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The Second Era, May 7.

early morning.

After two days, the Orcs seemed to have determined that the human city-confederate coalition was unwilling to come out and fight to the decisive battle. Therefore, the offensive against Athens was suddenly fiercer than before. Not only was the giant catapulted aircraft thrown into the battle, but many other siege equipment were also pulled out, well railings, ladders, vans, etc. The Orcs who were assimilated by orc civilization were not very different from humans in terms of technology level.

The fierce battle lasted until noon.

In just three hours, the half-beast army launched six strong attacks! Even with the help of siege equipment, their elite troops climbed to the fortress several times. If Murphy hadn't made a quick decision to throw the Spartan riots into the battle, his side's losses would have been very heavy. In less than a morning, the half-beast left nearly two thousand corpses, and one or two hundred casualties occurred in Athens. If it weren't for the holy water provided by the Leader's Temple, the number of casualties would have been even greater.

"Governor, let's have something to eat first?" A servant from the general guard came to Murphy with a piece of jerky meat and a bowl of porridge mixed with vegetable leaves. He held it carefully, and his thumb only dared to hold a corner of the edge of the bowl because he was afraid that the blood that was about to dry up on the porridge was stained with.

Athens' supplies are not as tight, but they are not as abundant.

Before the winter wheat harvest, the grain in Athens could only last for a month at most. The army's food was cooked with vegetable leaves mixed with jerky fish, and the generals including Murphy also ate it like this. It was not a taste, it could only be considered as filling the stomach. Because of the assistance of the Centaur tribe, Athens' material reserves could no longer be wasted.

"Yeah." Murphy nodded, reached out to take the big bowl of porridge and drank it, and soon drank most of it.

He picked up the jerky and tear it off a piece of porridge and chewed it in his mouth. After swallowing it, he drank the porridge mixed with vegetable leaves in big mouthfuls. Murphy ate very finely, but it was very fast. In less than three minutes, he finished a large bowl of porridge and a piece of jerky.

He handed the bowl to the attendant of the general guard beside him and asked, "How long will it take to harvest the winter wheat?"

"Mr. Governor, I'm afraid I have to wait half a month." The guard on the side replied carefully.

Have to wait half a month?

Murphy nodded and waved his hand to signal him to go down first.

The true ripening of winter wheat requires waiting until around June this year, and the specific time should be June 15th.

At that time, winter wheat could be considered to be truly mature. However, due to the war, Murphy had to consider harvesting winter wheat in advance. However, despite this, Murphy still had to wait for a while, because the current winter wheat is not even green and yellow. If you want to meet the minimum standard of harvest, you have to wait until after May 15th.

Harvest one month in advance is already the limit of winter wheat.

The half-beast army was not the reason why Murphy was really afraid, because in addition to this fortress, the city of Athens itself was also a strong city of this era. In addition, the completed moat, as long as there is enough food, even a siege of 100,000 orcs may not be able to break through. The Greek infantry phalanx has a congenital advantage in defense. If the current casualties are proportional to the current casualties, the half-beast may have to pay more than 80% of the casualties to conquer Athens.

This loss is unacceptable to them.

What Murphy was really worried about was food, winter wheat, and a full half year of hard work!

There is not much food in Athens.

If we cannot successfully harvest these winter wheat, we may not have a good time in Athens this winter.

A full 50,000 acres of winter wheat is about to be harvested!!!

These foods can be said to be an unparalleled wealth in this era!

How could Murphy give up easily?

If the orcs get this food, the threat to the entire human race would be too great.

Unless it is a last resort, Murphy will not consider the final arrangement.

That's it.

Set fire to burn these foods that are about to be harvested!

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In the afternoon.

It started drizzling in the sky.

The rich smell of blood in the air faded a little under the erosion of the rain, and because of the rain, the half-beast army had to give up the subsequent strong attack.

Athens has longbowmen with a size of up to 3,000. These longbowmen troops have caused great headaches for the commander of the Half Beast Army!

Ultra-long range, super penetration power of this era.

Even if a soldier equipped with armor was shot within 100 meters, he would be severely injured. In addition, the advantages of the city wall were covered, if it were not for the well railings and ladders, no matter how many people died, they would not be able to get on the fortress wall.

Murphy stood silently in the drizzle, and a trace of rain fell on his body, and then slid down the ends of his hair.

Under his feet was a piece of bright red blood, which was washed down from his armor by drizzle. The battle in the morning was extremely fierce, and the orcs' offensive was completely a life-threatening fight. Murphy had to dispatch elite troops to the city wall, and even he himself joined several battles.

The orc army is very difficult to deal with!

Their main forces are divided into two types, one is the type of troops that use heavy machetes, which are the backbone of the battle. These soldiers are equipped with leather armor and only have an iron piece inlaid in the heart. Their combat power is good, and they are stronger than Greek heavier infantry in single combat, but they are not the opponents of Greek heavier infantry in team cooperation.

