Lord Harland.

Li Cha sent a lot of scouting cavalry. After a few days of scouting and cooperating with Zakli's troops, the enemy's situation in Platos Valley has been found out.

The orc force along this route is indeed relatively strong, with a total of five brigades, which add up to tens of thousands of people.

Richard went to Platos Castle in person and negotiated with Zachary about the distribution of the battle lines.The defense of the Platos Valley passage is still dominated by Zachary's department.

After the orc army approached, Zachary had mobilized three brigades of the Atonement Legion to the Platos fortress group.

Since yesterday, the orcs have launched a tentative attack.The heavy trebuchets were erected, and the trebuchets on both sides began to bombard each other.

Because the Platos fortress group has geographical advantages, the trebuchets are all on the mountainside, and their range and power are much farther than the orc trebuchets.

The orc siege troops suffered some hardships, and the heavy trebuchets would also destroy a few.

There are three thousand people guarding here. The orcs want to break through the defense line. In a short time, the ten thousand troops are still slightly insufficient.

Although I don't know the specific battle plan of the orcs, since the information gradually became clear, the main force of the orcs is not in the northern part of Gerda Province, so Li Cha decided to take the initiative to attack and eat the three orc brigades in the northern part of the Fortress, and then cooperate with Viscount Luomen to surround and annihilate them. Two orc brigades on the road.

Now Harland's territory is strong and strong, and its strength is far beyond that of three years ago.

Knowing yourself and knowing your enemy can help you win a hundred battles.

Although the orcs have good intelligence capabilities, they have placed spies in Black River Fort. However, the Haaland territory restricts population migration, and the efficiency of information transmission is very low. The orcs have not yet placed intelligence personnel in the Harland Territory, and they have not yet figured out the strength of the Harland Territory.

The orcs overestimated their combat effectiveness, and did not pay attention to the development of Harland's territory.

Therefore, the plan was made very rashly, thinking that three large groups of orcs could contain the army in Harland's territory.

If we look at the strength of the two sides in the last battle, there is certainly no problem with the orcs' arrangement, and there is even a lot of room left.

The combat power of three orc brigades is enough to deal with Harland's territory.

But in three years, the strength of Harland's territory has doubled. According to Richard's assessment, a frontal field battle is enough to eat three orc brigades.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Cha gathered all his subordinates together, glanced at everyone's faces one by one, and said: "The fighter plane has appeared, it's time to give the orcs a hard blow, order to gather the troops, Follow me and kick the orc ass hard!"

Li Cha's voice was very powerful and his attitude was very firm. Now that he had made a decision, even some conservative officers liked to play the most secure defensive counterattack tactics.But his prestige is too high, all the officers can only follow Li Cha's opinion.

The conservative officers in the territory are mainly Richard's uncle Soros. Although Soros had different opinions in his heart, the military commander made up his mind and he could only keep his opinions in mind.

At this time, the following cannot easily interfere with the commander's determination.

Soros has been in the army for many years and has rich experience, and he knows this very well.

"The orcs have an advantage in detection. Many times the information we detect is what the orcs deliberately let us discover. Would it be too risky to launch an attack rashly?

What if the orcs lure me out of the castle and set up an ambush outside the depot?

We are a private army of nobles. If we defend our territory, we have completed our mission. Why should we take the initiative to provoke a decisive battle with the main force of the orcs? Once too many soldiers are lost, it will be difficult to replace them with veterans and officers with many years of experience. I wonder if Richard has considered this clearly? "Soros was thinking secretly. He wanted to talk to Richard, but he was afraid of affecting his determination.

When leading an army in battle, the most taboo is disunity of command.

Although superiors can promote military democracy and ask subordinates to raise their opinions, once the superiors make a decision, the subordinates must complete the task without compromise.

Soros hesitated for a while and decided to believe Richard.

Judging from the results of several battles, Li Cha's battlefield feels much better than his.

Since Li Cha believed the scout's judgment and felt that it was necessary to fight this battle, Soros couldn't hold back and kept the words of persuasion in his heart.

There is a third brigade in the fort, plus an auxiliary squadron.

The orc camp was stationed in the north of the military depot. This time, the orc commander was very cautious and did not rashly send troops to attack the military depot.

The terrain of the military station is very dangerous, and the tentative attack is of no use except increasing casualties.

