Chapter 1125 Orcs
"There is a camp of more than 10,000 people ahead?" Zhong Hui looked at his scout in surprise. "Do you know whose flag the enemy is flying?"
"The distance is too far, and the enemy is extremely cautious, with scouts everywhere, making it difficult for our soldiers to get close. We can only vaguely see a large flag with the word 'king' on it." The scout replied with his head down.
The enemy's scouts were scattered everywhere, so Zhong Hui's scouts did not dare to get too close. However, relying on his personal skills, he still tried to get as close to the camp as possible. He looked at the large camp from a distance and roughly estimated the number of soldiers that the camp could accommodate.
"Setting up a camp outside the city to share the pressure, what a cautious opponent!" Zhong Hui said to himself with a serious expression.
The previous beyond-visual-range attack had already reminded him that the opponent was not simple. Not only could he not take it lightly, but he had to face it with 200% attitude, otherwise he might be the one to return with a crushing defeat.
"Have you contacted Deng Ai's troops?" Zhong Hui asked after a moment of hesitation.
"Not yet!" The scout shook his head. Ever since the troops were divided, Deng Ai seemed to have disappeared without a trace. Even the scouts on their side could not contact him.
"Since no similar changes in the terrain have been found, Deng Ai should have nothing to worry about. Should we prepare ourselves for an ambush?" Based on his understanding of Deng Ai, Zhong Hui thought for a while and decided to lead his troops to test the camp in front of them.
No matter what the opponent's plan is, he always has to make the first move to ignite the flames of war before he can counter it.
However, when Zhong Hui saw with his own eyes the camp that the scout had described, he was so disgusted that he was speechless.
To be honest, although Zhong Hui is not very famous now, his actual ability is definitely first-class in the world. He has experienced what is called urbanized play.
Traps were dug right under his nose, and then a moat was dug without hesitation. After that, the camp was expanded and an outer camp was built. The entire outer camp was full of traps...
Now they have actually started to pile up earth outside the outer camp, and then stationed archers on it, and also reinforced the earth slope in the direction not belonging to the camp with huge trees, basically forming a 90-degree angle...
After just one look, he had no desire to attack, but no matter how disgusting it was, Zhong Hui thought for a while and decided to try the attack.
After all, no matter what, the enemy's camp was just established, and the degree of maintenance would definitely not be the same as that of the city, so it is still feasible to smash it by force.
"How is the preparation of the catapult going?" Zhong Hui asked the military craftsmen.
After a brief preparation, they made several simple catapults using local materials and materials they brought with them.
"It can be used, but because it was made in a hurry, it may be easily scrapped." The craftsman replied.
"That's enough!" Zhong Hui nodded and ordered his men to launch an attack with catapults.
But after hitting it a few times, Zhong Hui found something was not right. The construction strength of the enemy's camp seemed to be slightly exceeded, but it was not much worse than the city wall.
"Super-speed warming? No, that's not right. How is this done?" Zhong Hui was puzzled. Logically speaking, a newly built territory like this should not have such strength.
"I'm afraid my good brother has been on guard against me since the moment he came to this place!" Cao Ang chuckled, probably understanding what Cao Pi was doing.
"You mean the other party also built such a camp in reality when he first arrived here?" Zhong Hui shook his head. It was truly a brotherly relationship.
"He is very suspicious. I'm afraid he is not only on guard against me, but also others!" Cao Ang also shook his head. To some extent, Cao Pi's character is really very similar to Cao Cao.
If Cao Ang inherited Cao Cao's side as a capable minister in times of peace, then Cao Pi might have inherited Cao Cao's side as a hero in times of chaos.
"Here they come!" In the camp, Chen Chi sighed slightly. The preparations were still insufficient. If he had more time, he would be able to build this camp more solid.
But there is only so much labor, especially in the inner world. The young and strong people in the real world have been diverted to work on other projects. Defense projects are ranked last among various options. This is great news for most people, but not good news for him.
"What did Sima Jin say?" Chen Chi turned his head and asked.
"The city defender is working hard to build fortifications according to the defense agenda you submitted earlier!" said the messenger respectfully.
"Not so stupid, this place is hard to defend!"