Another type is the orc fanatic who can enter a violent state with a two-handed battle axe.

These are the troops that really make Murphy’s headache.

All of these orc fanatics are tall. They are equipped with half-body armor and hold dozens of pounds of two-handed axes. Once they enter a violent state, they will immediately become extremely powerful! Once these warriors are sent to the city wall, it will be time for Athens to suffer casualties. They are fearless when attacking, without regard for defense issues at all. Due to the limited location of the city wall, there is almost no room for dodging.

Once these orc fanatics explode, it would be difficult for even the Spartan conqueror to fight them.

Strictly speaking, the orcs do not have a real division of troops. Because except for the main force equipment that is standardized, the equipment that other infantry troops can obtain is mostly strange.

The orcs have as many as 100,000 troops, and even with the assistance of the orc empire, they cannot easily take out equipment to arm the 100,000 people.

After all, there are limitations in the level of technological productivity in this era.

The orc army, except for the tens of thousands of people in the central army, were the main equipment, the other soldiers were equipped with only ordinary equipment. It was roughly equivalent to the level of Athenian militia, and perhaps it would be slightly better in weapons.

This is undoubtedly very good news for Murphy.

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At present, there are only two orc warriors that Murphy has come into contact with.

One is warriors equipped with heavy machetes and leather armor. Their standard configuration of half-orc infantry is roughly equivalent to that of Greek heavy infantry, and compared with Greek heavy infantry, it has disadvantages in equipment and coordination.

Another type is the orc fanatic.

Orc fanatics are divided into two types: one is the fanatic who is equipped with heavy armor, and the other is the fanatic who is not armor-piercing. The latter is more dangerous than the former because they look more like the dead soldiers among orcs. When fighting, it is completely a crazy fighting style of fighting with life, with almost no skills, it is just to swing a giant axe and smash forward!

But in war, this is the most troublesome way of fighting, because the density of war soldiers is very high.

Their crazy fighting style can attack the enemy with almost closed eyes, and the warriors hit by the giant axe in their hands will almost lose their combat effectiveness even if they do not die on the spot.

Fortunately, there is a little bit.

That is, these warriors who can enter a violent state all have one characteristic.

Just like the emblem of the barbarians representing warriors, these orc warriors who can enter a violent state will leave a mark representing power on their bodies.

Unlike barbarian humans, the orcs' method is to burn a vague wolf head mark by shamans on their foreheads or cheeks with charcoal fire. After burning with charcoal fire, the shamans will apply the potion of special materials to the wound. In this way, after the wound heals, a special dark blue mark will be left on the orcs' bodies.

This mark means that they are warriors recognized by shamans.

This was good news for Murphy. Whenever he saw these orc warriors with marks on his face during the battle, he pulled several teams of full Athenian longbowmen over and shot them to death without saying a word! He could not let them climb the city wall!

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It looks like around three o'clock in the afternoon.

The drizzle gradually stopped after more than an hour.

The orcs' camp also began to move. The soldiers hiding in the tent to shelter from the rain gathered, and several large trenchers were assembled again. Later, a rusher was pushed out. It seemed that the orcs still had not given up on the idea of ​​breaking through the fortress gate.

But their idea is destined to be ruined.

Because Murphy had already sealed the city gate a few days ago. Although the city gate was empty, in fact, at the place where the city gate was inlaid, Murphy asked the craftsmen to build another concave wall. That is to say, after the orcs broke through the fortress's gate, they would find that the hateful enemy had actually built another wall behind the city gate! At that time, they would face pieces of rain of arrows!

The rhythmic sound of war drums sounded, and the orcs' army began to attack.

Greek heavy infantry lined up in front of them, holding their spears tightly, holding their shields flat on their chests and waiting for battle.

The sound of war drums is getting louder!

The orc warriors lined up toward the array let out a deafening roar.

As if not to be outdone, at the warning of General Leodalee, the heavy Greek infantrymen hit their shields with their spears and roared in waves.

"kill!"

"kill!!"

"kill!!!"

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Five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters.

After entering the longbow range, the orc warriors raised their shields high. The Athenian longbowmen also began to show their power. A rain of arrows fell on the orc warriors, and they immediately poured them into pieces like cutting wheat. The shields in the orcs' hands were all ordinary wooden shields. Although they could defend against ordinary arrows, their defense effect was still limited when facing the shooting of longbows.

Unless they use a Roman-style shield that is more than ninety centimeters long, it is difficult to substantially resist the longbower's shooting.

Before the rushers covered with decks on three sides began to move, and about four hundred meters away from the fortress wall, giant trenchers began to operate.

Although it is called the Giant Cataloger, according to the technological level of this world, the catapult ability it has is still quite limited.

Relying on lethality alone, the role of the catapult is actually quite limited.

Their real function is mainly deterrent. After all, if anyone is unlucky and gets hit, it can almost be said to be a mortal ending.
To be continued...