145. First victory
In the camp of the Riverpaw Jackals, a visitor suddenly appeared today, he was a jackal, but he was wearing a red mask and a Defia outfit.
"Mighty Hogg, do you still need to think about it?Humanity is now in a civil war, and now is a good time for us to take revenge!"
"Why are we going to do it? Isn't it good to let them eat dogs?" The huge Hogg is as tall as a half-gnoll, and the average height of an adult gnoll is about one and a half meters, which means that Hogg is almost two meters two, a little giant, and with that explosive muscle, he really doesn't deserve to be a trumpet killer.
"Dog-eat-dog is good, of course, but now one side is not a dog, but a tiger! He will soon be able to kill that dog and then go on to slaughter us gnolls! So if we can hold him back and turn him into a dog, then the two sides will be evenly matched, and there is a high probability that both sides will lose, and the more fierce they fight and the more they die, the better it will be for us......"
As mentioned earlier, the gnolls on the Stormwind Kingdom side are much more powerful than their cousins on Lordaeron's side.
The rotten gnolls on Lordaeron's side can only be regarded as a marginal force, but the Stormwind Kingdom is different here.
There are Gnolls in the Wild West, Gnolls in the Elwyn Forest, and Gnolls in the Red Ridge Mountains......
Although these gnolls are still no match for humans, they can still stand in one place, and humans will have to pay a huge price to expel them completely, a price that every generation of kings cannot bear.
Generally speaking, the gnolls hate humans so much that in some places they will even skin and eat the humans they catch, and use the skins to set up tents, but they are not without the possibility of cooperating with humans.
In Defiia, Van Cleef basically contains creatures of any race in order to strengthen his strength, which is fully reflected in the Warcraft dungeon Death Mine, where there are ogres, goblins, werewolves, undead, fishmen, minotaurs, and so on.
Someone should have an impression of Captain Fishman Cookie in the game copy, and Mr. Minotaur Heavy Punch standing on the bow of the ship.
Among them are the Jackals.
Van Cleef can work with the Gnolls, and it's not impossible for Zhang Li, and with his abilities, he may be able to complete the task more easily, and maybe not at any cost.
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Blackwell, which had been occupied by the combined forces of Solomon and the Eberlocks, the first thing the two families did when they entered the city was to loot the castle of the Fat Marquis, and the gold and jewels were as large as a hill, and then they began to have a heated discussion about the distribution of these wealth.
Everyone wants to take the lead, and Duke Solomon, who is more numerous, is obviously more convincing.
Althea did not agree with Duke Solomon, she meant to divide it in half, but Duke Solomon disagreed, so Althea made a suggestion, that is, to compare whose army performed better on the battlefield, and who was more useful, the wealth should go to whom.
Duke Solomon almost laughed when he heard this, who would a team with less than half of his own number want to be more useful to himself?
Okay! Let's compare!
So now, since the troops of the Watch Fort have not yet arrived, the two of them have to face the retaliation of the councillor's army for the time being.
Because the fat marquis has been captured by them, in Shining Gold Town, his son can't wait to return to the court, Anthony can't stop it, plus he also wants to teach the Eberlock family, a group of betrayers and the Solomon family, who have nothing to do, he divided the group of imperial troops that are being demolished and assigned 15,000 to the fat son, plus the remaining nearly 4,000 soldiers of the fat family itself, these 20,000 troops were crushed all the way.
It is the best choice to use the life of the fat marquis to blackmail this army, even if his son wishes that his father would die to inherit the title, but he clearly does not dare to do this, otherwise he will be attacked, so as long as he uses the fat to delay the opportunity, wait until the Overwatch army comes, and then wait for the news from Zhang Li's side.
Duke Solomon was originally a little worried that Zhang Li would not be able to complete the task, but seeing that the eldest lady of the Eberlock family was not worried, he felt that they might have made some preparations a long time ago, so he was no longer worried.
However, just when they should have held the city and delayed the opportunity with their fat lives, Althea made a terrible decision, she was going to lead her men and horses to stop the enemy head-on.
So this is her chance to prove herself? Solomon sneered and watched her performance, and the mere 3,000 soldiers left the city to fight against nearly 20,000 enemies, and he wanted to see what confidence she had.
The 3,000 Nightshade garrisons were arrayed under the leadership of their leader, Sorigal, and they stood in a phalanx separated from each other, because the lord's family was very poor, these people were all infantry, most of them had only a simple chain mail, a sword, a wooden shield, and a spear, even this rudimentary equipment was much better than Althea's night watchman, and they looked at the 20,000 army in the distance with expressionless faces.
On the other side, Chubby's son Chubby was also surprised when he saw this scene, what was the situation? On the other side, he was going to fight with him? He thought they would threaten him with his father.
Don't talk nonsense with them, this is a great opportunity!
Charge now, if his father is hacked to death in the chaos, then he will be the new marquis.
Thinking of this, the little fat fat was full of cleverness, and he didn't think much about it and directly ordered his subordinates to charge, and the first to attack was nearly 2,000 heavy cavalry.
"Commander, shall we open now?" a night watchman asked his Althea aboard the war airship.
"Wait, wait until they get closer, rush faster, so they hurt harder. Althea watched intently at the battlefield below, constantly estimating the timing of her swing.
When the cavalry was halfway up, Althea immediately shouted: "Quick! Now, go at full speed and scatter all the quicklime over the enemy's heads!"
That's right, quicklime, this is the secret weapon that Zhang Li prepared for them, this thing will emit heat when it comes into contact with water, and it is said that it can be used to boil eggs, and if it falls into the eyes...... If you go to the hospital too late and become blind, if you suck it into your lungs...... That's basically hehe.
The goblin at the head of the airship immediately began to press the pedal with all his might, the propeller of the tail of the airship rotated rapidly, and the small war airship slowly drove into the battlefield, and the little fat also saw this gadget, but he didn't care much, he didn't think this little thing had any power at all, after all, it was so small, even if two bombs were dropped, it wouldn't kill many people.
In this way, the airship flew at a low altitude, and after roughly estimating the speed of the cavalry and the landing point of the quicklime free fall, she gave the order to drop it.
The night watchmen cut through the sandbags on both sides of the hull with knives, and large white quicksand-like objects poured down.
In the cabin, the bottom of the ship was also opened with some gaps, which were supposed to be used for bomb dropping, but in fact anything could be thrown, and immediately after the gaps were opened, there were night watchmen wearing masks and eyes to start their work.
The lime powder spread rapidly in the air, and by the time it fell to the ground, it had already enveloped a very large space, and although it did not completely envelop the cavalry, it did not need to envelop them all.
When the cavalry is charging, as long as a horse falls in front, it is easy to implicate the companions behind, so the cavalry generally do not get too close, but here is a forest after all, they can only be parallel on the avenue, plus the long cavalry spear, they can basically implicate a lot of people if they fall.
After rushing to the front of the cavalry, more and more knights fell off their horses, and those who were not killed began to hold their eyes and roar in pain, the eyes were so fragile, the boiling burning sensation was unbearable for most people, and then after roaring, the lungs also burned, and the more they roared, the heavier their panting, and the faster they were hit.
The entire cavalry camp was in a wail, and its momentum was like hell on earth, and the few knights who were lucky enough not to fall and did not pounce into the lime formation were all frightened when they saw this scene, and rushed back to their camp one by one as if they were crazy.
"Brothers, rush and pick up your equipment!" shouted Sorigal, and the garrison charged like mad at the lure of the knights' heavily armored equipment.
"It's a lot easier to use than blinding powder, and it's cheaper. Althea on the airship muttered.
It seems that after this battle, the Assassins' methods will be changed.