Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 577 Siege

After killing the surrounding orcs, Chu Qianqian did not encounter any more orc scouts on his way back.

When he was riding a red rabbit and ran up a hillside, he looked in the direction of the orc army camp.

The camp was already ablaze.

It seemed that the orcs put out the fire slower than Chu Qianqian imagined.

But think about it, how can you carry so many barrels and basins filled with water when marching and fighting?

Since the fire is so strong, it seems that the orc army will definitely not be able to move forward in recent days.

Chu Qianqian thought for a while and decided to return to Gaoshan Castle first.

As for taking the opportunity to kill more orcs to gain experience, Chu Xiangqian didn't want to be chased by the angry orcs who had nowhere to vent.

Returning to Novice Village, he entered Torrent Castle, rode the Red Rabbit and ran to the Alpine Castle for half an hour. Although the dwarf town had long closed its gates, Chu Xiangqian not only had a great reputation among the dwarves. , not to mention that he still has important information to report.

Report what happened tonight to the lover lord, and then take out the ears of the orcs and centaurs that were killed tonight, and the surrounding dwarves immediately believed 8% of them.

Not long after, a gryphon came out from the heart of the mountain, carrying a dwarf and rushed into the sky to verify whether what Chu Xiangqian said was true or false.

Simply flying around in the sky doesn't take much time.

After more than two hours of going back and forth, when the sky became slightly brighter, the dwarf who went to verify finally flew back on a griffin.

Needless to say, the result was that not only the orcs' rations were burned, but last night's chaos almost caused the camp to roar.

Unfortunately, at the critical moment, he was suppressed by the orc lord and his guards.

However, although the chaos was suppressed, the number of orcs who died at the hands of the orcs last night was at least a few hundred.

When the gryphon dwarf said this, he couldn't help but look at Chu Qianqian, with admiration on his face and continued. He saw orc corpses piled up in a hill outside the orc camp.

At least three to five hundred.

When the surrounding dwarves heard this, they looked at Chu looking forward with expressions of admiration.

This time it was confirmed that Chu Xiangqian had made a great contribution.

Moreover, his original mission was to hunt down centaur scouts, but now he brought back more than a dozen centaur ears in one night.

The dwarf lords who did this had to thank each other generously.

He ordered someone to carry out a wooden box and opened it. It was full of gold coins.

It looks like there are thousands of them at least.

Sure enough, the dwarf lord said that there were 5 gold coins in this box, which was a reward for burning the orcs' food.

Seeing a box of gold coins, Chu Xiangqian understood in his heart that these 5 gold coins were actually only 5 grams or 50 kilograms. When converted into US dollars, they were actually only 5 or 6.

But mankind’s pursuit of gold is probably engraved in our bones.

If 5 or 6 US dollars were placed in front of Chu Qianqian, he would definitely not care at all, but with a box of 5 gold coins in front of him, everything would be different.

After putting away the gold coins, Chu Xiangqian told the dwarf lords and generals some more information about the orc army, and then returned to the tavern to rest.

Three days passed quickly, and five days had passed since the dwarves asked the forest elves and other dwarves for help.

When Chu Xiangqian refreshed the orc plot map every day, he would visit the dwarf town.

My own experience has also arrived, 39.2/60.

Calculating 7.24 experience points per day, you can upgrade to level 20 in three days.

After finishing the plot map today, on the way to the town on horseback from Stromgarde, I saw a group of at least a hundred elves standing on the city wall from a distance.

Unfortunately, after taking a closer look, Chu Xiangqian was immediately disappointed.

These elves are indeed handsome, and their armors and equipment are mostly exquisite, but the ones riding the horses are all male elves.

The elves were wary of Chu Qianqian. The two elves also drew arrows and would attack if there was any abnormal movement.

After all, this is a special period, and there has never been much human interaction in the area where the mountain dwarves and forest elves are located.

In addition, humans these days are not good at force or magic, and have always been looked down upon by powerful and long-lived races like elves and dwarves.

But the dwarf was very familiar with Chu Xiangqian and asked people to open the city gate from a distance.

In the eyes of the dwarves, when Chu Xiangqian left every evening, he must have gone to hunt centaurs and orc scouts again.

Chu Qianqian only needs to let Titati watch the situation of the orc army every night to know the situation of the orcs.

As for the evidence of hunting the centaur, Chu Xiangqian no longer needed to cut off the centaur's ears. The dwarf spontaneously believed that he must have fought with the orcs at night.

Several dwarves who were familiar with him asked after pushing open the city gate. They killed several orc scouts last night.

