulated in the Harland territory.

It's a pity that Gunderson's troops were also restrained by Viscount Luomen and the coalition forces of the nobility in Gerda Province.

Gunderson received a strict order from the commander of the Orc Legion, De Lunxi, to protect the rear of the main Orc Army.

It is impossible to complete this task without solving the noble alliance led by Viscount Luomen.

Gunderson's position and strength surpassed Maruland's. Of course, it was impossible for him to accept Maruland's request to give up his combat mission and go north to deal with Richard.

Seeing that food is getting less and less, morale is getting lower and lower.

Maruland finally decided to fight a field battle with the army led by Richard.Only by defeating the opponent head-on, could the orcs commanded by Marurand survive.

When the situation reached this point, Maruland had no choice but to make a desperate move.