Chapter 81: The Winter Solstice Makes Trouble with the Ogre
"Chief, our chief shaman seems to be crazy, he touches the right side of his face every day like a fool, and he smirks on the watchtower, he looks terrifying!"
"You chicks, don't understand this, don't worry about him, he's already tasting the sweetness, and he doesn't know how to steal the honey from that house, just take him for a fool now." Kargas explained to the soldiers who reported that the matter was over.
The Broken Hand Orcs think that Izzy touches his face every day because he is in love and can't help himself, but he is actually doing something very serious.
"Purify the Shadow Void!"
Izzy found that the energy of the Shadow Void could dispel his body through violent positive emotional fluctuations, and Izzy now felt sweet and greasy as long as he touched the position on his face, and then a trace of the darkness that had just formed was squeezed out.
Just a few days ago, Izzy contacted Velons through Leah's gemstone necklace, and he told Velen about his situation, and Velen told him a lot, as a pioneer of the Holy Light, his understanding of the Holy Light was far beyond ordinary people.
Light and darkness are mutually reinforcing, and the relationship between the Light and the Shadow is intimate, they are like two opposite sides, but they cannot live without each other.
"Absolute light and absolute darkness can blind people. ”
Therefore, Wei Lun believes that seeking the balance of light and dark, or maintaining more holy light in a controllable state, is the best way to control this power, because whether it is holy light or shadow, it will affect people's character, that is like the two wolves in your heart, do you want the white wolf to be stronger, or do you want the black wolf to be stronger?.
"Prophet, the last time I saw you, it was as if I had seen the Light itself, and there was no shadow in your body. ”
Velen replied earnestly, "I need to rely on the faith of the Holy Light to persevere, child, you only see the appearance. ”
Veron continued to say to Izzy: "Your greed may harm you, but it can also make you, you just have to choose whether you want to believe in the Light, the Shadow, or neither. ”
"I'm in a state of faithlessness right now, but this energy is still poisoning me, and I just want them to get out of my body right now. ”
"Child, I can't help you in this situation, the holy light in your body does not come by faith, so you can't control him, and I can hear that you have your own thoughts, your thoughts don't change, naturally you don't have a heart of faith, only you can help yourself in this regard. ”
"So, that means I want to get rid of the shadows and the light in my body, and the only way now is to believe in the light?"
"No, even I can't be sure if the only way to control the Light is by faith, and perhaps you can find other ways to save yourself. ”
Izzy could sense that Veren wanted him to believe in the Light, but he didn't like the energy, because he believed that uncontrollable power would only lead to his own destruction in the end.
He shuddered at the thought that one day, he would no longer be himself, and that he might become a fanatic, or a madman who would try to destroy the world, and it was too dangerous.
"The human heart is fickle, good and bad, but when there is a powerful force that will slowly transform you against your own will, do you still want to gain this power?"
Thankfully, when his family came to visit him, he discovered this way of dispelling the shadows, and now with the intense emotion in his heart, he was able to slowly dispel all the shadows in his body, and the light would eventually run out.
Izzy sighed, his greed at the beginning, on the one hand, he hoped to gain the ability to heal, and on the other hand, he hoped to be able to use this holy light energy to help Naru in Voshugune in the future, and only if that Naru recovered, he would be able to find a way to get the ancestral spirit to warn all orc clans.
When this winter is over, in the spring, on the festival of Keshhag, he will go to the Holy Mountain and try to find the Naru and try to help him recover and dispel the shadows.
Winter has arrived, the winter in Nagrand is not like the Frost Fire Ridge, here is like the feeling of the wind blowing the cold into the bones, the cold of the Frost Fire Ridge is simpler, the deadly cold, the freezing of plundering lives, Izzy is now glad of his decision, if he hadn't made preparations in advance, no one knows how many people the Broken Hand Clan would have died.
The orcs of the clan are more and more grateful to Izzy, they are not stupid, at this time they can eat hot pot and wear thick and warm clothes, it is all the credit of the clan's chief shaman.
Another thought of "expelling the shadows", Izzy touched his cheeks, the feeling of happiness was simply enduring, he looked at the morning sun, and the shadow in his heart gradually faded.
A herald found him and said:
"Lord Priest, the chief is looking for you, and he is waiting for you in the council hall. ”
"I see. ”
Izzy set off for the clan hall, thinking as he went:
"What can you do at this time, and you have to be so nervous?"
Walking into the hall, Izzy found that everyone had already arrived except for himself, Cagas, Lanteriso, Bogmash, and the Warriors of the Hundred Battles, all of whom looked at Izzy.
Izzy sighed, he felt speechless, he actually let them develop this habit, can't they make a decision if they don't come?
"What's going on?" asked Izzy to Calgas.
"Our scout team has spotted movement on the Ogre Goria's side. ”
With that, Kargas handed the report to Izzy.
Izzy was stunned for a moment, took the report and looked at it, at this time, the ogre wanted to make trouble?
In the report, the scout describes what he saw.
