Volume 3 Kuroshio 109 The Fall of Maude Fortress

The Silver Hand crossed the bridge safely, and then rushed towards the Black Iron Dwarves who were engaged in a fierce battle with us.

In addition to dealing with the dwarves' powerful attacks, one of the other things about fighting the dwarves is that their heads are very hard. Their helmets and visors have a spacer or spike on the bridge of their nose and forehead.

And hitting people with their heads is one of their skills, not to mention that it hurts to be hit by their heads.

The Silver Hand rushed over and disrupted the dwarves' sturdy battle lines and step-by-step tactics to a certain extent. Once the formation is out of order, we can go around the back, and the height disadvantage of the dwarves is reflected.

Have you ever played a game of whack-a-mole?

Later, I hit my head with a hammer like whack-a-mole. Anyway, when the dwarves made helmets, they always added a layer of net to the helmet, so that there was a gap between the net head and the helmet. Not to mention, this helmet is now standard among dwarves. Not only can you look bigger, but it's also safer, and it's safer to go down the mine with you!

The helmets that the dwarves have been improving for thousands of years actually started when I was whack-a-mole.

After the destruction of the bridgehead troops, the fortress of Maud became an obstacle for us to attack the swamps of the wetlands. Pulling out this stronghold, our strategic line of defense was pushed directly to the foot of Kazmodan Mountain.

It would be easier said than done to uproot this fortress, but not only were the defenders of the Copperbeard tribe lost, but so many of its inhabitants ...... They were all killed.

It's not a day or two since the Copperbeard Dwarves and the Black Iron Dwarves are at odds, and this relationship with fire and water makes there be little mercy between the two tribes.

I've been asked, and I've been asked others, why did the Black Iron Dwarves take the opportunity to move everyone over when the orcs invaded Kazmodan, and once again occupy this land of abundant water and grass, and become the masters of this land again?

I can't answer this question, after the Maude Fortress was captured by us, I got the news that the Black Iron Dwarves were allowed to participate in the war, but they were led by the orcs and ostracized by the orcs, and the orcs told them to hold the fortress, and promised to allow them to return to the control of the Iron Forge. Belch...... It should be Kazmodan.

All the land.

In fact, the two groups of people are using each other. It's just that the dwarves were the first to be abandoned.

The orcs were ready to slip away when they found out that the landing could not effectively suppress our army, and in the end, the matter of guarding the bridge and defending the fortress of Maud was entirely for the orcs to send them to their deaths here.

In fact, after the capture of Maude Fortress, there were indeed not a few orcs found, and the dozen or so orcs in Maude Fortress at that time were simply thrown to the dwarves to monitor the dwarves' battles.

The captives also said that when they found out that they had been abandoned by the orcs, they had not dealt with humans, and after the first human charge was defeated, they felt that humans were nothing more than that. So I really decided to fight with humans to the end.

After the bridge was lost, they decided that there was no hope of surrendering, so they preferred to pull a few more pads before dying. So a strong desire to fight erupted. And! When they saw that there were dwarves, they were in despair.

Because they were also involved in the massacre of the inhabitants of the Maud Fortress.

There's no need to talk about that...... But we left this group of captives behind. Of course, what to do with these guys in the end is not something I can control.

Ah...... But I really have to talk about that battle, the battle of Maude Fortress was just a hard fight. After all, it was a bunker built in the mountains. Mountains for protection.

That's why when we marched to Danmoro, the orcs wanted to blow the mountain flat and hollow it out, but they couldn't dig it alive. It's the same here. The orcs haven't dug for so long, how can we have time to dig a hole?

But!

What is the endless road, we fought on the seashore for a few days, especially in front of the Maude Fortress, and finally were fortunate enough to escape the fall of the Maude Fortress Grista. Iron Mountain was discovered.

When Iron Mountain was brought into the camp, I thought it was some kind of swamp monster. Moss and stuff all over his body. I really didn't recognize him, but he did.

Belch...... Oh, yes. I was amazed. Tut......

He told us that on the day of the fall they had tried to call for help, but they went out and never came back.

Do you hear the problem here?

Lothar immediately asked him how he got out.

We've been besieged here for days, and we've searched around, but we haven't found any secret passages.

Tieshan said that the secret passage is not in this mountain, it is far away from here!

Tut...... We really can't help it.

The orc forces did not do them any harm after besieging them, but were driven away by them, but they had lost contact with Ironforge Fort. They fought and won, and the orcs couldn't get in at all. Finally, one day, General Iniesta Ironbeard led a large army to prepare to annihilate the orc forces that had fled to the eastern mountains, but that place was not anywhere else, the place where the orcs went was the territory of the original Brute Hammer tribe. No troops survived!

