0158 Tough Dwarf Auntie
Outing, there is nothing wrong with using this word to describe the mood of the dwarves of the Uga tribe at this moment.
They gathered together as a family unit and a village as a group, walking together in a cheerful mess, chatting with the underground dwarves in a lively manner, and occasionally making a joke with the characteristics of the dwarves.
Some young dwarves ran around happily, and from time to time used their strong bodies to deliberately knock down their little friends to play pranks, and the sound of the hammered dwarves' whole body armor was deafening under the fierce impact of each other.
The murderous frolic of the dwarven children was difficult for the surface man of the Kenmet group to accept, because it looked like the brutal dwarves were going to kill each other...... Especially when the "little" dwarf who was hit got up and pushed down his mischievous companion, angrily pulled out the dwarf's hammer and hammered the head of the naughty ghost and put it on the helmet!
Towards the strange eyes cast by the blue-faced Kenmet, Jialan could only shrug helplessly, although the near-earth dwarves also belong to the dwarf race, but in terms of general classification, they should belong to the underground creatures, that is, the "dark creatures" often referred to by people in this era, and it is not surprising that they have a violent and cruel personality.
Although these bearded underage dwarves do not look much different from adult dwarves, in fact, at the age of 40, they are just naughty "children", equivalent to 10-year-old human children.
It's hard for you to ask a 10-year-old child to behave and be as calm and steady as an adult, isn't it? If you want them to be really stable, I'm afraid you have to wait until they are about 100 years old. When they marry a dwarven wife who can control them.
In the impression of humans, dwarves seem to be "stubborn, upright, loyal, and brave".
But in fact, the dwarf is 80 years old. That is to say, it is equivalent to the fact that before the age of 20, humans are not allowed to leave the tribe, and at that time, their personalities are basically fixed, and they are branded with the unique characteristics of dwarves, and the outside world will naturally form an inherent impression of them.
But Jialan has seen some of the dwarves who are different. Those strange second-cargo dwarves are even more curious about new things than halflings, but they have worse tempers than orcs. Plus, the dwarves don't dislike spirits, so their ability to poke the basket can make all their friends and enemies tremble together.
Fortunately, the dwarves have a character after they have left their tribe for decades. It will gradually settle down. The more sensible they are, they will return to their tribe and become a responsible dwarf to find their own wife and settle down.
Dwarves usually leave their tribes at the age of 80 to travel, but around the age of 120, which is equivalent to the age of 30, they return to the tribe to reproduce. 40 years is enough time for them to mature slowly.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that these are the wise dwarven elders. The strategy of deliberately driving these dog-disgusted saboteurs out of the tribe to prevent them from harming their own people, anyway, there are many examples of being played bad by traveling dwarves in history, which is why there is always a dwarf hero in some heroic novels.
By the time Garlan and Captain Kenmet led more than 2,500 dwarves back to the surface, the battle situation in Doom Fortress was already precarious.
Originally, I thought that the mercenaries who were urgently transferred from the underground ruins would be able to hold on for a while longer, but when the thousands of goblins and hundreds of bear goblins also began to join the war, the situation began to reverse rapidly.
These big goblins are the main force of the "Razor Crown War Goblin Army", and those little goblins are just cannon fodder and labor under them.
The little goblins, driven by their constant charges, had caused the walls of Doom to pile up slopes with corpses, stones, and sacks filled with dirt.
Compared to the scale of the goblin legion of more than 100,000, such a loss of combat power is simply insignificant, so when the goblins who drove the bear goblin death squad rushed to the city wall, the mercenaries, who had already spent a lot of physical strength in the previous battle, were obviously a little unable to resist.
Although the small goblins who are no more than 1 meter tall have almost no combat power, and are even weaker than ordinary people, the only advantage is their huge number, but the big goblin, the dominant goblin race, has very good combat effectiveness.
Similar to the dwarves, when the male goblin is an adult, he often automatically has a combat power not lower than the bronze level, and with a little training, he can become a silver-level combat power, the bear goblin is stronger, and the combat power of the adult male bear goblin will not be lower than the silver level at the very least!
I have to admit that human beings have never been a particularly powerful race, but the huge population base and systematic combat training system can allow the number of elite warriors of no less than other races to emerge among the human race.
