Chapter Seventy-One: The Battle of Steinbrad
So we set the camp on fire and went down the hill the way we came, young Timmy on Sylvanas's back was nothing for her march, and it was very gratifying to me that she loved the human child and the child's attachment to her, and that perhaps we should have a child of our own in the near future. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Of course, there is a future... Just as I thought of something I shouldn't have thought about, the ranger seemed to sense something, but his eyes looked warily at the bottom of the mountain in the east. And I followed her eyes and couldn't help but look over there, but I just saw a wisp of smoke, and that might have meant something, the orcs were coming, or worse news.....
"Damn, Uther's riders have chased after them, they have fallen for the orcs' scheme, and we should go down the mountain and back to the town at once. Sylvanas cursed angrily and put down the child and quickened her pace towards the town, and her complaint instantly made me realize something, and I turned to my guards.
"Thassarian, you go to watch the child and protect his family, and the rest follow Sylvanas. I said and rushed down. Yes, I understand the mistake I made, and that was that I neglected to let the knights obey the orders of the elves, and the haughty knights who were loyal to the Light faith would not have been under the leadership of the experienced Lotherma Theron without my direct orders, and it was because of the arrogance of the gate that they were attacked by the orcs.
This meant that there were only a dozen elven rangers and less than ten mages guarding the town. I don't even dare to think about such a result.
"Speed up and get back to town!" I ordered eagerly to the guards, who were almost at the limit of speed. And everyone seems to have thought about this result clearly, and they followed me without hesitation.
In the distance, we saw the orc wolf riders wreaking havoc outside, but the nimble elven rangers were able to move from house to house, and mages could also flash from top to side. And so, they tilted their spells on the top and towards the enemies below. And before the houses all collapse, for the time being, they will still be able to defend against those orc wolf knights who have no ranged weapons.
But the villagers at the bottom of the town could do little to do anything. The Ranger and Mage are at best able to shoot down a few orcs and their mounts, but they are more concerned about enemies trying to climb up and trying to knock down houses.
I have to say that I was fortunate that I came back in time, the enemy who sneaked in from behind the village and town had just penetrated into the center of the town, and we rushed to fight a siege, although this is a good formation for encircling and suppressing the orcs, but for the villagers who have no ability to resist, this is undoubtedly a disaster.
We caught up with Sylvanas, and at this moment three wolf knights had already fallen to the ground, but sadly their mounts were also well-trained, and after watching their master fall to the ground, they did not flee but immediately realized something, and their eyes unconsciously aimed at Sylvanas, and rushed towards it. Although Sylvanas was well-trained and didn't panic, he only shot two heads in the end. Another wolf pounced on her before the previous one fell.
"No!" I rushed forward like crazy, but to my surprise things weren't as bad as I thought, she quickly dropped her bow and arrow, drew her dagger from her cuff and plunged it into the beast's head.
"Arthas! ”
Sylvanas pushed down the dead wolf that had rushed towards her. After complaining to me, he took his bow and arrows and headed forward. Yes, this sentence is not only directed at me, but also for those who have run away on the ride to blame. If those knights hadn't rushed out and been lured away by the enemy's small group, it would definitely not be so difficult now, let alone so many innocent villagers would have died.
I followed her with a great deal of guilt, I didn't want more people to be slaughtered, I didn't want her to be in danger like she had just been, and as a paladin, I knew how to do what I had to do.
"In the name of the Light, you ugly orcs will be put to an end by this. ”
I killed them, and my own men followed them to resist the orcs. Although we had the mages and archers above to help us, this battle was no better than the one that intercepted the defeated orcs, and the wolf knights had always been the elite of the Blackstone tribe back then. And the excitement is not inferior to ours, so it has not been completely encircled by the alliance to this day. And now that they have met us, they have indeed felt their rigorous combat cooperation ability after contacting them, which makes this war have no advantage for us.
They are also quite impressive in terms of their individual combat ability, and their mounts can also be used in battle. Therefore, fighting against the double enemy made it impossible for me to care about the safety of my teammates at all, which made me have no way to deliver holy light healing to my teammates in time, which caused them to fall sideways from time to time. And those rangers and mages on the rooftops were too focused on the safety of the soldiers on the ground, and some of them were also attacked by the orcs, maybe the reflexive rangers could still cope with this kind of sneak attack, but for the mage apprentices who focused on chanting spells, it was a deadly threat.