It was a pity that Chu Xiangjin entered the castle, and before he could establish a relationship with the familiar dwarves and ask them to take him to meet the beautiful elves, bells rang on the city wall.

The few dwarves couldn't care less about Chu Xiangqian and quickly closed the city gate. They also called other dwarves to transport stones and pile them up behind the city gate.

When Chu Xiangqian saw this, he naturally did not dare to disturb the dwarves, so he had to go up the city wall first.

Then I saw groups of armored orcs and bugbears over three meters tall appearing in the distance.

Although the fire burned the food of the orc army, it only delayed the orcs for 2 days.

It seems that this army of orcs is quite determined to attack the mountain dwarves.

But even if it was only for 2 days, 300 forest elves would come to support us.

The dwarves don't have to worry about the centaur archers, who will suppress the city guarding dwarves and be unable to lift their heads.

Once the orcs take the opportunity to attack the city, the dwarves will have to bite the bullet. The centaur archers are roaming outside and take the opportunity to shoot the dwarves on the city wall. The huge casualties may cause the dwarves to collapse in a few days.

Of course, dwarves actually have musketeers, but to be honest, their accuracy is not as good as that of elves, let alone their rate of fire.

Even the lethality is actually not comparable.

The elves can do this. The arrows hit the target's neck, head, and heart. In terms of killing effect, even though the attack power of the musket is actually greater, the elves are actually more lethal.

The only advantage is that the musket does not consume much physical strength of the gunner, and no matter how powerful the elf archer is, he cannot shoot hundreds of arrows in a row.

This requires the elves to be divided into several teams, one team goes up to the city wall to shoot, and the other two teams recover their arm strength.

But after two or three rotations, the elf's arm strength will still be almost exhausted.

If it were the earth, the grassland eagle shooters could only draw twenty or thirty arrows during the war.

Even for an elite archer, after shooting 20 arrows, his arms will become weak and he will have to rest for a while.

It's a pity that the orcs are not stupid. When attacking a city, they will definitely use vertical shields and charge forward with the precise shooting of the elves.

Blocked by a shield, the Elf's lethality will be greatly reduced.

Otherwise, if 300 elven archers stand on the city wall and attack unarmored targets, if one person kills 30 of them, that's 9. Let alone siege the city, as long as the morale does not collapse, it will be fine.

Chu Xiangqian, the dwarves, and elves all thought that the orcs would not attack the city today. After all, they had walked for a long time and the physical exertion was not small.

As long as the commander-in-chief has a clear mind, he will set up camp first, rest for a night, and then attack the city.

But what people didn't expect was that the orcs only repaired for more than an hour before using half of their army to attack the city directly.

A full army of 5 orcs formed more than a dozen military formations and prepared to attack the city. Not only the dwarves were a little panicked, but even the elves were shocked.

Fortunately, no one would doubt whether the city wall built by the dwarves was strong, and it was not that easy to attack a city wall that was more than ten meters long.

Likewise, no one doubted the dwarves' determination to defend the city.

When the orcs showed signs of attacking the city, a large number of dwarves, fully armored and holding two battle axes, or a battle ax and a battle hammer, ran out of the mountain. The dwarf civilians in the town entered with their young and old. In the city in the middle of the mountain.

When Chu Qianqian looked at the dwarf force, he knew it was an attacking group.

Since you're covered in armor, you don't have to worry about defense. All that's left is how to kill more enemies.

The other two elven centurions also appeared in the town, following the dwarf lord Allison and the guards.

Chu Xiangqian also met Bosco, the lord of the forest elves, and his guards.

This group of elves with gleaming silver bodies and slim armor do look like elites from a hundred battles, but this also benefits from the fact that as long as there are no accidents, the elves can live for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

In such a long time, the longer the elves live, the more wars they have experienced.

If Chu Xiangqian lived for two or three thousand years, even if he participated in one war every hundred years, he would have experienced it twenty or thirty times.

But the more powerful the elves are, the more obvious their shortcomings are. Not only are their reproductive capabilities generally weaker than those of other races, but most elves have a low proportion of couples with two or three children in their lifetimes.

Only by giving birth to two children to a couple can the inheritance of the race be ensured, and by having three or more children can the continuation and growth of the race be ensured.

Once it falls below 2, the population will shrink.

Even without the enemy taking action, time will make this race slowly decline on its own.

If another war breaks out during this period, the rate of decline will accelerate.

After the dwarf lord Allison introduced Chu Qianqian to the elf lord Bosco, the elves around him looked at him with expressions of curiosity and admiration.

