The next morning, the whole of Idoras was mobilized, because King Xiudun, who had broken free from the control of the evil white-robed wizard Saruman, issued an order in their capital of the Rohan Kingdom: from now on, the whole city of Idoras was evacuated, and everyone, before noon, must take refuge in the Hornfort of the Valley of the Holy Helmet, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, with the necessary light property and some food and other necessities!

This order was carried out quickly, and at noon the entire capital of Idoras, under the protection of Rohan's foot cavalry, began to retreat in an orderly manner to the Valley of the Holy Helm.

And the reason why it was so fast was because there were only less than 6,000 inhabitants in this Idoras.

One is because the Rohan Hussars, who belong to the traditional nomadic people, do not have too many people who want or like to live in the city, but they need to chase pastures to graze cattle, sheep or horses. The second is because in the period of low productivity in Middle-earth, a city with more than 5,000 people can already be regarded as a big city!

In this era of low productivity, too many people gather together, but the problem of food can be unbearable for the Rohans.

"Heydon, you Rohan Hussars, are you really going to join that little witch's United Kingdom of Alicia?!"

"Please believe us, Gandalf will definitely bring back Iomo's cavalry in time, there is no need for you to take refuge in such a country of unknown origin!"

"Moreover, their royal power is not legitimate at all! What they occupy is the territory of the original Arno Kingdom, and the territory of our Dendans! ”

Looking at the thousands of Idoras residents who were evacuated in a long line of snakes under the protection of less than fifteen hundred soldiers, Aragorn rode over to Hiudun and spoke up.

Last night, in that palace hall, he Aragorn and Gandalf almost fell out with the little girl because of the United Kingdom of Alicia! The relationship between the two sides is almost about to drop to the freezing point!

Because, Gandalf didn't trust the newly rising United Kingdom of Alicia, and even more so the Queen Orfina who had the ambition to annex the Rohan Hussars!

In Gandalf's opinion, Orfina, who is also of unknown origin, is even the same as Saruman or the Demon Lord Sauron, and they are all conspirators who want to join Middle-earth and achieve some ulterior motive for them!

Gandalf will not allow a unified regime or confederation to emerge in Middle-earth! This is not only what he meant, but also the will of the gods of Vera!

The former Númenórean Empire, the former Númenóreans who were greedy and wanted to attack Amen for more benefits, are a lesson from the past! Therefore, the Zhu gods do not allow the same country to appear in Middle-earth, not even if it is a sprout!

That's most of the reason why Gandalf has been maneuvering between nations and guiding races and nations against Mordor, who seeks to dominate Middle-earth! Fighting evil is just one of them, and not letting people in Middle-earth have too many ideas or unrealistic ideas is the most important thing!

So, because of this, they had a big quarrel in the hall of the palace last night, and they almost staged a full martial arts!

Aragorn and Gandalf accuse the little girl and the Queen of Orfina of wantonly encroaching on the lands of the people of Middle-earth and expanding their territories to provoke war, pointing out that they are acting like the evil Lord Sauron!

In fact, it is debatable whether it was due to Aragorn's red-eyed eyes or Gandalf's reluctance to see Middle-earth, which he had trained for more than two thousand years, fall into the hands of an unstable little girl.

And the little girl Anne and the queen of Orfina say that everything they do is to fight Mordor and bring eternal peace to Middle-earth!

So, in the end, the talks between the two sides fell apart as a matter of course, and it was impossible for the United Kingdom of Alicia to stop the pace of expansion, and it was impossible to return the territories that had been acquired! Even, they want to lure the whole Rohan to join?

And in Gandalf's original plan, the Rohan Hussars were definitely bound to Gondor, and it was definitely not the United Kingdom of Alicia that didn't know the details!

So, early in the morning, Gandalf set out in a rage on his horse, Shadow Wing.

He intends to find enough reinforcements to rescue the troubled Rohanate, the confused king who is leading the people to the dead end in the Valley of the Holy Helm, and prevent them from joining the so-called United Kingdom of Alicia.

He didn't want to see that eye-catching red-backed and gold-edged condor flag on the land of the Rohan Hussars!

This is mainly because, last night, King Heudon of Rohan had already made his attitude clear: in the end, whoever can save their country from the hands of Saruman and the Barbarians of Denland, and whoever can help him defeat Saruman, they Rohan will be on his side!

Similarly, in the early morning of the next day, the little girl was nowhere to be found, and no one, including Gandalf, knew where she had gone, or what kind of conspiracy she was up to.

