Chapter 136: 'Mountain Cannon' Dwarves?
Hearing Rommel's words, the druid put away his thoughts, carefully observed the movements of the two sides below, and finally looked at the Alliance soldiers who were desperately breaking through, and let out a long sigh:
"This world is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and there are many capable people!"
Rommel was stunned: "What do you mean?" Is it a dead end for the alliance to continue to stay? What do I think this is a big trick? ”
The druid looked at Rommel and explained helplessly, "Don't you see what the new undead are carrying?" Plague Catapult! ”
"Uh~~~Accident~~ I didn't pay attention to it just now!" Rommel touched his nose in embarrassment, then thought about it, frowned and retorted: "But what's the use of just three broken cars?" It's just that Dalaran's ** division can block the plague barrel outside the camp, and it can't be hit at all! ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the plague catapult of the Forsaken army below throw a plague barrel glowing green towards the Alliance camp, and then before the barrel fell, an overwhelming rain of ice and arrows poured down from the sky, instantly tearing the front door of the Alliance camp to pieces, and the Forsaken soldiers rushed through the breach and killed the Chinese tent. At the same time, the plague barrel also fell and exploded, and the entire camp was suddenly filled with green smoke.
"We are far away and don't know the situation at that time, but with the strength of those two ** divisions, as long as the other party has appeared within a certain range, we can sense it, and there is no possibility of a sneak attack at all. With the existence of this Forsaken ** Division and Blood Elf Ranger, the Alliance's long-range troops have been completely suppressed, and it can't stop the plague barrel from falling, that's for sure! The druid looked at the battle below, and explained to Rommel:
"Blood elves' physical qualities are different from those of humans, except for the pure power of death and specific plague toxins, ordinary plague barrels can only make them uncomfortable for a while, and they can't be infected at all. And needless to say, the undead have no effect on them at all. In this way, the tribe can use the plague barrel bombardment with impunity, and there is nothing to do for itself. ”
"But what about the Alliance Humans? Even if the archbishop of Stormwind City is found, it is impossible to purify the entire camp, it is certain that he will be infected, and if he continues to stay here, he will not seek death? ”
Rommel smiled a little embarrassedly, and retorted unconvinced: "If this is the case, then the alliance commander can only be said to be a wise move to lead his troops to retreat, and he can't be regarded as a capable person, right?" ”
The druid didn't answer immediately, stared at him for a long time, lowered his head and sighed: "Anyway~~~ You and that handsome man are really diametrically opposed, you do have unique talents and talents in strategic deployment and overall situation, but when it comes to on-the-spot command and tactical planning, you are at most an old bird among rookies." ”
"Uh~~ Not really, right?" A certain fox blushed rarely.
The druid continued: "To the east of Tarummir is the great river that leads directly to the town of Nanhai, from where the navy can come to support, and the dwarves are also rushing here from the east, but why is the alliance retreating to the southwest? ”
Rommel: "Why? ”
"If you retreat here, once the Blood Elf Ranger catches up and rains down on the arrows, the Alliance will lose at least half of its numbers. Whether the rest can get away is still a question. ”
"Although it is inevitable that you will lose some men when you go southwest, as long as you enter the small lake south of Talenmir and the small hill along the river, then the unlucky ones are the chasing tribes!"
Rommel thought for a moment and asked a little hesitantly: "Do you want to defend the mountain, and then climb over the hill and meet the sailors?" Or do you want the navy to bypass from behind and block the tribe's retreat to make dumplings? ”
The druid rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said angrily, "You might as well go east to the river beach!" ”
"The dwarves set out from the Soladin Wall in the middle of the night last night, and it's been seven or eight hours now, and even if they climb, they've climbed to Tarummir, right? Why hasn't it appeared yet? ”
The druid pointed to the hill south of Tarenmere: "If I'm not mistaken, the dwarves are squatting there right now." ”
"According to the deployment of the troops of Nanhai Town just now, they are luring the Forsaken of Tarummir to break through from the southwest, if the Forsaken really do this, the dwarven artillery on the top of the mountain and the alliance that will chase after them will definitely end up in the Forgotten."
