Chapter 11

Forgotten Fortress Defense

Pvt Leo part of Unknown

6/5/25 Time 6:04am

I got my watch fixed today, It turns out It was just off, the people who are in charge of cultivating the fields are almost done harvesting the crops that were overgrown, they said it is good to eat, the problem is the type of crop.

The crops that were left to grow were potatoes, all we need to do is wash them and make sure they are good to eat, then they should be able to be eaten.

I got some sleep, We may be undead but we can sleep, which restores some of our strength not all of it though.

The black smiths got everyone a weapon of some sort, finally they are just short daggers but that's enough to defend yourself.

The main force of 45,000 orc warriors who are equipped with shields and a variety of melee weapons patrol the wall and the town with the 314 orcs riding the giant wolves, they are also supported by 4,000 orc archers and 1,000 orc mages, they are always on the walls and inside of the watch towers which are built into the walls.

Then we have the 313 marines who are also equipped with shields and swords or spears mainly, which are supported by 5,000 army soldiers including myself, the rest are on city duty, they are doing all tasks that are needed to get the city in shape.

The ogres are not allowed to fight since they are needed to reach high places, if they die we lose all of our heavy lifters, plus they have no armor so they are just big targets.

sounds are heard all throughout the town people talking and repairs are being done, I was walking towards the walls when an orc yelled to the top of his lounges,

"ENEMIES SPOTTED!! FLYING MACHINES APPROACH FROM THE GATES DIRECTION I SEE LIGHTS BLINKING ABOVE THEM AS WELL EVEN HIGHER!!" an orc said.

Bells began to ring as people rang them to wake the others, The town all moved at once, people dropping their items and running for their weapons , Ogres closed the large stone gates for the walls, then ran towards the cave.

Those who had no weapons either ran to the caves or stayed and were now on arrow duty, they would run on the walls to bring arrows to the archers, the ones who went to the caves would call the gnomes for help such we are dealing with the demons for them.

Once all of the humans who did not have weapons and the orcs who were too valuable to lose in battle went inside the caves, the ogres crawled into the cave behind them.

All of the 3,000 mages now formed on the walls such they were no longer needed to help with rebuilding, they casted a large shield around the main part of the town as they then formed a one way barrier on the wall, making it so our archers can fire but they can't hit us.

Rex was right the lights got closer and dozens of helicopters approached first was AH64D also known as apaches led the charge and behind them was UH-60A Blackhawks at least one 100 hundred in total, while behind them were large chinooks full of people none less, and above them were Boeing C-17's at least 25 flying hundreds of feet in the sky.

They would have been able to fit in with a little bit of space left over, the Gate was massive and this just goes to show, The C-17's probably had soldiers as well as apc's inside if not at least 1 m1a2 Abrams.

"Mages fire at the planes, the ones higher above they carry worse things than the helicopters, or you call them flying machines" I yelled as I made it to the top of the wall.

The mage's started to cast all sorts of attack spells, mainly fireballs, they flung all sorts of sizes of flames all at once like a volley of arrows, the orcs lined up at the bottom of the inside wall, while more were in town in case they broke through.

The wolf riders were in town waiting to be called upon via bell or through one of the orc horns, Hudson was on the wall to give orders when needed the orcs were led by the crazy marine as they prepared.

Most fireballs missed the planes as they began to get higher up, one C-17 was hit as it began to deaccelerate downwards, it was only around 100 feet away from us as they had soldiers jump before it was too late.

And sure enough they had tanks as well as apc's inside, the plane blew up in the distance as lights were turned on as the soldiers who made it out began to load into the apc's and drive instead.

The chinooks landed in walking distance as the archers held to make them feel that we could not hit them, as the first wave of UH-60A Blackhawks who led the charge landed all 100 started to land with the chinooks and the apaches were about to open fire.

"Second group of mages fire at the armed ones!" Hudson said as the towers with mages opened fire at the 20 apaches.

"Archers rain down fire on the transports!" Hudson commanded afterwards.

He had a look of guilt all of the humans did, It was us or them.

The arrows lit fire as soldiers who had no weapons lit small fires near the archers, the arrows flew in the sky and made it glow as we watched them land at the transports, screams were heard as the apaches opened fire while they were shot out of the sky one by one.

Rockets screamed as they were shot, the shields blocked all of them, the shields almost broke as the ones in charge of them re-cast the spells, the helicopter's side gunners opened fire as they began to fly back to the gate probably to get more people.

*Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt* *brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt*

The miniguns screamed as the bullets hit the shields more mages turned to working on the shields

the fireballs and fire arrows kept firing as soldiers carried arrows and fire to archers, the infantry soon began to shoot at us as we watched the fire arrows hit people, they lit up the ground and lit up soldiers when they hit them, soldiers carried more arrows with small pieces of cloth materials on the tips in order to light them.

The planes were now above us as the remaining 20 let their soldiers jump out, the sky had hundreds of parachutes and tanks, as well as apc's, we don't have the ogres but we have magic.

"mages target the falling tanks or machines!" I yelled and Hudson said the same.

The sky glowed as they began to blow up the tanks before they could land, some had the parachutes turn to ash and they fell and blew up on the ground, catching allies in the explosion.

The paratroopers shot down at us as some shot flares to blind us from not hitting them, others threw grenades or smoke and filled the town in smoke as they landed, a bell rang as and a horn was blown.

The sounds of growls and screams filled the town as the riders killed any soldier who landed in the town, the sound of yells as the orcs waiting in town had caught their first victims.

the tanks and apcs were unable to land as they were sitting ducks in the sky only one m1a2 landed in the town.

The orcs yelled as they all pulled open the hatch with all of their strength at once, they took the tank but they did have some issues on learning to drive it, we had any soldier who knew how to drive a tank take it over.

We also had any soldier who was holding a melee grab a gun off a dead paratrooper, the enemy paratroopers seemed to regroup and were holding inside up in buildings.

Gunfire rang in the town as we had orcs burn the buildings, we had to rebuild anyways, good thing they are made out of wood or thatch they did have stone foundations though, the soldiers jumped out of the windows and were met with the orcs in waiting.

Those who did not were burned alive, the helicopters were able to unload all of the soldiers there were thousands as they ran towards the wall taking cover and firing at the wall archers and mages.

This will be a long fight.

6/5/25 8:08am

All of the paratroopers in the town were killed, we lost too many orcs in the process, the infantry outside did not move up anymore then before as they dug in making trenches and foxholes.

More helicopters came in and out as they dropped off more soldiers and eventually sling loaded over Humvees which began to open fire, they had the cover in front of the gun as well so arrows were ineffective.

The shields were holding but the magic powers the mages had were running out, they needed to recover so we sent them into cover to Regain their magic whenever they went low.

*Whistle noise* *Booom* *Whistle noise* *Booom* *Whistle noise* *Booom*

The town exploded and the wall was hit multiple times as the shields broke orcs and humans went flying off the walls.

"Take cover Enemy Bombardme-------!" Hudson was cut off as he exploded in pieces and his dark blood covered the wall and those next to him.

The humans all ran off the wall as they saw this, But the orcs stood their ground as they fired arrows at the infantry who were now charging the walls.

"Get your asses back on the wall the orcs are still holding!" I yelled as I picked up a quiver of arrows and ran to deliver them to where the arrows were no longer firing.

The humans saw this and ran back up to continue the fight and even picked up the dead weapons and began to fight back again.

They were just scared, its normal I'm scared as well I thought to myself

*Loud engine sounds*

"enemy jets!" A soldier said as explosions went off again.

Some parts of the walls began to crumble and crush people who were standing on it.

"EVERYONE GET OFF THE WALLS NOW!" I yelled as the wall was about to collapse, the orcs listened this time.

The Infantry closed in as the walls fell down.

"All range soldiers get into buildings and prepare for enemies to breach the town, melee Infantry it's our time to shine!" I yelled as I pulled out my sword.

As the walls stopped falling we charged while letting out a battle cry as enemy infantry reached within the outer of the walls.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! KILL THEM ALL!" I yelled losing myself to Adeline.

The Orcs let out their roars while horns were blown as we hear echoes in the caves,

"Help our Allies!" higher pitched voices were heard, as thousands of small gnomes with rifles ran out of the caves with mechs which were armed with rifles, some were melee variants with shields and large swords.

The mountain then had a large hole appeared as large 10 feet drill came out of the mountain, the new hole was 10 feet tall, as more gnomes came running out with mechs, new sounds of gunfire were heard above us as cannons were heard, I looked up to see at least 10 airships who had smaller flying airships who were like their version of fighter planes.

They had machineguns only as the bottoms opened and they dropped three bombs each on the enemy Humvees, there was more jets which responded to the new threat as the fight for the sky now began.

