The fifty-second chapter is heavy
Oren City is already far away.
After not seeing each other for such a long time, the city seems to have not changed at all. It is still the same as before, pretending to be majestic and gorgeous in the dawn.
The boss of Blood Flag immediately laughed in his heart that he couldn't hold back. The last time he looked at this city from afar was just a year ago. How could such a big city change in a year? Even if there is, it is not something you can see from a distance.
The boss of the Blood Flag, Grab and a group of goblins looked at the distant city. The goblins who had never seen the world excitedly pointed at the distant city. The orcs were thinking about what kind of spoils they wanted to get from that beautiful city.
In order to speed up the march, the huge greenskin army had almost no chance to attack and occupy the human cities they encountered along the way (although they had hardly encountered many cities because of the route). But all this was worth it. At this moment, after all the greenskin witnessed all this with their own eyes, they were all very obedient to the boss. Even the black axe that kept humming did not say anything. This city is much better than the towns he found during his reconnaissance! Needless to think about it, there are good things piled up in mountains! What the boss said is indeed correct.
They will conquer the city and return with a full load, and it will be a good and good Waaaaagh. After doing all this, they will return to the mountains, and then (for sure), there will be the next Waaaaagh, and the next Waaaaagh…
Of course, this is a future event. But even the goblins are full of confidence in this upcoming siege battle.
At this time, in Oren City, the scout brought news to Perrin.
"Have the greenskin arrived?" Perrin asked the people around him.
His knight commander is really not worthy of his name. On the one hand, it is because in the previous battles, all the sacred knights who fought were destroyed, and all the rest are a group of new recruits who have not yet been called "knights". But now even these new recruits have become the backbone of the city defense.
On the other hand, Perrin himself admitted that he was not a suitable candidate for the commander of the group. What he was good at was leading a small team to attack and performing various key and secret tasks, rather than commanding tens of thousands of people to prepare for war in the city. When Kemo sat in this position, everything was in order, while Perrin had to spend countless efforts. This fully demonstrated that some things were simple to say but difficult to do, especially when panic was already spreading in the city. People outside the city fled into the city every day, rendering the green skin cruel and vicious, extremely terrifying. Their horror seemed to indicate that the city was not far from destruction - not to mention ordinary citizens, even the soldiers were uneasy.
In fact, Perrin knew that everything he had done was to make the city collapse and collapse without fear and anxiety - it was already difficult to maintain order in the city and evacuate non-combatants in an orderly manner.
What’s even more annoying are those damn speculators!
"Sir, Mr. Federin wants to see you today..." Someone reminded him behind his back. Perrin knew that the person who named this name was a very powerful businessman in the city. Many of the archbishop's women got it through this pussy.
"Tell him, I'm not available." Perrin knew in his heart that the guy left the city safely for one purpose - with all his property, family and slaves, just like a mouse escaping from the sinking ship. However, Perrin had issued a martial law order, and no one could leave the city without his permission.
As for the Archbishop... After Carl entrusted everything to Perrin, he disappeared from people's sight. People said that he prayed to the gods in his room, praying for their help and mercy. Some people said that the Archbishop had long since escaped and left a substitute in his room to confuse everyone. But Perrin knew the truth - the Archbishop neither ran away nor prayed, but stayed in a pile of strange metal parts all day long and read a strange book. A book that was not written in human language (or printed), and was very strange in both the text and the format. And when he read the book, he always looked gritting his teeth and hatred.
However, Carl told him that as long as he could hold on for a month, a miracle would happen.
"What else is there in Greenskin?" Perrin asked the scout. He knew he had two or three days left. It should be noted that Oren City is different from an ordinary city. It is actually two cities on both sides of the river, connecting them with bridges. If Greenskin wants to attack this city, he must first create enough crossing tools to transport troops to both sides of the river, so as to achieve the siege of the city.
If it was an ordinary green skin, they might be impatient to launch an attack when they saw the city wall. But since the person who commanded the green skin was a vampire who was proficient in strategy, he would definitely not be so reckless. Perrin can not worry about fighting for the moment.
But there are enough things to bother him besides fighting! Is this really a holy city? Shouldn’t it be inhabited by devout believers and priests with a transcendent status and far away from the mundane smoky world? When the city is in danger, shouldn’t the whole city be enthusiastic about defending their city?
In the past, people who wanted to join the church to practice were lined up. They piously vowed to dedicate everything to the gods in front of the gods of the star field. But now they are leaving the church at the same speed, taking off their monk's clothes, and squeezing into the queue of the elderly, weak, women and children who evacuated the city. All this was because Perrin ordered that all church personnel were not allowed to leave. Not only the monks at the lower level, but also many priests joined the team.
