Chapter 71: The Storm Before the War
Is Kelshhag going or not? Itsy repeated the question in his head, having gone once when he was ten years old and never had the chance to go again.
Food is secondary, the key is that festive atmosphere, as well as your loved ones.
Mogorin should be able to participate this year, and Izzy couldn't help but think of his silly brother.
Emotionally speaking, I naturally want to participate, but it is really difficult to do what I want.
According to rational analysis, if the main members go to the Kshhag Festival, then the ogre will come and attack the camp, and it is likely that the Broken Hand Clan will be wiped out.
And this is highly probable, the ogres have been doing this since the incident with the Black Scar, and with the fact that they now know the location of the Shattered Hand Clan and hate the Broken Hand Clan to the core, Izzy estimates that there is at least an eighty percent chance that they will attack the Broken Hand Clan on Kshhag Day.
Sighing, Izzy spoke his thoughts to Kargas, who looked very, very disappointed, he was born a slave and had only heard of the pomp and circumstance of Keshhag from other slaves.
He couldn't bear what he longed for.
Kargas had a sad expression on his face: "Can't you really go?"
Izzy looked a little unbearable and rethought.
If Kargas were to go with a small army of Broken Hand Orcs who had never participated in the Kshhag Festival, would it affect the defenses?
Izzy couldn't help but think of the Blackstone Clan, their tactics of combining inside and outside, and attacking from multiple sides.
No, Havaro doesn't have the strong walls of the Blackstone Clan.
Two voices were arguing in Izzy's mind.
One said: Although it is very cruel, this is the reality, and the Broken Hand Clan can't afford to gamble.
The other said: Bring fewer people to fulfill their wishes, and there will be no major problems.
Izzy's right hand began to hurt again, and he began to wonder if he was mentally ill, and he had lost his hand, and what was the pain if he was fine?
Rubbing his elemental right hand, Lantreso knew Izzy's symptoms, and he looked at Izzy worriedly.
Izzy noticed Randrizo's eyes and signaled that he was okay.
Wait! Izzy looked back at Rantreso.
That's right, Keshhag Festival is the real way to contact the Warsong Clan, as long as you send someone to participate in the festival and contact the Warsong Clan, Izzy can completely reach an offensive and defensive alliance with the Warsong Clan and face the Goria Empire together.
Izzy was sure to convince the Warsong clan that the materials, weapons and equipment obtained after defeating the ogre alone were an inexhaustible pie.
What's more, this can make Izzy understand the Warsong clan better, if the situation is ideal, let the Warsong clan also stand on his side, then the old tribe will not want to be established, the old tribe established by the clans of Light Blackstone, Shadow Moon, Blood Ring and Thunder King is not enough to form a crushing advantage, and the clan alliance of Warsong, Frost Wolf, Broken Hand, Fire Blade, and White Claw on his side is completely able to fight against each other.
This Keshhag Festival, the Broken Hand Clan must participate, and Kagas, as the chief, must go, and the key question is whether to go or not.
Izzy thought about it for a while, he still didn't go, it was the best choice to guard the house by himself, and he just wanted to contact the War Song Clan to cooperate with the ogre, after the festival, the War Song Clan could negotiate this matter with a random messenger, and he didn't need to personally run to the leader of the War Song Clan to agree.
Izzy looked back at Kargas and said happily, "This time Kershhag is gone, and you bring thirty people to participate." ”
Then he patted Lanteriso on the shoulder: "He will go with you, as the captain of the clan hunt." ”
Rantreso was pleasantly surprised, and then turned into a bitter melon face:
"I'm a half-orc, so I can't attend the Kshhag Festival. ”
Izzy smiled:
"No, the main purpose of my participation is to protect Kargas, you go with the Lava Hand, and at the critical moment, at the speed of the Lava Hand, you can break out of the encirclement and let you and Kargas return to the clan. ”
"I'm going to stay in the clan as a precaution, so you have to go, and if the other clans say anything, let them come to me, and I'll tell them it's a prophecy from the Elemental Fury Blessed One. ”
Izzy put his hands on their shoulders and slowly explained to them the purpose of going to the festival, and the two gradually understood Izzy's thoughts, nodded their heads, and agreed with Izzy's decision.
"Alright, that's it, Rantreso, your search party is back to camp, Kargas will select 30 people for the festival, and my apprentice chef will bring it with you, so as not to lose face with our Broken Hand Clan. ”
Izzy hesitated, but then said to Randreso, "Bring me some letters, or maybe not, if they come back to see Havalo at the festival." ”
The next day, Izzy replied to Neozu's messenger that the Broken Hand Clan would participate in the autumn festival of Keshhag, but due to the threat of ogres, the clan shaman and most of the members were unable to participate.
The end of summer was only a few days away, autumn was coming, and the ogre still hadn't come, and Izzy even wondered if the two escaped ogres hadn't figured out the situation, and didn't know that it was the former slaves who attacked them, so the ogres still thought that the Broken Hand Orcs had left Nagrand.
