Chapter 60: A Knight from the Old World
In the early morning, the east is whitening.
When the first rays of morning light fell on the earth, the fart boys, who had been ravaged by the cold wind all night, finally felt a little warmer on the rough and rudimentary earthen walls of "Orgrimmar".
After a so-so patrol all night, the little ones were already sleepy-eyed, and they gathered together in twos and threes, yawning and making all sorts of disgruntled noises, as if cursing those damn little friends for not being able to pay off.
According to the arrangement of one of the goblin bosses, they would have to wait for another hour before their shift companions could go back to their little grass huts and sleep soundly, and when night fell again, they would return here to continue the vigil.
At present, the number of fart spirits and tyrants in the territory has reached eighty, and the stone divides them into two teams, two shifts, one team on the day shift and one team on the night shift, to ensure that the most important line of defense of the city wall is guarded twenty-four hours a day.
Even so, the territory's current defense capability is still too weak, and it is not reliable to form a defense line purely from fart boys, only when the new "watchtower" is repaired, and then paired with goblin archers, it can be regarded as some combat effectiveness, and now it can only be said that it is better than nothing.
After the last battle, the security alert for the territory has not been lifted, and the "Red Fang Tribe" should also receive the news of Skip's defeat and death, and maybe a new attack is being planned.
Blindly shrinking and being beaten is not the style of stone, which is why he is so anxious to find a quarrying point, only by quickly repairing the secondary building and starting to recruit a regular army composed of goblins can he grasp the real initiative.
According to his plan, when the time comes, he will directly station a large number of goblins in the northern mountain pass, defend this choke point, and attack and retreat can be defended, so that the territory can be truly safe.
Like now, only a team of spearmen can be arranged to monitor the timber yard, and once someone attacks, they can only withdraw to the city wall, giving up a large area of land outside the city in vain, wasting strategic depth.
Of course, these are all things that the stone has to worry about, and it has nothing to do with the group of little in front of them who can't open their eyes, and the only thing they want is to go back to sleep quickly and in the dark.
The most difficult hour finally passed, and a crooked team appeared on the south side of the city wall, and seeing these familiar figures, the little ones knew that they had finally survived the end, and stood up with the last spirit to prepare for a shift change.
At this moment, there was a sudden sound of clattering horses' hooves outside the city, from far and near, quickly reaching the ears of every ass.
Turning his head, in the condescending wide field of vision of the little ones, a rider on a war horse appeared at some point, approaching the city gate at a very fast speed, so frightened that they hurriedly lit the wolf smoke next to them according to the leader's instructions.
The so-called wolf smoke is a communication tool made of stone with the feces of the she-wolf of Eagle Eye, mixed with some dead leaves and branches, which can quickly become a black smoke that rises into the sky after ignition, and the wind blows but does not disperse, and the people in the tribe know that something is wrong with the city wall when they see it.
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In the village chief's wooden house, Shi woke up suddenly, and when he opened his eyes, he saw straight black smoke outside the window, he was stunned for a second, and then hurriedly rushed downstairs to wake up the three attendants who were still asleep.
Although he was extremely anxious and didn't know what was going on on the other side of the earthen wall, Stone still maintained his usual calm, and made a quick decision, first asking Hawkeye, who had the strongest agility, to set off immediately and go over to see the situation, while he himself took two other retinues and gathered the goblin cannon fodder in the camp and followed closely.
That's the advantage of having scouts, at least you can get a little information in time, you don't have to rush over blindly, and if you just hit a large army of the enemy, you don't know how to die.
Not long after Hawkeye set off, the stone gathered all the heavily armed goblin boys and rushed out of the camp with murderous vigour.
Thanks to this period of time, this group of goblins practiced with the stones every day, both the gathering speed and the marching speed were much faster than the ordinary greenskins, if according to the normal situation, if they wanted to pull a group of messy greenskins out of the house, it was impossible in a few hours, but under the leadership of the stones, in just half an hour, they could see the traces of the city wall.
During this time, the wolf smoke has not stopped, which means that the most critical line of defense is still in the hands of the boys, and it has not changed hands, and it seems that the situation is still under control.
When Shi rushed to the city wall with a large army, he found that there was not even a sound of fighting around, as if nothing happened.
Now he was depressed.
"I'm going to go! In ancient times, there were princes of beacon fire, and now there are fart spirits to tease the boss? Did these little guys eat the bear's heart leopard gall? Dare to play tricks? And Hawkeye, it stands to reason that this kid should have arrived a long time ago, why didn't he move? ”
As soon as I remembered that I hadn't slept well in the morning and hadn't eaten anything, I rushed over in a hurry, but nothing happened?
It's worth it! While he was gearing up to think about how to clean up the bunnies, he rushed up the city wall with people to see what was going on.
As soon as he got on the earthen wall, he realized that things were not what he imagined, the fart bully was not lying, it was indeed a stranger who had broken into the territory, and their small slingshots were pointing at each other in unison, but the problem was that there seemed to be only one figure in the distance, and it was far away from the city gate, shouting something.
Hawkeye was also beside him, staring nervously at the outside of the city, and if there was any abnormal movement, he was ready to be the first to rush forward and fight to the death with the scimitar in his hand.
This was the picture he saw after the stone came up, and just when he was puzzled, a continental lingua franca came from a distance, and faintly fell into his ears.
"You... Green mushrooms, go... Over here... Lord, I'm... Imperial... Frontier pro... Knight, should ...... Come. ”
When the stone heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then it suddenly dawned on him that he wanted a few goblins to quickly put down the hanging door, and he was going out of the city.
In the astonished eyes of the others, the hanging door slowly fell, and the stone rushed out of the city gate first, and behind him were the green-skinned boys who wanted to stop but did not dare, so they had to follow closely at the head.
Seeing a large group of people rushing out of Hulala, the uninvited guests outside were not afraid, and they did not hurry forward to meet them.
Only then did the stone see the true face of the person who came.
It was a knight on a black steed and dressed in elaborate chain mail, and behind him was a broad, two-handed sword.
The knight was about thirty years old, with a thin build, a goatee on his chin, and a high hairline, and he may have been troubled in a few years, but the only remaining black hair was well groomed by him, and the rest of his body was clean and tidy, and he knew at a glance that this was a man who paid great attention to his appearance.
That's right, the knight who suddenly appeared in "Orgrimmar" was a human.
The two faced each other, and the stone took the lead in saying in the pure continental lingua franca:
"You're Rip? I am the lord here, the lord of the Broken Claw tribe, the chosen son of Brother Mao, Stone Broken Claw. ”
In front of this tall knight, the dwarf stone could only look up, but neither his tone nor his demeanor was at all down.
When the knight named Rip heard the stone's words, he quickly jumped off his mount, squeezed out a smile, and said in a loud voice:
"Hello, Lord Stone, I'm Rip, you can also call me by my nickname, Blackheart, it's a pleasure to work for you."
Yes, this is the hero that Stone recruited last night, a human knight from the Old World Empire.
PS: I heard that some people questioned my ability to break the chapter, and I can only express regret about it, everyone rest assured, the plot of the next chapter will begin to push.
PS: Thank you for the 500 starting coins from "Rhubarb on the right hand"!