Stormwind, located in the north-central part of Bracada, is less than thirty kilometers from the northern end of Yongville Valley, which serves as a north-south transportation route. Therefore, Stormwind has always been a very important point of trade and transportation connecting the north and south ends of the ice field. However, due to its proximity to the cusp of the A Coruña Mountains, there are violent and continuous snowstorms that plague the region every winter. And that's where the name Stormwind comes from.

However, when the North and South sides of Bracada officially declared war, Stormwind, which had been under human control, suddenly became one of the most important bases and outposts for the Northern Allies to march south. It's just that Stormwind has never been known for its martial arts, and its internal magic system is not prosperous. Therefore, the Allies had taken the lead in deploying the troops from Crimson City and Root City here at the first time, and planned to set up a solid attack line in the Yongville Valley in advance, in order to wait for the arrival of the subsequent Allied forces. But what no one expected was that under the surprise blow of the goblins, the Allied forces suffered a heavy defeat in the salient area of the Yongville Valley, and not only did they lose their troops, but they also had to retreat to Stormwind City on all fronts. At the same time, the goblins' coalition forces continued to pursue in one go, hoping to take advantage of the opponent's lack of strength and demoralization to take Storm City in one fell swoop, so as to severely defeat a series of strategic plans of the northern allies.

"Kill!"

After ten days and nights of non-stop attacks and magical attacks by the Goblin Alliance, the walls of Storm City have been damaged and damaged in various ways. In particular, a section of the women's wall about 50 meters long in the southwest completely collapsed under the continuous bombardment of dozens of fireballs this morning, opening a large hole more than three meters wide. And in just half a day after that, in order to plug this fatal gap, Stormwind City has paid a high price for a full three squadrons and five mid-level warriors. Of course, the goblins who were the attackers also suffered heavy losses and casualties. However, compared to the two, the coalition side did not care about the surging death toll because of the large advantage in troops, but was bent on breaking through this gap and completely taking down the hot but rich fat of Stormwind City.

"Kill!" Ranska had forgotten how many swords he had slashed and how many people he had killed, but the goblin enemies in front of him were like endless snowflakes that could not be slashed or killed.

From noon, Ranka followed his squadron into this "Death Woman's Wall" that seemed to be devouring flesh with her mouth wide open. Five hours passed. It was almost dusk, but the fierce battle did not cool down at all, but became more intense. In the field of vision, teams of humans and goblins collide like a torrent of water and fire. The ground was soft and sticky with a large flow of flesh, and when you stepped on it, it felt as if you were stepping on it in a thick ointment. Even though the temperature outside had already broken through the freezing point a lot, the flesh and blood could not condense for a long time under the pouring of hot blood.

Already three hours earlier, Lanska's squadron leader had been killed. Died by a second-level spell thunderbolt that fell from the sky. As for his other squadron comrades, there are only two of them who can support them so far, and they are all injured.

"Ahh Die! ”

Only then did he use his crumbling iron sword to slash a goblin chain hammerman to the ground, but in the blink of an eye, two more goblin warriors roaring and wielding blood-stained chains and fist-sized solid copper balls pounced on Ranska.

"Die for me!"

Without having time to think, relying only on his numb and mechanical killing instincts, Lanceka lunged at one of the goblins with an arrow, and at the same time the iron sword slashed at it with great force. The goblin soldiers on the opposite side didn't seem to expect the enemy to be so crazy in one enemy and two enemies, so they had to tighten the chain of the chain hammer to block the blade of the sword under obvious lack of preparation.

There was a crisp "click", and Yan Zhanng's long sword, which had been damaged, broke into two pieces after slashing into the goblin's chain. But. Before the goblin could delight in the destruction of his opponent's weapon, Ranka had already grabbed the remaining half of the blade and slashed at the enemy's neck.

"Shhh

A squirt sounded like a torrential downpour, and a finger-long wound had been cut open on the side of the goblin warrior. Blood is like a fountain in an afternoon pool. It shot into the air three or four meters in one fell swoop, and at the same time, it applied another layer of the freshest bright red to Lanska, who was already covered in blood.

