Chapter 336: The Situation Begins to Emerge
As the dwarven mine idiot Karui knocked down with a hoe, the entire mountain wall suddenly began to shake violently, and a moment later, under the stunned gaze of the surrounding silver warriors, it suddenly collapsed, and the rocks, dirt, shrubs, and decaying roots of the trees poured down on the heads of the soldiers in the valley, instantly blocking the road with tens of thousands of silver warriors, and completely becoming a turtle in an urn!
At this moment, the Karui * copper and iron that hoeed open the cracked rocks of the mountain are like the king of the hills, Anweimar, leaning over, and the majesty is unstoppable
Everyone was stunned, but the demons of the crypt who rushed out with the rubble were unceremonious, and launched a brutal massacre against the remote professional priests, mages, etc., who were in the rear and had lost the protection of the warriors!
The narrow terrain made most of the ranged classes that were caught off guard directly buried by rubble, and the lucky ones who were lucky enough to escape their lives could not escape the nimble and swift crypt demons on the rugged road, and died one by one, and in less than half a moment, three thousand Silver Dawn ranged troops were slaughtered without resistance, and then the seven thousand soldiers who were helpless by the enemy collapsed on the spot
Habitual thinking is a very tangled thing, from the top wise to the brainless idiot can't escape his blasphemy, but when you can see through him and jump out of that circle, even a fool can turn genius around. For example, now, Baron Rivendell, a military rookie, has played Errigor and Hawksbill, two veteran veterans of a hundred battles, fiercely.
Crypt demons, literally explained, coupled with the way they have appeared for a long time, everyone will habitually think that they will definitely jump out of the ground and attack, even if Xie Feng is there in person, he will not have the slightest suspicion of this. Therefore, whether it is a ranger or a dwarf, he puts the key monitoring points at his feet, but inadvertently ignores the mountains beside him.
How could spiders who could carve out a vast kingdom beneath the frozen soil of Northrend in the Arctic could have taken the small dirt mountains of the Plaguelands into their eyes?
Under the orders of Baron Rivendell, Anubrecan led the spiders to divide into two ways, one was completely under the pretense of attracting the ears of the other party, swaggering into the Silver Dawn retreat road to 'ambush', and the other was led by Anubrecan himself, directly penetrating from the other side of the dirt mountain, hollowing out one side of the mountain wall, and suddenly rushed out at the moment when the Silver Dawn had just divided his troops to set up an ambush, catching them off guard.
At the same time, the so-called interdiction force, composed of elite Death Knights and necromancers, rushed out of the dry river and headed straight for the ambush circle set by Erigor and Hawksbill. But just when the two of them were waiting for a big kill against the ambushed natural disaster, the natural disaster troops were actually fixed at the location of the demarcated crypt demon ambush site.
At this time, the two commanders were dumbfounded, the other party did not completely enter the ambush circle, and it was impossible to rush up and forcibly destroy them desperately, knowing that there were crypt demons in ambush, and they had to fight above their heads, what is the difference between this and sending them to death? But if you ignore it, the other party is still blocking your way out, it's like a fish in your throat!
Just when Erigor couldn't move or retreat, two pieces of news from the scout made him fall into an ice cave. The landslide blocked the road and blocked the 10,000 soldiers who had intercepted the natural disaster completely without a way to retreat, while on the other side, a large number of natural disaster legions, led by several leaders, circled the Blackwood Lake and were heading here at full speed
Now, Erigor fully understands the plan for these natural disasters in front of him. These are not the so-called elite troops at all, they are all abandoned by natural disasters in order to be able to delay time!
If you make up your mind, tens of thousands of natural disasters are completely vulnerable to the larger number of Silver Dawn and Blood Elf alliances. However, the two thousand crypt demons made the coalition forces dare not attack rashly, otherwise they would disrupt the formation and would definitely be blocked by a large number of natural calamity armies who came over by a detour. And if you don't hesitate to suffer casualties, even if you can successfully retreat in a short period of time, Silver Dawn will lose the ability to resist natural disasters.
At this moment, Erigor's blood all over his body seemed to freeze instantly, and he sat on the back of a horse, his brain blank
Hawksbill also heard the news. The vicious strategy of the natural disaster made his scalp tingle when he thought about it, and he asked the ranger scout again and again to make sure that Thrace was not attacked by the natural disaster, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief. Then he sighed: "Silver dawn, it's over"
Fortunately, it was not the blood elves who were calculated, and the ranger lord, who had nothing to do with himself and had a fairly strong psychological quality, quickly recovered, and he didn't bother to greet Erigor, so he immediately rushed out of the ambush with the rangers and went straight to the Death Knights who blocked the retreat of Silver Dawn.
