Summoning Total War

Chapter 64: Breakthrough (Part 1)!

May 3rd.

--The outbreak of war!

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The winter wheat harvest is less than half a month away. The wheat in the fields has grown, but it looks a little green and yellow.

The orcs launched their attack earlier than Murphy expected.

According to his estimation, the orcs should have launched their offensive around late April. Because the terrain of Canyon Pass is dangerous, it will definitely take a lot of time to break through it. If it were delayed for a month, winter wheat in other places would have been harvested. At that time, the food was brought into the castle, and the orcs' plan to plunder the food would probably be aborted.

Except for a little bit.

That is, those orcs are quite confident that they will capture the Canyon Pass within half a month, or to be more precise, within a week!

This conjecture put a lot of pressure on Murphy.

It also put great pressure on the human city-states in the southern plains. The noble council began to urgently mobilize the army in late April. The permanent force at Canyon Pass was expanded to 5,000, and three legions of nearly 50,000 elite troops were stationed in the plain area behind Canyon Pass! But even though Canyon Pass had such abundant troops, Murphy was still very uneasy. A deep intuition told him that the human city-state could not defend it. Because orcs are not gnolls. If they are not certain about being an intelligent race, they will never wait until this time to launch a war!

Fortunately the fortress has been built.

As long as this key position into the territory of Athens is held, it will be very difficult for the orc army to cross the mountains or pass through the dense forest.

Because no matter which one they choose, they will eventually enter the hunting range of the Karazhan Hurricane Pterosaur.

This is something Murphy is very happy to see.

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Canyon Pass.

The straight-line distance from the territory of Athens is about 80 kilometers.

The former crude fortifications have now been built into fortresses. The several-meter-high city walls are like a natural barrier that the orcs cannot shake no matter how they attack.

The ground was covered in blood and corpses.

The continuous day and night of sleepless attacks had exhausted the human defenders in the fortress.

However, their expressions are still relatively excited, because reinforcements will come tomorrow afternoon. As long as the reinforcements arrive, relying on this natural and dangerous place, they believe that they will not have to be afraid no matter how many orcs come. Because of this narrow terrain, they were destined to be unable to take advantage of their numbers, and the steep walls of the mountains on both sides provided them with natural side cover.

In this fierce battle that lasted for three days, the human defenders suffered a lot of casualties, but the half-orc army suffered even greater casualties.

Just the pile of corpses on the ground is already one or two meters high. This is why someone disposed of the body. The strong smell of blood was almost indistinguishable, but the disgusting smell attracted a large number of vultures and raptors. Ordinary beasts are afraid of the army, but these birds have little scruples. Whenever darkness falls and the battle is over, it's time for them to have a feast.

"General, you are injured." A soldier came to Kanas-Zarot's side. He looked at the blood seeping out of the general's arm and quickly took out the wound medicine and asked him to apply it.

"It's okay, just a minor injury. You can go down and rest first." As a general, Kanas-Zarot is different from other noble generals. He is a poor man, he was born from a humble serf family, and his twenty-one-year military career gave him his current status and strength. For a general like him who has been fighting on the front line all year round, such an injury is nothing at all.

He tore off a corner of his clothes and bandaged himself briefly, then waved to the guards beside him to go down and rest.

Kanas-Zarot comes from a humble background, but this does not affect his popularity among the soldiers! In fact, this poor general who shares the joys and sorrows with the soldiers and often fights on the front line has a very high reputation in the army! And he is also the goal that countless low-level soldiers from poor backgrounds strive for. At least this can tell them that they are not just cannon fodder. As long as there are certain opportunities, I may also have the opportunity to become a general!

The humble origin determined that Kanas-Zarot could not achieve a higher status.

The noble council will not allow a person with poor blood to stand on a high place, because this will seriously burn their proud self-esteem.

In fact, before the war with the gnolls broke out, Kanas-Zarot was once exiled to the northwest, and brought a small group of soldiers loyal to him to face the northwest barbarians. It wasn't until the Jackal War broke out and the Noble Council realized that it needed a commander with real military talent that he was transferred back. For Kanas-Zarot, he is definitely more happy to deal with those barbarians with forthright and straightforward personalities than to deal with those hypocritical nobles.