However, just as Lanceka broke his sword and broke the enemy, the second goblin chain hammerman on the other side had also arrived. When he saw his companion's throat brutally severed, the second goblin soldier's eyes immediately turned red, and at the same time fiercely picked up the chain hammer in his hand and smashed it towards the side back of the human who had been exposed.

"Smack!"

A series of bones shattered from Lanceka's body, and immediately a large stream of broken flesh erupted from the human soldier's mouth, as if he was about to vomit out all his internal organs.

In the midst of the pain, Rusta instinctively knew that her organs had been shattered by the goblin's hammer. Sure enough, as those veterans said, the goblin warriors were short in stature. But the strength is definitely not small. In addition, this race is accustomed to using such a fierce weapon as a chain hammer, once it is smashed to the point that it will cost most of its life.

The pain was accompanied by extreme excitement and unwillingness, which made the young soldier unwilling to let go of his murderer like this. Vomiting blood, yelling, and frantic, Lanceka tugged at the enemy's chain as he staggered and scrambled towards the goblin clash with his dagger in hand.

And see the human soldiers who pounced like bloodthirsty demons and wanted to pull them to their deaths. The goblin suddenly became shamelessly frightened, turned and fled in other directions. Unfortunately, he forgot that the other end of the hammer was clasped to his belt.

"Boom!"

As if squeezing out the last vestige of his life, Ranka rushed behind the goblin soldier and slashed his broken sword into the top of the opponent's head. Immediately, the enemy rolled down to hell first.

But Lanceka was looking at the dead bodies that had fallen to the ground. At any moment, when he could also die, a vicious wind suddenly blew from his side. Lanska barely turned his head to look, but what he saw was a domineering crossbow with incomparable strength and speed, penetrating all the flesh and blood bodies along the way, and speeding from the goblin position a hundred meters away. Then, Ranka, who was standing on the crossbow's trajectory, was pierced through the body by a giant crossbow as thick as an arm. Then, the huge momentum directly tore the human warrior's entire body into two pieces.

"Order, the Kentucky brigade immediately sorted, targeting the southwest of the city walls. At the same time, squadrons of hammer throwers and crossbows continued to strike cover from a distance. "Looking at the gap in the crowd hundreds of meters away that was continuously swept by the crossbow and was brutally penetrated. The goblin commander, Dharanisis, smiled silently, then commanded in a cold voice.

"Yes, sir!" Hearing the order, the herald did not hesitate, immediately turned around and ran to Kentucky, which was on standby in front of the side, and loudly conveyed the commander's order.

"Lord Dharanises, so far today, we have nearly five hundred more soldiers killed and seriously wounded. Such a casualty rate. It's really some—" Looking at the herald's back, a goblin officer on the side stepped forward cautiously and said softly.

"I don't want casualty numbers, just Stormwind!" Dharanisis didn't look back, but said in a deep voice.

"But, there are several city lords in the rear...", the officer was about to speak and stopped.

"The victor will not be criticized. Do you understand? Kontas! The commander turned around and looked sternly at the seasoned goblin officer in front of him.

"Yes, my lord, I see!" Kontas also glanced at his young chief. He bowed and retreated.

Dharanisis has always been a complete outlier among the goblin legions in Khumbu City. In the eyes of others. This goblin kid, who is too young to be even a captain, is not only bold and unruly, but also usually does some strange things that don't follow common sense. If it weren't for the fact that his sister Kacherova was the favorite concubine of Lucas, the lord of Khumbu, and her background was really tough, there would have been more than one goblin in the legion who wanted to attack Dharanisis. And this time, the reason why Dharanisis was able to become the former enemy commander of the goblin coalition army was also the result of the woman Kacherova blowing the pillow wind. Who made Khumbu City one of the top three in the league? With Lucas's full support, and the fact that the main forces of the north and south were not really in place, and the war had not yet broken out in its entirety, Dharanisis, who was only twenty years old, finally took the position of the commander of the garrison of the Goblin Alliance Army in the Valley of Yongville. Of course. Once the subsequent coalition forces gather in Yongville Valley, Dharanises will also be transformed into an unhindered "security commander".