Through harpy scouting, the orcs had figured out that the castle defenders numbered more than a thousand.

The trebuchets of the defenders of Harland Territory are very accurate, and the soldiers' archery skills are accurate and ruthless. They will also throw alchemy bombs at critical moments. Even if a thousand soldiers defend the city, three large groups of orcs are not sure of taking down the stronghold of the military station. .

The task given to them by the orc army was to contain the army of Harland's territory, and they did not let them fight recklessly with Harland's territory.

The reason why the orcs camped outside the military station fort was entirely to compete for geographical advantages. Outside the military station fort was a three-way intersection. If they guarded this three-way intersection, they would be able to guard the back roads of the east and west passages.

By noon, the First Brigade, the Second Brigade, the Fourth Brigade, the Warcraft Cavalry Brigade, the two headquarters reconnaissance squadrons, the Guard Squadron, and the Mage Squad had all gathered at Fort William, with a total number of about 3,600 people.

Fort William is kilometers away from Fort Garrison. If you speed up, according to the quality of the troops in Harland's territory, they will be able to appear on the battlefield before evening.

After resting for an hour or two, you can launch a surprise attack in the middle of the night.

In famous battles in history, almost all famous generals mobilized their troops before the battle to boost morale and thereby obtain stronger combat effectiveness.

Zachary, the former head of the Northern Legion, was very good at pre-war mobilization, and even William was a master in this area.

Before going to war, Li Cha also had to conduct a mobilization speech.

"Soldiers, we are going to fight tonight. Many of you are veterans who have participated in many battles. However, many of you are new recruits. Although you have trained for three years, you don't have much war experience.

From the faces of many people, I can see tension, anxiety, and even fear and fear.

But let me tell you, we are northern Xinjiang people and live on this land. No one, no matter whether they are nobles or serfs, can refuse to fight.

If we fail, the orcs will storm the castles of the territory, and your parents and children will become orc captives.

Many people in the territory have been orc captives, and even many soldiers have also been orc captives. Will they tell you what kind of day it was?Our relatives will have the same fate as pigs and sheep, and will be slaughtered at any time and become food for orcs.

For the fate of our loved ones, we must overcome the fear of death, overcome our own psychological weakness, and fight to the death with the orcs.

Many recruits are still indentured slaves and have no freedom in life. They are envious of the high salary and good treatment of the veterans.

I tell you today, you don’t need to envy these. As long as you can kill an orc today and achieve military exploits, the new recruits can also be freed in advance.

If you unfortunately die in battle, your family members will be pardoned, the whole family will be free citizens, and there will be good pensions and subsidies.

In war, blood and death are unavoidable, but please supervise each other. I, Richard Harland, will never abandon you. If I take a step back, I ask the soldiers to cut off my head.

I will not back down. None of you can take a step back. Whoever dares to back down, regardless of seniority or official position, I will also cut off his head. "

After mobilization, the soldiers had lunch and left Fort William with a small portion of dry rations, heading towards Fort Depot.

Just after walking a few kilometers out of the city, they found the Harpy scouting from a distance at high altitude.

Li Cha estimated the distance and found that it was beyond the range of the enchanted bow. He shook his head in frustration.

He planned to launch a surprise attack, but he was unlucky and was already exposed just after leaving the city.

Now that the surprise attack has failed, we can only fight with real swords and guns.

After the harpies detected the information, they immediately sent the news back to the orc camp.

The officer commanding the three orc brigades was an eighth-rank wild boar named Durham.

Durham is the deputy commander of the Orc Legion, responsible for commanding five brigades of Orcs, and his status is equivalent to Richard's old rival Gunderson.

After receiving the intelligence detected by the Harpy, Duram said in disbelief: "Are the human commanders stupid? Do they still want to launch a surprise attack?"

In the last orc invasion war, Zakry, the commander of the Northern Territory Legion, achieved brilliant victories through two wonderful night raids.

After receiving the information from the harpies, the orcs immediately thought that Li Cha was going to repeat his old tricks and launched a surprise attack at night.

"Pass my order. Each squadron will send more sentries tonight to let the soldiers take turns to rest and prepare for human night attacks."

In the evening, Li Cha led the soldiers to the Fortress. He climbed up the watchtower and observed the orc camp. He found that the orcs were preparing and digging trenches.

After dinner, Li Cha immediately gave the first reconnaissance squadron a combat mission.