In vain, even if Erigor was wise and calm, he could not adjust in a short time, and he could no longer be counted on in a critical moment. If he wants to leave the last bit of life for Silver Dawn, he can only deal with these natural disasters by himself, and give them a way outOf course, he will not be stupid enough to do such a thing as exchanging the lives of the rangers for the vitality of Silver Dawn.
"Everyone, target calamity, covered, thirty rounds in a row! Arcane Shooting! Coming to the position of the Death Knights, Hawksbill gave a sharp command with a bow.
"Twenty rounds?" The other Ranger captains were shocked. It's easy to say that the ordinary timing is good, even if it's fifty rounds, and the blood elf rangers don't pay attention to it. But this is arcane shooting! After all, the rangers are not mages, even if they are blood elves, the arcane energy they can use together is limited, and twenty rounds of arrow rain, plus the physical exertion of continuous shooting, the rangers will completely lose their combat effectiveness!
Hawksbill didn't explain, but glanced at everyone coldly, raised the Phoenix Sun in his hand and opened his bow angrily, and waited until the arcane energy arrow was condensed and then let go, and a death knight in the scourge array on the opposite side fell off his horse! Seeing this, the other rangers also knew that he had made up their minds, and they paused slightly to look at each other, and turned to carry out the order.
Two thousand knights fired arcane shots at the same time, and successively drew a rain of violet-colored locust arrows in the air, falling into the unprepared natural disaster formation, and in an instant, flesh and bones flew sideways
If it is an ordinary arrow, it will do little damage to a natural disaster that has no life to speak of, but the arcane shot is a magic attack, except for the death knights and their ghouls, ordinary undead are completely unable to resist!
Twenty rounds later, despite the fact that the rangers were all panting and their fingers trembling, they didn't even have the ability to draw their bows again, the Scourge formation had shrunk by at least half, and even some of the Death Knights were shot on the spot.
"Order, withdraw troops! Target Zumashal! Immediately after the shooting, Hawksbill ordered a retreat. However, before leaving, he called a ranger to deliver a message and remind Erigor to retreat as soon as possible.
The Scourge has lost most of its combat effectiveness, and if Erigor can wake up in time and charge with his men, he can take at least 8,000 soldiers with him before the Scourge army arrives.
But if he still does nothing and waits for destruction, then Hawksbill has nothing to say, at least the blood elves are benevolent, and he is not ready to participate in the next battle.
The idea is good, but Hawksbill, who still doesn't know who the Scourge commander is, has once again been tricked by a rookie commander who doesn't play his cards according to common sense
The unprecedented results made Baron Rivendell get carried away, and he also overestimated the combat effectiveness of his troops, so much so that after successfully blocking the troops of Silver Dawn in the valley, he thought that they were completely vulnerable, leaving only a small number of direct troops and a large number of cannon fodder to surround and suppress these routs, and even in order to continue to expand the results, even those crypt demon troops were transferred, and wanted to surprise the Ambush of Erigor troops from behind.
As a result, the Hawksbier forces, which were withdrawing to Zumashal, were blocked. And that's not all, what made the Ranger Lord almost collapse and become the second Eregor was that Thrace found an opportunity for a natural disaster in the valley and actually led the team to rush out to rescue the trapped silver warriors
The expected response force did not appear, and the rangers were exhausted after arcane shooting, and it was very difficult to draw their bows and arrows, although they could still run, but it was impossible to bypass the crypt demons that blocked the way, and Hawksbill could only choose to go back and meet Erigor and others. However, it is somewhat consoling that by the time he returned, Erigor had already begun to storm the remnants of the Death Knights
At this time, the three-way intersection had already become a pot of porridge, and the elite troops of Blood Elves, Silver Dawn, Rivendell and Kurtaz and the undead cannon fodder, nearly 40,000 troops were crowded into a narrow area to fight desperately! As early as the beginning of the landslide, Thrace, which was the closest to it, had already discovered the problem, and immediately sent two young dragons from the air to reconnoiter the information on the Silver Dawn. It was also discovered for the first time that these allies were in a desperate situation.
Thrace didn't know that Xie Feng's overall plan was to use Silver Dawn to calculate natural disasters, and still thought that Erigor was a credible ally, and Eldara, who knew about it, was angry just by telling him that he was going to bring his troops to Zumashal, and he didn't tell all the plans at all, even if it came to this point, Xie Feng still didn't choose to withdraw from the Plague Lands, Thrace took it for granted that he attached great importance to his ally Silver Dawn, so he saw them trapped, Naturally, I was thinking hard about how to rescue this group of trapped new forces
"Is there anything you can do with it?" Thrace asked Vorel and Sintya, who were flying in a circle with two young dragons. The ordinary task of finding the enemy's traces is barely up to the task of two young dragons, but if you give them the task of accurate analysis of the battle situation, it is purely brainless! Or do you need to be the Ranger Boss himself.
