Stormwind Wizard God-Chapter 168: Attrition

Looking through the monocular at the bloody battlefield and the orc laborers groaning in pain as they walked towards death, Anduin and Bolvar were dumbfounded.

"Damn it, this thing of the goblins makes me feel like all my decades of martial arts training have been in vain." Anduin smacked his lips, as if he was thirsty due to uneasiness.

"Duke! How many did you order? I want more of these Iron Grenades." Bolvar was more direct and asked for a huge amount right from the start.

Duke smiled and handed over a price list, which listed the unit price of the Iron Grenade and the unit price that would soar after the goblins had to work overtime to produce it. More importantly, Duke specifically marked that the misfire rate and premature explosion rate, which were already terrible, would soar to the sky due to the rush work.

That's right, in this era when there is no mechanized large-scale production and everything is done by hand, how high can we expect the yield to be?

As long as people are human, they will make mistakes, get tired, and the precision of each product will vary.

The goblins' unrigorous way of doing things means that all products made by these damn and whimsical guys are doomed to be extremely dangerous.

Bolvar's conscience would not allow him to let his soldiers and militia take such a big risk. If he was killed instead of the enemy, he would have no place to cry.

Anduin was generous: "We should comfort ourselves in this way. Hey, a box of grenades is enough for us to arm a militia."

Duke smiled and said, "The militia takes a long time to train, but this thing only takes half a day."

That's true. Ordinary infantry training needs long-term combat training to be successful. Even so, the survival rate of new soldiers on the battlefield is still low enough to give any commander a headache.

Not to mention the humans who were already at a physical disadvantage. The strength, speed and agility of the human recruits were roughly the same as the hard laborers used as cannon fodder by the orcs. They were quite different from the formal orc warriors. Moreover, the opponents were not ordinary orc soldiers. After fighting for so long, the human commanders with a little bit of brains knew that the opponents were the elite of the powerful orc clan - the Blackrock Clan.

Having said that, I still have a toothache.

Bolvar took a breath and said, "I feel like what you threw out were all His Majesty's gold coins!"

Duke shrugged: "Wars are fought over money." frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

Anduin curled his lips: "I have discovered for a long time that your way of thinking is completely different from ours. Sometimes I really doubt whether you are from Azeroth."

Duke was noncommittal.

What would Duke say? Say he was a world traveler? That would be ridiculous.

To deal with the orcs' river filling, archers who had long been considered useless against the orcs were pulled out again. Archers also have a fatal weakness. Once it is night, the power of archers will be greatly reduced even if they use covering shooting.

The emergence of iron grenades has greatly enriched the strategies and tactics of human beings. After all, archers need to aim, and grenades can explode in a large area!

As time went on, the orcs also discovered the disadvantages of iron grenades. These iron lumps that made a loud noise were a great threat to the orc laborers. But for real orc warriors, especially those orc warriors who wore more armor, they were not fatal.

The fragments of the explosion find it difficult to penetrate the muscles of these tall orc warriors. Unless they are hit in vital parts, most of the injuries are just superficial.

At Orgrim's suggestion, Warchief Blackhand agreed to better arm the orc warriors attacking the city walls.

So in the next few days, Lothar saw orc warriors using large amounts of cowhide, iron sheets, and even the armor stripped off from dead human warriors, and forcibly made them into temporary armor and tied it on their bodies.

With the orcs protected, the iron grenade, which was originally quite lethal, was completely useless, becoming a less lethal weapon.

Lothar asked Duke: "Do those goblins have anything more powerful?"

Duke silently handed over the price of the High Explosive Bomb which required a large amount of thorium to manufacture and was highly recommended by the profiteer Charlotte.

Lothar was stunned for more than ten seconds, and finally said, "It's a nice day today."

Well, it was a hot and thunderstorm midday, and thanks to the thunderstorm, all the bowstrings almost lost their elasticity due to moisture.

This is a tug of war.

However, the balance of victory still fell to the orcs. When Orgrim asked the orcs to wear thick leather armor or a lot of thick clothes and restarted the river filling plan, Lothar knew that something was wrong.

On the seventh day after Duke dealt with the Bloodsail Pirates fleet, the entire moat on the east and north sides of Stormwind City was filled.

The orcs even used orc laborers to pile up stones in many places to create straight slopes leading to the city wall in front of the city wall.

The well-maintained city had almost turned into a pit. Orgrim seemed addicted to piling up dirt, and he still sent a large number of orc laborers to rush over.

"Throw the stones into the big pits of humans. If you can't get them back, throw yourself in too." This was Orgrim's death order to these "weak" and insignificant orc laborers.

The direct result was that the death toll of orc laborers on the orc side rose sharply.

At first, the humans tried to clean up some of the orcs' work at night or dig up some slopes. But Stormwind City was seriously lacking in heavy machinery. Not only was the rental fee for the goblin excavator very expensive, but Sherlock was unwilling to let his men take the risk of driving an "expensive" robot into this doomed city to dig.

unless...

Sherlock rubbed his thumb, index and middle finger again, that money-grabbing gesture, you know.

Duke was held back. As he imagined, the Horde soon found Stormwind's Achilles' heel. That was the place north of Stormwind near Stormwind Harbor.

Unlike the insanely steep valley cliffs in the south, the mountain road north of Stormwind City is a dead end for humans, but it is not a real dead end for orcs who are good at climbing mountains.

During the first two times, the orcs successfully sent down several scouts, causing a commotion among the soldiers and civilians of Stormwind. Immediately, King Llane decisively sent Duke, the strongest fighter in Stormwind, to the top of the mountain. Finally, the orcs were prevented from attacking from there.

The sea is the domain of Kul Tiran warships and Duke.

Even though an average of more than 10,000 people could be transported every day, the situation was still going downhill. After the Stormwind soldiers and civilians had held out for more than 20 days, the biggest problem facing Llane and the remaining soldiers and civilians had finally arrived.

Excluding those who evacuated and died in battle, there were still 100,000 people left, and according to Lothar's estimation, none of the 50,000 people who were left behind could escape. The orcs, who had long been furious, would not allow humans to evacuate safely at a rate of 10,000 people per day.

Unfortunately, there is no fulcrum like Stormwind Fortress near Stormwind Harbor, which is the lifeline.