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Chapter 178 Achieving the goal and entering the front line

Soldiers retreating to the third line of defense are preparing for the next round of battle.

As the last line of defense, the Qingyuan army was not deployed at the exit of the pass, but moved outward about [-] meters to build a semicircular defense line.

Compared with the narrow pass and valley, this line of defense can accommodate more soldiers. The strength of two battalions has been fully deployed and ready for battle.

The remaining camp has already gone one step ahead to the next defensive location to prepare for blocking.

The soldiers who are evacuated and deployed to the next location are all soldiers who have just been rotated from the battlefield, and he has enough time to rest on the way there.

At the same time, because the position of the third line of defense is behind, the artillery that cannot be supported in the canyon can resume attacking again.

In order to prevent surprise attacks, the artillery camps of the three companies were pushed back eight kilometers in an all-round way, just within the best range of the Seventy-Five Field Artillery.

Although this will delay the arrival of the artillery support, the positions of the three artillery companies are very safe and can prevent the sneak attack of the orcs.

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The superiority in the number of orcs allowed them to fight batch after batch to consume the physical strength of the soldiers of the Qingyuan Army.

After the orcs broke through the second line of defense, they resumed their attack within 10 minutes of rest, and the sound of guns and guns that stopped for a while soon reverberated over the pass and valley.

Seeing that there was only the last line of defense, the orc commander roared with all his strength, encouraging the charging soldiers.

But the Qingyuan Army, who had been waiting for a long time, would not let them break through this line of defense so easily.

The continuous roar of light and heavy machine guns, interspersed with rifles, rapid bursts of submachine guns, a special symphony is playing on the battlefield.

The violent suppression and the "long-lost" shelling made the orcs miserable. The team that shot out was killed and injured within a few tens of meters. The best assault result was six to seventy meters from both sides.

This distance is about to break through to the front of the human defender's position, but they can be directly blasted back by a wave of artillery bombardment.

Seeing that the battle situation was going to be delayed again, the orcs who emerged from the ruined mountain path finally had their moment to play.

Regarding the sudden appearance of the orc, the wounded Els didn't panic at all. The Griffon Legion leader Hogz had already sent him a voice transmission about the movement of the orc.

At the same time as the figure appeared, the third artillery battery, which had been hidden behind, launched an attack.

All the previous attacks on the three artillery companies only exposed the firepower of two companies at the same time, and this third artillery company was specially used to solve emergencies, that is, the orc passing through the ruined mountain road.

The coverage of the [-] howitzer formed a dead zone between the narrow mountain roads. Once it was covered, there was no place to hide.

At the same time, the seven-five field artillery that attacked at the same time did not fire conventional high-explosive bombs, but conventional incendiary bombs.

The purpose of the artillery is not to kill the orcs, but to hinder their advancing speed as much as possible. As long as the time is delayed, the more dangerous the orcs will be.

The orc Chaofan who watched the repressed orc army pay attention to the situation on the battlefield was also very helpless. Such a weapon is really too stupid, not to mention powerful, and it can also launch burning flames to block it.

Although the incendiary bombs fired by the artillery are standard and normal incendiary bombs, they use napalm technology. Once ignited, they are difficult to extinguish, and the temperature is also very high. The tens of meters of fire walls forcibly divided the orc army. block

This kind of fire made the orc army a headache from bottom to top. Among them, there was no profession like a human mage who could summon water elements to extinguish the fire.

Although there are some special races that can naturally control certain elemental powers, right now, there are no orcs related to water and ice elements in the entire army.

A fire burned for four hours.This also meant that the artillerymen of the Qingyuan Army fired and supplemented incendiary bombs for four hours. After the last round of incendiary bomb projections, the artillery company immediately began to organize its positions and began to retreat.

Of course, not all the artillery retreated at the same time, and the main [-] howitzer still stood firm to support the front line.

However, as the density of artillery fire decreased, the orcs also discovered this problem, and immediately launched a more violent offensive breakthrough.

Even though the artillery fire density has dropped a lot, the [-]-meter assault distance is still an insurmountable gap for the orcs.

However, after getting the news that the incendiary bombs had been used, Els immediately ordered the soldiers to retreat after repelling the orcs again.

At the same time, the remaining howitzers began to suppress at full speed, firing shells at the front line pass area with an astonishing rate of fire. On average, one shell can be fired in [-] seconds. This terrifying rate of fire is already the ultimate for manual loading. the ceiling.

Under the cover of indiscriminate firepower, the ground that was bombed at the exit of the pass was shaken, and the orcs also found the humans who were really about to evacuate, but it was almost impossible to rush out at this moment.

The orcs have already experienced the power of the [-] howitzer. Under the power of this kind of explosion, their ordinary orcs' body strength can't resist such an explosion at all. A shell fell through it rashly, and even the corpse was gone.

Under the attack of such artillery fire, the orc army could only watch the human beings withdraw from under their noses, and there was nothing they could do.

As the entire Qingyuan army retreated, the artillery in the rear also stopped shelling, and immediately began to reassemble the artillery and entered the mobile mode to retreat.