It seems that in order to compensate for the natural weakness of human beings, the gods have endowed human beings with strong learning and comprehension abilities, and it can be said that human beings are the only race among so many races on the earth that can train qualified warriors in a short period of time.
The life limit of ordinary human beings is about 100 years, but the average life expectancy is only 60~80 years old, but human beings reach adulthood at the age of 16 (15 years old in some areas), and a couple usually raises 3~5 children, which means that every ten years, the human race can cultivate a new generation of combat power.
And those long-lived species are not good, such as dwarves, they can only become adults at the age of 40, their reproductive ability is nearly ten times slower than that of humans, and the speed of new blood replacement is 3~4 times lower than that of humans.
Although the goblin is claimed to be the race with the strongest fertility and survivability on the earth, and there must be a goblin living on the land wider than two feet, that refers to the small goblin, and the lifespan and reproductive ability of the goblin are comparable to that of humans.
However, the glorious civilization has not fully recovered, and in the long history, they have been occupied by various intelligent races, and they can only shrink to the small land of Dagon County to survive, and the lack of resources has stifled the development of their race, which is also the reason why the goblins have always been ambitious to launch foreign wars.
The group of goblins attacking Fort Doom should be a legion in the "Razor Crown" that claims to have millions of warriors, and the number of goblin warriors will not exceed 5,000, but it is more than enough to attack a war fortress like Doom Fort alone.
Fortunately, the dwarven warriors arrived in time when the mercenaries were in danger, and immediately withstood the attack of the goblin warriors, and the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat on the wall that was only five or six meters wide, driving the goblins off the wall again in one fell swoop.
While the fierce fighting at the head of the wall was fierce, the rear was not idle, and a large number of hired men were mobilized to carry the bodies of the dead and care for the wounded.
The dwarven women joined in, and they bravely rushed into the battle, grabbed one of the wounded by the ankle with one hand, rescued them from the battlefield in the midst of their wailing and screaming, and easily dragged them to the rear, where they were left to be cared for by human hired men.
And for some of the seriously wounded, the short dwarf aunts would pick up a shield, throw them on it, and carry them back on their shoulders or on their heads as if they were a whole roasted sheep on a tray.
Some strong dwarf aunts can even do some work on the battlefield to mend leaks and mend knives, and Jialan saw three dwarf aunts take turns to use three shields to slap a big goblin warrior who rushed down the city wall into a meatloaf......
The dwarves of the Uga tribe, who had already experienced a long battle for living space in the Underground World, had long been accustomed to the battle of life and death, and even women and children were enough to turn a blind eye to the atmosphere of death around them.
Jialan unleashed "magic" to assist in the battle, while observing the battlefield, but couldn't help frowning.
Although the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Regiment had as many as 1,600 mercenaries, plus the Uga dwarves who came out of the nest, nearly 1,500 dwarven warriors were reinforced, and they successfully defended the walls of Doom Fortress.
But the number of goblins is too much, although there are only five or six thousand powerful goblins and bear goblins, but they are also twice the amount of defensive power, not to mention the number of small goblins as high as nearly 100,000, although their strength is weak, any mercenary can slaughter them, but these dwarfs are not without threat to the mercenaries.
The little goblins who followed the big goblins to rush to the city wall, relying on their short stature, caused trouble to the mercenaries, and most of the mercenaries' leg injuries were the masterpieces they left behind in the melee.
Although it seems that the mercenaries and dwarves can withstand the attack of the goblins in a short period of time, the warriors who have pressed up on all fronts cannot fight for a long time, and once they are exhausted, the Doom Fortress without reserve combat power will be immediately breached.
In just one hour of fighting, the side of Doom Fortress has already generated more than 500 casualties, although the goblins have died more, but if this continues, Jialan estimates that the city wall will be lost in half an hour at most!
Inside the Doom Castle, the hired workers and the old and weak women and children of the Uga tribe are rushing to transport all kinds of supplies, and Casey and Div are organizing people to evacuate to the underground ruins for refuge, believing that the narrow passage of the castle dungeon can resist the attack of the goblins to the greatest extent.
However, the huge supplies that Fort Doom had stockpiled during this period of time could not be transported in a short period of time, which meant that the soldiers in front had to hold on a little longer. (To be continued......)