Seeing that my brothers continued to fall, I couldn't help but complain even more about the horses of Uther, and I knew that even if I won now, it would be a terrible victory, and the best way for me was to seize the leader of the other party, capture the thief and capture the king, in order to demoralize the enemy and bring the battle to a speedy end.
Perhaps it is not difficult to find a special enemy, and an orc with status always wants others to see the similarities and differences between him and other orcs. And in the aura he exuded, which was contrary to my holy light, I immediately recognized his identity.
"It's the blood-red orc riding a skeletal warhorse wrapped in silver-gray metal. I signaled Sylvanas, yes, she knew what I meant, and immediately fired an arrow at him, but unfortunately, just as the cold arrow was about to hit the orc commander who had just arrived in the distance, his mount immediately recognized something, and blocked the arrow for his master. And the bow and arrow with great strength directly penetrated the bone war horse without flesh, making it return to its original destiny motionlessly.
The orc general watched his mount die for himself. I can understand the pain of a man watching his mount die for him, but I don't have time to feel sorry for him, he has realized something, and is angry at his beloved. And just when she wanted to take the arrow and shoot again, her quiver was empty.
I realized this, and threw it at him with my hammer. And just when I thought I was going to give that guy a fatal blow, what I didn't expect was that he was actually blocked by the stone battle axe in his hand, and the stone battle axe didn't hurt at all. Even this effect only slowed him down and paused to look at me, but my sneak attack still couldn't attract the hatred of his loss of his horse, which meant that he still rushed towards his beloved.
By this time I had no weapons in my hands.
Perhaps Sylvanas, who has fought a lot of orcs, will have a solution, but I can't afford to watch her threatened. Seeing that my paladin weapon was not working, I immediately thought of another object.
"Faric" I gestured to my captain of the guard, and he quickly realized something, first throwing his Red Dragon Sword at me, then using the power of the Light to knock down the orcs in front of him, and then jumping onto the roof to participate in the blessing and healing of the Light. I took the sword and quickly ran between Sylvanas and the orc, blocking their view.
Perhaps the orc saw that the weapon in my hand was a saber, and he was confident that he would not hesitate to choose to split us together with his heavy stone battle axe, yes, his goal was still the beloved, and it was a matter of axe to knock me away or cut me off, and I wanted such careless results, because he did not know who he was facing and what kind of weapon I had in my hand.
He didn't stop his speed and slashed at me, and I also learned Manic to hide the power of my holy light and quickly swung my sword at him, just when almost everyone thought I was committing suicide, something unexpected happened to them, the sword was intact, and the axe was cut in half under the sharpness of the sword and the combined force of the holy light, and immediately turned into stone.
Equally powerful and powerful enough to cut him in half, the orc's incomprehensible roar resounded throughout the town. And the sudden thing made almost everyone stunned.
But as for the result, it will only boost our morale and create despair among the enemy. Cowardly, they fled back under the leadership of the lieutenant and took some of the loose booty and individual villagers, while the orcs and their mounts before they could escape were crushed into meat sauce by the angry guards.
After a whole day of fighting, we obviously didn't have the strength to chase these mobile troops, and the encounter ended after spells and bows shot a few fleeing orcs. In the end, we ended the battle with 20 dead and more than half wounded. Although I was victorious, although more than half of the enemy was killed, and the leader of the enemy was beheaded by me, I was very dissatisfied with this result, because I lost eight mages and twelve guards, all of whom were my cronies. Of course, this dissatisfaction is not due to the rangers and mages guarding here, but to those who act on their own, and if they had stuck to their posts, perhaps there would not have been so many sacrifices.
As I looked at the dead brothers and villagers, as well as the people who were suffering from the death of their families, I felt an invisible anger that filled my body, even more so than anyone else. Yes, even Sylvanas's comfort could not calm it down.
But who can I vent my anger on, but to find the sturdy stone of the broken stone tomahawk in the palm of my hand and crush it one by one.