"Now, although they miscalculated and were caught off guard by the tribe, these arrangements have become a way for them to get out of trouble safely, and even make the tribe suffer a big loss. The precision of its calculations has to be admired!! The druid sighed as he looked at the Coalition army, which was slowly retreating in an orderly manner.
Hearing this, Rommel obediently shut up, and did not dare to continue arguing.
He also knew where his weaknesses were, and there was no comparison between him and the Druids in terms of tactical command.
Seeing his somewhat depressed expression, the druid patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I want to open it!" Your overall view and layout ability are already very perverted! It doesn't matter if the command is almost in battle, no one is perfect! ”
Rommel pouted: "What if there is a perfect man?" ”
Druid: "That's the end of the man~"
Rommel: ""
"It's time to go back! The Shears' bureau has been arranged, and now, it's only Arathi!! The druid put away his laughter, said to Rommel, and rode down the hill.
Rommel also put away his depressed expression when he heard this, and the signature fox smile appeared on his face again, but in his eyes, it was unprecedented dignified~~
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To the south of Talenmir, Xie Feng and the rangers followed behind the Forsaken troops, chasing the fleeing soldiers of Nanhai Town.
The pursuing team was still in its original formation, with the Forsaken Warriors in front, the Mages and other medium-range attacking units in the middle, and the Rangers at the end.
Because of the existence of Master Dalaran, the blind are no longer commanding the rear of the team, but walking on the front line of the pursuing team with ice shields and mana shields, and fighting with the opponent's ** division from time to time.
Xie Feng is relatively leisurely. With his sass-inducing strength, running to the front line to charge is purely looking for death, even if he wants to, the blind will not do it, and if he dies, the ranger army will be leaderless, and almost half of it will be wasted. Let Garinder take command, she may not be willing to help the Forsaken!
However, Xie Feng couldn't sit and watch the excitement~~ After sending Selin and thirty blood knights to escort the four magisters to the front to assist the blind, he led Tyri to watch the play in the rear. The rangers could not be idle, and from time to time under the command of Garinde, they cooperated with the mages in front of them to throw a rain of arrows at the fleeing alliance.
In the battle just now, because of Xie Feng's careful calculation, although the rangers did not fight any hard battles, they still suffered certain losses in the melee, with nearly two hundred casualties. However, there were many casualties and few deaths, and only twenty or thirty people were seriously injured and died, while the others were not seriously harmed, and after a period of recuperation, they could go to the battlefield again.
The wounded were left behind, with some minor injuries in their care. In addition, after a day and a night of rapid marching and several fierce battles, the rangers have already appeared a little tired at this time, and their combat effectiveness has also decreased a little, so it is not good for the blind to ask them to disperse to the front to snipe and kill humans, and directly let them stay behind and start a group salvo, and the task is a lot easier.
After about a quarter of an hour of pursuit, the 1,500 or so Alliance soldiers who escaped had left behind more than 300 corpses, among which even Mage Dalaran was killed by the Magisters in the chaos, and the Alliance was about to lose its grip when it saw it.
Although the form is very good, Xie Feng always feels that something is not right.
The Alliance's actions are too abnormal! Seeing that the alliance commander was able to decisively give up holding on just now, and did not choose the fastest escape route, but broke through from the relatively far but most correct southwest, it can be seen that he is not an idle person.
But why is this stupid trick happening now?
At this moment, even Xie Feng, the commander who was a halfway monk, knew that he should leave some soldiers to block the pursuers to survive. But the other party didn't do this, but everyone fled together, even if there were such big casualties now, they didn't repent, and they still escaped vigorously?
If something is abnormal, it is a demon!
Xie Feng also realized that there must be some conspiracy on the other side, and after thinking for a while, he still asked Galinder to send someone to the front to report to the blind man, so that he could be careful and vigilant, and if he could, he could even retreat directly.
It's a pity that Xie Feng's words were a step too late after all, at this time the alliance had already fled to the open space in the middle of the small lake and the hills along the river, and before the ranger had time to convey Xie Feng's words to the blind, the undead troops had already chased in.
The clearing was open to a small lake on the left and a small mountain range on the right, with a corridor about five hundred paces wide in between.
There is no way there is an ambush in the water, just the heavy standard plate armor of the alliance, go down and don't think about coming out again. There were no trees growing on the hill, and the side facing the lake was so steep that it would be a tragedy if the enemy were to lie in ambush on the back and wait for the tribe to come within range of the attack and rush down from the mountain!