Chen Chi looked at the army outside and knew that his camp was ultimately a stumbling block. No matter how difficult it was, it would be removed. The real war would begin in the city.
At a time like this, it would be best to delay it as long as possible. It would take time for Cao Pi to mobilize his troops, and he must buy Cao Pi this time.
“What a pity.”
Chen Chi looked around the camp. When he set up camp, he had chosen an open and flat place. This kind of place had a wide field of vision and could avoid being attacked by surprise, but it would also be difficult to ambush others.
"Just take your time, I hope I can delay it for a few more days!" Chen Chi thought silently.
"Boom!" The violent bombardment brought Chen Chi back to his senses instantly. He quickly commanded the troops in the camp to mobilize the cloud defense. The other party actually planned to demolish it by force?
Although Chen Chi had a good idea, unfortunately Zhong Hui and Cao Ang were not indecisive people. From the moment they decided to attack, Zhong Hui went all out.
"attack!"
Zhong Hui roared loudly, and silver internal energy suddenly burst out from his body. Then a cloud suddenly appeared above the heads of the entire army. Zhong Hui roared loudly, and a light blade hundreds of meters long slashed out fiercely, heading towards the direction of the camp.
“Boom!”
Violent explosions sounded one after another, and in an instant a gap appeared in the front direction that was wide enough for passage.
"go ahead!"
Zhong Hui mobilized the clouds to directly pave a cloud road. This secret technique, originally used for cavalry to charge regardless of terrain, became a powerful tool to bypass the moat at this moment.
"Mobilize the archers and crossbows and shoot hard!" Chen Chi's face looked very ugly. Their strategic arrangement was completely seen through.
The biggest purpose of his mysterious camp was to delay time, but the other side attacked with all their strength and saw through their intentions in an instant.
The camp that had taken so much time to set up seemed like a joke at this moment.
However, even though he did not see through the strategy, Chen Chi did not lose heart. After all, it was a battle to defend the city. He had to kill as many as possible. He had to make these fortifications play their due value.
After encountering fierce resistance, Zhong Hui nodded. If he had only guessed before, now he was sure that the other party's disgusting camp was just planning to delay time, and there was a high probability that the other party would not have any reinforcements.
Although he was not clear about the reason behind this , Zhong Hui knew that what he needed to do now was to attack the city with all his strength and raze the camp to the ground.
After determining the direction, Zhong Hui would directly mobilize his legion talents, and then use the abilities attached to his talents to directly resonate with all the soldiers.
Then Zhong Hui, who was sitting on his mount, held his sword in his hand and swung it in the air. A beam of fluorescent light directly covered the entire army.
As Cao Ang activated his monarch talent, a light blue fluorescence emanated from the inside out in the soldiers' hearts.
The effect of Zhong Hui's talent, independence, stabilizes the will of the soldiers directly at the top without being affected by other things, allowing the soldiers to exert the effect of their will more effectively within the maintenance time and forcibly interfere with reality more efficiently.
"kill!"
The decision is to go all out, that is to say go all out. After activating the talent, the weapons of the soldiers that attack the camp will have a continued effect.
If this effect is applied to weapons, it will directly expand the attack range, allowing the attack range of swords, spears, swords and halberds to be extended directly from short range to medium range, directly eliminating the original disadvantage in siege, or even overtaking it, so that all soldiers have the reverse suppression effect of long-handled weapons on short-handled weapons.
Shock waves kept flying out from within the camp. These shock waves, like strong energy, caused the soldiers in the camp to retreat step by step.
Chen Chi slashed the shock wave with his backhand and took a look at the marks left on the weapon. He knew that the battle could not be won. The original plan was to delay the enemy for at least seven days, but he was afraid that they could not even last a day.
"Light the fire and prepare to burn the camp!"
Chen Chi was also a decisive person. After realizing that the tactic of delaying time was completely hopeless, he immediately changed his thinking and focused on maximizing the damage.
The soldiers who had been prepared immediately spread kerosene and other things in the camp, and then Chen Chi set it on fire. After leaving a few hundred people behind to cover their retreat, he fled with most of the soldiers.
