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(Today's second update, long chapter ~)
GOR Chapter 595 Lion Cub's Final Roar
After roughly two hours of intense battle, the human warships finally collapsed under this predicament. One after another, the warships were sunk. Countless sailors jumped into the water – this time, they did not take the initiative to jump into the water to meet the enemy. Instead, a large number of sailors had no choice but to jump off the ship in order to survive. For a moment, the river surface was crowded with people. These sailors swam towards the river bank in an attempt to escape.
However, amidst this chaos, the hippopotamus orcs wantonly hunted and killed the human sailors. Some of the sailors were bitten and devoured by the hippopotamus orcs in the water. Some were injured and drowned. There were even some who, in their panic, forgot to identify the direction and swam to the north bank. As a result, the moment they reached the shore, they fell into the claws of the orcs' wolf riders who had been waiting on the shore for a long time.
On the shore, General Dominguez's face had turned pale. He roared in pain again and again. However, there was nothing he could do about the situation on the water.
Seeing the fleet being destroyed, the entire river was filled with broken planks and corpses. Blood dyed the entire river red.
On the water surface, the miserable screams of the sailors shook the sky. The human soldiers on the shore all paled.
Although there were some soldiers on the shore who were familiar with water and jumped into the river in an attempt to rescue their comrades, most of them ended up as prey for the hippopotamus orcs.
Shadows of beasts could be seen everywhere on the water surface. The hippopotamus orcs were in the limelight in this battle.
In this battle, the hippopotamus orcs were originally a small tribe with less than eight thousand members. However, this time, they sent in over three thousand hippopotamus orcs. In an instant, the water surface of this region became a hellish zone of death.
Before evening, the sun was only slightly inclined to the west. However, the battle on the river had already reached its end. All eight of the Empire's Sea Soul-class warships stationed at the eastern fortress had been sunk!
Over three thousand sailors were sacrificed. The water surface was filled with floating corpses. The color of the river had completely turned into a chilling dark red.
When the battle ended, the heads of numerous Hippopotamus Beastmen appeared on the surface of the river. Several thousand Hippopotamus Beastmen were crazily roaring on the surface of the water, wantonly letting out threatening cries at the humans.
The human soldiers on the shore fell into a deathly silence. Many soldiers bit their lips so hard that their lips were bleeding. Their faces were miserable, but they could only watch their comrades being hunted and killed on the water. General Dominguez clenched his fists so hard that his fingertips pierced his palms, and blood was dripping out!
In the evening, the humans tried to stop a counterattack. A group of 150 airships was mobilized and immediately entered the battle under Dominguez's strict order. However, what awaited them was even more miserable than the battle on the water!!
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When the airships flew over, the morale of the human army was greatly boosted! The airships painted with the Empire's Thorned Flower Totem flew towards the North Shore in a formation. The bombs hanging under the airships were like stacked eggs, emitting a faint cold light.
However, in the sky above, a large number of densely packed shadows quickly appeared in the North. From afar, it looked like a large flock of birds.
When they flew closer, their true colors were revealed!
A large number of elves flew over. These elves used their innate wings to soar in the sky. When they got close to the airships, they quickly scattered and dispersed!
One by one, the elves flew nimbly with bows in their hands and began to ingeniously surround and suppress the airships. The elven archers all had innate magic talent. The addition of thousands of elven archers immediately brought disaster to the human airships!
In front of the nimble elves, the airships' heavy weight, slow flying speed, and lack of ability to fight back in the air were all exposed!
One by one, the airships seemed to have fallen into a quagmire. After being surrounded by dozens of elves, the elves flashed around like flies and shot arrows with elven purple magic light. Although the human airships' leather balloons had been strengthened before the war, no matter how thick the leather was, it still appeared so fragile under the elven magic arrows …
It was as if sparks bloomed in the sky. After being shot by the magic arrows, the balloons exploded under the magic light and turned into fireballs.
