Volume 8: War and Peace Sheet 3: Reversal
Guts are such a thing as very important for any battle, whether it's the age of cold weapons or the heat. In the age of weapons, an army that has lost its courage cannot be a victor.
And the so-called courage, in fact, can be seen as two parts, courage and momentum, you have to have courage first, and then you can burst out of momentum, dare to hold a fruit knife at people to cut, no matter whether it is good or bad, at least the courage is definitely there, so in the eyes of others, the momentum will naturally come out.
The same is true of these dwarven players now, who were frightened by the charge of those undead knights before, and did not dare to fight against them at all, which directly led to the extreme weakening of the momentum, and even the hunters who came out later could chase them and slaughter unscrupulously, and in fact, if you compare the equipment and levels of both sides, these dwarf players who are qualified to participate in the rescue operation are not worse than those hunters, or even better.
And when the dwarven giant bear knights appeared, the situation on the battlefield quickly changed, with these seemingly powerful helpers, the dwarf players who were killed before quickly changed from the role of the victim to the perpetrator, as if it was their twin brother who was holding their head a few seconds ago.
Zuckerberg slowly got up from the ground, while watching the players around him screaming and fighting with those chasseurs like chicken blood, he shook his head silently, and did not choose to join the counterattack, but quickly ran towards the place where the dwarven giant bear knights appeared.
Zuckerberg, who has been following the gangsters since he was a child, knows a truth deeply, when the two gangs are fighting, it is often not those tall and fierce people who die the most and fastest, nor those bosses who have a lot of power, but their little minions who have no power and no power to rely on. Why? Because there are no side effects of killing them, you don't have to worry about being seen as a thorn in the side of the enemy, and you don't have to worry about retaliation one day!
Although it is not a gangster fight now, but a real battlefield fight, in Zuckerberg's view, it is no different from the gangster fight he has experienced, after the dwarf giant bear knights appeared, it was like having a leading big brother, a group of little brothers screamed and wanted to show themselves, and those guys who ambushed them although they looked really defeated, but still retreated without chaos, it is obvious that they have strict discipline and a deep background, in this case, I can't tell if the other party has any powerful means, For someone like Zuckerberg, who has a lot of experience in struggle, saving his life first is obviously the most important goal.
After a few steps, a wailing figure lying on the ground stopped him.
The dwarf Thornley was obviously not as lucky as Zuckerberg, this noisy fellow was unfortunately shot in the stomach by a stray arrow, and then a leg was trampled by the horse's hooves under the assault of those undead cavalry, and now he was lying on the ground in his dying due to excessive blood loss and pain, according to the rules of the game, if no one treated, the dwarf would have to return to the cemetery in a few minutes to be resurrected.
Considering the friendship between the two, Zuckerberg quickly took out a bottle of medium-sized life potion from his waist, pried open Thornley's mouth and poured half of it, and then poured the other half into the wound of the broken leg, as for the arrow on the stomach, Zuckerberg could only cut off the arrow shaft with a knife first, and then slowly take out the arrow when he had time.
This is the standard first aid method, and with the third update, players have discovered that they can't just drink potions to cure all diseases like other online games, and when the body suffers obvious trauma, the right treatment will give them the best treatment results. For example, if you have a broken bone, you need to first join the bone in the correct position, then put a strap and a hardwood plank, and then treat it with healing spells or potions to make a reasonable recovery from the injury, otherwise, you will only have to harvest a completely useless limb, and eventually you will have to break the bone and start over.
After briefly treating Sanley's wounds, Zuckerberg picked him up and continued to run, regardless of whether it would cause pain to the dwarf.
Half a bottle of healing potion went down his stomach, coupled with the bleeding effect was stopped, and the loss of health and severe pain made Thornley regain a little consciousness, opened his eyes slightly, and after seeing the ridiculous and funny back of Zuckerborg's head, the dwarf squeezed out a smile: "Hehe, I didn't expect to be saved by you again!" ”
"Shut up!" Zuckerberg said angrily that if this was not the only friend he had made in prison, he would never risk his life to save him.
Obediently shutting his mouth, Sonley turned his head to see how the other unlucky ones were in a miserable situation, and for him, only looking at the more miserable appearance of others could make him forget about his physical pain for a while.
But in the chaos and noisy battlefield, there are some things that make Thornley feel inexplicable.
"What's that?" He said in an inaudible voice, and in his field of vision, a man-tall beer barrel continued to fall from the sky, and the fragile wooden barrel was completely shattered the moment it hit the ground, bursting out patches of dark green liquid, enveloping the entire battlefield at an extremely fast speed.
"Boom!" A large wooden barrel smashed near the two of them, and the broken wood scraped across Zuckerberg's body several meters away, causing many scratches on the exposed skin, followed by the gas that continued to spread along the landing point, looking miserable green and revealing a penetrating feeling.
"Zach, what do you say this thing is?" As the saying goes, life is endless, and the conversation is endless, and it is obvious that for Sonley, as long as his mouth is still there, no one can stop his two lips.
"Oh my God! Can you be quieter? Zuckerberg kept observing the situation around him, lest he be hit by an eyeless stray bullet, and kept walking, the dispersed green gas spread at a rapid speed, but Zuckerberg didn't want to take a detour, he was going to pass through this thing and escape from this battlefield as soon as possible.
He will soon realize how stupid this decision he has made!
These undead plague barrels are stored in a high concentration of undead plague, this mixture of poison and death energy, the gas processed by necromancy is extremely volatile and lethal, even a strong man, exposed to this undead plague, will quickly become a corpse, and then resurrect as an undead spirit under the influence of death energy.
