After the orcs broke through the second line of defense, they rested for less than ten minutes before relaunching the attack. The sound of gunfire that paused for a moment soon echoed above the pass valley again.

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

But the Qingyuan Army, which 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, the interspersed interspersion of rifles, and the rapid firing of submachine guns, a special symphony is playing on the battlefield.

The fierce suppression and the long-lost shelling made the orcs miserable. The team that fought out was all killed and wounded within a few dozen meters. The best assault result was only sixty or seventy meters from both sides.

This distance is about to break through to the front of the human defenders' position, but a wave of artillery bombardment can directly blow them back.

Seeing that the battle was about to drag on again, the orcs who emerged from the ruined mountain road were finally able to have their moment.

Regarding the sudden appearance of the orc, the injured Els did not panic at all. Regarding the movements of the orc, the leader of the Griffin Army, Hoggez, had already sent a message to him.

At the same time as the figure appeared, the third artillery battery that had been hidden in the rear launched an attack.

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

The coverage area of ​​the 105 howitzer formed a death zone between this narrow mountain road. Once it was covered, there was no place to hide.

The 75th field artillery that attacked at the same time was not firing conventional high-explosive bombs, but conventional incendiary bombs.

The purpose of the artillery is not to kill the orcs, but to hinder their advancement as much as possible. The longer it takes, the more dangerous it will be for the orcs.

Watching the orc army that was suppressed again and paying attention to the battlefield situation, the orc Chaofan was also very helpless. Such a weapon is really shameless. Not only is it powerful, it can also emit burning flames to block it.

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

Such fires give the orc army a headache from bottom to top. Among the orcs, there is no profession like a human mage who can summon the water element to extinguish the fire.

Although there are some special races that are naturally able to control certain elemental powers, at the moment, 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 artillery of the Qingyuan Army fired additional incendiary bombs for four hours. After the last round of incendiary bombs was projected, the artillery company immediately began to organize its position and began to retreat.

Of course, not all artillery retreated at the same time. The main force of the 105 howitzer still held its position 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 density of artillery fire has dropped a lot, for the orcs, the assault distance of 100 meters is still an insurmountable gap for them.

However, Els, who had received the news that the incendiary bombs had been used, 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 towards the frontline pass area with an astonishing rate of fire. On average, one shell could be fired out in 6.5 seconds. This terrifying rate of fire was already the ultimate for manual loading. of the ceiling.

Under the indiscriminate firepower, the ground at the exit of the pass was shaken by the bombing. The orcs also discovered the humans who were really trying to evacuate, but it was almost impossible to rush out at this moment.

The orcs have already experienced the power of the 105 howitzer. Under the power of this explosion, the physical strength of ordinary orcs cannot withstand such an explosion. If they rashly pass through a shell and fall down, their bodies will be lost.

Under such artillery fire, the orc army could only watch the humans retreat from under their noses, and they were unable to do anything about it.

As all members of the Qingyuan Army retreated, the artillery in the rear also stopped shelling, and immediately began to reassemble the artillery and enter mobile mode to retreat.

The moment the artillery stopped, countless orcs poured out of the pass valley and occupied a large area of ​​plains.

Although it is said that the orc army successfully broke through the pass and can continue to advance, every orc does not have the joy of victory on their face but is somewhat doubtful about life.

For a whole day from last night to now, the private soldiers of Qingyuan Town used 1,500 people to resist and block their 480,000 troops, and they also lost more than 30,000 people, although this was a large number. Some of them died from battle damage buried by the blasted mountains, but the main reason was caused by Qingyuan soldiers.

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

At this moment, before the orc army could 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 to attack the orc army.

The Griffin Legion had actually arrived on the battlefield as early as noon, and Hogtz secretly approached Els to discuss letting them withdraw and let the Imperial Army stop them.

However, he was rejected and stated that he would hold on until the afternoon and retreat. At that time, it would not be too late for the imperial regular army to intervene.

Confidence in Els. Hoggards did have some elements in it that he had clearly seen before, but the situation of the eyeliner showed that the other party was indeed holding on for as long as he said.

As the Qingyuan Army retreated in full, the Griffin Legion, which had been impatient for a long time, swooped down from an altitude of a thousand meters and began to attack and destroy the marching formation that the Orcs had just assembled.

"Damn it... pass my order to assemble all the beast generals and orcs of high rank and above, organize defense and counterattack!"

Hadri looked at the attacking griffin army, and the anger in his heart was instantly ignited.

Being suppressed by the special weapons of the Qingyuan Army, they were already feeling very aggrieved, but now they were finally able to encounter an enemy with the same level of technology who was "equally matched". The orc army immediately launched a defensive formation, preparing to fight the Griffin Legion.

But the Sky Knights of the Griffin Legion were not trained through hundreds of battles, and with the advantage of being able to fly, the defense of the orc army was ineffective against them.

Only a sneak attack by a high-level orc above would be dangerous.

But this overwhelming battle did not last long, and the belated Demon Wing Army finally arrived at the pass battlefield.

As a group of orcs in his sky army, the mount of the Demon Wing Army is a hairless black winged beast, similar in appearance to a bat, but its size and structure were much larger and stronger at that time.

And it moves very fast. If it doesn't carry any orcs or supplies, it can accelerate to nearly the speed of sound. Even if it carries people and supplies, its speed can reach a speed of more than 200 meters per second.

Although it has an advantage in speed, its strength is not as high as that of a gryphon. Even adult winged beasts are at the high-level level at most, and most of them are intermediate or even beginners.

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

The only two natural races that can achieve suppression at the same level are elves and 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' of ten thousand people.

There are more than 3,000 members of the Demon Wing Army arriving on the battlefield this time. For the Griffin Army, it means starting with one against three.