"Most of the natural disasters are detouring Blackwood Lake at full speed, trying to completely encircle us here. The 5,000 or so elites left here, led by two death knights, and the rest are ordinary skeletons, zombies, and ghouls, etc., and their strength is vulnerable! Vorell thought for a moment and replied.
Cyntia has a better sense of smell for battle than Vorell, and can barely give some advice: "The mountain roads are blocked, and the Silver Dawn has no way to escape, so the Scourge Commander seems unwilling to consume the main army, and so far they have been attacked by some waste undead. After a pause, he said firmly: "And now all the people blocking the intersection are these wastes, which have blocked the attack route of the main force of the natural disaster."
Hearing this, Thrace was overjoyed: "If the main force of the Scourge wants to hit our defense line or the side of Silver Dawn, how long will it take?" ”
Vorell and Cintia looked at each other, thought for a moment, and returned: "It will take at least half an hour to evacuate the crowded waste, clear the road, and then let the main force rush in!" ”
"Are you sure?" The stakes are very high, Thrac couldn't help but ask, and the result was exchanged for the eyes of the vicious two teams.
Scratching his head in embarrassment, he turned around and ordered: "Blood knights assemble, charge!" Rescue the allies of Silver Dawn! ”
Leaving two hundred guards to retreat, Thrace took the lead, and with eight hundred blood knights, he went on a rampage without the slightest favorable resistance, and rushed straight to where Silver Dawn was trapped. From the beginning when Xie Feng led the troops, it was these two rangers who inquired about intelligence, and just now they doubted their profession, and Thrace also felt that he was a little brainless
The blood elves suddenly rushed out and immediately jumped Baron Rivendell, who was watching the battle not far away. Although he calculated Erigore's hand, after all, he was leading troops for the first time and had little experience to speak of, and there were still great deficiencies in the overall situation and war mentality. Thinking that they had an absolute advantage, since they had already taken the initiative to let go of the blood elves, they should retreat wisely and not cause trouble, but who would have thought that they would really rush out, and they were immediately caught off guard. At this time, if you want to withdraw the cannon fodder, you will take the elite in to intercept it, and it will be too late in time
hurriedly mobilized cannon fodder, wanting to block the blood knights' path with the corpses of the undead, but they didn't expect that the blood knights who inherited Xie Feng's fine tradition actually stepped on the dedication after rushing out of half of them, completely ignoring their cramming tactics, and rushed to the silver dawn without any suspense, causing the earth-shattering cheers of the soldiers who fell into despair~ The reinforcements arrived, and the way to survive was ahead, and the silver remnants who had collapsed their morale were miraculously condensed into a rudimentary formation under the command of a few surviving generals. Rush back with the Blood Knights.
Seeing that this remnant army was once again bursting out of fighting spirit under the leadership of the blood elves and was about to break out of his encirclement, Baron Rivendell was dumbfounded. But he wanted to intercept it, but he was blocked by his own cannon fodder and couldn't do anything. In desperation, the hot-tempered Lord of Kurtaz next to him couldn't help it, and with a wild shout, he led his men straight to the valley where the blood knights wanted to retreat
Compared with smart people, looking ahead and looking backwards, there are also advantages of being a good person. Seeing that the cannon fodder in front of him was really in the way, the dwarven lord actually brandished a war hammer all the way and smashed it all the way, stepping on the corpses of the undead and rushing over without hindrance. Baron Rivendell was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he came back to his senses: "If you can kill, I can't kill you?" It's all rubbish anyway, and too much of it gets in the way."
Muttering a few words in his mouth, the Baron did the same, rushed into the cannon fodder with his main army, and set off a burst of stumps and broken arms
Now it was Thrace's turn to be depressed. The blood knights want to open the way, although these cannon fodder can't make any big waves, but they can more or less play a role in blocking it, but in the face of these two dead horse lords and undead cannon fodder, they are extremely obedient and will never resist at all, but try their best to get out of the way. The two are naturally inferior to each other in terms of forward speed, and if they continue to develop like this, they are likely to be blocked out.
"What to do? Thracian lieutenant, we can't outrun each other at all! Thinking that Lieutenant Silver Dawn looked at the dwarven lord who was rushing towards the Blood Knight Valley and the baron who was chasing after him, he asked eagerly.
The others looked at Thrace likewise, waiting for him to make up their minds. But what can Thrace do? Even if the strategy is outstanding, what can be done in the face of absolute strength? After all, Lord Kurtaz is a ninth-order powerhouse, once he blocks the entrance to the valley and forms a one-man situation, what else can everyone do except bury themselves here?
