Chapter 25: Mount Hyjal

Mount Hyjal, an ancient and beautiful mountain range, towers so high that there are not many peaks in the world of Azeroth that can match it in height, and the only one that can be named is the peak of the snow-capped mountains in the region where the Kaolin Minotaurs live in the Broken Isles.

The explosion of the Well of Eternity shattered an entire continent, and the monstrous flood made the surviving race leaders show their powers, such as Shao Hao, the last emperor of the pandamen, who turned into a mist to protect and hide the continent of Pandaria, and the mechanical dwarf king McCargon, who simply took his people to hide underground to create a new kingdom of McCargon...... The strongest empire of the Night Elves, which rose after the Trolls of Zandalara, after a series of betrayals by the Empress, demonic invasions, and traitor infighting, blew up the Well of Eternity with the help of guardian dragons and wilderness demigods, and drove the demons who invaded Azeroth back to the Warped Void.

It was such a powerful empire, and their remnants had no choice but to flee in the face of this monstrous flood, and when the whole world was torn apart by the explosion of the Well of Eternity, the heavens and the earth were shattered, and the flood was raging, they fled to the nearest "top of the world" Hyjal Peak.

It was here that Illidan poured a bottle of stolen water from the Well of Eternity for the survival of his people, filling the small lake with energy and allowing the terrified Night Elves to once again receive the gift of Azeroth's origin. However, his move was regarded as a rebellion by the new leader Malfurion, who suppressed the upper elves and feared that the upper elves would take this opportunity to become strong again, so after many dissuasions and quarrels, those unwilling to submit to the upper elves finally had to choose to split up.

Illidan was thrown into prison.

In order to implement the policy of not using magic, Malfurion and other druids decided to plant a World Tree in this lake to reconcile the strength of the energy of the Well of Eternity, and also to gradually improve the environment of Azeroth through this tree. The matter was eventually known to the Dragon Legion, and the guardians of Azeroth, taking pity on the Night Elves and their exploits to the previous war, decided to bless the World Tree.

Blessed by the four dragon kings except the Black Dragon King, Nodashir quickly took root, and it grew into a huge and tall that ordinary people could not imagine. For example, Nodashir itself is like a peak, and Nodashir, perched on top of the world, is like an unsheathed sword, pointing straight into the sky, as if it wants to pierce the sky.

In the long and short 10,000 years, thanks to the efforts of Nodashir and the Druids, the wounds of Azeroth have been healed, the earth has been healed, and the skies have been restored to peace. As the vegetation of the trees expanded, so did the area of the forest as the Night Elves expanded, and almost the entire northeastern part of the continent of Kalimdor made the world a better place. More and more species are beginning to emerge from their former sanctuary and return to the bosom of nature, to the bosom of Azeroth.

Now, though, the druids, who only think about how to plant trees, are in big trouble, and the Night Elves, who have them as one of the elite troops, are in even bigger trouble!

The Burning Legion is here again.

Although the Burning Legion this time is much better than the offensive that destroys the world at every turn in the Ancient War, the current Night Elf society is not as strong as it was during the Ancient War, and the current Night Elves are not even called a country, they are just loose groups. After losing the connection and command of the druids, many powerful combat units such as Ancient Trees, Mountain Giants, and Chimera could only rely on instinct to defend against the enemy, which caused waste and losses to the elite troops. This loss is very unbearable and irreparable.

Thankfully, in the open space near Malone's Sanctuary, the glory of the arcane surged over the mountain for the first time in a long time, and the Night Elf sentinels in desperation welcomed their reinforcements.

When I first saw Mount Hyjal, the bright and clear sky, the green everywhere, and the swaying leaves, it was like a beautiful scene of a well-fed afternoon. But unlike this peaceful scene, the dark, muddy, and oppressive clouds that spread from the direction below the hillside are "swallowing" this beautiful scenery little by little.

The avenue was almost filled with fleeing animals on the ground, and elk and gray wolves were running one after the other, but it was clear that they were not in the relationship between predator and prey, but their eyes were full of terror, and they were running away from what would make herbivores no longer fear predators, and carnivores no longer follow their instincts to prey on herbivores......

And the sky is full of birds that also block out the sun, they flap their wings desperately without looking back, there are hunters in the sky such as eagles, there are petite sparrows, there are snow-white owls, and there are even many birds that have never been seen before, they chirp and scream, and the sound of terror is connected in the sky, forming a duet with the beasts running on the ground, completely tearing apart the tranquility near Mallorn's shelter.

Soon the Night Elves came into contact with the sudden arrival of the coalition forces, and to the eyes of the Night Elf sentinels who looked like the fleeing beasts, Adelan felt that this battle seemed to be very difficult to fight.

Through the exchange of information, it was learned that at this time, the Maloon Shelter had become the rear headquarters of the first defensive position in Mount Hyjal, and further east, where there were still blue skies and green lands, the area where the Night Elves still held and resisted. But further east, the clouds visible to the naked eye on the horizon were like boulders pressing down on everyone's chests, so depressing that people couldn't even gasp for air.

