Chapter 72: Elven Reinforcements
About a month later, Chu Fan's team arrived in the Holy Helmet Valley.
Prior to this, Xiudon was convinced, and then Rohan's scouts did discover the army of orcs who had been drawn out, so they gave up staying in the palace and came to the Valley of the Holy Helmet with a small army to set up defenses.
The Valley of the Sacred Helmet looks like a valley surrounded by mountains on both sides, where the ancestors of the Rohan built a towering wall and even dug large caves in the mountains on either side.
A wall of about four or five kilometers stretched in the middle of the canyon, and the height of the wall was about six or seven meters, and it was made of stones.
There are many arrow towers on the mountain on the left, and the walkway on the top of the city wall is linked to the fortress group on the right mountain.
A considerable number of fortresses were built on the right side of the mountain, and this side was also the main hub of the Valley of the Holy Helmet, with not only fortresses but also palaces.
According to the relationship of Western culture, the king's palace was actually a place for troops, and there must be an arsenal of weapons in case of accidents, as well as a considerable amount of food reserves.
There were not many Rohans brought by Theudon to the Valley of the Holy Helm, and most of them were civilians who had gathered along the way, except for about six or seven hundred soldiers.
The sheer number of civilians, combined with their grief for abandoning their homes, makes such a military stronghold a bit like a refugee camp.
"That's amazing!" Eve pointed to the long walkway that connected the fortress on the hill on the right: "Bit by bit, every ten meters or so is an arch, the highest place should be more than one hundred and fifty meters, how did they do it?" ”
It was a high-altitude passage that looked quite spectacular, and I don't know how much manpower and financial resources were spent, but it looked very shocking.
However, it is precisely because there is such a passage from low to high that the fortress group on the right has a weak point.
"It's a trap." Aragorn was smoking a cigarette, and the cigarette was naturally given by Lin Bin, a participant in the mission. He said: "That terrain is a matter of no one man. The enemy's main attack will also be placed there, and the defensive pressure on the canyon walls will be much reduced. ”
The width of the high-altitude passage is about five meters, there are no guardrails on either side, and it is still within the range and firing distance of the long-range attack weapons of the fortress group and the city walls.
Indeed, the invading enemy forces were going to capture the Valley of the Holy Helm, and they could not ignore the fortresses (palaces) on the hill on the right.
If you want to attack the hub of the Holy Helmet Valley, there is no more direct way than to attack it from the high-altitude passage, once you can attack it, you can ignore the defense of the city wall, and there is no need to fight the mountain on the left.
"Such a design is certainly a trap when there are enough troops, but once the troops are insufficient, ......" Boromo tugged at the corners of his mouth, shook his head and said, "Saruman has been terminated, but his army of 20,000 and a half orcs is still there." It seems that there are about 2,000 strong orcs? ”
Among the orcs, the strong orcs are the strongest, otherwise those orcs are actually generally weak.
That's a matter of pre-determined production materials, and a considerable number of orcs use mutilated corpses as materials, and there are defects in the production, usually with the characteristics of mutilated limbs.
In many cases, even if the human beings are temporarily armed militia, as long as the militia is not so timid as to weaken their hands and feet in advance, one militia can actually win against two orcs.
The strong orcs can easily defeat at least ten militiamen, and can defeat the regular army of the human race with one enemy and three, and will only be equal when facing some elite soldiers, and the side that is cut and chopped vegetables when encountering the legendary level (B level) or above.
The current regular army in the Valley of the Holy Helmet was only three hundred, and after the order of Hiudun, nearly a thousand militia were armed.
With about 1,300 armed forces, what needs to be defended is the huge Holy Helmet Valley, and the strength is seriously insufficient!
"We need reinforcements!" Hiudon could not hide his anxiety and said, "Saruman is dead, but if we can't defeat his orc army, we will also die." ”
There weren't many people who could enter the palace hall, but there were still nearly twenty of them.
Most of them weren't Rohan's men, such as the Fellowship of the Ring, which accounted for more than a dozen people.
This side of the Holy Helmet Valley has been abandoned for a long time, and after they came over, they cleaned it up, but they can still see the traces of desolation, for example, the spider silk on the roof belongs to the ones that have not been cleaned up for the time being, and the ground in some corners is piled up with cobwebs and thick dust.
Now the important thing is to discuss how to deal with the invasion of the orc army, and the environment can be ignored for the time being.
"I can go and find Faraz." Gandalf said that he came to encounter the Rohan cavalry led by Falas: "He has gathered more than 2,000 cavalry, and can play a key role in the battle in the Valley of the Holy Helm." ”
Faraz? Lin Bin saw it when he entered Rohan, but I don't remember if it was a plot character who took up a role.
Xiyoton showed a look of remorse, and soon became resolute again, and decided, "Then do it." ”
During the years of his control, there were too many Rohan nobles exiled by Xiyoudon, many of whom died in exile, many of whom were disappointed in the royal family and began to wander with their subjects, and some of whom gathered their followers and herdsmen to fight against the orc invasion.
Faras should be the largest of the many exiled nobles, and he actually gathered more than 2,000 cavalry under his hands?
You must know that during the reign of Siyodon, his highest assembled army was only more than 20,000 cavalry, and he still gathered the nobles and knights of the whole country as a king, including the retinue of nobles and knights, and only had the number of 20,000 cavalry.
"Among the civilians, thirteen-year-old boys must also be armed!" Siyodon knew too well the crux of this battle, and said, "If the Valley of the Holy Helmet falls, it will be a fatal blow to Rohan!" ”
The Valley of the Holy Helmet is the last fortress of Rohan, and Rohan has used the Valley of the Holy Helmet more than once to avoid the destruction of the country, and has defeated the invading enemy forces in the Valley of the Holy Helmet several times, and then in the subsequent battles, the overall situation has turned defeat into victory.
The sound of a horn "woo-woo-woo" came out of nowhere.
The people in the hall were nervous at first, and a few people spoke.
"Not an orc horn."
"Neither are ours."
"It's the horn of the elves!"
After Aragorn finished speaking, he walked excitedly towards the palace gate, no one looked forward to the arrival of the elves more than him, which means that the elves at least support him and are willing to shed their blood for him, not only about this battle in the Valley of the Holy Helm, but also about whether he can be so smooth in the future in charge of Gondor.
Directly in front of the Valley of the Holy Helmet, an army of about 2,000 elves was marching in line towards the high-altitude passage, and they walked very neatly, making the words "elite division" appear in people's minds at a glance......
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