Chapter 616: Fight to the Death! Hussars, charge!
The defenders of the Holy Helm Valley of less than a thousand, including many old and weak women and children, were fighting against an army of more than 10,000 Issingers, although not all of them were elite warriors, but they were definitely trained soldiers.
With such a huge disparity, if it weren't for the geographical advantage of the Holy Helmet Valley, the battle would have ended not long after it began.
But having said that, this location actually didn't have much effect, in the original Saruman's explosives were successfully blown up under the cover of the soldiers' strong attack, this time it was directly bombarded 10,000 meters away, and it was already fortunate that the castle itself was not destroyed by a single cannon. After the loss of the most critical deep stream wall, the battlements of Fort Horn, which was already very crowded with more than 100 people, could not stand under the rain of arrows of nearly a thousand strong orcs, and soon the army of Isengh rushed up the wall and forced them to retreat, relying on the last advantage and the leadership of Heyordon, the king of Rohan, to barely stop the trend of rout, and under the outbreak of Glorfindel and the elves, they even took advantage of the situation to counterattack and regain a space......
It's just that even if everyone risked their lives to fight, the disparity in strength made it impossible for them to turn the tide.
The strong orcs fell countless on the way to attack, but the defenders of the Holy Helmet Valley also suffered heavy casualties, those craftsmen, old people and children who were not warriors completely relied on a breath of qi to not fall to the ground, and those soldiers, including the royal guards, were blocked by the dense strongest line, and when there was nowhere to dodge, life and death depended on armor and three points by luck, and even many immortal elves had their eyes closed forever.
The scorching battle almost made one forget the passage of time, the loss of room by room in the castle. And then...... Finally ushered in a turning point.
No one knew whether this should be good news or bad news, and suddenly a knight in a white robe appeared on a lifeless hillside under the overcast clouds of the west. The light on his body pierced people's hearts like the sun, and at this moment seemed to dispel the haze and darkness shrouded in the heavens and the earth, and under the only light in this darkness, another tall knight appeared beside him on a war horse, and with a serious wave of his hand, a dense number of knights slowly appeared on the hillside.
Gandalf, the wizard who went to find reinforcements has returned. With him, he found the hussars belonging to Iomo.
However, the situation on the battlefield has not changed because of this.
In the original episode, the cavalry charged at dawn. With the help of the dawn sun, he broke through the infantry defense line of the strong orcs, and together with Xiudun who rushed out of the castle, he surrounded the army of Issinger, who were exhausted after a night of strong attack, and defeated the powerful enemy at the right time and place, but the current situation is that the attack did not occur at midnight. The heavy rain has stopped, but the clouds have not dispersed. And the state of Isenger's troops is also very different from the original "history":
At the beginning, he broke through the walls of the Holy Helmet Valley, and Isengard's troops had little consumption except for the charge, and Saruman, who knew the "plot", gave a precautionary shot to the leader of the attack on the Holy Helmet Valley at the beginning, and when he saw Gandalf appear, he gave the order to adjust the formation in a hurry, and the strong orcs facing the hillside quickly listed a group of dense spear phalanxes, and the dense super long spears flashed with a cold light that made people feel cold when they saw it, The trackers, who had barely joined the siege, picked up their bows, and if the cavalry dared to rush down the hillside, it would rain a rain of arrows that would be absolutely deadly. Those tyrant-level trackers also stood in the center of the spear phalanx with heavy and huge weapons, and their dull momentum silently pressed the reinforcements of the Holy Helmet Valley......
So even the Rohan knights on horseback were red-eyed. Eager to rush into the valley and slay the enemy, the horses sitting down were stimulated by the hot fighting spirit and let out a low roar, and neither Gandalf nor Iomo gave the order to charge, because they knew very well that they could not charge.
The reborn Gandalf can fight against the fire demon on his own, but he can't directly destroy an army anyway, although he can loosen their gun formation with flashing, but with those trackers who can use telekinesis, although the cavalry can make the force of the impact make Isengard's troops lose a lot, but it will also cause heavy losses of his own, and once he loses speed, it is equivalent to being slaughtered, as for guerrilla cavalry shooting...... Although the warriors of the hussar country were generally good at riding and archery with horses from an early age, the range of the cavalry's short bow was far inferior to that of the infantry's longbow, and the result of playing kite flying was to be sniped to death by the tracker's strong archers one by one.
So they can only wait, even if they watch Isengard's troops break into the last line of defense in the Holy Helmet Valley little by little, they still have to endure the anger and killing intent in their hearts and wait, compress and condense them in their chests into extreme power until the time comes to explode-
Before that time arrived, the defenders in the Valley of the Holy Helmet were at their most dangerous.
Although Gandalf and the others dragged some of the main forces of Esinger's troops in place, the rest of the troops still launched the attack without the slightest slowdown, during which they felt a little strange that the enemy's offensive suddenly stalled, and then as if they had fallen into a furious posture, they desperately launched a stronger and more violent attack, forcing the exhausted defenders of the Valley of the Holy Helmet to retreat to the last cave, relying on the last gate to resist.
-- It's the last.
As long as this door is broken through again, the king of Rohan will be the head here, and the destruction of the hussar nation of Isengar will be unstoppable!
It seems that this is indeed the case, and the Ulu Bone, who is the leader of the strong orcs, also believes so, but Rogan ...... It was at this time that he quietly left the battlefield.
In fact, his performance on the battlefield was also very watery before, with a small team of mobile troops, he was not urged to join the stormtroopers, he was happy to do so but also deliberately did not highlight his performance, especially after seeing Groffindel's terrifying 10,000-meter sniper, he did not have the strength and courage of the strong orc hero Wu Lu Gu in the face of this kind of ancient hero and still personally pressed the formation, knowing that once he performed outstandingly, he would become the target of sniping, he had no intention of sending him to death.
As for Saruman's sudden attack order, he is not as loyal to the white-robed wizard as the strong orcs, nor is he as brainless and unable to think as the wild man of Denland, and he almost directly believes that this "master" is in trouble, and he must speed up the attack on the Valley of the Holy Helmet, otherwise it will be a catastrophe...... With all the best preparations to fight the Treants, what could make him so flustered?
Whatever that was, his chance to be free had arrived.
Just as Rohan's last line of defense had been breached, and Isengard's troops were roaring and preparing to charge, the battle horn of the Valley of the Holy Helm sounded from the towers of the fortress, and then from the valley there was a constant echo, as if a trumpeter had answered the call on every mountain.
The defenders listened intently, and the reverberating trumpets not only did not weaken, but became more and more wild and unrestrained, more and more exhilarating......
Then, two voices rang out at the same time.
"Hussar warriors, fight to the death! Charge! The king let out a roar of blood, and a group of knights, only a dozen men, rushed out of the collapsed gate, invincible all the way, sweeping through Isengard's troops like a gust of wind through the prairie. The remnants of the defenders in the Valley of the Holy Helmet all poured out of the caves, and the deafening sound of trumpets still echoed around the hills!
"For the king! Hussars! All charge! Iomo drew his sword, Gustwin, and the sword emitted a lightning lightning, guiding the hussars who had already condensed and compressed all their anger and hatred into fighting spirit and strength to rush down the hillside, and Gandalf's enemy sword Granary was also radiant, and the flame that ignited made the warriors burst out with extreme enthusiasm beyond life and death, rushing towards the array of guns and terrifying arrows that stopped in front of them like the summoning of death!
There is no way back, and success or failure is here.
- If you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent! (To be continued......)
PS: Thanks for the tip: I love to sing little songs