Pale Emblem

Chapter 45 The Conqueror Quil Ngra
The headless corpse of the barbarian slave knelt on the snow.Her blood was drained, and a large patch of dark red dipped under her body, which was particularly dazzling against the backdrop of the white snow.

The surrounding barbarian warriors were a little overwhelmed. The bald-eared orc butcher cut off the head of the barbarian slave girl in front of them. They should have been furious and ripped apart the bald-eared butcher on the spot.However, the slain barbarians belonged to the half-elves' slaves, not their clansmen.

A brave barbarian warrior will never admit that he is actually timid.Whether it was the bald butcher before, or the half-orc leader who came alone to show off his power, as long as the Heavenly Spirit Fighter Locke gave an order, they would dare to fight each other to the death.

"Locke, I told you that only a covenant made of blood can allow us to coexist peacefully."

The half-orc leader Quel Ngra carried a huge axe made of animal bones and stones, completely ignoring the anger of the barbarian warriors, and said gruffly: "Negotiation? What is that? Don't forget, weak and despicable. The half-elves attacked my camp first, killed my warriors, and burned my food. I don't want to negotiate with the half-elves! The shamans will throw their skulls into the fire and burn them, and from the cracks in the bones get the earthmother and Revelation of the Heavenly Spirit. All we have to do is chop off the head of the half-elf and give it to the shaman of the tribe. Then, you will know the intrigue of the half-elf.”

Quel'n'gra, chief of the Rift Horde.His body is relatively thin and short among half-orc butchers, but he is also 2.2 meters tall. Under his reddish brown skin are thick and knotted muscles. He can't see the slightest bit of fat. His whole body is rippling with an extremely oppressive force.

The celestial warrior Locke clung to his stone hammer, but in front of Quel Ngra, the weapon that had once killed the raging troll did not bring him much sense of security.On the contrary, the breath released by Quel N'gra made Locke's skin feel needled, which is the manifestation of the killing will of the Orc Butcher.

Of the more than 100 orc butchers of the Rift Horde, only 10 can make Lok feel dangerous, and Chief Quer'n'gra is the most special.At least, before Bald Er killed the barbarian slave, Locke didn't know that the half-orc chieftain could actually manifest the butcher's will to kill.

Locke remembered that when it was just winter this year, Quel Ngra led nine orc butchers to visit the barbarian tribes of Braun Lake one by one.They claimed to be the ten brothers of the Split Rock Tribe. After offering gifts, they asked the barbarian tribe to allow the Split Rock Tribe to spend the winter in the Braun Lake Basin, and they would leave in the spring of next year.

The Ten Rock Splitting Brothers are all powerful. Except for Quel Ngra, the other nine brothers are Tier [-] and Tier [-] orc slayers, and their level of danger is not much worse than that of trolls.Locke was still wondering why the Ten Brothers of Split Rock allowed the weakest Quel Ngra to be the chief of the tribe.He knew now that Quer'n'gra was not too weak, but too strong, strong enough to overwhelm all the butchers in the Shattered Rock tribe.

Not only is Quel'N'gra powerful, he's also rare and cunning, hardly like a rude orc butcher.

He claims to have been hunted by monsters in the far north and migrated south to seek refuge in the Crack Rock tribe.The leaders of the barbarian tribes, because of the powerful force of the Ten Rock Crack Brothers, mistakenly thought that the Orc tribe with only ten butchers would not be too big, so they still accepted the gift of Quel Ngra, allowing the Crack Rock tribe to be on their own territory. winter.

No one expected that the Split Rock Tribe had more than 180 butchers, more than 120 big mothers, and more than 200 fighting shamans.

Just when the barbarians were in fear, Chief Quill came forward to appease them again.He took the initiative to disperse the Orcs of the Cracked Rock into more than 20 small groups, and each selected a site to build a winter camp, and did not conflict with the local barbarians.

Quill explained that the Split Rock Tribe was just a medium-sized tribe with a population of less than 2000 at first. After the previous chief and several butchers were killed by monsters, he was selected by the big mothers as the new chief and led the Split Rock Tribe to migrate south. Taking refuge, he conquered many small tribes of orcs on the way.The Rift Horde grew and grew, eventually becoming a huge orc tribe.

Orc tribes in Outland are generally small, with populations ranging from a few hundred to a thousand.If the tribe population exceeds 1000, they need a very large territory, and then face the challenges of wild monsters.Trolls and centaurs are formidable opponents, and few orcs can defeat a troll or centaur clan in the wild.If the Black Fire Tribe did not have the protection of the Dragon King Fei Lumat, it would have been swept away by the centaur tribe, and it would be impossible to develop to the scale of a million people.

