Chapter 18: Assault

As the Kudran team progressed, the path to the hilltop camp became more and more tortuous and difficult to navigate. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info looked at the dim and winding road ahead, even though it was still a clear day, the sunlight was faint and no longer clear.

"Are you alright, Os, you look worried?" Tallon Ex, who was closest to Oss, noticed Oss's strangeness and asked softly.

"What's wrong, Os?" Kudran turned his head to look, and everyone heard Tallon Ex's question.

"It's nothing, it's just that it's too hard to walk." Oss replied that by this time he had removed the musket he had carried on his back and the round shield that was fastened to his left arm, and put them back in the space backpack, only the one-handed sword was still hanging from his left waist.

"Oh, that's right. Haha, when we go back, we have to talk to my father about building a big road. What you told us makes a lot of sense. Kudran agreed with Oss's initial proposal to build the road, and he asked, "Os, you know a lot. These things, well, you call them military theories, where did you learn all these military theories? ”

"What Dad said, what he read in books, and some of the images he saw." Oss replied, recalling his family when he was on Earth, "Three generations of my family have been soldiers, my grandfather has fought all his life, and by my father's generation, it is basically peaceful, but there is still an uncle who participated in expeditions and went to war. Finally, there is my generation, my cousins are all serving in the army, only I did not go. ”

"Wow, that's cool, the dwarves have never been to war. Only the Copperbeard tribe had an army here, the personal guard of the King of the Mountain, and they wore uniform armor and looked imposing. Like our tribe, there are only patrols, as we do now. Kudran turned to Oss, looking interested, and let Stone Pier clear the way on his own.

From the very beginning, when Oss explained military theory to everyone, Gothrum, who was walking at the back, had come up behind Oss, and Nuyne and Talon Aix were also listening attentively to what Oss was saying. Now, even Kudran has abandoned the formation. At this point, Kudran watched sideways as Oss walked, while Oss walked side by side with Talon Aix, followed by Nuyne and Gothrum.

Oss shook his head, he patted Kudran on the shoulder, negating his brother: "Kudran, war is not cool at all. When my grandfather was young, our hometown was invaded, and when he was only fourteen years old, he had to go to war. You won't believe it, in order to drive out the invaders, the eight-year war, we sacrificed ......"

Oss paused at this point, he thought about it for a moment, and decided not to say that specific casualty statistic. Because, according to the population of the Lordaeron Kingdom that he remembered in his dreams, and the dwarven population he learned about in the Dwarven Kingdom, this number was too large.

Fortunately, Oss's brothers did not ask how many people had died. "I'm sorry, Os, I shouldn't have said that," Kudran said. ”

Oss couldn't help laughing, he put his arm around Kudran by the shoulder, and said, "No one who has not had this experience can never imagine what a war is like, even me. Although I have seen many images, I have shed tears, I have broken my heart, and I hate those invaders. However, after that, it is over, and I do not think about the war every day, nor do I live in fear and pain every day. ”

"In my hometown, there is a saying that says, 'Be willing to be a dog in a place of peace, and not a man in a place of war.'" As Oss spoke, a steep slope appeared in the path ahead of them, and a fault about two meters high lay across it.

Oss had always known that Stone Pier was huge, and even if it walked on all fours, it was taller than himself who was one and a half meters faster. This is obviously a lot bigger than the Kodiak brown bear in Animal World when Os was on Earth.

Now, when the stone pier was completely upright, Oss intuitively saw how tall the stone pier really was, its upper body was almost submerged by the branches and leaves protruding from both sides of the path, and the stone pier was just a step onto the fault, for which the fault was only like a small step.

Oss craned his neck to look at Stone Pier and said to Kudran, "How tall is Stone Pier standing up?" I can see four or five meters, right? ”

After the stone pier went up, he continued to drive forward, and Kudran also looked at the stone pier and said, "It should be, I haven't measured it either." ”

Kudran replied, he tightened the weapon in his hand, rushed forward a few steps, and jumped straight on. Then, beside Oss, Tallon Ex also ran a few steps and jumped directly on it, just like Kudran.

"You're really bounced." Oss opened his mouth wide, a little breathtaking. You know, Kudran is about the same height as Oss now, about 1.5 meters, and the adult dwarves are only a little taller. Now, Kudran and Talonex barely helped to run, jumping directly over the nearly two-metre-high fault in hurdles.

Nuen, who was beside Os, said, "What is this, look at me." After speaking, I saw Nuen walk to the fault, squat with his knees slightly bent, jump on the spot, and then land steadily on the fault.

Oss applauded, and he loudly cheered for Nuen: "Well done! ”

This time, Oss was not convinced even by Gothrum behind him, he said "I can too", and then imitated his brother's way, and jumped on the fault line with the same steady sound, which made Oss cheer again.

