The battle against the orcs can basically be declared over, and everything else revolves around one theme.
Hunt down the orcs left on the grassland, clean up the battlefields, and collect loot.
After finishing these things, Xu Lai still has more important things to do.
He wanted to fulfill the promise he made before the battle began, to give rewards and pensions to the soldiers of the Qingfeng Regiment and the mercenaries who came to fight in Hard Rock City.
In addition, this battle with the orcs also exposed many internal problems.
The officials he appoints also need to be assessed and reviewed one by one.
Rewards and punishments should always be corresponding. Those who have meritorious service will be rewarded, and those who have delinquency will be punished. Only in this way can the enthusiasm of soldiers and officials be stimulated.
In the end, Xu Lai was extremely unwilling to be invaded by orcs at his doorstep.
He planned to take advantage of the moment when the stronghold army was completely stunned by him, and seize the time to retaliate against the orcs.
Revenge is not about squeezing some oil and water out of a bitter and barbaric land.
Even if Xu Lai really wanted to, he couldn't do it, firstly because he didn't have time, and secondly because the wilderness was too poor.
But even if he can't get any money out of it, or even if Xu Lai pays much more than he gets, he must still do it.
After this battle, the orcs' vitality was severely damaged. It would take at least forty or fifty years to recover from the thousands of Behemoths alone.
But don’t let these orcs feel scared and let them go so easily.
Once they find an opportunity, they will definitely want to take another bite of meat from the grassland.
However, you have to eat one bite at a time, and no matter how many things you have to do, you can only do it bit by bit.
In Stone City, you can safely leave it to Reina, including the orc camp outside the city, and you can leave all supplies to her.
During this period, other cities sent many civilians to Stone City.
Now that the orcs have been driven back, except for the remnants at the foot of Pingfeng Mountain, the orcs in other places have basically been cleared away.
The three gaps in the Stone City have been repaired these days, and many catapults have also been repaired.
The civilians are now either building new arrow towers or making catapults and ammunition for the archers.
Now, all this work can be stopped.
Without external threats, Stone City does not need to build itself into a military fortress.
With so many civilians here, Xu Lai didn't need to worry about small things like transporting supplies.
He took Wang Chao, his logistics corps, and the knight troops and continued to the foot of Pingfeng Mountain.
Elvy and the flying troops led by her are approaching without the hero's bonus.
Had she not destroyed the orc flying corps before, and now there are only a few golden eagles left, she might not have been able to gain a firm foothold.
Even so, Elvi did not directly dispatch the Angel Legion. She only dispatched the Royal Griffin for bombing when there were orcs passing up and down.
Otherwise, the orcs had nothing to do with the Royal Griffin's bombing.
Even though there is a camp set up by the stronghold behind him, let’s not talk about the conflicts between the tribes in the stronghold camp.
Even if they work together and go all out, there is nothing they can do to face these griffins.
The swooping speed of the griffins is too fast. Not to mention the long-range attacks on the camp, even spells cannot cover these griffins.
Elwee made arrangements from the center, using griffins to guard the largest pass in the Pingfeng Mountains, while Seraphs patrolled the Pingfeng Mountains.
Most of the orcs who tried to cross the Pingfeng Mountains and return to the wilderness were stragglers.
Without the blessing of heroes, and with the angel general Elvi on our side, no level 9 unit of any race can be a match for Seraph.
What's more, these Seraphs have high morale, but the opponents they need to face are guys with almost zero morale and no will to fight at all.
Alvy needs to be centered, so most of these Seraphs will not fly too far.
If the orcs were not so anxious to go home, run farther away, and climb the more dangerous mountain roads, Elvy wouldn't even bother.
Anyway, on those mountain roads that don’t even have roads, more people fall to death than climb back up.
In addition to those who fell to death, there were also those who died of starvation.
As difficult as it was when the orcs came, it was even more difficult when they left.
Sachs knew that the orcs' evacuation could not be accomplished overnight.
So although arrangements have been made for a retreat, logistical resources are still being transported to the camp.