However, to everyone's surprise, Dharanisis, who had only been in charge of the Yongville Valley garrison for less than a week, had devised an extremely bold plan to take the initiative to attack. Moreover, without consulting and obtaining consent from the coalition headquarters. Dharanises used his position as commander of the legion to mobilize all the combat resources at his disposal, and launched a surprise attack on the Allied salient in the north in the midst of everyone's astonishment.

Of course, during this period, it was not without other officers who jumped out to fiercely oppose Dharanises' military plan, but they were all captured and imprisoned by him. At the same time, in order to prevent "unnecessary interference" from the headquarters, Dharanisis also deliberately ordered to temporarily cut off all communication channels between the Yongville Valley and the outside world.

And eventually. It wasn't until the Yongville Valley garrison had collected nearly two human legions and a reorganized mage regiment in one fell swoop that Dharanises reported the battle plan to Lucas and the coalition headquarters. After receiving such a report, the bigwigs of the Goblin Alliance were all stunned and angry, and even Lucas angrily proposed to kill Dharanises to correct his crime of sending troops without authorization. However, after a long heated discussion, for the sake of the overall battle situation and the morale of the army, the goblin city lords finally decided to temporarily let Dharanisis, a "naughty child" who strictly "violated the rules and discipline", and let him continue to preside over the work of the Yongville Valley garrison legion. At the same time, the official conclusion of the "Battle of the Bulge" has suddenly changed from Dharanises' private dispatch of troops to a glorious example of "the alliance strategizing the curtain and the war will win a thousand miles".

Of course, as the boss of Dharanisis, Lucas still has to show a certain attitude and expression for the wanton behavior of his subordinates. Therefore, in the subsequent internal notice of the legion, the city lord of Kunbu mercilessly scolded Dharanisis for being a bloody squirt, scorched on the outside and tender on the inside. He was even directly deprived of his post as a corps commander, demoted to deputy corps commander, and retained as an inspector and temporarily led military affairs. However, just a few days after this "swearing" notice was issued, there was another gossip that the favored Lady Kacherova had once again received the favor of the lord of Lucas, and "small gifts" including a top spa manor and a batch of expensive jewelry were assigned to the name of this beauty. And in this regard, people who have a heart naturally understand what it is for.

Although he was scolded by his own lord in the public legion text, Dharanisis lived a more nourishing life. After only writing a review of the earnest, honest, and determined manner, the young goblin leader turned around and began to lead his men in the discussion of the attack on Stormwind. And this time. No one has come forward to speak back or protest anymore. Since Dharanisis can indeed fight, and the alliance leaders are so biased and shielded, including those thorny officers who have just been released, they have no opinion, and they begin to honestly follow the commander to fight with the wind.

"Whoosh... Sou... Whoosh..."

With the order of Dharanisis, the chain hammer like a raindrop flew towards the southwest city wall with a howl of wind that shook the eardrums.

"Get out of the way!"

Seeing the "Hammer Rain" coming, someone in Stormwind City immediately shouted, and all the human warriors hurriedly looked for cover to cover it. To know. Although these spinning and falling chain hammers are much smaller than the ones in the hands of the goblin chain hammers, they are all real copper and iron creatures of about two pounds. Once it is smashed, it will be good.

"Smack... Syllable! ”

As if "banana beating leaves", nearly 100 chain hammers fell heavily in a row, smashing the ground and the city wall into pits of different depths. However, fortunately, unlike human crossbowmen, goblin chain hammermen generally have poor crosshairs, and belong to the "cross-eyed fight" kind of littering, so most human warriors with the city wall can safely dodge the past.

But at the same time, the fully armed Kentucky brigade had already rushed to a point less than twenty meters near the gap in the city wall. Fortunately. The few archers above the city walls were still trying to shoot at the enemies below the city, which somewhat hindered and worried the goblins' advance.

