Chapter 252: Prelude

Two 200-meter-diameter craters stand next to each other in the shape of flat-topped cones, while three or four smaller craters stand crookedly at the north-south extension.

A wide arc formed between the craters, and this was the battlefield that the council had decided upon in consultation with the military headquarters.

Although the north and south sides of the preset battlefield facing the sea and land artillery arrays are not smooth, they are also within the controllable range of flexible elevation angle control of the gun barrels.

In addition, a few volcanoes may form an artillery obstacle from time to time, but why not surround the target in the center? In addition, the sea and land artillery arrays coordinated with each other in the south and north, covering part of the dead angle at the bottom within their own attack range;

In general, flawed but acceptable, and in fact there is not much room for choice....

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Looking at the past from afar, the foothills and the bottom of the two large volcanoes in the east and west can be said to be full of greenery, densely packed with countless trees;

However, the flat land between the two is a once ordinary bare earth and rock, but now rare on the base of the volcano.

Of these plants scattered throughout the mountains, 40,000 are controllable plants that have been transferred here after the battlefield has been identified;

Led by their 'drivers', they moved away from their original roots and took root at the bottom of the valley side of the large volcano.

At this point, their roots break through the pedestal and enter the magma, seemingly aimlessly, spreading far into the depths of the magma channel at the bottom of the pedestal.

On the trunk of the tree, more than a dozen vines stretched together in four groups, and they were very long, hanging all the way to the ground, and then extending to the ground;

Each vine can be the thickness of a finger, and together they form four sets of stiff bondage chains the size of wrists.

Naturally, they were operated by troll conscripts and hornhoe mercenaries, and the warriors of the two clans were still familiar with the control process of the upper vines and the lower roots, while waiting nervously for the order to act.

Expand your horizons further north and south....

The self-propelled tanks have already left the camp and are doing the final equipment checks in the attack zone of almost 2-3 km;

220 ancient war trees were waiting in a unified position, they chatted with each other stupidly and slowly, and they couldn't see any pre-war tension, but the four 203 guns on their arms did not contain a lake at all, and the nozzle looked quite murderous.

On the other two craters, which are slightly shorter to the north and south, but have a better view of the battlefield, two artillery observation posts with witch doctors are standing;

The witch doctors assigned to these two points have already begun the first rehearsal of the shelling for an unknown number of times....

The scroll drawn by dots and lines unfolds in the meditative space in their thinking, and is not only marked with dense spatial phase coordinates;

There are also arcs that spread out of nowhere, interspersed and intertwined, and I don't know what kind of magnificent scenery is being interpreted.

From there, to the south, and then to the north.....

More than 10 kilometers away in the offshore sea, there are 40 sea artillery arrays that are slightly rising and falling with the waves, and their foundation is 1,000 420mm main guns, and their reaction chambers are already in a state of accumulation at this time;

Ten or twenty kilometers to the north, the same is true of the three rail lines, and the 81 forts scattered between them, which are preparing to give a convincing truth;

At the various shelling points along the track, the moose used for replacement, as well as the supply of food, grass, water, food, and shells have been put in place one after another, just waiting for the position of the rail artillery car to come after the battle begins.

Headquarters, Nesta sat on the platform facing the battlefield, the preparations near the ground were in full view, and the situation in the distance was also reported from the sound wires.

"Your Excellency, Report to the Chief of the Army, the cave wolf is in place!"

"Understood, ask about the readiness of each unit."

"Understood!"

After a few lights, contact came again,

"All units are ready and ready to enter combat at any time!"

"Identity key ****, I ordered the mission to officially start in the name of the military w, and immediately let the cave wolf wake up and lure the enemy."

"The key is confirmed, and the military units will immediately carry out the order!"

"Good..."

"Roar!!

In the awakening and 'sleeping' again and again, the cave wolves, who belong to natural beings instead of 'acquired cultivators' who have been tempered for thousands of years, have obviously become closer and closer to complete madness.....

Its roar was filled with pain and hatred, its ability to transmit information regardless of race, and the storm in the hearts of the weak beings was suddenly changed, and the boundless fear accompanied by hatred that penetrated deep into the marrow of the marrow oppressed every heart.

In the distance, the Twelve Wolf Kings, who used to be moved by every movement of the cave wolves, have developed adaptability in the past few years;

It's not that they really sit back and relax, although they are no longer as worried about the true wolf king as they were in the past, but every movement of the troll race has become a new source of their disease.....

The same is true of the demonic beasts in the mountains, the real wolf king who used to block them like a mountain in front of them is now miserable like this....

The wise people in the Warcraft were concerned, and the twelve false wolf kings were nervous, and for a while, the battle between the wind wolves and the mountain Warcraft that had lasted for an unknown number of years actually began to die down in the past ten years.

