Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard

The Thunder Mountain Fortress was built two hundred years ago. In order to permanently resist the orcs going south, the first majesty of the Holy Alliance Empire, Fernando I, used huge manpower and material resources in the natural formation of the Hengduan Mountains Fracture Canyon, which is the only connection to the South Taren Prairie. A strong fortress was built through the passage of the North Taren prairie.After the fortress was built, Fernando I stood on the wall of the fortress and looked towards the north, sighing, "I am afraid that only Thor's wrath can break through here." Thor fortress is also named after.

In order to effectively resist the attack of the northern orcs, Thor Fortress is actually divided into three parts.The northernmost part is a strong city wall that blocks the passage of the Tarun grassland from the north to the south. It is five kilometers long in the canyon. The canyon is built on both sides of the mountain. It winds for about two kilometers and has a total length of seven kilometers. It is the first way for humans to resist the orcs. The defense line, claiming that only Thor's wrath can destroy this place.This is also the Thor Fortress in the true sense.

This solid city wall is quite thick and the defense is quite tight.At any time, this place is on alert, prohibiting any non-Thor Fort garrison from entering or exiting.There is a city gate in the very center of the city wall. If it is fully opened, ten knights can be discharged at the same time. This is the only way to enter and exit Thor fortress from the northern Tarun prairie.In the battle fifty years ago, the orcs rushed across the board, posing a great threat to the walls of the Thor Fortress, but the defense commander at that time boldly led ten thousand knights into the orcs' position from here, disrupting the orcs' attack. The rhythm of the orc finally shattered that orc attack.

For safety, the inside of this city gate was blocked. The giant city gate three meters thick, the iron gate weighing more than ten thousand catties, and various deadly organs on both sides of the city wall channel will make the attackers Discouraged: instead of entering Thor Fortress from there, it is safer to jump over the city wall and the loss will be smaller.

The wall of Thor Fortress is completely a small street, and eight carriages can easily drive side by side on it.If the enemy starts to attack, the commander on the city wall can easily deploy his own forces flexibly according to the enemy's strength. On the outer side of the city wall, there is a wall of about one person high, which can effectively defend the enemy's long-range bow and arrow attacks.

Every about a hundred meters or so, there will be a section of the city wall protruding from the outside of the wall, this is the tower.With the towers, the soldiers stationed inside can interact with the soldiers stationed on the walls to eliminate dead spots under the city and attack the enemy from three sides from top to bottom.In the towers, there are usually very elite shooters stationed. Their range can cover the two towers on their left and right, maximizing the long-range fire support.

About one kilometer to the south of this section of the city wall, which is the exit of the Grand Canyon in the south, is the military camp of Thor Fortress. The entire military camp stretches for more than ten kilometers and can garrison more than 100,000 troops.There is a smooth and even road between the camp and the northern city wall. Once the enemy attacks, the garrison here can rush to the front line as quickly as possible.Usually, the garrison here will call this barracks: "Camp 1".

"Camp 1" not only garrisoned soldiers, but also displayed twelve giant dump trucks.The range of these dump trucks is about three to five kilometers. At the moment of war crisis ahead, tens of thousands of boulders can be thrown here. As long as the timing is right, this kind of boulder falling from the sky can destroy the enemy's attack and crush their will.

About five kilometers further south, that is, on the South Talun Prairie, there is another military camp. This is where Ryan and the others rest.Strictly speaking, this place can no longer be called a military camp. It almost contains all the facilities that a city should have: bars, churches, magic guilds, mercenary guilds, various shops... merchants from other parts of the mainland will dump here. Their merchandise, and the defenders of Thor Fortress will take turns to take a vacation and come here to relax.

Since the garrison of Thor Fortress is one of the most elite troops in the empire, it is basically impossible for many soldiers here to return to their hometowns to visit relatives before they retired. Therefore, the garrison leader of Thor Fortress acquiesced to them to take their families and build a wooden house here. Or set up a tent.When they are on vacation, they can do whatever they want, and there are many soldiers here who married the daughters of Clay herders and thrive.So two hundred years later, a very lively city has formed here, but the predecessor here is a military camp after all, and most of the people living in it are related to the garrison, so the name here is still habitually called "No. 2 Military Camp."

With Bart, a qualified guide, Ryan soon became familiar with it.The soldiers here mainly come from the northern part of the mainland, the area actually controlled by the Fernando imperial family, while most of the merchants who come here to do business come from the southern part of the mainland, with the most merchants in Freedom Paradise.However, since it has entered a state of alert now, the "barracks" seem to be quite deserted, and there are basically no soldiers wandering around. Even if you see one occasionally, they pass by in a hurry.

