(I''m depressed that there will be such a thing as resending. How nice it is to make this change today. There''s less pressure on full attendance this month.
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The second era, May 7.
early morning.
After two days, the orcs seem to have determined that the human city-state coalition would not come out to fight. As a result, the offensive against Athens was more fierce than ever. Not only the huge catapult was put into the battle, but also many other siege equipment were pulled out, such as well fence, ladder, car and so on. The orcs who accepted the assimilation of ORC civilization are not far from human beings in the level of science and technology.
The fierce fighting continued until noon.
In just three hours, the half beast army launched six strong attacks! Even with the help of siege equipment, their elite troops boarded the fortress several times. If it wasn''t for Murphy''s quick decision to put the Spartan fury fighters into battle, I''m afraid his own side would have suffered a heavy loss. In less than a morning, the orcs left nearly 2000 dead bodies, and Athens also had one or two hundred casualties. But for the holy water provided by the leading temple, the number of casualties would be even greater.
"Have something to eat first, governor?" A general guard''s valet came to Murphy with a piece of dried meat and a bowl of porridge mixed with vegetable leaves. He held it carefully, and he only dared to hold the corner of the bowl with his thumb, because he was afraid that the blood on his hand would be on the porridge.
Athenian supplies are not tight, but they are not abundant.
Before the harvest of winter wheat, the food in Athens can only support one month at most. The army''s food was cooked with vegetables and dried fish, and the generals, including Murphy, ate the same. Not to speak of what taste, can only be regarded as filling the stomach. Because of the assistance given to the Centaur tribe, Athens''s material reserves can no longer be wasted.
"Well." Murphy nodded, reached for the big bowl of porridge and drank it, and soon drank most of it.
He took a piece of dried meat and chewed it in his mouth. After swallowing it, he took a big gulp of porridge mixed with vegetable leaves. Murphy ate very carefully, but very fast. In less than three minutes, he ate up a big bowl of porridge and a piece of dried meat.
He handed the bowl to the general''s bodyguard and asked, "how long before the winter wheat can be harvested?"
"I''m afraid it will take half a month, governor." The bodyguard on one side replied carefully.
Half a month?
Murphy nodded and waved him down first.
The true sense of maturity of winter wheat needs to wait until about June this year. The specific time should be June 15.
At that time, winter wheat can be regarded as the true sense of maturity. But because of the war, Murphy had to consider harvesting winter wheat in advance. But even so, Murphy had to wait a while longer, because today''s winter wheat is not even green and yellow. If you want to reach the minimum standard of harvest, you have to wait until after May 15.
Harvesting a month in advance is the limit of winter wheat.
The orc army was not the reason why Murphy was really afraid, because apart from this fortress, Athens itself was also a strong city of this era. With the completed moat, as long as there was enough food, even the besieged city of 100000 orcs could not be broken. The Greek infantry square has a congenital advantage in defense. According to the current proportion of casualties, the orcs may have to pay more than 80% of the casualties to capture Athens.
This kind of loss is also unacceptable to them.
What Murphy is really worried about is food, winter wheat and hard work for half a year!
There is not much food in Athens.
If we can''t harvest these winter wheat successfully, I''m afraid Athens will not have a good winter this year.
Fifty thousand mu of winter wheat to be harvested!!!
These grains in this era can be said to be an unparalleled wealth!
How can Murphy give up easily?
If the orcs get this food, it''s too much of a threat to humanity.
Unless it''s a last resort, Murphy won''t consider the final arrangement.
That''s it.
Set fire to the grain to be harvested!
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In the afternoon.
The sky began to drizzle.
The strong smell of blood in the air was diluted by the rain. Because of the rain, the army had to give up the next attack.
Athens has as many as 3000 longbowmen. These longbowmen are a headache for the commander-in-chief of the half beast army!
Super long range, super penetrating power in this era.
Even soldiers with armor will be severely damaged if they are shot within 100 meters. Plus the advantage of the city wall, if it wasn''t for the well fence and the cloud ladder, no matter how many people died, they would not be able to get on the fortress wall.
Murphy stood in silence in the drizzle. The drizzle fell on him and then slid down the top of his hair.
Under his feet was a piece of blood, which was washed down from his armor by the drizzle. In the morning, the battle was extremely fierce. The orc''s attack was all about fighting for his life. Murphy had to dispatch elite troops to the city wall, and even joined several battles himself.
