Zaumo, the core residence of the Zaura tribe, is a large orc city that accommodates more than 80,000 orcs.

The number of 80,000 people may only be the size of a small or medium-sized town for humans, but for the orcs on the Orc Fang Coast, it is indeed a large city. After all, all the Zaula tribes on the Fang Coast combined

It's only a little over 110,000, and the number of orcs in the entire Fang Coast is about 210,000. Zhaumo alone has a concentration of 80,000, which is indeed a big city in every sense for the orcs.

Of course, this city is called big in another sense because the scale of the city is indeed very large. Unlike humans who often like dense and systematic building scale, the city of Zavmo is obviously

It is relatively loose in all aspects, especially in terms of the area of ​​residential buildings, which is not comparable to the scale of human cities. Although these differences are unique to the orc culture, they are actually more about the original city

The gap caused by the goal at the beginning of the design was not realized later.

It was a long, long time ago when this group of orcs first came to the Fang Coast, and at that time it was not called the Fang Coast. It didn't even have a name. It was just an unnamed coast located on the southeastern coast of the mainland. Back then,

When the orc country was invaded by humans, a large number of orc refugees followed the orc princes and dispersed to various places and planned to establish a new home. The Fang Coast was naturally the location chosen by a certain group of refugees.

The climate here on the Fang Coast is pleasant and the land is very fertile. It does not even require farming. Just relying on the various fruits in the coastal forest is enough to feed nearly 100,000 orcs. Therefore, a certain orc royal family planned to

A new big city was built here. In addition to the purpose of this big city to resettle the refugees and provide them with a shelter from the wind and rain, more importantly, the royal family planned to use this place as a place to redevelop and absorb the orc refugees from other places.

In order to vigorously concentrate the population for the later restoration of the country.

It's a pity that things didn't go as planned. Although the city took a lot of time and resources to build, the leader died young. And more importantly, the orcs in other places also followed similar practices. After all,

The entire continent, or in other words, the entire world is very large, and the land that humans and orcs compete for on this continent is only the southwest corner of the Elna continent.

Not to mention that although this continent is not large, it has a lot of land to nurture so many mortal creatures, but other continents or some large islands and archipelagos also have the basic convenience to nurture civilization. Those beasts that go out.

Basically, few people chose to come back, so this large city on the Fang Coast that had just been surrounded by huge stone walls naturally lost its original function, so the entire city always seemed a bit empty in the following decades.

However, it is empty, but Zhaumo City is still very lively. After all, this openness is also a convenience for the orcs living in it. There is a large amount of land and houses that can be built as they wish. The Zhaumo orcs in the city

Residents can build farmland and livestock farms in the city, and they can even build their own houses as they like. As long as it does not exceed a certain scale or does not hinder the construction of public roads, even a farmer will build his own house.

It's tall and big, no less than the size of the aristocratic residences in the big cities over there in the principality.

Such a large city and it was built on the seaside, so it would naturally be regarded by the pirates as a wealthy and potentially threatening opponent. The reason why the Scimitar pirates gathered so many pirates to attack the Fang Coast was

The purpose is to destroy this huge city Zhaumo. After all, the Fang Coast and the Pirate Fjord are too close. Neither the orcs nor the pirates would like to have a powerful person living next to their home.

The enemy, so the pirates in the entire fjord would follow the Scimitar pirates to attack Zaumo in response.

Although the pirates failed at that time, they were more or less severely damaged by the Orcs, and at least they had a clear understanding of the Orcs' basic characteristics, so the war was not so intense that it was a life-and-death battle.

The human pirates were so afraid of Zaumo, let alone the more ambitious Gnoll pirates.

Abbas originally asked Haru to come to the orc stronghold on the Fang Coast to conduct reconnaissance after completing the deal with the fishmen, and at most he would only conduct a tentative attack on the orcs to find out the other party's details. So now when Haru completes

After completing the mission and arranging for the cargo ship to return to the fjord first, he led his elite troops on the tusk galley and crossed the Sova tribe's warning area and rushed directly to the shore.

Although Haru came with a tentative purpose at the beginning, when he successfully broke through the blockade of orc ships in the sea and broke into the shore, he was blocked by the huge and long city wall on the shore before he could land.

Shocked.

Haru didn't know what the city within the city walls looked like, but he determined that the city's orc population base was very large. Even outside the city walls, there were settlements of various sizes that looked like villages.

But judging from the houses outside, the number could be close to ten thousand at least.

The huge population base and towering city walls immediately made Haru the most vigilant against the orcs. After all, in the future, the sharp-tooth pirates will still need to spread westward with the Pirate Fjord as the center, so they will be the first to bear the brunt of the orcs here.

If they collide together, Zhaumo alone will be a stumbling block to the development of sharp-tooth pirates... No, this scale should be called a huge boulder that can even block roads.

