“Fly! Oruka!”
Numerous swords spontaneously float in the air and move around the battlefield, cutting off the blood and flesh of soldiers.
“Ugh!”
“It’s a sword with a ghost!”
“It’s Antares Orc!”
Skandal, the great sword that whipped the air once, drew an arc and returned to the hands of its owner, Talcata. Holding the great sword and leading the direwolf, Talcata slashed left and right.
Suddenly!
“Gagging!”
“Uuuuuuuck!”
Talcata shouted as he cut down two soldiers at the same time.
“Kill them all! “Don’t leave a single one alive!”
Slaughter battles broke out everywhere.
Screams erupted from all directions.
The imperial soldiers abandoned their weapons and began to flee frantically throughout the forest.
After a while, Talcata laughed cheerfully while lifting the head of the unit commander.
“Haha! “This is the power of a true orc warrior!”
Other Orc warriors also shouted with excitement. It was a unit made up of various Orcs, not one clan, who all had colorful skin. They were orc gladiators rescued from all over the continent, including Talcata.
These people once lived miserable lives as human slaves and stabbed each other with swords.
Now, they have realized the soul of the great sword and have become true orc warriors who communicate with wild beasts and communicate with their weapons.
Talcata roared above the pile of corpses.
“Shout! “We are victorious!”
“Kaaah!”
“A blood sacrifice to our ancestors!”
“A blood sacrifice to our ancestors!”
War of Imperial Invasion.
The first battle was a victory for the Allied forces of Crovence.
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bang!
“They’re cockroaches again!”
G-Man, the third commander of the Imperial Army, was furious and hit the barracks table hard.
“Are those orcs riding wolves again?”
The adjutant nodded with an equally annoyed expression.
“Yes, Sir Knoop’s troops were defeated this time.”
Currently, the Vastalon Empire army was divided into four units and each was advancing to the western border fortress of Crovence.
If you are building a strong army, there is no reason to divide your forces and risk being defeated individually. However, the state of defense on the western border of Crovence forced the imperial army to disperse its forces.
Three fortresses built in strategic locations to the north and south, as if extending both arms from Parugan Fortress.
Jeston, Tahan, Lakath.
Above them were frozen frozen ground and steep silver mountains, and the four fortresses were powerful walls that tightly guarded the western border of Crovence.
Among the ancient human empires, there were foolish monarchs who simply ignorantly surrounded their entire borders with huge walls, but in reality, there was no need for such huge walls to defend the borders. A wall like that is only useful when the mobility of this side is significantly lower than that of the incoming enemy.
If mobility is supported, it is most efficient to build a strong fortress at an appropriate geographical location and use the military’s mobility to defend a wide area.
When the enemy attacks, you just have to go out to fight.
If the enemy’s army is so strong that fighting on the plains is impossible, you can prepare a sit-in protest.
If the enemy is aiming for the fortress, you fight back, and if you give up the fortress, you just go to war, raid, and return to the fortress. It is difficult to say which side will have the highest morale: the invading army that takes a nap on the ground, or the fortress army that sleeps comfortably in the bed in their room in the fortress and goes off to battle again the next morning.
Of course, there are also tactics to ignore and bypass the fortress. There are quite a few generals in human history who achieved victory by leaving some troops behind to prepare for the fortifications and targeting the capital immediately.
However, the Crovence western border defense line was not an opponent for such methods.
That method would have worked for a single fortress, but on the western border of Crovence, three forts were built with Farugan as the head, closely linked like living organisms.
Since the topographical locations of all forts made sense and the defense ranges overlapped exquisitely, the imperial army could not attack Farugan without ignoring those forts. Then, you find yourself in a siege situation, with reinforcements coming straight from the three fortresses to meet the enemy from front and back.
The area defended by the four fortresses is not a single line like a border, but a vast area of terrain spanning several tens of kilometers. If the imperial army ignores the fortress and advances as is, the Crovençal Allied Forces will be stationed at the fortress throughout the entire advance through the defense area and will be able to stop and kill the imperial army with daily hit-and-run tactics.
In that case, even if they eventually break through the defense line, the imperial army will be exhausted, and the Crovence Allied Forces can easily target the exhausted imperial army from behind and achieve victory.
