277 Hand to Hand
The army of orcs stopped hundreds of meters behind the sea of fire, and was covered in darkness, with tens of thousands.
The sea of fire burned for half an hour, but finally stopped. The ground outside the city was sunk three or four meters, and it was pitch black. With the dots of Mars, it was impossible to tell which part was soil and which part was corpses. Even the sharp wooden stakes were burned to charcoal.
The disgusting burnt smell filled the air. Accompanied by the rolling heat waves, sweat beads of the soldiers around Yan Chong kept dripping, but they were still wearing thick armor, holding long swords, staring at the front with concentration.
Yan Chong used the body-protecting Qi to isolate this discomfort. Through superb manipulation techniques, the body-protecting Qi filtered the surrounding air, which played the role of a gas mask.
As the flames went out, the orcs on the opposite side became turbulent again, and the sound of horns sounded again. They were all filled with fighting spirit and their eyes became crazy again.
They urged the giant wolf under them to jump into the pit and charge again towards the stone pestle.
The hundreds of compatriots who had sacrificed before seemed not worth mentioning in their eyes. Yan Chong sighed in his heart that although the soldiers of the Maka Empire were very cold-blooded and could watch thousands of refugees die, compared to the orcs, they were already very human.
There was a saying in ancient China that "kindness is not in charge of soldiers". Facing such fierce and cruel orcs, perhaps reason is greater than emotion and is worthy of being their opponents.
As the orcs approached, the captain of the soldiers on the pile of stone began to command, and a group of archers holding bows and arrows came to the stone pestle and shot arrows at the other side.
At the same time, a group of mages also began to recite spells and prepare to release the fireball technique.
Mages are relatively scarce resources in the army, because mental power and physical fitness can be practiced. Even if they are not qualified, they can be piled up as long as they have enough resources. However, mages not only need mental power, but also high intelligence and certain charm.
Intellectual attributes are difficult to improve, and charm is innate, so mages are always strategic resources of the army and cannot be sacrificed easily.
After releasing the fireball, the mages retreated to the back and were heavily protected by the soldiers. With the currently incomplete stone pestle, it is difficult to prevent the attacks of the orcs.
Faced with the attack of the soldiers of Xiaguang City, the orcs suddenly changed their formation and began to approach each other. They took out an iron chain and wrapped it on their companions on their right side, and then raised the big shield in their hands together.
The arrows still couldn't hurt them at all, and the fireball fell on the shield. Because the orcs were connected by iron chains, a solid whole was formed, and their formation was not exploded.
Occasionally, there were a few unlucky ones who were blown up because they did not block the landing point of the fireball. However, they were abandoned by their companions and trampled by the giant wolf behind them.
The soldiers standing on the pile of stones became nervous. They had thought before that the orcs were very fierce. Under the premise of sacrificing some of their compatriots for life, the Xiaguang City was likely to be broken.
But what they didn't expect was that the orcs actually learned to be smart. Just because hundreds of people were sacrificed in the previous trap, they forced them to accept a head-on hand-to-head battle.
With the current distance, the mages dare not use spells anymore, otherwise even if one of them is killed by the orcs, it will be a huge loss.
Soon, the orcs came under the stone mortar. They pulled the reins in their hands hard, and the giant wolf jumped up with a "scream" and rushed to the slope of the stone mortar.
At the same time, the soldiers standing on the pile of stones also held the long sword in their hands tightly and were always ready to slash at the orcs.
In front of Yan Chong, an orc riding on a giant wolf was naked, his chest and arms were covered with crisscrossing scars, and his muscles were bulging, which was even more exaggerated than the muscles of the bodybuilding champion Yan Chong had seen online.
The orc held a metal spear and rushed towards Yan with a mocking expression.
The giant wolf under his crotch also opened his bloody mouth and spit out a pool of extremely smelly saliva.
This orc has killed a lot of ordinary imperial soldiers, and his strength is like the minor orcs in their tribe, and can be ravaged at will.
However, Yan Chong was not the soft persimmon he imagined. He saw that as soon as he shortened his body, he swung his long sword, and the giant wolf's four legs broke.
Then he held the knife in both hands and stabbed it upwards, directly immersing the long sword from the giant wolf's abdomen, piercing through the orcs on its back.
"Ao~"
The giant wolf screamed, and the orcs on its back were also screaming. He was puzzled. Why did the short human in front of him suddenly disappear from his eyes? Then he felt the anus tightening, and an indescribable pain came, making him only have time to let out a heart-wrenching scream, and his eyes turned black and his consciousness completely subsided.
Yan Chong pulled back the blade and flexibly retreated to the side. The giant wolf and the orc on its back slid past him and fell onto the stone pestle.
Beside him, the spear in the hand of another orc had already stabbed at another soldier. Seeing that the other party was about to be provoked by the spear, Yan Chong threw the long sword in his hand at the orc.
The long sword flew to the orc in an instant, cut off his spear-holding arm. Yan Chong arrived first, jumped up and caught the long sword, beheaded the orc with broken arms in the air, and then kicked the other party's body off the back of the giant wolf, and rode himself on the giant wolf.
The giant wolf was about to bite the soldier who escaped the disaster, and felt that it seemed that someone had been replaced on his back.
It did not think too much, and instinctively continued to bite the human soldier, but felt that the reins on its neck were suddenly pulled back, making its neck almost break. At the same time, a breath that made it tremble came.
As soon as Yan Chong rode on the back of the giant wolf, he controlled it with the reins and emitting a slight breath on his body, making the other party obediently like a domestic pet dog.
Then, he controlled the giant wolf to rush towards the other orcs, and the long sword in his hand kept waving, killing one orc.
Above the stone pestle, human soldiers and orc cavalry began a fierce hand-to-hand battle. Facing orcs of the same level, human soldiers wearing heavy black iron armor were fragile like paper. Generally, only veterans with very rich experience could compete with orcs one-on-one.
Either a bronze rank officer can kill orcs with ease, but if you are unlucky and meet orcs of the same level, you will be tragically ravaged.
Not long after, the casualties of human soldiers far exceeded those of orcs, but behind them was their own city and their family. No human soldiers retreated. Groups of soldiers rushed to the stone pestle without hesitation and blocked the brutal orcs outside the city.
Chapter completed!