"Aragon...... You should understand that kingship does not last forever! ”

"The Kingdom of Arnor has been destroyed for countless years, and whether that Alicia is legal or not, it is up to the strength to decide!"

"Now, it's all over! You should learn to let go, just as you have given up your own identity and responsibility! ”

After the loss of a child and the loss of the once-mighty Rohan Hussars, Sheudon began to take power lightly.

In his mind, at this moment, if there is no more foreign aid, with the current Rohan, it will definitely not be able to fight against the combined forces of Issinger and Denland! In the intelligence, they have at least tens of thousands of troops this time! And, it is said, that Esinger is still using evil magic to create strong orcs in batches?

In this case, it may really be a good choice to choose to side with a strong person?

As for this Aragorn, he didn't even dare to try to get his hands on or inherit a kingdom of Gondor in the south, so what was the point of thinking about and blushing at Arnor's original territory now? In Hieudon's opinion, from the time of Aragorn's exile in Rivendell, his country had nothing to do with him.

The human heart is selfish, and no one will support a king without soldiers and power, no matter how legitimate he is! As for Gondor...... If Heudon himself were the Chancellor of Gondor, he wouldn't be willing to welcome back a king who was in the way, as long as there were no big surprises!

“……”

Looking at Xiudun, who had already made up his mind, Aragorn could only silently slow down the speed of his mount and let the other party speed away. Perhaps, as Gandalf said, it is time to take back his inheritance, his kingdom of Gondor?

Otherwise, he, a wandering ranger, is too passive in everything he does!

Now, he can only hope for Gandalf, and it will take about three or four days for them to escort these civilians to the Valley of the Holy Helm for refuge, and hopefully they will be able to move enough rescuers to appear in the first light of day after the fifth day, as they said in the morning......

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The two hobbits, who had nowhere to go for the time being, had been fooling around with the shepherds and whiskers in this Fagong forest for the sake of safety, and every day they ate and slept enough, and then ate when they had slept enough, and here, except for a little loneliness and no more entertainment, life was also at ease!

From time to time, they wandered around with the treebeards, and they also saw a lot of other tree herdsmen on the other side, and they also saw each other's outrageously inefficient treeman meetings?

"Tree whiskers? Where are we going?! ”

It was late tonight, and the hobbit, Pippin and Melly, who had been sleeping on the head of the shepherd's whiskers, began to ask suspiciously when they woke up.

Because, they found out, something doesn't seem quite right tonight?

As far as they could see, they could see at least dozens of tree herders, and in the distance, there seemed to be more. They were silently moving in a southwesterly direction with the tendrils beneath them.

The two hobbits knew very well, in the southwest of the Fagon Forest, wasn't that the direction of Isengard? And now, so many tree shepherds have run to Isengard's side, is it to fight with the white-robed wizard Saruman?

"We ...... Going to ...... Response...... Call of the Wicked Little Witch ......"

After turning his head slightly to look at the two hobbits who had been with him for several days, Treebeard sighed heavily.

They treasurds really didn't want to get involved in the war in Middle-earth, and the losses they had inflicted on Morgoth and his minions during the War of the Ancients were too heavy...... So, they originally wanted to continue to watch as they did in the Second Age, and they didn't want to join anyone!

But where could they have thought that the wicked little witch would use the things they care about most to blackmail them into the war? Those tree wives...... For the sake of their shepherds' wives, they had no better way than to be forced to agree to the little witch's blackmail.

"You're going to attack Isengard? That's great! Saruman is definitely going to be finished! ”

Rising to their feet, making a rough estimate, and seeing at least a few hundred of the shepherds silently walking in the direction of Isengard, Pippin and Melly began to cheer excitedly.

Before, they were assigned by Gandalf to stay here in the Fagon Forest, in addition to being safe here, wasn't it just to fool these shepherds into fighting the Saruman of Isengard? And now, when they haven't done anything, this task is about to be completed?!

"Saruman? No...... We Treants are no match for Saruman......"

Seeing the two hobbits dancing excitedly on top of them, Treebeard thought about it, and finally gave them a small blow.

"Based on the words of our hundreds of tree men...... We can't beat Saruman ......."

"Evil white-robed wizard...... He hid in the tower...... Releases lightning bolts...... And the terrible flames......"

"What if...... If we go within the confines of his tower...... He could...... The ...... that burned all of us treemen"

If the opponent only dealt with the strong orcs or half-orcs under the white-robed Saruman, the tree beard was sure that the opponent's base would be completely smashed to pieces with a small loss!

