Dust of History Chapter 68: Harassment

In the middle of the night, the rare drizzle in the barren highlands fell one after another, bringing a gentle taste to this originally desolate and solemn place. Raindrops made a tiny crackle on the exuberant grease torches.

Dozens of sentries watched the dark rainy night with great vigilance. In this wilderness where there is no light at all, no matter how bright the torch light is, it is impossible to illuminate very far, and they also know that there are more than a dozen werewolves and lizardmen lurking in the invisible darkness nearby. But no matter how they reminded their spirits, the tiredness and anxiety on their faces couldn't be concealed, and they hadn't had a rest for nearly two or three days.

This is a food transport unit, sending a large amount of food and grass from the territory of Erasia to the army of the coalition forces ahead. But they didn't expect that they would be attacked by a small group of orcs in such a place.

Since Celeste handed over the command of the coalition to the generals of the vehicles, the speed of the coalition's advance has more than doubled. The morale of the soldiers was high, and the defeat of the Temple Knights some time ago did not affect them in the slightest. In their view, as long as such a large army rushed forward, when the 100,000 troops arrived outside the city of Oufu, any conspiracy Tricks will be crushed to powder under the iron heel of this absolute superiority of troops.

However, no matter how expensive the troops are, they still have to eat. The food and grass for a 100,000-strong army is an incomparably huge amount. When the coalition forces go deep into the highlands, they will need even larger food transport teams to continuously send countless food and grass from various countries. , now this is just one of the troops.

There are 500 people in the team escorting the food and grass, which should be more than enough to deal with the knot beast. It is nearly a thousand miles away from Oufu. Moreover, the 100,000 troops of the coalition forces are separated in the middle, so it is absolutely impossible for the orc troops to appear. But they did.

This food transport team has been constantly harassed since it encountered this small orc troop of a dozen orcs two days ago. The orcs were not in a hurry to attack this army ten times larger than themselves, but kept wandering around. It wasn't the lizardmen who sent out a few bows and arrows to kill a few soldiers. And the range of the archers in the team can't match that of the lizardmen at all, and the orcs have the upper hand in mobility, so it's impossible for the soldiers to catch up.

It was not until the night began that the soldiers realized that the real nightmare was coming. The orcs harassed and attacked almost endlessly, but the soldiers couldn't tell whether the figures from the darkness were just two or three harassing single orcs or the entire force preparing to attack with all their might. Same way as daytime harassment. The orcs always retreat with one blow and never fight head-on, but the effect is obvious, and the whole team hardly gets any time to rest. So the next day, the exhausted team had to stop and rest after advancing only a short distance.

But this harassing sneak attack has not stopped tonight. The soldiers divided into 50 groups to take turns to watch the night, and they are even a little numb to this kind of harassment. Their spirits and morale went from being tense at the beginning to becoming exhausted and paralyzed. But generally speaking, their morale is still maintained at a fairly high level. Although they are attacked and trapped here, in fact, this position is between the army and Erasia. Strictly speaking, it is the control area of ​​the coalition forces. So they're not too worried.

"These guys must be deserters who sneaked out of Oufu, and they are looking for some food nearby. Don't worry, everyone. The carrier pigeons have been released. Whether it is the army in front or the support troops in the back, it will take less than two days. Will come and wipe out this group of orcs."

This is what the captain said to the soldiers. Almost all the soldiers really believed that the huge advantage of the coalition forces did not make people feel a sense of crisis anyway.

But the reaction of a soldier in the team seemed very strange. He not only seemed flustered, but also very scared. He also reported to the captain in extreme horror, suggesting that all troops leave their food and grass and flee back to Erasia or go to the coalition army. According to the soldier, he himself was a hunter and was very familiar with the methods used by these orcs.

"Their stalking and harassment are the methods that wolves use when hunting their prey. This kind of harassment and consumption is to tire the prey while letting one or two wolves inform more of the same. If we still If you don't take the opportunity to run away with all your strength, you will die."

Of course, this suggestion was not accepted by others, and the captain almost killed the soldier because he talked nonsense about the military spirit. Everyone believes that this situation will soon end.

'Whoosh'. A bow and arrow shot out of the darkness without warning, hitting a sentry in the throat. The sentinel let out a strange muffled grunt and fell down immediately.

"Everyone be careful, the shields are protecting the vital points." The captain of the sentinel ordered, and he didn't even sound the siren. In the past two days and nights, the horn has been sounded more than 50 times, and none of the rest has produced any practical significance, it just makes the people inside unable to rest in vain.

Sure enough, there is only one such bow and arrow. Then the night became completely silent again, only the strange moans of dying and the twitching sounds of the limbs twitched in the throat of the sentry who was shot. Several sentries hurriedly wanted to ask their companions for help, but the arrow had already destroyed most of the throat including the carotid artery. The pipes were pierced through, and there were no priests in such a small army, and the last soldier had to draw his sword to put an end to this companion's suffering once and for all.

"*, you **** beasts dare to come here in an upright manner? I'm going to chop off your tails and heads and stuff them in your assholes." An angry soldier stood up and roared into the darkness. The roar seemed lonely and vague in the empty wasteland.

"Stop barking, the brothers inside are still sleeping." The captain of the sentinel said wearily. After so many years on the battlefield, he was used to seeing life and death, and the endless sneak attacks of archery had already exhausted his spirit.

But I don't know if it was the soldier's cry or a hallucination from fatigue. The captain seemed to see several figures appearing on the edge of the fire.