Orc armies are tough!
Their main forces are divided into two kinds, one is the use of heavy weapons, they are the backbone of the battle. These soldiers are equipped with leather armour, only a piece of iron inlaid in the heart. Their combat effectiveness is not bad. They are better than the Greek heavy infantry in individual combat, but they are not the enemy of the Greek heavy infantry in team cooperation.
The other is Orc fanatics who can go into a frenzy with a two handed Tomahawk.
These are the arms that really bothered Murphy.
All of these Orc fanatics are tall. They are equipped with half body armor and hold dozens of pounds of two handed axes. Once they enter the state of fury, they immediately become powerful! Once these soldiers were sent to the city wall, it was time for Athens to suffer casualties. When they attacked, they were not afraid of death, regardless of the defense problems. Due to the limited location of the city wall, there was little room for evasion.
Once these Orc fanatics broke out, even the Spartan conquerors struggled against them.
Strictly speaking, orcs have no real division of arms. Because in addition to the standard equipment of the main forces, the other infantry arms get a lot of strange equipment.
Even with the assistance of the orc Empire, it is impossible for the orcs to take out the equipment to arm 100000 people.
After all, there are restrictions on the level of scientific and technological productivity in this era.
In addition to tens of thousands of soldiers in the Chinese army, other soldiers are only equipped with ordinary equipment. It is roughly equivalent to the level of the Athenian militia, and may be slightly better in weapons.
This is undoubtedly a very good news for Murphy.
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At present, Murphy has only two kinds of ORC fighters.
One is soldiers equipped with heavy machetes and leather armour, their standard configuration of ORC infantry. The combat is roughly equal to that of the Greek heavy infantry, and the equipment and cooperation of the Greek heavy infantry are inferior.
The other is Orc fanatics.
There are two kinds of ORC fanatics, one is equipped with heavy armor, the other is not wearing armor fanatics. The latter are more dangerous than the former, because they look more like the orcs. It''s a crazy way to fight with your life. There are few skills to speak of. It''s all about throwing forward with a huge axe!
But in war, this is the most troublesome way, because the density of soldiers is very high.
They can almost attack the enemy with their eyes closed in such a crazy way, and the soldiers who are hit by their two handed axes almost lose their combat effectiveness even if they don''t die on the spot.
Fortunately, there is one.
That is, these soldiers who are able to go into a violent state have one characteristic.
Just like the emblem of barbarians representing warriors, these Orc warriors who can enter the state of fury will also leave a mark of strength on their bodies.
Unlike the barbarians, the orc''s way is for shaman priests to burn a faint wolf''s head mark on their foreheads or cheeks with charcoal. After burning with charcoal, shaman priests will apply the medicine of special materials to the wound. In this way, after the wound healed, the orcs would leave a special dark blue mark on their bodies.
This mark means that they are warriors recognized by shaman priests.
That''s good news for Murphy. In the battle, as long as he saw these Orc soldiers with marks on their faces, he directly pulled several teams of Athenian longbowmen to shoot them to death without saying a word! They can''t climb up the wall!
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About three o''clock in the afternoon.
The drizzle stopped after more than an hour.
And the orc camp began to move, the soldiers hiding in the tent gathered, and several large catapults were assembled again. Later, a car was pushed out. It seems that the orcs did not give up the idea of breaking through the fortress gate.
But their idea is doomed to failure.
Because Murphy sealed the gate a few days ago. Although the back of the gate was empty, in fact, Murphy had craftsmen build another concave wall where the gate was inlaid. That is to say, after the orcs break through the gate of the fortress, they will find that the hateful enemy has built another wall behind the gate! At that time, they will face a piece of arrow rain!
The rhythm of the battle drum sounded, and the orc army began to attack.
The Greek heavy infantry line up in front, holding their long guns and holding their shields flat on their chests.
The sound of war drums is gradually rising!
The orc soldiers in front of the array let out a thunderous roar.
As if not to be outdone, at the signal of general riodari, the Greek heavy infantry beat their shields with long guns and roared.
"Kill
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
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Five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters.
After entering the long bow range, the orc warrior raises his shield. The Athenian Bowman also began to lose his power, and a shower of arrows fell on the orc warriors, and they fell like wheat. All the shields in the orc''s hands are ordinary wooden shields. Although they can defend ordinary arrows, their defense effect is still limited in the face of long bow fire.
