Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Situation
On the third day after the Day of Turin, the human envoys, who had left only yesterday, brought back letters from the lords of the houses. www.biquge.info Some people are very interesting, some people are not interesting, as can be seen from the wording of the reply.
For those who were interested, Ling Qi left their representatives, waiting for the various aid supplies they had promised to arrive.
Uninteresting, Ling Qi swept them out of the house directly. He was not in the habit of killing messengers, but of course the time had not yet come.
Some of those who had arrived from the small and medium-sized territories farther away were just as closed as the previous visitors, and when they learned of the new mayor's attitude from some of the envoys who had been stranded in Long Lake, some began to feel uneasy, and many more left angrily.
On the fourth day, the messenger of the Forest Elf Kingdom, who returned the day before yesterday, brought a large cart of materials, mainly elven weapons and equipment.
The Forest Elf Kingdom is definitely not the closest to Long Lake Town, but the sincerity they express is the most sufficient, at least relatively.
Although these weapons and equipment are all the lowest and obsolete products belonging to the inventory of the Forest Elf Kingdom, not only are they far less high-end than the standard products forged and processed by the other two elf territories, but even the ones they use now are much stronger than these. But after all, it is forged by elves, and it can also be compared to some high-quality weapons in the human mercenary world.
Ling Qi and the others came to the goodwill of the Forest Elf Kingdom, but unfortunately it was much less than expected, and these equipment could only arm three to fifty people at best, solving the urgent need. He didn't see the reinforcements he wanted to see the most!
Even though he knew that the Forest Elven Kingdom was in a special situation right now, with Leo mediating it, he thought that it should not be a big problem to come with reinforcements from a small group of elven archers. And each elven warrior is worth several human warriors, especially in defensive battles!
The messenger replied to His Royal Highness, and Leo explained why, saying that he regretted not being able to persuade Thranduil to send reinforcements because of his brother's interference. Even, for some reason, the elven king seemed to be a little moved by Legolas's words, and the fighting spirit of the orc army entrenched in the lonely mountain that had not yet started the next move was no longer as high as it was at the beginning. So much so that even the reply to Ling Qi was the only one from the prince.
"Legolas?"
Ling Qi only remembered at this time, he seemed to have heard this name from Gandalf a long time ago, it was said that he was a guy with a great sense of justice, and now it seemed...
On the fifth day, a letter bird flew down, coming from Rivendell, bringing Elrond's magical teleportation, another high-end way of messaging than ordinary encrypted letters.
Except for a guy who has a bird's nest on his head, there are probably only a few companies in the whole of Middle-earth that have this kind of means.
Rivendell is not close to the town of Long Lake, but the birds fly very fast, and the letter was sent yesterday.
The news showed that the movement of Sauron's comeback was greater than Ling Qi expected, and now there was chaos in all parts of Middle-earth, and some places were even more serious than the surrounding areas of the Lonely Mountain, and the calm Lonely Mountain had become an anomaly when the smoke was everywhere!
In the southern coastal area of Middle-earth, the Amba pirates started the full-scale invasion mode like crazy, launching waves of attacks regardless of their own casualties, and many major battles broke out in just a few days, with thousands of casualties on both sides. God knows how they managed to survive overseas for so many years!
Another example is Mordor, under the clouds that have been dispersed for hundreds of miles all year round, 300,000 orcs on the High Gros Plain poured out of their nests, passed through the dark gate, and began to spread to the surrounding area with Minas Demon Cave as a stronghold, this is another inhumane war of aggression!
300,000! 300,000! If it weren't for the fact that these orcs were accustomed to the darkness, they would quickly weaken in the sunlight and have a limited range of movement. I'm afraid that Gondor, who has been in charge of monitoring Mordor's movements, has already fallen!
300,000 orcs can fight, and that's not all, not including the old, weak, sick and disabled who really can't hold weapons!
God knows how they thrived on the High Gros Plains, no wonder the righteous side has been indifferent to Mordor for so many years, these orcs are definitely not much worse than ordinary human infantry under the protection of Mordor's eternal night sky!
Does the whole of Gondor have a population of 100,000? 300,000 pigs can push a city down!
The situation of Gondor was not the worst, because the orcs who had moved to the Cave of Minas did not unscrupulously expand towards the plains near the White City on the other side of the river, but only moved under the gradually spreading eternal night sky, and it was obvious that the sun's suppression effect on them was still very obvious, only the ever-widening night made people tremble.
The area around Dolgodo is the most seriously affected area, and there are already seven or eight small and medium-sized territories that have been trampled by the large group of wolf cavalry that suddenly appeared!
Just a month ago, the gray-robed wizard debated with the white-robed wizard whether there was evil breeding in the abandoned Dolgodo!
Now that the shadow of the truth has dissipated, thousands of troops have poured out of the fortress of the Demon Mountain, these orcs are obviously different from the group of Mordor, they are not so afraid of the sun, the Holy White Council... Silence!
Some people saw the Haradi flag in the swamp to the southeast.
Some people have seen mammoths in the north-west of Brochel Glacier Bay.
And the Denlanders, the Earless ...
Even Rivendell was attacked by a large group of goblins, and it was obviously the goblin kingdom under the Misty Mountains that poured out!