In other aspects, the reaction of the monsters in the deep sea is unknown, the main body of the northern continent is obstructed by mountains, and the story of the troll and the wolf king is temporarily confined in this corner;

The bad news is that there is still no one to save the wolf king from the troll's mouth;

Good news, the wolf king has saved face....

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Return to the battlefield ....

"The action begins! All units have it! Be vigilant and ready to do my bidding! ”

"Understood!"

"Understood!"

The hornhoofed mercenary Bennier's hands and feet were cold at this time, and he regretted it a little..... You shouldn't leave your beautiful wife at home to fight just for some money;

But it was too late to say anything, and the rebuke echoing in the cockpit was always a reminder of where he was now.

A few responses, either complacent or anxious and frightened, were heard, but only a dazed Benniel was missing.

"Mercenary No. 42 in District 07! What about your answer! ”

"I... Understood..."Benniel suddenly came back to his senses, and forced himself to use the Tao.

"Give me a beating, do you want to die here!"

The troll's rebuke made him sober up a little, and he lifted his stiff fingers, left the totem button in front of him, and after a slight movement of his lower knuckles, he patted his cheek vigorously, and finally regained some form.

"I can do it.... The wives are still waiting for me... Beniel can do it! ”

After a few words of self-encouragement, Benniel began to concentrate on waiting for the order.....

After a while, the control of the root system must follow the current, and the tree under your control needs to act together with the roots of the other trees in the region, in order to complete the task as quickly and best in the most extensive control;

And the same is true of vines, which the Governor has emphasized countless times, and when added to each tree, or even the vines extending from each subdivision or region, they may not be the opponent of the target;

Only when 20,000 plants form a joint force can it be possible to achieve one's mission, so it is necessary to act strictly according to the instructions of the upper peak.

Before further instructions could be given, Benniel raised his eyes and looked out from the four lookouts in front of him, on the left and right....

The height of the observation port was designed to follow the troll's shape, as did the rest of the manipulation, and a city-state warrior like him had to step on a foot pad of nearly half a meter to fully utilize the full functionality of the tree.

But Benniel didn't complain, the surprise and disbelief of seeing the totem weapon for the first time made him look at everything pleasing to the eye....

Except, of course, for the outside world now.

Smoke began to rise louder from nearby craters, and occasionally a few more lava were already spewing out from light to dark.

The roaring Lord seemed to have fallen into a half-asleep, its mind no longer transmitted to Benil, but that sense of existence had been preserved.

Benniel didn't know what it was, friend or foe.

I just remember that in the first month of training here, I seemed to have heard that voice just now;

But if it was possible, he really didn't want to be the main 'person' of the voice next.

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Where Benniel can't see, the cave wolf is stunned again after a brief awakening;

The headquarters is already very experienced in this, and can control its state very accurately to the appearance of having a sense of existence, but not a clear consciousness;

That's right, it's the same as the cave wolf that slumbered in the cave.....

The headquarters even made a fully automated temporary prison dedicated to the execution of this operation;

The Movable Prison that is imprisoning the Cave Wolf is a specialized modification of an ancient war tree, in which the 'ontology' and the prison have many functions in symbiosis, which can control the Cave Wolf to switch between sleeping, awakening, and semi-sleeping states within a certain limit, and can also expose a certain piece of skin to let it wind;

Of course, the targeted application of various methods in various states is still the work of witch doctors, and this cage tree is only the executor of the script.

As a 'branch' of the ancient tree of war, the cage tree already has three different individuals at this time, the one in charge of imprisoning the cave wolf in front of him is the eldest brother, but because of the size of the imprisoned, it is the youngest among the brothers;

The other two brothers were born to temporarily imprison the higher salamanders, and because the target was too large, they were also given a large size.

At this time, the two brothers had already taken refuge somewhere in the battlefield .... Considering the size factor, it is most likely underground?

The smallest boss is still too big to complete the task within the time limit on foot;

Therefore, the headquarters formed a luxurious 'convoy' for it before the mission, and its members were all Warcraft-level moose leaders cultivated by the tree.

The moose leader can resist the untargeted coercion of the cave wolf, and will not faint or even die like other moose;

Supplemented by the right amount of berserk to be released by pinching points, adding some extra resistance, and calming the mind by the emotional spell, they can keep them working in the half-dreaming state of the cave wolf.

Ordinary moose is the unit of measurement of today's 'force', for example, there is a saying of 'how much moose power' in engine terminology, and its meaning is purely literal, a measure of the engine's output level;

As their higher-level units, these high-level moose, which are only responsible for mating on weekdays, are naturally stronger and faster.

Withstanding the wind of unknown origin from the cave wolves from behind, they pulled a cage that weighed as many gunboats on top of each other, followed the laid track on the pedestal, and quickly approached the preset battlefield.