I ran out of the walls as large skirmishes were now happening as gnome battle lines fired into the enemy lines, and mechs were in the fray of the action firing and slicing people in half while being supported by undead soldiers and orcs.

The remaining riders led charges into the unexpecting soldiers, the noise of more cars ran out as more enemy soldiers rode in by trucks who also had Bradley's and m1a2 Abrams who fired into our lines.

This is what a real battle looks like, more planes and airships entered the skies as they began to fight for air superiority, more gnomes came out of the caves then small robots who welded swords and rifles came out, they had rotating cogs turning inside and steam shot out of them as they ran into the combat.

The gnomes alone had around 10,000 soldiers enter the field of battle, airships fell out of the sky as they were shot down by the jets, while jets fell as the machine guns shot out with magic bullets that exploded like flak cannons.

Gnomes were small so the bullets missed most of the times till the soldiers readjusted there aim, artillery began to fall on the town again as the archers and mages left the town to the field to join the fight, gnomes popped like balloons as they blew up spraying their blood on their friends.

Little screams were heard as this happened as the gnomes began to grow pissed and turned into piranhas, as they ran out of ammo for their rifle, pulled out small daggers and chopped away at the unfortunate soldiers who were close to them.

Then that was when the flame thrower gnomes arrived with small tanks the size of 5 feet tall, wide and in length could fit two gnomes but that was all they needed it seemed, they too had cogs which moved and the tracks moved as they drove to the field, they shot machineguns which bullets exploded on impact, the enemy lines exploded.

Soldiers were turning into swiss cheese as they were shredded, the sky was still exploding as gnomes fell off their airships, helicopters approached with more soldiers, the small gnome fighters attacked them as the helicopter's side gunners shot back in defense.

missiles flew as bombs were dropped, this battle took a turn real quick.

War horn noises were heard from a different direction as loud marching sounds were heard, No, why now?

Orcs hundreds of thousands of them again, they charged at us from the opposite direction of the gate, this battle kept growing, it was now a three way battle to the death as more and more soldiers joined the fight the orc lines blew up as missiles impacted.

Gnomes turned their fire as giant ogres simply stepped on the small gnomes, more airships flew in this time much larger and thicker, the bottoms opened and the gnomes yelled in happiness.

The sky boomed as 12 feet tall mechs fell in a ball position, each airship had 6 of the large ones as small fighters flew out of them as well, the larger airships was as big as the C-17's so it could fit loads of gnome's stuff.

There were 3 of the large airships with many more normal airships and dozens of fighters, they were flying aircraft carriers, the large mechs landed at high speed into the ground and stood tall they wad large rifles and even larger great swords embedded with red gems, which made the sword spark out flames or electricity.

They ran at the ogres who were now the same height as them if not a foot bigger than the mechs, they sliced and blocked the ogres attacks, while other ones fired their large rifles into the approaching orcs, the bullets made craters in the ground as they blew up like artillery rounds.

The mechs then had a hole appear on the top of them as another gnome came out on top with one of their machine guns inside of a glass ball and fired at the smaller orcs, they were able to turn 360 degrees around, they were able to aim up and down to a certain point such the mech blocked their view in some areas.

The United States army began to fall back as they realized this fight would not be one where they could recklessly run into, that was when they appeared.

Soldiers carrying handheld 6 barrel gatling guns with gems on them, they shot down the hill where the united states army came from, the battle line exploded once more as thousands of bullets flew out of each gatling gun, the suits they wore weighted them down, so they don't fly by the recoil of the guns.

Gnomes well back inside of the walls and the mechs covered their retreat, the undead soldier who were still alive did the same, orcs charged the u.s soldiers instead of chasing us, they were shredded into nothing by the bullets.

Some of the gems ran out of power and were instantly changed with a new one, the air battle was nearing its end as the last fighter jet fell and the airships won the air battle, they then were shot at by 3 of the gatling guns or also known as m61 Vulcans.

The hull of the airships exploded as they left the battle area and returned back to their gate to repair most likely, all of the ground forces made it behind the remaining walls that had yet to fall, the mechs fired at the solder and they exploded instantly by the artillery rounds of the large rifles.

As the u.s soldiers left to the top of the hill they then dug into the hill making more trenches and foxholes, as they fired at the orcs who were charging them.

The smaller mechs of the gnomes began to stack rubble to form new defense walls that way they can shoot at the approaching orc horde.

Now began once again the battle of attrition as they charged endlessly into our gunfire and the u.s soldier's gunfire.