Summoning Total War

Chapter 69 Blood and Glory! (superior)

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Second Age Era, May 5th.

The troops came to the city.

"Alert! Alert! Large-scale unknown creatures have entered the territory of Athens!"

"Alert! Alert! The number of unknown creatures exceeds 50,000 and is a serious threat!"

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The next day, Murphy was awakened by the alarm sound of the "Total War" auxiliary system. He really didn't expect that after upgrading to [Kingdom Age], the auxiliary system would actually have such an additional function, and it could also implement warnings for the territory's territory. Summoning the strategic map page of the "Total War" auxiliary system in his mind, Murphy saw a mass of black light spots with a very obvious blood-red skull logo on it.

That meant that the orc army had entered the territory of Athens.

call.

After taking a long breath, Murphy murmured in a low voice: "It's finally here!"

The auxiliary system of "Total War" cannot clearly indicate the number of enemies, but it can calculate the size of the enemies with approximate figures.

According to Murphy's vague judgment, the orc army now entering the territory of Athens is probably close to 80,000!

That’s three times the total population of Athens!

The heavy footsteps of the general's guard were heard outside the door. He stood at the door and said to the room: "Your Excellency, the beacon smoke on the front line has been lit."

"Got it." Murphy nodded silently, picked up the silver-white chainmail given to him by Lady Elizabeth and put it on.

He walked out of the door slowly, glanced at the general guards beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Issue a military assassination order!"

"The port of Athens is completely closed and no one is allowed to leave!"

"The inner city guards have been mobilized and no citizens are allowed to come or go at will!"

The general's guard looked solemn and said loudly: "Yes!"

After giving a few instructions, Murphy led the general's guards and 480 elite Macedonian cavalry from Athens towards the direction of the fortress.

Starting yesterday, Athens has implemented a comprehensive military crackdown.

All materials and manpower were mobilized, and all the equipment that the blacksmith shop had built and stocked over the year was taken out, and weapons were distributed to all men between the ages of 15 and 50 in the territory, including Athenian citizens. In the past six months, almost all adult men within the territory of Athens have received basic military training at the Temple of War.

Although these reserve militiamen were not equipped with leather armor, they were all equipped with spears and wooden shields.

There are woods everywhere in the territory of Athens. Making spears and wooden shields is the easiest and simplest large-scale weaponry. For these militiamen who serve as reserves, Murphy does not need the quality of the weapons to be really good, as long as they can kill people. As for the wooden shield, it doesn't need to be beautiful or strong. A few pieces of wood put together can be more than enough as long as it can defend against arrows and simple chopping.

After all, they cannot be counted on on the real main battlefield.

Counting those aboriginal refugees who were collected, the total population in the Athens territory is now about 24,000. The total number of territorial troops is 14,000, which means that including the old, weak, women and children, almost all adult men have been mobilized and armed by Murphy.

Among this army of 14,000 men, the number of troops composed of Athenian citizens was 8,400, and the others were militia reserves and recruited indigenous mercenaries.

Outside the inner city of Athens.

Twelve Greek phalanxes lined up neatly, with Murphy riding a tall black horse standing in front of the team.

Yesterday, General Leo Darlie had already led more than 80% of the First Corps to the fortress to set up defenses. The army currently led by Murphy was mainly composed of the reserved cavalry team and auxiliary corps.

The cold wind is biting.

The resolute and steely face of the God of War Priest was silent. He silently guarded Murphy, like a solemn javelin, filled with murderous intent!

Twenty-four Spartan conquerors stood at his left and right. They replaced the Spartan fanatic warriors and became Murphy's new bodyguards. It is also an important force to tear apart the enemy's defense line when necessary!

The ancient Greek military music sounded at the city gate, and the high priest led the priests to slowly come to the front of the army.

Murphy got off his horse and walked to her with determined steps.

"The goddess is with you." The high priest leaned slightly and placed his hand on Murphy's forehead.

Looking at the mellow person in front of him, a smile appeared on the corner of Murphy's mouth, but then disappeared. After receiving the blessing from Athena, the goddess of wisdom, he turned his head and looked at Helen, who was standing next to the high priest. Mermaids do not have the same care as high priests. Almost all citizens of Athens know that the priests of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, serve as the bedchambers of the governor.

She opened her arms and gently embraced Murphy, then leaned over and kissed him gently on the forehead, and said slowly: "This is the blessing of the goddess."

Sonorous!

Turning around, Murphy looked around at the soldiers, citizens, businessmen, and farmers. He raised his sword high and shouted: "We will win!"

"victory!"

"victory!!"

"victory!!!"

There were loud cheers all around, and the soldiers hit their shields with their spears. The rhythmic hitting sound coincided with their heartbeats, and a high fighting spirit suddenly appeared in everyone.