"In the second half of the night, you work as a small team and fire rockets at the orc camp, making the noise louder. Your mission today is to harass the orc camp, consume the orc energy, and prevent the orcs from sleeping well. There will be no combat mission for you tomorrow. .”

In the middle of the night, the First Investigation Squadron made great fanfare and harassed the orc camp several times in a row.

Although Duram quickly saw through the intentions of the reconnaissance squadron, to be sure, he still kept the three squadrons awake all night to prevent the human soldiers from pretending to be real and launching a surprise attack in the middle of the night.

Early the next morning, Li Cha led soldiers out of the fort and approached the orc camp.

Arriving at a distance of four to five hundred meters from the orc camp, Richard began to set up camp, build fortifications, and assemble a catapult.

The orcs have more than 6,000 troops and there are defenses to help. Richard is not willing to fight on the battlefield designed by the orcs and get bloody.

Setting up camp four to five hundred meters away from the orc camp is equivalent to pointing a sharp sword at the orc's throat.

If the orcs ignore it, Richard installs a trebuchet, which can use ballistic calculations to achieve a longer range and attack the orc camp.

The orcs' use of trebuchets is very dull and not accurate enough. Using trebuchets against Harland's territory is self-defeating.

If the orcs took the initiative to come out of the camp to attack, the battle of attacking the stronghold would become a battle in formation.

Such a change will certainly be beneficial to Haaland's territory, which actively seeks war.

In the past three years, the Harland Magic Association has developed rapidly. There are now many magicians who can burn explosive runes. Before the war, there were already 1,200 alchemical bombs saved in the territory.

The alchemy bomb weighs only a few kilograms, and can be thrown five hundred meters away using a lightweight counterweight catapult.

As for throwing heavy stone bombs, the range of the trebuchet is only about two to three hundred meters.

At a distance of five hundred meters, the soldiers in Harland's territory had the initiative. Once the camp was repaired, the orcs would definitely suffer.

Durham was at a loss when he discovered that humans were building camps outside the castle. Although he was a wild boar, he was more cautious and not sensitive enough to the situation on the battlefield.The reason why he was able to command five orc brigades and become the deputy commander of the orc army mainly relied on his high professional level.

Although an overly cautious character will not easily fall into the enemy's trap, it will be difficult to seize the initiative on the battlefield.

Seeing Li Cha repairing the camp, Durham suppressed the opinions of the officers below and did not take the initiative to attack.

As a result, after the camp was built and the trebuchets were successfully assembled.

More than a dozen alchemy bombs were launched and thrown into the orc camp. In an instant, smoke billowed, and several alchemy bombs hit the orc tent.

In a blink of an eye, dozens of orcs were killed or injured.

The catapult continuously launched alchemy bombs with a very high hit rate, more than 95% of which hit the orc camp.

Such a high accuracy rate is because the magician has calculated the trajectory in advance.

Although Richard submitted the drawings of the counterweight trebuchet that year, he did not tell Nolan's engineers the method of calculating the ballistics.

Compared with the trebuchet drawings, the method of calculating ballistics is more critical. The first is to be proficient in the principle of leverage, and the second is to understand classical physics and calculate the gravitational acceleration of the Dawn Plane. Third, you also need to know the parabola calculation method, which uses a lot of knowledge in algebra, geometry, and calculus.

In Harland's territory, there are only four people who can calculate ballistics.Except for Richard, Sophia, and Wendy, only Butler, who is very smart, can undertake the task of calculating ballistics. Even the other two magicians in the territory, Anne and Heath, are not good at ballistics because of insufficient mathematical knowledge. with counterweights.

The trebuchet continued to launch, and after more than ten rounds, one hundred and twenty alchemical bombs were projected.

Because of their high accuracy, these one hundred and twenty alchemical bombs achieved very good results.

Duram counted the casualties and found that more than 190 orcs were dead and about 500 were injured.

Seeing that the human side was still throwing alchemy bombs, Durham couldn't just watch the orcs just get beaten and not fight back.

If the situation continues, the morale of the orcs will become very low.Maybe if there is no close combat with Harland's territory, it will be defeated by humans.

In desperation, Duram could only organize his troops and take the initiative to attack the camp built by Richard, hoping to get close to the Harland territorial army and defeat the opponent with close combat.

Something happened tonight and I can’t code, there is only one update for the manuscript.