An elite force of 500 ogres left the Hammer Castle and marched directly towards Havalo.
Izzy smiled strangely, thinking to himself, could it be that the ogres thought that the Shattered Hand Clan would hide back in Havalo in the winter and let down their guard, so they wanted to launch a surprise attack and catch the Shatterhand Clan by surprise?
Pinching his chin and thinking, Izzy has put a lot of effort into intelligence gathering, he led people to build a guard tree house in the woods along the road that can withstand the cold wind and is very hidden, if nothing else, he never thought of letting down his guard in the hardest time, that is the way to die.
Now the importance of intelligence is reflected, but he still doesn't understand what this ogre team is trying to do, even if the orcs don't notice their attack, how can they destroy the city walls when they get to Havalo?
Puzzled, Izzy shook his head, and if he couldn't figure out the problem, he eliminated the problem.
"Gather your troops, prepare to ambush the ogres, and we'll kill them at the bridge upstream of the Tiange Valley!"
Izzy looked at the map and saw that there were only two ways to cross the river from Hammer Castle to Havalo.
The bridges across the river are located on the upper cliffs of the Tiange River Basin, and the other is farther to the southwest and downstream.
It is impossible for ogres to go far and far in such a season, to walk the bridge downstream, and it is likely to run into Warsong orcs when they walk there, and any Warsong scout will report it, and they will die, so they can only take the upper bridge of the Tiange Valley, where there are three cliffs to hide, and the rest of the place is all grasslands with a flat river, which is obviously not suitable for ambushes.
The ogres were probably going to be a day and a half to a day or two before they reached the bridge, and the Broken Hand Orcs would be there tonight if they walked faster.
"Each person carries a week's worth of individual rations, and the scouts, hunting teams, and clan guards are each assigned to participate in the battle, leaving a hundred men to guard the clan camp. Izzy spoke to Kargas.
Kargas nodded, and issued an order, and the Broken Hand Clan was like a high-speed machine, and it didn't take long to gather a team of 284 people.
Kargas yelled, "Go!"
In the evening, they reached the three cliffs by the bridge.
Izzy observed the environment here, the cliff was not very high, but it was completely enough to hide the ambush soldiers, with the physique of the orcs, it was completely possible to jump directly, and now the question was how to keep the troops in good condition, they were going to spend a cold night in the field.
"Set up the tent, cook the stove, and after tonight we'll dismantle the tent and prepare for an ambush.
Izzy gave the order while boiling the delicious chicken broth, cutting some ginger-like plant tubers and throwing them into Izzy to cook, he tasted it, nodded with satisfaction, and let the orc warriors line up to drink a bowl of extremely comfortable.
Usually Izzy doesn't have time to cook for everyone, he only lets his apprentices do it, and now that he can have this mouthful, the morale of the Broken Hand soldiers is greatly boosted.
Izzy looked at the other two cliffs and hesitated.
They chose to ambush on the cliff in the middle, but Izzy saw that if the other two cliffs could also ambush men, when the fight started, they could sandwich the ogre and block the ogre on the bridge, or on the bank of the river between the two bridges.
At that time, the ogre will be caught in the middle, and only the outermost forces will be able to attack, and the ogre, who is squeezed in the middle, can only stare dryly as the Broken Hand warriors on the cliff stick their flying spears into their bodies.
The idea was good, but they had too few men, and the ogres were more than a hundred more than them, and they were divided into three places, and he was worried that the Broken Hand warriors would not be able to hold it, but would be annihilated because of the division of troops.
Izzy kept thinking, it was impossible to blow up the bridge, what did he use for the orcs to blow up the bridge? And if he was messing around near the Elemental Throne, what would the other orcs think? A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he suddenly felt that the division of troops did not have to be evenly distributed, and the width of this bridge deck could be completely guarded by elite soldiers.
It didn't take long for Izzy to have an idea, talking to Cagas.
"Tomorrow's battle, we will divide our troops into three places, now we are on the cliff left 74 men, concentrate all the flying spears, here to carry out long-range strikes, the other two troops, one with 200 men ambush on the western cliff to drive the ogre into the bridge, the last team has the least number of people and the heaviest task, they have to hold the bridgehead in the direction of Havalo, do not let the enemy escape, flank on three sides, and annihilate the enemy on the river bank under the two bridges and the cliff.
After a pause, Izzy continued:
"My suggestion is that in the end this team will be guarded by me and 10 warriors of the Hundred Battles, with Kargas leading a large force to engage the ogre forces in the rear, and Lanteriso leading 74 warriors to strike at a distance on the cliffs. ”
"Forget it, I'll give you such a good thing?" Calgas looked at Izzy with some disdain.
"I took my brothers to guard the bridge, Lanteriso led a large army to attack, you ambushed on the cliff, you are the only shaman priest in the clan, you are very expensive, I don't allow you to fool around. ”
Lanteriso nodded as he listened, thinking that this would be the best.
Izzy was a little moved when he heard this, and the safest place was undoubtedly on the cliff.
But moving is moving, what the hell is Jin Gui?