Chapter 289: Prelude to the Battle
Went to the Quellins Hut, threw two thousand rookie Morningbolt Shooters at Hawksbill's frantic expression, and returned to the Northland Guard Tower with fifteen hundred regular Rangers.
In the past few days, the army of Silver Dawn and the main elite of the Brotherhood of Holy Light will arrive one after another, and under the leadership of the silver commander Erigor, they will form a defensive line to block the reinforcements that may come from the base camp of the natural disaster, and when this group of troops arrives, the watchtower and hut that originally bore the brunt will immediately become a large rear, and the strategic materials of the Silver Alliance will be piled up in these two places, and the security will undoubtedly be greatly improved, so for Xie Feng's borrowing behavior, Hawksbill did not have much objection and readily agreed.
When he returned to the watchtower, Xie Feng immediately began to prepare, on the one hand, all kinds of information were sent to Silvermoon City's Hui Liadlin and Lotherma and others, so that they could have time to react, and on the other hand, he actively rectified the soldiers, selected the elite, and began to send a large number of scouts and issue tasks to the adventurers, and collect all kinds of information on the disaster in Blackwood Lake.
With the arrival of Vorell, the ability of the scout troops is much greater, although the leader of the Silver Moon Ranger is not able to stand alone, but he is very handy with this kind of reconnaissance mission, making Xie Feng's grasp of all parties more complete and timely.
And the newly promoted Thrace, although it is still a little uncomfortable with the sudden change of identity, but the speed of promotion is also very fast, I believe that in addition to Serin, Xie Feng will soon have more capable subordinates, and even a think tank!
In addition, the four magisters who were brought over at the beginning have been staying in the Northland Sentry Tower to assist in the defense these days, occasionally giving out some small tasks to the adventurers in their personal name, asking them to help collect some special experimental materials, and if they are in a good mood, they will also explain some spell casting or enchantment knowledge to the adventurers they can see, and the life is comfortable, as for the upper-level elf sister Silentis, she is mixed with Angela all day long, and she doesn't know what she is tinkering with, and it doesn't play a role in the defense of the sentry tower
The rest of the time was spent in a compact and busy situation, the silver dawn had begun to move troops, a large number of elites moved frequently along the first transportation line, only three days, tens of thousands of silver soldiers gathered on the front line of the east wall guard tower, put on a posture of besieging the North Valley, but the forward 3,000 men secretly hid in the mountains below Zumashal.
The Scarlet Crusaders of the Hand of Tyr are the opposite! In order not to let the natural disaster side notice their action plan, they not only did not shrink the assembly, but made frequent sorties, and attacked various strongholds of the natural disaster one after another in squadrons, even the target Kaulin intersection.
These assault units seem to have different numbers, almost every formed Scarlet team has them, but in fact they are only a small group of soldiers affiliated with Marlan, but each time they attack, they will change their outfits and numbers, and put on a posture of a Scarlet Crusader in full force in the face of natural disasters! As a result, instead of shrinking its forces, the Scourge deliberately dispersed the defense and gave them an opportunity to take advantage of it, trying to attract the attention of the blood to continue to attack like this, and to consume them with the advantage of troops and cannon fodder. In the course of three days, the Scourge Legion had lost a lot of cannon fodder, and there were not many Scarlet Warriors left, but on the other hand, a large number of elite troops had secretly gathered behind the towering walls of the Hand of Tyr
On the other side, the Blightcaller Legion on Maris Farm is undoubtedly much more difficult than these two forces, since the lich escaped, it has been constantly replenishing troops from Daron County to harass the Crown Watchtower, and the Scourge military camp in Mushroom Valley has also taken advantage of the gap to attack, and the two Forsaken Commanders, Nathanos* Blightcaster and Aske* Fallen, have to disperse their forces and defend one place to encourage resistance, although they desperately want to attack with blood, but they can't do anything about it~ Although the situation is good and bad, they are barely ready for battle, Ambushes and reinforcements were in place, logistics were delivered to the battlefields ahead of schedule, and Bruce's horse corps was fully expanded, packing all supplies destined for the Forsaken and transporting them to the East Wall Tower.
