Summoning Total War

The Second Age, May 7th.

early morning.

After spending two days, the half-orcs seemed to have determined that the human city-state coalition forces were unwilling to come out for a decisive battle. As a result, the offensive against Athens suddenly became countless times more violent than before. Not only the giant trebuchet was put into battle, but many other siege equipment were also pulled out, such as well fences, ladders, and rush vehicles. The half-orcs who accept the assimilation of orc civilization are not far from humans in terms of technological level.

The fierce fighting continued until noon.

In just three hours, the army of half-orcs launched six storms! Even with the help of siege equipment, their elite troops have boarded the fortress several times. If Murphy hadn't immediately put the Spartan Berserker into battle, I am afraid that his own losses would be very heavy. In less than a morning, the half-orcs left nearly two thousand corpses, and there were one or two hundred casualties in Athens. Had it not been supported by the holy water provided by the leadership temple, the number of casualties would have been even greater.

"Master Governor, eat something first?" An attendant of the General Guard came to Murphy's side with a piece of jerky and a bowl of wheat mixed with vegetable leaves. He carefully held his thumb and dared to hold it. The corner of the edge of the bowl, because he was afraid that the blood that was about to dry up on his hands would get on the porridge.

The supplies of Athens are not tense, but they are not ample.

Before the winter wheat is harvested, the food in Athens can only last for a month at most. The army’s food is uniformly cooked with vegetable leaves mixed with dried fish, and the generals, including Murphy, also eat this way. No taste, it can only be regarded as filling the stomach. Because of the aid of the Centaur tribe, the material reserves of Athens cannot be too wasted.

"Yeah." Murphy nodded, and reached out to take the big bowl of porridge and drank it, and soon drank most of it.

He picked up the jerky and tore off a piece of meat and chewed it in his mouth. After swallowing it, he gulped the oatmeal mixed with vegetable leaves. Murphy ate very thinly but very quickly. In less than three minutes, he ate a large bowl of porridge and a piece of jerky.

He handed the bowl to the general guard attendant and asked, "How long will the winter wheat be harvested?"

"Your Excellency, I'm afraid I have to wait half a month." The guard on the side replied carefully.

Have to wait for half a month?

Murphy nodded and waved to beckon him to go down first.

The real maturity of winter wheat needs to wait until June this year, and the specific time should be June 15th.

At that time, winter wheat can be considered mature in the true sense. But because of the war, Murphy had to consider harvesting winter wheat in advance. But even so, Murphy still had to wait for a while, because the current winter wheat is not even green and yellow. Well, if you want to reach the minimum standard of harvest, you have to wait until after the account in May.

Harvesting one month in advance is already the limit of winter wheat.

The army of half-orcs is not the reason Murphy really fears, because apart from this fortress, the city of Athens itself is also a strong city of this era, plus the completed moat, as long as there is enough food, even a hundred thousand half-orcs besieged the city. It may not be able to break through. The Greek infantry phalanx has a congenital advantage in defense. If according to the current casualty ratio, the half-orcs may have to pay more than 80% of the casualties to capture Athens.

This loss is also unacceptable to them.

What Murphy really worries about is food, winter wheat, and half a year of hard work!

There is not much food in Athens.

If these winter wheat cores cannot be harvested successfully, I am afraid that this winter will not be better in Athens.

A full 50,000 mu of winter wheat to be harvested! ! !

These grains can be said to be an unparalleled wealth in this era!

How could Murphy give up easily?

If half-orcs get these food, the threat to the entire human race is too great.

Unless it is a last resort, Murphy will not consider the final arrangement.

That is.

Set fire to burn the grain that is about to be harvested!

...

In the afternoon.

There was a patter of rain in the sky.

The strong smell of blood in the air faded a little under the washing of the rain, and because of the rain, the Orcs army had to give up the next storm.

There are as many as three thousand longbowmen in Athens, and these longbowmen have caused a headache for the commander of the orc army!

Super long range, super penetrating power in this era.

Even a warrior equipped with armor would be hit hard if shot within 100 meters. In addition, if the superior protection of the city wall were not for the well fence and the ladder, I am afraid that no matter how many of them died, they would not be able to climb the fortress wall.

Murphy stood silently in the drizzle, and the rain fell on him, then slid down the tips of his hair.

There was a blush of blood under his feet, which was washed down by drizzle from his armor. The fighting in the morning was extremely fierce, and the half-orcs' offensive was completely desperate. Murphy had to dispatch elite troops to the city wall, and even joined a few battles himself.

The army of half-orcs is difficult to entangle!

