"Rush! Rush over from the side and hammer those humans to death! ”

At the very moment when the centaurs had been routed by the combined stranglehold of humans, orcs, trolls, and minotaurs, in the southeast of the Dust Swamp, the "siege" of the Stonehammer ogres was still going on.

Tygosh, the chief of the stone mallet, wielded the heavy black bone crusher hammer in his hand, and in his roar, the stupid, heavy ogres, without any defensive armor, rushed towards the positions of the New Riptide Castle almost with their bare hands, but these fools still remembered the chief's orders, and instead of walking in a straight line, they attacked the human positions from both sides around the dirt on both sides of the New Rapids.

The Arashi people have also confronted the Darkblade undead for several years, and they have also experienced the baptism of new warfare, although they are not as frantic as the Darkblade Legion in terms of firepower, but they have migrated here for more than a month, and the number of city defense artillery is absolutely sufficient.

But the bad thing is that the cunning ogres took the route of the swamp, almost perfectly avoiding the direction of the warship shelling in the bay, well, it may be that the luck of these fools is too good, in short, the ship's guns can't accurately hit the ogres at the city gate, so under the orders of General Tanred, the sailors of Kurtilas, and the Blackwater pirates who have submitted to Stormgard, carried a dozen naval guns to the rear of the position in small carts.

In the roar of artillery fire, those ogres who were not smart enough were considered to be unlucky, and the first round of shelling killed dozens of unlucky ghosts who rushed too fast, but those ogre barbarians on both sides of the battlefield took advantage of the time of cannonball loading, rushed through the position, and began to fight with human soldiers.

And under the leadership of King Garin, the human knights crossed the position from time to time and rushed into the ogre herd, using their long swords to harvest those who were injured or frightened by the explosion of the cannonballs, but those ogres who rushed to the human position also caused some trouble for the soldiers of the newly unprepared New Riptide Castle with brute force and rudimentary magic.

"Get out! Monster! ”

King Garin cut off the head of the roaring ogre in front of him with a sword, but another ogre with a thick wooden stick roared and rushed over, and before the king could react, he smashed the head of the king's horse with the stick, and the poor beast let out a cry and threw King Garin away.

The young king was dizzy on the ground, but was soon escorted back to the position by the knights who came to the rescue, the king gritted his teeth, wiped the wound with gauze, and watched the stupid ogre carry his horse back to the opposite position, the guy's sneaky posture made the king's heart feel like a stuffy ball, that is, he couldn't go up and down.

However, the quagmire on both sides of the battlefield was difficult to walk, so the number of ogres rushing over was not large, and under the greeting of the soldiers' muskets and long swords, soon, those ogres screamed and hugged their heads, and the ogre in the distance seemed to see the difficulty of this position, and the chief of the stone mallet, Tagosh, no longer forced his men to charge recklessly, they stopped there, and they didn't know what the hell they were thinking.

"Your Majesty, these ogres are cunning, much smarter than those ogres in the Arathi Heights, hell."

An old knight took a breathless sip of water and said to his king:

"As soon as they realized that we had a firepower advantage, they hid outside the shelling zone, and from time to time they tried to bypass the frontal positions from other directions, and we had to rush out to repel them."

"But in a head-on battle, the knights are not necessarily stronger than this group of fools."

Garin's forehead ached, and the young king grinned:

"It takes 3 knights to take on an ogre head-on, and we don't have a steam tank in our hands... Rushing out rashly will definitely cause heavy casualties, by the way, is there any news from the crossroads? ”

"Not yet."

The old knight shook his head: "The Gray Yopp side has to face the centaur barbarians who come and go like the wind, and it is much more difficult for them to end the battle than on our side, and those centaurs can't do anything else, and their ability to escape and fight back is first-class." ”

"Ahh

Garin frustratedly punched the sandbag in front of him, he gritted his teeth and said:

"If we have a steam tank army, we don't need much, just ten tanks, even if it's a griffin wing..."