But in a wave of field battles, not only did he lose most of his Behemoth Army, but he also left all the camp and supplies in the camp to Xu Lai.
The base camp at the foot of Pingfeng Mountain is completely used for transit, although some supplies are stored.
However, based on the first-come-first-served concept, most of the ogres and Cyclops who had been rushed earlier took away most of them.
The remaining rations are not enough for the base camp defenders themselves, so how can they be distributed to the rest of the orcs.
In fact, if Ogu and other shamans were not still there, all the defenders of the base camp would have fled long ago.
With Ogu and the others here, Elvi did not dare to plan a camp. These shamans were level 8 spell casters and had home field advantage.
For this reason, some orcs, under the guidance of Ogu and the others, were able to avoid the angel troops and return from small roads and remote mountain roads.
It's just that they don't have enough food rations. If they can't hunt wild animals to satisfy their hunger on the way, they will definitely have no chance of returning alive.
Elvie has a space ring on her body, which contains enough food.
Not to mention taking these flying troops, living in the Pingfeng Mountains for a year and a half, ten days and a half, is completely sustainable.
But the orcs have long been out of food. Pingfeng Mountain is close to the wilderness, and resources are actually extremely scarce. There are not many animals living in the mountains.
Ogu originally wanted Ruda to take the golden eagles to transport food, although it could not satisfy most of the orcs.
But as long as we can ensure that the core figures of the orcs and those elites do not starve to death, they can quickly recover their strength when they return to the wilderness.
But, with Saxophone around, Ruda might still listen to these shamans.
Now even Sachs has escaped, and almost no orcs on the battlefield have left alive.
Ruda is also a half-orc himself. Half-orcs are usually discriminated against by the orcs, but now that they are beating him to the point where they are about to exterminate the clan, how can he not be angry.
Besides, they have little fighting power now and are particularly good at flying, so Elvi doesn’t want to pay attention to them.
But if they start helping transport food, it would be strange if Elvi would let them go.
Now that the orcs in the stronghold have been hit hard, Ruda must also consider the options for himself and the orcs.
Having lost a large number of warriors and being used as servants by orcs, half-orcs will inevitably be bullied even more in the future.
The flying corps in his hands is almost the last armed force to defend his race.
At this time, he was not willing to lose anything. Besides, although Ruda is not the half-orc leader, he is a half-orc hero, and his status is much higher than that of Ogu, the shaman.
The other party is not qualified to give him orders at all. Even if Ruda doesn't listen, he will have an excuse in the future.
Later, in order to prevent Ogu and the others from putting pressure on other orc heroes, Ruda simply took the flying corps and flew towards his tribe.
Anyway, the legion has been disbanded, and he is free to do whatever he wants.
Without Ruda's army, the only army that can freely travel to and from the Pingfeng Mountains, Ogu and the others really have no choice.
In the end, they invested their limited resources into upgrading the base camp, and finally built the base's landmark building, the escape route.
With the escape route, at least the heroes in the stronghold can leave through the escape route.
In addition to the heroes, the three shamans can also leave by casting spells.
However, the road to escape does not allow ordinary orcs without identity to take it. Even spellcasters such as priests are not qualified.
And the escape route has limitations. Only one person can be allowed to pass through it at a time, and if you use it once, you have to wait for a period of cooling.
The farther you escape, the longer the cooldown time is.
At this time, Xu Lai led the cavalry to the orcs' base camp.
In the base camp, ordinary orcs are no longer allowed to enter, and it is already packed inside.
These orcs have no interest in fighting Xu Lai.
I would rather be slaughtered by the knights under Xu Lai's command than turn around and resist. Instead, I ran desperately into the mountains.
After receiving the news of Xu Lai's massacre outside, the orc nobles in the base camp also started to make trouble.
The escape route that was originally used in an orderly manner was suddenly robbed by others, and no one wanted to be left at the end.
Although these days, Ogu and other shamans have been arranging defenses for the base camp.
But anyone with a discerning eye knows that this base camp cannot be defended, and it will fall sooner or later.
With Xu Lai's blessing, maybe those royal griffins are already looking for an angle to dive.
