In Mishan's hometown, Tolkien, the originator of Western-style fantasy novels, spent a lot of ink in his book "The Hobbit" to describe several cities of the dwarves in Middle-earth.

Among them is the famous magnificence of Elpol ...... the main plot point of "The Hobbit", the lonely mountain occupied by the fiery dragon Smaug.

The designers of World of Warcraft, when designing Blackstone Mountain, the main city of the Black Iron Dwarves, also paid tribute to several books of Old Man Tolkien.

Carved out of the mountains, the city had a glorious history, but now it is overrun by dragons.

It can be said that the upper part of the Blackstone Tower is the World of Warcraft version of Elpol.

And the second half, being enslaved for summoning the Lord of the Fire Demons, is a tribute to the dwarven capital of Middle-earth, Caesardum, that is, Moria, in Tolkien's writings.

If you have to say orthodox, it is almost the Black Iron Dwarf that the Middle-earth Dwarf reproduced in the World of Warcraft, which is indeed much more orthodox than the other two clans...... Of course, the other two races won't recognize it.

After crossing the cast-iron gate and entering the interior of the Black Rock Mountain.

You will find that the cities created by the Black Iron Dwarves are not the same as the cities of the Dwarves in Middle-earth.

Maybe in the novels of Lord Tolkien, it is difficult to understand through words, but in the movie, the construction level of the dwarves in Middle-earth is vividly expressed.

And the black iron dwarves of World of Warcraft, their construction style is very rough...... At the same time, it is also very shocking.

The entire belly of the Black Rock Mountain has been hollowed out, and two metal roads twenty or thirty meters wide have been obliquely circled along the edge of the hollowed-out mountain.

Three statues of dwarves, measured to be 100 meters high, stand in a triangular position on the mountain wall on the ring road.

Each statue is in a different posture, dragging an oversized chain composed of a single metal buckle with a diameter of three meters, and a cut diameter of almost ten meters.

The chain dragged by the statue holds an irregular rock in the middle of the mountain.

Underneath the rocks lies tumbling lava.

Next to the dwarven statues are dwarven style buildings...... It is not a building of the Black Iron Dwarves now.

Metal loops, standing statues, huge chains, and rows of dwarven buildings.

Constructed the most legendary "Hodmar" in the main city of the three dwarven clans in the world of Azeroth

In the dwarven language, the word means "beyond the king of the mountains"

The craftsmen of the Black Iron Dwarves used to build the ...... under the leadership of Frank Ron Cast Iron Forged the city.

When Mishan fell into admiration for those black iron dwarf craftsmen again, a wolf bark came from behind him.

"It's the wolf knight of the orcs!! Take up arms! Raise the shield!! General Angfu ordered as soon as he heard this.

At the sound of an order, the ten Black Iron Dwarven hoplites who walked at the end immediately turned around and lined up, half-crouched down and raised their shields in front of them to cover their bodies.

Ten more dwarven hoplites followed with their shields on top of their comrades' shields.

Combined into a single wall of steel.

"Is that a tribute?" Looking at the exact same pose as those Middle-earth dwarves in the "The Hobbit" movie, Mishan wondered whether this was a screenwriter's problem, or because of the dwarf's height, which was suitable for this kind of formation.

Soon, though, the tribute became something more that belonged to World of Warcraft itself.

Except for the black iron dwarven soldiers who had set up the shield wall, and stretched their spears out of the gaps in the shield wall.

The remaining thirty soldiers, with their shields and spears crossed behind their backs, pulled out an arquebus and refilled it with gunpowder.

By the time the thirty Black Iron Dwarven Musketeers had finished reloading their gunpowder, the vanguard of the Black Stone Orc Wolf Knights had already passed through the Cast Iron Gate.

"First row!" General Angover, who also had an arquebus in his hand, shouted.

When the dwarven musketeers in the first row heard the order, they plunged their muskets into the gaps in the shield wall, along with the spears of their companions.

"Fire!"

The unique shooting sound of the "bang, bang, bang" arquebus rang out one after another, and the wolf cavalry who rushed to the front was directly beaten into a sieve.

The next few were also briefly out of control due to the attack on their mounts or the attack on their riders, and they plunged headlong into the shield wall, which was already like a hedgehog.

"Second row! Shoot! General Angover continued to shout.

The dwarven musketeers, who had fired the first shot, stood up well-trained, stepped back to give up their place to the back row, and reloaded the gunpowder.

Mi Shan was a little surprised that the Black Iron Dwarf was able to study a three-stage shot, but he also felt that it was reasonable.

After all, the Black Iron Dwarves have been fighting for territory with the Black Stone Orcs all these years, and it is normal to study these tactics.

What surprised Mi Shan even more was that what these black iron dwarves had researched was not the kind of fixed-point three-stage shot that was blown into the sky by historical inventors in Area 11 of the earth.

Rather, it is a genuine tactic that can be used to attack with sword and shield soldiers.

After blocking the first wave of the wolf cavalry with a double shield wall and three shots, the Black Iron Dwarven soldiers began to slowly and unstoppably take out the wolf cavalry or push them directly into the lava like a mobile fortress.

Just like those Qi family armies in ancient times on the earth who wiped out the Japanese invaders.

In the face of the black iron dwarves like the steel fortress, those wolf cavalry who lost their speed advantage and had no mobility advantage because the battlefield was too narrow quickly collapsed.

"If that's all there is to it, why are the Black Iron Dwarves still confined to the underground Dark Furnace City?" Mi Shan asked a little strangely.

"Because it's not the Blackstone Orcs who occupy the Blackstone Tower, my lord." Greenhill pulled out his weapon and looked up.

Mishan, who also raised his head, only saw a dozen black young dragons ridden by orcs, flying in through another gate of Hodmar City.

The condescending and those black stone orcs and wolf cavalry formed a posture of flanking back and forth.

"It's a dragoon!! Circular Array!! General Angfu shouted.

The Black Iron Dwarven soldiers, who had already advanced forward, immediately retracted, and twenty of the thirty musketeers took up their shields to form a new shield wall array.

Together with his companions who had already set up the shield wall, they formed a circle, protecting the commander, General Angover, and the two of them, Misr and Greenhill.

The remaining ten soldiers continued to fire at the wolf knights and the dragoons in the circle of shields in the position of musketeers.

From a three-stage firing mobile fortress, it became a stationary combat pillbox.

The skillful formation changes and refined combat skills of these Black Iron Dwarf soldiers opened the eyes of Y. Shan.