Section 82 Enemy Attack (I)
The calm of the river was shattered, and the hills were filled with dwarven warriors armed with sharp axes, horned helmets, and fiery red beards.
The army of the Firebeard Clan is obviously stronger than any dwarven clan in the River Domain, not only in terms of equipment, but also that their most ordinary warriors will have an extra horned helmet, and the strength of their bodies and the unruly expression on their faces are all superior to those of the Stone Fist Clan.
Once upon a time, the Stone Fist clan was also so strong, but after being defeated by the two clans combined, they had already fallen out of the top ten clans.
On a hill, a group of heavily armed firebeard dwarven warriors surrounded a dwarve, and he was looking down the hill as the dwarves were encamped.
This Firebeard Dwarf is one of the commanders of the Firebeard Clan, and is the younger brother of the current patriarch, Zam.
He brought a large army with him, and this time, after learning that the Stone Fist Clan was in the vicinity of this river, the Firebeard Clan sent spies again to confirm it.
When Solomon, in need of slaves, ordered the Stonefist clan to start attacking the smaller clans on the other side of the river, he had no intention of continuing to hide.
Therefore, the Firebeard Clan also knew about the existence of Tieye, and knew that the Stone Fist Clan had the support of the aliens here, and began to expand.
Therefore, the Firebeard Patriarch immediately sent a large army to exterminate the feud with the power of thunder.
The clan war was brutal, and the Stone Fist clan was once one of the top ten clans of the Black Rock Dwarves, but it wasn't defeated by the combined attack of the two clans.
Zam is a well-known warrior of the Firebeard Clan, and he has absolute confidence in defeating the remnants of Stonefist, who have the support of the aliens.
This confidence comes not only from his trust in his own force, but also from the army he now brings.
There are 20,000 warriors, which is almost two-thirds of the strength of the clan.
Among them, there are more than 5,000 warriors who are fully armed, with full armor and sophisticated battle axes.
This is the powerful force of the Firebeard Clan, and it is also the result of defeating the Stone Fist Clan and seizing the ownership of the underground refined iron ore.
If it weren't for the remnants of the Stone Fist Clan, the Firebeard Clan would be planning to seize another piece of land with refined iron ore, but there would be a conflict with another big clan, the Kuanliang Clan.
The Firebeard Clan is not ready to join forces with the Thunderspear Clan again, they plan to swallow the Refined Iron Ore alone after defeating the Kuanliang Clan, so that they will have three pieces of Refined Iron Ore, and within three years, almost all the clansmen and warriors will be armed.
At that point, the Firebeard Clan is qualified to challenge the most powerful Gangyan Clan.
However, this qiē had to be temporarily changed with the resurgence of the Stone Fist clan.
When Zam's army had been deployed at the junction with the Kuanliang clan, ready to attack the territory of the Kuanliang clan at any time and destroy their tribe, the patriarch's order came, changed direction, and marched to this side of the river to destroy the remnants of the former great enemy, the Shiquan clan.
Zam was furious, but at the same time he resolutely obeyed the patriarch's orders, not only from the patriarch's majesty, but also Zam knew that compared to the Kuanliang clan, the two sides had not yet broken out into a full-scale war after all, at most it was only sabre-rattling.
And the Shiquan clan is different, although they were defeated last time, and the clansmen fled in all directions, but after all, they still have the heritage of the big clan, once they are given the opportunity to reoccupy a piece of territory, and the scattered clansmen will be able to slowly recover.
With the hatred between the two races, it will definitely become a problem for the henchmen in the future.
And according to the intelligence of the spies, there is also the support of aliens.
It is said that the aliens are tall and ugly, not at all like the dwarves.
Fortunately, there were not many of them, and Zam didn't pay attention to them, but he had an army of 20,000.
The 20,000-strong army is comparable to the number of a regular army in Asturias, the Keos plane.
Even if all the dwarven clans in this part of the river were united, Zam was confident of victory.
There was a commotion in the distance, and Zam got the news that a team of scout fighters had encountered the enemy.
Zam was furious, and the remnants of the Stonefist clan were so bold as to take the initiative to attack him.
"Catch up, bite me in, pursue them all the way to their new tribe, destroy their villages, and kill them all!"
After Zam gave the order, the army of the Firebeard Clan moved and pursued the fleeing enemy after attacking the reconnaissance unit.
However, to Zam's disappointment, the remnants of the Stonefist Dwarves did not dare to confront his army head-on, and they fled desperately after the attack was successful.
As the troops pursued, Zam himself rode his mount, a large lizard, one of the underground creatures encountered while mining the underground iron ore, which Zam defeated and tamed.
Dwarves have almost no cavalry, nor are they adept at using bows and arrows, due to their size, and their height and size make it difficult for them to control their mounts.