And at the moment the artillery stopped, countless orcs poured out from the pass valley and occupied a large area of ​​the plain.

Although the orc army successfully broke through the pass and was able to continue to advance, every orc did not have the joy of victory but doubted life.

For a whole day from last night to now, the private soldiers in Qingyuan Town used 500 people to resist and block their 48 army, and they also lost more than 3 people, although a large part of them were dead. The battle damage was buried by the blasting of the mountain, but the main reason for this was the Qingyuan soldiers.

Moreover, the Qingyuan soldiers also fought in a planned and rhythmic manner, making it difficult for them to move forward.

Right now, the orc army hadn't been able to take a breath. Countless black spots appeared in the sky. As the distance shrunk, hundreds of griffins appeared above the orc army and began to swoop down to attack the orc army.

In fact, the Griffin Legion had arrived on the battlefield as early as noon, and Hogz secretly approached Ayers to discuss their withdrawal and let the Imperial Army let go.

However, it was rejected, and said that it would stick to the afternoon and retreat, and it would not be too late for the regular imperial army to intervene at that time.

Confidence in Els.It was true that Hogz had seen clearly before, but with the eyeliner, it was true that the opponent had insisted on time.

With the Qingyuan army fully retreating, the Griffin Legion, which could not wait for a long time, swooped down from a thousand-meter altitude, and began to attack and destroy the marching formation that the orcs had just assembled.

"Damn it... Give me an order to gather all the beast generals and high-level orcs, organize defense, and counterattack!"

Hadley looked at the oncoming Griffin Legion, and the anger in his heart was instantly ignited.

Being suppressed by the Qingyuan army's special weapons, they were already very aggrieved, but now they could finally meet an enemy of the same technological level as "equally matched", the orc army immediately launched a defensive formation, preparing to fight against the griffin army.

But the sky knights of the Griffon Legion were not trained in battles, and with the advantage of being able to fly, the defense of the orc army would not be effective for them at all.

Only the high-level orc sneak attack has such a slight possibility of danger.

But this overwhelming battle didn't last long, and the belated Demon Wing Army finally arrived at the pass battlefield.

As a group of orcs and other sky troops, the mount of the magic wing army is a hairless black winged beast, similar in appearance to a bat, but its size and structure are larger and stronger at that time.

And the moving speed is quite fast. If it does not carry any orcs and materials, it can accelerate to the speed of sound, and even if it carries people and materials, its speed can reach more than 200 meters per second.

Although there is an advantage in speed, its strength is not as high as that of a griffin. Even an adult winged beast is at most a high-level level, and most of them are intermediate or even elementary.

But this is enough. The strength of Warcraft is at the same level, and the level of strength they display is much higher than that of normal humans or orcs.

The only two natural races that can achieve the same level of suppression and can really exert suppression are the elves and giant dragons.

And the most important thing is that winged beasts are very easy to cultivate. Even an isolated and poor empire like the orcs can still organize an "air force" force of [-] people.

There are more than 3000 Demon Wings arriving on the battlefield this time. For the Griffin Legion, it needs to start with one dozen and three.

However, for this kind of opponent, the Griffin Legion quickly split into two teams, one continued to attack the orc army below, hindering the speed of their assembly, and the other directly assembled to attack the Demon Wing Army.

The worst strength of the Griffon Legion is the master level, and the worst might be some high-level Griffins. Such a luxurious lineup is more than enough to deal with the "wrong melons and dates" of the Magic Wing Army.

However, the commander of the Demon Wing Army also understands the difference in strength between the two sides. After entering the battlefield, he did not choose to fight the opponent head-on, but brought the show down, using the infantry's massed squareness and superior mobility to resist the Griffin Legion's attack.

As for this situation, did the Imperial Sky Knights follow the opponent to the low altitude, but always maintained a relatively safe area to harass the opponent.

Hadri also noticed that the other party was obstructing and delaying time.

With the arrival of the Griffin Legion, the only way for the orc army is to divide it into two and advance in batches, and the subsequent battle may completely get out of control.

If you can't advance, then fight!
Hadley made an instant decision in his mind.

Immediately arrange for the remaining three extraordinary people to gather and prepare for the ancient stone city.

Although the ancient stone city is not in the same direction as the pass, the distance between the two sides is relatively close.

It only takes one day for the imperial army to arrive in the rear. Now that the Griffin Legion and the Qingyuan Army are blocking them, it is difficult for them to move forward. Since they can no longer take advantage of the surprise attack, they can only defend and counterattack on the spot. If they can severely damage and repel the empire Army, then the battlefield advantage in the west of the northern border can still be preserved.

The orc army whose deployment was decided was immediately divided into three waves and began to rush to the ancient stone city.

Since the original defenders of the original ancient stone city had been cleared out by the orcs, even after the withdrawal of the troops, the ancient stone city did not reorganize the defense immediately.

This made it very easy for the orcs to return to work. More than 20 orcs entered the ancient stone city that night and began to prepare for the defense of the city.

