Chapter 327 No Back

"The first line of defense has been broken! Your Majesty, the fighting ability of humans and elves is much better than expected!" Joseph, the old orc general, stepped forward to report.

"Part of the defense area of the second defense line has also been entangled with the other party's commandos, and the other party's magic cannon is really a big threat to us!" Another orc led him to stand up and said.

Cotula looked at the map attentively and did not introduce the battle situation to the beast emperor Wipton, because Wipton knew most of the situation.

Joseph did not sit down, but continued to suggest: "Your Majesty, we should give up the second line of defense and the third line of defense, concentrate our forces to defend Gestak, lure the enemy deep and then suddenly counterattack, and completely defeat humans and elves."

"Give up?" Wipton took a look at the silent Cotula, waved his big hand, clenched his fist in front of him and roared, "I will never give up!"

He glanced at a group of generals and asked by name, "Citula, what do you think!"

"I think it's better to stay in the position." Kotula withdrew his eyes from the map and said solemnly, "The other party is waiting for the moment when we retreat. If the other party's troops use the speed advantage to bite us, it will easily cause our whole line to collapse."

"Then will we put more than 300,000 troops here to be slaughtered by our opponents?" Joseph asked.

"It's not a unilateral massacre! General Joseph. Cotula pointed to the map: "There is a defense line that we have painstakingly operated for a winter, and naturally will not let our opponents take advantage of it easily. I believe that the pressure of humans and elves is not light now. Once their counterattack is blocked, it will be difficult to summon up the courage to attack."

"Good to say! He is worthy of being the first general of the orcs. Wipton praised loudly: "Order the whole army not to take a step back!" Hold on until the last soldier!"

The orc troops that received the order of the Beast Emperor launched a crazy counterattack on the first and second defense lines. The wilderness was full of the bodies of soldiers from both sides. Although the losses of humans and elves were relatively small, they also paid a painful price to maintain the attack situation.

On the front of the entire Getak defense line, the orcs invested 50,000 elite reserves the next day and launched a counterattack. Humans and elf troops were forced to turn into defense near the first defense line. The two sides fought fiercely all day, and the Orcs' counterattack was finally repulsed.

The battlefield finally ushered in a long-lost tranquility in the night. Both sides have a rest and carefully prepare for the tragic battle tomorrow morning.

The next morning, humans repeated their old skills again, covering the infantry with a large number of tanks and armored vehicles to launch a fierce attack on the orcs's still-complete second defense line. The orcs were forced to invest 50,000 reserves again, relieving the pressure on the whole second defense line by attacking.

However, until the afternoon, the second line of defense of the orcs could no longer produce a decent army to deal with the attack of the human reserve.

As the coordinated combat force of the Holy Sword Empire cluster, the elf cavalry and infantry were involved in the battle on the whole line. 200,000 elite troops that had never appeared inserted into the second line of defense of the orc Gestak defense line like blades. The second line of defense was basically controlled before nightfall.

However, relying on the tunnel, the trenches still had a tenacious counterattack. The orcs still struggled near the second line of defense until the next morning, and some troops even persisted until 3 days.

However, in general, humans and elves controlled the first two lines of the entire Gestak defense line and annihilated 270,000 orc troops, including reserves.

However, the elves and human beings have also paid a heavy price for a total of 130,000 people. More than 20,000 human beings have been killed and the elves have lost more than 110,000.

At this time, humans and elves found that there was another one in the whole Stark defense line, and this third line of defense was actually the most well-prepared of the three defense lines.

The walls of the Stark Fortress can be faintly seen not far away. The third line of defense is a complete defense system composed of horses, wooden stakes, deep pits, trenches, low walls, catapults and crossbow guns. And a total of 250,000 orc soldiers were deployed on the whole line of defense.

No one would have thought that after a long winter, a whole spring was prepared, and finally survived the hot summer, and the war broke out so tragically in autumn.

Compared with last year, the current attacks of orcs and humans are pale and weak in front of endless trenches, deep pits and wooden stakes, and the commanders of both sides can't lead the army to break through the defense carefully arranged by the other side in the first time.

Therefore, only lives can be used, and countless fresh lives can be used to fill these gullies. The attacking side became very passive. Unconsciously, both sides began to take a defensive posture to kill each other's living forces.

This scene reminds Arcado of the First World War in his previous life, because the lack of offensive ability made the trench war the main theme, and the war became tragic and bloody. The two sides have invested millions of troops but can only stand still, and hundreds of thousands of lives can't change the ownership of a trench.

This is something that the Sword Empire, the Elf Forest and even the Orc Empire don't want to see, but they have to accept this fact at this time.

In the first five days of the war, the Holy Sword Empire lost more than 100 tanks, 70 armored vehicles, and suffered a total of 30,000 people, which is more than the total of last year. In order to cover the attack, the magic shells have used up one-fifth of the strategic reserve, and the consumption is almost the same as The total amount of use was flat last year.

And these data only exchanged hundreds of square kilometers of land, compared with last year's battle can be described as tourism. Because after paying the same price, the Elf Forest recaptured more territory in two provinces last year and captured more than 100,000 orc troops.

At this moment, the orcs' prisoners of war are pitifully few, and the bright orcs prepared in advance to persuade them to surrender and detain them has become a decoration.

Since the beginning of the war, the Orcs can be said to have achieved their own combat purpose and made full use of the advantages of the terrain to expand their results. Although they have also suffered heavy losses, they have made considerable progress compared with last year, and there has been no defeat in the whole process of fighting for the Peripheral defense of Stark. It can be said that It is a typical battle case of using cold weapons to fight against magic cannons.

In the autumn of the 3rd year of the Elf Forest War, the battle lasted for 6 days, and the two sides invested more than 2 million troops and lost more than 500,000 troops. The two sides wore away the will of their opponents in the tragic attack.