Chapter 22: The Battle of the Dark Furnace (Part I)
Dark Furnace City, the base camp of the Black Iron Dwarves in the Black Stone Abyss, inherited the consistent architectural style of the dwarves, and carved their own city in the center of the mountain range, the whole city, like a giant mine cave, intricate mine tunnels, cliff boulders with great drops, and hot magma flowing down from above, like a series of flame waterfalls. The majestic Gates of the Dark Furnace were built between two boulder cliffs, and the faces of the two Black Iron Dwarven Pioneers were carved into the massive stone gates, though Ares did not know who they were.
The bubbling of hot lava and the smell of sulfur in the heat made it almost impossible for Ares and his party to breathe, but the dwarves moved freely as if they were not affected by the environment at all. They are born to be underground creatures......
Before attacking Dark Furnace City, Magni was fully prepared, and they would face not only the threat of the Black Iron Dwarves, but also elemental creatures, which were actually fire elemental creatures. After the Fire Demon King Ragnaros enslaved the Black Iron Dwarves, he sent his own people, the active and violent fire elementals, to control and supervise the Black Iron Dwarves, forcing them to work. Equivalent to overseer.
Ares conjured up their images in his mind, monsters of stone and flame, two hollow "eyes" revealed in a raging flame. Of course, that's what it's like in the game, and Ares doesn't know what she'll look like when she actually sees these elemental creatures.
Not far away, the siege battle has begun.
The Copperbeard Dwarves held small rocket launchers over their shoulders, forming a fan-shaped queue and blasting indiscriminately against the gates of Darkhearth. This is where the role of the helicopter ends, the city of the Dark Furnace is built under the rocks, and flying into such a narrow space is literally sending people to death.
In front of Ares were hordes of Bronzebeard Legion infantry, roars and gunfire echoing through the cave, bullets and arrows flying overhead, making a piercing whistling.
And the Copperbeard Legion is like this, braving the enemy's bullets and bullets to advance. The dwarves did not have a strong cavalry force, and heavy tanks were not feasible here, so everything had to be advanced by heavy infantry head-on.
As a result, the scene seen at the Sador Bridge seems to have reappeared.
On the wide avenue in front of the gate of Darkfurnace City, a phalanx of more than two thousand copper-bearded dwarves gathered at this moment. The Ironforge hoplites were shielded by steel shields and wore helmets that weighed almost the same as their weight. Shoulder to shoulder, steel shields folded, advancing side by side, dwarven musketeers firing bullets from within the phalanx.
Standing in the back row with Magni, Ares could see that the entire dwarven phalanx was outnumbered and advancing intensively. Scattered artillery kept sending shells into the gates of Darkhearth. But the Black Iron Dwarves are still fighting back.
The heavy artillery above the gates was the only threat to the Brassbeard Legion. A black cannonball came from the large-caliber garrison cannon, and with a terrifying roar, it flew towards the Copperbeard Dwarf phalanx.
I saw that this heavy cannonball smashed into the phalanx at an extremely fast speed, and then blasted open the steel phalanx of the copperbeard dwarves!
The powerful long-range strike did not give the Copperbeard Dwarves any room for resistance, and the cannonballs carried extremely powerful kinetic energy, piercing the entire vertical line of Copperbeard hoplites.
Screams suddenly sounded from within the phalanx, and countless flesh and blood splashed from the entire vertical line......
The cannonball even smashed through the heads of several of the Copperbeard Dwarves, and then fell heavily to the ground, exploding with shrapnel in all directions. More than a dozen Ironforge Castle soldiers were blown away in an instant. The dwarven paladins could be seen immediately rushing towards the battlefield, however, Ares knew that such a tragic injury, no matter how strong the Holy Light was, could not be healed.
Finally, amid the sound of gunfire, the hoplite phalanx of Ironforge Fortress approached the shattered gates of Darkforge.
For a while, from behind the pile of rubble, countless black iron warriors holding large black shields rushed out.
With a shield in one hand and a battle axe and hammer in the other, they roared and charged at the Brassbeard Legion.
The Copperbeard Dwarve, on the other hand, also holds a large shield and fights back with the same weapon. This kind of completely close-quarters combat is incomparably bloody. The warhammer is not as agile as the iron sword, but every blow carries great power, and the dwarves have been working in the mines for a long time, and they have developed a body of arm strength in their own right, and they have become more powerful after formal and rigorous military training.
A war hammer slammed into the opposite side, and soldiers on both sides let out a sound of bones shattering, and blood and shredded flesh covered the battlefield.
Those seemingly hard armors looked so fragile under the blow of a heavy hammer. The Black Iron Dwarven Warrior's axe effortlessly pierced the shoulder of a Copperbeard Dwarf, and then the Berserker of the Black Iron Tribe brutally pulled out his battle axe and swung it down with a rapid swing, directly cutting off one of the Brasbeard Warrior's arms. Blood gushed out from the severed arm. The Copperbeard Warrior with the broken arm immediately fell to the ground and screamed, but the Black Iron Dwarven Berserker didn't give him time to call out, stomped on the Copperbeard Warrior's chest, and then slashed his face with an axe......
In another place, a warrior from Ironforge drew the bronze pistol he wore at his waist and shot it at the black iron dwarf in front of him before the enemy rushed forward. In the smoke of gunpowder, bullets burst out of the hot chamber of the gun, directly piercing the skull of the Black Iron Warrior. With the red and white slurry, it flew out of the back of his head, and the Black Iron Tribal warrior in front of him suddenly fell silent, and fell on his back to the sky, a large amount of blood gushing out of his broken face.
In front of the main gate of the wide Dark Furnace City, fierce battles broke out.
It's like two black tides and forces, colliding and fighting.
Endless axes and hammer strikes, and a ray of light once again burst out from behind the Copperbeard Dwarf. There is no doubt that the legendary paladin from afar of the Bronze-Whiskers has reappeared on the battlefield...... The arrival of the Ember Messenger immediately won the applause of the audience. It was as if it was itself a representation of the Light, a symbol of justice, and even brought back to the Dwarves of Ironforge the former Lordaeron Alliance......
The Ember Bringer swung in the hands of the young paladin, and wherever the light went, the wounded Copperbeard warriors were instantly healed by the powerful Holy Light. Their bodies were once again glowing with infinite vitality, and the roars and cheers rang out in Ares' ears, as if the Copperbearded Dwarves were fighting for him.
The Ember Bringer swung it, and the golden arc flashed, and the three dwarven warriors of the Black Iron Tribe were immediately cut off and fell in pain. Their armor as hard as stone was fragile in the face of the weapon of light, and the Paladin of Ares' ruling, the pure power of the Light poured into the weapon, turning the Ember Bringer into a transparent golden lightsaber that no armor could match. On a battlefield without magical support, this light became the only magnificence on the field.