649 Pressed and beaten
Later in the evening, while the sky was not completely dark, Chu Xiangqian rode a griffon and flew back to the goat rider and elf.
After making sure that everything was all right, the cavalry and sharpshooters with 400 men on both sides of the mountain road chose an open space that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the place could also be heard, and took out jerky, fruit, and breadfruit for dinner and breakfast tomorrow morning.
By the way, he also took out a lot of fresh grass and salt for the big goats.
Moreover, Chu Xiangqian also deliberately let the dwarves and elves light the fire, in order to tell the wolf cavalry that someone was chasing them behind.
Anyway, the blocking position has already been formed, and if the wolf cavalry rushes overnight, the physical strength consumed will naturally be more.
After a dozen fires were lit, there was a commotion on the wolf cavalry's side.
Not long after, the 4 wolf cavalry broke away from the large army and headed south.
Needless to say, these four wolf cavalry are spies.
Chu Xiangqian muttered a few words to the female elf captain, and soon the 8 elves worked in a team of two, brought some food and left the team to go north.
More than two hours later, the four elves returned to the camp one after another, nodding at the female elf captain, and Chu Xiangqian knew that the four wolf cavalry scouts had been killed.
Explaining that the female elf and Vic were on guard against a sneak attack, Chu Qian mounted a griffin and returned to the blocking position overnight.
Then he took out a coat made of snow leopard skin and a bearskin mat and lay down on the top of the mountain to sleep.
With and dwarves watching and patrolling the night, Chu Xiangqian was not worried about the sneak attack of the wolf cavalry at all.
Besides, the place where the wolf cavalry was at this time was still several hours away from the top of the mountain.
Maybe before they arrived, Chu Xiangqian had already woken up.
However, Chu Xiangqian still released Da Zhuang and the red girl, and then he slept with peace of mind.
Five hours later, Chu Xiangqian, who was asleep, suddenly felt the reminding him, and then Da Zhuang and the red girl let out a low roar.
Before the two hunting dogs could touch him with their heads, Chu Xiangqian had already woken up.
Reaching out and rubbing the heads of Da Zhuang and Red Girl, his attention was on the sight of the, and he saw a team of 20 wolf cavalry, which was separated from the blocking position by a hill at this time.
The rest of the wolf cavalry also walked for at least 4 or 5 hours last night.
It's only about an hour away from here.
Since the vanguard of 20 people is separated by hundreds of meters, and it is a winding mountain road, it will take half an hour to get there, so Chu Xiangqian is of course not in a hurry.
And even if the main force of the wolf cavalry arrives, they need to find an open space where they can station more than 200 people.
The surrounding areas that meet this condition are at least 10 minutes away from the summit.
In other words, Chu Xiangqian was not worried at all, the wolf cavalry would charge in a nest.
He got up and put the snow leopard coat on his body, took out fresh mutton and iron pot from the warehouse in the novice village, and deliberately asked a few dwarves who were keeping vigil to light a fire and stew mutton soup with water for breakfast.
Then the night watch dwarf began to follow Chu Xiangqian's instructions to wake up his companions and prepare for battle.
Twenty wolf cavalry saw that a fire suddenly lit up on the top of the opposite hill, and they immediately became vigilant and stopped.
Chu Xiangqian did this, the meaning was very simple, seeing that there were still two or three hours before dawn, if the wolf cavalry hesitated to stop, it would naturally be the best.
If the wolf cavalry attacked immediately, as long as they withstood their first wave of attack, it would be a very big blow to the morale and physical strength of the wolf cavalry.
When the mysterious magician heard the forward's report, an ominous premonition immediately appeared in his heart, and he instinctively wanted to let the wolf cavalry speed up.
But when the words came to his lips, he finally forced himself to calm down and ordered the wolf cavalry to repair on the spot.
And the little food left in his hand was also distributed.
On the contrary, it is water, but don't worry, there are many springs in the mountains, enough for orcs and wolves.
Two hours later, his face was already slightly bright, and the mysterious mage made the wolf cavalry guards blow their horns, and many wolf cavalry immediately took action.
And when the dwarves and elves on the top of the mountain heard the horn, they immediately knew that they were going to fight for their lives.
And the horn also carries the meaning of crying for help.
After Chu Xiangqian knew this potential meaning from the dwarf's mouth, he couldn't help but worry and let the fly north quickly.
Lest there really be an orc force on the north side of the mountain road and cross the Boulder Mountains again.
At the speed of three or four hundred kilometers per hour of the, it is only a few minutes to fly over the mountain road of less than ten kilometers.
Unexpectedly, there were no orc troops marching in the mountain road, but the chickadee flew over the mountains, and soon seven or eight kilometers north of the mountain range, they saw an orc tribe.
