Chapter 69 Blood and Glory! (Part 1)

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The Second Era, May 5th.

The troops are at the city.

"Alarm! Alarm! Large-scale unknown creatures enter the territory of Athens!"

"Alarm! Alarm! The number of unknown creatures exceeds 50,000, which is seriously threatening!"

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The next day, Murphy was awakened by the alarm sound of the auxiliary system of Total War. He really didn't expect that after upgrading to [Kingdom Age], the auxiliary system actually had such a function, which could also be vigilant of the area of ​​the territory. He summoned the strategic map page of the auxiliary system of Total War in his mind. Murphy saw a dark spot of light, with a very obvious blood-red skull logo on it.

That means that the orcs' army has entered the range of Athenian territory.

call.

After breathing a long breath, Murphy murmured in a low voice: "Finally come!"

The auxiliary system of "Total War" cannot clearly indicate the number of enemies, but it can count the size of enemies with rough numbers.

According to Murphy's vague judgment, the orc army that entered the Athenian territory is probably close to 80,000!

Three times the total population of Athens!

The heavy footsteps of the general guards' attendants came from outside the door. He stood at the door and said to the room: "Governor, the smoke from the front line has been lit."

"I understand." Murphy nodded silently, picked up the silver-white chain mail that Mrs. Elizabeth gave him and put it on her body.

He slowly walked out of the room, glanced at the general guards beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Issuing a military order!"

"The port of Athens is completely closed and no one is allowed to leave!"

"The inner city guards are mobilized, and no citizens are allowed to enter and exit at will!"

The general guards had a solemn face and shouted: "Yes!"

After giving a few things, Murphy led the General Guard and the elite Macedonian cavalry of Athens, a size of 480 people, toward the fortress.

Since yesterday, Athens has implemented a comprehensive military ***.

All the supplies and manpower were mobilized, and all the equipment built by the blacksmith shop over the past year was taken out. All men aged 15 to 50 belonging to the territory, including Athenian citizens, distributed weapons. In the past six months, almost all adult men within the Athenian territory had received basic military training in the Temple of War.

Although these militia as reserve teams were not equipped with leather armor, they were all equipped with spears and wooden shields.

The territory of Athens is full of woods, and making spears and wooden shields is the easiest and simplest large-scale armed forces. For these militias as reserves, Murphy does not need the quality of weapons, as long as he can kill people. As for the wooden shield, it does not need to be beautiful nor strong. A few wooden boards are enough to defend against arrows and simple chopping.

After all, they cannot be counted on the real main battlefield.

As those indigenous refugees who were collected, the total population in the Athenian territory is about 24,000. The total number of troops in the territory is 14,000. That is to say, the elderly, weak, women and children are almost all adult men mobilized and armed by Murphy.

Among the fourteen thousand troops, the number of troops composed of Athenian citizens was 8,400, while the others were militia reserves and recruited indigenous mercenaries.

Outside the inner city of Athens.

Twelve Greek square formations were neatly arranged, and Murphy stood in front of the team on a tall, pure black horse.

Yesterday, General Leodalie had already brought more than 80% of the First Legion to the fortress to set up defense. The army led by Murphy is mainly reserved for cavalry and auxiliary legion organizations.

The wind is cold.

The priest of the War God, whose resolute and steel was silent, was escorted by Murphy silently, like a solemn javelin, full of murderous aura!

The Spartan conquerors formed by twenty-four people stood solemnly on his side, and they replaced the Spartan fanatic warriors and became Murphy's new escort. They were also an important force to tear open the enemy's defense line when necessary!

Ancient Greek military music sounded at the city gate, and the high priest led a priest group to slowly come to the front of the army.

Murphy turned over and dismounted and walked to her with determination.

"The goddess is with you." The high priest leaned over and placed his hand on Murphy's forehead.

Looking at the gentle man in front of him, Murphy smiled a little, but then disappeared. After receiving the blessing of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, he turned his head and looked at Helen, who was standing next to the high priest. The mermaid did not have the same care as the high priest. Almost all the citizens of Athens knew that the priests of Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty, were the priests of the governor.

She spread her arms and gently hugged Murphy, then leaned over to his forehead and kissed her gently, slowly saying, "This is the goddess' blessing."

Sharp!

Turning around, Murphy looked around, soldiers, citizens, merchants, farmers, he held his sword high and whispered: "We will surely win!"

"victory!"

"victory!!"

"victory!!!"

There were shocking cheers around, and the soldiers pounded their shields with spears. The rhythmic impact sound was consistent with the beating of their hearts, and a high fighting spirit suddenly appeared on everyone.

"Let's go!" Murphy turned over the horse, pointed his sword at the fortress, and shouted angrily: "Let's tell those green-skinned miscellaneous things!"

"Athens is invincible!"

The neat footsteps sounded, the army slowly set off, the soldiers looked solemnly, and their eyes were firmly looking ahead.