The future is bleak, Thrace is still unwilling to give up, gritted his teeth and said: "Rush over!" The way to life is in sight! As long as we can get to the entrance of the valley, we can definitely escape! ”
The others also cheered up a little when they heard this, as if they had grasped the last straw and burst out with all their strength to fight desperately, in order to be able to seize the position first.
Thrace smiled bitterly in his heart, those two ranger leaders who were deeply trusted by Xie Feng really made a mistake, is this to blame them for their waste of firewood or to blame themselves for their bad luck?
No matter how hard he tried, the gap in strength was still there, and Lord Kurtaz finally came to the entrance of the valley with a wild smile when the Blood Rider was still twenty paces away
"After the biggest casualty of the Morning Striker, is it going to appear in your own hands? The general must be very disappointed," Thrace smiled silently as he looked at the Blood Knights behind him who were still persevering because of his encouragement. If it weren't for his insistence, perhaps everyone would have arrived at Zumashal
In the moment of despair, I inadvertently saw the ecstasy in the eyes of the blood knights and silver warriors, and then the earth-shattering cheers rang out from their mouths. Thrace turned his head in astonishment, and a terrible voice came out in a hoarse, deep voice, and reached his ears
"Hahaha~ Dwarf three, we meet again! Let me, an old friend, treat you well~" With a series of corpse explosions and wild laughter, the warbringer Iserius took his signature gargoyle, which was more than one number one more than other similar players and had an H glint in his eyes, arrogantly appeared, and with a sneak attack on the spirit world, he directly flew the unprepared Kurtaz Lord out~"Damn boy, Alex won't protect you this time, right?" We're settling our accounts when we get back to Silvermoon City," a cold female voice burst into anger, and Lady Eldara, dressed in a formal suit, rode on Indigos's back, crossed over Thrace and the others, blocked Baron Rivendell, and fought fiercely.
With the appearance of the two, the blood knights guarding the entrance of the valley were replaced by elite guards of the sixth and seventh ranks, and Iserus took advantage of the gap when the Lord of Kurtaz was knocked away, and blew the death knight's signature skill Winter Horn with abnormal damage, as a result, due to the suppression of his strength and rank, the undead cannon fodder who was originally controlled by the natural disaster suddenly rebelled and caused a lot of chaos. He himself took the opportunity to rush into the enemy group and slash and slash wantonly, pointing left and right not yet, detonating corpses one by one~ With the addition of this pair of adulterers and adulteresses, the defects in the high-end combat effectiveness of the coalition army were completely supplemented, and the morale-boosting soldiers easily killed the cannon fodder that blocked the way, poured into the valley like a tide, and escaped
"Why did they come back again?" Thrace calmed his heaving chest slightly, and asked Vorel, who was a little embarrassed, who had almost made a big mistake.
"I informed them!" Cynthia interjected and forcefully said, "I said it! A natural disaster must not hit the valley in half an hour! ”
Thrace was speechless, you just said that they couldn't rush in for half an hour, right? But after all, there was nothing missing, and it was not good to deal with a woman, shrugged his shoulders, and turned to leave.
In addition to the small thrill just now, this rescue operation was very smooth!
A total of 4,000 people were rescued from the trapped Silver Dawn remnants, the remaining 3,000 were already swept away by the Crypt Spiders, and the remaining 3,000 were separated and killed in the chaos and breakthrough.
With Iselius, Eldara and their guards guarding the pass, the Scourge would never be able to enter, and Thrace immediately ordered everyone to retreat to Zumashal.
The remaining silver warriors tried to retreat in the direction of the chapel, but several generals learned from Vorell that Erigor was being chased by the scourge army that had bypassed the Blackwood Lake, so they honestly shut up and retreated with the blood elves.
Of course, Thrace still asked Cynthia to ride Nariel to report to Erigor and tell them that the trapped army had been rescued, so as to cheer up their morale a little. Of course, the main reason is because of the Blood Elf rangers in Hawksbill who were forced to retreat to the Chapel of Light's Wish.
At this point, the situation of Xie Feng's plan has begun to emerge. The Blood Elves paid only a few casualties and the price of the Northland Tower, and retreated to Zumashar to watch the show, while the Silver Dawn, who suffered heavy casualties, was chased back to the Northland Tower by the main force of the Scourge. However, there was a slight mistake, as Zumashar was forced to retreat to the Chapel of Light's Wish with 4,000 Silver Dawn remnants and 2,000 Blood Elves with 2,000 Rangers
Just as the Eastern Plague War was temporarily over, a silver dawn sentry and blood elf ranger stepped into Madenhold Castle in the Scarlet Territory of the Western Plaguelands.
A moment later, a series of alarm bells sounded in vain in the silent castle, and at the same time, two griffons flew out of the castle, striking, and toward the Eastern Plague and the Tirisfal Glades
(To be continued)