Chapter 923 - The Bloody Battle (Part 3) (2/2)

“Young Wilder, what suggestion do you have to offer?” the emperor asked.

The young Foxman blushed with excitement at the emperor’s friendly disposition. He took two deep breaths, then in a voice as calm as possible, he said, “I think we should send a few mobility troops to destroy the human’s logistics and supplies.”

The emperor froze. Since the start of the civil war between the North and South of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, “mobility troops” had become such a notorious name that everyone would have known about it. Everyone had heard about it. The various countries on the continent, after further discussions, had unanimously agreed to endorse the treaty that prohibited the use of mobility troops against enemies’ logistics and civilians. Now, this young Wilder’s suggestion of having the Orc Empire form a mobility troop was equivalent to unilaterally tearing up the treaty. This was quite humiliating for the Orcs, who had always believed in keeping their credibility. It was something that they would be held in contempt for.

Emperor Ilo was also a man who valued credibility. So when he heard this suggestion, his first reaction was surprised. Then the next reaction was the want to refuse.

But he did not speak up immediately. Instead, he looked towards the other members of the advisory board.

As a ruler of his nation, before he made any decisions, he should always consult his ministers for their opinions before making decisions.

The members of the advisory board were all surprised and angry at the first instant. But were quick to register thoughtful expressions thereafter. After a while, a few of the oldest veterans nodded in agreement.

“Treaty or not, this is all meaningless now. This is going to be one great battle between the Orcs and the humans. The victor will become the overlord while the loser will most possibly be thrown out of the Main Plane. In that case; of course we should use any means possible. There’s no need for any further scruples.”

“Yes. We need to comply with credibility so as to get the neutral parties to support us. Now that the entire Main Plane is involved in this great war, it’s either friend or foe. Where can we possibly find any neutral parties! Since there are no longer any neutral parties, why should we even be bothered about credibility and such!”

“But we have to be careful, though. We must not escalate this to a massive massacre; otherwise we might provoke His Majesty, the Void Mask…”

“His Majesty, the Void Mask, has clearly declared that, other than slaughtering and the refugees, he will not concern himself with anything else. So long as the mobility troops don’t go overboard, he will not intervene at all.”

“What’s considered as not going overboard?”

“This… Let’s have a good talk about this…”

Emperor Ilo nodded and got his advisory board to discuss the matter.

But before the advisory board could commence discussions, another suggestion was proposed.

“Your Majesty, since we now have the intention to send out a mobility troop to attack the logistics and supply lines of the humans, then there’s no need for us to consider the issue of attacking the city,” the oldest veteran pointed out. “Then our reserves troops need not rest, they can continue to attack as vigorously as they could. We should make full use of the advantage we have now and make as many kills as we can!”

Emperor Ilo unquestionably accepted his advice. So the order was issued.

This order was followed by more brutal killings than those in the day, and also, more bloodshed.

After a day of fighting, both sides were exhausted. Even the reserves troops who could rest during daytime found it extremely difficult to rest well in such an environment. So the conditions of both sides were in bad shape. However, the Orcs could make use of their massive magic spells to rapidly restore their soldiers to their normal state. The humans, on the other hand, were unable to do the same as they had exhausted their magic power.

To make matters worse, the Orcs generally had night vision, and so, nightfall did not hinder their vision. But it was not the same for the humans. Even with the light from torches and bonfires, most of the human soldiers’ vision was still greatly hindered, thus making it difficult for them to see their enemies, launch impactful attacks accurately and even to avoid the attacks from their enemies.

Therefore, this very night, the humans suffered an extremely great loss. By daybreak, together with the drastic retreat by the human soldiers at their battlefront, the dramatic loss of human soldiers was equally shocking to their commanders.

Of course, in this night, the humans also made a few successful counterattacks. By relying on some prearranged set-ups that were originally located in camp, they had annihilated a large number of the Orcs soldiers. But from the overall statistics, in this short night, the exchange between the Orcs and humans had exceeded a ratio of one was to five. In other words, on average, every single fallen Orc soldier would be accompanied by five fallen human soldiers.

Not only that, those heavily wounded Orc soldiers could survive or even recover quickly by virtue of the healing power of divine spells. The humans, on the other hand, could not. They could only rely on things like healing potions and such that had been prepared in advance as means of emergency rescue. But the effects of such medication were ultimately, very limited. This made it almost impossible for them to save the heavily wounded soldiers. If factors in this regard were taken into consideration, then on this night, the loss ratio of both sides might even be more than one to ten!