After all, even the elite among the elves cannot guarantee that they can survive in the wilderness after hunting down more than twenty orc scouts and centaur archers.

Not to mention, burning the food and fodder of the orc army alone.

Speaking of this, the two lords suddenly looked at each other and quickly understood.

The orc army general, because of the lack of food and grass, simply did not repair it, and used siege to consume the cannon fodder of the orcs at the bottom.

At the same time, the stamina of the mountain dwarves and elves will be consumed, and when the 5 orcs show signs of defeat, they will suddenly throw in the elite orc warriors. Maybe they can really attack the city wall in one go.

Allison, the dwarf lord with a bad temper, couldn't help but curse in a low voice when he thought of this.

It can be predicted that the orcs will attack with all their strength this time.

After all, many low-level orcs are not very intelligent. As long as the orc general is willing to die, the first wave of attacks will be very powerful.

Allison immediately gave orders to his guard commander Vic-Skullcrusher, and soon, about 200 dwarf musketeers climbed onto the city wall.

Cooperate with the centurions of elven archers and 500 dwarf heavily armored warriors.

Then several kinds of city defense weapons were pushed out by the dwarves.

Chu Qianqian saw at a glance that in addition to trebuchets and large crossbows, there was also a large weapon that looked like a sprinkler.

After thinking about it for a moment, Chu Xiangqian quickly realized that this thing might be an otherworldly version of a flamethrower.

Then some dwarves rushed back into the mountain, apparently ordering the civilians to start arming themselves.

In the event of a crisis, although the dwarves could retreat into the mountains, it was foreseeable that it would not be that easy to hold the town's gate to the mountains.

At that time, even if the dwarves defend the city gate at the heart of the mountain, the orcs will have the advantage in numbers and size, and the casualties in close combat between the two sides will never be small.

The orcs are not afraid of casualties. For them, three to five babies are common, and seven or eight babies are not uncommon.

Compared with dwarves, whose birth rate is even lower than that of humans, orcs are not afraid of competing for population at all.

Chu Qianqian looked at the large crossbows and flamethrowers, which were carried up the city wall by the dwarves, together with the elven archers.

I really don’t understand why the orcs can attack the city wall?

But when the orcs really started to attack the city, facing the invisible orc army outside the city, Chu Xiangqian couldn't help but feel a little scared.

The so-called number of people exceeds 10,000, covering the mountains and plains.

Coupled with the roaring momentum of the orcs, if an ordinary person encounters them, let alone drawing a sword to fight, even if their legs are weak, they have strong willpower.

Busily revealing the full set of level 15 equipment in the character's equipment slot, the elves and dwarves around him couldn't help but be surprised by the full-body armor that suddenly appeared on Chu Qianqian's body.

Different from the good-looking light armor, since it is a city defense, there are not many places to move, so it is natural to pay more attention to defense, so as not to be accidentally shot by the enemy's archers.

Therefore, the heavy armor on Chu Xiangqian's body was not only the whole body plate armor, but also the helmet on his head, eyes and nose. There were gaps as thin as two fingers, one horizontally and one vertically.

It can be said that in terms of armor coverage and defense, it is higher than that of dwarf heavy armor warriors.

The dwarves also knew that Chu Qianqian also had another set of silver light armor.

The elf couldn't help but feel a sense of comparison because Chu Qianqian also held a bow and arrow in his hand.

After all, elves are famous for their bows and arrows. It would be embarrassing if they were compared to a human.

But when the orcs actually attacked the city, Chu Xiangqian realized why the dwarves and elves were so nervous.

What is different from the movie is that the orcs' physical fitness is much stronger than that of humans, and their siege momentum is like a storm.

As rows of orcs slowly approached with vertical shields, even if the elves could shoot at the gaps between the shields with bows and arrows, the lethality was suddenly reduced many times.

Even if some orcs were hit by arrows, as long as it was not a fatal point, the impact on the orcs would not be as great as expected.

Moreover, these orcs are basically wearing armor. As long as they protect their heads and receive an arrow on their body, they will not be immediately incapacitated.

This time the role of large crossbows, catapults, and spray trains became apparent.

But what surprised Chu Xiangqian again was that if the human army attacked the city and encountered kerosene, they would most likely turn around and run away.

But in the orc army, even the orcs whose bodies were set on fire only shouted and charged forward instead of turning around and running away, disrupting the army's formation.

No wonder dwarves and elves are so fearful and nervous about orcs.

(End of this chapter)