But the rest of the orcs came late under various obstacles, and established a wild camp behind the ancient stone city.

The Qingyuan army retreated to the next defensive location, but there was no trace of the orc army for a long time. They thought that the Griffin Army was so powerful that they could stop it for so long.

However, after dispatching a reconnaissance team to investigate, it was discovered that the orc army had no intention of leaving at all, and turned around and ran back to the nearest ancient stone city.

This situation directly confused Els and Maltz. What is this orc... doing?
But they didn't have to think too much, and immediately arranged for the messengers to send the news back to Qingyuan Town, so that Gu Deen could take over the next task.

Their original plan was just to stop the orc army and slow down their marching speed, but this task has now been completed.

But the follow-up situation is not in the plan, and they don't know what to do. The safest situation is to ask for instructions first, and then make a decision.

After receiving the news, Gu Deen looked at the battle information sent back from the front line in his study with some weirdness.

The pass can block the orc army's actions for a day, which has exceeded the original plan. After all, it is a field battle and there are not so many advantages to protect.

But the three battalions with 500 people not only resisted the actions of the orc army, but also lost less than 150 people. Such a battle situation is already very alarming.

After thinking for a while, Gudeen summoned Roy and asked about the latest developments.

"There is no news from the orc army yet, but there are quite a few from the imperial army. The imperial army set off overnight yesterday. It seems that they are still marching forcibly. It seems that they have no plans to rest. They will be able to catch up in the morning at the latest. Orc."

"Moreover, many people saw the Griffin Legion flying north. I think it should be the effect that the Griffin Legion had on the Orc Legion after it entered the war, forcing them to give up their plan for a surprise expedition."

Roy integrated the existing information and expressed his opinion.

Gooden nodded slightly, and it was also explained in the front-line briefing that the Griffin Legion also participated in the fight.

However, Gudeen didn't expect that the imperial army marched overnight. He thought it would take at least two days for the imperial army to catch up.

As a result, it now appears that the opponent is chasing desperately, and it took only a little more than a day to bite the orc army.

Judging from the current intelligence, Gudeen can also see that the task of the team he sent to block has been completed.

The orc's plan was to make a time difference, but this time difference was cut off by him, and the Griffin Legion came back to intercept it immediately, and the imperial army who regained the lost ground also gave strength, bursting into a wave of marching speed, directly closing the time difference It's gone.

And the orc side must have realized that there are many obstacles to continue to move forward. If they are caught up by the imperial army in the wild, the battlefield situation will become very chaotic.

Coupled with the existence of Qingyuan Army's 'shit stirrer', the orcs' winning rate in the wild will definitely be much lower.

In order not to fall into a passive position on the battlefield, choosing to enter the ancient stone city to garrison is currently the best choice.

Thinking of this, Gudeen thought for a while, got up and went to the command room of the barracks, and summoned a group of officers to announce a new combat mission.

After briefly relaying the news from the front line, Gudern said slowly.

"The orc army can't run away now, and the imperial army can catch up by tomorrow morning at the latest. This is the best time to annihilate the opponent."

"We will assemble the fifth battalion later, bring the ammunition and equipment needed by the other three battalions, go to support the assembly, and wait to attack the ancient stone city with the imperial army."

"For this attack, I will go together. The job of staying in Qingyuan Town will be handed over to you. Be careful not to be taken advantage of."

As soon as they heard that the young master was going to set off in person, everyone quickly dissuaded him.

"Young master, the situation on the front line is too dangerous, you should not go, although the strength of the Qingyuan army has strengthened, but the opponent is going to be extraordinary..."

"Yes, young master, Fang Chaofan must have hated us to the bone, and they will definitely kill you if you show up again."

Listening to the dissuasion of a group of officers, Gu Deen waved his hand slightly to calm them down.

"Don't worry about this matter. The orcs have supernatural powers, but the imperial army doesn't have superhuman powers? I won't go to the frontline battlefield, and I will stay with the imperial superhuman beings in the rear. Don't worry about my safety."

Seeing that Gu Deen had made up his mind, it was difficult for everyone to speak out to dissuade them, and immediately began to prepare for the departure of the fifth battalion.

After arranging the support mission for the army to set off, Gudn also immediately went back to the castle and asked Irene to set off with him. Of course, Noros's companions were also essential.

For her own safety, Gudeen still thinks it is very important. Although Irene's current strength is only at the middle level, but with the abnormal entry of Guardian Heart, her current strength can reach the high level.

In addition, after entering the intermediate level, Irene's daily consolidation training has not fallen behind, and her current strength is about to reach the peak of the intermediate level. This kind of improvement speed is even worse than Gu Deen.

And coupled with Noros' covert protection, there is an absolute guarantee for this trip.

The situation on the front line has now reached the final and predictable end stage, and there will definitely be delays in remote command.

In order to completely eliminate the orc army, Gudeen felt that he still had to go to the front to command his troops.

More than 40 orcs were blocked. As long as they were eliminated, the war in the west would not be so serious in a short period of time. This was crucial to the development of Qingyuan Town.

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