Calculating that the time was almost there, Liadlin said that the top powerhouse to be sent over had not yet appeared, Xie Feng had no choice but to invite Hawksbill to the sentry tower again, and he took five hundred blood knights and one thousand fifteen hundred rangers, a total of two thousand people, secretly set off and hid in the valley near the three-way intersection
Although the actions of all parties are very hidden and there are no mistakes, although the Scarlet Crusaders attack everywhere regardless of casualties in an attempt to disrupt the sight and attention of the natural disaster, but after all, this is the Eastern Plague Land full of undead, and there are a large number of strong men in the heyday! The pervasive Scout of the Scourge has already discovered that something is wrong with the atmosphere here~ But by the time the Scourge higher-ups reacted and wanted to deal with it, it was already too late!
It was only on the fourth day after the plan was finalized that Xie Feng, who had been ambushed in the mountains at the three-way intersection for a night, was found by spies under the Scarlet Crusader killer Rohan
"General Alex, the Grand Lord has already made the move, and it is expected to be outside the Cowlin junction by noon!"
The spy in front of him, dressed in clothes the same color as the dark brown land of the Eastern Plague, but the red scarf with the blood-colored mark of the tattooed person who was so immortal, destroyed the sense of concealment, coupled with those fanatical and blind eyes, Xie Feng waved helplessly in his heart: "Understood!" Tell Wadmar that the Scarlet Crusaders will never be attacked from other directions, and that he will only need to face the Scourge from Kaulin! ”
For him to be so unceremoniously called, a trace of fiery anger obviously flashed in the eyes of the blood-colored spy, but in the end, he was still quite knowledgeable, and he didn't break out on the spot and leave without saying a word~ "It's a bit of a secret worker!" Except for that damn face towel" Xie Feng pursed his lips disdainfully, turned around and shouted: "Assemble, go!" ”
The blood elves hidden on the slopes and sides of the road came out in response, and in an instant they formed two large formations, with five hundred blood knights neatly lined up in front and a slightly loose ranger army in the rear
"My lord, there is still more than an hour before noon, and the Scarlet Crusade has just set out, so we will act now, and it is likely that we will attract natural disasters from other directions," Thrace asked with concern, as he commanded the troops to assemble. Set off now, reach the outskirts of Lake Blackwood in half an hour, and the Scarlet Crusaders won't start attacking the Cowling Junction in another half an hour, and it will be fun to draw the natural disaster that should have belonged to them to you during this time!
Xie Feng turned his head, glanced at him with a smile, and said happily: "Our task is the easiest, so we must be the first to attack and create favorable conditions for the other allied forces!" ”
Thrace asked with a slight sigh and some doubts: "But then we will face more pressure!" Not to mention that the casualties will be aggravated, and once you can't hold on, you may be."
"Can't hold on? Did I say I'm going to hold it up?! Xie Feng pursed his lips, pointed at the soldiers gathered below, and said with an evil smile: "Do you think I will exchange the lives of my own people for the convenience or victory of other armies?" Even if they are so-called allies?! ”
"Hehe~ If you knew him well enough, you wouldn't ask this sentence!" A faint purple figure slowly appeared behind Xie Feng, took the reins of the war horse handed over by a blood knight, and laughed at the embarrassed Thrace: "He will only push others into the water to test dangerous actions, and he has never taken the initiative to pay, as he has always been since I knew him!" ”
"Cough~cough~" Xie Feng's old face suddenly turned red, coughed dryly, glared at the mage who was demolishing the stage in front of his subordinates, and said angrily:
"Am I being calculated all the time?" This battle is not trivial, for the sake of insurance, Xie Feng ignored the opposition and insisted on pulling out the Sirendis, who was happy with Angela, thinking that she was still a little unhappy
Sirendis rolled her eyes: "It seems that I have only seen you calculate others~ and the fate of those people is very miserable, such as the poor Ninth Legion~"
"Shut up!" Xie Feng was startled and a little panicked, and turned to Thrace and scolded, "What are you looking at?!" Let me go! ”
The matter of the plague war, Sirendis, Tyri, Garinder and other old subordinates all know, although the matter has passed, but if it really wants to get out, it will be a lot of chickens and dogs, this kind of thing is a big problem no matter when it is dug up, and it is completely possible to completely stink Xie Feng's reputation!
