Chapter 911 · Leaving the Mountain

Just as Sui Xiong was concentrating on studying the small underworld, the war preparations of both sides in the main plane were gradually coming to an end.

Humans have assembled more than one million troops. They are all young and strong men. They are fully armed and have carried out high-intensity training according to the methods of the new army. These people have a good foundation and good equipment. As long as they train for a period of time, they can become an excellent and strong army.

This million-strong army is not the ordinary kind of water-imported soldiers who mainly use militia to make up the numbers. They are all real combat soldiers. In order to serve them and provide logistical support, all human countries in the main plane have launched a full mobilization. Various materials have been saved as much as possible, transformed into various things that can be used in the war, and continuously sent to the front line.

For a million-strong army to be fully deployed, it naturally requires an extremely large battlefield. There are not many such battlefields. The only suitable one is located in the northeast of the main plane, on the border between the Orc Empire and the Glorious Kingdom.

The border between the Orc Empire and the Glorious Kingdom is a vast wilderness. This land has no famous mountains or rivers, and is almost completely undefended. But since humans established a country here, they have continuously built fortresses and outposts on the border, and built solid walls. One outpost, one fortress, and one wall after another, they finally built a huge defense system.

Compared with the Great Wall on Earth, this defense line built entirely in plains and hills is much more complicated, and there are many more soldiers stationed. In order to provide it with support and supplies, countless villages are dotted on the east side of the defense line, with a population of at least more than two million. And the human countries continue to provide support to make this defense line as solid as a rock, so that even if the orcs want to attack humans, they would rather choose to attack the Eagle Kingdom, which has a more dangerous terrain.

For the orcs, the dangerous terrain can be conquered by courage and force, but the huge defense line of unity is a real natural barrier that is more difficult to break through than any natural barrier.

The truth that the country is in the people, not in the dangers, is well proved here.

Similar to the Great Wall, the areas controlled by humans and orcs are not demarcated by this defense line. In fact, the area within about 200 to 300 miles to the west of the defense line is controlled by humans. Humans have built many outposts and towns here. These outposts and towns are ports for trade between the two sides in peacetime, and frontier positions for testing and small-scale battles in wartime.

The millions of human troops are now living in these frontier positions.

The orc army has not yet assembled.

This is not to say that the mobilization capacity of the Orc Empire is not good, but that their supplies are insufficient. They cannot learn from humans to station millions of troops in positions and eat free food every day except for training.

Although the orc gods can provide a lot of food for the orcs, it is really impossible to supply millions of troops for full-time training.

The Lord of Order does not allow the gods to interfere too much in the human world. Directly looking for food from other worlds to supply millions of troops... This has exceeded the limit allowed by Him.

So the orc army can only be scattered in the east of the prairie, grazing and farming while waiting for the arrival of war.

The gap in national strength and civilization is thus reflected.

If nothing unexpected happens, no one believes that the orcs can win.

On one side are millions of carefully selected, well-armed and well-trained soldiers; on the other side are millions of "armies" that are half-farming and half-trained, self-raised, and of varying quality. More than one scholar who studies the history of war has made such a judgment: once the two sides go to war head-on, the orc army is likely to be completely defeated in the first wave of confrontation.

Of course, these scholars have one thing in common - they are all human.

The orcs naturally don't think so. They firmly believe that they are powerful and despise those weak humans. The long-term record of winning more and losing less against humans has given them full confidence. This time, the full mobilization of the Orc Empire in the true sense has given them a considerable chance of winning.

Even in the battle of "The Day the Sun Goes Out" that year, the Orc Empire did not mobilize so many soldiers. And this time, they almost gathered all the troops that can fight.

Not only that, there are soldiers from other races in their barracks, such as reinforcements from dwarves and elves, reinforcements from the Great Swamp, and some armies from small tribes such as dwarves.

And... their reinforcements are far more than these.

Humans try to completely defeat the orcs and become the absolute overlord of the main plane. This not only harms the interests of the orcs, but also those who are willing to stand up against humans are far more than just the orcs.

If Mencius came here and saw the orcs' barracks, he might sigh that "the righteous will have many supporters, and the unrighteous will have few supporters."

... Although even "many supporters" could not change the balance of power between the two sides.

The high-level leaders of the orc and human armies have not been idle during this period. They all understand that what can really determine the outcome of the war is not the millions of troops under their command, but the groups of masters on both sides.

Legendary warriors from all races have gathered on the prairie. There are more than a hundred of them, under the guidance of the orc demigod warriors, training and improving every day, striving to improve their strength by the time the real battle begins, or at least to perform better.

The legendary warriors from the human side have also gathered, and are also seizing the last peaceful time to train hard.

As for the higher-level figures, both sides have not yet dispatched them on a large scale, but everyone knows that when the two armies confront each other and the sound of killing shakes the sky, those demigods who are beyond time will definitely end up, and this war is destined to be extremely fierce and cruel.

Time passed day by day, and slowly arrived at the New Year.

This year's New Year, no one was happy.

Both humans and orcs were making final preparations for the upcoming war, wishing that one day would be used as two days. Even the Northwest Republic, as a neutral party, had a low atmosphere because of the war, and even the participation in the New Year celebrations was much less.

At this moment, the streets of the Void City even felt a little deserted.

But this situation did not last long. On the tenth day of the New Year, the armies of both sides finally moved.

From the sky, it looked like two huge shadows were slowly approaching.

At the same time, two extremely fierce auras burst out from a valley deep in the prairie and the highest peak of the Broken Cloud Mountains.

They were the demigods who had been hiding for many years in both camps.

At the moment when the war began, they all came out at the same time.