Chapter 123: The Battlefield

And Hermione almost dropped her jaw in shock, she knew that the people recommended by the Elf Queen should be powerful combat power, but she didn't dare to think about killing the Spirit Knight in one blow and seconds, Hongjun approached with a smile and touched Hermione's head and whispered, "Look, I'll just say that they are not opponents, right?" ”

Hermione swallowed hard, and then she understood where everyone's relaxed and comfortable expressions along the way came from, and the strength of these people was afraid that they could beat Sauron with the Supreme Crown into a pig's head, right? So why do these powerful people respect themselves so much? Don't...

Hermione took a deep breath, and the rest of the journey became like a tour, Hermione gradually adapted to this state, and Sauron continued to send some teams to keep Hongjun and his party from being too bored on the road, and even Hermione also shot a disgusting orc with a short bow with Hongjun's encouragement, shouting excitedly.

In this way, the people went east from the Rohan Kingdom, directly bypassing the Kingdom of Gondor, intending to directly cross Mordor, which is surrounded by mountains from the north, and the Doomsday Volcano is located in the southwest corner of Mordor.

At this time, Gondor, countless humans, elves, and dwarves are rushing out from the eastern city gate, and the coalition composed of 170,000 humans, 30,000 dwarves and 10,000 elves will face the attack of 400,000 orcs head-on on the eastern plains, although the number is not superior, but the morale of the coalition is unusually high, and the high-level faces of the coalition army are smiling, as if they are not facing a decisive battle that is rare for hundreds of years, but to slaughter 400,000 pigs. The reason is the news of the Elves, a powerful crown expeditionary force is on the way to the Doomsday Volcano, and it is said that there is a member of the Protoss in that team, as long as the powerful Supreme Crown is destroyed, then the war will be the same as the last time, Sauron who has lost the Supreme Crown will escape, and the orcs who have lost their leader are not like piglets to be slaughtered? Just the tens of thousands of human beings in those few evil countries are naturally not opponents.

However, the overconfidence of these people will make them pay a heavy price, as for whether the elves deliberately revealed the news is unknown, in short, the leader of the coalition Collini began to float a little, so he let the troops march in a neat formation.

Sauron naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and sent a dozen orc thousand-man teams halfway out of the city when the human alliance army was halfway out, the purpose of these guys was not to cause damage to the opponent, but to serve as bait for the opponent to eat easily, so as to make the army that began to be arrogant become more blindly confident. And the real surprise awaited them, and Sauron was looking forward to the moment when the proud expressions of the humans turned to astonishment. Although the result was already predestined, it did not affect Sauron's pre-dinner hors d'oeuvres.

A week later, the human coalition army has set up a formation on the Gondor Plain, the proud Collini actually put on an offensive posture, and the orc army that was originally attacking did not seem to have changed, at this time the armies of both sides have been in place, the human side is in the pre-war mobilization, bursts of roars and shouts are like a game, and the orc side is angry and calm, Sauron changed his image in the past, wearing a set of knight armor of nearly three meters, in fact, this is not Sauron, but a shadow that Sauron has secretly cultivated, Appearing in place of himself on the battlefield, except for a limited number of people who know about his true appearance, everyone else thinks that this terrifying appearance of nearly three meters is Sauron's true body.

At this time, the Supreme Crown Expeditionary Force finally climbed the peak of three or four thousand meters high, and more than a dozen people trekked hard in the snow, the purpose was to cooperate with Hermione's sense of mission, otherwise when Hermione remembered this trip in the future, there would be no other thing to talk about except eating and drinking and fighting little monsters.

As a result, more than a dozen "high-level warlocks" who faced the necromantic knights were killed in seconds, and began to gradually "attrition" in the face of the ordinary cold, in fact, they preferred to use the word "finishing" to indicate that finally, when they began to go down the mountain, only Hongjun and Hermione, as well as Athena and Marilyn were left. In the high-altitude place, oxygen is naturally lacking, and Hermione, who is somewhat deprived of oxygen, did not consider why her weak body would be more resistant to the destruction of the environment than those powerful warlocks, just watching those partners go down the mountain in twos and threes, and there was a little bad feeling in her heart, which gave her some secret operations what they should look like, and the four people who climbed to the top of the mountain looked at a few puffs of smoke in the distance to the southwest, knowing that the two sides had started at this time, and the war concerning the fate of mankind had officially begun.