"Hmph! You've run out of tricks!" Zhong Hui snorted coldly and left a thousand men to clean up the battlefield to prevent any accidents.
If he had not seen the resurrection of the undead, he might have bypassed the camp directly. However, after experiencing the spell attack, Zhong Hui suspected that Cao Pi should also have a connection with the Undead Empire. In order to guard against being attacked from all sides and being stabbed in the back at a critical moment, he had to arrange people to clean up the battlefield before he could feel at ease.
"Zhong Hui is such a big trouble!" After witnessing the whole process through the crystal ball, Cao Pi had a headache.
All in all, he was in a weak , and it was difficult for him to defeat the army commanded by Zhong Hui in a field battle, so he could only rely on defensive battles, hoping to force back Cao Ang's army with the high casualties in the battle to defend the city.
His base is still mainly on the ocean, in the Chamber of Commerce that still operates on the Pacific Ocean. At such a long distance, his manpower is actually not in place.
However, although the base is on the sea, Cao Pi does not want to give up the territory here.
After all, the ocean is in a place where no one cares about it, and with the existence of Zhou Yu, Cecilion and others, it can never grow bigger. It must combine with the inland to have a chance of survival.
So he doesn't want to be defeated yet. This place is a display platform and also the outpost camp for first-hand contact with Great Britain, Rome and the Yuan family.
As long as he could use this place as a springboard to establish connections with coastal empires such as Great Britain and directly build a trade network across the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the profits would be almost several times what he currently has.
So he doesn't want to quit before he succeeds. After all, so much free labor is a great help to him.
"Let the orc troops prepare and slow down the advance of my army along the way. They must hold out until my army arrives!" Cao Pi took a deep breath and gave the order.
He not only got blood elves in the Americas, but also undead, orcs, and humans were all his trading partners. Since they dared to separate and become independent, they naturally had corresponding troops at hand.
These orcs were captives he bought from the Undead Empire. He saved their lives. In addition, he had no shortage of food, so most of the orcs were willing to work for him.
Of course, he did not make things difficult for the few orcs who were unwilling to do so. He simply sent them back to the Orc Empire and then exchanged them for corresponding specialties from the Orc Empire.
As time went by, he had gathered a large number of orc troops. Although they could not form a complete army due to their racial mix, after being divided into small groups, these orcs were very good at fighting in small groups.
In addition, these orcs have special abilities and are all excellent guerrilla fighters, so they will definitely cause some trouble to his good brother.
"Order Chen Chi and his men to hold out until the main force arrives!"
Cao Pi also shook his head helplessly. He mobilized the army to the north, hoping to open up a channel to maritime trade. However, he did not expect that the Yuan family would suddenly gather manpower. As soon as Sima Yi left, Cao Ang immediately launched an attack.
Originally, with Sima Yi leading 50,000 troops, there was no problem in defending against Cao Ang.
But without Sima Yi, he had no corresponding large army commander to unleash the strength of the army, so he needed more troops to fill this hole.
Fortunately, he could still gain some advantages in defending the city. If the two sides were fighting in the wild, he would have to hold his head in his hands and take the beating unilaterally.
Zhong Hui, who was marching on the other side, frowned. The scouts he sent out every day for safety suddenly suffered a fatal blow.
One third of the people did not return to the camp within one day, which basically means that these people were killed.
"Report, General, there are a large number of enemy ambushes in the nearby area. They suddenly jumped out from the ground!" The scout who managed to survive described the orcs' appearance to Zhong Hui.
They are a group of rabbit people and rat people who can dig holes underground and lurk, and come out from all kinds of incredible places. In addition, there is a group of wolf cavalry who come and go like the wind.
The wolf cavalry were extremely fast, reminiscent of the White Horse Volunteers. Although they were different, combined with the nets in their hands, more than half of the scouts were hunted by these guys.
This gave Zhong Hui a headache. He knew something about America, but very little. He only knew roughly about the existence of empires such as the elves and orcs.
But after confronting these beings, he found that he seemed to understand these future enemies at all.
Whether it was the spell attacks that fell from the sky, the orcs that could dig holes in the ground, or the so-called wolf cavalry, these things were constantly impacting Zhong Hui's three views.