This group of human air forces had received strict training in the Northwest. Many people bravely picked up their bows and arrows and shot at the elves. However, how could the nimble elves flying in the sky be shot so easily? Even if they were shot occasionally, the elves were a race born with innate magic talent. These elves were dressed in gorgeous armor. The hollow patterns on the armor looked fragile, but they often had some kind of strange magic blessing. It was very difficult for the ordinary bows of the human warriors to effectively kill them.
A large group of airships seemed to have fallen into a sea of clouds. The airships were quickly swallowed up one by one. In the sky, some of the airships turned into fireballs after the balloons exploded, while others fell from the sky after being shot through.
Less than a tenth of the airships dropped bombs in a hurry. Unfortunately, the accuracy of this kind of hasty bombing was not worth mentioning, and it did not cause much effective damage to the Beastmen on the ground.
Compared to the battle on the water, the humans lost even more miserably in the sky!
One hundred and fifty airships were completely wiped out, and not a single airship could fly back!!
More than a thousand air force soldiers died. More than half of these soldiers died under the sharp arrows of the elves, while the other half turned into flames in the sky when the airships exploded. The rest fell to their deaths in despair. Some fell from the sky, and even if they miraculously landed on trees and did not die, they were quickly captured by the patrolling Wolf Riders of the North Shore …
By the time the sun set, the battlefield had already sunk into silence!
The human fleet on the river was completely wiped out, and the airships in the sky were reduced to ashes.
General Dominguez, the supreme commander of the Eastern Stronghold, looked at this scene blankly. His face was pale, and his body swayed. He opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood, then fell from his horse. The personal guard beside him quickly went up to catch him.
At this time, the Beastmen on the North Shore started to cross the river!
On the river, the Hippopotamus Beastmen became the vanguard in building the pontoon bridge. These Hippopotamus Beastmen had huge bodies and terrifying strength. They didn't even need to spend much effort to carry the wood and jump into the water. Then, they used their innate ability to swim to quickly set up the bridge piers on the river.
The humans on the South Shore were still fighting back. The archers continued to shoot, and the catapults were also rumbling. However, after dealing with the human airships, the densely packed Elves in the sky immediately pounced on the human army on the South Shore!!
These Elves flew like the wind, wantonly taking the lives of the human soldiers with their accurate and tricky arrows.
Facing the enemies in the sky, the human army finally experienced the terror of the "air force"!
On the river, the Beastmen built the pontoon bridges faster and faster. With the help of the Hippopotamus Beastmen, wooden planks were quickly set up, and bridge piers were erected on the water.
The human army resisted with all their might. The archers had to deal with the Elves in the sky while shooting at the other side of the river. The infantrymen raised their shields and formed a square formation to resist the Elven arrows that filled the sky.
Occasionally, arrows would drill through the gaps in the shields, and the soldiers would scream miserably.
The human catapults and catapults on the shore became the priority targets of the Elves. As the catapults were destroyed one after another, the human soldiers, in order to protect the catapults, lay down on the catapults and used their bodies as shields. There were even some who were directly pierced by the Elves' arrows and nailed to the catapults!
Although it was so difficult, the Beastmen still paid a considerable price in the process of crossing the river. During the construction of the pontoon bridges, the ferocious Hippopotamus Beastmen finally emerged from the water and were heavily injured by the human archers. If not for the fact that the Hippopotamuses were hiding under the water, their huge bodies would have been the best targets for the archers.
Those huge Hippopotamuses often had dozens or even hundreds of arrows stuck in their bodies. Covered in blood, they struggled and howled in the water …
When night fell, the construction of the pontoon bridges was finally completed. When the pontoon bridges extended to the south bank, the human infantrymen immediately ignored the Elven arrows that filled the sky and frantically rushed to the shallows. Some even swam to kill the Hippopotamuses in the water.
At the shallows, the river water only reached the waist of a person. The soldiers used all their strength, raising their shields to block the arrows while slashing at the Hippopotamuses with their swords.
