21. The Great Escape
Dick's horse was the first to rush into the sea of the dead. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
With the strength of the holy energy in his body now, these low-level undead would feel pain just by approaching him, not to mention that when he rode on his war horse, he took the initiative to charge.
Before becoming a lord, when Dick led the knights to charge, there was always an inexplicable feeling, the super-fast traveling knights, the opponents who were knocked away, the perception of the body could not even keep up with the speed of the war horse, the skin was in contact with the fast-flowing wind, the contrast between the super fast and the slow, as if the light around him had turned into black and white light and shadow.
That's the romance that belongs to the knights.
Now Dick, carrying the battle banner of the silver hand on his back, is not holding the fire of justice, but a heavy cavalry spear more than two meters long, this terrible weapon, in some fantasy legends, is also called "dragon lance", it is said to be a weapon specially used against dragons.
The conical body of the gun gives the cavalry gun unparalleled piercing performance, and this heavy weapon cannot be controlled directly by hand.
For ordinary knights, once they use the riding spear, when charging, they must "lift" the way to clamp the riding gun in the center of the arm and body, and the body at a right angle of 90 degrees, with the wrist to control the direction of the riding spear, when the war horse charges with all its strength, the knights only need to control the riding gun forward, the kinetic energy of the war horse, you can make the riding gun become a big killer that penetrates everything.
However, paladins have more power than regular knights, so they can support heavier armor, and can use a mounted spear as their main weapon during a charge.
Dick led the knights all the way to the besieged position of the mages, and the riding spear in his hand swung left and right into a windmill-like whirlwind, as the speed of the war horse became slower and slower, he and the war horse under him broke away from the knights' battle line, from a simple collision, to use the holy light energy to attack.
The alternation of a wide range of divine shocks and devotion can sweep a range of nearly 10 meters with a single blow, and Dick uses this method to create a space for the cavalry to accelerate again, and the griffin knights who whizz overhead will also throw powerful engineering bombs from the sky into the battlefield in front of the knights from time to time, creating enough distance for the knights.
The 300 paladins who came from the Cold Wind Camp were all experienced knights who had proven themselves on the battlefield of Sidaron Mill, so when there was enough space in front of them, they decisively injected the holy light into the bodies of the somewhat tired war horses, and began to accelerate again.
40 meters, which is enough for the speed of the war horse, is lifted again.
With a two-pronged approach, Dick and the Knights, as well as the subsequent warriors, under the cover of the flying soldiers who completely occupied the sky battlefield, only took less than 20 minutes to approach the mage position in the center of the battlefield.
The Holy Light and the Undead, this is a pair of almost impossible opponents, although Dick knows that in the next few years, those free undead who use their willpower to break free from the shackles of the Lich King will also master the use of the Holy Light, but the appearance of the Undead Priest is only a coincidence.
At least for now, in the face of the elite knights charging in groups, these low-level undead gathered by Arthas are not of much use at all.
What's more, behind the charging Dick, there are more warriors to support, stabilize the attack, and maintain this retreat window, which is their task, Dick and the paladins, are only responsible for rushing and rushing!
Rush all the way to the edge of Dalaran and get those mages out!
The destruction of Dalaran is unstoppable, and these precious mage forces must be preserved to lay a good foundation for the future major counteroffensive, from now on.
However, behind the 300 paladins, there were also the wolf cavalry of the orcs, the chocobo knights of the High Elves, and the thirty steam tanks at the bottom of the box of the thunderspear dwarves.
This is a steel behemoth made by highly developed engineering gnomes and dwarven craftsmen, powered by steam, and not very fast, but for ordinary undead, these iron lumps decorated with ironwood shells are turtles that cannot be bitten at all.
At the top of the huge steam tank, the dwarf engineers temporarily added a multi-fire musket that was also powered by steam, and when Dick saw this black technology for the first time, he almost spewed out, isn't this the magical version of "Gatling"!
Handcrafted metal bullets, combined with esoteric dwarven gunpowder, allow these muskets to clear the attack of the undead in an entire area with each roar.
The main role of these thirty steam tanks is to cooperate with the orc infantry to maintain this escape route, and when retreating, as the main force of breaking off and suppressing firepower.
The mages of Quel'Salas have already set up a portal to Dandabar on the edge of the battlefield, and in the face of the spatial blockade arranged by the Great Lich himself, unless Kael'thas arrives in person, there is still no way to break this spatial barrier that is beyond ordinary people's comprehension.
Don't you see, an archmage of the level of Antonidas has been studying hard in Dalaran for 10 days, and hasn't been able to break through this spatial barrier?
Don't underestimate Kel'thugad, who has now become a pathetic psychopath, but whose talent for magic is truly not to be underestimated.
The task of the wolf cavalry and the dwarven goat cavalry is relatively more difficult, as the most flexible of all the troops, they are responsible for the fastest speed after the paladin penetrates the sea of the undead, to meet the retreat of the tired mages, for this big operation, Drektar and Vandal even took out all their family resources, and put together a total of 4,000 cavalry of various colors, only need to run on this fateful occasion to pick up all the mages.
Of course, this kind of play is not gratuitous, and the gratitude for Dalaran's hidden forbidden knowledge and the most powerful mage organization in the human world is enough for the superiors to take a risk.
As for the Chocobo Knight, it is purely the selfishness of the High Elf commander, the ranger general Sylvanas.
The general was now riding a standing horse, following Dick, her eyes fixed on the center of the battlefield that was getting closer, as if looking for something.