"Let's go!" Murphy got on his horse, pointed his sword at the fortress, and roared: "Let us tell those green-skinned bastards!"

"Athens is invincible!"

The sound of neat footsteps sounded, and the army slowly moved away. The soldiers had solemn faces and looked forward resolutely.

The elite Macedonian cavalry galloped forward, split into two after reaching the front of the queue, and then advanced around the team. Twenty-four ballistas were located at the rear of the team. They were placed on flatbed vehicles and pushed forward by 240 soldiers. When the army walked out of the area covered by the paved road, the road began to raise dust. The rising dust was like a yellow dragon, spreading for several miles!

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After arriving at the fortress, Murphy immediately handed over the army to General Marcus Kane for placement.

And he himself led the Ares Chief Priest and a full complement of Spartan conquerors to the fortress wall.

It took Murphy a lot of manpower and material resources to build the fortress that lasted more than half a year and was 400 meters long, five meters wide and about ten meters high. The city wall has concave and convex openings to facilitate archers to shoot and avoid enemy arrows. The entire fortress wall is made of bricks and earth. In this era, it can definitely be regarded as a first-class solid wall fortress!

You must know that for more than half a year, Murphy almost stopped the pace of building Athens, and basically consumed all the bricks fired in the territory here. Thousands of people and a lot of material resources spent more than half a year to build this section of the city wall, which is only more than 400 meters long.

Although there is no reinforced concrete, in terms of strength alone, it is almost difficult to collapse it with gunpowder or trebuchets at the level of this era.

Walking onto the city wall, Murphy suddenly smelled the smell of blood that had not yet melted away.

The Greek heavy infantry on the city wall formed two queues, each responsible for a notch to cooperate with each other. Behind them were several teams of full-scale Athenian longbowmen, and a large number of arrows were placed in the innermost corner. In front of the Athenian long archers, there are mounds of dirt three to four centimeters wide and more than ten centimeters long, and the arrows they use are stuck on the mounds.

This is mainly to increase the speed of shooting arrows.

After all, the real battlefield is not a game. In addition to setting up the arrow and aiming the bow, the archer also needs to place the arrow in a place that is easily accessible.

Before the battle, the archers will first insert ten to fifteen arrows on the mound in front of them, so that they can quickly pick up the arrows when the battle occurs.

This is a pretty important tip!

It can increase the archer's shooting speed by more than 30%!

"Your Majesty the Governor!"

As soon as he saw Murphy on the city wall, General Leo Dallie rushed over with a group of personal guards.

"How is it going?"

Murphy glanced at the blood stains on General Leo Dallie's body and said in a deep voice: "What's the momentum of their attack?"

General Leo Dallie has a very bad habit, that is, he likes to lead the way in battle. If he was just an ordinary general, that would be fine. He could be used as a fierce general. But the problem is that he is the general with the most military ability under Murphy and the most prestigious general besides him! When the two are combined, his habit of being the first to rush into the battlefield is no longer a good habit.

To this end, Murphy had to mobilize a group of Spartan heavy infantry as his general guard.

"The enemy is very powerful, but the offensive is not very obvious. They just carried out a tentative attack." General Leo Darlie noticed Murphy's slightly frowning, and he also knew in his heart that Murphy did not agree with him fighting on the front line. Even the confidence to speak is a bit weaker.

General Leo Dallie is a rigid person with the highest prestige among the generals, but he is still a little in awe of Murphy.

Except for Murphy, it is difficult for others to influence his will.

He has a very strong desire for dictatorship in military leadership, so it is difficult for anyone except Murphy to pull him from the front line during the battle.

Sighing, Murphy actually understood in his heart that this guy had the bloodthirsty attribute recognized by the "Total War" auxiliary system. He would easily lose control when encountering a battle, and his desire for blood and killing could easily control his will.

This is one of the important reasons why Murphy personally supervises the formation.

After inspecting the battlefield for a while, Murphy said in a deep voice to the general Leo Dallie beside him: "Move over some of the enemy corpses."

"Yes!" The soldiers on the side took the order and left.

Soon, several orc corpses were moved in front of Murphy.

The height of these corpses ranged from about 1.8 to 1.9 meters. They were a little stronger than humans. They wore leather armor and the weapon in their hands was a rectangular blade of about 30 centimeters. The knife of this weapon is sharp and beveled, and the back of the knife is thick, which is good for cutting.

"They are not probing the attack." Murphy put down his weapon and said slowly: "This is their main force."

This kind of equipment, except that it is not equipped with metal armor, can basically be said to be the standard configuration of regular troops. Most soldiers in the regular human army may not be able to have such good equipment. If Murphy hadn't made a lot of profits from the trade with the centaurs, and if Lady Elizabeth hadn't purchased a large amount of iron ore through her connections, the regular army in the Athenian territory might not have had such equipment.