Sirendis also knew the seriousness of the matter, looked at Xie Feng, who had palpitations, pursed his lips and didn't say much, turned over and got on his horse and followed the team to set off~ A quarter of an hour, Xie Feng, who walked out of the small mountain area from the south of the three-way intersection, did not go directly to the middle of Blackwood Lake and Kaulin, and after walking to the dry river, he turned directly to the northwest direction, and made a detour to the north of Blackwood Lake, which allowed the blood knight to start attacking and attract the attention of the undead natural disaster.
But this is not at all the same as the original plan, they all detour to the back of the lake, how to prevent the undead from going to Kaulin to participate in the war? At first, Thrace was puzzled by Xie Feng's approach and didn't know what the use of coming here was, but he didn't think that Xie Feng's brain was in the water and he accidentally took the wrong path, but he was looking forward to Xie Feng's ultimate intention
"The Blood Knight holds a shield and forms a circle to resist the attack and slowly retreats! The rangers are divided into two teams, one team kills the abomination, the banshee and the gargoyle, and the other clears the way out! Looking at the large number of undead who gradually gathered from a distance, Xie Feng calmly ordered.
Most of the undead in Blackwood Lake are idle supernumerary members, but not only that, but it is also a large stronghold, and the Scourge has also sent a lot of necromancers and cursed cultists here to gather cannon fodder, but there are no lichs or death knights on the side.
At this time, these natural disaster mages saw a small number of blood elves attacking themselves, although their hearts were weak, but they still surrounded them and launched a tentative attack with the strength of the crowd, and as a result, they unexpectedly repelled this group of elves, and suddenly their confidence soared, and everyone surrounded them violently
After a while, the Blood Knights retreated to the eastern shore of Lake Blackwood, but unlike before, they easily crossed the river to the opposite side near the shore of Lake Blackwood, blocking the undead who had been chasing behind them.
"Why here?" Sirendis looked at Xie Feng a little puzzled and asked, "Isn't this easier to be surrounded by natural disasters?" ”
Xie Feng didn't answer, and continued to order the blood knights to block here for a while, and then ordered again: "Continue to retreat!" ”
"Are you crazy? That's tens of thousands of undead! Until now, even Sirendis couldn't help but doubt Xie Feng's approach. Blocked in this narrow area, it can barely support it with the strength of the blood knights, but once it retreats again, it will face at least 50,000 or more natural disaster troops! With such a little blood elf, it is purely sent to death!
"Nothing to be afraid of!" Thrace frowned and retorted: "These undead have no supreme commander, they are all rabble, and there is no cooperation at all!" And even if we retreat and chase the undead, it is impossible for all of them to pass through in a short period of time, and the number of people we need to face is only about 30,000."
"What about 30,000? Can you hold them off? Sirendis paused slightly, then said disdainfully.
Thrace was speechless, ignoring the military idiot, and turned his head to look at Xie Feng with expectant eyes.
"Retreat along the river! Don't be in love, be quick! Xie Feng ordered loudly, commanding the troops to retreat in an orderly manner, and asked with a smile: "Guess what! ”
Thrace's expression froze, and the corners of his mouth twitched a few times
"Set off half an hour early, and attack the undead on the north side of the Blackwood Lake first, you can avoid the detection of the Kaulin intersection in a short period of time, and attract the undead on the north bank, not only can you cause chaos with their unclear command, but also allow Silver Dawn to calmly arrange, establish a defensive line as quickly as possible, and make the natural disaster unable to dispatch the commander to supervise the battle! So that Blackwood Lake alone can contain us"
"Now retreat to the south shore because there is not much time left, the battle of Cowlin Road Junction is about to be fought soon, and we must rush back as soon as possible to intercept the undead of Blackwood Lake!"