But if it was against that evil white-robed wizard, he wouldn't have a good solution......

These shepherds are too large and too slow to move, and they are just living targets for the kind of wizards who can cast evil spells.

"Can't beat, can't beat?"

"Wait! If we can't defeat the white-robed wizard, then why do we have to go to Isengh now?! ”

Seeing that the tree man said such frustrating words, Pippin and Melly were so frightened that they hurriedly asked.

If they can beat Saruman, then they will definitely want to join in the fun! But if you know that you can't beat it and still follow it, you are stupid, they are two hobbits who are happy to enjoy, but they don't want to die like this!

"That's because...... That little witch...... She's back......"

Treebeard said a little frustratedly, it didn't like the little witch, but it had to follow the other party's orders.

But actually, if they help the little witch, isn't it really that there are no other benefits?

In addition to knowing the exact location of the Tree Wives, they were able to expand their Fagon Forest westward, all the way west to Dorbaraan, all of which had been negotiated as a new territory promised to them by the little witch to the Tree Crews.

"Lady Anne, is she really back? That's great! ”

Unlike Gandalf and the others who were jealous of the little witch, the hobbits Pippin and Merry felt that the little human witch named Annie still had a good appetite for them anyway! Or even the same smell?

After all, when they were in Rivendell, they had stolen chickens, touched dogs, mixed into elves' treasury, and stole the mythical beasts of King Elon, and when they did these things together, they established a deep comradeship!

"If that's the case, then we're a little impatient to attack Isenger right now!"

"That's right! Perhaps, we should prepare a little ammunition first? For example...... A big bag of big rocks that can be used to smash orcs? ”

After knowing what was going on, Pippin and Melly began to discuss it excitedly.

If they were hiding on the tall and safe treemen and throwing stones at those strong orcs or half-orcs, they felt that the two of them were still very strong in combat!

"No hurry...... Let's go south and stand by...... Wait for the signal from the little witch...... Tonight's night, it's still a long ......."

After slowly striding a distance of ten figures, the tree beard said again with an urn sound.

Rather than victory, it hoped that tonight's battle would not allow its Tree Shepherd clan to lose too many troops! Now, all they have left is these hundreds of clansmen......

And the big trees that move in the Fagong Forest, the beards that can be seen everywhere, they will never become tree herders without tree wives, they can only be magical tree friends managed by their tree herders......

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"Your Excellency, Legion Commander! Saruman's army is moving! Now they are organizing armies, intending to break through our blockade! ”

"He must have discovered that Her Majesty Queen Orfina led the main force out of here, what should we do now?!"

While King Heudon of Rohan led the inhabitants of Idoras to Fort Clarion for refuge, Queen Orfina and her main army secretly left the camp in the night a few days earlier and began to advance in the direction of the Valley of the Helmet, southeast of Rohan's territory.

And now, outside of Isengard, there are only part of the artillery formation, less than 300 musketeers, and more than 1,000 miscellaneous troops, which are not convenient for a quick march.

So, when it was discovered that the orcs had once again been organized within Issinger's high walls, intending to storm their now weak blockade, an officer rode quickly to report to the Second Legion Commander Renas, who was standing by an Alician flag and a bonfire.

"Humph! He Saruman had already found out! The reason why we are attacking now is nothing more than that I feel that the number of troops may not be enough, so I have only waited for these few days! ”

"The musketeers are ready to line up! Let the artillery be loaded, and if Saruman thinks that he will want to break through our blockade with less than five thousand men, then he is wrong! ”

Looking at the groups of strong orc troops who had opened the gate of the high wall and lined up in a neat phalanx from it, shouting slogans, Renus sneered disdainfully.

It seems that during the time they surrounded Issinger, the other party finally learned some good methods, and also knew that they chose to attack in the middle of the night with poor vision, and wanted to use the night battle to suppress the advantage of their firearms troops?

If it were only with their current army of more than 1,000 people and artillery, under the decisive charge of the other party, they would really not be able to hold this place! After all, when there are not enough muskets, it can be a bit difficult to use slow reloading artillery against infantry that can move and charge.

However, now they are not the only ones, they have even more powerful killer features!

"Send flares and get the treants ready to strike!"

After looking at the dozens of hundred-person phalanx in the distance, and the army of strong orcs with at least thousands of people were pressing towards his side along the avenue they had deliberately set aside, the corners of Renas's mouth curled imperceptibly, and then he gave a resolute order.