And the tribal camp probably heard the horn of the wolf cavalry, and a hundred orcs had already begun to arm.
Then the two orcs, riding on wolves, quickly left the camp and galloped east.
Needless to say, it must have been reported to the main force of the orcs outside the boulder pass in the east, and the horn sounded.
Chu Xiangqian is not worried now.
By the time the orcs sent reinforcements to set out, march into the mountain pass, and then reach the blocking position, it would be two or three days later.
Of course, if the orcs were willing to send Wyvern warriors to support the wolf cavalry, it would be enough for almost a morning.
Thinking of this, Chu Xiangqian couldn't help but be a little worried, and called a dwarf to let him ride a griffin to fly to the boulder pass, so that the coalition forces would always pay attention to whether the main force of the orcs had sent flying units.
This was followed by the reloading of 8 M2 heavy machine guns and 2 MG42 general-purpose machine guns.
Even 20 AKs were fully loaded with bullets.
However, unless the situation is urgent, Chu Xiangqian will not take out these automatic firearms, otherwise, the dwarves will definitely think in their hearts that they will not sell them even more powerful weapons.
The dwarves will definitely think too much in their hearts, not only will it affect friendship, but the Mosin Nagant rifle will not sell well.
The flew back and saw that the wolf cavalry was only half an hour away from the top of the mountain, and then crossed the wolf cavalry, and ten minutes later saw the goat cavalry and the elven marksman who were hurrying quickly.
After estimating the distance, it seems that in four or five hours, don't count on goat cavalry and marksmen.
But it doesn't matter, there are 10 heavily armored warriors, 10 shield warriors and 50 riflemen on the top of the mountain anyway.
Even if there are several times more wolf cavalry, limited by the narrow mountain road, there are dozens of wolf cavalry charging into battle at most.
Once they form a long snake formation, they want to fight a war of attrition with the dwarves, and wait for all 70 dwarves to die, and few of the wolf cavalry will still be alive.
After all, the dwarves had rifles in their hands and enough bullets. In terms of lethality, it is far superior to the wolf cavalry who are basically armed with machetes.
Chu Xiangqian can even divide the dwarves into two teams, and when the riflemen shoot, they can target all the wolves.
Not to mention himself, even if he was just holding an elven longbow, or some level 20 hunting bow, it was a mobile turret.
Draw the bow two or three hundred times, and at a distance of tens of meters, maybe he can shoot hundreds of wolves and orcs alone.
After letting the fly back, Chu Xiangqian took out the elven longbow, carried the elven sword on his back, wore the secret armor on his body, and covered the snow leopard coat.
The snow leopard coat alone has a good effect against arrows, not to mention the defense of the secret armor, which is much stronger than the dwarven heavy armor.
When he saw the vanguard of the wolf cavalry, Chu Xiangqian put on a helmet that only exposed his eyes and mouth, and said a few words of encouragement to the dwarves, and the 70 dwarves suddenly became enthusiastic.
Soon, the main force of the wolf cavalry stopped on a hillside two hundred meters away, and then about forty wolf cavalry, shouting and driving the wolf to fly towards the mountain road.
Chu pulled forward the elven longbow, and an arrow composed of magic slowly emerged with the pull of the bowstring.
The wolf cavalry, who aimed at the fastest charge, let go of his fingers, and like a meteor, struck the heads of wolves in the blink of an eye.
Just this arrow shot through the wolf, and with a weak limbs, he rolled down the steep slopes on both sides of the mountain road with the orcs on his back.
Chu struck a successful blow forward, and he had a straightforward understanding of the attack power of the elven longbow in his heart.
Drawing the bow again, another arrow pierced through the wolves, and the dwarves cheered.
The wolf cavalry is uncomfortable, as the most famous formed cavalry on the Middle-earth continent, it is invincible to charge, but the wolf cavalry is most afraid of the elven marksman.
When he rushes in front of the elves, he will be killed by the elves for three or five companions.
And the kind of elven marksman standing on the city wall, once encountered, the wolf cavalry will not hesitate to turn around and leave.
Now I saw that on the opposite hill, it was a magic arrow, and the speed was so fast that it was difficult to avoid it, and the wolf cavalry vanguard was terrified, and he couldn't retreat, so he could only keep roaring to cheer himself up.
Keep urging the wolf to speed up.
But they were greeted by arrow after arrow, and when more than 40 wolf cavalry rushed to within 30 meters, there were already 20 wolves shot by Chu Qianqian.
The remaining wolf cavalry could only grit their teeth and roar, cheer themselves up, and swore to tear Chu Qianqian to pieces, ten dwarven shield warriors suddenly appeared on the top of the mountain, erected their shields, and blocked the mountain road with 2-meter stainless steel spears.