"Thank you for your reinforcements, brave coalition warriors. "Despite the urgency of the sentry officer, the necessary courtesy must be had, and she

Impatiently, he said, "I'm Santis Hazuki, the general of the Sentinel Force, can your people join the battle right away?"

Adelan couldn't believe that this emaciated and terrified female Night Elf who could transmit this fear to her subordinates at any time was the Shantith Hazuki who the players called the "Luna Railgun"?

If the Night Elf army without the command of Garrod Shadow Song only lost its general direction in terms of strategic policy, the other commanders could still stabilize the general's mind, after all, there was no need for a clearer strategic policy to guide such a clear goal as sticking to Mount Highjal.

However, after losing the help of a large number of druids that the Night Elves are proud of, after losing Cenarius, a demigod close to the Night Elves, after completely losing contact with the Emerald Dream and unable to contact the Green Dragon's allies, after losing the powerful elite troops such as the Treants who can't be awakened, the Mountain Giants who can't communicate, and the Chimera......

The Night Elf sentinels can only use their feeble bodies to stop the countless demons and undead.

In Santis's opinion, the Hyjal Mountains have some more terrain advantages than the Felwood Forest, allowing the defenders to obtain higher and more difficult terrain to block. At first, such terrain could indeed make it difficult for the enemy to move an inch, and it could even be said that there was no progress except for dropping a corpse. But mortals are mortals after all, and in the face of an almost endless onslaught of undead and demons, exhaustion and fear have become their worst enemies.

It didn't take 10 minutes at all, and the archers in units of 1,000 men had to be rotated, otherwise they would be almost unscathed in the face of the enemy's onslaught, but if they continued to shoot, they would have to die on the defensive line!

At this time, Santis missed the druids in the form of giant bears, or the throwing stones of the ancient trees of war, or even the broad, thick bodies of mountain giants...... There were no decent hand-to-hand units at the front line, which led to the fact that in order to ensure that his soldiers could survive as many people as possible under the harassment of the opposing air force, Santis always had to lose a few yards or even a dozen yards of distance every time he changed guards.

And distance is life for armies that excel at long-range combat, especially in this kind of positional warfare where there is not the slightest room for manoeuvre. Moreover, in terms of numbers, the regular army of the Night Elves is overwhelmingly disadvantaged. It's not that Santis didn't think about using those reserve troops to participate in the battle, but in such a high-intensity rotation battle, if they were on the field, they probably wouldn't be able to maintain such a defensive position, and it might even directly lead to the collapse of the battle line.

Therefore, Santis only dared to use the more than 20,000 veterans who survived the ancient war in her hands, and led the recruits of the regular army to survive the battle in a ratio of 1 to 1...... In fact, Santis did, and her soldiers were very faithful to her tactic of protecting themselves as much as possible while killing and injuring the enemy, but the pressure, fatigue, and fear accumulated by those who survived could not be released in a short period of time in such a fierce battle, and these adverse reactions only accumulated and eventually completely lost control.

Edlan knew all this, so it was not too surprising that he had such a reaction to the "young" general, so he replied, "That's what we're here for, General Santis." Tell us the latest situation, we need to know the whole picture. ”

Then the top brass of the coalition began to gather, and the adjutants immediately began to reorganize their ranks and be ready to attack at any time.

A few minutes later, after Santis's barrage of narrations, the top brass of the coalition forces frowned, and the severity of the situation was far greater than they had imagined.

"It's a serious situation...... Crassus, when will His Majesty Alexstasa be able to lead reinforcements to arrive?" Edlan turned to Karegos again and asked, "Your Majesty Malygos is too, when will you be able to support us?"

The two dragon protagonists glanced at each other, and Crassus said, "We have already spoken to Her Majesty before we came, but Your Majesty will only be responsible for the final decisive battle with Akmund, and it will be us dragons who will deal with the demon army, but you also know that it will take time to get here from the Temple of Dragon's Sleep......"

"Unfortunately, General Edlan, and so is His Majesty Malygos, our Blue Dragon Legion is scattered all over the world, and it will be difficult to mobilize enough forces, and we will also need time. ”

"What are you afraid of, just these demonic scum, I'll just have a few dragon breaths, and they'll be finished! Isn't it just time? I'll fight for you!" Valastaz said with a grin.

For the words of Crassus and Karegos, Edlan also understands that the dragon kings have great magical powers, especially the magic kings, and he wants to reach any place in Azeroth through teleportation, not just playing, tearing space and other magic, the dragon kings will, they must also wait for Akmund's flaws to appear or when the crisis will come out, so now I don't expect them to be able to deal with those miscellaneous soldiers.

After all, they are high on top, wouldn't it be very cheap to deal with those lowly miscellaneous soldiers? And if they are the king, if they have to do everything, then why do they need so many subordinates? Now is the best time to hand over to those newborn dragons and young dragons to accumulate combat experience.

