A huge explosion came from the main entrance of the fortress. The solid city gate was blown up for two days in the astonished eyes of the orcs on duty. Even the city wall and the nearby orc tents were partially affected. "Enemy attack!" Although the half-orcs seemed a little flustered by the sudden explosion, they quickly calmed down. After all, no other force except humans would carry out such an attack, and if the opponent was a human, half-orcs would The orcs will not be afraid. "It's great that these humans dare to step out of their turtle shells. Come with me to kill them!" An elite orc roared loudly to summon men, but before the orcs could gather, a wave of dense arrows rained down. Covered where they were. The human army lurking in the camp began to attack. They used arrows to attack the Orc army that had just walked out of the tent and had not yet fully reacted. The elite Orcs who were trying to organize the Orcs to gather were their primary targets. Ithilien rangers with superb archery skills can only deal with these orc elites who are not surrounded by guards with just one arrow. However, the number of human soldiers who sneaked into the fortress was too small. After all, they faced ten times the number of orcs. Although they had the advantage of sneak attacks in the early stage, some orcs still gathered together. The orcs held up half of their bodies. Under the command of the elite orcs, the shields began to systematically double-team the enemies who had sneaked into the fortress, and the crossbowmen also began to sporadically launch counterattacks against the human archers. But it wasn¡¯t just human soldiers who sneaked into the fortress, a group of numbered ones walked out from the array of archers. Rushing into the crowd of half-orcs, although they had no structure and coordination, they relied on their strong personal strength to cause a bloody storm among the half-orcs, and the delicious and juicy mobile military exploits of the half-orc elites are precisely The goal they compete for. "Hold on, hold on, surround them, you idiots, can't you even defeat a group of humans?" An orc commander roared angrily, trying to boost the morale of the soldiers. But it was unable to change the situation of the orcs' rapid defeat. The originally vulnerable human beings greatly exceeded his expectations. They actually quickly defeated the troops he organized even though they had a numerical advantage. "Go away, you useless things!" The Orc commander saw some humans even killing him in front of him, and angrily pushed away the soldiers blocking the way. Draw out your sword and prepare to kill the enemy personally. The numberer who rushed deep into the crowd of half-orcs suddenly saw the big fish he had been paying attention to rushing towards him. Overjoyed. He immediately abandoned the Orc soldier who was knocked down by him and was waiting for a last hit, and raised his weapon to slash at the Orc commander. "Damn it, you rushed too deep. Come back and form a defensive line to protect me. The orcs are about to press on me." Although Reimers was loudly commanding his nominal subordinates, he was facing the approaching With the military achievements in front of them, the numberers didn't take his orders seriously at all. "Do you really think they will listen to you?" Vader gloated beside Reims. After he saw clearly the strength gap between the numbered ones and himself, he gave up the idea of ??controlling them, and even commanded The power was given to Rainmus. "It would be great if Lord Reed were here!" Seeing that the group of mercenaries completely ignored him, Reimers couldn't help but think of the time when Reed was here. Although he didn't have much affection for the elf, After all, his strength can suppress these rebellious mercenaries. The numbered person from before put the blood-stained sword in his hand on the ground and gasped. Half of the body of the orc commander was at his feet. There was a look of disbelief in his dead eyes, and the few people around him But the half-orc soldiers dared not come forward. Their poor brains were conveying an emotion to them, and that was fear. But there was a horn sound coming from the rear of the orc camp. After hearing the horn, both the human side, including the numberers, and the orc soldiers on the front line, who were on the verge of collapse, changed their colors. The orc soldiers who were still entangled with the numberers in the front suddenly entangled the numberers like crazy, and then arrows shot from the rear covered them and the enemy. "Retreat!" After an unknown numberer shouted, the numberers who had made enough money retreated to the area where the archers were, facing the orc army that finally fully reacted, and then with those who were not afraid of death. Orc soldiers are seeking death if they get entangled together. Facing the orc army that was approaching, Vader turned pale. Although he and his father had exterminated orcs together, and