Perrin had no choice but to prohibit all adult men from leaving (unless they were disabled), as well as all horses and various livestock, but he was not sure that the order was implemented enough. Many times, the scumbags could always find various ways to avoid the orders from the superiors. The so-called policy and countermeasures were at least Perrin already knew that it had become common for the city gate guards to accept bribes now.
He had no choice. It was easy to punish a few people, but he really didn't have free time to do this, and the green skin was already at the city.
The greens passed through the field in a loose and lazy formation.
Oren City is not a small castle, and it cannot be surrounded by some troops. At this moment, on the city wall, the real army of green skin can be seen at a glance. Green dots emerge from the horizon and finally form a wave, slowly but unstoppable rushing towards Oren City. In this destructive green wave is not only the war machinery dragged by the goblins (the number is far less than estimated, and most of them seem to be damaged during the march), but also the number of giant beasts far above expectations. Giants in groups of three or three, groups of trolls... But what really makes people sweat are the damn spider cavalry. Damn, there are so many spider cavalry in the green skin!
These things can ignore all obstacles, including the city walls.
The boss of the Blood Flag looked up at the city wall in the distance. He still remembered that the last time he came here, he only wanted to be an unknown traveler, but now the whole city must focus on him.
"I'm back!" He whispered in a voice that he could only hear. Although no one could hear the announcement, there was a roar in his heart.
"Boss, this city is really big enough, Brother Mao's dad!" A little leader interrupted the boss of the Blood Flag and came up to offer his advice. "I think we should cross the river first, otherwise we might not be able to beat it! The city wall is not responsible for hitting it with a stone!"
"Let the Spider Boys go up!" Another goblin took over the conversation. "Spider Boys can go up anywhere!"
"Boss has an idea, so you don't need to talk too much!" Tarus yelled and scared away the few talkative guys, and the other guys who squeezed up to speak did not dare to speak again.
The boss of Blood Flag also spoke: "What's the hurry? Let's have a safe sleep first and then take a slow break tomorrow."
If the Queen Mother would keep her promise... Then the Blood Flag Boss can be at least half a year without worrying about a third party disturbing him. Besides, the conflict between Oren City and the Kingdom of Sham can be said to be well-known to everyone, and she will not take grain from the fire for Oren City at all costs. If possible, she will also block the third party reinforcements from the reinforcements. But this is unreliable. As long as the conditions are appropriate, the Shem people can violate the agreement at any time - and that is not even considered an agreement, it is just a tacit understanding.
He does not have professional siege equipment in his hand, so he must build it slowly. But God knows how much time it takes. Either he can only use other methods to blow the city wall open. Looking at the city wall, you will know that the goblin's trench tool is unreliable and 90% invalid. If you concentrate all the magic power of the shaman, it may take more than ten days to slowly open a hole, but the efficiency of doing this is not as good as creating a siege tower.
And there should be many magicians in this city.
The boss of the Blood Flag looked at the city wall in the distance. For some reason, the towering and solid city wall made him feel uneasy. Could he really destroy the religious holy land without any interference? Does he really have time to engage in a siege?
The panic caused by the arrival of Greenskin is far beyond imagination. In fact, the city has not experienced war since its establishment. Oren City itself is a "country among the country", and with its special status in religious beliefs, it will hardly encounter any enemy. Although the city itself is built very strongly and considering all aspects of defense operations, the people in the city do not trust the city walls and fortifications so much. Greenskin's previous deeds of captain Kemo's defeat and death were spread in everyone's mouth. No one knows what the outcome of this siege battle will be. These two days are the last time to leave. In another two days, Greenskin will cross the river to surround the city, and he will not be able to leave at that time.
"Sir, something happened to the city gate over there!" Another urgent matter came to Perlan, who was already busy.
When Perrin arrived, there was almost a riot at the city gate. The reason for the riot was that the soldiers guarding the gate blocked most of the people according to the orders and prevented them from leaving. On the other hand, they received bribes, allowing a small number of people to leave openly. This obvious injustice led to mass riots.
It took some time to deal with this trouble. When Perrin returned to his residence, he didn't even have time to eat a bite of supper, and another emergency document was sent to his desk.
Today, Greenskin did nothing but camp. But tomorrow they will make simple rafts. Three days later, at most three days, they will surround the entire city and launch tentative attacks while building engineering equipment. Then Perrin will know whether his efforts have worked.
He really has no confidence.
Chapter completed!