"Valastaz is right, we can still do the task of buying time......" Edlan turned to Santis, who had been listening, and the latter's expression was noticeably better after learning that the two dragon legions were going to help, and he said, "I wonder if you have a solution to the problem without the help of dragons and external forces?" I mean the way to drive Akmund back into the void. ”

"......" Santis hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Originally, in the most relaxing moment when Akmund absorbed the energy of Nodashir, Lord Malfurion used the ancient horn to awaken all the elves on Mount Hyjal, and they converged on Nodashir and Akmund, causing a huge energy overload and then inducing an explosion. Even if it's as strong as Akmund, we have reason to believe that an explosion of energy will blow him back into the Twisted Void!"

"It's a good idea, but I've heard that the druids can't wake up from their dreams again, Lord Malfurion?"

Santis shook his head and gave everyone a heavy message, "The Ancient Horn must only be wielded by a Grand Druid-level person, but now ......"

"Can't find even one of the Great Druids?" Hamuel Rune Totem, who had been listening, interjected, the one he had heard the most about the druids in the Night Elves, so he was still shocked when he heard that the Great Druids who were like messengers of nature could not wake up.

Santis shook his head calmly and said, "Yes, the Great Druids have entered the dream realm to get in touch with the Green Dragon Legion or investigate what happened in the Emerald Dream, after all, that world is also very important, if something big happens to the Emerald Dream, Azeroth will also suffer." ”

"Bang bang!" Edlan clapped his hands, stopping the topic from getting skewed. "Well, I see, whether we can count on the Great Druids or not, our mission remains the same. As bad as it is, the more this happens, the more we have to get it...... Herod, tell our cavalry to dismount, we don't need horses for this kind of defensive battle in small terrain, and you are the same for Sal, gather enough infantry, 10,000 men into 10 teams, we have to act as meat shields. ”

Although I know that it doesn't make much sense for people to sprinkle in on this point, but with the blessing of the favorable terrain, it is still possible to delay the pace of the attack of the demons and the undead, as long as it lasts until the dragon army arrives, it is not a big problem, there is no Malfurion, there is no one, and the "history" has changed more than this time, Edlan seems to be a little used to it, he is not used to it, Cenarius is hanging, the green dragon is not coming, how can mortals who are not druids enter the Emerald Dream? So even if he wants to pull up another team to go to the Jade Dream Realm to make trouble, there is nothing he can do at the moment.

"Yes, General. "/"The warriors of the tribe will not let you down, human general. Herold and Thrall glared at each other, and immediately left with their men to prepare in their respective queues.

"Kael'thas, your Ranger and Magister are scattered into Santis' rotation and increase ranged firepower. ”

"Alright, Sylvanas, Romans, let's go. Kael'thas was not pretentious, and left the conference table with his own people.

"Woking, your spearmen have a short range, so follow our infantry and set up your defenses. ”

"No problem, the Darkspear Clan will definitely be able to complete the task. "Woking leaves.

"Hey, Edlan, what about us?" asked Valastaz, a little unpleasantly.

Edlan smiled bitterly and said, "Don't worry, your mission is to clear the sky of enemies, and then it's time for you to perform on the ground, can you do it?"

This kind of simple task really doesn't motivate me...... But forget it, just continue to hone those young dragons, and I'll take a good look at them. Let's go, Cleostraz, let's go and give those demons a little color!"

The departure of the dragons made the place a lot empty.

"And what about our mission? General Edlan. **Shi Modra asked, although she was not able to recover to her best state by Manolos's mental backlash last time, this ** division still stood up very firmly and actively sought to fight.

"The mages of Dalaran are the second-tier forces that will take over the mages of Kelswass at any time, and I think you also know that the number of mages of the blood elves is too small. ”

"Okay, I got it. Then I'll inform the mages. ”

"How are you going to use the sailors of Kurtiras and the reinforcements of Ironforge, are they also used as reserves?" Gianna, who was left with the command of these two forces at the moment, had not yet scheduled a mission.

"That's right, as far as defensive battles are concerned, the paladins are fine, but those cavalry are used to attacking, and it is easy to have some problems when participating in such defensive battles, and I will be very relieved to have your palace. ”

"Okay, then I'll go and relay the notice. ”

After Gianna also left, there was only a somewhat stunned Santis Hazuki left, even though she was also a general, but to be honest, in front of the leaders of so many races and forces, she could call the shots. Eternal life is a blessing to the Night Elves, but it also makes them give up a lot, such as being able to maintain their sleek and due majesty in front of so many different people like this human general.

"Then, General Santis, if nothing happens, I'll go to the troops, and my troops will serve as the first line of defense, and hopefully they will be able to cooperate happily. With that, he subconsciously stretched out his hand.

Shantis looked at the outstretched hand suspiciously.

"Ah, sorry, this is a human handshake and can be used for occasions such as reaching a consensus. ”

Just as Adelane was embarrassed to withdraw his hand, Santis smiled for the first time in a long time and shook his right hand, "Happy cooperation, General Edlan." ”