Of course, Izzy also thinks about it, and if he has a fluke mentality with the enemy, he is looking for death.
The clan is still developing steadily, and Izzy has doubled the range of Havalo, even if the Fireblade Clan returns in the future, the Broken Hand Clan will be able to have a place to live, and the place that originally belonged to the Fireblade Clan will be returned, but if Izzy is the master, he will still try to fuse the two clans together.
"Over there, push harder, pile the stones a little steady. ”
Izzy commanded the construction of the wall, which was now made of a mixture of trees and rocks, and to be honest, Izzy really wanted to make concrete, but he couldn't find quicklime, so he had to use grass ash mixed with clay as a binder, and the wall looked good, with an outer layer of rock, and an inner layer of wooden walled platforms that allowed the Broken Hand Orcs to stand on and throw ranged weapons.
Izzy used elemental spells to condense a dense stone gate, pouring a layer of molten iron, which seemed to be not as strong as the Black Stone Clan's pure metal gate, but it was sufficient.
Izzy prayed that the ogre would not come, but he was still prepared.
The time for the Shhag Festival is approaching, Izzy asks Kargas to prepare, there are not many supplies that can be brought, the Broken Hand Clan is not rich, but with Izzy's chef apprentice, Izzy believes that this Keshhag Festival, the Broken Hand Clan will be the focus.
Izzy looked at the two of them and instructed: "If you are careful, I won't say more, you know in your hearts, don't act recklessly, the Broken Hand Clan still needs you." ”
The two nodded, and set off with the group.
Izzy watched them fade away, his eyes were determined, he knew that this half month might be the key to life and death.
"Continue to strengthen the walls, cast spears, and keep the scouts on guard, whether those miscellaneous things come or not, there will always be a useful day in the future. ”
After three days of peace, Izzy received the news.
The ogres of the Hammer Castle moved.
They have gathered their forces and are expected to reach the Broken Hand Clan in three days.
"Three days? The scouts are gathered, and I'm sending you two fifty elite warriors, and your task is to divide into two groups of troops and harass the ogres day and night. ”
"Remember, your main purpose is to harass the enemy, not to confront the enemy head-on, to make the ogres sleep badly, to eat badly, to choke them to death even to, I want to see an exhausted, panicked ogre army in a few days, understand?"
"Understood!" the two Hundred Warriors smiled, thinking that Izzy was too bad.
"Also figure out their number as soon as possible, if they don't come enough. Izzy smiled sinisterly, "You know what I mean. ”
"Understood. The two smiled in the same way.
All kinds of information kept returning to the camp, and the ogre really put a lot of effort into it this time, a large army of 1,500 people, and now the one-eyed demon observed brought five heads, and the two-headed cannibal magic also had three people.
Izzy estimated that his side had a great chance of winning, and the ten hundred warriors left behind could not deal with a few one-eyed demons, and he had strengthened his mental power, and it should not be a big problem to suppress the three rookie cannibal magicians, plus this time to consolidate the city wall, 1500 people in the city defense battle can only go through the gate without siege equipment, and the 270 warriors of the clan want to hold it It is not a big problem, and no matter how bad the situation is, it can still make up a hundred broken hand warriors.
Izzy now wants to reduce the casualties, and he must prepare more hole cards to prevent problems before they happen.
Izzy walked out of the camp and walked over to the boulder where Rantreso had killed the Cyclops years ago.
Condensed the energy of the earth element, stretched out his hand and placed it on the boulder, the rock began to crumble, and the rock golem that had been 7 meters high was awakened.
Control the rock golem to walk towards the clan gate, and stop aside, and Izzy will rest on this golem for a few days.
Continuously delivering energy to the rock golem, the seven-meter-tall rock golem gradually shrunk and became more dense, finally stopping at about five meters.
This is the difficulty that Izzy has set for the ogre, they can only break down the door without siege equipment, relying on the strong city walls, coupled with the obstruction of the rock golems, the orcs can continue to stop the ogre's attack.
The Ogre's march was delayed by the scouts, and the three-day journey had now taken three days, and it was expected to take another day and a half to arrive.
Izzy always had a feeling of uneasiness in his heart, so he found a smaller boulder, condensed it into a rock puppet, and placed it on the road, and the two puppets were like a boulder if they didn't move.
Leaving half a day to recover, the scouts returned.
"Shaman, please punish us, we didn't complete the mission objectives, there are a lot of ogres, and we only delayed for a day and a half. ”
Izzy looked at the two warriors with satisfaction, and said in a loud voice:
"No, you've done a great job of buying the clan more time, rest well, the clan still needs you to kill more enemies. ”
Half a day passed quickly, and the sky began to drizzle, which should be the last rain of autumn.
Izzy looked into the distance, and the ogre's army gradually came into his view.
"They're coming!"