lizard lord

Chapter 163 Diplomat

Bork described the situation optimistically in his letter to Tang Zhao, but in fact it was not entirely true.

The main problem on Tang Zhao's side is the serious shortage of soldiers, while the main problem on the human side is the serious low overall quality of soldiers.

It is true that there are elite fighters from the Church of Heim in the city, and the total number is about eight or nine hundred. It is more than enough to guard a castle, but Luford is built on a plain, and the city wall stretches for tens of miles. The defensive area is too long and there are not enough people.

Although there are still about 300 elite guards of the city lord and the private guards of various caravans with decent combat effectiveness. The total number of people is about [-], but it is still not enough. The defenders on the city wall are mainly human militiamen who have undergone simple training. .

If it is the human civilians on the eastern border, they have undergone some necessary mandatory training anyway. These civilians in the west have almost never fought in their lives. The only people who are close to a soldier are hunters and other occupations. Their military literacy can be imagined .

Even if the city lord had issued an announcement before the hobgoblins attacked, the Cyclops gang had also dispatched in time to cooperate with the security team in trying to stabilize the order in the city. Of course there was an effect, but it was not immediate. Panic and other emotions still spread in the city.

In this state, the militiamen who have only undergone a few days of simple training may have a passion for blood, but the battlefield is the place where blood can be wasted the most. Blood, death and corpses will quickly drain the courage of these young people.

In addition to the morale problem, there is another very serious problem in front of them-they lack the mainstay combat power, the high-level combat power is barely equal, and they cannot spare their hands. The number of hobgoblin fighters of the third and second tiers is far more Due to the number of human fighters, these extra enemy fighters need to be blocked with human lives.

As long as one such hobgoblin successfully ascended the city wall, a bloody storm would be set off on the city wall. Before the strong men on the city wall came to support them, at least a dozen people could be killed or injured.

The bloodfist hobgoblin's offensive was far more ferocious than the green spear's offensive. Several consecutive waves of attacks were carried out in a day. The defenders in the city suffered terribly, and the casualties were quite heavy.

The fifth-tier hobgoblin overseer army participated in the attack on the city wall on the first day, and the beholders and Bock joined forces to draw a tie with the opponent and curb the opponent's attempt to seize the city gate.

The beholder is quite arrogant, but at least he still has the most basic spirit of contract. On the premise of ensuring his own safety, he is indeed fighting with his best, and the effect can be called obvious.

Although they paid a lot of casualties, they barely blocked the hobgoblin's offensive, and used various means to initially stabilize the situation within the city walls, and the panic did not develop into a major collapse.

After surviving the first wave of attack, the benefits of a strong war potential were revealed. Bock commanded several merchant ships with ballistas installed in an emergency, and shot the hobgoblins on both sides of the Dewar River from the Dewar River.

The Helm Church fighters transferred from the eastern seaport city played a role at this time. They have rich experience in water warfare, and their own hard power has an overwhelming advantage. Facing the black lizard people lurking in the water, they Successfully suppressed the opponent.

Fortunately, none of the Black Lizards had experienced special training, they were not that good at dealing with ships, and the number of enemies was not large, so they could still gain a certain advantage on the water.

In addition, the elite fighters on the walls of Luford City were also constantly carrying out small-scale counterattacks, and tried to harass the camp where the hobgoblins were stationed at night, causing considerable trouble to the enemy.

The two sides fought inextricably, the hobgoblins couldn't break through the defense of the city wall, and the humans didn't have enough offensive power to go out of the city to repel the enemy, and no one could help the other for a while.

This can be regarded as following the wishes of the defenders in the city. Their minimum goal is to delay and win. Anyway, the royal army will come to reinforce sooner or later.

However, in reality, everything cannot go smoothly, and the war has entered a new stage after two days.

I don't know if it was inspired by Tang Zhao, they used a very insidious trick-throwing rotting corpses into the city with a trebuchet.