"Huh?" The captain narrowed his eyes to see clearly. But in a blink of an eye, a rapidly spinning object flickered in front of his eyes, and he fell straight backwards. A small ax was completely embedded in his face, leaving only a handle on the outside.

The figures of werewolves and lizardmen finally appeared in the firelight. But before the soldiers fully reacted, the nascent vigilance turned into panic, because the orcs that appeared in the fire were not just a dozen or dozens of them as they had always thought, but There are tens or hundreds of them rushing here side by side.

"It's coming. It's really..." The soldier who was once a hunter and gave advice to the captain screamed in amazement. But his scream just started, and was immediately cut off at the throat by a small axe.

The werewolves and lizardmen kept rushing from the darkness into the bright light of the fire. They didn't make any noise before, and now there was almost no sound when they started charging. Those soft footsteps and limbs seemed to blend with the ground. One, nor the roar or howl of any beast. Like a nightmare phantom transformed in the dark night, it quietly brings fear to everyone. Not to mention resistance, the fifty sentinels turned into corpses without even exclaiming or screaming.

The resting soldiers in the camp were still alarmed, and they all took up weapons and wanted to fight back. But the hasty and tired human warriors will never be the opponents of the orcs, amidst the unilateral screams. The orcs above completed this unilateral killing with astonishing efficiency. Their efficiency is as high as that of butchers who have been butchers for many years. There was no unnecessary movement, not even a word of conversation between them, as if a group of killing machines had quietly completed their tasks.

The horses pulling the grain carts were already startled by the smell of dozens of werewolves. After the werewolves and lizardmen finished slaughtering the soldiers, they shifted their targets to these animals, and they slaughtered these animals in a very short time. Without consuming too much time, the camp became a deadly place in the hands of the werewolves.

At this time, the leader of the werewolves began to give orders to other orcs. They collected all the food and grass, but did not burn it. If such a large pile of grain and grass is to be burned in this dark wilderness. The light of the fire is enough to see clearly from two or three hundred miles away. After the orcs took the parts they needed, they dismembered all the corpses on the ground and stuffed them evenly into the grain pile. They also poured the internal organs and blood on the food.

The drizzle also sprinkled these grains and grasses that were exposed in the open air. According to the daytime climate on the wild highlands, as soon as tomorrow evening, no animals will be willing to go to these grains and grasses except flies and maggots. eaten.

After finishing all this, the orcs hurried away into the dark night. Because this is only the second attack, according to the information sent by their companions, there are at least three food transport units waiting for them.

Ten days later, the coalition army finally had to stop moving forward due to food and grass problems.

The besieged side can actually cross the blockade of a 100,000 army on the wasteland with no supplies, and rush thousands of miles behind the enemy to harass the grain roads. According to conventional rules, this is indeed almost impossible. But for the orcs who are good at night operations, it is naturally difficult for hundreds of thousands to pass through the army in front, but it is completely possible for a small team of only a dozen people, and then they gather at the rear and adopt that unique Wolves tactics.

The generals of the coalition army are not stupid. Since they received the news that the food and grass had been robbed, they each sent troops to exterminate this disturbing army, but they soon discovered that ordinary pursuit and killing can hardly produce any effect. . These orcs, who have lived in the wasteland for a long time, are not comparable to any human army in terms of speed or endurance. The key is that they hardly need supplies in the wasteland. Small animals in the trees, snakes, lizards, and even insects can be their food, and their biggest source of food can be obtained from the corpses of enemies. Such troops are completely free from shackles and shackles, wandering freely in the wasteland, lurking, and harassing.

At this time, the coalition forces had already marched a considerable distance towards the center of the wasteland, and there was enough room for these sneak attackers to move behind, and these orcs fought head-on, even if it was the only one of them that was quite unexpected. The encounter also ended in the defeat of the coalition forces. These dispatched orcs are undoubtedly the elite. In fact, those who can implement such precise tactics must be very intelligent orcs, with natural combat power, super survivability and night attack ability, and the best ability to use their specialties. These tactics made these more than a hundred orcs the most effective and terrifying guerrillas.

Three lines, five thousand, ten thousand, and finally until the number of exterminated troops increased to an unbelievable 20,000, and several top-level water system reconnaissance scrolls were used to hunt in the vast wasteland To that little group of orcs.

But in the end, this group of orcs was not really completely wiped out~IndoMTL.com~ A dozen orcs who should be the leaders actually escaped using the teleportation scroll under the cover of their companions at the last moment. At this time, the fact that Oufu has a teleportation magic circle is beyond doubt.

Just one hundred orcs forced the coalition army to stop or even retreat for a long distance. What Wan Dajun consumed in a day was enough to give any financial officer a headache for quite a while.

This kind of sneak attack finally had to make the generals of the coalition forces admit that the steady and steady strategy set by the Temple Knights may indeed be necessary. At least the mutual response between the coalition forces and the protection of food roads everywhere can make this kind of sneak attack difficult to be effective.

But at this point, it is impossible to go back and pick up the Temple Knight tactics again. To deal with the harassment tactics of the orcs, it is absolutely difficult for infantry in the ordinary sense to keep up with the mobility. Therefore, the generals of the coalition forces formulated a common tactic after a meeting, that is, 30,000 cavalry were scattered to protect the transportation of grain and grass between the various road sections.

Now the nearest unit of the coalition army is less than ten days away from Oufu. As long as food and grass can be guaranteed, victory seems to be within easy reach.