However, against this kind of opponent, the Griffin Legion quickly divided into two teams. One continued to attack the orc army below, hindering and easing their speed of assembly, while the other directly assembled a formation to attack the Demon Wing Army.

The weakest members of the Griffin Legion are all master-level, and the worst may be some high-level Griffins. Such a luxurious lineup is more than enough to deal with the "crooked melons and jujubes" of the Demon Wing Army.

However, the commander of the Demon Wing Army also understood the strength gap between the two sides. After entering the battlefield, he did not choose to confront the opponent head-on. Instead, he took the display downwards and used the infantry's massed squareness and superior mobility to resist the griffins. Legion's attack.

As for this situation, the Imperial Sky Knights did not follow the opponent to low altitude, but always maintained a relatively safe area to harass the opponent.

Hadri also saw that the other party was obstructing and stalling for time.

With the Griffin Legion having arrived, the only way for the orc army is to split into two and advance in batches. The ensuing battle may be completely out of control.

If advancement fails, then fight!

Hadri made an instant decision in his mind.

Immediately arrange for the remaining three extraordinary people to start gathering and prepare to go to Ancient Stone City.

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

The imperial army at the rear only has one day to arrive, and now the Griffin Army and the Qingyuan Army are blocking it, making it 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 defeat the empire, army, then the battlefield advantage in the western part of the northern border can still be preserved.

The orc army that had been deployed was immediately divided into three waves of personnel and began to rush to Ancient Stone City.

Since the original defenders of Ancient Stone City had been cleared out by the orcs, even after the withdrawal, Ancient Stone City did not immediately reorganize personnel for defense.

This made the orcs' return work very easy. That night, more than 200,000 orcs entered the ancient stone city and began to prepare to defend the city.

The remaining orcs arrived late due to many obstacles and established a wild camp behind the ancient stone city.

The Qingyuan Army, which evacuated to the next defensive location, has yet to see any trace of the orc army. They thought that the Griffin Army was so powerful that it could hold them back for so long.

However, a reconnaissance team was sent to investigate and 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 were not allowed to think too much, and immediately arranged for the communications troops to send the news back to Qingyuan Town, so that Gudern could carry out the next task.

Their original plan was just to block the orc army and slow down their march, but this task was now completed.

But the subsequent situation was somewhat unplanned, and they didn't know what to do. The safest situation was to ask for instructions before making a decision.

After receiving the news, Gudern looked at the battle situation information coming back from the front line with some weirdness in his study.

The pass can block the movement of the orc army for a day, which has exceeded the original plan. After all, it is a field battle and there are not so many advantages and protections.

However, the three battalions of 1,500 people not only resisted the actions of the orc army, but also lost less than 150 people. Such a battle situation was already very shocking.

After thinking for a while, Gooden summoned Roy to ask about the latest developments.

"There is no news from the orc army yet, but there are quite a few from the imperial army. Yesterday, the imperial army set off overnight. It seems that they are still marching on a forced march. There seems to be no rest plan and preparation. They can catch up tomorrow morning at the latest Orcs.”

"And many people saw the Griffin Legion flying towards the north. I think it was the Griffin Legion's participation in the war that had some impact on the Orc Legion, forcing them to give up their plan for a surprise expedition."

Roy integrated the existing information and expressed his opinion.

Gudern nodded slightly. The fact that the Griffin Legion also participated in the battle was also explained in the frontline briefing.

However, Gudern did not expect that the imperial army would march overnight. He originally thought that it would take at least two days for the imperial army to catch up.

As a result, it now seemed that the other party was desperately trying to catch up, and it only took a little more than a day to catch the orc army.

Summarizing the current intelligence, Gudern also saw that the task of the team he sent to stop the attack had been completed.

The orc's plan was to create a time gap, but this time gap was cut off by him, and he immediately asked the Griffin Legion to return and intercept, and the Imperial Army who regained the lost ground also worked hard, bursting out a wave of marching speed, directly cutting this time gap. It’s gone.

The orcs must have realized that there are many obstacles to moving 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 the Qingyuan Army, the 'shit stirrup', the winning rate of the orcs fighting in the wild will definitely be much lower.

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

Thinking of this, Gooden thought for a while, got up and went to the military camp command room, summoning a group of officers to announce the new combat mission.

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

"The orc army can't run away now. The imperial army will catch up tomorrow morning at the latest. This is the best time to annihilate the opponent with one body."

"We will assemble the fifth battalion later, bring the ammunition and equipment needed by the other three battalions, and go to support the assembly, waiting to attack Ancient Stone City with the imperial army."

"I will go with you during this attack. I will leave the job of staying behind in Qingyuan Town 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 spoke out to dissuade him.

"Master, the situation on the front line is too dangerous. You'd better not go. Although the Qingyuan Army has strengthened its strength, it will require extraordinary action from the other side..."

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

After listening to the dissuasion of the officers, Gooden waved his hand slightly to ask them to quiet down.

"Don't worry about this. The orcs are extraordinary, but the imperial army is not extraordinary? I won't go to the frontline battlefield. I will stay with the imperial extraordinary in the rear. There is no need to worry about my safety."

Seeing that Gudern had made up his mind, everyone could no longer dissuade him, and immediately began to prepare for the departure of the fifth battalion.

After arranging the support mission for the army's departure, Gudern immediately returned to the castle and asked Irene to set off with him. Of course, Noros's companions were also indispensable.

For his own safety, Gudern is still very important. Although Irene's current strength is only mid-level, with the perverted entry of Guardian Heart, her current strength can reach high-level.

In addition, after entering the intermediate level, Erin'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 makes even Gooden feel inferior.

Moreover, coupled with the secret protection of Noros, this trip has an absolute guarantee.

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