It's a tragedy, yes, but not a tribal tragedy, it's a tragedy of those who ambush it!!
Because you can't run at all when you rush down from above, you can only roll!! Of course, you can also choose to walk, carefully and slowly walk down.
If you want to use rolling wood or something, you can get down, but the problem is that the alliance is escaping from a position close to the small lake, and throwing rolling logs from above and rolling in front of the forsaken will not have much strength left, and it is even a question of whether they can get here.
With this judgment, the blind did not hesitate to rush in with the forsaken and bite the fleeing alliance.
The Alliance in front of him is the strongest of all the Alliance soldiers in the Hillsbrad Hills! These people have been fighting against Tarummere's elite undead sentinels all year round, and their strength is not inferior to that of ordinary Stormwind regular army, and even surpasses! As long as they are eliminated here, the entire Hillsbride League will never have a chance to turn the tables again, absolutely once and for all!
Seeing that the blind man chased directly after him without any scruples, Xie Feng also shook his head helplessly and followed closely with the rangers.
However, just as the Forsaken were desperately chasing the Alliance soldiers and reaching the central position of this, more than a dozen swarthy cannon muzzles suddenly appeared on the small hill on the left, pointing down~~
Xie Feng, who had been watching the surrounding environment, noticed the anomaly on the mountain peak for the first time.
Looking at the artillery aimed at him on the mountain, Xie Feng's face suddenly changed greatly~~
100 Secrets! After all, it's a hundred secrets!
He had thought of a lot of possibilities, even the dwarves. But in the end, I still haven't calculated the change in the attack distance of the dwarven artillery!
The open space between the hill and the lake in front of him was six hundred to seven hundred paces wide, and the town of Nanhai retreated along the lake, just out of the range of artillery. But he forgot about the change in terrain! The dwarves mounted their cannons on the hills, doubling their attack range out of thin air!!
Thinking about all this, Xie Feng turned around and shouted hoarsely to the rangers behind him: "Disperse and retreat!" Hurry back!! ”
The rangers were stunned for a moment, and then without hesitation, they began to scatter and retreat, and in the blink of an eye, they were already scattered.
But after all, it was a step too late.
At the same time as Xie Feng shouted, the dwarf captain Darren Tieshan on the top of the mountain also pointed at the forsaken and blood elves below, and viciously gave the order to attack: "The middle and rear of the tribe formation below, cover and shoot!" ”
As the order was given, more than a dozen artillery pieces lined up, and in the deafening roar, shells flew out one after another, smashing into the battlefield below.
In other words, these dwarves of Dangalok can be regarded as the old-school troops of Ironforge Fort, although they cannot be compared with those aces, but they are also the elite who came from the Second World War period, and their battles can be called strong.
But this time, after cooperating with Stormwind's actions and taking over the task of guarding the walls of Soladin, it can be said that he has been aggrieved to a certain extent! Before, they had a fierce battle with the Frost Wolf Clan, the ace unit of the orcs, and although they were slightly inferior, they also suffered a little bit, and it can be said that they did not fall into prestige.
But then he met the Ranger unit and Xie Feng, the bastard commander who played his cards unreasonably, and was dizzy and suppressed on the position by the other party's rain of arrows. Hundreds of soldiers were lost in one day, and as a result, not even a single hair was caught on the other side.
This is unprecedented in the history of dwarven warfare. Even the demons and dwarves who faced the dragons and those Burning Legions had never been so miserable, and this time it was a shame to be thrown into Grandma's house! I think that the name of Captain Darren as the commander will soon spread throughout Ironforge and even the entire alliance.
Captain Darren, who was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, didn't expect to be able to take revenge so soon. Only one day has passed, these damn elves have actually committed crimes in their own hands, what a blessing from the Titan Father!
Listening to the melodious roar of artillery, Captain Darren poured a sip of thunder liquor into his mouth, and waited to see the damn long-eared men below flip on their backs and fly flesh and blood.
The idea is very beautiful, but the cruel reality hit his young heart again~~
Xie Feng, who had crossed over and seen the power of artillery, was frightened by the attacks of these dwarves and broke into a cold sweat.