Now the beards of the Fagong Forest, which are controlled by the shepherds, and the big trees that can move and strangle people, have already gradually surged over when their Alicia United Kingdom blocked the gate of Isengard, and occupied all the places except the road of the gate of Isengard!

"But, Your Excellency! If you let the treants attack now, they will lose a lot of money under the blow of that mage tower......"

Looking at the towering black mage tower in the distance, the herald didn't quite understand.

When their Queen Ofina was still leading a large army to block here, it was because of the existence of the mage tower on the other side that they didn't want to launch a general attack, otherwise, under the combined siege of thousands of main forces and powerful tree people, where would this Isenger stay until now?

"Huh! Don't worry, Saruman is out of time to cast spells now, go and carry out the order! ”

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"Humph! My army will crush you! ”

Inside Isengah, on a balcony-like platform jutting out from the Orzak Tower, Saruman sneered at the scattered fires in the distance.

His Isengar had been blocked by the little who claimed to be the Alician Kingdom for several days, and now, after they had spawned thousands of legions of strong orcs, Saruman had finally decided to break the blockade of the other party in one fell swoop while the main force was not here!

After watching his thousands of troops begin to shout loud slogans and slowly march towards the position of the garrison of the United Kingdom of Alicia in the distance of the Esinger Gate, Saruman nodded in satisfaction.

Now, his army of tens of thousands of strong orcs has entered the territory of the Rohan Kingdom, and now, it is estimated that he is about to launch a sweep operation against the Horn Fort or other important targets in the Valley of the Holy Helmet?

And a few days ago, when the Queen of Alicia led the troops to block his Esinger Gate, he forcibly resisted the urge to let the tens of thousands of troops return, and confronted each other like this, no one could help anyone!

It wasn't until today, after the main force of the other side had begun to rush to Rohan's aid, that he ordered the hard-won Orc Legion to start attacking, preparing to drive away the guys who blocked the door, so that his furnace under Esinger could continue to get more wood and other resources to continue to produce the army.

You know, they have actually been out of production for several days, and if they are blocked by the enemy like this, it is estimated that they will not even be able to open the pot......

"What's that?!"

Just as he was about to turn around and walk back to the main control room of the tower from the balcony of the mage tower, a huge colorful firework suddenly exploded in the dark sky in the distance, and then, the Fagon forest next to the road actually began to stir?

Then, one by one, the moving trees began to pour into Isengard, and at the same time, the faster tree herders began to rush out of the forest, directly into the formation of the thousands of strong orcs he had managed to accumulate, causing their formations to become loose and chaotic......

Syllable...... Syllable......

Rumble~! Rumble~! Rumble~!

At the same time that the tree people rushed into the second half of the strong orc army, in the distance, the gunpowder weapons of those musketeers of the United Kingdom of Alicia and more artillery units began to roar one after another, and countless shells and bullets directly beat the forward of the advancing strong orc army, instantly setting off a bloody storm!

"Tree Man! How dare you?! ”

Feeling that at this time, those shepherds in the Fagon Forest dared to come out and cause trouble for themselves, Saruman was immediately annoyed! He decided: he would use a wide range of fire spells to kill all the treants who dared to enter the attack range of the Esinger Orzunk Tower, leaving not a single one behind!

"What?!"

"Little girl! How dare you appear inside my mage tower?! ”

Saruman hated his black staff when he thought of what he was about to do, and just as he turned his head to walk back into the tower, he suddenly found that in the middle of his main control room, there was actually a little girl who secretly picked up his crystal ball of true knowledge? Then, I don't know where she stuffed it and disappeared?!

"Shameful thief! Give me back my crystals! ”

After seeing that his precious crystal ball was inexplicably destroyed by the other party, Saruman shouted violently under the eyes of the tearing eyes, and then shook his hand fiercely, and a thick lightning bolt appeared at the head of the black staff, and slashed straight towards the opponent's front door.

Crackling!

The electric snake flashed, then with a muffled sound, it disappeared into a transparent shield around the little girl.

"Crystal ball?"

"I didn't see any crystal balls! I don't know what you're just talking about! You see, how can I hide a crystal ball that is so big on my body? ”

Anne herself is a very honest little girl, and now she doesn't see any crystal balls!

A treasure like that that could easily see all parts of the entire Middle-earth continent without using mana, once it was in her pocket, how could she possibly return it? Inexistent!

She might want to take it back and reward her family's Orfina so that the other party can more easily lay this Middle-earth for herself?

"Humph! Stupid little witch! I'll make you regret coming to this Ozark Tower of mine! ”

After seeing that the general spells didn't seem to work on the little girl, he gathered more mana on the spot, and at the same time opened all the prohibitions in the tower, intending to suppress the little witch's mana to the greatest extent while enhancing his own strength!