also killed bandits who were also humans, it was not that he had never seen bloody chicks, but faced with so many orcs, When the orc soldiers rushed forward together, he still couldn't suppress the fear in his heart. The knight who commanded the archers hasHe was killed in battle. Unfortunately, he was shot in the head by a stray arrow. The human archers who started shooting freely because they lost their command gradually began to collapse. Some of the orcs who bypassed the blocking of the numbers in front have begun to attack. They started harassing. "Reynmus, hurry up and take over the archer troops, otherwise they will collapse!" Vader shouted, but Rainmus seemed to be frightened by the orcs' offensive and did not react at all. Still calling for help from the numberers. Vader never expected that Rainmus, who usually looked very strong, would be so timid. "We can't go on like this." Vader suppressed the fear in his heart, hammered his violently beating heart with his trembling hands, and then ran towards the archer. "Divide into two teams to cover each other and take turns to retreat. You idiots, don't you know how to focus your fire on the enemy at close range? Where have your usual training gone? The food the country provides for you is worse than feeding dogs." I was already holding back. The angry Vader finally broke out under the torment of anger and fear, and his originally trembling voice became more and more determined. Seeing someone starting to take command, the archers calmed down. Rainmus indeed looked like a noble. At this time, the soldiers no longer cared about who was commanding them. With good cooperation, the human troops in the fortress finally stabilized their position and began to retreat slowly. "Damn it. Where's the support?" A numberer shouted loudly after cutting down the orc soldier in front of him, but no one answered him. The followers beside him had long since blocked the knife for him and returned to space. , other numberers were also caught in a bitter battle, and the previously planned support had not yet arrived. Just when the numberers were about to lose their patience and prepare to grease the soles of their feet, a dense sound of horse hooves came from not far away. An orc soldier who was close to the gap in the city gate heard the sound of horse hooves and subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound. A war hammer flew towards his face, and the huge momentum directly tore the muscles in his neck. The headless body flew to the side. Knocking down a few nearby orcs. Tower Shield led his berserker warriors directly into the fortress. The berserker warriors immediately activated their berserk state, maintaining their last sanity under the comfort of the singing girl, trying to thwart the orcs' intention to block the gap. Lin quietly hid on the city wall and shot a crossbow through the throat of the orc elite guarding the place. This caused the nearby orcs to directly fall into a state of fighting on their own. The orcs finally realized something. They all waited on the city wall. But their movements were still a beat slow. In the wilderness outside the city, a large number of human knights were attacking towards the gap at the city gate. Tower Shield saw the cavalry coming from behind. He hid aside with his entourage, and those berserker warriors who fell into madness were not the ones he could recall. When choosing such soldiers as his subordinates, Tower Shield had already realized the loss of them. The large group of cavalry passed through the gap at the fortress gate and charged towards the unprepared orcs. The scattered array made it impossible for the orcs to stop the cavalry's charge. Large areas were covered by the galloping knights. massacre. "For the glory of Gondor." The knight in the front row shouted a slogan and rushed into the orcs, and then fell on the battlefield, but his companions behind him shouted the same slogan and continued to charge against the orcs regardless of their own safety. . Where did Hu Bin go at this time? Hu Bin was lurking in the Anduin River with a water raft on his body. The chaos in the fortress caused most of the Orc guards guarding the port to be transferred away. This small group of Orcs was very unlucky to meet Hu Bin and his group. attack. The holy sword slit the orc's throat and brought out a bloody sword. The orc held his wound and twitched twice before falling softly to the ground. The orcs who smelled the smell of blood noticed the situation here. , after seeing that there was only one human, they all rushed towards Hu Bin while yelling in messy orc language. "Do you like group fights?" Hu Bin raised the holy sword and pointed forward. Ted rushed out of the water with the others and started a battle with the orc guards. After Hu Bin saw that the heroic knights gradually gained the upper hand in the battle, he stopped paying attention to the fighting there and began to concentrate on setting