Their main force is divided into two types, one is the type of arms that use that kind of heavy machete, they are the backbone of the battle. These warriors are equipped with leather armor, with only a piece of iron inlaid at the heart. Their combat effectiveness is good, and they are stronger than the Greek heavy infantry in single combat, but they are not the opponent of the Greek heavy infantry in terms of team cooperation.

The other is a half-orc fanatic who can enter a rage state with a two-handed battle axe.

These are the units that really give Murphy a headache.

These half-orc fanatics are all tall. They are equipped with half-length armor and hold dozens of pounds of two-handed axes. Once they enter a frenzy state, they immediately become powerless. Once these warriors are sent to the city wall, it is the Athens side. Time for casualties. When they attack, they are not afraid of death, and do not take into account the problem of defense. Due to the limited location of the city wall, there is almost no room to dodge.

Once these orc fanatics broke out, it would be difficult for the Spartan conquerors to fight them.

Strictly speaking, half-orcs have no real division of arms. This is because apart from the standardization of their main force equipment, most of the equipment acquired by other infantry units is strange.

The half-orcs have an army of as many as 100,000, and even with the aid of the orc empire, they cannot easily come out with equipment to arm 100,000 people.

After all, there are limits to the level of technological productivity in this era.

In addition to the tens of thousands of soldiers in the army of half-orcs, which are the main equipment, other soldiers are equipped with ordinary equipment. It is roughly equivalent to the level of the Athenian militia, perhaps slightly better in terms of weapons.

This is undoubtedly very good news for Murphy.

Currently, there are only two orc warriors that Murphy has come into contact with.

One is the warrior equipped with heavy machete and leather armor, and their standard half-orc infantry. The battle is roughly equivalent to that of the Greek heavy infantry, which has disadvantages in terms of equipment and coordination compared to the Greek heavy infantry.

The other is the orc fanatic.

There are two kinds of orc fanatics, one is the fanatic with heavy armor, and the other is the fanatic without armor. The latter are more dangerous than the former because they look more like dead men among the orcs. Fighting is completely a crazy style of fighting for life, with almost no skills at all, it's all about smashing forward with a giant axe!

But this is the most troublesome way of playing in war, because the density of war soldiers is very high.

Their crazy style of play can almost attack the enemy with their eyes closed, and the fighters hit by the two-handed axe in their hands almost lose their combat effectiveness even if they are not killed on the spot. Fortunately, there is one thing.

That is, these fighters who can enter the violent state have one characteristic. Just like the emblems of the barbarians representing warriors, these orc warriors who can enter the violent state will also leave a mark of strength on their bodies.

Unlike the barbarians, the half-orcs use charcoal fire to burn a vague wolf head mark on their foreheads or cheeks by shamans. After being burned with charcoal fire, shamans would apply potions of special materials to the wounds. In this way, after the wound has healed, those half-orcs will leave a special dark blue mark on their bodies.

This mark means that they are warriors approved by the shaman.

This is good news for Murphy. In the battle, as long as he saw these half-orc warriors with marks on their faces, he directly pulled several teams of fully woven Athenian longbowmen over and shot them to death! Nothing can let them climb the city wall!

It looked like around three o'clock in the afternoon.

The drizzle gradually stopped after more than an hour.

The camp of the orcs also began to move. The soldiers hiding in the tents to avoid the rain assembled, and several large trebuchets were assembled again. After a while, a rush vehicle was pushed out, and it seemed that these half-orcs still did not give up the idea of ​​breaking through the fortress gate.

But their idea is destined to fall apart.

Because Murphy had already sealed the city gate a few days ago. Even though the back of the city gate is empty, Murphy actually asked the craftsmen to build another concave wall where the gate was set. That is to say, after the orcs break through the fortress gate, they will find that the hateful enemy actually built another wall behind the gate! At that time, they will face a rain of arrows!

The rhythmic drums of war sounded, and the army of orcs began to attack.

The Greek heavy infantry lined up in front, they clenched their spears and held their shields flat in front of their chests.

The drums of war are getting louder!

The orc warriors in the line let out a loud roar.

As if not to be outdone, the Greek heavy infantry blasted their shields with their long spears under the sign of General Riodalje, and roared.

"kill!"

"kill!!"

"kill!!!"

Five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters.

After entering the longbow range, the orc warrior raised the shield high. The Athens longbowmen also began to show their might, and a shower of arrows fell on those half-orc warriors, and suddenly they fell like a piece of wheat. The shields in the hands of the orcs are all ordinary wooden shields. Although they can defend against ordinary arrows, they have limited defensive effects when facing a longbow.

Unless they use the Roman-style long shield that is more than ninety centimeters long, it is difficult to substantively resist the longbowman's shooting.

The rushing vehicles covered on three sides of the deck began to move forward, and at a distance of about 400 meters from the fortress wall, a giant catapult began to operate.

Although it is called a giant catapult, according to the level of technology in this world, the ability to catapult is quite limited.

Relying on lethality alone, the trebuchet is actually quite limited.

Their real function is mainly deterrence. After all, if anyone is unlucky and hit, it can almost be said to be a mortal ending.

In this era, one of the important uses of the trebuchet is to throw cupping pots, which is to set fires. Throwing kerosene into the city or setting it on fire after the city wall can play a very effective role. If it can be matched with black oil, that is, open-air oil and the like will play a terrible role in this era! This was one of Murphy's ideas at the time, but he couldn't find any oil.

Even Athens didn't have the luxury of using kerosene, and the half-orcs naturally couldn't.

The ammunition they use is a stone weighing about 10,000 kilograms, which is about the size of a basketball.

The giant catapult used by the orcs is also the technology of the earth age and early BC, and it does not have much advantage in terms of lethality. It just looks amazing!

A stone bomb can hit a pit nearly one meter deep after it hits the ground!

If it falls on the wall, the hard wall will also be smashed into a pit.

"Ballista ready!"

As the enemy's trebuchet was put into use, General Rio Dalé also issued a high-pitched command.

Twenty-four ballistas were pushed out, and the Greek soldiers aimed them at the approaching enemy and placed the stone bullets on the side.

The ballista designed by the Greeks has a sturdy support. The main beam is placed on the support. Two torsion spring groups are installed on both sides of the front end. Each spring group drives a crossbow arm. The end of the crossbow arm is connected to the bowstring. The center of the bowstring is Woven mesh bag to hold the projectile. Ballistas have powerful power. A ballista with good performance can even throw tarent (ancient Greek unit of weight approximately equal to a kilogram of stone) heavy stone bullets out of the distance.

Although the ballistas made by Athens have less range than catapults, they are simply superior in number. As soon as the ballista was put into battle, the deterrence brought by the enemy catapult disappeared. On the contrary, the row of ballistas on the city wall made the orc warriors feel a bit of panic!

The battle continued.

Soon, bursts of killing and howling sounded on the battlefield.

In this battle, Murphy did not stand at the head of the city and personally direct it.

"Your Excellency, General Rochat still hasn't come back." A cavalry appeared to be by Murphy's side. He turned over and jumped off the steed, knelt down on one knee, and said, "There is no movement on Mrs. Elizabeth's side."

Murphy was expressionless, but just nodded slightly to signal the cavalry to retreat.

As if a little disappointed, he shook his head and sighed slightly, and said with emotion: "Sure enough! You can only rely on yourself for everything."

Two days passed.

Rochagot, the aboriginal general who went to the Noble Council for help, has not returned.

Until now, on May 7, it has been nearly four days since the Orcs broke through the canyon. There was almost no news from Mrs. Elizabeth. This had to let Murphy feel a little disappointed, and the fact that the noble council had no news was not beyond his expectations. What he didn't expect was that Mrs. Elizabeth, the ally who had been close to him for the past year, hasn't moved at all.

It is a lie to say not to be disappointed.

Had it not been for the "Total War" auxiliary system as a backing, I am afraid that this time facing the army of half-orcs, there is almost no chance of winning?

"I see." Murphy glanced at the cavalry in front of him and said, "You go down and rest first."

"Yes!"

Murphy closed his eyes and meditated silently, the sound of killing from the wall did not affect his thinking.

About ten minutes later.

Murphy opened his eyes slowly, his gaze turned firm, lifted up to the captain of the general guard who was on the side, and said solemnly: "Pass the order!"

"Let the cavalry guard prepare and set off as soon as the sun sets!"

The captain of the General Guard's face changed, and he said, "Yes! Master Xin!"

Instructed to play the general guard guard ~www.readwn.com~ Mo Mang recruited General Marcus Kane again, and said to him: "Call the Crete Longbow! Give each of them a dry food. Ten arrows, one horse. After the sun goes down, you will lead them to go with me!"

"Yes!"

General Marcus Kane nodded, turned and left.

"Call the Spartan conquerors! Let them wait for me at the mouth of the canyon before the sun sets!"

"Yes!"

An entourage of the general guard led away.

A series of orders were issued, and the entire barracks became busy.

Except for the remaining Greek heavy infantry, the other soldiers began to retreat. About 20 kilometers away from the fortress, there is a high slope, which is the only way to Athens. There, it was just fifty kilometers away from the inner city of Athens.

And there is the real main battlefield of this war!