After the Black Iron Dwarves pretended to be defeated clansmen and deceived the gates, the orcs directly killed them, and the Maudes, who had no time to react and were powerless to resist, were blocked inside.

Lothar asked him how he knew about the secret passage, and Iron Mountain said that the secret was only known to the garrison generals and garrison officers. They had escaped by going out to try to contact the outside world.

And when they returned to the fortress through the secret passage, they found that it had become purgatory, and it was no different from that.

They are still quite bold, and they have rescued some people who have not had time to torture. So he hid in the swamp and waited for rescue.

Someone heard the sound of cannon on the beach that day, but the man didn't know what was happening, and the next day he saw the human attack, and it was not until the man was sure that the humans had captured the bridge that he hurried back to find the Iron Mountain. He came to ask for our help.

That's it.

Ha, you're thinking a lot......

Yes, why does Maud Fortress have secret passages, so why doesn't Ironforge Fort?

Of course, Ironforge has secret passages! Needless to say? It's just that this secret passage should only be known to the king! If hundreds of thousands of copperbearded dwarves knew about it, what else was it called?

Then since the king knew, why didn't the king escape through the secret passage? That's what you think, right?

I know what you're thinking by looking at your eyes. Ironforge is fighting almost every day, as long as they withdraw, or if there are not so many people to hold on, it will be impossible for them to recapture Ironforge Fort, and if the king leaves, what do you think those nobles, lords, and ministers will think?

The king will never give up on them unless he has to. It's a question that can be figured out with an ass.

Iron Mountain took us to the secret passage, and after the battle, a monument was built there, and it is said that Iron Mountain buried the clothes of the Iron Beard General there.

We got in through that place, and it was a secret passage, and when we got in, we weren't just bent over, it was very narrow!

We can only go in one by one, there is no place for us to hold the lamp, and there can only be thousands of people in that place, and the people inside will be suffocated!

That's a long place! If you think it's fake, you will feel crazy.

I'm in the front, either I don't enter, or if I want to enter, I must be in the front, to be honest, I'm not at ease. I was mentally prepared for it, and it took us half a day to get to that place after we came out of Maude Fortress. You say how far these dwarves have dug up!

Just let the average person encounter such a hole, such a small hole, what would it be like to walk for so long and not reach the end? I don't know how to dig it, but I want to know this technology, and I'm not going to stay here now.

Iron Mountain walked in front, I followed him, Reggie followed me, and Khadgar followed a couple of paladins. Of course the elves didn't come, they couldn't walk through this kind of cave.

When Iron Mountain pushed open a stone wall at the end, I finally breathed a sigh of relief. It's so aggrieved!

It was afternoon when I set out, and now I guess it's almost midnight. Our mission is to open the gates of the fortress and let people from the outside in, and to do as much destruction as possible here to reduce the mortality rate of the soldiers who come in.

I said, is there a mechanism here?

Iron Mountain told me that there were not only mechanisms here, but also explosive devices that had all perished.

I was surprised, is this okay?

Iron Mountain told me that there are all kinds of special circumstances, and that if this fortress is really occupied by the enemy one day, it will be almost impossible to kill it from the outside! And the way to protect your kingdom and kill more enemies is to self-destruct. Bury everything here forever underneath.

I said, "Isn't there a secret passage?" Iron Mountain said, what if the Lord is killed in battle? I said, where is the self-destructive?

Khadgar quickly interrupted me, he thought I was speaking unluckily and patted Iron Mountain on the shoulder and said that we will protect you!

We came in in batches of 100 people, but a few of them said that they were a little unbearable on the road.

Either this battle is difficult here, this place is huge, but there are many places that have been slaughtered and scourged, and those thousands of black iron dwarves are thousands of people who are all gathered in the buildings around the entrance. It's really not easy to open that door.

And with these thousands of dwarves going to the door, it's impossible for us to get thousands of people in from that hole!

I'm thinking I'm going to blow it up.

But Iron Mountain said that blowing it up is not a tipping point, and once it is detonated, the probability of escape is very low.

Khadgar quickly told me to shut up, and he gave me the best wishes for a long life.

The final solution is...... Will this be completely ...... Burnt! Only if they start a fire, or if they panic in a partial explosion, will they be able to choose whether to stay and burn or rush out.

This suggestion was unanimously endorsed by everyone.

But how to implement it became the most difficult thing next. After all, this place ...... It's really not small!