fires. In order to burn down all the ships here, Hu Bin also brought a few barrels of kerosene from the Silver Moon into the space. Soon, under the control of Hu Bin's flaming hand, the fire in the port began to grow larger and became more and more uncontrollable, and even part of the nearby orc camp was ignited. Looking at the gradually spreading fire, Hu Bin seemed a little overwhelmed. He completely underestimated the power of the fire oil. "Master!" Ted returned to Hu Bin with bloodstains all over his body. After staying in the initial space for too long, he felt that his body was about to rust. Fortunately, the previous oneThe fighting allowed him to warm up and regain some of his previous feelings. His tone was still full of fighting spirit. "Let's go!" After seeing that all the orcs here were killed by his men, Hu Bin led These people ran towards the main battlefield. When Hu Bin led his knights back to the battlefield, what he saw was a massacre. Although the orcs who had experienced the sneak attack organized many troops, they were not equipped with spears to deal with the cavalry. Facing full speed There was almost nothing the charging knights could do. Seeing Gandalf leading other infantrymen to take over the city wall, Hu Bin breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly began to look for Vader and Rainmus. Because of the arrival of the main force, a group of soldiers and numberers who sneaked into the fortress also launched a counterattack. Hu Bin saw at a glance that Vader in front of the archers was commanding the troops to attack, although he saw that it was not Reinmus. It was a bit strange to be in command, but seeing that these two guys were still alive, Hu Bin felt more relieved. The little sparks in the orc camp have turned into blazing fires. The cavalry are constantly interspersing and dividing the orcs who are in chaos in the camp. Don't give them any chance to organize resistance. A small number of wolf cavalry and crossbowmen who were a threat to the knights were given special treatment, so that they were killed by concentrated fire before they could play any role. After enduring two full hours of ravage, the orcs finally gave up their useless resistance and began to be completely defeated. Some of them escaped from the fortress and fled in the wilderness outside the fortress, but they were quickly attacked by the cavalry. They caught up and encircled them, while the other group tried to escape to the east coast on ships from the port, but soon discovered that the ships in the port had been burned down by enemies who had lurked over at some point. Dawn finally arrived, but under the dark sky created by Sauron. Sunshine is really a luxury for tired human warriors. The waters of the Anduin River were dyed red with blood. The corpses floating inside seemed to tell the horror of last night's battle. After occupying the Aocheng Fortress, the Kingdom of Gondor quickly organized a large number of manpower to clean up the place. The corpses of the orcs were thrown directly into the Anduin River, while the corpses of their own people were gathered together and incinerated, and the ashes were brought back to the White City and distributed to their relatives. In the end, not a single one of the orcs escaped with their lives, and the five thousand troops in the fortress were almost completely annihilated. The human side retook the Aocheng Fortress after losing about 500 cavalry. In fact, from the moment the fortress gate was blown away. The fate of the orcs in the fortress has been sealed. A large number of conscripted and armed militiamen garrisoned the fortress. But their biggest role is to repair the fortress rather than defend it. It is estimated that the Orcs have now heard the news that the fortress has been captured, and are speeding towards here. Waiting for Gondor is the main force of the Orcs. The good news is that the orcs' ships were burned by Hu Bin. This prevented them from attacking the fortress immediately. Vader led a group of soldiers to patrol the city wall on the river bank. His heroic command was recommended by the soldiers, and he succeeded the previous knight and became a true commander of the archer squadron, and with him Rainmus couldn't stand the disdainful looks of others and fled back to the White City in despair. "Sir Reed!" Vader saw a strong figure squatting on the crenellations of the city wall, discussing something with the two human mercenaries beside him. "Hey, Captain Vader." Hu Bin looked at the much more stable noble young man and said hello. It was rare for him to be promoted several levels in a row to take over the official position of squadron leader, but his achievements and Performance fully worthy of the position. "What are you discussing?" Vader ordered the soldiers accompanying him to continue patrolling, while he himself saluted the other two mercenaries and then stepped forward. He did not dare to underestimate the strength