The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Even for recruiting troops, there is no way to accumulate all the time. Each major recruitment building has an accumulation limit, which is basically the amount of recruitment for one year.

And when wars broke out less frequently, it was impossible for the lords to use up all their monthly recruitment quotas.

The reason is simple. Recruiting requires gold coins. After recruiting, you need to constantly provide food.

The most important thing is that these soldiers have no other use except standing guard, patrolling, and fighting.

Once the number accumulates, it will be a huge expense for any lord.

Moreover, their life span is the same as that of humans, or even much shorter to some extent.

In this magical world, as long as there are no natural disasters or wars, ordinary people can generally live to be about a hundred years old, but these recruited soldiers can only survive for 60 years after being recruited.

This time, the major nobles really used up all the recruitment quotas in their territories at once, so that they could accumulate so many warriors.

However, if this battle is lost, the entire grassland will basically have no defensive power, which is equivalent to handing over Pingfeng Grassland to others.

On the wall of the fortress, Count Aini's figure appeared, but this guy still did not leave the city after all.

Standing next to him was the crimson archbishop Duer of the temple. Without this archbishop to preside over it, the previously astonishingly powerful prayer spell would no longer be able to be used.

However, it was necessary for them to appear at the top of the city. Because Xu Lai and the others were at the rear, Xu Lai could not see clearly the situation ahead even if they were riding on a noble war horse with a shoulder height of more than two meters.

Although the grassland is open, there can easily be tens of thousands of legions spread out over several kilometers. Several legions are lined up together. Xu Lai, who possesses the intermediate eagle eye skill, can barely see the waving flag clearly.

It took a whole morning just to complete the assembly of the army. This is because most of the troops are recruited soldiers who move quickly. If they are all militiamen, the enemy's wolf cavalry may rush over and the assembly may not be completed. Woolen cloth.

Only by standing at the top of the city could Count Aini see more clearly and command his troops more easily.

Xu Lai turned around and saw the flags on the top of the city waving continuously. Xu Lai, who had been tinkering with the flags for a while, understood that they were commanding the archer corps to shoot.

Xu Lai, who was riding a tall horse, could not see the battlefield in the distance. No matter how good the shooter's eyesight was, it was impossible to see directly through someone blocking the front.

Therefore, we must rely on the flags on the city wall for guidance at this time.

Elf ranger Kate remained motionless and gestured to Dill Rogers beside him. The latter raised his bow and arrow knowingly, and threw out a flaming arrow burning with blazing flames.

The bright flames obviously lost their luster under the sunlight, but most of the archers could still clearly see the flight path of the flaming arrows.

Followed closely by the rest of the elven archers, these polar sharpshooters, each arrow carries the magic power from the glacier.

Then there were the archers and crossbowmen corps on the left and right sides. Under the leadership of their corps commander, they each fired in one direction.

Finally, there were the trebuchets that had been laboriously transported to the battlefield. These things were behind Xu Lai, especially the flaming trebuchet, which made a scary sound when it was thrown.

Arrow feathers all over the sky fell bit by bit from the sky. Only level 4 archers had the ability to throw them. Therefore, there were not many arrows in the sky, and the output of a large number of militia archers was missing.

But even so, hundreds of thousands of arrows and crossbows still covered most of the sky on the side of the orcs.

Facing the formation of shields and spears arranged by the humans, no matter how stupid Talosi was, he could not let his wolf cavalry charge. Even if he used level 7 wolf cavalry as the leader, he would only give away as much as he could.

Even in strongholds with backward cultural inheritance, countless ancestors have told them not to use cavalry to attack the pikemen's position, even if they win, it is not worthwhile.

So the ones running at the front were the group of big-eared monsters that usually moved the slowest and were only used as food reserves for the orcs.

Today, Talosi is still the leader. After the defeat in the first battle, the Beast King did not deprive Talosi of his leadership qualification, but it was also impossible to grant him a new king's banner.

The charging big-eared monsters and the big-eared monster leaders all have the bonuses of Talosi's logistics, pathfinding, attack, and defense specializations.

However, even if the arrows were weakened by 80% of their power and hit the ground like raindrops, these big-eared monsters in the wild that could single-handedly challenge level 3 or even level 4 intermediate soldiers would still die in groups.

The stronghold, which had already received inside information, was ready to charge. They started mobilizing troops and generals in the middle of last night, otherwise they might really be caught off guard by the human coalition.

None of the group of orc generals expected that the human troops would dare to fight to the death.

Fortunately, they had inside information and arranged the big-eared monsters in formation early. Tens of thousands of thick-skinned ogres used bloodthirsty magic to drive away the hundreds of thousands of big-eared monsters. Crazy attack on human positions.

With a bang sound, the flame bomb exploded, and the flames filled the sky and burned out patches of red ground.