In addition, regardless of the number of orcs on the shore, the orc fleet from the sea is also a considerable threat. Haru knows a lot of navigation knowledge, but he is still very unfamiliar with the unknown high-speed sailing ship of the Sova tribe.

.However, although they look strange and don’t know how they operate, Haru almost knows how much of a threat these extremely fast ships and the weapons equipped on them can pose in naval battles. After all, he broke into the ship before

When we were in the sea, we had a brief encounter with those sailboats, and not to mention anything else, just looking at the appearance of this iron-clad Tusker made Haru angry for a while.

The shell of the Fang is made of quite thick iron plates. In Haru's opinion, these iron plates can be used to make metal armor, but they can't resist the arrows fired from the opponent's ship. Of course, Haru also knows that these are almost the same as it.

The metal arrows as thick as fingers were not shot casually with bows and arrows, but heavy machine crossbows that were equipped in small numbers on the ships. However, although the power was indeed impressive, the speed was fortunately not that terrible. Haru estimated during the battle before

The reloading time of the crossbow passed, so my mind became more balanced afterwards.

In addition, although the boats of the Sowa Orcs are quite a lot, their shortcomings are also more obvious. It seems that in order to pursue speed, the materials used to build the boats are relatively light, and those fast boats cannot carry many people, so if they are really in a naval battle

In a boarding battle, they would not be a match for the Fang on their side. In addition, the defensive capabilities of these ships were not very good. In the previous battle, Haru personally threw more than a dozen javelins dipped in fire tar.

But it was surprisingly ideal. Two of the ships on the orc side were burned down quickly because they had no time to put out the fire, and the remaining ones were completely destroyed by the other gnolls on the Fang using various crude heavy weapons.

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Of course, the orcs were not vegetarians. They chose to engage in boarding battles during the naval battle. Many orcs, transported by their fast boats, successfully approached both sides of the Fang and jumped up forcefully. Although they were forced to jump up.

The Fang caused a lot of damage, but they were all killed in the end. And although the Fang itself has a sail, it actually mainly relies on the row of oars below to move. For this reason, the entire Fang's

The deck itself was designed as a battle venue for boarding battles, so in that short and fierce battle, except for the death of a dozen Jackal sailors, there were almost no serious problems. In comparison, there were almost no serious problems.

It's different when it comes to the Orcs. Their fast boats can't compare with a large ship the size of the Fang, and after losing a large number of sailors who joined the gang, the remaining small ships have completely lost their ability to compete with the Fang.

threats.

However, the ships of the orcs naturally do not have only this means, otherwise they would not be able to run rampant in this sea. At the last moment, those small ships used some powerful magic that they had never seen before to make a final counterattack, but

These magics only erupt into water waves that are enough to break through the sides of ordinary ships in a short distance. They are still slightly inferior to a large ship like the Fang with armor plates on the outside. And the Fang is not a simple big ship.

A wooden ship with iron plates. Haru had already prepared it when he was designing the ship. He asked the wizards in his hometown to come up with many magic defense devices that could be installed on the ship. It was with these powerful witchcraft mechanisms that

The Fang not only has the advantage in pure head-to-head combat, but also has good defensive capabilities against spell attacks.

What makes the Gnolls ambitious? Before they even left the Pirate Fjord, they were already planning to face all potential enemy threats in the entire Lasveto Sea. However, this defensive strategy is not for the Orcs.

The tribe was prepared to deal with some large sea monsters running rampant in the sea and those races such as mermaids or sea monsters that are good at using magic. But now it happens to be used to deal with the orcs, and it even plays a very important role.

Nice effect.

Although the Sharptooth Pirates did have an advantage in naval battles and successfully broke through the Sova Orc ships and reached the coast. However, when they arrived here, Haru was reluctant to continue fighting. After all, ship battles at sea might indeed be possible.

Relying on the Tusk's advantage to win, but if there are only dozens of gnolls in this boat, even if the more than 200 gnolls rowing below are included in the landing, it is estimated that it will not be enough to deal with the grinning orcs on the shore.

of.

Those orcs are not small fish and shrimps in troubled waters like Sova. The Zaula tribe is a real land beast. One or two are enough, but now the Fang has already stood there before it gets close to the shore.

There are more than 2,000 young orcs under his command, all of them are murderous and gearing up, waiting for his group of gnolls to come over and bring them meat to eat. As a gnoll, Haru knows very well what the orcs of the Zaula tribe have.

How good at fighting. After all, the ancestors of the gnolls and the ancestors of the Zaula orcs are from this family, so they must not be underestimated for this orc clan that is very close to themselves in every aspect. But if they don't go up.

This test was meaningless, so Haru paced back and forth on the edge of the deck with a frown on his face, really not sure whether it was necessary to go up and test it again.

And just when Haru was hesitating, a thick spear suddenly flew over his head with a "swish" sound, and then directly pierced the deck not far away with a "bang" sound and made a powerful sound.

of shaking.