Unless they use the Roman style shield with a length of more than 90 cm, it is difficult for them to substantially resist the Longbowman''s shooting.
Before the three decked cars began to run, and about 400 meters away from the fortress wall, a giant catapult began to operate.
Although it is called giant catapult, according to the level of science and technology in the world, its ability of catapult is still quite limited.
The function of the catapult is quite limited by its lethality alone.
Their real role is mainly deterrence. After all, if anyone is hit by bad luck, it can almost be said that he will die.
In this era, a very important use of the catapult is to throw cupping, that is, to set fire. Throwing fire oil into the city or setting fire to the city wall can play a very effective role. If you can match with black oil, that is, open-air oil and other things, it will play a very terrible role in this era! This was one of Murphy''s ideas at the time, but he couldn''t find oil anywhere.
Even Athens was not extravagant enough to use kerosene, so were the orcs.
The ammunition they use is stones weighing about 15-25 kg, which is about the size of a basketball.
The giant catapult used by the orcs is also a technology of the earth age in the early BC, and its lethality alone does not have much advantage. It looks amazing!
A stone bullet can hit a pit nearly one meter deep after it lands!
If it falls on the wall, even the hard wall will be smashed into a pit.
"Prepare the catapult!"
As the enemy''s catapult was put into use, general riodari also issued a loud order.
Twenty four catapults were pushed out, and the Greek soldiers aimed them at the approaching enemy and put the stone bullets piled up on one side.
The crossbow designed by the Greeks has a strong support. The main beam is placed on the support. Two torsion spring groups are installed on both sides of the front end of the crossbow. Each spring group drives a crossbow arm. The end of the crossbow arm is connected with a bow string, and the middle of the bow string is a woven net bag to accommodate the projectiles. The catapult has great power. The catapult with good performance can even throw a stone bullet weighing 1 talente 250 meters away.
Although the range of the catapult made in Athens is not as good as that of the catapult, it is simply superior in quantity. As soon as the catapult goes into battle, the deterrent effect of the enemy''s catapult disappears. On the contrary, the row of crossbows on the wall made the orc soldiers feel a little frightened!
The fighting continued.
Soon, bursts of shouts and wails were heard on the battlefield.
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This war, Murphy did not stand at the head of the city personally command.
"Your Excellency, general Rosa Yat has not returned." A cavalry galloped to Murphy''s side. He turned over, jumped off his horse, knelt down on one knee and said, "there''s no movement on Mrs. Elizabeth''s side."
Murphy''s face was expressionless, but he nodded to the cavalry to step down.
As if he was disappointed, he shook his head and sighed with emotion: "sure enough! Everything is on your own. "
Two days passed.
The aboriginal general Rosa Yate, who went to the aristocratic Council for help, has not come back yet.
Until now, on May 7, it has been nearly four days since the orcs broke through the canyon. There was hardly any news from Lady Elizabeth. This has to let Murphy feel a bit disappointed, the aristocratic Council did not have any news is not unexpected. But what he didn''t expect was that Mrs. Elizabeth, her close ally over the past year, didn''t even make any move now.
It''s a lie to say you''re not disappointed.
If it wasn''t for the support system of total war, I''m afraid there would be almost no chance of winning this time against the half beast army?
"I see." Murphy looked at the cavalry in front of him and said, "go down and have a rest."
"Yes
Murphy closed his eyes and thought in silence. The cry from the wall didn''t affect his thinking.
About ten minutes later.
Murphy slowly opened his eyes, his eyes turned to firm, raised his hand to the side of the general guard captain, said in a deep voice: "order to continue!"
"Get the cavalry ready and set out as soon as the sun sets!"
The captain of the general''s guard had a whole face and said, "yes! Your excellency
After giving orders to play with the general guard, Murphy summoned general Marcus Kane and said to him, "summon the long bowmen of Crete! Give each of them a portion of dry food, ten arrows and a horse. After sunset, you will lead them to set out with me
"Yes
General Marcus Kane nodded and turned away.
"Summon the conquerors of Sparta! Let them wait for me at the canyon before sunset
"Yes
A general''s bodyguard was ordered to leave.
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After a series of orders, the whole camp was busy.
With the exception of the remaining Greek heavy infantry, other soldiers began to retreat. About 20 kilometers away from the fortress, there is a high slope, which is also the only way to Athens. It''s just 50 kilometers away from the inner city of Athens.
And there, is the real main battlefield of this war!
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