It's just that Oss's successive cheers made Kudran a little puzzled: "Oss, see what you can do with them." It's not that hard, even a dwarf kid younger than us can do it. Moreover, the powerful warriors of the tribe can jump more than ten meters high and thirty or forty meters at once. ”

"Uh......" Oss was embarrassed again, he always inadvertently substituted some earthly common sense into Azeroth, Oss thought to himself: It seems that even if I experience another childhood of mine in my dreams, it will take a while to fully adapt.

Oss shrugged and said, "Okay, I'll admit it. You always say that I know a lot, and indeed, when it comes to history and the secrets of various races, I don't think anyone knows more than I do. But, like the common sense of combat and the common sense of magic, I'm a complete idiot. After laughing at his ignorance, Oss walked towards the fault: "You have to pull me up, I can't jump so high." ”

As Oss grinned and walked forward, Gothrum's expression suddenly became terrified in his gaze, and he shouted, "Get down, Os! ”

However, Oss was only stunned for a moment before he felt a fierce wind rushing from behind him. Oss didn't have time to get down, he didn't even have time to do anything, he was pounced. And as Oss fell to the ground, he finally had time to do something, and hugged his head tightly with his two hands.

However, in the next second, there was a "click", and Oss had to scream loudly with an "ah", and he felt as if he had been stabbed in his right shoulder with several sharp knives. Then, Oss felt a lightness on his body, but it was something that overpowered him and left. Oss tried to get up, but the sharp pain in his right shoulder made his right hand weak, and he had to use his left hand to support the ground. Lifting his upper body, Oss turned his head with difficulty, and in front of him, there was a snow-white leopard, a pair of silver-white eyes staring at him cruelly.

Blood was pouring from Oss's shoulder, and he felt like he couldn't control his entire right arm. However, the snow leopard's attack was clearly over, and it bent over and raised its right paw to swing fiercely at Oss's head.

Just seeing the snow leopard bow forward, Oss subconsciously noticed that something was wrong, he used to like cats very much, and he who had cats was too familiar with this posture. He hurriedly lowered his head again and pressed against the ground tightly, and covered his head with his left arm. "Bang!" There was a sound on the ground, and Oss realized that he was not being attacked, but he heard the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground.

"Don't be afraid! Os, I'm coming! It was Gothrum's voice, and it turned out that he had just been the closest to him, and he had thrown his one-handed hammer.

Oss finally had time to breathe, and he turned and sat up, and took a few steps back, his back against a large tree. "Whew...... Call...... Yes! Gasping for a big breath, Oscha examined the wound, and on his right shoulder, several bloody holes had been bitten out. He used his left hand to cover the bloody hole on the inside of his shoulder, but helplessly, there was still a wound on his back.

At this time, the dwarves who had already jumped on the fault all returned, and they all shouted, "Os, how are you! "Don't be afraid, Os, we're coming!"

Oss endured the pain, and he looked up to see a hole in the hole that had been smashed by a one-handed hammer next to the place where he had just been lying on his stomach. Gothrum was the first to jump, and instead of picking up his one-handed hammer or inspecting Oss, he confronted the snow leopard.

Oss looked at the snow leopard that had bitten him, and by this time, it had retreated five or six meters. Its forelimbs are curved, its head is low, its slender back is arched, and its tail is curved and upturned, but it does not flick.

Kudran ran back to Oss, he threw his weapon, knelt on Oss's right side, grabbed Oss's right arm and asked, "How's it going?" What do you think? Let me see. ”

Talon Aix also returned, and he knelt to Oss's left, watching with concern as Kudran examined Oss's wounds.

"I'm fine, I'm okay I'm wearing leather armor, I haven't bitten through, I don't think the wound should be deep." Oss replied, "It hurts so much that I feel like my arm is going to be bitten off." But it doesn't hurt much anymore, it's weird. I'm fine, you guys go and help. ”

Before Kudran and Talon Aix could reply, they heard a louder "bang" than before, and everyone looked over together, and it turned out that Nueen had fired a shot at the snow leopard. But, apparently missed, the snow leopard jumped back lightly and dodged Nuen's shot.

"Don't worry, they can deal with that beast alone." Kudran said, and he lifted Oss's breastplate.

"Roar!" The roar of the stone pier sounded, and people knew that it was a behemoth in a state of rage. It squeezed Nuen, who stood in the way, and began to run at an accelerated pace, then leaping with all its might, leaping over the heads of the standing Gothrum and the others beside the trees, and pounced on the snow leopard. The moment the stone pier leaped overhead, Oss felt as if it had reached night in an instant, its massive body obscuring out all daylight.

"Boom!" The stone pier landed with a loud bang, and its body brought up a cloud of snow. When Bai Xue and Shi Dun'er's huge bodies blocked Os's gaze, he could no longer see the snow leopard that attacked him, and the only thing he could see was the back of Shi Dun'er chasing away.