Volume IV Reign of Chaos 195 Swallower Ramsden
The last time I passed through here was because the orcs invaded Quel'Thalas, defended the elven kingdom and then returned to Lordaeron. This time, however, he went to Quel'Thalas after destroying Lordaeron. Of course, after that, you have to live or die, and they will never open the door to meet us. Because what we want to borrow is the source of their energy.
He was going to resurrect Kel'thugad, but I didn't know why Kel'thugad had to be resurrected at the time, and in my opinion, it didn't matter if this guy was resurrected or not.
Now we know that the resurrection is a scourge for him...... But it didn't work.
We crossed the Sodoril River and passed through a small town that was not known at all...... The town of Talon in Talon County. The town was empty, and all the people and livestock had fled, and even the well was sealed with stones.
What we didn't expect was that the soldiers and civilians here were really bold, they evacuated early but abandoned their homes, and they attacked behind us after our army passed.
When we arrived in Cowling, there was no one in the town, and the town was badly damaged.
But just as our vanguard had passed, a fire broke out in the town, and the troops in the town did not pass completely, and the troops that had not yet entered the town were separated from the other side of the town.
There is a chance that all the people with names and surnames in the party are at the front of the group, and around us are some ghouls and abominations, and then some walking corpses.
When he saw that the town was on fire, Alsace ordered all his troops to pass quickly, but this order did not work well at all, but only got worse and worse.
The town was indeed badly damaged, but the roads in the town were only pretending to be destroyed, and the real purpose was to divide the team dozens of meters wide into small teams.
Because the team behind had no leader, all the generals were concentrated at the head at the behest of Arthas. In fact, this can't be said that Arthas is stupid, and whoever leads such an army of death will not care about being attacked.
On the one hand, from Arthas, Lordaeron was almost crushed all the way, and there was no team or lord that could cause him much trouble. On the other hand, there are too many people in this army of death, and ordinary people would never dare to attack rashly.
Actually, there is another aspect...... It's just that this team won't mess up no matter what!
Yes, these are dead people! Not a living person! The living will be frightened, they will be alarmed, they will be afraid, they will be overwhelmed. But the dead don't, they don't care about the charge of the human cavalry, they don't hide, they just wait for the cavalry to charge at them or directly face the cavalry.
There must be tens of thousands of walking corpses at the back of the team, although they are not as agile as humans, but after being charged into the ranks by human cavalry, not only did they not mess up, but reached out to grab the cavalry on their horses.
Anyway, when we got around the other side of the town, we found that the human knights who rushed in had suffered huge losses, and once the horses were frightened, the horses were stopped from advancing, and the knights above were quickly dragged off their horses by the walking corpses.
The role of the human infantry, attacking from the flanks, was extremely limited. When we arrived, the human soldiers not only did not break through the line of the army of death, but were almost pushed back.
Arthas stood there, he didn't let the army behind him attack, but watched, these tens of thousands of walking corpses were nothing in his eyes, and this human team actually did not defeat his army that was not commanded by a general at all.
This is impossible in any country, in any branch of the military, in any team. Even if it's a demon.
Sauval and Sherling were very excited, they kept looking at Arthas, and kept applying to leave the station, and Ramsden, who was standing on the side of the line, writhed his body impatiently.
When Arthas was a little tired of looking at it, he looked at Soval to the side and pointed lightly with his chin. Soval was already impatient at this time, and his eyes turned blood-red at this time.
He drew his sword and screamed, and the ghouls around him were like dogs in greyhound racing, and wolves galloping while hunting pounced on the human soldiers.
And Ramsden, who had just been built, writhed his huge body and rushed to the opposite side.
I don't know if you've ever seen the tide coming back from the river, and the wave of those ghouls toppled the human soldiers in the front row in an instant.
At this moment, the holy light in the ranks of human soldiers burst out with dazzling light again, and I looked curiously at the place where the light flashed. But that's when our Ramsden made his debut.
He was taller than the average soldier, at least a quarter of his height, and everything in front of him couldn't stand in his way, if it was a walking corpse, it would squeeze out of the way or knock it down, and if it was a human soldier, the human would be smashed to the ground when the guillotine in his hand slashed over. Or they were just blown out.
And when it picked up the iron chain and pumped it around, everyone had to dodge far away, and some brainless walking corpses broke into its attack range and were directly smashed by the whirring iron chain.
And when Ramsden rushed in front of the glowing paladin, the guillotine it picked up fell directly on him.
The light was extinguished in an instant!
Arthas's face twitched, then he smiled slightly.
Soval calls him the Light Quencher, and Sherling calls him the Swallower. For some unknown reason, this thing has a special hobby on the battlefield, in addition to liking to stone people.
Some people like to pick their teeth when eating, and some people like to bite a toothpick in their mouth to show that they are hanging. But instead of a toothpick, this thing is holding an arm, or a person's neck, the neck with a head.
It already has a big head, and when it bites such a thing in its mouth, it looks like a demon has descended.
In that battle, Ramsden was shot in the head with more than twenty arrows, one of which missed the eyeball, which was the eyeball without eyelids. But it doesn't matter, that half-open eye still works.
After the war, Serlin gave him a new eye, but it was a little smaller. When I arrived at the Elven Realm, I got a new one. And his skin, which had been shot more than twenty arrows, was carefully sewn up by the two of them again. While there is no conclusive evidence that the brains of this thing work, they put a layer of iron under the scalp to be on the safe side.
In this way, Ramsden's second transformation was basically completed.
We don't know how many people died in that battle in Cowling, and no one cares how many walking corpses died. Anyway, in the end, the number of ghouls more than tripled.
Although we were stopped, Arthas ignored it completely, and after putting his army in order, he continued to advance, completely ignoring the retreating human army.
In fact, at this time, all the troops participating in the battle were the armies of the eastern region of the Lordaeron River, and the armies of the other kingdoms had not yet decided whether to come or not.
After all, although Arthas killed his father and usurped the throne, he is still the legitimate heir, although everyone says that Arthas is crazy, but he is still alive, even if he is crazy, if he rashly sends troops here, it will be a declaration of war on Lordaeron, no matter what your reason is.
So in the beginning, Stormgard as a kingdom bordering Lordaeron has not moved, and the same is true of Gilneys, everyone is watching.
Another reason is that the two nobles who are the remnants of Alterac, one is the Duke of Steinbled, Facurrest, has not moved, and the other is the Duke Barov, who is crazy but does not know whether it is true or false, has not been really moved. Not even the tone of the mouth. In this way, Stormgard did not dare to move.
And you who are far away don't know anything?
The true regrouping of the nominal alliance came after the fall of the elves' royal city to Arthas.
Yes? Dalaran?
Ha! Dalaran ......
Mages have great power, but if they don't have a good character or strategy, or if they are selfish, they are no different from ordinary people, or even worse.
Dalaran was already aware of the seriousness of Arthas and the problems he posed, as I thought.
Don't worry, Tonidas won't insist that Gianna leave Dalaran and leave the continent by boat, and rush to the new world that the prophets say. Did he leave behind a group of old immortal fellows who died heroically to save the land and the people on it?
I can't see it......
The remnants of the escaped human forces in Cowling Town may have told all the living about it as it was.
And they very consciously passed it on to the elves of the north.
Whatever the purpose, they hope that the elves will hold off Arthas's army, huh...... It's not that I look down on them, they can't even stop the orc troops.
Soon Alsace made those who were proud, the high...... The elves paid the worst price.