The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

As soon as the day broke, the gates of the heavily guarded Hard Stone City suddenly opened, and countless militiamen and laborers poured out.

Rushing at the front was Wang Chao, the logistics commander of the Qingfeng Legion. He led thousands of logistics soldiers and the entire peasants of Wanshi City and rushed towards the battlefield.

The order is so chaotic that if the wolf cavalry suddenly appeared here and launched an attack, the entire Stone City would be seriously damaged.

But at this moment, the wolf riders no longer dared to approach the Stone City.

They did not retreat to the main camp, but instead went around the east side of Stubborn Stone City and broke into the rear of the grassland from the east, which is the current human territory.

Xu Lai only learned the news in the afternoon. At this moment, he only had one thing to do, which was to clean up the battlefield.

The bodies of all the family members have been collected. Those who should be resurrected have been resurrected, and those who cannot be resurrected have been buried properly.

This is the advantage of having an army of angels. As long as the battle can be won, the losses can be minimized.

Taking into account the entire battlefield, only a dozen people were killed and hundreds were seriously injured. Such a record can be called brilliant.

Last night, Xu Lai used more than 10,000 cavalrymen to face more than 100,000 orc infantry, tens of thousands of orc wolf cavalry, and tens of thousands of orc flying soldiers and Cyclops.

As for the orcs' losses, the battle report has not yet been released and cannot be counted for the time being, but it is expected that the losses are definitely not small.

More than 20 Orc heroes above level 30 died, including several stronghold heroes above level 30, including Axe Monroka.

There were more than a hundred people below level 20, including descended heroes, when Wang Chao and his team came to clean up the battlefield.

Needless to say, the relationship between Xu Lai and the stronghold turned into a deadly hostility. Unless Xu Lai could destroy this camp, it would be unlikely to change.

But fortunately, the people he killed were foreigners, so he didn't lose his reputation. On the contrary, because it was an orc invasion, killing so many orcs greatly increased his reputation.

When I conquered the grassland before, I accidentally killed too many of my own people and my reputation dropped severely. Now I have almost made it back.

Wang Chao brought his men to collect all the corpses of thunderbirds and golden eagles.

These are all food reserves, which can be stored directly in the warehouse of Wanshi City, which can reduce a lot of food supply pressure in the rear.

After all, half of the people on the grassland poured into the rear. Even if Xu Lai had started storing food early on, it was still quite stressful to supply so many people at once.

The temple also brought a large number of believers. Luo Mingru sent a message to Xu Lai, who had already received the pathfinder knight sent by the temple.

These knights are all old acquaintances of Xu Lai, no, it should be said that they are old subordinates.

Xu Lai naturally sent a message to Luo Mingru, asking him to entertain them well and also try his best to help the believers who had transferred over. However, according to Luo Mingru, this group of believers was as high as more than 100,000 people.

Xu Lai was naturally very surprised, but he had long expected that the number of people would not be small, otherwise the temple would not have dispatched so many people for guarding, nor would it have taken so long.

Fortunately, this is a magical world. Although the arable land in the grassland area is not large, Xu Lai has already opened up commercial channels with southern merchants.

Moreover, those southern merchants mainly rely on shipping. Even if they arrive in the grassland area, they are protected by Naga teams and will not be attacked by orcs.

The reason is that the price of grain in the south is too cheap, so even if you fill a ship with grain, you can’t make much money.

However, Xu Lai traded with these merchants using furs, a specialty of the grassland.

This thing is worthless on the grassland, but it becomes precious when transported to the south. It not only has good defensive capabilities, but can also keep out the cold. It is a must-have in winter.

Therefore, these southern businessmen can make huge profits and are all very active.

In addition to the corpses of the thunderbird and the golden eagle, the Cyclops also has many treasures. The most important one is the one eye that can connect to the earth, which is an earth-type treasure.

This thing can be traded with the mages in the tower camp. It is a very popular commodity and can be used to mass-produce earth elements.

Even if the transaction with the tower doesn't go smoothly, it would be great if Xu Lai kept it and used it to develop advanced city walls, automatic catapults and the like.

This thing has a human shape. When there is no shortage of food, no one wants to eat it.