The battle for the shallows was exceptionally fierce. This shallows had even become a meat grinder! In a short two hours, large numbers of infantrymen died on the shallows. Many of the soldiers' corpses were still floating on the water. The scene was extremely tragic. And the Hippopotamus Beastmen suffered the greatest impact since the start of the battle. In the battle for the shallows, over 300 Hippopotamus Beastmen were killed or injured in the short two hours of battle. Facing the huge Hippopotamus Beastmen, although the humans were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of size and size, they swarmed forward like a swarm of ants. The spears and swords in their hands stabbed at the enemy without any regard.
The corpses gradually accumulated, and the shallows became a huge corpse field!
On the shallows, when the first team of Orcs stepped on the pontoon bridges built by the Hippopotamus Beastmen and finally rushed to the south bank, the shore was almost filled with corpses. There was no place for them to land.
Without the warships on the water, the strategy of "attacking halfway across the river" that the humans had predicted previously could not be realized. The only threat that the Orcs had to face when crossing the river was the human archers — but the strength of the human archers was getting weaker and weaker. After all, the human soldiers still had to face the attacks from the Elves in the air.
The first team, the second team, the third team …
Team after team of Orcs finally stepped on the pontoon bridges and rushed to the south bank. In the process of crossing the river, the humans launched two desperate counterattacks and once took back the south bank. But under the counterattack of the Hippopotamus Beastmen, the Orcs rebuilt the bridgehead on the south bank. As more and more orcs crossed the river, they formed a solid phalanx formation on the south bank and resisted the human's counterattack.
Finally, when the moon rose in the sky and the stars appeared, the morale of the humans inevitably weakened.
After a battle that lasted from evening to midnight, the humans paid a heavy loss of three infantry regiments and two infantry regiments were destroyed. On the shallows of the south bank, the corpses of the dead human soldiers, Orc warriors, and Hippopotamus Beastmen fell together. Some of them were still in a fighting posture even after death.
The Orcs finally gained a foothold on the south bank. One by one, the square formations split open tightly and defended the base of the formation. Behind them, more and more Orc troops strode forward on the pontoon bridges and rushed to the south bank!
General Dominguez had already transferred two reserve teams from the city. But seeing that the situation was hopeless, he knew that the defense line on the river had been lost!
In fact, since the human fleet was sunk on the river, this fact could not be changed!
Without the warships, the humans lost their advantage on the water. Then, this river could no longer provide much protection for the humans' defense line. Under such circumstances, even if they could stop the Orcs from crossing the river today, they would not be able to stop them tomorrow or the day after!
General Dominguez's eyes were red, and there was still blood at the corner of his mouth. At this time, even though he was extremely angry, he had to order the troops to retreat. While there was still a chance, he had to bring his men back to the fortress. In the future, they could only defend the fortress!
If they delayed any longer, once more Orc troops rushed across the river and finished reorganizing on the south bank, his troops would not even have the chance to return to the city!
At night, the elves finally took the lead to retreat. These terrifying races in the air finally retreated to rest after a round of fighting. Because the strategic plan to cross the river had been completed, there was no need for them to continue pressuring the humans.
The orders of the human commander were issued one after another. Even though they were furious, the human army had no choice but to retreat.
At this time, seeing that the humans were about to give up on seizing the river, the Orc square formations that had already crossed the river slyly approached!
It seemed that the Orcs had a huge appetite. Not only did they want to occupy the river, but they also wanted to swallow the human army that was guarding the river!
Dominguez immediately sensed the crisis. At this time, he had to make a decision. He had to leave a team behind to cover the retreat. Then, the main force would have a chance to retreat back to the city. Otherwise, the entire army would be firmly bitten to death by the Orcs! But … the army that was left behind to cover the retreat would most likely die. There was no chance of survival!!
At this time, before Dominguez could issue this difficult order, a general at the front of the human army had already understood the situation. He suddenly ordered the flag bearers to wave the flag. Then, he raised his longsword and roared. Countless warriors under his command rushed towards the muddy river!