This spear was obviously thrown by someone from the opposite shore, but in fact, there have been orcs on the shore throwing various things at this side since not long ago, but they were not driving away the people outside their port.

Instead, he threw things while shouting insults and provocations at the jackals.

After all, Haru felt that the Fang was relatively safe because it was far away from the port, so he didn't pay too much attention to it. After all, he didn't think anyone could accurately throw a throwing weapon and hit the Jackals on the ship. However,

When he touched the spear that went deep into the deck, his heart trembled, because it finally realized that it seemed to be muttering about the combat effectiveness of the orcs of the Zaula tribe.

Before Haru could open his mouth to remind him to quickly sail the boat, a large number of spears flew over from the shore again. The spears this time were the same as the last time. Obviously this was a standard equipment, and these spears became

Judging from the neat rows on the deck, there should be more professional javelin troops among the orcs on the other side.

After all, the orcs were tall and strong, so the weapons they threw were no different from spears in the eyes of the jackals. And after the ship started to move, Harry finally pulled out the "spear" that had been stuck on the deck.

Then it felt the finely crafted metal spearhead and came to the conclusion that the orcs were indeed very good at smelting.

The information that the smelting technology of the orcs is very advanced has not been confirmed by the jackals in the past. After all, perhaps the once powerful orc country did have quite good smelting and water, but since it was conquered by humans, most of the orcs

People became refugees and fled in all directions, so at the beginning, the Sharptooth Gnolls did not think that this group of orcs who also fled to the Tuscan Coast as refugees would bring any technology from their hometown.

But now it seems that the leaders in their hometown are too arrogant. Although the sharp-toothed gnolls did receive some special help and developed to that size in a short period of time, there are still many short-sighted fools in the group.

Ignorantly thinking that I am the most powerful, and others are just behind me. Especially when comparing myself with the orcs, every word and deed can reveal the downturn of the orcs.

The disdain and ridicule shown. But as everyone knows, in the eyes of "people of insight" like Abbas and Haru, the sharp-toothed jackals still have a long way to become powerful, and even if they are not careful at this stage, they will still be

It will destroy the foundation that you have worked so hard to build.

The rows of oars on both sides of the Fang were rowing in an orderly manner, and the Fang quickly accelerated and left the coast, although there were still many fast boats from the Suowa tribe behind it that had just dared to come.

Followed, but they did not dare to approach the Fang at will even though they had the speed. As for the orcs of the Zaula tribe on the shore, there was no threat. Except for a few, they were still chasing and cursing on the shore.

Apart from the orcs who lost their things, it was obvious that the orcs on Zaura's side had nothing to do with the Fang sailing on the sea.

Haru looked at the Zhaumo City Wall in the distance, then weighed the metal spear in his hand and sighed softly.

"As expected... the orcs still cannot be underestimated... It seems that we need to wait a little longer for the Fang Coast plan..."

"Captain Haru! There are enemy ships blocking the front!"

Before Haru could finish sighing, the observer's shout came from the observation deck on the mast.

Haru was already prepared for the enemy's interception. After all, the Suowa tribe had suffered such a big loss before and would not let the Fang go easily. Although the Fang did have some advantages in the previous battle, there were more

In fact, it was because of the raid that they did not encounter a group of Sova warships. Haru had already learned about this information from many pirates in the Pirate Fjord. Back then, they had a big war with the Fang Coast.

A large-scale battle, in which this group of pirates were no less afraid of the Sova tribe's large fleet than they were in fighting the Zaura orcs on the road.

Haru quickly ordered the crew to take their places, and then came to take the position of the bow to observe the intercepted ship. After all, it had no confidence in fighting the "grand fleet" of the Sowa tribe. Because the Fang was no matter how impregnable it was.

But it's just a ship. If Sova's warships had more reserves, they probably wouldn't have to join forces and could sink the Fang simply with a massive barrage of crossbows.

"Oh? It is indeed a slightly larger ship. It seems that this is a real warship, right?" Haru stared at the Sowa hydrofoil sailboat on the sea in the distance and sighed, but just when it was about to send out a

While giving the order, he suddenly saw the Blue Pearl behind the hydrofoil sailboat and said in surprise: "That's...a human pirate ship? Why is it staying with the orcs' ship? Could it be that it was captured by the orcs?"

"

Just as Haru finished speaking, he suddenly saw the hull of the Blue Pearl rushing towards him, and it also maintained a distance and speed with the hydrofoil sailboat, as if they were going to attack the Fang together. And as the

The distance between the three ships was getting closer and closer, and Haru discovered that the crew members on the Blue Pearl were all humans. What was even more strange was that there was a short human who looked like the captain standing at the bow of the ship.

Outside, there was a tall orc standing next to him, eagerly looking at this side.
Chapter completed!