The elite Macedonian cavalry galloped, split into two in front of the queue, and then moved around the team. Twenty-four crossbows were located at the end of the team, and they were placed on flatbed trucks and pushed forward by 240 soldiers. When the army walked out of the coverage of the stone paving road, the road began to rise, and the rising dust was like a yellow dragon, spreading for miles!

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After rushing to the fortress, Murphy immediately handed over the army to General Marcus Kane to resettlement.

He himself brought the chief priest of the war god and the fully organized Spartan conquerors to catch up with the fortress walls.

The fortress, which took more than half a year to spend a lot of manpower and material resources, was 400 meters long, five meters wide and about ten meters high. The city wall has concave and convex mouths, which is used to facilitate archers to shoot and avoid enemy arrows. The entire fortress wall is made of bricks and soil, and in this era, it can definitely be regarded as a first-class solid wall fortress!

You should know that in the past six months, Murphy almost stopped building Athens and consumed basically all the bricks burned in the territory here. Thousands of people's manpower and a large amount of material resources took more than half a year to build this section of the city wall, which was only more than 400 meters long.

Although there is no steel and cement, in terms of strength alone, it is almost difficult to collapse it at the level of this era, whether it is gunpowder or catapult.

Walking up the city wall, Murphy immediately smelled a bloody smell that had not yet melted.

The Greek infantry were arranged in two formations on the city wall, each responsible for a notch to cooperate with each other. Behind them were several teams of full-organized Athenian longbowmen, with a large number of arrows placed at the corner of the inner side. In front of the Athenian longbowmen, there were mounds of soil three or four centimeters wide and ten centimeters long, and the arrows they used were inserted on the mound.

This is mainly to increase the speed of archery.

After all, the real battlefield is not a game. In addition to aiming at the archers, they also need to place the arrows in a place that can be obtained by hand.

Before the battle, the archer will first insert ten to fifteen arrows of varying degrees into the mound in front of him, so that he can quickly pick up the arrows when the battle occurs.

This is a very important tip!

It can increase the speed of archers' shooting by more than 30%!

"Governor!"

As soon as he saw Murphy coming up to the city wall, General Leodalee rushed over with a team of personal guards.

"How is the situation?"

Murphy glanced at the bloodstains on General Leodale's body and said in a deep voice: "What is the momentum of their attack?"

General Leodale had a very bad habit, that is, he liked to lead the way in battle. It would be fine if he was just an ordinary general, but he could be used as a fierce general, but the problem is that he is the most military-capable general under Murphy, and he is also the most prestigious general except him! Once these two are added together, it is not a good habit that he likes to lead the way in front of the battlefield.

For this, Murphy had to mobilize a team of Spartan heavy infantry as his general guard.

"The enemy is very powerful, but the offensive is not very obvious. It just carried out a tentative attack." General Leodale noticed Murphy's slightly frowning brows, and he also understood in his heart that Murphy did not agree with his fighting on the front line, and even his confidence in speaking was weaker.

General Leodale was a stereotyped man with the highest prestige among many generals, but he was still a little awe of Murphy.

Except for Murphy, it is difficult for others to control his will.

He had a very strong dictatorship in military leadership, so it was difficult for others to pull him off the front line in the battle except Murphy.

After sighing, Murphy actually understood in his heart that this guy had the bloodthirsty attributes recognized by the auxiliary system of "Total War". He was prone to losing control when he encountered a battle, and his desire for blood killing could easily influence his will.

This is also one of the important reasons why Murphy personally supervised the formation.

After patrolling the battlefield for a little while, Murphy said in a deep voice to the general Leodalee beside him: "Turn the bodies of those enemies here."

"Yes!" The soldiers on the side took the order and left.

Soon, several orcs' corpses were moved to Murphy.

The heights of these corpses range from about 1.8 to 1.9 meters. They are stronger than those of humans. They are wearing leather armor and the weapon in their hands is a rectangular blade of about 30 centimeters. The sharp tip of this weapon is oblique, with a thick back, which is conducive to chopping.

"They are not tentative attacks." Murphy lowered his weapon and said slowly: "This is their main force."

Such equipment, except for not having metal armor, can basically be said to be the standard configuration of regular troops. Most soldiers of the regular human army may not have such good equipment. If Murphy had not made a lot of profits in the trade with the centaurs, and Mrs. Elizabeth's relationship with him purchased a large amount of iron ore, the regular army in the Athenian territory might not have such equipment.

Currently, the soldiers in the Athenian territory are not only equipped with half-body armor, but also the most elite soldiers who received assistance.

Other soldiers recruited later were equipped with leather armor. Simply put, they sewed pieces of iron on the leather armor or cloth armor to protect some vital parts of the body.

"How are your own casualties?"

Murphy glanced at the half-beast army camped two kilometers away and asked, "Did you see any siege equipment?"

“No casualties.”
To be continued...