In addition to these corpses, the biggest gain from last night's battle was undoubtedly the supplies transported from the orcs in the stronghold.

As the active attacker, Sachs would rather abandon some food and also bring some siege equipment, as well as materials for assembly and maintenance, ammunition, etc.

With the forests planted by the elves on both sides of Stone City, wood is no longer the most scarce resource for Stone City.

However, the stone bullets provided by the stronghold can be used directly with slight modification or even without modification.

As for the catapults, probably because they could not be taken away, the orc officer ordered them all to be burned, and Xu Lai and his men were unable to put out the fire in time.

In the end, only a dozen catapults were rescued that could be used after a little repair, as well as a large number of mechanisms, springs and other accessories that could be disassembled and continued to be used.

And most importantly, after Xu Lai seized these facilities and brought them back to Stone City, the orcs had no use for them.

You know, orcs are not particularly good at mechanical manufacturing. The catapults and crossbows they made have two very obvious characteristics.

First, the damage is much lower than that of the Imperial Catapult, and second, its size is much larger than that of the Imperial Catapult.

I won’t talk about the damage or anything like that. Anyway, as long as you throw farther than the shooter, you can make up for it with the amount of ammunition.

However, its huge scale means that it cannot be transported through ordinary space rings, and it will not form a large scale even if some are squeezed in.

At the same time, it also means how difficult it is for the orcs to travel thousands of miles from their stronghold to the grassland, and how much manpower and material resources are wasted.

However, the orcs' catapults also have advantages. For example, their structure is rough, but they are easy to assemble, extremely durable, and not easy to break down.

This is fully illustrated by the fact that more than a dozen units were rescued after a fire.

These nearly one hundred catapults were sent to the battlefield, but they were destroyed without even firing a single shot. Some of them even became helpers of the opponents. When the Beast King found out, he must have been so angry that he vomited blood.

The Beast King was now so angry that he vomited blood. He also decisively ordered all the orcs to escape separately.

But considering the orcs' intelligence, under the circumstances last night, it is estimated that less than half of them who ran out could return to the team on their own.

This is still the most optimistic scenario. Most orcs cannot find their way on the grassland even with a map.

This is also why, in the situation last night, Sachs emphasized that the orcs must at least evacuate in small teams.

In the stronghold camp, ordinary soldiers can't even understand the map, but the team leader at least has some common sense and has a certain chance of being able to understand the map.

However, Sachs still overlooked one point. Although about a quarter of the team leaders in the stronghold could understand the map, they did not distribute so many maps.

The map that Sachs and his team had come from Aini. The base didn't have enough mages or cartographers, so even with the accurate map provided by Aini, they didn't make too many copies.

Not to mention the team leaders, even the commander-level orcs were unable to get one for each person.

Moreover, even if everyone had one, it would be of no use, because this is not a stronghold, but an endless grassland.

There are very few landmark buildings on the grassland, and the scenery is the same all around. The orcs don't have mounts, so they have to walk for a long time before they may encounter one or two buildings.

Even if they encounter it, they may not know what kind of building it is, and even if they do, they may not be able to determine its location on the map.

After all, there are likely to be a lot of identical buildings on the map.

They didn't dare to approach human cities, and there was no one to ask.

Even for herdsmen who have lived on the grassland for a long time, it may take a long time for them to find their way when they suddenly arrive in an unfamiliar place.

The orcs were even worse. The only thing they could do was to identify the direction and move towards the west.

As for whether we will encounter human patrols during the approach, we can only leave it to fate.

After most of the night passed, we waited until noon the next day.

Xu Lai was already busy transporting the supplies left behind in the stronghold into the city, but Beast King Sachs had only managed to get back one-tenth of his troops.

At noon, the battle report finally arrived, and Xu Lai and Sachs learned about each other's losses.

According to the battle report, Xu Lai's side lost less than a thousand people. Except for the team of Wind Knights, the rest of the resurrected soldiers were also counted as losses.

Because it is a fact that the orcs killed a knight or a griffin. Even if Xu Lai resurrects the person, he still has to give him the experience he deserves.