"Come out and get ready for battle!"

Outside the city, a large number of enemies were near. Olinta roared. He is the third squadron leader standing in the gap today, and his first two have died heroically.

"Captain Olinta, the brothers are almost gone, ask for reinforcements!" At this time, a captain on the side shouted. Behind him stood a dozen scarred warriors, who seemed to be the only remaining seeds of the entire Olympa squadron.

"Reinforcements, birds!" Olinta scolded at Captain Wu: "The battle is on this, where do you let me find reinforcements!" Tell you, boy, our squadron is the last reserve. When you and I are dead, it's time for the city lord's guards to come up and plug the hole! ”

"My lord—" Captain Wu wanted to say something. But I have found that there is really nothing to say.

"Don't talk nonsense, stand shoulder to shoulder, and die in the gap!" Olympa nodded heavily and was the first to rush out. Then, the captain gritted his teeth and followed with the other soldiers.

"Whew!"

But. When this group of warriors pounced, they were greeted by several continuous roaring crossbows. Immediately, the five warriors were shot into rifled gourds before they could blink an eye, and Olinta himself was grazed by a thick crossbow arrow and broke one of his arms.

"Squadron Leader!" Captain Wu was about to rush over to bandage the chief's wounds, but was pushed away by Olympa.

"If you can afford a sword, you can't die. Kill! ”

"Kill!"

Hear the roar of Olinta. The remaining nine soldiers all desperately grabbed the weapons in their hands, and formed a seemingly thin human-shaped embankment side by side, and stopped the torrent of goblin brigades that had rushed to the distance.

"Lord Castle, let's go up!" On the watchtower in the city, Ecente, the captain of the guard of Stormwind City Lord Frissa and an eighth-level warrior, looked at the critical situation on the southwest city wall, and couldn't hold back any longer, so he took the initiative to ask for battle.

"Nope." Frissa glanced at Ecente, shook his thin arm lightly, and said, "Send Royer!" ”

"However, Royer has just come down from the east, and his brigade has suffered nearly seventy percent casualties!" The captain of the guard immediately admonished.

"Then let the remaining thirty men give me a top, and the gap in the southwest must be blocked." As a human elder who is over sixty years old, the Lord of Stormwind has a heart that could not be more cold and tough.

"It's... Be! Under the watchful eye of Vrissa, the captain of the guard had no choice but to accept orders.

"Mistress Frysa, let's send our two guards up. The current situation is very clear, the goblins are eating the southwest gap and attacking. Moreover, the enemy's mage regiment was so fierce that we had no chance of re-plugging the collapsed walls. Therefore, I am afraid that ordinary low-level warriors alone will not work after all. On the side, the city lords of Crimson City and Lute City glanced at each other and said.

Half a month earlier, the forces of the two city-states had suffered a heavy blow in the Battle of the Bulge. In the end, although there were nearly 1,000 people who managed to escape back to Storm City, most of them were wounded soldiers. It's too much to fight again. Therefore, most of the offensive and defensive battles of Storm City these days are carried by local troops. And at this moment, the two city lords were no longer embarrassed to stand aside as spectators, and offered to take out the last of the new forces in their hands and hand them over to Frisa to see the gun. Otherwise, once Stormwind City is broken, I'm afraid everyone will not be able to escape the killing of goblins.

"Wait, wait." Frissa turned around, looked at the two of them, and shook her head slowly.

"It's... All right. Looking at the wrinkles on the old man's face that looked as deep as a ravine due to fatigue and perseverance, Crimson and Lord Rute didn't say anything more. After all. This is Stormwind's home stadium, and Frissa is the supreme commander of the big battle in front of him.

"Hehe, it seems that not all human beings are good-for-nothing fools, they can endure it like this!" Through the bronze machine, Dharanisis looked at another group of human soldiers who had been driven out of Stormwind City, spilling like a handful of sand on the gap to plug the leak, as if mocking and admiring.

"My lord, do you want to invite a few Naga adults out and rush together? Humanity seems to have little power left. "I heard the goblin captain talking to himself. A goblin officer built yì road.