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! ”

Just as the battle was at a stalemate, a griffon knight flying from the north suddenly appeared above the position, jumped into the position, and without even having time to drink water, rushed to the king and told him the good news.

"Your Majesty, we won the battle at the crossroads, orcs and trolls, and some half-bulls who have never seen before came to help us, and now Lord Gray Yopp has divided some of the knights back to the castle, and those orcs and trolls who have come to help, they are very fast, maybe in 1 hour, they will reach the rear of the battlefield."

"How many of them are?"

Garin's eyes lit up suddenly, he felt that his forehead didn't hurt anymore, and he grabbed the herald and asked:

"Are there 2,000 people?"

"Our people and the people of the tribe combined, there are almost 4,000 people!"

The Sentinel was also excited, and apparently, he could also see that the battle was going in a direction that was going in favor of humanity.

And when he heard the news of the sentry, King Garin was immediately excited, he rubbed his hands, and went round the position, and after a while, the king made up his mind, and he looked back at the old knight behind him, and he said in a deep voice:

"Push the city defense artillery as far forward as possible from the woods and mires on both sides, don't alarm the fools, let the knights and soldiers be ready to charge, once the reinforcements arrive, we will be flanked in front and back, those ogres will definitely not expect us to have reinforcements... With artillery and a knightly charge, they will definitely be at a loss, and then, this will be our chance. ”

"But Your Majesty! That's the tribe! Orcs... Do you really trust them? ”

The old knight is a veteran who has completely experienced two orc wars, he has followed General Danas all the way to chase the orcs to the burning plains, witnessed the defeat of the tribe, and also witnessed the destruction caused by these invaders to the human empire, in the heart of a veteran like him, humans and orcs can never stand together, and the blood feud between the two cannot be washed away.

But Garin... Garin is different from the old knight, he is a new generation of young people, in his time, orcs and humans have been separated by the sea, although he has also experienced orc wars, but anyway, in the era of his ascension to the throne, the seeds of peace have been planted in the confrontation between Lothar and Orgrim, maybe it will take a long time for this kind of seed to take root, but in any case, Garin's heart, pretending, is a greater goal.

Because his heart's yearning is lofty enough, there is still room for peace in his heart.

"The Empire has failed, Knights Aldrin, times have changed, when the Empire was crumbling, the orcs transferred their strength to our people, and they are still rushing to help us, the Alahi have never been ungrateful, and the Alahi have never been afraid of peace..."

The king looked at the ogre, who was about to attack again, and he said in a deep voice:

"I know that the blood feud between the two sides will not be resolved, but at least for now... We've got to think about the people of the city, and I've decided to accept their kindness, if you don't agree... You can go to the rear of the camp and pretend you don't see it, and if the old and immortal nobles want to accuse me or even depose me for this, then let them come! ”

The young king's rare tough gesture silenced the knights around him, and after a moment, the old knight shook his head:

"If my allegiance to my Majesty is conscious of such a heavy mission, then what reason do I have to stop you again? But I still don't trust the orcs, the barbarians... I'll oversee them! ”

"Let's talk about these things after the battle!"

As soon as Garin waved his hand, the knights behind him immediately walked to the half-walled castle and began to move the cannons forward as the king asked.

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"There it is! See? Those ogres, they're cutting down trees! ”

With the support of the troll Werking's voodoo mysticism, the leader of the reinforcements who came from the rear hid in the forest, watching the strange actions of the ogres several kilometers away, and in the rippling picture like a basin in front of them, some stupid ogres, under the instructions of several guys dressed as ogre wizards, were chopping wood, and behind them, there were some strange devices that were erected.

"It's... This is the kind of engineering tool that the old tribes used so often! ”

Garrosh only glanced at it, then shouted, "I saw this stupid thing in the Nagrand steppes when I was a kid, it only needs strong enough trees to function. ”

"Well, it does look like a stone-throwing tool."