Dominguez who was at the back saw the flag clearly. The content of the flag was clearly:
Die for the Empire!
The commander of the Eastern Fortress recognized the general at the front. He was the division commander of the 6th Infantry Division under the Tempest Legion, Major General Finkle! This Major General was a famous brave general in the Tempest Legion. He was also a well-known member of the younger generation. He and Commander Rostock's son, Reuenthal, were known as the "Tiger Cub" in the Tempest Legion. Reuenthal was known as the "Tiger Cub" and Finkle was known as the "Lion Cub"!
The two of them were known as the "Twin Stars" among the young generals of the Tempest Legion!
In today's battle, the division led by Lion Cub Finkle was at the front line. In the battle for the Alliance of the Disabled, his division had already been crippled and suffered heavy losses …
Looking at the flag in front of him, Dominguez knew that the young Lion Cub General Finkle had taken the initiative to cover the retreat!
He … was asking for death!
At this time, Dominguez didn't have time to be sad. As a general, he had to bring this army back to the city and defend it!
With the command, the rear army began to retreat in groups, leaving the battlefield. At the front, the lion cub, Finkle, had already used its most prideful roar to boost the morale of the remaining soldiers under its command. It commanded the few remaining soldiers around it to charge towards the orc phalanx that was forcing its way towards the riverbank!
At this time, there were no tears! All the tears had been burned into hot blood.
The last reserve army beside him had already charged forward. This Major General was already at the front line. There were no more soldiers in front of him. In front of him, his soldiers were using their flesh and blood to firmly hold back the orcs that were trying to chase after them!
Dominguez looked around and saw that there were less than 200 personal guards left around him.
These 200 personal guards were all cavalrymen. Although Finkle was the division commander of the Infantry Division, as a major general of the Empire, it was his privilege to have his personal guards all be cavalrymen.
At this moment, there was no time to hesitate. He grabbed the captain of the personal guards beside him. With bloodshot eyes, he gave the captain his last order:
"You take ten men … to destroy the catapults and ballistas that we left behind! Set them on fire! Don't leave a single piece of wood for the enemies! "
The captain of the personal guards knew that today was the day of his death, but there was no fear on his face. He gritted his teeth and agreed with tears. He immediately led ten men to dismount from their horses and leave with torches.
Lion Cub Finkle looked behind him. Under the leadership of Dominguez, the large group of people had already left the battlefield and retreated towards the Stronghold. He heaved a sigh of relief.
General Finkle's young face was filled with determination. He knew that he was going to die today. Hmph, that Reuenthal, he probably wouldn't be able to fight with him in the future! Damn it, until now, he still hadn't been able to fight with him!
Two young heroes? Hmph! Reuenthal, I, Lion Cub Finkle, am stronger than you! Braver than you!
Whoosh!
He pulled out his saber and raised it high. Finkle shouted at the less than 200 personal guards around him, "Brothers! Today will be the day of our death! Even if we all die, the banner of the 6th Division will not be disgraced! It will only be glorious!! Are you afraid of death?! "
The shouts of 200 people were like the shouts of tens of thousands of mighty soldiers, "No!!"
"Good! Follow me! "
The young general laughed wildly twice. Then, he raised his saber up high and kicked off his spurs. Then, he urged his horse to gallop toward the riverbank. Behind him, 200 personal guards followed him without hesitation. Not a single one of them showed any hesitation!
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In this battle, the river bank of the Eastern Stronghold of the Empire was completely lost. The fleet and airship troops of the Eastern Stronghold were completely annihilated. 1,000 air force soldiers and 3,000 navy soldiers were killed, and a division of infantry soldiers were sacrificed heroically!
Lion Cub Finkle, on the other hand, became the highest ranking general of the Empire that died in this battle.
In this battle … not a single person from the Sixth Infantry Division of the Tempest Legion under his command survived, including this general himself!
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On the last day of March, the battle continued until the dawn of the first of April!
On the battlefield, the last battle cry was the last cry of General Finkle, the lion cub.
Follow me!!
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