"It seems?" Dharanisis looked at the other party coldly, and said sarcastically: "Then let me ask you, since our army began to attack the city. How many mid-level warriors and mages have died on the human side? ”

"This—" The goblin officer didn't pay attention to the question, and was asked on the spot.

"Don't know? So I'll tell you: seven mid-tier warriors and two mages. Moreover, most of them were killed within today's time. Now, do you see something? With that, Dharanisis asked, glancing around at the other officers around him.

"What do you mean by that human beings have deliberately shrunk their high-end combat power?" Kontas was worthy of being an experienced officer, and was the first to react. Road.

"Heh, there is finally someone who understands." Dharanisis looked at the other goblin officers who had not yet reacted with dissatisfaction, and said, "Stormwind City, plus the defeated army of Crimson and Lut, you say it yourself. How many mid-tier warriors and mages are still on the opposite side of us right now? ”

"Humanity has accumulated so many strong professionals, but let the low-level soldiers continue to fight with us, what are they going to do?" Kontas thought for a moment and glanced at the commander in bewilderment.

"Wait!"

"What are you waiting for?"

"Wait for our Naga friends." Dharani Sisge smiled grimly: "If I am not mistaken, these professionals have been carefully held in the hands of the human commander as a reserve for counterattacking Naga. After all. In the salient, the lesson we have taught humanity is too great. ”

"I see!" After listening to the Legion Commander's analysis, Kontas nodded abruptly, and then said: "In this case, will we also stand still and continue to fight for each other's lives." Let's see who will be the first to endure it. ”

"Then I can guarantee that we must be impatient first." Hearing Kontas's words, the goblin captain couldn't help but shake his head in helpless disappointment.

"How can this be?"

"Then you think that the reinforcements of the human alliance will slowly pacing over like shopping, until they can easily attack Storm City?" Dharanisis asked sharply.

"This—" Kontas was speechless.

"Now, time is far more precious to goblins than to humans!" As he spoke, Dharanises flicked his cloak and turned around again: "Now that the southwest wall has been completely torn open by us, the human race is self-righteous and wants to retain its strength to snipe Naga. Then, it's time for the hard guys to come into play. ”

"Your Excellency, you mean?" Hearing the words "hard guy", Kontas was immediately clever.

"I order, the Camon company will attack, the Burrows brigade will cooperate, and the mage regiment will cover and cover!" Dharanisis ordered again.

"Yes!" After receiving such an order, the herald was also excited, and immediately ran to convey it.

At the same time, in the gap in the southwest city wall, the Royer Brigade, which had barely been reinforced, and the Orinta squadron, which had only a few remaining personnel, finally joined forces to kill another group of goblin chain hammermen. It seems that it received orders from the rear, and the Kentucky brigade, which had already lost more than half of its dead and wounded, also retreated.

"Olinta, what's wrong with your hand?" Glancing at the goblin soldiers who were rapidly moving away like a tide, Hierro let out a long breath, then quickly walked to the side of his comrades on the other side and asked with concern.

"I was grazed by a crossbow." Olinta shook her head at Royer unconcernedly. But his gaze involuntarily fell back to the ground on the side. There, the corpse of the Captain was twisted together with the corpse of a goblin chain hammerman. The undried blood of the two was still bubbling up, constantly wetting each other's bodies.

"Lord Hiro, why is the lord of the castle..."

"I don't know."

Hiero knew what Olinta wanted to ask, but he couldn't answer. As a middle-level professional, he has already received a secret order from Frissa, ordering him to fight cautiously, and use the geographical advantage of the city defense to improve the exchange ratio with the goblins. In other words. It is to ask Hiero to exchange the lives of ordinary soldiers under him for more enemy lives as much as possible, and try to minimize his own rush to fight hard.

For such an order, it has to be said that it is extremely cold. Under this strategic thinking, the lives of each individual have suddenly become rows and rows of numbers that can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, and goods that can be bought and sold. Although Hierro carried it out, he still could not fully accept, understand and approve of it.

