Chapter 52 Black Humor (Ahhhh! This is
In this way, the battle between Earl Castein and the Principality of Ive, which lasted for about two months, came to an end. Under the leadership of Valed, the insidious war genius, the undead won the battle once and once with unimaginable and almost negligible casualties, and was a great victory like an epic.
The Principality of Ive suffered heavy losses. A few months ago, Duke Constantine shouted: "One Hundred Thousand Army!" All of them were destroyed in the battle. A total of 30,000 humans, halflings, dwarves and even ogre warriors died in this war. The reason why the term "death" is not used is that most of them are non-combat snatchers who died of starvation. The real deaths at the hands of the undead will definitely not exceed 5,000.
Therefore, the evil thing about the nose is not a tangible weapon, but an invisible human heart. What this is indeed very reasonable.
In addition, there are many soldiers who defected. Preliminary statistics show that at least more than 10,000 mercenaries and free soldiers fled. Some of them surrendered to the undead army, while others occupied the mountains and became kings and became bandits. These soldiers hired by Ivy, the new bandits have become a disaster for the princes of the border. Vared has ordered the garrison troops from all over the country to clear out these enemies.
Finally, the enemy captured in the final battle_
Vared did not order the prisoners of war, so the vampire officers let go and killed tens of thousands of human soldiers with almost no resistance in a massacre. However, there were still many lucky, or, in other words, human officers with high enough status, the nobles escaped their lives. Vared wanted to use them in exchange for more ransom.
This counted a total of more than 80,000 enemies in total, nearly 90,000 enemies. Their own losses were less than 3,000. The war loss ratio reached 30 to 1.
"What a miracle."
When Vared's adjutant Ram finished calculating all the data, he couldn't help but sigh like this. Similarly, the vampire officers who participated in this battle also looked proud. Only Vared, who still maintained an unfathomable expression, only the corners of his mouth slightly raised, proving the joy in his heart.
After the statistics were completed, the prisoners of war were captured and everything was sorted out, Vared left three vampire officers to guard the Black Fire Pass. At the same time, five thousand undead soldiers were allocated to them.
For an important pass, the five thousand soldiers were indeed a little less. However, when the Duchy of Ivy was severely damaged and the 100,000 troops were lost in one breath, the five thousand soldiers seemed a little too much - because there would be almost no one attacking this pass in a short period of time.
Even if we take a step back, the emperor of the Sigma Empire was twitching and he couldn't think about it for a moment. Then, with the five thousand defenders of Akendorf, who were only two or three days away from the Black Fire Pass.
A total of 10,000 troops was enough to support the reinforcements when they came. Vared felt that such a arrangement was enough.
While winning the battle with the Principal of Ivey, Vared also received a report from the front line of the southern part of Wells City. Wells' garrison officer Sves declared that his dispatched patrol cavalry found a small group of goblin wolf cavalry in the border area of Wells. The patrol skeleton cavalry naturally would not be polite and could easily wipe them out.
Sves analyzed that this should be the green-skinned scouts force. However, Vared felt that they should have run over by accident as they had analyzed before.
However, no matter what, it is an indisputable fact that green skins appeared near Wells.
These are like cockroaches. If you find one, it proves that there are a hundred things nearby and will definitely flock out in the next time to form a huge army.
The report also revealed some details. It seems that Sves despised these green skins and felt that their combat effectiveness was simply weak. He even made a plan to "take the initiative and fight against the green skins."
Indeed, as a pioneer, the Goblin Wolf Cavalry has very weak combat power, even weaker than ordinary skeleton soldiers. The equipment is quite poor, and the courage is even worse... a little bit of agitation will scare yourself to death.
"However, they are not the main force of the Greenskins, orcs." Vared sighed and wrote a reply to Sves - there are indeed communication crystals. But that thing is too expensive and cannot be used until it is absolutely necessary.
"I can allow you to organize a battle. But in the same way, I don't allow you to carry out this war in a positive and upright way. I order you to launch a surprise attack at midnight. At the same time, I want to remind you one more. Those goblins may have weak combat power. But don't take it lightly for the green-skinned orcs. In a sense, they are one of the most terrifying enemies in the world."