Zam was an exception, though, and he had gone to great lengths to tame the large lizard so that he could ride on it to fight.
When the pursuit reached a hill, the lizard finally knocked down a Stonefist dwarf who was running a little slower.
The lizard pressed its struggling foe with its thick forelimbs, its large mouth beginning to bite at the dwarves beneath it.
"Let him go, leave him alone, chase me up, there are more delicious things waiting for you. Zam commanded his mount in exasperation.
Under the compulsion of his master, the big lizard reluctantly let go of the Stonefist dwarf that was ready to be used as food, and re-entered the running state, ready to continue the pursuit.
At this moment, hundreds of dwarves suddenly appeared on the hill, all of them holding large slingshots made of thick branches, animal tendons, and animal skins, and they condescended to attack the firebeard dwarves chasing down the hill.
The Arrow is shot with a slingshot, mercilessly striking Zam and the Firebeard Dwarf.
"Ambush soldiers, there are ambush soldiers!"
There was confusion among the pursuers, and Zam was a little flustered by the sudden attack.
However, the stone pellets shot from the slingshot were less powerful, and the firebeard dwarves were relatively high-armed, and they were all protected by horned helmets on their heads.
When the stone pill hits them, it can't penetrate the warriors who are protected by armor, and the warriors who are not protected by armor have helmet protection on their heads, and their bodies are only skin and flesh, which is difficult to threaten their lives.
More than a hundred people shot two rounds of slingshots at the hill, but only one firebeard dwarf was killed, and this one was because a stone shot hit the eye, and from there it penetrated the brain.
In addition, two people were seriously injured, seven or eight people were lightly injured, and the others were only injuries like scratching skin.
"Ambush soldiers? This is an ambush soldier, catch up with them, kill them all. "Zam didn't have anything to do, he himself was fully armed, and the armor on his body was specially made, more than twice as heavy as ordinary dwarven armor, and his defense was amazing, but he was also more inflexible because of his heaviness, so he managed to tame a large lizard as a mount.
As for the big lizard riding, it has thick skin and thick flesh, and it doesn't do anything at all, unless it is shot in the eye.
He raised his tomahawk and rushed to the hill first.
Although unharmed, Zam was thoroughly enraged.
But by the time he rushed up the hill, he saw that the dwarves on the hill had already fled.
Standing on the hill, he could see that the enemies had converged with the front of them before and continued to flee.
So he continued to pursue, but things like this happened many times in the following places.
Neither Zam nor the army had done any great damage, and every time he had to rush up the hill with his men, the other side would flee without a fight.
It wasn't until the last place that I finally encountered a stronger enemy.
The other party was also an elite dwarven soldier with armor protection, led by an acquaintance known to Zam, and if Zam remembered correctly, the enemy's name was Tieye, and he was also a warrior.
This force was somewhat armed, much stronger than the previous dwarves, but Zam still didn't pay attention to it, because the number was only two thousand troops.
"Crush them!" Zam swung his battle axe from the lizard, directing his elite men to rush first.
It was a slightly decent battle, and Tieye's troops resisted for a while, and after paying far more casualties than Zam, they fled shamefully before Zam's army could complete the encirclement.
The Firebeard Dwarves pursued them energetically, and they firmly believed that this was the last resistance of the Stone Fist Clan after chasing them all the way.
The Stonefist dwarves also seemed to have lost their fighting spirit after the defeat, and they did not dare to turn back to fight Zam again, they just ran away desperately.
Before escaping a steep slope, they quickly ran up the hill, where stood a rocky structure that Solomon had only completed in the Black Rock plane.
Zam chased after him, and the lizard pounced and bitten, plus his own battle axe, and the attacks of other warriors, only had time to kill dozens of Stonefist dwarves, and the remaining more than a thousand enemies fled into the strange and dark building in time.
The Firebeard Dwarves stopped at the bottom of the hillside, a castle-like structure built for defense that the dwarves had never seen before.
The dwarves of the Black Rock Plane live in villages, living in low earthen huts, such as castles or fortresses, which they do not build.
Zam looked at the fortress they had built, faintly afraid, and the big lizard was also a little uneasy and exhaled white air from its nostrils, looking a little irritated.
Zam hesitated to attack immediately, as he hadn't yet figured out the details of the building in front of him.
Where did the Stonefist clan get such a strange structure, which is far beyond the dwarves' ability to build.
His thoughts were soon interrupted, though, as foul language in dwarven language came from the fortress.
The dwarves were also very crude, repetitive, "You're a big lizard," "You idiot," and so on.
But they still succeeded in provoking Zam's anger, and the enemy dared to curse after being defeated, thinking that escaping into this strange house would save their lives?
Zam immediately ordered the attack, he was going to kill Tieye with his own hands, and then cut off his head and bring it back as a trophy.
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