Even the centaur robbers that the current Blackfire Tribe brought to and fro like the wind couldn't do anything good.However, the powerful Centaur Khanate did not dare to go deep into the territory of the Dragon King Feilumat, otherwise, the Blackfire Orcs would have split into numerous small tribes.

The progress of the Blackfyre Horde's expansion into the Outlands has been slow.The cracked rock half-orcs with a population of just over 1 are also difficult to gain a foothold in the wilderness. It seems normal for them to migrate towards the lush forested Lake Braun basin.

The Orc tribes of Wild Outland were broken into pieces and lived by herding wild boars.Their butchers are divided into two types, one is a wanderer without a clan, and the other is a conqueror who has gone through the challenge of the butcher and succeeded in occupying a half-orc tribe.

Quil N'gra was clearly a conqueror.But he moved all the way, conquered all the way, and coerced tens of thousands of orcs to migrate collectively, which went against the butcher's nature.Without the right habitat, the seemingly mighty Rift Rock tribe can quickly fall apart.

The barbarian leaders didn't know what Chief Quill was thinking, but they also realized that the Rift Horde probably wouldn't leave the Lake Braun watershed.So, the barbarians used the Blackfire Horde and the Disar Alliance to intimidate Quel'n'gra.However, they seriously underestimated this unusual orc chieftain.

Until a few days ago, a group of fools and half-elves raided a camp of the Rock Splitter tribe and set fire to some of their food.Quel Ngra immediately responded, first occupying the half-elf's plantation, and then coercing the barbarian leader, claiming that the half-elves burned the food supplies of the cracked rock, and the half-orcs could not survive the winter, and the local barbarians either handed over the food, or with the cracked rock. The tribe formed a blood alliance and jointly sent troops to lay down the town of Braun to snatch the half-elves' winter supplies.

The Black Fire Tribe and the Dissa Alliance did not dispatch the main army, and the local barbarians and the half-elves of Braun Town were not the opponents of the Split Rock Tribe.The barbarian leaders had no choice but to agree to Chief Quill's request and join forces to attack the town of Braun.

Even if Locke thinks that he is not an opponent of Quell Engra, he is never afraid of him, but with the lives of his clan on his shoulders, he can't act rashly, and said angrily, "Bald ears killed a barbarian!"

Quel Ngra's tall and strong body knelt down slowly in front of the headless corpse of the barbarian slave, reached out and grabbed a handful of blood-stained snow, and said in a deep voice, "Half-orcs and barbarians look different, but we The same blood flows through the body..."

He stood up again, stretched his blood-holding hand in front of the Celestial Warrior, and said, "The blood of the half-orcs, the blood of the barbarians, and the blood of the half-elf formed our blood alliance. The barbarians have already shed their blood, and now it's our half-orc turn. It's bleeding... I'll order my people to take the lead, and when we blow open the gates of Braun Town, the barbarians will rush in."

The barbarian warriors were moved, and Quel N'gra made no apology for Bald, but his words carried a certain awe-inspiring power.

Locke slowly reached out and held Quill's hand, and said in a deep voice, "Blood is the alliance!"

"Blood is the alliance!"

At this time, the half-elf's roar of "the bloody battle to the end" came from the city wall of Braun Town.Quil Ngra turned his head to look, and soon found Vertoc.But there was a look on the opposite side that collided with his, and Chief Cracked Rock felt a heavy stone smashing towards his eyes. He instinctively wanted to close his eyes, but he forcibly held back, his eyes just narrowed slightly. He opened it again, and then asked Locke, "Who is that?"

The Celestial Spirit Warrior also sensed Gang Yan's gaze, and replied with a solemn expression: "It should be the owner of Braun Town, the leader of the Ta Cave Clan."

Quel Ngra opened his bloody mouth and said excitedly: "He is very strong... Kill him, and Mother Earth will be delighted."

Locke said solemnly: "The tower caves of the Dissa Alliance call themselves the servants of the goddess, which is not easy to deal with."

The half-orc chief carried the giant axe, turned and walked towards the clan, without turning his head and said, "Mother Earth never takes pity on the weak."

Locke watched the majestic back of the half-orc gradually walk away, turned around and shouted to his clansmen: "Use the ballista to shoot the iron javelin on the wall of Braun Town!"

The strong barbarian warriors carried wooden turrets on their shoulders, carrying six ballistas and advancing towards the town of Braun.

The ballista in Braun Town noticed the movement on the barbarian side, and immediately began to aim at the opponent's fort.After Bartom's rigorous training, they were able to skillfully operate medium-sized ballistas. Even if the barbarian mobile turret entered the effective range of the ballista, they did not rush to fire huge metal ballistas, but held their breath and waited for the barbarian warriors to stop. , clumsily loaded the crossbow before making a test shot.

The main purpose of the ballista is to correct the shooting accuracy, and it is normal to miss the target.But the javelin-like metal bolts flew over the heads of the barbarians with a scalp-numbing roar, and they were still in a mess.

