Chapter 522: Home Under Your Feet
Realizing that everyone's situation might be critical, Alsace only felt a chill down his spine and a cold sweat like rain.
He knew very well that his speculation was completely conjecture and had no conclusive evidence, but as long as there was a possibility, he should take precautions.
The mage squad immediately assembled, ready to cast spells, and the militia strengthened the makeshift line, placing the wagons on the outermost part as a fence, and the paladins guarding the gaps. ”
"Yes, Your Highness the Prince. "Marvion, Arthas's squire and young knight, did not hesitate to carry out his orders, and it was at this moment that Arthas saw the direction of the Colin junction, and Uther galloped back.
Although Arthas couldn't see Uther's facial expression clearly, he could also understand that the situation at the Colin intersection in the east was not optimistic, and what about the rear of the west team?
Arthas turned his head to gaze at the boulevard they had walked on, praying silently, hoping that his conjecture would really be a conjecture.
"Arthas, there are indeed undead ambushes at Colin Crossing, but they have been exposed, only a little too crisply. ”
Uther said suspiciously, but found that Arthas's gaze did not fall on him, and when he followed Arthas's gaze, he suddenly shook his body.
That's the scout cavalry that followed the troops? No! That's the corpse of the scout cavalry!
I saw a frightened war horse galloping towards a headless corpse, and the Lordaeron warriors and civilians who saw this scene were shocked, and many of them vomited on the ground.
"Calm down! Don't panic! Prepare to meet the enemy!" Arthas shouted to stabilize the morale of his army, but his eyes remained fixed on the dark boulevard to the west.
The looming array of enemies gradually appeared in his field of vision, and this time it was no longer an endless number of low-level skeletons, ghouls, stitched abominations, bone giants, and all kinds of high-level undead troops.
Arthas exhaled a cloudy breath and realized that it was going to be a desperately difficult battle of life and death, but no matter how hard it was, it would have to be fought!
"Uther, we must divide our forces to guard the two ends of the ranks. ”
"Go to the Colin junction, Arthas. ”
Arthas could feel the familiar care of the elders in Uther's tone, it was obvious that the enemy at the intersection of Colin in the east was much weaker than the enemy in the west, but after so many things, the last thing Arthas wanted to do now was to run away from suffering and challenges, so he said in a firm tone:
"Mentor, I need to grow as soon as possible, so I won't run away,"
Hearing this, Uther looked at Arthas seriously for a few seconds before he sighed and said, "Okay, but you have to promise me that you must not be as reckless as you were in the battle in the small town of Andohar!"
Arthas grinned, "Of course. ”
The master and apprentice smiled at each other, and Uther left most of the paladins with the Silver Hand to Arthas, and he himself took only a few men to kill the enemy at the Kolin junction.
Arthas wasn't worried about Uther's side, he knew Uther, and his Paladin Mentor couldn't worry about him at all.
On the contrary, Arthas was actually more nervous about his own side, although this was not the first time he had commanded a battle, but I am afraid that it was definitely the most dangerous one in his life, whether he could stabilize the defense line and protect the people behind him?
Thinking so, Arthas looked back, and his eyes immediately fixed on Joseph and his daughter.
"Dad, are you going to fight the bad guy?"
"Yes, my precious daughter, you are going to stay with your Uncle Carlin, and don't panic at any time, you know?"
"Okay, I'll be obedient, Daddy, and you'll have to come back early. ”
Arthas pulled his gaze back, took a deep breath, and said to Mavien beside him: "Brother, you hold the line with the infantry and militia without war horses, and I will go back as soon as I go." ”
"Your Royal Highness, what are you going to do?"
Marvion watched in surprise as Arthas patted the neck of his horse and slowly walked out of the defensive line, then he looked back at the warriors of Lordaeron calmly, and said:
"Brothers, take up your weapons, mount your horses, and reminisce about the day we became knights, the vows I made!"
"We have sworn to protect our homeland! to protect those who are weak! Our lives will fight for justice until the last moment!"
Arthas paused after speaking, and then suddenly shouted again:
"Now our homeland is under our feet! The people are behind us! Let us defend our glory! Fight to the death!"
"For Lordaeron!"
The horses of Arthas neighed, and the place where his hammer pointed was the heart of the warriors of Lordaeron!
"For Lordaeron!" the earth-shattering cry came together to shatter the sky.
Arthas led the way and led a few dozen paladins in an indomitable charge against the army of the undead.
The army of the undead was getting closer and closer, and Arthas immediately shouted in a loud voice, "Holy shield charge!"
"Hum!" The familiar light of the Holy Shield once again enveloped the dozen or so paladins in the front row, and in an instant, they smashed headlong into the army of the undead.
"Knock, knock......" Unlike the crisp explosion of broken bones, it was the dull sound of ghouls' festering muscles crashing against the shield.
The vanguard of the army of the undead instantly flew flesh and blood, like a fist hitting a rock with an egg hitting a hydraulic press, and it was a mess.
Countless ghouls have not yet tasted the fresh flesh of a living person before they have experienced the hardness of the shield of light at high speed.
The paladins were in high spirits and knew that this was a good start, but Arthas knew that this was just the beginning, and that the huge army of the undead was still waiting for them in the rear, like an impassable moat.
"The whole army is roundabout, the second row is the head, turn on the holy shield technique, and retreat!"
Arthas chose not to fight with the high-level undead troops very sensibly, he understood that once their heavy cavalry lost their mobility and speed, they would be overwhelmed by the undead army, and he also understood that those huge monsters were slow to move despite their amazing lethality, and he had a way to deal with those "slow turtles!"
The cavalry faithfully carried out Arthas's orders, and the paladins who had finished the first row of the Holy Shield immediately slowed down slightly, allowing the second row of paladins to charge, and they directly killed a back and forth in the vanguard of the undead army, and returned to the front of the infantry line almost unharmed.
As soon as Arthas returned, he immediately shouted, "Great Spell Attack!"
The arcane energy that had been building up for a long time began to change spells at Arthas's command, and the cloudy sky began to change spells, and those dark clouds actually burned up and became extremely red.
And under the burning clouds, the rain of fire and destruction falls from the sky!