But the big-eared monsters, whose minds had been lost by bloodthirsty thaumaturgy, could not feel the temperature of the flames at all, and rushed towards the human position with their bodies almost being roasted.

The human coalition was not afraid at all. Although there was no priest to bless them today, under the call of the flag on the city head, they took firm steps and moved towards the orc base camp step by step.

Every time they advance two or three steps, they need to pause, firstly to prevent confusion in the formation, and secondly to give the rear archers time to shoot arrows and move forward.

The disassembly and assembly of the catapult is extremely troublesome, so after leaving the knights and the priests who can defend against air defense, they still stay here to fight against the infantry groups that the orcs rush out of.

Xu Lai followed Pierce, guarding the numerous white-robed priests, and walked slowly forward.

The speed of the big-eared monsters is really not that fast. The place where the orcs are arrayed is only a few kilometers away from the human troops. It took the big-eared monsters a long time to reach half of the battlefield.

At this time, after being attacked by groups of catapults, morale had begun to decline. Even though there were hundreds of thousands of big-eared monsters, morale declined very slowly, but it was still declining steadily.

After being hit by thrown arrows, morale dropped even more and faster, and morale penalties followed.

But because of the deterrence of the ogre behind him, the big-eared monster's morale can always be maintained at an extremely low number, neither rising nor falling.

When hundreds of thousands of big-eared monsters rushed in front of the human infantry, there were less than a hundred thousand left, and at this time the shooters had to stop attacking.

The big-eared monster with extremely low morale had little desire to attack. Even though its eyes were red and its brain was filled with bloodthirsty desire, it still seemed hesitant in front of the human infantry.

Of course, the big-eared monsters with short bodies and short legs could not attack the human infantry first. The heavy-armored spearmen stabbed them with their spears, and a third of the big-eared monsters fell immediately.

Before they could get close, the heavily armored pikemen took another stab, and another third fell.

After they were completely close, the heavy shield infantry slapped their heavy shields, and all the big-eared monsters were killed.

However, the death of these big-eared monsters had absolutely no impact on the morale of the orcs.

They might even want to thank humans for saving them the work of slaughtering. It would be better if the human soldiers had the time to disembowel them.

The ogres had stopped outside the range of the arrows early. Behind them, super strong men over 2.5 meters tall, carrying wooden shields and heavy axes, came to the ogres. before.

These are the regular troops of the stronghold camp, a group of orc warriors led by strong orcs.

After these orc warriors lined up, another group of orcs, who were about the same height as ordinary humans, appeared carrying large bags of axes.

These were the long-range troops of the stronghold camp, half-orcs. But what the human army didn't understand was that this group of half-orcs actually surpassed the orc warriors.

The big-eared monster in front of the stronghold is purely to consume human energy and arrows, and to measure the attack distance of humans.

Therefore, the orcs were able to form their ranks before the arrows of the human archers arrived.

However, the attack range of the orcs who throw axes is far inferior to that of human archers who can project.

When rounds of arrows appeared above their heads, these orcs used their bodies to resist.

It is worth mentioning that none of the orc warriors wore armor, but these half-orcs actually wore armor. They had rough skin and thick flesh. Unless they were hit by more than a dozen arrows, it would be really difficult to kill them.

Count Aini on the city wall frowned deeply, but he did not order to stop. After destroying hundreds of thousands of big-eared monsters, the morale of the human race reached its peak and reached its full value.

If you stop at this time, morale will inevitably decline. Compared with the 20% attack and defense bonus, a small sacrifice is worth it.

Sure enough, after advancing nearly a hundred meters and killing 50,000 or 60,000 orcs, a high-level orc warrior finally took out a shiny flying ax from the ax bag.

The throwing ax is very heavy, and ordinary people cannot throw it several meters away. Even for well-trained human shooters, the range of using this kind of throwing ax will be shortened to one-third.

Human infantry also use javelins. Their attack distance is usually only a few dozen meters, and high-level infantry only exceeds a hundred meters.

But the javelin is much longer and heavier than the throwing axe, not to mention that half-orcs are half orcs after all, and their basic strength is higher than humans, so ordinary orcs can throw a throwing ax a hundred meters away.

The limit throwing distance of an Orc ax thrower is required to be 200 meters. Only those who can throw it 250 meters are eligible to be promoted to the fifth level Orc Warrior. Only the Orc leader can throw it 300 meters away.

250 meters is the limit distance for orcs, and the damage will be reduced by 50%. Even an iron ax will not have much power left when it hits a human heavy shield.

Moreover, although there are many orcs, there are not many orc warriors who can attack, but there are not many orc leaders.

Nearly ten thousand axes hit the shield heavily, making a dull thumping sound.

Although this attack did not cause any damage to the human heavy shield infantry, the essence behind it was the hundreds of thousands of flying axes flying in the sky. (End of chapter)