Chapter 541: The Third Holy War
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After retreating from Isengard, Saruman arrived at Minas Isir and immediately took over the command of the orcs in disarray, and the tri-kingdom alliance on the side of Gondor immediately felt a completely different pressure than before.
Saruman himself has 60,000 strong orcs, and there are 340,000 orc troops assigned to him by Sauron in the Moria's tunnels, and the Barado Magic Tower military fortress has always been Sauron's base camp, with 410,000 orc troops on the ground alone, plus 770,000 orc warriors in the underground fortress, Saruman theoretically commanded more than 1.5 million troops at this time. Of course, due to the attack of the elven army on Isengar some time ago, and the chaotic attack on Belgmi City by the orcs without order, command and tactics, resulting in a large number of attritions, in fact, Saruman's army at this time was no more than 1.2 million troops.
In Belgmy City, the Elven King Elond, the Elven Queen Galadriel, Gandalf, and others sat down with the human kings, regents, and the patriarchs of the dwarven tribes, and most of the reinforcement leaders who had just arrived in Belgmy City had not yet figured out the battle situation at this time, so they all looked at Elon and Galadriel, who were sitting in the first place, with serious faces. Elon nodded to everyone sitting and said softly, "You may not know the severity of the battle at this time, we underestimated Sauron's hidden forces this time, resulting in this war is very unfavorable to us. Previously, due to the lack of command of the orcs, the city of Bergmi, which was defended by less than 100,000 men, was not captured for nearly ten days, which made us despise the troops of the orcs too much. Now that the orc army is under the command of Saruman, the pressure on the front line has increased dramatically at this time, and even if we have invested the 140,000 elven troops of Rivendell to help, it is still a little overwhelmed. At this time, there are a total of 290,000 elven troops, 210,000 human troops, and 160,000 dwarven warriors inside and outside Belgmy City, which means that we have to face nearly twice as many half-orcs. I wonder if you have any plans for the enemy? ”
None of the leaders in the room spoke. Everyone sat there with expressionless faces, their minds frantically thinking about how to deal with the situation in front of them. Gandalf coughed twice, just about to speak. Suddenly, his face changed and he stood up at the same time as Elon, frowned and looked out the window, and said in a deep voice: "This is the power of dark magic, Saruman can't wait to start attacking?" ”
Elon glanced back at everyone. He waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't discuss, let's prepare for the battle first." ”
Outside, the sky was completely covered by boundless clouds. The orcs, who no longer had to be exposed to the sun, suddenly became a hundred times more energetic, lined up in a neat formation, and rushed towards Belgmy City in black pressure.
As the commanders gave the order to attack one after another, the magnificent war began.
Arrows flew back and forth in the sky like a god of death falling from the sky, taking the lives of the warriors in patches. The soldiers who were running, the footsteps seemed to shake the earthquake, and the huge shouting and killing stimulated everyone on the battlefield to feel their blood boiling. The soldiers on both sides raised their sparkling blades and engaged in hand-to-hand combat, blood and screams rising continuously.
Every time the huge bed crossbow on the city head was fired, it opened a passage of blood and life among the orcs under the city, and the high stone throwers under the city constantly threw huge stones onto the city wall, smashing people on their backs every time. Bring a burst of chaos.
The situation on the battlefield gradually began to turn against the coalition forces, and the numerical disadvantage caused the coalition front to shrink continuously. Saruman is obviously ready to use superior forces to directly defeat the coalition forces at one time, so every charge of the orcs is the kind of daring charge regardless of sacrifice, that is, to use the numerical advantage to force the coalition to retreat in exchange for life.
In addition to the soldiers defending the city, only the leaders of various countries and the members of the Lord of the Rings were left, and the other generals had already returned to their troops to join the battlefield. Seeing that the situation of the coalition was not good, Aragorn and Boromir could not stay any longer, and kept asking Gandalf for permission to leave the city to join the battle.
Queen Galadriel had not spoken since Saruman began to attack, and at this time she suddenly let out a long sigh and whispered, "Don't think about it anymore, I'm afraid this time I can really only fight with all my strength." Belgmy cannot be lost, and if he is pursued by the orc forces after defeat, the elite of our three clans will face the threat of total annihilation. Chiefs, it's time to fight alongside the warriors, and let's do our best to destroy as many orcs as possible. After saying that, Galadriel walked down the city walls, her long golden hair fluttering in the wind, and her seemingly weak back was suffocating.