Strong drinks, warriors, and passionate barbarian women.

Barbarian humans respect the strong and do not care whether a strong person is of noble or humble origin.

In the bitter cold land of the northwest, he once rescued a shaman and learned some things from him that could not be learned in the southern plains. For example, how to put yourself into a violent state and exert a powerful combat power that you cannot usually exert!

"Finding that point between madness and calmness is new power, more powerful power!"

The master of this power is the famous Sword Master of the Burning Blade Clan, a powerful arm that helps the orcs overthrow the enslavement of the descendants of giants. He is also the only terrifying being in the orcs who can defeat hybrid giants one-on-one on the frontal battlefield!

In fact, since the Second Age, barbarian humans have been thinking about how to obtain the power of the Juggernaut.

That power called 'qi'.

All races on the mainland know that the sword masters of the Fire Blade Clan can master a power called 'qi' through exercise. When they wield secret weapons, they can even emit sword Qi similar to the wind blade. And their chief, the leader of the Burning Blade Clan, can even use a terrifying martial art called 'Blade Storm'! This kind of power has always been dreamed of by barbarian humans!

Humans are simply too weak.

Like newborn babies, they had to learn the advantages of other races.

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Kanas-Zarot married a barbarian woman, which was once the laughing stock of the noble council.

But Kanas-Zarot didn't care. For him, his current wife, that enthusiastic and kind-hearted barbarian woman, was definitely much more beautiful than those so-called noble ladies. He is a determined man and has spent most of his life in the army. He has a will as strong as steel!

After remarrying his current wife, he was recognized by the barbarian shaman.

He began to come into contact with more powerful forces!

The supporters of the noble council are the mysterious magicians, while the trump cards of the barbarian humans are the masters of special powers!

Kanas-Zarot always wears two weapons.

But there is another weapon that few people see him pull out. It was a specially made piece of equipment imitating the weapons of the Sword Master of the Burning Blade Clan. It also represented the combat skills of the Orc Sword Master that the barbarian humans had spent hundreds of years trying to imitate. As one of the few warriors who can maintain a certain level of calm even after entering a violent state, Kanas-Zarot is the heir to this fighting skill.

And his mission is to find the matching point and find the power called "qi". Because that marks whether humans can form a truly high-end combat effectiveness system.

In fact, he has already gained a little.

but.

At this time, the jackal war broke out.

Although there is no harmony between the noble council and the barbarian humans, they share the same views on the outside world. Kanas-Zarot had to stop practicing in the northwest suffering land. He returned to the southern plains and accepted the appointment of the Noble Council.

The Gnoll War is over.

Orcs replaced them as humans' new opponents.

As one of the few powerful generals in the military, Kanas-Zarot was promoted and appointed to guard Canyon Pass.

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"General?" came the confused voice of the guard beside him. "Are you OK?"

Kanas-Zarot, who was deep in thought, was awakened. He turned around, nodded, and said solemnly: "I'm fine."

These are the soldiers who followed him at the beginning, and they are his most trusted soldiers on the battlefield.

Kanas-Zarot has been worried about one thing, and that is what other tricks the orcs have. More than twenty years of military career told him with an almost intuitive feeling that the opponent must have some back-up plan, and the current crazy attack was an illusion, an illusion to confuse himself.

But, what are the options for those half-orcs?

To break through such a dangerous pass, it is impossible to rely solely on strong attacks.

but.

The elite human troops will arrive by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

By then, there will be more than 50,000 troops stationed behind the canyon. As long as fresh troops are injected, no matter how many orcs there are, there will be no more.

Just hold on until August this year.

The orcs who did not have sufficient rations at that time would naturally retreat.

With the supply capabilities of the orcs, if they cannot plunder food through war, they will not be able to sustain it for long.

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It was very windy in the canyon.

The biting wind blew across the person's face like a knife, and there were bursts of burning pain from the wounds on his arms, but Kanas-Zarot's face did not change at all.

He was already used to this kind of pain.

"Let's go."

Just when Kanas-Zarot was about to turn around and walk down the city wall, he suddenly looked up at the sky as if feeling something.

I don't know if it was his imagination.

In a daze, he seemed to see something passing through the sky in the dark night.