"You will soon find out that within this mage tower of mine, your power will be severely suppressed! And then...... You'll regret being my enemy! ”

This little girl, if he was elsewhere, he thought that he might not be able to beat her, but in this Ozark Tower, he had an absolute home advantage!

"Huh? Do you mean that vague repression? They don't do much to me! ”

"Forget it, then I'm not going to make a move, right? Because, I'm not here alone! Come out, Tibbs, and bite him to death for me! ”

"That's not right! It's for me to catch him! ”

Tilting her head and glancing at the white-robed old man who was guiding spells, Anne didn't even attack him, but directly threw out the bear in her hand.

Because, she plans to catch alive today, catch this white-bearded old man in white clothes!

Roar!!

Tibbs the teddy bear suddenly grew huge after leaving Little Annie's hand.

Then, in Saruman's daze, a toy bear with dark red flames suddenly appeared in the main control hall of the Ozark Tower, which frightened Saruman on the other side, and immediately blasted the unfinished lightning spell at the flame bear!

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(Little Master Anne, this place is so small, the little ones can't play their full strength...... What should I do if I accidentally kill you?

- Tibbs waved his paw and patted a black mark on his chest that had been blown up by the other party's lightning, and then muttered to Anne in private with a little unpleasantness.

Its current height is almost reaching the top of this hall, and if there is a fight here, it has no room to move or move at all, and it can't run if it wants to, and maybe, if it's not careful, it will burn the other party to death? ）

"Anyway, he can't beat you, hurry up and catch him!"

"If you accidentally kill you, I'll lock you up and make the two fools into toys!"

Anne didn't care about the stinky bear's complaints, and quickly pointed at the white-robed Saruman who was being surprised, and ordered Tibbs.

Originally, she also wanted Tiebs to kill the other party directly with one claw!

However, when she knew that the white-bearded old man had at least tens of thousands of troops, and that she seemed to know how to pinch that kind of strong orcs in batches, Anne thought that it might be better if she captured the other party alive.

“……”

By the time Anne gave orders to Tibbs, Saruman, seeing that the situation was not good, had already begun to secretly start to retreat.

He is not stupid, if the other party is outside the mage tower, he will dare to use the home advantage to slap this little girl and her magic pet! However, now that the other party has sneaked into his main control room and released such a powerful monster, he doesn't plan to fight the other party here!

After all, although there was a way to suppress that little witch, he didn't have a good way to do that fire monster that was obviously a hand-to-hand combat type!

Now that Isinger is taking advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, and there is this little girl and her pet restraining him inside, Saruman feels that it seems that he can't stay here anymore? Therefore, he can only decide with grief and indignation at the moment: first find a way to retreat here, and after saving his own life, then think of other ways?

"What?!"

As Saruman stealthily retreated and moved towards the platform he had just been on, a wave of heat suddenly hit him from behind, causing him to rush to a corner on the left, narrowly avoiding the deadly flames!

Then, when he turned his head to look over for the first time, he realized that at some point, outside his mage tower, there was an equally huge and equally blazing flame demon lying on the outer wall of the Orzak Tower?

Moreover, at this time, it was blocking the exit of the platform with its huge head, as if it wanted to see where its white-robed wizard was hiding?

"This is, Fire Demon ......?!"

Saruman couldn't have imagined that here, how could there be a fire demon first? How did it get here?

Moreover, this fire demon seems to be an accomplice of this little witch? How is this possible! Saruman knew that since Gandalf was still alive, wouldn't he have been killed by the old man in the gray robe?!

"That's not a fire demon, that's my family's Erhei! Of course, you can also call it a fool! ”

Flame Demon or something, it's so ugly!

Little Anne felt that it would be more affectionate to call the two names of Erfool or Erhei that she had given herself. It's a pity that the big stink of her pulling the cart was killed before, otherwise, she can still be released to get to know her younger brother Erhei?

"Look! You can't escape now, can you? Do you want to surrender quickly? Or, want to keep fighting? ”

As she spoke, Anne sat down on the stone platform where the Crystal of Truth had just been placed, and looked at Saruman, who had been forced into a corner by his bear Tiebs and the fire demon lying outside, and asked with a tentative smile.

And now, there was an even more intense sound of gunfire and the angry roar of the treemen, and the treemen, and the moving trees, and the troops of the United Kingdom of Alicia, seemed to have attacked Isengard's walls?