But even if Xu Lai's losses were counted as one thousand men, the orcs' casualties alone exceeded 3, and there were more than prisoners or those seriously injured and unable to leave.

These 5 troops are a blatant and irreparable loss. The problem is that he should still have nearly 10 troops.

However, in the camp today, not counting those who have just come over from the Pingfeng Mountains, there are only about 10,000 old troops in total.

The Thunderbirds of the flying unit were almost completely destroyed, but the golden eagles suffered little loss. Elvy was targeting the most valuable targets.

Then there is the Wolf Cavalry Unit, whose organization is still relatively complete. They have lost some men in the past few days and some more last night, so there are probably more than 3 men left.

Sachs has already contacted Kenro Hag, who can return to the team at any time, but Kenro Hag is planning to sneak into the enemy's rear and cause some damage.

Our side needs to accumulate strength again. At this time, we cannot let Xu Lai and his cavalry continue to attack our camp.

Otherwise, the troops with almost no morale would easily be dispersed again and collapsed.

Sachs needs time to reorganize the troops, at least to boost morale first.

So he did not call back Kenro Hag, but in addition to this wolf cavalry, there should be about 5 orc infantry, more than 5000 hard laborers and Cyclops.

York reported the situation of the Cyclops last night. They were targeted by Xu Lai personally and all of them have been destroyed.

But there are still more than 5 infantry corps left, and among them there are about to recruited orcs.

The morale of these orc warriors has dropped to zero. If they don't recover quickly, they will become wild monsters and have nothing to do with them at all.

Sachs was anxious but there was nothing he could do. He was so angry that he vomited blood but could only wait for one bad news after another.

First, it was reported that the catapults, crossbows and other objects stored in the camp were burned.

But this was an order given by Sachs himself, so he was relatively calm when he received the report.

But then, the only remaining shaman, Mok, told him that he had communicated with other shamans, high priests, etc. through natural magic, but found that there were very few responses.

The stronghold had a small number of spellcasting forces to begin with, and this time, Sachs brought out most of the spellcasting forces in the country, totaling approximately more than 6000 people.

Except for a few priests who remained on the other side of Pingfeng Mountain and those who were rushing over, there should have been at least 3000 priests in the position last night.

But Mok told him that his two fellow apprentices, the other two disciples of the Great Prophet, had been killed.

In addition, most of the disciples of the three of them also died, and at least a thousand priests and spellcasters were killed directly.

As for the remaining two thousand, many of them didn’t even know where they were and were trying to find ways to return to the team.

Of course, in the vast grassland, the spellcaster cannot compare with the orc warrior in terms of physique or speed, and no one knows which direction he ran last night.

Therefore, Mok was very pessimistic about the number of spellcasters who could make it back. The most optimistic estimate was that only half of them could return safely.

This is undoubtedly extremely sad news, because even for the returning troops, the remaining poison has not yet been eliminated and they still need detoxification and treatment techniques to maintain their lives.

But Sachs was powerless and had to send a letter to the Great Prophet for help, and asked Mok to lead people to quickly crack the poison.

Soon after, another soldier came to report that the food crisis had occurred again.

However, due to the heavy casualties in the army, even though the food and grass that the army brought out were destroyed, they could still barely sustain themselves for a while.

The food and supplies were gone, the soldiers and spellcasters were gone, and even the heavily relied upon flying troops suffered heavy losses.

Just when Sachs thought he couldn't lose any more.

Kenro Hag sent someone back to report that Xu Lai had hung the heads of nearly a hundred Orc heroes, including the Axe King Mongoose, on the city walls of Stone City.

Not only that, after the battle was settled, all the recruited orcs turned into white light, and Xu Lai chopped off the heads of all the remaining orcs collected on the battlefield.

The heads of these orcs were piled up one by one into a small hill and placed in their camp last night.

Upon hearing the news, especially after Kenro Hag mentioned the names that he was once very familiar with one by one, Sachs vomited blood on the spot.

After a long pause, Sachs issued a new order before dark.

Order Kenlo Hag to harass the rear at all costs and try to lure Xu Lai and his damn cavalry over.

At the same time, he gave orders to the rear, telling them to gather within three days at all costs, even if half of the orcs were killed. (End of this chapter)