It is said that the beginning of the spread of the Black Death in Europe was when the Mongolian army besieged Genoa’s Kafa stronghold on the Black Sea coast. , but then the Genoa fleet that returned to Italy brought the Black Death back, and everyone knows the story behind it.

For Tang Zhao, this trick is not very effective. Firstly, the various races of Karak Solma are relatively resistant to the plague, and secondly, they have a large number of druids (doctors) and rich medical resources.

For Luford, the meaning of this trick is different. They don't have such a wealth of spellcaster resources. The plague is a very fatal thing for a densely populated city. If it is not handled well, there may even be The risk of collapsing a city.

As soon as he discovered what the hobgoblin was doing, Bock tried to organize the army to control the situation, and asked the people inside the city wall to evacuate and retreat, leaving a safe vacuum area.

Coupled with the desperate work of the doctors in the city, the spread of the plague was temporarily contained, but even so, hundreds of people were still infected with the plague, and the infection was slowly spreading.

The physique of hobgoblins is almost the same as that of humans. They dare not or are unable to deal with a truly terrifying plague like the Black Death.

After several days of storming, the hobgoblins have realized the fact that like many fortified cities in history, Lufford, a city built on the ruins of the former elf city, has a fairly complete defense system, and it is difficult to use physical means to attack it. Break through in a short time.

Thousands of soldiers with good combat effectiveness were entrenched in the city, and the hobgoblins did not dare to go around Luford and continue to penetrate into the hinterland of mankind, because there would be a huge risk of being surrounded and wiped out by cooperation from inside and outside.

The scene quickly turned into a war of attrition. Every day, goblin teams crossed the harsh Kubango swamp and participated in the siege of Luford, and the city wall defenses were threatened every day.
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The situation on Tang Zhao's side was not much better than that of Lu Fude. Although the attack force of the Green Spear clan hobgoblins was severely hit during the siege, Tang Zhao still had no way to repel the enemy by relying on his own strength.

He has been in close contact with Bok and others, knowing that they can't count on them in a short time. Tang Zhao is using Bok and Andrea to learn more about the details of Eastern Oran.

After spring, taking advantage of the great opportunity when humans are busy with spring plowing, the orcs marched south again, trying to break through Oran's fort chain defense network and threaten the core area of ​​humans.

Every time the orcs attack is huge, this time is especially so. The Oran border garrison and the orcs broke out in extremely fierce battles, which also included many high-ranking duels. It is said that within a week the chief officer of the Oran border garrison Three people were replaced.

In the past, the frontier garrison would have received direct support from the royal family of Oran and various marquises, and it would have been easier to take on the orcs. This time, they would not have such treatment.

In the eastern part of the kingdom, the two marquises who wield real power connected with many small and medium nobles and launched a rebellion against the royal family.At the same time, in various places, the demons that had been lurking before began to operate again, and even with the assistance of races such as jackals, the garrisons in various places were miserable, and they asked the capital to send more people to deal with the local demons.

It is obviously not a coincidence, there is no obvious problem of demons in the territory of the two marquises, this is a war of collusion between the inside and the outside.

The two marquises claimed that it was because they were "favored by the gods" that the demons did not dare to harm the civilians in their territory. It would be okay to fool people without the ability to think. Anyone with a discerning eye would know the nature of this incident.

The royal family and the rest of the marquis were very busy with this. All the elite legions stationed in the capital were dispatched. It is said that the sky was full of flying vulture knights. At the same time, the royal family also issued a conscription order to hire a large number of mercenaries and adventurers from all over the world to fight. .

In the vast territory to the east of Oran, there is almost a scene of vigorous vitality and the competition of all things. People from both sides mingle in various places all over the country.

Bork said that he had passed a letter to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and that the royal family can handle this mess well. The army is slowly gaining ground and it is only a matter of time before victory over the rebels is achieved.

After stabilizing the rear, they will naturally be able to support Luford and the front line against the orcs.