The Imperial General Staff was no fool, and they knew very well that there could be no victory if they could not capture those fortresses. In any case, the imperial army was made up of the elite of the elite, and even if it were divided into four units, the calculated strength was much higher than that of each fortress, so there was no need to take the risk of maintaining one unit. So, G-Man, the third commander of the Imperial Army, was marching towards Tahan Fortress, promising victory… … .
“If we continue like this, our morale will be broken before we even reach the fortress!”
Throughout the march, the imperial army was subject to surprise attacks. The wicked Crovençal Allied Forces decided to carry out a sneaky surprise attack instead of a fair and fair duel worthy of knights.
“And you use slaves without getting your own hands dirty!”
“The damage is too great to ignore them as slaves.”
The damage suffered by the Orc Wolf Riders was already in the thousands. Those Wolf Riders, who appeared only in the middle of the night, in thick fog, or on cloudy days and quickly ran away after a quick surprise attack, were impossible to chase with the mobility of the imperial army.
“After all, horses are sensitive to climate… … “Like direwolves, it is not easy for them to run like they normally would, even in muddy water.”
Horses that run without hesitation even in muddy or rainy weather are usually among the ranks of famous horses and are considered precious. On the other hand, direwolves are wild beasts that originally roamed the mountains, and are insensitive monsters that do not care whether it rains, snows, or thunders.
Commander G-Man asked with a frown.
“Why didn’t the General Staff figure this out in advance? “They must have already figured out the habits of direwolves, right?”
The imperial staff is competent. They are the elite of the elite, selected only from the smartest people in the continent’s greatest country. It was already well known that Antares orcs rode direwolves, so of course they had to be able to figure out this situation.
But the adjutant was just embarrassed.
“That is… … Such an operation would have been impossible with the direwolf’s endurance… … .”
Direwolves are clearly powerful beasts and have many advantages on the battlefield compared to horses. But he definitely had weaknesses.
First of all, it was impossible for humans to domesticate them, and it was also very difficult to maintain them in an agricultural culture because they eat meat, but the biggest problem was the difference between carnivores and herbivores.
In nature, lions hunt antelopes. People only think of the sight of a lion rushing forward and biting the neck of an antelope, but in reality, the lion had missed dozens of antelopes before hunting it.
Direwolves are clearly superior in instantaneous explosive power, ferocious momentum, and charging power, but they cannot be compared to horses in endurance or long-distance sprinting.
“Tahan Fortress and the current location of the imperial army cannot be traveled back and forth in half a day. It would be possible with a horse, but the distance would be impossible with a direwolf’s endurance. So, they say we have to sortie in advance and ambush our advance position… … .”
The adjutant continued speaking in bewilderment.
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“If the desired cloudy weather does not appear there, the small group of Wolf Riders will simply become food for the advancing Imperial army. “In reality, this is an operation that cannot be implemented.”
The reason Wolf Rider was so successful in his surprise attack was because he thoroughly targeted weather that prevented the horses from moving properly.
What if the weather was clear?
If the horses had been moved properly, the Imperial Army’s large cavalry unit would have been able to easily repel the small group of Wolf Riders.
Wolf Rider can’t even run away. A dire wolf can run at full speed for only about ten minutes at most, but his horse can run steadily for dozens of times that amount of time.
“In short, it’s a ridiculous gamble.”
“… … But isn’t that gamble paying off?”
The adjutant shrugged his shoulders weakly in response to G-Man’s scolding.
“Perhaps they are using local people who know the climate of this area well.”
Wise elders who have lived in an area for a long time say that they can tell whether it will rain or the sun will shine the next day just by looking at the weather that day. Well, it’s not strange.
However, this is limited to the public’s sense. Actually, I’m not saying that the old man got his diary 100% perfect. Even if you get it wrong two or three times, if you get it right once, people will assume you guessed the weather roughly.
G-Man Commander had an astonished expression.
“Fools who fight a war over such uncertain things… … .”
“It’s not something a proper strategist would do, but considering the opponent is a foolish orc, it’s plausible. “I guess I’ve just been lucky so far.”
The G-Man commander was satisfied with the adjutant’s explanation. Because there is no other reasonable explanation for the current situation.
Here, a foolish commander would give the order, ‘There’s no way your luck will last forever, so if they show up on a clear day, slaughter them all!’
However, G-Man was a warrior chosen even in the great empire of Vastalon, which had the largest territory and population on the continent.