of the other two mercenaries. , after all, they were the ones who blew up the fortress gate. "Nothing! What's the matter?" Hu Bin, Lin and Tadun were actually discussing the whereabouts of the enemy camp's numberers. According to the information from other numberers, there was no sign of them in the Aocheng Fortress, but these things didn't happen. Faheweida said. "Master Gandalf asked you to come to his place!" Vader didn't pay much attention, he just asked casually. He once tried to recruit these three people to serve in his family, but later found that this was just a luxury hope. "Gandalf? I'll go right away." Hu Bin touched the space ring on his finger, recruited numberers, protected two nobles, and attacked the port. After completing the series of tasks, the magic book Gandalf promised him was Keeping it inside, although it is somewhat incompatible with my own spell system, it can still draw parallels. In his eyes, Gandalf is a good old man who gives away reputation and equipment. Although he sometimes cheats him, the subsequent rewards will definitely satisfy him. Hu Bin was just about to get up and head to the camp, but suddenly stopped and turned his attention toHeading to the other side of the river, he felt a strong sense of uneasiness there. The feeling was too familiar. "It's the Ringwraiths, they're coming." As soon as Hu Bin finished speaking, a shrill cry came from the distance, and a Ringwraith wrapped in black armor appeared on the horizon sitting on a flying dragon. Along with this roar, blurry figures appeared on the horizon, and then quickly covered the land in the distance. The huge torque trebuchet was slowly advancing under the drag of the troll, and there were more tall siege towers and siege ladders. However, these could not move Hu Bin, but the desperate orcs But the army really scared Hu Bin. A total of 70,000 orc troops were displayed on the other side of the river. After receiving the news about the failure of the frontline Aocheng Fortress, they accelerated their march and finally arrived at the banks of the Anduin River at 8 a.m. and set up camp, meeting with the humans in the fortress. They faced each other across the river, and they blatantly cut down the surrounding trees to make boats to cross the river. When Hu Bin came to Gandalf, he found that Boromir was also there. The generals around him looked a little ugly. After all, what they heard and what they saw were completely different things. When 70,000 orcs really appeared in front of them, The blow to morale is not the slightest. Before Hu Bin could ask questions, Gandalf took out a piece of information that seemed to have just been opened and handed it to Hu Bin. "Is this an urgent report from the northern defense line?" Hu Bin finally knew what the coders in the Aocheng Fortress were doing. After capturing the fortress, they directly transferred to the northern defense line and assisted the Rune people in attacking After retreating from the guerrillas of the dwarf and elf coalition there, nearly 20,000 Rune troops and the entire war elephant army were liberated from harassment, and they accelerated towards White City. "The army in the north has been recalled by my father. There are not enough defenses there to resist the Rune attack. In other words, we will face more than 100,000 enemies in three days. If the southern lords are If the desert people are defeated, this number will only be higher." Boromir pointed at the map and explained the current situation to Hu Bin, then looked at Gandalf. "Although the Rune troops are large in number, they are not a big threat, but their war elephant legion is a big problem. But according to the information sent back by the Ithilien ranger scouts there, the war elephants in the legion are This put huge pressure on the supply lines of the Runes. The Runes also knew that their supply lines were very important, so they sent heavy troops to guard various supply routes, and also summoned a group of mercenaries to follow the supply convoys to protect them. Many attack plans have been organized, but they all failed due to the obstruction of these mercenaries. Reed, I need you to recruit a new group of mercenaries to cooperate with the ranger troops there to conduct at least one attack on the supply line of the Runes. That way. If so, the number of war elephants they can dispatch will be greatly reduced." Gandalf hesitated here, but continued. "The situation here does not allow me to give you additional support, and the ranger troops there also suffered heavy losses after two failures. However, there are several lords who are willing to send troops to help complete this mission, but I don't trust them. Reed , I want you to go there and take over the ranger force and lead them to complete this mission." ps: "I'm sorry, I was on a business trip these two days, and the news I got was rather sudden, so I left without telling everyone. Sorry, I will update it as soon as possible.