Chapter 194

"Mishen, I remember you and the orc tribe have little difference in strength. Why did you suddenly lose?" after the party sat down in the reception hall, Suellen asked his doubts.

Mishin smiled bitterly: "we are too careless."

"After defeating the orc army, we relaxed our vigilance, and the orcs retreated from us after that failure, which made our soldiers more and more proud. Now think about it, they did this to paralyze us and expose our flaws."

"Obviously they succeeded."

"But even if you are careless, you won't be defeated so easily." Su Lun asked strangely.

"Indeed, even if we are careless and fail, we won't lose so much. After all, we can run even if we can't fight."

"But the orcs have long been prepared. The orc shaman used the shadowing technique. The orc army relied on the shadowing technique, and then successfully surrounded our tribe under the cover of night."

Su Lun nodded. He understood the orc's plan. Hazy spell is not too difficult. After use, it can cover the human body with a layer of virtual shadow. Combined with the night, it is comparable to invisibility.

It's not easy for tens of thousands of orcs to be shrouded in invisibility. Even legendary wizards need to consume a lot of magic and cast it more than a dozen times.

Although the orc Shaman is powerful, it does not break through the legend. It barely achieves the effect of invisibility by using obscurity combined with night. Moreover, obscurity also has an effect. The shadow produced is easy to make the archer miss.

Then, after the Centaur was careless, the overnight March surrounded the Centaur tribe. The strength of the Centaur lies in the riding and shooting and the charge of the heavy cavalry group. The Centaur lost its speed and was close to the orcs. The Centaur lost all its advantages. The orc army formed an elite force with only 2000 people, Then the orc wolf cavalry directly broke through the defense of the Centaur tribe, and the Centaur tribe was defeated.

In order to break out of the siege, the Centaur tribe paid huge casualties. Some soldiers launched a decisive charge against the orc army, and made a way for more Centaur women and children with their flesh and blood.

In the end, the Centaur lost more than 3000 elite soldiers and some women and children. In the end, less than 4000 centaurs escaped successfully. And even so, these centaurs are still chased and harassed by the orc wolf cavalry.

The heavily damaged Centaur tribe fled all the way to the North Town, and then stopped. Facing the orc army, they were unable to resist by themselves. These centaurs wanted to unite with the humans in the north town to fight the orc army.

The war on the wasteland is very cruel. Once it fails, there will be a crisis of racial extinction. The orcs will not give the Centaur a chance to rise again.

"Are you ready to join us?" said Suellen, looking at the mare Mishin.

"Yes, your excellency sulun, humans and Orc tribes are feuds. Now we also have great hatred with orcs. We should unite to deal with those orcs."

"And after the orc tribe defeated our Centaur, their strength is no longer that either of us can fight alone."

"I don't deny that," Suellen nodded. "The orcs are indeed our common enemy. We agree to form an alliance with the Centaur tribe."

Several centaurs were overjoyed when they heard that Su Lun was willing to form an alliance. This news can be said to be the best news they have heard since the defeat that night.

"Your Excellency Suellen, we have another request," Mishin hesitated.

"What request?"

"We need the north town to support us with some food supplies, tents, medicine and weapons." when the Centaurs fled that night, they didn't carry any food at all, and even many centaurs didn't even have weapons.

Su Lun held his chin in one hand. "Chris, how much food and tents can our territory provide now?"

"Master, the territory has just had a bumper harvest of food. After deducting the food we need and the new population every month, we can take out 30 tons of food." Chris said. Of course, Suellen knew that this was only a small part, so he just made a gesture to show the Centaur.

"We will send 30 tons of grain to the Centaur immediately," Su Lun said directly.

"I see."

"Thank you for your generosity, Mr. Suellen. You are our Centaur's best friend," mishen said gratefully.

"This is our support for our allies," Su Lun said with a smile. "But we are limited in weapons and equipment, and we can't provide you too much."

Sulun's territory is not large, and his current weapons and equipment are only barely able to maintain his army. You know, there are 1700 soldiers in the territory. Up to now, many soldiers wear leather armor, so the equipment they can provide is naturally limited.

Moreover, there is another reason. After all, the two sides are only allies. These centaurs are not harmless to humans and animals. Once they are given too much equipment, how can these centaurs turn back and attack themselves? This situation is not impossible. They grab a vote in the North Town, and then continue to flee to the south, and the orcs will not continue to pursue.