The covering blow of more than a dozen artillery pieces! If this is the last two rounds, all the hundreds of elven rangers I brought this time will have to be explained here!
But the actions of the rangers made Xie Feng stunned.
As soon as Xie Feng's order to disperse and retreat was big, nearly eight hundred elven rangers dispersed in an orderly manner, without a little crowding and chaos. The cannonballs whistling over their heads were like fireworks in the eyes of the elves, and they couldn't make their steps a little messy, and they adjusted their positions without any fear.
Then, then Xie Feng saw the classic evasion action like a textbook!
With the elves' keen eye and years of experience in using bows and arrows, the cannonballs falling from the sky pose little threat to them at all! I saw that the rangers easily judged the landing point of the cannonballs one by one, leaving that position to spread out to both sides.
In the moment before the cannonball hit the ground and exploded, the nearby elves quickly leaned forward again, clasped their heads in their hands and rushed out, and the backward movement did not even stop.
Just when Xie Feng was shocked by the scene in front of him, Garinde next to him rushed to Xie Feng's white chocobo and said in a calm tone: "My lord, follow me!" With that, he snatched the reins of the chocobo and walked forward without looking back.
Xie Feng came back to his senses, waved his hand and motioned for Tyri next to him to follow, let go of his control over the chocobo, and let it carry him to run back with Garinde.
Even ordinary rangers can judge the landing point of the cannonball, let alone the seventh-order ranger Garinde, who is the leader? Along the way, he shuttled with Xie Feng and Tai Li in the range of falling cannonballs, slippery like swimming fish without being harmed at all. Although fragments of cannonballs scattered from time to time, there was no need for Xie Feng to worry at all, all of them were blocked by Tyri and Garinde, and they left the scope of the cannonballs after a while.
After three rounds of artillery attacks, all the Elven Ranger retreated from the range of the dwarven artillery. Eight hundred go in, eight hundred come out!
Of course, it was not unharmed, dozens of elves closed their eyes forever, and hundreds of seriously injured were all carried out by their comrades.
Looking at the rangers who were busy bandaging themselves and their comrades-in-arms, Xie Feng still had a trace of disbelief.
That's a covering attack from artillery! The sudden sneak attack only lost less than thirty or forty people, is this the first drop of blood?
Looking at Xie Feng's expression of disbelief, Garinde explained softly beside him, "My lord! We had seen the power of the Brutehammer Dwarves' artillery when we were in Hinterland before, and for the sake of safety and fear of clash with them in the future, we specialized in how to evade artillery! And let all the rangers do targeted exercises. ”
"Although ordinary dwarven artillery is powerful, as long as it is not a direct hit, it generally cannot cause fatal damage!"
"The lethality of artillery mainly depends on the fragments of shells scattered after the explosion on the ground, after careful observation, we found that the general shell fragments are flying out from the bottom diagonally, so as long as the center of gravity is lowered or directly on the ground, these fragments are difficult to hit us!"
Hearing Galinde's explanation, Xie Feng finally came to his senses. I used the dwarf's broken 'mountain cannon' as those powerful cannons in my previous life, so I thought it was so incredible. Considering the strength of the individual soldiers of the Azeroth race, the elves have even reached the point where they can see the trajectory of the cannonballs, and after rigorous training, it is not surprising that there are only such casualties.
However, while understanding the reason, I couldn't help but be impressed by Garinder again!
Being able to think of the threat of artillery and find the most practical way to avoid it, with this insight and brains alone, you are qualified to become a general on the commander's side!
The elves relied on Galinde's precautionary and pre-drills, and they only went to dozens of people, but they didn't pay much price. And seriously injured? There are healing professions such as priest paladins, and as long as there is still a breath, it is not a attrition! Xie Feng didn't take it to heart at all.
On the other hand, the army of the undead, after losing hundreds of people in the first round of shelling, rushed straight into the lake next to it without saying a word under the leadership of the blind, and the enemy and the enemy completely collapsed~~
The dwarven artillery on the mountain was dumb after two rounds of fire, and they didn't even want to explode again when they broke the shells and hit them in the water, how many could they kill with the shells themselves? ~~~
The soldiers of the Nanhai Town Alliance, who were still thinking of turning around and rushing to kill for a while, were directly there, neither advancing nor retreating~~~