However, despite its advantages of low cost, high lethality, wide range, etc., the undead NPCs themselves rarely use this plague barrel, not because those high-level undead are all good citizens, but the main reason is that the actual combat effect is poor.
First of all, the undead plague in this plague bucket is not under the control of the undead, and its strong lethality is not able to escape the end of being transformed into an undead creature except for the undead themselves, so that the undead cannot use this weapon in a large-scale war at all, who knows if this bucket will die more than humans or demons!
Secondly, compared to the necromancer's death spells, the necromancer plague is far inferior in any way, and the necromancers are more willing to share their own spells to transform corpses and create new undead creatures than to use this necromancer plague to create undead creatures on a large scale.
Finally, the advantage of the undead plague in favor of large-scale manufacturing also means that its manufacturing difficulty is reduced, which allows the undead enemies to easily formulate countermeasures, whether it is the development of antidote according to the plague formula, or the improvement of the corresponding purification magic effect, which can quickly reduce the lethality of the undead plague to a minimum. As a result, the undead had to update the recipe frequently in order to ensure the effect of the plague, and once the old recipe was mastered by the enemy, it meant that the weapon lost most of its effects.
In this case, it is not very difficult for undead players to obtain a certain eliminated undead plague recipe through some special channel, and the not difficult crafting method also allows players to make this killing tool in large quantities themselves.
In fact, if there are enough priests or pharmacists in this dwarven army, then these undead plague barrels in Banola's hands can't have much effect at all, this kind of undead plague created using old recipes is not at all the opponent of the purification technique or resistance potion mastered by the current priests, a simple light purification magic, a bucket of undead plague that has been painstakingly created will become a pure gas with no lethal power, and it will not have any effect except for making people dizzy and nauseous.
But the problem is that this army was first attacked by the undead cavalry, and in the chaos, the logistics materials were burned, even if the dwarven giant bear knights entered the field to put out the fire and avoided the complete rout of the entire army, but the previous losses were still considerable, and those who could survive the attacks of those undead cavalry were either dwarven warriors with thick blood and high defense, or clever and clever dwarven thieves, and the pure auxiliary profession of priest could not protect his life in this situation.
That's why Banora counts on these undead plague barrels to rely on.
Just as Zuckerberg was carrying Thornley through the spreading plague of the undead and trying to escape from the battlefield, the real reversal had just begun.
A sturdy adult male is still unable to resist the erosion of the undead plague, let alone the dwarves who have long been scarred, the first to be affected are naturally those corpses that have lost their lives, and the souls that have not yet dissipated are quickly transformed into soul fire under the influence of the death power of the undead plague, driving the corpses that have long lost their lives to turn into the spokesmen of death, opening their bloody mouths to the same kind not long ago.
This makes it feel like a blow to the dwarven players who are fighting with the hunters. Although these newly resurrected dwarven undead creatures are just zombies and other undead creatures, their strength is not comparable to them at all, but seeing their relatives and friends who were talking and laughing with them a few minutes ago become undead who want to kill them, no one can adapt in an instant.
With their minds lost, some of the hunters seized the opportunity to fight back, and the dwarves, who were already able to snatch the situation back, immediately fell into a passive situation again.
But their nightmare did not end, after the dead corpses, there were those dwarves who had already been seriously injured but not dead, and the poison of the undead plague made them quickly become corpses, and then joined the resurrected army of the undead, and these can be called freshly baked undead creatures because their souls are well preserved, so that their strength is more intact, which in turn increases the pressure on the dwarves.
In a vicious circle, more and more dwarves fell to the ground, and then blue soul fire burst out of their eyes, joining the army of the undead. That's the scariest part of the undead, you never know who your weapon will be slashed at the next time you swing your sword. No one can calmly accept that their comrades who accompany them day and night will have to fight to the death with themselves in the next second.
Zuckerberg was no exception, poor Thornley was so badly injured that he couldn't resist the erosion of those undead plagues, not to mention that Zuckerberg went straight through the undead plague in a hurry. Unharmed, Zuckerberg was able to resist the ever-encroaching toxins, but Sanley quickly turned into an undead.
When the pain came from his neck, Zuckerberg subconsciously turned his head to look at Thornley's blue eyes and a low roar from his throat.
Zuckerberg, who had never encountered such a thing, subconsciously let go of the hands holding Thornley, but the undead gnome, who had long since lost his self-consciousness, lay on the dwarven blacksmith's shoulder, opened his bloody mouth again, and gnawed on Zuckerberg's torn throat.
Dozens of seconds later, a stout undead dwarf staggered to his feet from the ground, holding a one-handed axe he had picked up from the ground, and joined the ranks of the undead!
When the green plague of the undead completely enveloped the entire battlefield, Banora also sounded the horn of the general attack, and the three additional chasseur regiments became the last straw that broke the camel's back, making the war completely lose its suspense.
Despite this, the battle was over two hours later, and although the largest number of dwarven players were corpses early, the soldiers of Ironforge fought tenaciously to the end, and the circle of Hammer Guards and Mountain Rangers relied on the small amount of supplies and potions they carried with them, inflicting more than 700 casualties on Banola, and the two chasseurs were directly disabled.
Even more difficult to deal with are those dwarven giant bear knights, these high-level troops are not only amazingly vigorous, but also very good resistance, the undead plague is not something that cannot be resisted for them, in order to eliminate the real elite of these Ironforge Forts, under the strict orders of Banora, Michal Ifs had to let the heavy armored cavalry charge again, forcing these dwarven knights to unable to exit the battlefield.
In the end, after paying the price of more than 600 heavily armored knights, these dwarven giant bear knights were completely wiped out by Banora, declaring the battle completely over!