Sui Xiong had said before that in this war, he was neutral and would not help either side.
But being neutral did not mean that he would do nothing. He said that he would lend a helping hand to those refugees who were in a desperate situation. At the same time, he set a rule for both sides involved in the war: no massacres.
For the former, he had not seen a refugee who was really in a desperate situation until now. Although the Orcs' mobility troops had destroyed towns and villages, leaving more than 100,000 people in a miserable situation without food and clothing, the human reserves were completely enough to deal with this kind of problem. There was no need for Sui Xiong to meddle at all.
If the human rulers did not care about the lives and deaths of these refugees and abandoned them, Sui Xiong would only take them away and take the heads of those rulers along the way. He would forget about the parts below the heads. He would just keep them in the coffin.
And the rule of "no massacres" had not been violated until now. But this did not mean that Sui Xiong had forgotten it.
On the contrary, he was actually very concerned about this matter and had always been careful and vigilant.
Driving the refugees to attack the city, of course, was also a kind of massacre. So when the commanders of the Orcs' mobility troops were discussing this plan, Sui Xiong immediately came forward and issued a serious warning to them.
His warning was very effective. The Orc commanders immediately understood what he meant and gave up on this plan that would have been very effective.
They had no choice but to give up. Being stared at by a great Divine Power who was obviously in a bad mood with an almost murderous gaze, who would dare to bite the bullet and say "not giving up?"
Perhaps there really had been such tough men in the world before. But obviously, they had all died long ago and had no chance to pass on their precious bloodline.
So anyway, this time, Sui Xiong did not meet anyone who dared to question him.
He snorted coldly and his figure gradually disappeared, leaving behind a group of officers who looked at each other in dismay. Cold sweat had soaked the back of their clothes.
Since the method of driving the refugees to attack the city did not work, there was only one way left to think of.
Do it by force.
In terms of military strength, the Orcs' mobility troops had at least tens of thousands of people. All of them were elites, and there were even many powerhouses among them. As long as they found the right opportunity, it was actually not very difficult to cut off the human supply line.
Although the human fortress was sturdy, food had to be transported after all. The transportation of food naturally needed to be carried out, cart by cart, to the next fortress.
This road for transporting food was the most suitable battlefield.
However, what the Beastmen could think of, the humans could naturally think of as well. They had mobilized a powerful and elite troop to escort the food, and their number was more than twice that of the Orcs' mobility troop.
Facing such an army, the Orcs did not dare to attack rashly.
However, they could not just stand by and watch as the food was transported to the frontlines to provide support for the defense line at the Great Wall.
Under such circumstances, they naturally chose to seek help from the gods.
The gods of various races, including the Orcs, had been searching for traces of the human gods for almost half a month.
They searched everywhere they could, but they could not find the whereabouts of the human gods. It was as if this huge group of gods had completely disappeared and all of them had fallen.
However, everyone knew that not all of the human gods had fallen.
In the Pantheon temple, although none of them showed up, nearly half of their seats were still there, especially the mid-level Divine Power and the stronger Gods. Not a single one of them had fallen.
However, from the intelligence gathered by the spies lying in ambush in the human society, it was obvious that the human gods had not been able to restore contact with the clergymen. Their clergymen had not been able to regain their ability to cast spells.
More importantly, the allied army of the Oracles formed by the various God Systems had already destroyed thousands of altars and shrines of the human gods during this period of time. Except for a few large shrines that were especially heavily defended, the sanctuaries of the human gods had almost been destroyed.
Their clergymen had also suffered heavy losses. Many of the churches of the gods on the surface had almost been completely destroyed. Not even a temple or altar was left. Only some of the clergymen who were lucky enough to escape could still build temporary altars — of course, these altars were built in the military camps, and only the altars in the military camps did not have to worry about the attacks of the Oracles.
The gods and the Oracles could not directly attack the army. This was a rule set by the Master of Order after the battle of "The Day of the Sun's Death."
After all, be it the gods or the Oracles, their power was too strong compared to that of the mortals. If they could directly attack the army, it would definitely cause extremely serious damage.
The Master of Order obviously did not wish to see such a scene, so he set that rule.
This rule was obviously beneficial to the humans, but even the Orcs did not raise any objections.
Rules were rules. What was beneficial to the humans now might not necessarily not be beneficial to the Orcs in the future. Moreover … no matter what, the Orcs still had the upper hand now.
Since they had the upper hand, there was no need to care so much about other things.
What the Orc gods considered was mainly to find the human gods and destroy them.
Only by destroying the human gods could this war be considered a victory.
However, where were the human gods?
No one knew.
What everyone could do was to continue searching.
Under such circumstances, when the Orc mobility troops asked for the assistance of the Oracles, the Orc gods did not hesitate and sent the Oracles to them.
And what these Oracles had to do was to cooperate with the Orc mobility troops to attack the human transport teams.
Of course, they would not directly attack. That would go against the orders of the Master of Order. But they could create favorable terrain and suitable weather. They could also provide endless help to the Orc soldiers before and during the battle.
With these advantages, the Orc mobility troops dared to attack the human transport teams even though their military strength was lagging behind.
That attack happened in the wee hours of the morning, around three o 'clock.
It was the end of winter. It was cold and dark at this time. It was the time when people were the most tired. Even though the human transport teams were well prepared every day, when the Orcs, with the powerful assistance provided by the Oracles' spells, roared and rushed over with the momentum of an avalanche. They went straight for the tents in the camp where the rations were stored, they could not help but panic.
Some of the soldiers hurriedly got up to fight, while others felt that they should protect the rations. There were still some who were completely in a panic and did not know what to do.
In this chaos, the Orc mobility troops successfully burned a large amount of rations and left, leaving behind blazing fires and corpses all over the ground.
Among these corpses, there were humans and Orcs.
Fortunately, they were not able to destroy all the rations in the end. And the human defense line at the Great Wall received the news and quickly sent reinforcements to strengthen the defense of the transport teams.
In the end, only about one-third of the rations that were originally planned were transported to the defense line at the Great Wall in time.
Looking at these rations, the commanders at the defense line at the Great Wall looked gloomy.
And when he received the news, the Orc Emperor's expression was just as gloomy.
They all knew that this war was probably still a long way from ending …
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