Chapter 64 Break the Pass (Part 1)!

May 3.

——War breaks out!

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There is less than half a month left before the harvest of winter wheat. The wheat in the field has grown, but it looks a bit green and yellow.

The orcs launched the offensive one a little earlier than Murphy had expected.

According to his estimate, the orcs should have launched an offensive around late April. Because the terrain of the Canyon Pass was dangerous, it was definitely a lot of time to break through. If it was delayed for a month, the winter wheat in other places would have been harvested. At that time, the food was collected from the castle, and the orcs' plan to plunder food would probably be dead.

Unless there is a little bit.

That is, those orcs are quite sure to capture the Canyon Pass within half a month, or more precisely, within one week!

This guess put a lot of pressure on Murphy.

It also put a lot of pressure on the human city-state in the southern plains. The noble council began to urgently mobilize its troops since late April. It expanded the permanent troops of the Canyon Pass to 5,000, and occupied nearly 50,000 elite troops in the plains behind the Canyon Pass! But even though the Canyon Pass had such abundant troops, Murphy was still very uneasy. A dark intuition told him that the human city-state could not be defended. Because the orcs are not gnolls, if they are not sure of being a wise race, they will never wait until this time to start the war!

Fortunately, the fortress has been built.

As long as we keep this critical position in the Athenian territory, it will be very difficult for the orc army to cross mountains or pass through the jungle.

Because no matter which item they choose, they will eventually enter the predation range of Hurricane Karazan Pterodes.

This is something Murphy is very happy to see.

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Canyon Pass.

The straight line distance from the Athenian territory is about eighty kilometers.

The simple fortifications in the past have now been built into fortresses. The city walls several meters high are like a natural danger, which makes the orcs unable to shake any attack no matter how they attack.

The ground was covered with blood and corpses.

The continuous attack of one day and one night has exhausted the human defenders in the fortress.

However, their expressions were still quite excited, because reinforcements would come tomorrow afternoon. As long as reinforcements arrived, they believed that they would not be afraid of relying on this natural dangerous place. Because this narrow terrain destined that they could not play the advantage of numbers, and the steep mountain walls on both sides provided them with natural side cover.

This tragic battle lasted for three days, the human defenders suffered a lot of casualties, but the half-beast *** Army had even greater casualties.

The piles of corpses on the ground were already one or two meters high. This is why someone had dealt with the corpses. The strong smell of blood almost couldn't be dissolved, and the disgusting smell attracted a large number of vultures and birds of prey. Ordinary beasts feared the army, but these birds did not have much concern. Whenever the night fell, it was time for them to have a full meal.

"General, you are injured." A soldier came to Canas Zalot. He looked at the blood oozing out of the general's arm and hurriedly took out the wound medicine and asked him to apply it.

"It's okay, a little bit of injury. You go down and rest first." As a general, Canas Zalot is different from other noble generals. He is a poor man. He comes from a lowly serf family. His military career lasts for twenty-one years and has given him his current status and strength. For a general like him who has been fighting on the front line for many years, such injuries are nothing at all.

He tore off a corner from his clothes and bandaged him briefly, waved his hand to signal the guards to go down and rest.

Canas Zalot was born a humble person, but this did not affect his love from the soldiers! In fact, this poor general who often fought on the front line has a very high reputation in the army! And he is also the goal of countless poor soldiers who came from the poor. At least this can tell them that they are not just cannon fodder. As long as there are certain opportunities, they may also have the opportunity to become a general!

The humble origins determine that Canas Zalot cannot obtain a higher status.

The noble council would not allow a person of poor descent to stand on a high ground, because it would seriously burn their proud self-esteem.

In fact, before the war with the Gnoves broke out, Canas Zalot was exiled to the northwest, bringing a small number of soldiers loyal to him to the northwest barbarians. It was not until the war with the Gnoves broke out that the nobles' council realized that they needed a commander with real military talents that he was re-altered. For Canas Zalot, it was definitely more happy to get along with those generous and direct barbarians than to deal with those hypocritical nobles.