Affected by such thoughts, the remaining orc nobles all lost their last grace and began to fight.
Ogu and others sighed, now these orc nobles have fought several times.
Even if they are allowed to escape back to the wilderness, it may not be a good thing for the stronghold.
Maybe when they return to the wilderness, these tribes will start fighting again.
However, they have no choice. They are just shamans. They have the power of suggestion but no administrative power.
Unlike what these orc heroes thought, Xu Lai had no intention of gathering his troops to attack.
In order to facilitate the arrangement of defenses and traps, Ogu and others did not even let in ordinary orcs.
It can be said that as long as the angels and griffons land in and trigger the trap inside, most of them will be killed or injured.
Even they themselves are very likely to be buried together in this base camp.
Today's orc base camp is basically a large bomb that can explode at any time, just waiting for ignorant enemies to crash into it and die together.
Xu Lai did not prepare for a strong attack, not because he realized this, but because the cavalry was not good at attacking cities.
Elwee and the others can fly in, but Xu Lai has asked Elvi and the others to stay here until now, so how can he be willing to let them continue to rush in and fight alone.
Besides, it’s so slow to kill one by one, how can you use spells to clear the field quickly?
Xu Lai's long sword was unsheathed, and the Doomsday Blade, with a terrifying aura of doom, summoned countless fireballs, hitting all the orcs head-on.
Once was not enough, Xu Lai used the refresh ball and summoned it again.
Unlike the previous Doomsday Judgment, today's orcs are in chaos, and the legion has long been disbanded.
Although there are still many orc heroes here, there are also some who have learned resistance.
But they did not form a legion. Even if they had resistance, they could only bless a small number of their own men.
The real boss of the stronghold has long since left. Most of the orc heroes who remain at this moment are Advent heroes.
They originally didn't have many soldiers and horses, and after they were defeated so many, there were even fewer left.
A few orc soldiers can enjoy the resistance effect and have no impact on the overall situation at all.
Moreover, in terms of resistance alone, even if it is upgraded to the ultimate level, there is only a 25% chance of direct resistance, reducing spell damage by 25%.
Without the blessing of anti-magic treasures, without the early release of fire control magic, a measly 25% damage reduction cannot save the life of the orc.
Unless they are very lucky, both Doomsday Judgments can trigger a 25% resistance effect.
The probability of this is only 12.5. Among 100 orcs, only 12 orcs can resist both times.
The most important thing is that among the orc heroes present, the one with the highest resistance level is the one with the highest level.
As for this orc hero with advanced resistance, he no longer has a single orc soldier under his command, making him a completely polished commander.
No resistance, no anti-magic equipment, no fire-bending magic.
Even in order to set up traps, Mok and other shamans have made all the spell materials into spell traps, so much so that there is no flame protection circle.
All the disadvantages that were originally imposed on the Doomsday Judgment have completely disappeared this time.
The Doomsday Judgment finally revealed its true power for the first time in front of these orcs.
The terrifying flaming meteors, with a destructive attitude, kept falling on the head of every orc.
Even if there were more advanced orcs, those with better equipment were lucky enough to survive.
The second bolide that followed would definitely burn the orc into piles of powder.
Even the orc heroes and high-level orcs hiding in the base camp are not immune.
Although the bolide was blocked by the buildings overhead, the base camp built by the orcs was a completely wooden structure.
As base camp buildings, spells can only cause a small amount of damage to them, but flames can restrain these wooden buildings.
In addition, there were many orcs in the base camp, and there was a double doomsday judgment. A large number of bolides fell down, and the base camp was finally set on fire.
Although Xu Lai's spell damage was absorbed by the base camp, the magic traps in the base camp were also triggered.
The rumbling explosions kept ringing in the ears of Xu Lai and others, who were stunned to see them.
There were constant sounds of explosions, and there were all kinds of strange phenomena in the sky, including burning clouds, thunderstorms, and ice.
After more than ten minutes, the explosions gradually stopped. However, at this time, the Shouren base camp had been completely blown to pieces, leaving only debris on the ground. (End of this chapter)