The more flustered they were, the more they couldn't operate the ballista. The fort on the side of Bolang Town fired two rounds, and the barbarian couldn't even complete the first shot.When the ballista in Braun Town fired for the third time, the barbarian finally fired the first round.But their crossbow bolts either hit the sky, or plunged into the snow more than 200 meters away, and they didn't even touch the city wall of Bolang Town.The crossbow bolts fired by Bolang Town were already very close to the barbarian's wooden fort.

Bartom laughed and greeted loudly: "Okay! Let's fight like this! The boys have another round, and try to send these barbarian cubs to the arms of the mother!"

It can be said so, but it is actually very difficult for a ballista to hit a target 300 meters away.Moreover, the 12 ballistas in Bolang Town are scattered throughout the city wall, and there are only four ballistas facing the enemy.If the four ballistas focused on one target, the fourth round of shooting would have the potential to destroy a wooden fort.It's a pity that the fort in Bolang Town is fixed, and it would be nice if two ballistas could focus on one target at the same time.

Brutal warriors are naturally sharp.They quickly discovered the problem. Seeing that the ballistas in Braun Town were getting more and more accurate, they simply commanded ordinary soldiers to carry wooden turrets for mobile shooting.The savage fighter did not require the ballista on his side to be able to shoot accurately, as long as the huge crossbow bolts pierced into the city wall to provide a foothold for the siege troops.

The giant crossbow bolts shot back and forth in the air. After about a meal, a crossbow bolt fired by the barbarians finally hit the city wall, making a loud "bang", and the stone shattered. Miduo's long crossbow bolts penetrated deeply into the wall.And all the ballistas in Braun Town were sweating profusely, but none of their bolts hit the barbarian mobile battery.

The brutal fighter used his intuition to command the moving turret to move and stop, avoiding the half-elf ballista's fire.Even though Bartom operated the ballista himself, he failed to hit any of the mobile turrets.The barbarian ballista didn't need to aim at a target at all, just hit the city wall.

Although the fixed fort in Braun Town could not hit the barbarian fighters who could predict the danger, it could not allow the barbarians to fire ballistas recklessly.

The armaments in Braun Town were still abundant, and the half-elf ballista insisted on shooting at the barbarian battery, trying to disperse them as much as possible and not let them stop moving.This can effectively prevent the formation of "wall steps".

Finally, the agile professionals replaced the ballista, operated the ballista by themselves, and chased after the barbarians.Even Vertok started to operate the ballista and had a good time.

For some reason, Vertok wasn't nervous.In fact, just shooting ballistas is not enough to make people feel the urgency of the war, but it will create a feeling of slack.

However, the barbarian warriors became more and more proficient in operating the ballista.When it was getting dark, they shot a dozen giant crossbow bolts on the city wall one after another.Fortunately, these crossbow bolts are located in the east and west of the city wall, and their positions are arranged up and down, and there is no "step" for the enemy to climb.

Bartom stuck his head out, observed the situation of the city wall, and said easily: "Yes, there are barely 'steps', which kind of Orc warriors can't climb up. We just want to consume them, consume their food , consume their physical strength, and when they are hungry and tired, we can consider breaking through or continue to hold on."

"Let's take turns eating first. If the enemies on the opposite side also start to eat dinner, I guess they won't attack the city tonight. After midnight, we'll find a way to pull out the 'nails' on the city wall."

As this side was talking, the orc camp started to move forward. More than 1000 coolies were at the front of the line, followed by hundreds of orc fighters and a dozen butchers.The remaining 1000 orc warriors remained in place and did not move.

Even if the half-orcs and barbarians were not fully deployed, the 1000-odd enemies were a massive black mass.They ran faster and faster, charging towards the city wall.

Bartom roared: "Don't panic, these orcs can't rush up! All alert, aim at the barbarian coolies, wait for my order to shoot!"

At this moment, "Knowledge Puzzle" gave an analytical conclusion, and Virtok's mind flashed like a flash of light, and he also said loudly: "No! We give priority to shooting orc fighters and butchers, and don't care about coolies. "

The half-elf on the city wall suddenly burst into an uproar.They should have followed Bartom's command, but instinctively believed in Vertok.Now, the two men issued diametrically opposed orders, leaving them at a loss for a while.

Bartom frowned and said angrily to Vertok: "Vill, on the battlefield, the orders I issued cannot be changed casually!"

Vertoc looked across the way, and in the enemy's camp, he found the half-orc leader who had been designated by Gangyan, and said categorically: "The order to give priority to killing half-orc coolies must be changed! It wants to use coolies to consume our arrow crossbows, by the way. Reduce your mouth for eating."

"That guy is very unusual..."

(End of this chapter)