In addition, Tang Zhao also learned a piece of genuine good news from the other party's letter - the royal family is very concerned about the safety of Luford City, and in the case of extremely empty troops, they still agreed to send five teams with a total of fifty horses Eagle Rider supports Luford.

This is much more useful than flatbread, the support of real guns and ammunition.

These are fifty creatures with super mobility and impact, 45 second-tier fighters, and five third-tier fighters. For Luford now, it can be said to be a timely help.

The situation of the allies has eased, which is also good for them. For example, Bock promised to use these powerful mobile forces to relieve Tang Zhao's pressure.

Calculating the time, the Vulture Rider should have arrived in Luford, but he doesn't know when Bork will fulfill his promise.

【Lack of supplies.】

After reading the summary of various letters and supplies, Tang Zhao wanted to say this most.

After that siege, many of their material reserves have been exhausted, such as ballista ammunition. The dwarves are even reluctant to use these big killers when defending the city, and can only use bows and slings to deal with the enemy.

The elf ranger has now basically figured out the rules of action of the hobgoblins. Every five days, a group of baggage trains will go to the front line. Among them, there will be about [-] hobgoblins as the backbone force, accompanied by thousands of goblins, and several teams of seats. Wolf cavalry patrolled the surroundings without interruption.

Compared with the last time, their defensive power has become stronger, but the mobile power in Tang Zhao's hands has decreased a lot. Without the centaur tribe, the elf rangers themselves did not have the ability to attack the entire train. Mostly just harass them.

Tang Zhao had to keep his eyes on the city wall and dare not act rashly. The current situation is very embarrassing.

Originally, he wanted to seize the right time and fight for the supply team, but now with Bok's promise, he decided to wait patiently for a few more days.
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Bork's words were very reliable. This time, he and the beholders reached a certain consensus. On the third day after the Griffin Knights arrived in Luford, they overcame the pressure from the city lord and successfully sent two teams of heavily armed Griffon Knights Sent to Karak Solma.

Tang Zhao was very happy about this. This is not a matter of being light-hearted and affectionate.

However, it was a bit unexpected. Instead of two teams of 22 vulture riders, [-] vultures flew from the sky.

His eyes were fixed on these flying knights, not long after they landed, Tang Zhao finally found clues from the first two.

[Obviously, it's not just human beings who come here, and now things become very interesting]

The first ones are two women, this is not an important matter, the key point is that one of them has a pair of long elf ears, Tang Zhao happened to know her by coincidence.

[The half-elf Guinivea Alberta Mikaela, one of the noble children who played role-playing games before, is not bad, but this is not the key point.This half-elf came from a very special family background, a diplomat family from the southern elf kingdom. 】

People from the royal family wrote a letter explaining the fact that the Griffin Riders were sent to Luford, and it was impossible for them not to know that there were two more people in the team.

During the special period, all actions of the royal family must have deep meaning, even if not, Guinivea's own special status cannot but make Tang Zhao think about it.

I learned from Elena earlier that there is a certain rift between the elves in the west of the continent and the elves in the south of the east continent. The two sides have not had much contact with each other, and there is still some subtle hostility between them. .

Now, the elves in the west can be said to be facing a catastrophe, and both sides are part of the once powerful elf kingdom.

No matter whether they really want to win over their fellow clansmen, or want to gain some kind of benefits from it, they definitely need to communicate with the western elves.

During this special period, Guinivea, the daughter of a diplomat, came to a stronghold that had a direct connection with the western elves, and there were even a large number of western elves in this stronghold.

If there is no other idea, I am afraid no one will believe it at all.

Tang Zhao was still a little puzzled—on such a serious and formal occasion right now, it should be Guinivea's father who is a diplomat. Letting a half-grown child come to the front line of the battlefield, no matter how you look at it, it feels a bit weird and incongruous.

[Things may be strange, we need to investigate further]

(End of this chapter)