"As for our lack of strength and inability to contain the 30,000 natural disasters, I think the general has prepared another batch of reinforcements!"
After listening to Thrace's analysis, Xie Feng showed a smile of encouragement and appreciation on the surface, but he was deflated in his heart. It's not that Thrace guessed wrong, his talent is basically not different from Xie Feng's plan! But this plan Xie Feng has been planning for a long time, and he is a little disappointed to be guessed so easily
Seeing that Xie Feng acquiesced, Sylendis understood, and had a really such expression: "I just said that you must be digging some kind of pit again, are those Chenfeng shooters?" ”
Thrace did not refute this, apparently believing that the reinforcements were the Morning Striker Marksman, but asked a little puzzled: "But General, wouldn't it be very dangerous for us to gather together the natural disasters on the north shore and turn around and attack the line of Silver Dawn from behind?" ”
"I finally didn't fully guess it" Xie Feng was overjoyed and quietly relieved, but he showed a look of surprise on his face and asked, "Isn't there the Morning Striker Archer, the Blood Knight of the Northland Guard Tower, and Hawksbill?" They'll be able to wipe out the undead in no time with Silver Dawn, right? ”
And then it's a saying, "So what about here?" Two thousand versus thirty thousand? ”
"Just find another batch of reinforcements!" Xie Feng replied confidently.
The team continued to retreat along the river, and the natural disasters on the north bank that chased after them were blocked in the middle of the river and the lake because of the inconvenient command, and only a few rushed over to continue the pursuit, but the natural disasters on the south bank saw the appearance of the blood elves, and they were like sharks that smelled blood, and they swarmed ~ Seeing that the blood elves were about to be besieged by tens of thousands of undead, a chaotic sound suddenly came from the north side of the river, and then, thousands of people mixed with various races, Holding a miscellaneous weapon and shouting various slogans, they divided into dozens of teams of various sizes, and quickly ran across the river and rushed into the ranks of the undead
Sirendis was dumbfounded: "These are those adventurers?" You actually use them?! ”
Xie Feng shrugged his shoulders indifferently and replied, "Why not?" Isn't it just right for a rabble to a rabble? Don't underestimate adventurers! ”
Adventurers really can't be underestimated! These guys, who have no organization and discipline at all, are completely vulnerable to the regular troops of various ethnic forces, and their innate fear of the aborigines and their own loose characteristics make them have no room to fight back! But if you run into the scourge army, which is also a rabble, it will definitely be a tiger into the flock!
"Although their strength is indeed stronger than that of the natural disaster, and their discipline is almost the same, there are no top powerhouses among them after all!" Sirendis still refuses to give up. Fifth-order adventurers really have to rob most of the natural calamity troops, even the abomination can be worn out, but if they encounter those mages of the sixth order, or even the seventh order and above, they are also powerless
"Who said there was no strong one among them? I asked Darennis and the four of them to organize adventurers to come over," Xie Feng said with a smile.
Silendis
With the adventurers as shields, and the natural disasters had no spare strength to estimate the blood elves, Xie Feng took advantage of the situation to lead the blood knights and rangers to rush out of the encirclement, bypass the main battlefield by the river, and came to the back of the natural disaster very easily, blocking their road to the intersection of Kaolin Road.
Five hundred blood knights are divided into five teams, if there is a large force of natural disasters coming, let them disperse directly, while the rangers are divided into two groups, one part is completely dispersed, shoot the idle undead on the road, and the other part is to cooperate with the blood knights to kill organized natural disasters ~ It was almost noon, and the undead and adventurers on the side of the river were fighting vigorously, obviously looking like a chess opponent and 'sympathy', but the blood elf team was extremely leisurely, occasionally gathering and distributing a few small teams of natural disasters that came to provoke with long eyes, and then they were there to wait for the rabbit and be very relaxed.
When everyone was bored and lazy, Vorell, who was on a reconnaissance mission, suddenly sent someone back to report~ "My lord! The Scourge Legion at the Cowling Junction has begun to assemble, with a total of 20,000 high-level troops, and is about to march here! ”
(To be continued)