Although the orcs are coming on fiercely this year, the residents and businessmen here don't care at all, because the orcs have not crossed Thor's Fortress for two hundred years. This year, probably not?Besides, the more this kind of war state, the better the business of those merchants, all because the fighters of Thor Fortress face life and death every day, maybe they don't enjoy it today, and there will be no chance to survive tomorrow.As long as the initial fierce attack by the orcs has been overcome, and when the stalemate phase is reached, the garrison of the Thor Fortress will be rotated and repaired in a planned way, which is also when this place becomes lively.

All the supplies brought by Lille and York were loaded into a warehouse three kilometers away from the barracks. There were a thousand soldiers guarded there, so it should be foolproof.The several sets of lifting equipment have been assembled and transported to "Camp 1" on standby. Lille and York are also divided into four groups and stationed next to those equipment in turn, ready to fix various problems that arise.

Seeing that this place was shrouded in the cloud of war, Ryan had the final say. He received the news from the Thor Fortress and sent a messenger. It has been almost three months since he arrived here. I don’t know what the war is going on now. We lose. Is it big.So Ryan couldn't help asking this question.

Bart’s reply surprised Ryan and the others. They thought that the war should have entered a life-and-death intertwined state, but they never thought that until today, the Thor Fortress defenders have been waiting, but the huge army of orcs is still not there. They appeared, but their vanguard troops had already stayed about fifty kilometers away from Thor Fortress. Thor Fortress sent a large number of scouts, but they couldn't pass the orc blockade. After a few months, Thor Fortress scouts suffered heavy losses.Now it has to shrink back.

Ryan couldn't help thinking: "What does the orc mean, is it a bluff?"

"What does the orc mean? Is it a bluff?" General Keynst, the highest military commander of Thor Fortress, sat alone in the combat command room, looking at the map around Thor Fortress, thinking repeatedly.It has been almost three months since the orcs were discovered that a large number of orcs had gathered in the army. According to the orcs in the past, they would soon come to the Thor Fortress to launch the most vicious attack, but now, the orcs are mobilizing unhurriedly. Not at all the sturdyness of their ancestors.

General Keenster was already full of white hair with worry about this matter.General Keenster, who was born in the Royal Knights, was sent to the Thor Fortress of the Empire’s northern defense ten years ago. Three years later, he took over the position of the retired former general and became the highest military commander here.In recent years, although the orcs have occasionally attacked Thor Fortress, their strength is very weak, at most less than 50,000, and the combat effectiveness is not very strong. General Keenster easily led the garrison of Thor Fortress to defeat them.If it were not for the orcs to drop more than 10,000 corpses, General Keynst even thought they were just completing a tradition left by their ancestors, just as the nobles of the imperial capital had the habit of taking a boat south for vacation in the cold winter.

Now, General Keynst has searched through the descriptions of the orcs attack by the top military officers of the Thor Fortress in the past two hundred years, but they can't find the orcs' attempts. Therefore, General Keynst is caught in a dilemma: keep on guard. The state will make the garrison quickly consume morale, fall into a kind of mental exhaustion, and affect combat effectiveness; but once this state of alert is lifted, in case the main orc rushes on the road, it only takes two days to attack Thor Fortress, that At that time, the human army had just lifted its alert status, and the soldiers relaxed. Maybe they would really be attacked by the enemy.

After much deliberation, General Keynst felt that the best way at the moment was to break through the orcs' blockade and find the main position of the orcs. As long as he understood the intentions of the orcs, it was not difficult to deal with.From the day Thor Fortress was built, the human intention has been expressed without any doubt, that is, only defending, not attacking.After all, the orcs were defeated, and it was a big deal to retreat north, but once humans lost the Thor fortress, it meant that the orcs could drive straight in, cross the prairie thousands of kilometers in the south, and directly attack Fernando, the capital of the Holy Alliance.

With only passive defense, General Keynst had to rub his aching head helplessly, and continued to think about the countermeasures: at this moment, the enemy’s situation is unknown and the scout has suffered heavy losses due to the enemy’s tight seal. Looking for a breakthrough?

"We still have to continue investigating. If the enemy's situation is unknown, our army will be unable to rest for a day. It will be detrimental to our army if it is dragged on." General Keenster muttered a few words to himself, then he picked up the quill and said Three lines of words were written in the notebook in front of him: "Information, the main force of orcs, mercenaries."

"Maybe, I can use the power of these mercenaries."