Woking touched his fangs and said to the others:

"Trolls use these things when they fight, but ogres... I've never heard of ogres using this stuff. ”

"They're going to attack the city?"

Thrall's eyes widened, and he looked back at the gray yopp and the human knights who were standing aside, and the orc shouted:

"Hey, does your city have walls? These ogres are preparing siege engines! ”

"Huh?"

Gray Yop's expression immediately became serious, he glanced at the orcs and trolls, and after a moment, he shook his head:

"The walls haven't been built yet, but the ogres should have been stopped by artillery... We've got to speed it up! ”

"Let's go!"

Garrosh patted the dust off his body and said to the others:

"I'll finish this battle early, and I want to go back and rest."

He deliberately glanced at Gray Yopp:

"I don't think these humans have any intention of keeping us to eat."

"The Arashi are never ungrateful, orcs... One meal, one bed, we still had it. ”

A human knight couldn't help but retort, in the Gray Yopp's order, the knights quickly turned on their horses, and the orcs and trolls also sat on their mounts, the tall minotaurs could not march quickly, so they stayed at the crossroads to help the human defenders clear the centaurs there, and by the way, take advantage of the opportunity of victory, to eradicate the Kokar centaur tribe entrenched in the barren land in one fell swoop.

From today onwards, the Barren Lands may not be too quiet, and the arrival of humans has not only broken the distribution of power here, but also brought a new wind of war to Kalimdor.

"For the Horde! Come on! ”

Garrosh took the lead from the mountains and forests behind him to the group of ogres who were assembling the stone throwers, he waved the fire oil in his hand, and between the roars of the wolves, the pungent oil stains fell the pile of wood that had just been felled, and Thrall behind him waved his fingers, and the elemental flames danced and stained the oil stains, and the next moment, between the fires, a large pile of wood was ignited.

The flames are blazing.

"They're coming!"

Garin, who had been paying attention to the battlefield, suddenly jumped above the position, and his fingers pointed fiercely at the battlefield ahead:

"Shelling! Shelling, drive these barbarians out! ”

"Boom Boom"

In the shadows on both sides of the position, the projectiles from the suddenly opened fire from the artillery immediately plunged the front-line ogres into confusion, and at the moment when the light of the artillery fire tore through the darkness, under the leadership of Garin, the knights of Stormgard crossed the position, and the infantry in the rear also grabbed their weapons and followed the knights to launch a charge.

On the side of the stone mallet ogre, the sudden arrival of the three attacks put the already undisciplined ogres into a headless fly-like dilemma, no matter how Tagosh shouted, the ogres who were beaten on the front line still subconsciously retreated, their retreat disrupted the rear front, coupled with the fierce orcs in the rear crazy destruction, the fire blocked the way for the ogres to retreat.

"Don't run! Roar! Don't run! ”

Tagosh's two heads roared at the same time, he swung the bone crusher hammer, and hammered it on the head of the ogre running around him, the cruel blood and broken flesh flew everywhere, but for the barbarians, once the overall formation was destroyed, no matter how brutal the leader was, it would be difficult to recover the decline, and those human soldiers put the smaller caliber naval guns on the wooden carts, pushing all the way, and placing a few cannons every distance, and the entire ogre's formation was chaotic in the constant cannonball attack.

"Let's go! Walk! A bunch of idiots! ”

Seeing that the situation had turned to the worst, Tagosh rolled his three eyes and planned to withdraw from the battlefield with his guards, but just as Tagosh was fighting his way through the chaotic ogre, in front of the road leading to the depths of the dust swamp in front of him, Garin, covered in blood, had already blocked his way with a team of knights.

"Bang"

A long sword was stuck in the ground in front of Tagash's eyes, and Garin, who was on horseback, took a step forward, and he looked at the tall ogre leader:

"I'm going to challenge you! Fools, you stupid attack our defenses, I won't let you go so easily! ”

"Come on, end this battle the way you ogres do!"

"The one who wins takes everything, and the one who loses loses everything! Do you dare to accept it? ”