Spirits, warriors, and enthusiastic barbarian women.

Barbarian humans respect strong people and do not care whether a strong person's background is noble or humble.

In the bitter and cold land of the northwest, he once saved a shaman and learned through him some things that he could not learn from the southern plains. For example, how to get yourself into a violent state and exert a strong combat power that you cannot normally exert!

"Looking for the point between madness and peace is a new force, a stronger force!"

The master of this power is the famous Fire Blade Clan Sword Saint, who helps the Orcs overthrow the powerful arms of the descendants of the giants. He is also the only terrifying existence in the Orcs who can defeat the mixed-blood giants one-on-one on the front battlefield!

In fact, since the Second Age, barbarian humans have been thinking about how to obtain the power of the Sword Saint.

The power called 'qi'.

All races on the continent know that the sword saints of the Fire Blade clan can master a power called "qi" through training. When they wield secret weapons, they can even emit sword qi similar to wind blades. And their chiefs and leaders of the Fire Blade clan can even use a terrifying martial art called "Blade Storm"! This power has always been dreamt of barbarians!

Humans are really too weak.

Like newborn babies, they have to learn the advantages of other races.

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Canas Zalot married a barbarian woman, which once became a laughing stock of the noble parliament.

But Canas Zalot didn't care. For him, his current wife, the enthusiastic and kind barbarian woman, was definitely much more beautiful than those so-called ladies. He was a man of firm will, and most of his life was spent in the army. He had a tenacious will as strong as steel!

After remarrying his current wife, he was recognized by the barbarian shamans.

He began to come into contact with even more powerful forces!

The supporters of the noble parliament are those mysterious magicians, while the trump card of barbarian humans is those masters of special forces!

Canas Zalot was wearing two weapons all the time.

But few people saw him pull out another weapon. It was specially made of equipment imitating the Fire Blade Clan Sword Saint, and it also represents the orc Sword Saint's combat skills that barbarians spent hundreds of years exploring and imitating. As a very few warriors who can maintain a certain calmness after entering a violent state, Canas Zalot is the successor of this combat skills.

His mission is to find the fit point and find the power called "qi". Because it marks whether humans can form a truly high-end combat power system.

In fact, he has gained something.

but.

At this time, the werewolf war broke out.

Although the noble council was not harmonious with the barbarian humans, it was the same in terms of human consensus on the outside world. Canas Zalot had to stop practicing in the northwest suffering land, and he returned to the southern plains to accept the appointment of the noble council.

The war of the Gnolls ends.

The orcs replaced them as new rivals to humans.

As one of the few powerful generals in the military headquarters, Canas Zalot was promoted and appointed to guard the Canyon Pass.

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"General?" The personal guard's confusion came from beside him. "Are you okay?"

The contemplative Canas Zalot was awakened, he turned around and nodded, and said in a deep voice: "I'm fine."

These are the soldiers who followed him at the beginning and were the robes he trusted the most on the battlefield.

Canas Zalot has been worried about one thing, that is, what kind of tricks orcs have? After more than 20 years of military career, he told him with a nearly intuitive sense that the other party must have a backup plan, and the current crazy attack is an illusion, an illusion that confuses oneself.

But what are the tricks that those orcs can have?

It is impossible to break through such a dangerous obstacle alone by attacking.

but.

The elite human troops will arrive tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

At that time, more than 50,000 troops will be trapped behind the canyon. As long as there are new forces injected, there will be no orcs no matter how many of them are.

Just hold on until August this year.

The orcs who did not have sufficient military rations at that time will naturally retreat.

With the supply capacity of the orcs, if they cannot plunder food through war, it will not last long.

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The wind is very strong in the canyon.

The bitter wind blew across the cheeks like a knife, and bursts of scorching pain came from the wounds on the arms, but there was no change in Canas Zalot's face.

He had long been used to this pain.

"Let's go."

Just as Canas Zalot was about to turn around and walk down the wall, he suddenly looked up at the sky as if he was feeling.

I don't know if it's his illusion.
Chapter completed!