Under normal circumstances, the defending side has a strong advantage in the case of a city wall to rely on, which is enough to make up for the lack of numbers, but humans are strange animals, and many unbelievable things can be logical once they have a relationship with the entanglement of interests, Gondor can indeed rely on high walls to defend the army of orcs, but once Gondor is closed, the orcs can bypass Gondor to Rohan in the north and go to Arnold in the west under the premise of retaining enough troops to besiege Gondor, You can even go north directly to fight in the Golden Forest, so the human alliance will have to fight with the orcs in this narrow plain to try to determine life and death, at this time the productivity is very low, the various forces and races do not have enough logistics to support the long-term war needs, even Gondor is also supported by various countries to stand still today, and the coalition forces that suddenly turned from urban defense to plain decisive battle unanimously elected Collini, who is most familiar with the orc army, as the supreme commander, Collini, who was not very proficient in plain warfare, came up and gathered the cavalry of various forces in an attempt to storm the orc line.

Collini's idea of inserting cavalry into the enemy's center line, and then turning around in divisions, trying to cut the orcs into four parts, and then splitting them and annihilating them, sounded very plausible, but the cavalry brigade of about 20,000 people charging in a triangular formation was attacked by archers hiding behind several rows of orcs on both wings of the orcs at a distance of 100 meters from the orc army, and the dense arrows fired two rounds indiscriminately into all ranges in front of the orc camp. After the cavalry brigade left thousands of lives, the vanguard of the Chinese army of the orc army faded to both sides like a tide, and what appeared in front of the cavalry brigade was a hundred-person spell team, led by a white-robed warlock!

Once the cavalry began to charge, it was easy to stop, even if the cavalry captain in front found the magician who was casting the spell, he either rushed forward with his head at an accelerated pace, or spread out towards the two wings, but looking at the strong orcs holding special spears on both wings, the spears were spiked on both sides, one end was being inserted diagonally in the soil, and the other end was shining with cold light waiting for the enemy to take the initiative to hit those dense spears, the captain swallowed a mouthful of saliva, thinking that he could only hang on the spear and become a sugar gourd. So he pulled out a short blade and inserted it into the butt of the war horse under the crotch, and the war horse immediately accelerated sharply under the pain, he tried to interrupt the other party before the other party finished casting, but the reality was cruel, just when the cavalry forward was only a few breaths away from arriving at the camp of the group of mages, a sight of more than ten meters high, more than 100 meters wide, and three meters thick The earthen wall suddenly appeared on the cavalry's charging line, and the captain closed his eyes in despair, even if he didn't die on the wall, The horses of the cavalry who came in turn would also say that they had trampled into flesh.

Collini's expression changed color when he saw the earthen wall, and he hurriedly issued an order to withdraw his troops, however, the cavalry that had been launched could only slowly change the angle of advance, and the arc-shaped route of travel was the safest, but under the influence of the earthen wall, it was obvious that it could not rely on normal detours, fortunately, the cavalry were the elite of various countries, and the triangular formation allowed the personnel behind them to clearly see the changes in front, Seeing that the situation was not good, the two wings each led thousands of people to draw a semicircle from both sides of the triangle and retreated back to the camp of the human alliance, and the orcs naturally would not let this group of cavalry leave so easily, although the orcs did not have the existence of cavalry, but the evil four countries that had taken refuge in Sauron did have excellent archers, and the formation of the orcs was obviously carefully arranged, not according to the troops, but divided into a mixed corps, seeing that the cavalry wanted to retreat, The archers began the third round of indiscriminate arrow rain.

20,000 cavalry, only more than 8,000 returned, Collini slapped himself in the face, those cavalry are the baby bumps of various countries, this time the loss of more than half, no one will feel good, the key is that it did not cause any damage to the enemy, even if the cavalry charge did not kill many people this time, as long as the enemy's formation was cut apart, it was also good, that Collini could let the infantry press, the orc army that was disrupted in the formation of the cavalry back and forth impact and the approach of the infantry must not be able to take into account, At that time, the morale of the coalition army was greatly boosted, and it was bound to inflict heavy losses on the enemy army.

But the cavalry, who had lost more than 10,000 lives in vain, ran back and forth, as if they were giving the enemy more than 10,000 heads, and the morale of the coalition army was suddenly dropped. At this time, Collini's deputy Eugene began to suggest, Eugene suggested that the infantry should be pressed directly, the heavy shield hand in front, the archer in the middle, the sword and axe hand in the back, and gradually advance, while the cavalry was hidden at the end, and after the people on both sides approached, the archers fired a salvo first, because the archers were in front, they could get as many salvos as possible, so that the orcs would inevitably retreat their spears and the shieldmen would come forward, and the cavalry that suddenly appeared at this time would inevitably receive a surprise effect.