"Big Brother, the Roth Empire's army is coming from the east. They're only about 25 kilometers away from our tribe. The Sila Tribe has already been breached and burned. Many people must have died." Habeng ran up the stone wall with sweat all over his forehead. He looked at Haga, who was looking into the distance, and angrily said, "They've gone too far. Let's fight them!"
"Don't be impatient. Pass down my orders. Send all the bows and arrows in the tribe to the city wall. Get the best hunters to go to the city wall and get the others to carry rocks up," Haga calmly ordered.
The Crow Tribe was located in the middle of the Twilight Forest. The tribe was built halfway up a mountain, with a steep peak at its back and steep cliffs on both sides. Only the front of the tribe had a rugged mountain path that led down the mountain. It was not suitable for large groups to pass through. Furthermore, they had built a five-meter-tall stone wall on this side.
As a medium-sized tribe, the Crow Tribe had more than 5,000 orcs. Apart from the elderly and children, there were more than 3,000 of them who could fight.
In the orc tribe, the women's fighting ability was never inferior to the men's.
As the eldest son of the chief, Haga was the expected next chief of the Wu Tuo tribe. He had already taken over the various affairs of the tribe under his father's guidance and was currently the actual ruler of the Wu Tuo tribe.
This was also the reason why the two brothers had not gone to Amy's for a long time. Recently, the factions of Auster and Connie in the Twilight Forest were in conflict. The factions of war and peace were at loggerheads. As the leader of the Crow Tribe, Haga had to stay in the tribe to deal with any possible incidents.
The Crow Tribe chose to stand on the side of peace. As a small and medium-sized tribe, peace had brought stability to the Crow Tribe, and they would not repeat the mistake of being cannon fodder.
A few days ago, Connie had sent a messenger to deliver a secret letter to them, warning them to be careful of the Roth Empire's attack.
Haga then recalled all the orcs in the tribe, and canceled all hunting activities. He left the most elite and powerful hunters in the tribe to protect the tribe.
Habeng had not cared about this at first. He thought that the Roth Empire would not attack the orcs before the peace conference ended, much less attack the Crow Tribe in the middle of the Twilight Forest.
In the past few years, the orc tribes at the borders had been fighting with the Roth Empire's border army. They had even pillaged the Roth Empire's villages and towns, but the Roth Empire had never dared to attack the Twilight Forest.
However, no one would have thought that the Roth Empire would launch a sudden attack on the Twilight Forest on the first day of the peace talks. Furthermore, they destroyed several large tribes at the border with ease. They were like a sharp knife that pierced into the Twilight Forest, and slashed downwards rapidly as if they were going to split the entire forest into two.
Coincidentally, the Utto tribe was in the path of an invading Roth Empire cavalry, and the Sila tribe in front of them had already been conquered.
It was a medium-sized tribe with more than ten thousand beastmen, and it was even more powerful than the Wu Tuo tribe.
However, it had only been an hour since they had been attacked, broken through, and abandoned.
The Roth Empire's cavalry was like a swarm of locusts. After destroying one tribe, they immediately rushed to the next target.
The Crow Tuo Tribe had nowhere to run. As proud beastmen, they naturally would not surrender.
"Haha." An old orc that was old but still muscular walked up to the city wall.
"Father." Haha looked at Tyesel as he took two steps forward, and said, "The Sila tribe has already been conquered. The Roth Empire's army is coming straight for us. I have already asked the Falk Tribe for help. We plan to defend based on the terrain advantage and wait for the reinforcements to arrive."
"I have already heard from Habeng." Tyesel nodded as he looked at his calm son with gratification. If he were Haha's age, he would have rashly led the tribe's warriors down the mountain to fight the Roth Empire's army to the death.
Haha walked closer to Tyesel, and lowered his voice as he said, "The enemy is very strong. They are much stronger than we expected."
Tyesel looked into Haha's eyes, and said, "It is not scary that the enemy is strong. As long as we have the will to fight, we will be able to defeat all enemies."
"Mm-hm." Haha nodded solemnly with high fighting spirit in his eyes.
Over 10 trebuchets were already in place. The huge rocks that were splashed with beast oil were glowing under the sun as they were aimed at the sky.
The tribe's best hunters were standing on the city wall with longbows in their hands. They were the best marksmen in the tribe.
The orcs lined up to carry the huge rocks up the city wall one by one, and piled them up into small hills.
The ancestors of the Wu Tuo tribe had already proven this countless times. Standing on the high city wall and relying on the mountainous terrain, the huge rocks pushed down by the children were more troublesome than the arrows shot by the marksmen.
Not long after, the ground began to tremble slightly. Shouts and the sound of horses' hooves could be heard from the canyon far away.
"Prepare for battle!"
Haha roared as he stood on the city wall. He took out the huge bow on his back, and nocked a spear-like arrow on the bowstring, aiming it at the canyon below.
Thousands of archers also nocked their arrows on their bowstrings at the same time, and stared in the direction of the canyon.
The orcs beside the trebuchets looked at Haha, waiting for his orders.
Below the city wall, thousands of orcs were holding big knives, stone clubs, and javelins, waiting in formation.
Further back were the children and elderly. They were also looking in the direction of the city wall with serious expressions, and did not show any fear.
The first thing that appeared in the vision of the Wu Tuo tribe was the hundreds of flying cavalrymen. They flew towards the Wu Tuo tribe in a black mass.
The wingspan of an eagle mount was usually three to five meters. Other than a pair of sharp claws, it did not have any other special abilities. Its speed, agility, and strength were not considered strong among the 1st-tier magic beasts, and it could only carry one person.
However, it was a 1st-tier magic beast that was very easy to tame, so it was one of the most popular flying mounts in the Roth Empire's army. Every army had their own Flying Eagle Squadron.
The power of the knights was at least 4th-tier. Whether it was diving, stabbing, or directly landing in the enemy's camp, they could cause a lot of trouble.
"It's just a small tribe. Brothers, let's take them down directly so that our brothers below don't have to climb the mountain!" The leader of this Flying Eagle Squadron was Barrow, a tall middle-aged man. He looked at the Wu Tuo tribe that was halfway up the mountain, and laughed with disdain.
"Kill!"
There was a burst of laughter from the flying group.
Ever since they entered the Twilight Forest, they had not met any effective resistance. Even they were a little surprised that these strong-looking orcs were so weak.
The last orc tribe that they had wiped out was much bigger than this one, but their Flying Eagle Squadron only needed to dive a few times to break the will of that tribe. Together with the empire's cavalry, that tribe was quickly flattened.
This tribe looked even more vulnerable.
The cavalrymen on the backs of the eagles had sinister smiles on their faces. They were already thinking about how they could choose a few beautiful female orcs to enjoy before the cavalrymen arrived.
500 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters, 100 meters …
"Release!"
A thunderous roar was heard.
Whistling fireballs and a sky full of arrows suddenly flew from the top of the city wall, and flew towards the Flying Eagle Squadron that was diving down!
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