The regent of Gondor drew his sword with a "chok" and walked behind Galadriel towards the city gates. King Rohan and other leaders also silently picked up their blades and walked to the battlefield. Gandalf glanced at Aragorn, laughed and said, "Let's go, let's go too, just so I'll go and meet Saruman after demonization for a while, and ask him why he broke his oath and chose the path of demonization." ”
Elon stretched out his hand to stop Gandalf, glanced in Frodo's direction, leaned over to Gandalf's side and said, "You stay here to protect Frodo, if our coalition really loses this war, then all the hopes of Middle-earth will be pinned on Frodo." Speaking of this, Elon's voice became quieter: "It's a pity that the Ring of Qi is no longer in my hand, otherwise I wouldn't really take Saruman very seriously." ”
Gandalf's face became respectful, and he said to Elon solemnly: "Don't worry, we won't lose, I believe that at the critical moment, Lord Lin Yang will definitely appear." ”
Elon nodded, didn't say anything more, and turned away.
Jin Li had just arrived at the battlefield, and with a wave of the battle axe in his hand, he turned his head domineeringly and said to Lygulas: "Come on, let's compete and see who kills more?" Lygulas glanced at the golden bolt, and without saying a word, he drew his longbow and shot a series of arrows that pierced the throats of the three orcs in an instant. The golden thunderbolt laughed, and the tomahawk danced like a whirlwind, and the four orcs who rushed towards him fell to the ground with a miserable howl.
Boromir stood side by side with Aragorn and said loudly to Aragorn, "If you want to be the king of Gondor, you don't just count by blood, let me see if you are worthy of being the king of Gondor." As if he had not heard Boromir's words, Aragorn silently swung his sword and slashed into the ranks of the orcs, who smiled and slashed down an orc who had pounced on Aragorn from the side, and with a roar blocked the enemy at Aragorn's side.
On the battlefield, due to the participation of the leaders of various countries, the morale of the coalition army was greatly boosted, and a wave of counteroffensive was set off, suppressing the attack of the orcs.
Just as the coalition soldiers cheered loudly to celebrate this brief victory, a loud "dong dong" was heard, and the warriors on the orc side parted like a tide, and the huge mammoth herd lined up in a neat line, rolling towards the coalition side.
This huge creature that is more than ten meters tall and weighs more than ten tons is almost beyond the strength of manpower, and the coalition soldiers tried their best to bring down the two mammoth giants, but after King Sloane was trampled into a pulp by a mammoth giant elephant, the coalition front began to be chaotic. In order to block the onslaught of the mammoth, King Rohan roared, and rushed to the mammoth with the brave Rohan Iron Rider in a decisive posture, and one by one the knights of Rohan would rather be trampled into pulp than stab the spear in their hands into the body of the giant elephant, and the insignificant minor injuries converged into serious injuries, stopping the pace of the giant elephant's advance.
The coalition front had just stabilized somewhat, and there was a sharp roar in the sky, and more than a dozen huge wurm beasts suddenly joined the battlefield, and the coalition front, which had just stabilized somewhat, began to show panic again.
Gandalf saw the danger from the top of the castle tower and was about to rush down the city in desperation, when as far as the eye could see, orcs drove a dozen cave trolls to drag a huge Grund's Broken City Hammer. Gandalf's eyes widened, and there seemed to be a tragic image of Belgomy City being breached, and Frodo behind Gandalf clearly heard Gandalf muttering: "Lord Lin Yang, are you really ready to abandon Belgomy City?" ”
At this moment, Gandalf saw a smoke-locked fog-shrouded force suddenly rushing out from the direction of the Misty Forest, the speed of this team was so fast, that is, when Gandalf had just discovered them, they had already rushed to the edge of the battlefield, and in front of this team, a person who could vaguely see the appearance of a leader wearing a crown shouted: "Brothers, Lord Lin Yang is right, thousands of years ago, because of a thought, we made a greedy move to live and fear death, so that we have lived thousands of years with the name of cowardice, It has also made us what we are now. Now is the time for us to prove ourselves, to show the orcs that we are powerful, and to let the descendants of Emperor Essidor know that we are going to fulfill our vows from a thousand years ago! Kill! The ghost army behind the ghost leader raised their heads and let out a silent roar into the sky, and the resentment that had accumulated for thousands of years seemed to be completely released at this moment, and the momentum that rose to the sky even washed out the black magic released by Saruman out of a gap, and a ray of sunlight shone down from this gap with difficulty, illuminating the ghost army below for a while.
The army of ghosts swept into the ranks of orcs from the side, pouring snow in their path, and any orcs who came into contact with the army of ghosts turned into a puff of ash and scattered by the wind in the blink of an eye. The battlefield was suddenly emptied by the ghost army.
Gandalf blurted out in surprise: "Lord Lin Yang has summoned an army of ghosts on the path of death!" But when did the Ghost Legion become so strong? ”
Just when Gandalf was looking at the battlefield outside the city in surprise and joy, he suddenly heard the sound behind him, and looked back in surprise. (To be continued.) )