The grasp of this time scale is extremely important, if it is slow, the battlefield will be invalid, and the high-level salamander is very likely to probe from elsewhere, but it is impossible for the cave wolf to really come to the real danger, and after deceiving the target, it will have to retreat, so it is possible to fall into it if it is a little faster.

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In Benier's senses, the vibration from the ground has become more and more obvious, and the volcano under his feet seems to have begun to stir from just now;

The situation behind him was unknown due to his vision, but what he could see was that there was already smoke rising from several mountain passes at the wide angle ahead;

And the largest crater, the one directly opposite him, was already bursting with sparks that seemed to be magma.

He could feel that something seemed to be sweeping over him before, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, and he felt thoughts like 'nasty little thing', 'weakness', 'why is that guy here again';

It was as if Benniel had 'heard' some information from that roar earlier.

He was too nervous, and he didn't have the heart to think about this nonsense now, because something more dangerous was happening, and it was growing stronger under his nose, and the 'spark' on the opposite pass had turned into a torch at this time, and he was actually more worried about whether those hot liquids would burn him to death.....

'Is being killed by magma burned or drowned?' I envy those trolls....' he thought.

The 'torch' in Bennier's eyes is actually a magma jet more than ten meters high;

The two craters with 200-meter-diameter magma channels in the east and west are gushing out more and more magma over time;

At first, they just flowed faster and faster, still within the describable range of the word 'gushing', but gradually their flow rate changed from 'gushing' to 'gushing';

In the end, the thick semi-fluid was sandwiched in the column of smoke, and it sprayed out into the air for several meters, tens of meters, and tens of meters like a pressurized spring.

'Teal! Are you finished!! ’

A clear message emerged from Bennier's heart, as if a great being from the earth was speaking to himself from the bottom of his heart, and this situation made him a little alarmed, and the courage he had finally mustered up once again tended to be weakened.

"Hold on! It's time to get started! See those magma? If you don't keep your composure and then get the victory, waiting for you... All that awaits us is death! ”

The troll chief's voice sounded in time, stopping many horned hoof warriors like Benniel, making them gather their minds again and carefully observe the outside world....

The volcanic ash and the lava slowly flowing down the mountain pass make the hue of the world darker red and black, but if you look out a little more, you can see that the sky is still blue, the clouds are still white, and it is only this corner of the land that has changed.

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At this time, Nes was on the line between the dark red and the black, and the blue and white;

He had been sitting alone on the high platform and waiting for something, but he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the bottom of the two tallest and majestic volcanoes in the east and west, where he sensed the 'breath' of a huge high salamander in the passage.

'Very good.....

They had indeed chosen these two giant craters, and had crossed the 'line of action' and entered the vine's root system's sphere of influence, much to Nesta's delight, and a little nervous.

When the time came, when the target had really entered the path that the witch doctors had planned, as if it were a rehearsal, Nesta knew what that meant.....

This means that the follow-up to this trip is really ready to be carried out, and the success or failure of more than ten years of preparation is about to be tested, and tension inevitably rises in his heart.

In fact, not only Nesta, but all the other witch doctors and warriors who have spent their time and energy in the past ten years have felt that kind of thing at this time.... It's like a sense of nervousness and anticipation before the start of the exam.

And in the midst of this special waiting, a 'voice of all spirits' very similar to that of the cave wolf sounded from the hearts of almost everyone present.....

'Teal! Are you finished!! ’

Nesta had just picked up the totem microphone in his hand at this time, and he was directly hit by this 'words', and there was no attack power in the substantive sense, but in the thoughts mixed with the words, he could clearly feel the 'voice master' ignoring the troll race;

'Small', 'not worth mentioning', 'abandoned'.....

The words and so on were transformed in his mind by some reason, and although they did not become a 'complete sentence' like the one he said to the cave wolf, they became some kind of thought that he could understand.

'Oh, sooner or later, you'll have to be with the wolf king...'

With a sneer in his heart, Nesta continued his previous actions, he picked up the metal wire intercom and issued a follow-up order,

"Thick fangs, fangs, and higher salamanders have risen to their base, and from now on you will take over the observation mission and proceed as before."

"Understood!"

"Understood!"

"Prepare the district chiefs of the restriction group, and wait for the orders of the two Excellencies."

"Understood!" *n

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Bennier's subdivision was instructed to control the root system in the pedestal according to a unified plan;

In fact, there is not much real sense of control of them, all Benniel needs to do is press back and forth on the Tuteng pattern according to the instructions, and he has no loss except for a little bit of physical strength converted into so-called 'electricity';

In other words, they don't feel what's going on down there just because they're in control, like a player who only has a joystick and no monitor or sound when they're playing.