Twenty-five more dwarven riflemen reached out from behind the improvised gravel wall that had been built yesterday.
Seeing this, the wolf cavalry who was still alive stood up with hairs all over their bodies.
Under the great fear, some people grabbed the wolf, and some people just wanted to rush up as soon as possible and fight at close range.
The inconsistencies in the front and back immediately disrupted the procession.
Chu Xiangqian took the opportunity to shout, "Fire." ”
For a time, the mountains were full of banging gunfire.
Mosin Nagant is a military rifle used by polar bears in World War I, featuring a single shot with strong firepower.
If the target is human, the main rifle of the First World War has the problem of excessive firepower.
When hitting a target, the warhead will penetrate directly into the body because of the excessive penetrating power.
Even during World War II, some of the main rifles still had this situation.
Even if the caliber of the bullet is reduced to 6.5 mm, when it hits the arm, leg, or shoulder, the bullet will pass through directly, and the injury will not be fatal.
That's why intermediate bombs will only appear after World War II.
But now it is used against wolves and orcs, and if a single shot hits the target, if it can't penetrate directly, the bullet will roll in the body.
Although it still can't kill a wolf with a single shot, the bolt-action rifle pulls the bolt at least three times faster than the dwarven musket compared to the gunpowder musket used by the dwarves.
In the past, dwarven musketeers had a maximum of 3 shots a minute, and this was still an elite musketeer.
But now, pull the bolt, load, aim, fire, five or six seconds at most.
25 rifles fired 125 rounds in just 30 seconds.
At a distance of less than 30 meters, these elite musketeers can hit the target with their eyes closed.
By the time the riflemen had finished reloading, Chu Xiangqian had already used his bow and arrows to replenish his guns and shoot all the wounded wolves and orcs.
Chu put away his longbow and said with a smile at the alpine dwarf shield armor warrior leader, "Karloff, after killing these 40 wolf cavalry, the next battle will be much easier." ”
Karlov was stunned, there were nearly 200 wolf cavalry in the dark road, shouldn't the battle be more difficult?
But after only a moment of thought, Karloff understood.
The wolf cavalry is also an intelligent creature, and they will also be afraid and afraid, and the 40 wolf cavalry will be killed without even blocking the waves.
No matter how crazy the other wolf cavalry was, they knew that the next battle would not be easy to fight.
On the dwarven side, the first team didn't even use their 10 shield warriors, and the 40 wolf cavalry died.
When you think about it, it doesn't seem that the battle is really difficult.
In an instant, the morale of all the dwarves skyrocketed, and they couldn't wait for the remaining wolf cavalry to attack them.
As a high-ranking leader in command of 500 shield warriors, the reason why he came here is nothing more than that this old boy is a war maniac.
And Karlov, as the commander, has always been on the front line in such dangerous battles.
This is also the reason why dwarven lords tend to be very prestigious.
But now!
Karloff thought that it would be a vicious battle, or even a death, but now it seems that the intensity of the battle is not even comparable to the offensive and defensive battles of the Orcs in the Alpine Fort over the years.
Looking up at Chu Qianqian, who was 1.85 meters tall, Karloff said with a smile, "Stark, after this battle, you will definitely be praised by countless people."
Even become a hero in history, a legend remembered by future generations of Terrans, dwarves and elves. ”
Chu Xiangqian is only 22 years old now, and he didn't think about being remembered at all, and when he heard Karlov's words, he just smiled and shook his head.
"Being famous isn't necessarily all good."
Karloff was stunned for a moment, and then nodded with emotion, "I have lived for 400 years, and I have indeed seen and heard examples of some heroes who did not end up very well. ”
After speaking, he looked up at Chu Xiangqian again, "I didn't expect you to be so young and able to understand such a profound truth, it's really rare." ”
Chu Xiangqian laughed, Middle-earth is still an agrarian society, and the transmission of information is extremely backward, even for the nobles who have knowledge.
The knowledge and information received is also limited, which dooms even the aristocracy to have limited knowledge.
Many truths that are simple in the real world have become valuable knowledge passed down by word of mouth in Middle-earth.
The reason why Chu Xiangqian said what he just said was nothing more than that after seeing too many celebrities and becoming famous, he either became rampant or arrogant, and finally slowly disappeared from the public eye.
A small part of them became popular again, and in an interview, they talked about how uncomfortable the low period was.
Chu Xiangqian and ordinary people have heard a lot, and they know that fame is not necessarily a good thing.
Smiled and waved his hand, and then said to Karloff, "Before the main force of the wolf cavalry arrives, your team will lay down their shields and weapons and go to throw the corpses of wolves and orcs on the mountain road down the valleys on both sides of the mountain road.
Then the heavy warriors took your place. ”
(End of chapter)