After Vared wrote the letter, he handed it to the vulture and sent it to Wells. Of course, although Vared and Sves were not optimistic about the combat effectiveness of the Goblin Wolf Cavalry. He thought that these short and rubbish slags were cannon fodder. But in a sense, these slags still have their value.
To eliminate these unbearable shortcomings, the speed, maneuverability and extensive adaptability of the wolf cavalry are all worth looking forward to. At the same time, it is precisely because of their timidity that as scouts, they can find more things. The possibility of escaping back to report the situation is greater. Of course, because of their timidity, falsely reporting military information is helpless.
"So...you said, you found a group of powerful undead troops?" At that time, when he heard the remains of the Goblin Wolf Cavalry who had escaped and returned to him in this way, the orc chief Gobard asked half-believingly.
Hearing his question, the goblins who escaped immediately nodded desperately, and said, "Yes, yes. The chiefs. They are numerous, very many - and the many are simply incredible. The pits and valleys are filled with white huāhuā bones, black eye sockets, and large pieces of dead bones, and those vampires - yes, there are dragon bones - and knight bones - and... in short, many...
Regarding the exaggerated 10,000 times of the Goblins, Gobard decided to believe only half of it as usual: "There are indeed bones there, but I don't know how many."
Thinking of this, Gobard fell into deep thought. If it were ordinary green skins and if they heard that there were more enemies, they would definitely be even more excited. Because there were more enemies, it proved that there were more wars, and the green skins existed for this.
However, as a great chief, Gobard not only needs to fight, but also needs to consider more, such as how to fight better, and continue to fight - if he is defeated by someone, it will not be fun. Because there will be no battle next.
So, Langgebad, a army more cunning than any green skin, quickly completed the thinking loop - bones - enemy - fight - but human shrimps in front of him also have to fight - fight at the same time, but it seems that they can't fight, so choose one, and the car overturned first and the other - human shrimps are more familiar with bones - so it's still a car shrimp.
Although this thinking is a little weird, to some extent, it can even be described as "weird". But in a sense, for Green Skin, it is still of progressive significance. At least, at least, he began to "think". "Thinking" is an amazing thing for Green Skin.
"Don't worry about him. Let's continue to attack those little human shrimps. After all the little human shrimps are overturned, then beat those bones." So Gobard made such a decision.
However, as Valed asserted, Gobard could not fully control his subordinates. When the news of the emergence of "a group of bones" spread, many green skinned men who were tired of the boring and boring siege war began to make a choice. Anyway, it was a war, who would not fight with?
With the departure of the first batch of green-skin tribes, the second batch and the third batch of green-skin tribes also left immediately.
Gobard was angry and helpless about this situation - as he said before, he did not have absolute power to rule other tribes. He could not order those tribes to stay or leave. Although he was a nominal chief, only his direct "Iron Claw" tribe was willing to fully comply with his orders.
With the large loss of green skin, Gobard was furious, and the robber lords of the Prince of the Border were given a chance to breathe. At the same time, it was Sves and Hollant, who were guarding Wells, to withstand the pressure brought by the green skin ocean.
In the past few months, as Vared ordered, they have indeed strengthened the fortifications near Wells. Fortresses of all sizes and civil structures have been built. However, as the green skins continue to flock in, these fortifications have all been lost in a very short period of time.
Because there are too many opponents.
It is not difficult to defeat a group of Greenskin troops, especially when they do not have a strong enough commander. However, it is very difficult to defeat ten, twenty, and even more Greenskin troops, and even some whimsical things.
"They are too many, we killed all the green-skinned troops, and two will soon appear. When we kill all the two, we will find that we are surrounded by four troops."
In the latest correspondence, Sves complained to Valed: "I think there are at least 200,000 barbaric orcs. This is just the most conservative number. And I think their number is still increasing. We won't kill them all. We are completely trapped in a passive state.
It is completely meaningless to go to this level. We lose one or two positions, and then one or two fortresses in exchange for their thousands of corpses, delaying them for a day or two. But this is completely meaningless. To truly stop them from moving forward, there must be other ways." (To be continued! ~!
Chapter completed!