At present, the soldiers in the Athenian territory, except for the most elite soldiers who received the aid at the beginning, are equipped with half-body armor.

Other soldiers recruited later were equipped with nothing more than leather armor. To put it simply, pieces of iron sheet are sewn onto leather or cloth armor to protect some vital parts of the body.

"How are your own casualties?"

Murphy glanced at the half-orc army camped two kilometers away and asked, "Have you seen any siege equipment?"

"No casualties."

General Leo Dallie glanced at Murphy and said, "I saw a few trebuchets, but they didn't use them."

No casualties?

Facing such an enemy, how could he not suffer any casualties?

As if seeing Murphy's doubts, General Leo Dallie also said with some confusion: "They planned to attack by force, but most of them died after getting close to the city wall."

storm!

what happened?

Aren’t these orcs pretty smart?

Why would you resort to such a huge casualty method as storming such a tall city wall?

"Shouldn't it be?" Murphy shook his head and looked at the camp of the orcs with some confusion.

There must be something weird about it.

Looking at the methods used by these orcs to win the canyon pass, they are not at the level of ordinary people.

"Be careful and guard. If there is any abnormality, please inform me immediately." Murphy turned his gaze back and fell on the general Marcus Kane beside him, and said.

"yes!"

"Yes! Your Majesty the Governor!"

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evening.

The last afterglow rendered the sky colorful, and the cry of some kind of creature in the distance was carried by the wind.

A cloud of smoke rose from the fortress. It was the soldiers making meals in batches, and the same was true in the orc camp. Since the strong attack in the morning, there has been almost no movement in the orc camp, and there was no second attack until the evening.

This is a very strange thing.

Compared with them racing against time to storm the Canyon Pass for two consecutive days, it was really weird!

Compared with the canyon pass, the pass established by Murphy is indeed not too dangerous, because it can be bypassed from both sides. On one side, you can go deep from ten kilometers away, but you have to enter a dense forest, and there are no roads, so it is not suitable for large-scale advancement. The other side is deep into the Karazhan Mountains. If you take this route, you only need to climb over one place.

However, there is a group of Karazhan Hurricane Pterosaurs living there, about six to seven in number.

At night.

The wind was howling, and around seven o'clock in the evening, a rain cloud came from the west.

Immediately, starting at about half past eight, a thunderstorm began on the battlefield. The heavy rain washed away the blood stains on the city wall, and then gradually overflowed.

Boom!

A bolt of lightning pierced the sky, and Murphy stood on the city wall looking at the orc camp from afar.

The entire camp was dark under the heavy rain, but it did not cause any chaos. Through the sound of wind, rain and thunder, Murphy vaguely heard an ancient music. The rhythm was not high, but it had a power that penetrated the soul.

"It's the sacrificial song of the orc shaman."

I don't know when the chief priest of the God of War came to Murphy. He looked at the orc camp from a distance and said in a deep voice: "The shaman will use his power to calm the hearts of those warriors."

"Do they have gods?" Murphy suddenly asked.

The chief priest of the God of War shook his head and said, "They believe in the god of the orcs."

Boom!

Another bolt of lightning flashed across the sky.

"Why have they been reluctant to attack?" The chief priest of the God of War looked at Murphy and asked.

Murphy shook his head slightly, and then fell into deep thought.

His slightly thin body stood solemnly in the rain, and the rain slid down his armor, but his body stood upright, like a spear pointing angrily at the sky, full of invisible power!

Before I knew it, it was a year and a half after I came into this world.

Murphy also gradually grew up, and the blood and killings successfully sharpened his will and strength.

Now he looks more and more like a soldier, a Spartan warrior.

Boom!

A bolt of lightning struck a tree not far away. The tree suddenly broke with a snap, and the place struck by the lightning was scorched black.

Murphy opened his eyes, looked up at the sky, took a long breath, and said slowly: "I'll know the answer tomorrow."

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The rain brought a chill, but this chill was unlikely to cause any trouble to Murphy.

The difficult living environment has given the intelligent species in this world a stronger body. Even humans are stronger and more powerful than those on earth.

Sonorous!

Murphy pulled out the long sword and held it across his chest. He moved his left foot back and slightly bent his right foot, which was the starting position of the knight style "Clumsy Swordsmanship".

He looked back at the Chief Priest of the God of War behind him and said softly: "Do we have a war song?"

"Yes!" The war priest had a resolute face, he nodded and said solemnly.

Ah!

The long sword slashed horizontally, and the cold light on the sword was like a glimpse. This blow actually cut the falling rain in front of him in half.

With another powerful chop, Murphy shouted: "Sing to me!"

"wake up!

Greek boy!

The glorious moment has arrived!

To imitate our ancestors,

Descendants who deserve to be heroes!

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wake up!

The fighting spirit of Sparta!

How can you fall asleep?

With your old friend Athens,

Join forces to form an invincible army!