Of course, Dick knows Sylvanas's purpose, as the contemporary patriarch of the Windrunner family, as an older sister, it is understandable to care about the safety of her sister, although Winlessa has been expelled from the family by Sylvanas by combining with a human mage without permission, but the family affection flowing in the blood, if it can be calculated so simply, there will be no such regrets in this world.
Although Sylvanas had a cold expression of "I don't care if Winlessa is dead or alive", when she really saw her sister who was held in Ronin's arms and didn't know whether she was alive or dead, the Ranger General still rushed off the war horse as soon as possible, kicked Ronin away with an extremely angry kick, and held her sister in her arms.
"Wake up! Winlesa, my sister!
Sylvanas touched the wound on Wen Lesa's abdomen, glared at Luo Ning who stood up with murderous eyes, took the water handed by the adjutant, and carefully poured it into Wen Lesa's mouth.
However, seeing that Sylvanas was planning to accompany his sister on the battlefield, Dick turned his head to look, and re-transformed into the sea of undead that surged up in waves, and shouted fiercely,
"Sylvanas, arrange for the mages to retreat! Your sister isn't dead yet, and she won't die here!
The Ranger General is not an incompetent fellow, but because of his relatives, she also reacted, handed Winlessa to the adjutant, and then drew her war bow and arrow,
"Rangers! Prepare to suppress the shot!"
"Warriors step forward, defend the formation!"
"A mage who can still move to help fend off the undead!"
"Cavalry go and pick up fellow riders!"
"Put all these badly wounded guys on the steam tank!"
"Dick, let your knight rest in place, and in ten minutes prepare to reopen the Sea of the Undead!"
"Marshal Vandal, let the griffin knights help the red dragon! its breath will make us less stressed!"
Under the amplification technique that Ronin had applied to the Ranger General, Sylvanas's orders were conveyed one by one, and soon, under the command of the general with outstanding command skills, a simple line of defense was initially constructed.
With the brave orcs and dwarves in front of them, the remaining mages were finally able to unscrupulously exert their fort advantages, and for a while, this large position mixed with tens of thousands of people was stabilized.
The mages who had escaped death cheered, their arrogance could no longer be seen, and one by one they did their own thing very obediently according to Sylvanas's instructions, and Ronin used the sound transmission stone to connect Archmage Ainsrem and Archmage Dralandon who were still holding on to Dalaran.
After learning that there were still nearly a thousand mages on Archmage's side of Ansrem who were struggling to move towards the position, Dick and the knights rushed again, and after losing a dozen mages who had voluntarily broken off, they managed to get them back to the position.
But Archmage Derlandon has not been able to contact him, which somewhat makes Luo Ning a little uneasy.
However, Luo Ning also knew that the more than 4,000 mages who had been rescued now were already the limit of what this rescue force could rescue.
The griffin troops and mortar squads, under the orders of the generalissimo of the Thunderspear, carried out nearly five waves of cluster bombardment of the Crypt Lord in the air and on the ground, coupled with the support of Sylvanas and Drektar, they forced the Crypt Lord, who had no way to fight the air, back to the ground with tons of engineering bombs, so that the seriously injured Red Dragon Crassus picked up a life.
After holding on to their positions for more than ten minutes, after being cut off by the steam tanks, the paladins were protected by the ranger troops in the middle of the road ahead, and the transfer troops were carried out in tandem.
The orc and dwarven cavalry are basically one person with a mage, and in this case, it is very difficult to speed up.
Although it is a rescue, in Dick's opinion, this is completely a great escape, in fact, it is true, if he can get the full support of the entire Silver Hand Knights and the Quel'Thalas Dynasty, he is confident that he will defeat these undead head-on, but in fact, whether it is the Silver Hand or Quel'Thalas, there are more important things to do, to be able to make this aid to the point where it is now, Dick feels that he is already worthy of these mages.
You must know that in the original history, after Dalaran was destroyed, the surviving mages were not even one-sixth of the original, but now, first tried to make the stubborn Antonidas send nearly 2,000 apprentices to Stormwind City, and when Dalaran was in danger, he led the alliance of the three clans to save more than 4,000 mages from the hands of the undead.
It can be said that Dick single-handedly allowed Dalaran to save nearly half of his strength!
But that's his limit... In the face of 500,000 undead, no one can expect him to do better.
When the transferred large army, after losing five steam tanks and nearly a thousand casualties, finally succeeded in escaping from the pursuit of the undead, when Ronin and Landalok saw the miserable appearance of the red dragon mage Crassus who was carried by Dick, and when the archmage Ansrem, who had finally left from Dalaran, painfully conveyed the death of the archmage Antonidas to everyone, these proud mages even knelt on the ground and wept bitterly.
Arthas used a brain-opening scheme to bring Dalaran to the fall, and used unparalleled power to ambush Dalaran's leader, the strongest archmage in the human world, and the endless sea of undead under its command almost destroyed the last of Dalaran's power.
This continuous bad news, like a series of slaps, slapped hard in the faces of these mages, and officially announced to the whole world the horror and power of the undead disaster.
Lordaeron and Dalaran, Tirisfa, Sidaronmir, Silver Pine Forest, and the Land of Spirits, two of the Seven Nations Alliance have perished in the ravages of the undead natural disaster, and even the magical country, Quel'Salas, has also turned around on the verge of annihilation, and nearly half of the entire northern frontier has fallen under the control of the undead natural disaster.
If the previous undead natural disaster was just a trouble in the northern frontier, then now, this natural disaster has become a trouble for the entire Eastern Continent.
But Dick knew... This is really just the beginning of 20 years of Azeroth's stormy life, and it is just the beginning of all disasters.