"Lord Hierro, if I die in battle, remember to bury me and my brothers together." Glancing at the other party again, Olinta no longer dwelled on the "boring question" just now, but just smiled calmly and abnormally.

"Okay, I'll remember." This kind of moment. Any words of comfort are empty words like farts, and Hiero also smiled and nodded directly.

And at this time. Suddenly, there was movement in the goblin position in the distance outside the city walls. Hierro immediately raised his eyes to look over, and saw that two goblin chainhammer troops, one large and one small, had begun to assemble in the wind and snow, and it seemed that they would soon pounce on this side again.

"The little green men look like they're going to make one last push before nightfall. A battalion plus a squadron seemed intent on drowning all of us in one go. Hierro looked again at the sky to the west, which had begun to darken, and judged.

"Heh, come on, then. It's just one hundred and fifty dwarfs, and we can't help but cut them all! Olinta tied her broken arm tightly to her body with an armed belt, then picked up an iron sword at her feet at random and said fiercely.

"Good! Chop down the crumbs. I'll invite everyone to drink in the evening! Hierro also yelled.

"Hierro-sama is in for a treat, let's go together!"

"Kill it early, start drinking it early. The little green man should come up quickly! ”

"Hierro-sama, I want the best Leist, you can't be stingy then!"

Hear the words of the captain. The soldiers who had been tired from the long battle also clamored.

And as the human soldiers strained each other's morale and prepared for the final battle of the day, the two Goblin Chainhammer troops gradually approached the gap. It's just that what makes Olinta feel a little strange is that unlike the ferocious posture of the previous goblin troops who charged with all their might as soon as they appeared, the one hundred and fifty goblin soldiers in front of him were very suspicious of "grinding foreign workers". However, at a distance of 300 meters, the two goblin teams walked left and right for five minutes before they were finished. It's like a siege battle. It's just about falling in love and pressing the road.

"What the hell are these little green men doing?" Olinta's eyes widened as she looked at the goblin troops who had finally approached closely, and asked herself with some uneasiness.

"Who knows! Maybe they don't want to fight either, and plan to drag it out until it's dark. Beside him, a warrior muttered guessingly.

"Dragging?" Hierro was also suspicious of the enemy's unusual behavior, but no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't see anything strange.

It wasn't until the two goblin troops finally approached the gap in the city wall that they were suddenly shocked to find that in the light of dusk, there was a very faint halo around the goblin squadron on the left, as if there was an invisible and extremely thin oil film covering the entire goblin squadron.

"Oh no, they're not goblins!" For a moment, a thought flashed through Hiero's mind.

Before his shout fell, Olinta suddenly threw the short sword in his hand at the goblin squadron.

"Whew!"

The frantically spinning short sword slashed through the air with a swift phant, and in the moment of transfer, it cut into the halo of oily light, and then disappeared without a trace.

"Sure enough, it's a 'magic disguise'!" Looking at the short sword that disappeared in an instant, Hierro felt a "groan" in his heart.

"Dang!"

The next moment, a loud bang came from the void like a clash of gold and iron, and there was no doubt that it was the short sword thrown by Olinta that finally hit something hard within the oil film.

And immediately after this clear abnormal sound, the layer of oil film camouflage that shrouded the periphery of the "goblin squadron" finally slowly dissipated. After removing the magical disguise, what appeared in front of everyone was no longer a squadron of goblin chain hammermen, but more than a dozen humanoid magic puppets with a height of two meters and fifty meters and covered with hard and shiny copper armor. And completely different from ordinary magic golems, these tall humanoid golems turned out to be hollow in their chest and abdomen. Through the fine grid of armor slats that obscured his chest, Hierro could even catch a glimpse of the green goblin cowering inside the puppet like a pilot.

"Khumbu City's latest magic puppet - 'Iron Fist of War', hehe, welcome to the tasting of humans." Looking at the dozen or so humanoid magic puppets that began to overwhelm the gap in the southwest city wall with a devastating force, Dharanisis chuckled and said. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )