Arthur's warriors had their first good sleep in a few days, but they slept in the orc camp.
All this was thanks to the orc captives that Arthur had deliberately left alive.
Two of the orc captives were pried open, and Arthur finally knew why they were always being chased all the way.
Behind Arthur and his men, there was an orc pursuit team following far behind. This team was composed of orcs from the three-eyed dog tribe and the leopard cat tribe, who were good at tracking. Once they locked the location of the human cavalry regiment, they could track them all the way without showing up, just by traces and smell.
In addition, there were high-level orc priests in this team. Similar to the communication magic of the human race, high-level priests could connect mentally with each other through the power of totems. This was how the orcs transmitted the location information of Arthur's cavalry regiment.
The priests who received the location information of the human cavalry regiment would order the nearby orc tribes to intercept or chase Arthur and his men. For example, the orcs who came here to die today came from an orc tribe not far from the downstream of the river bank.
When Arthur and his team just stopped to rest, a priest holding the Lion King's Order came to the tribe and required all the orcs in the tribe who were able to fight to take up arms to attack the human cavalry who had just settled on the upstream of the river bank.
The Lion King's Order is an inviolable law for the orcs. Those who do not obey the order of the Beast King will be executed.
As for whether these orcs can survive after attacking the human cavalry, it is not within the consideration of the orc priests at all. As long as they can delay the human cavalry and cause them losses, they don't care about sacrificing more ordinary orcs.
After prying open the confession of the orc captives, Arthur and Gold immediately took the officers above the rank of lieutenant and secretly returned along the original route.
Arthur and his team found this orc pursuit team fifteen miles behind the cavalry regiment. If it weren't for those orc captives, Arthur and his team would never have thought that the orcs could catch up with them from such a distance.
There were not many orcs in pursuit, and they did not expect the human cavalry to suddenly turn back and be killed by Arthur and his men by surprise.
After a fierce battle, including the two senior orc priests, not a single orc escaped from the entire orc pursuit team.
After dealing with the tail, Arthur led the warriors to attack the orc tribe downstream of the river bank overnight. The tribe with only some old and young orcs left had no power to resist the ferocious human cavalry.
Considering that the orc priests had come to this tribe to give orders, they would not come to this tribe again in a short time, so this place became the safest place.
After setting up layers of sentries, the warriors were finally able to lie down and rest. But the armor still could not be taken off, and the weapons were placed in the nearest place. The successive battles had made the warriors develop the habit of getting up to fight or move at any time.
The warriors slept, but Arthur and Gold could not sleep yet. Using this rare quiet time, they must discuss the next way out of the cavalry regiment in advance.
Although Hughie was the core, he never participated in the discussion of decision-making. He just sat beside her and closed his eyes to practice fighting spirit.
Alia was also there, but she fell asleep with her legs hugged after sitting for a while. She was too tired recently.
Arthur took out a fur blanket from his ring and gently covered Alia with it.
Gold saw it and said nothing, but she felt inexplicably irritated.
"The orcs will catch up soon. We must determine the next action plan in advance. We can't be chased by the orcs like a headless fly like this?" Gold didn't realize that because of her irritability, her tone of voice was a bit tough.
"Although we have taken some detours these days, the general direction has not changed. We are going to retreat to the border area."
"No, we can't retreat to the border anymore. Even a fool can guess that we are going to escape back. The orcs must have opened their pockets long ago, and we will face greater danger if we go there."
"But the place where Leon and I agreed is over there."
"At this time, do you really still believe in that lion man? Under Elliot's anger, I'm afraid he can't protect himself?"
Arthur smiled bitterly, "Now I can only believe him? The orcs in the whole wasteland are looking for us. If we don't get the help of the orcs, we will be wiped out in a short time."
Gold was silent. It was indeed as Arthur said. If there was no internal response, it would be a fantasy for them to fight their way back to the human area with just a few hundred people.
After a while, Gold raised her head, slowed down her tone and stared at Arthur and said, "Do you know? You've made too big a bet. You've bet hundreds of lives on an orc. Once the other party betrays you, the deaths of hundreds of people will be your responsibility. You will regret it for the rest of your life!"
For the first time, Arthur felt that the burden on his shoulders was so heavy. If it was Captain Keynes, what would he do?
Arthur suddenly stood up, "You're right, I can bet my own life, but I can't bet on the lives of the soldiers!"
A simple village, located under the leeward hill, vaguely has a few orcs in the village, and there is not even a guard at the gate.
In the barren orc wasteland, there are many orc camps like this.
In the innermost part of the village, there is a low wooden house close to the hill. Pushing open the leaky wooden door, the room suddenly becomes bright, like a narrow hall several dozen meters long.
It turned out that the hill behind the wooden house had been dug open, and the wooden house became the best cover for the entrance of the hill.
Leon sat in a chair with his chin in a daze. Xia La, Long Dong, Du An'er and other loyal subordinates were all there, but no one spoke.
"Do you all think that I shouldn't care about those human soldiers now?" Leon suddenly raised his head and looked at his subordinates.
"That old lion is furious this time. Now the wasteland is densely covered with spies of the Golden Lion Family. Those human cavalry will be finished sooner or later! If we jump out to help them now, we will definitely be trapped!" Du An'er was the first to stand up and express his opinion.
"I think Du An is right. Elliot has nowhere to vent his anger now. If we intervene in this matter, we will immediately become his target of attack." Long Dong, who rarely speaks, also spoke.
"What about you?" Leon turned his gaze to Xia La.
Xia La showed a hesitant expression, but finally gritted his teeth and said: "Although we promised Arthur before, Elliot's reaction now far exceeded our previous expectations. I think it is too dangerous to contact the human race now."
Leon nodded gently, "You are all right. Any smart orc knows what to choose in this situation, not to mention that it is those damned human races that need our help?"
One-eyed man, Xia La, and others nodded.
"When I was young, my mother told me that to become a true orc warrior, I must have courage and the courage to defeat opponents stronger than myself. If I choose to hide when Elliot gets angry, do you think I will have the courage to stand in front of him and challenge him in the future?" Leon's voice was unusually calm, but these two sentences hit every orc's heart heavily.
Leon continued: "This is like a gamble. If I choose not to help Arthur, we will not lose anything. If I choose to take action, we will encounter great danger. If I win the gamble by chance, the benefits will also be huge. Are you willing to gamble with me?"