King Ailong regretted that maybe for a long time in the future, he would not be able to lend a helping hand to Changhu Town, and he was really powerless.
It's not that he's stingy with help, or this elven clan's last sanctuary is already as vulnerable as other human territories, but the Goblin Kingdom occupies a special geographical location, just between Rivendell and Long Lake Town, directly cutting off the road over the mountain at the highest pass!
In the eyes of King Elrond, it was only a matter of time before Rivendell defeated the Goblin Kingdom, the ugly little things were too weak, and the terrain of the mountains did not allow them to take full advantage of their numbers. Rivendell has never been afraid of one-on-one defensive battles, because it is the enemy who dies in that way. But no one thinks it's rational to take the initiative, including Elrond.
If you give up your own advantages and try to forcibly open the way, but instead fall into the encirclement of goblins, no matter how powerful the elves are, they may not be able to get out, and if you are not careful, you will even fall into a siege and completely fall into a disadvantage!
Only then did Ling Qi realize what the situation in Middle-earth had become overnight, it was simply completely turned upside down, his strongest army was pinned down, and the enemy's second-strongest army began to sweep and harvest!
The game was bigger than he had imagined, so big that it was clearly beyond the hand of the Dark Lord Sauron. Unless Morgoth returns, there will be such power. But Morgoth has obviously been wiped out, and even if there is still a little remnant of the true spirit, he will die a hundred times more completely than Sauron!
Ling Qi didn't know what the normal fate trajectory of this world should be, thinking that with the intervention of these reincarnators, it must have been tampered with. But it doesn't matter, because the general trend has its own corrective power. It is not impossible to completely break the situation, whether it is Hittis or Baal, they have the ability to break the situation with their strength, change the world pattern by themselves, and even the general trend!
He Ling Qi didn't have this kind of ability, so when he vaguely saw the general trend of the world and stood on the right side, he chose the righteous camp without hesitation and put on the cloak of kindness.
He succeeded, and so far he has been on the side of justice. Evil rises suddenly, to the point that just as one milestone has fallen, another, even bigger milestone has been erected!
Is this kind of rhythm, those changes, really just what Sauron's comeback will bring?
It's definitely not so exaggerated in energy and appeal!
It was true that Ling Qi did not understand the shadow that the historical Demon Lord Sauron had brought to Middle-earth, let alone how powerful it was in its heyday, but he knew that it was all in the past. He knew very well that it was like the twilight of the western mountains, not the rising sun in the east. He has faced it and understood its predicament!
Unless he can get the One Ring, Thorin is just an empty shell, a paper tiger!
What Ling Qi couldn't understand the most was that since the mainland had become like this, where was the Holy White Council, the most nosy Gandalf!
On the fifth day and night of the frost moon, a small group of refugees made a long journey to Changhu Town.
The black clouds on the lonely mountain have spread for twenty or thirty miles, almost enveloping the entire lonely mountain below, and the farthest tentacles are already close to the lakeside, and there is a great tendency to evolve this place into a second Mordor.
This kind of change can be seen hundreds of miles away, and now they dare to run away in the direction of Gushan, I have to say that these people are really panicked!
Ling Qi asked people to properly settle them, although they are all characters who waste food, but now that he wants to hug the thighs of the righteous side, it is just a matter of occasionally playing face with some wavering guys, and the necessary bottom line must be observed, and it must be done for others to see.
More importantly, he was going to confirm some news from them, from Rivinedell.
These people, sure enough, brought the information he wanted to know, but it was even worse information!
In the midst of these eventful times, the Orc army of the Lonely Mountain is still eyeing the north, occupying the mission resources he must need.
On the desert east of the Hongshui River, under the Iron Mountain, there was actually a group of ragged savages!
A large group, thousands of ferocious savages, who met the walls and demolished the walls, encountered people and cannibalism, and then passed through the plains under the Iron Mountain and entered the hinterland of the northern part of Middle-earth!
In the face of these menacing outsiders, the dwarves of the Iron Mountain have long forgotten the agreement they made countless years ago, and have forgotten their responsibilities!
These stubborn dwarves are indifferent to the tragedy that happened at the foot of the mountain in front of them!
No one remembers that a long, long time ago, in this land, near the Inland Sea of Rune, there was a group of people who also established their own kingdom, and they called themselves Rune.
In a war that is bound to fail, they join the camp that is bound to be wrong, they are labeled as stupid and evil, and finally become a broken egg under the nest!
They failed and were purged by the Justice League, men, women and children.
These ruined people left their homeland with hatred and anger, and they crossed the vast desert and escaped with a glimmer of life!
The victors thought that those people had died in the boundless desert a long time ago, and some of those who survived had become small bands of gangsters, known as the Orientals, the evil Orientals!
The Iron Mountain Dwarves have been in charge of guarding the northeastern part of the continent, and the main targets are these wild people from the east. Now, they are back, not as harassers from the East, but as Rune!
"That's an army!"
Ling Qi's mind recalled the trembling voice and frightened expression of a refugee, who came from a large human colony, whose lord even had a cavalry regiment under his command.
In their territory, dozens of heavily armed cavalrymen, more archers and warriors, and the walls of Changhu Town, which were not inferior, could not stop a ragged and unarmed man... Army!