There are not many rules in the wilderness. Here we believe in the survival of the fittest and the survival of the fittest. If Zhenbei city still looks like the original Zhenbei fort and has not built a tall city wall, these centaurs are likely to not seek alliance, but directly grab a vote and continue to run.

Thirty tons of grain sounds like a lot, but because there are only potatoes and no other meat supplements, according to the Centaur's appetite, a centaur consumes almost two or three kilograms a day. You know, a centaur eats five to six kilograms of hay and about two kilograms of feed a day. The Centaur's food intake is even more amazing.

Thirty tons of grain plus their own hunting can let more than 3000 people of their Centaur tribe eat for half a month. If they want to rely on this grain to continue running, they can't last long. With the pursuit of orcs, these centaurs are likely to starve to death in the end.

Suellen is vigilant against any forces. Even his allies will speculate with the greatest malice that conspiracy and killing are taking place all the time in the world.

The Centaur tribe lacks weapons, but they have bows and arrows. What the Centaur lacks is iron armor. They didn't have time to put on armor that night, which also led to the lack of heavy cavalry. Although heavy cavalry has many disadvantages, such as slow speed, no turning, high cost, large loss and so on, it still can not deny the irreplaceable role of heavy cavalry in the cold weapon battlefield.

If the Centaur tribe had 1000, no, 500 heavy cavalry, they could chisel through the orc tribe's army in the front battlefield.

Su Lun gave the Centaur tribe 300 sets of iron armor, as well as a batch of throwing guns and charging spears. Together with 30 tons of grain, it was sent to the Centaur tribe.

At the same time, Zhenbei city entered a wartime alert state, 1700 soldiers returned, 200 Zhenbei Fort guards were also on standby, 2000 militia reserves gathered again, and the blacksmith shop also set up a team to produce armor.

Su Lun plans to distribute iron armor to all soldiers above elite long spearmen. The strength of elite long spearmen is still a little worse than that of Knight level. However, after well-equipped iron armor weapons, ordinary Orc soldiers are no longer their opponents.

Now most of the long spear soldiers in the North Town have reached this level, and one has reached the strength of heavy armor long spear soldiers (Knight level).

These heavy armour long spearmen are the backbone of the army, so their equipment is the best. The half body plate armor forged by the blacksmith of the territory has given priority to the heavy armour long spearmen. At the same time, all the tower shields made by the earth digger beetles have been given to them.

Barbarians also use half body plate armor, and are equipped with double-edged axe and hand axe. These people can only be used to launch a counter charge or disrupt the enemy's formation.

All the archers are inlaid with iron armor and long bows. At the same time, they are also equipped with melee weapons. Only some of these archers use Centaur long bows and ELF battle bows, and the rest use ordinary birch bows.

The range of the birch bow is half shorter than that of the spirit War Bow and the Centaur long bow. Su Lun originally planned to replace all archers with the Centaur long bow or the spirit War Bow, but the oak used by the spirit war bow has not yet become useful and can only be replaced with birch.

Although the birch bow has short range and small power, it consumes less energy. Although it is not a threat to the orc warriors wearing iron armor, those ordinary Orc soldiers do not have iron armor, and the birch bow can still pose a threat to them.

Su Lun issued a war conscription order in the north town. Now there are many mercenaries in the North Town, all of whom have been conscripted close to the army, and the semi elves are also within the scope of conscription. Su Lun promised grace to recruit only 150 half elves to join the army last time, but the territory can continue to recruit when facing great threats, so a total of 350 half elves joined the army this time, and so did the drow elves.

In order to deal with the coming Orc army, Suellen can be said to have used all the strength of the territory. But even so, in addition to the militia, the number of troops in the north of the town is only 2500.

All scouts have been released. Every three hours, scouts will report the latest developments of the orc army. The orc army has an army of tens of thousands of people, including about 500 elite Orc warriors, 3000 Orc wolf cavalry and 8000 other Orc soldiers. In addition, there are more than 5000 minions in the orc army.

After the orc army defeated the Centaur tribe, a large number of jackals, big goblins and bear goblins joined the orc army. As for ordinary goblins and dog headed people, they are not even qualified to join the army. The only ally in the north city of the town is the Centaur of less than 4000 people.