The Vashtalon Empire is also an aristocrat-centered system where lineage and connections are required to reach a high position, but when it comes to empires, the number of nobles supported by lineage and connections is enormous. Among those selected there, there is none who is not competent.
“If they are unlucky, you can just defeat them and there is no reason to worry. But there is a possibility that luck will continue to favor you in the future.”
The G-Man commander gave orders to his adjutant.
“The entire army will deploy heavy infantry and stand guard in three shifts from now on. “Let your horses rest and instead form a strong defensive line and always be prepared for attack.”
If a surprise attack cannot be prevented, a system must be put in place to prepare for any surprise attack.
Of course, if you do this, you will have the problem of not being able to chase even if Wolf Rider appears in clear weather, so you will suffer the humiliation of missing the enemy right in front of you… … .
“Anyway, our target is Tahan Fortress. No matter how hard they try, they won’t be able to escape Tahan Fortress, so they can take revenge then. “There is no reason to waste troops unnecessarily.”
Instead of getting caught up in the emotions in front of him, G-Man made a cool-headed decision.
It was a completely flawless response. The adjutant also deeply agreed.
“I will implement it as is, Your Excellency.”
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Crovence western border fortress. Tahan.
Two men were talking in this huge fortress wall built high with black rocks and bricks. A handsome young human swordsman and a rugged green-skinned orc youth, but even for an orc, they had eyes that seemed quite wise.
“They say Talcata isn’t going to have any more fun, Russ.”
“Has the empire already taken action? “It’s fast.”
Russ clicked his tongue as he looked beyond the castle wall. Currently, he had joined Tahan Fortress with ten knights of Antares and five hundred human soldiers under his command.
Tashid, who had joined the Blue Bear tribe’s warrior Baek, shrugged his shoulders.
“Yesterday, they invaded again, but everyone was holding on with wooden fences and shields, so they just came in without thinking. “If you hold out for that long, you won’t be able to break through, no matter the weather.”
“Is this the end to having fun with weather forecasts? “It’s too short.”
Russ looked disappointed.
Although he did not study it very deeply, he also learned the basics of military science as he grew up as a knight. This means that it is fully understandable how important climate change is on the battlefield.
So, how happy were you when you heard from Karl that you could know the climate of this area in advance? However, the empire was not easy.
“I’ve only used it three or four times, but I dealt with it right away, sheesh.”
“I don’t think the imperial army would have realized that we knew the weather in advance and would attack, right?”
“It’s not like that. I just chose the safest route regardless of the weather. If you are a military officer with a shy personality, this is not an option… … .”
And the unmanned person’s personality is usually brazen. If I didn’t have that kind of personality, I wouldn’t normally choose to eat a lot of food.
“It seems like the commander over there is also quite capable.”
The number of imperial troops currently advancing toward Tahan Fortress was estimated to be around five thousand. On the other hand, if you understand that the garrison at Tahan Fortress is 10,000, and that the sit-in side has a nearly three times advantage over the siege side, you can count on Tahan Fortress to be victorious.
However, Russ did not relax his tense expression.
“The quality of the troops is so different that they cannot be compared in numbers.”
Although he had suffered close to a thousand casualties due to Wolf Rider’s raids, from the Imperial Army’s point of view, he was not a big loss. Most of the troops lost were ordinary infantrymen. The real strength of the imperial army, such as knights, heavy infantry, and strong archers, suffered almost no damage.
On the other hand, out of the 10,000 troops in Tahan Fortress, 9 thousand are ordinary infantrymen. Just because an infantryman shoots a bow doesn’t make him an elite archer, and riding a horse doesn’t make him a proper cavalryman, so if you look at the elite’s strength, they were still inferior.
Seeing his friend’s expression of concern, Tasheed patted his back.
“Well, won’t they take care of the defense of the fortress?”
Tashid’s gaze turned to the wall on the other side of the fortress.
There, many dwarf warriors were commanding human soldiers and strengthening various parts of the fortress. They were warriors from Grand Forge who came with Dwarf Auror user Maloid.
The dwarf warriors eagerly beckoned to the human soldiers and together carried stones to the castle wall. These are stones for preparation before dialysis.
Maloid, commanding the dwarf warriors, shouted at both dwarf and human soldiers.
