Centaurs, this is a very special creature.

Their upper body is no different from that of humans, but their faces are unusually ugly, and their lower bodies are like war horses, which gives them extremely excellent running ability, and when they run, they are like the best knights, and they come and go like the wind.

They are adept at using heavy weapons such as spears and knives, and they are also very good at using bows and arrows, and the archery skills of the most powerful centaur elders and warriors are comparable to those of the Night Elves, and the centaurs also have strange elemental powers in their blood, which makes them easy to awaken the spell-casting abilities similar to those of shamans.

But in the blood of centaurs is chaotic and rebellious, and in the secret texts of the Night Elf druids, there are records of the blood of centaurs.

"They are the evil ones who should not have appeared, and the crime of killing their father runs in their veins, the rebellious children of twisted nature and earth... They are born destroyers. ”

Of course, the word Destroyer is always an exaggeration to describe centaurs, but in reality, the centaur clans that roam the land of Kalimdor have indeed pushed many civilizations to the brink of destruction.

The nature of these raiders means that they cannot give birth to a civilization that is too mature, and although Kalimdor has a large number of centaurs, they have deep contradictions with each other, like a large bandit, unless a strong leader comes forward to integrate the entire tribe in war, their civilization can only go so far.

The centaurs refer to their leaders as "khans", which means conquerors, and the khans tend to be the most tyrannical and powerful of the entire clan, with no other thoughts on their minds than blood and slaughter.

"Bang la la"

Like a swift wind across the land, like a migratory herd of beasts trampling on a steppe, the Khan of the Kokar tribe carried a heavy metal sword in his hand, a war bow made of the tendons of a thunder beast, and a blood-colored banner on his back, and led his people to gallop in the night of the barren land, this khan wore a mask made of white bones on his face, his black hair and mane swaying backwards in the galloping wind, and his upper body was covered with scars, which was a testament to bravery.

In short, the tall barbarian leader looked majestic.

And looking at the entire Centaur force in Kalimdor, the Kokar tribe living in the barren land is not even a middle level, it is only a small tribe with less than 5,000 people, not to mention compared with the large tribes of more than 100,000 people in the Desolate Lands, even the same people in the Thousand Needles Stone Forest disdain to contact them.

But Kokar's Khan was ambitious, and a few years ago he saw a disgrace in the war against the orcs, and now, from the Arashi who migrated to the Dust Swamp, he saw the hope of a strong tribe of centaurs, and if enough supplies could be looted, a centaur tribe would rise very quickly.

Although defeating the heavily armed humans would require the help of ogres and a lot of supplies to satisfy the appetites of the idiots, Khan thought it was acceptable.

One day, the blood-colored banners of the Kokar tribe will be planted all over the barren lands, and the orcs who brought him humiliating defeat will also pay with blood!

Khan imagined the beautiful scene of his revenge in his mind, which made the blood in his body burst out, and when he approached the intersection of the dust swamp and the barren land, the khan took off his war bow with his backhand, drew a bone arrow, and shot the arrow without looking, and with a roar, the Arashi warriors patrolling the crossroads of the dust swamp fell in response.

This arrow also represents the beginning of the war of the centaur tribe against the kingdom of Stormgard.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

The terrible siren sounded throughout the sentry post, and the corporal guarding the place saw the black shadows of the attacking centaurs almost all over the grassland between the shadows and shadows, and he decisively applied for support in the rear.

A few minutes later, the knights and foot soldiers of several sentry posts in the southwest of the Dust Swamp of the Kingdom of Stormgard were awakened, and they put on their armor and mounted their horses under the reprimand of the commander, and rushed to the attacked sentry post with those heavy steam repeating rifles, but soon the reinforcements found that the Kokar centaurs in the barren land were almost pouring in, and in the face of 5,000 brave centaur warriors, this reinforcement would not last until dawn the next day.

The alarm was sent further to the rear, and King Garin, who had already fallen asleep, was even awakened, and after considering the current situation, the king decisively sent out an infantry regiment and half a knight regiment in the city.

The Stormgard legion that followed King Garin to the Dust Swamp originally had nearly 30,000 people, and with the arrival of a steady stream of civilians, the number of troops reached 45,000 people, but the area of the Dust Swamp was no smaller than that of the Arathi Heights, and these 40,000 people guarded an entire province and participated in supporting the Thousand Needles Stone Forest immigrants in the south, the strength of the Storm Gaard Kingdom was seriously insufficient.

After the reinforcements were expelled, the defenses of the port city, which Garin had named "New Rapids", became weak, but King Garin was not worried, because there was still a large group of warships waiting for orders in the harbor on the edge of the newly built city.

Although the pirates who have been trained for more than ten days are far from loyal, Tannred. The ten ships of Coultiras led by Prince Prodmore were enough to give the inhabitants of the city a sense of security.

"It feels weird."

After being awakened, King Garin's sleepiness disappeared, and he put on his robes and walked with a group of knights on the road to New Rapids, which had been built for a month, but the walls had not yet been built due to lack of manpower and skilled craftsmen.

Outside the city is a field that has been cultivated by farmers, and the crops are growing well, strange to say, the swamp is full of potholes, but next to the mire, there is a solid earth, which is very suitable for farming, relying on the food bought from the goblins, and the maturing of these fields, New Riptide Fort has enough power to support more immigrants.

But on this night, King Garin felt that his heart had not been still, like the night before the demon invasion, and his instinct told him that something was going to happen.

And it's a bad thing.

With this instinctive warning of doubt, King Garin strolled up to one of the watchtowers in the city, grabbed his binoculars, and looked with some irritability into the swamp outside the city, where he could hardly see much under the cloudy sky, but when the flash of fire crossed the muddy jungle, the king saw something that should not have appeared.

The tall, fast-paced, torch-wielding chaotic ranks of the jungle...

"Let the griffon rider take off and scout in that direction!"

The king turned to his guards and shouted, "Go to the barracks again and gather the soldiers who can still fight, and go to the harbor to inform General Tanred... New Rapids Fort... There's a guest! ”

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"Whew! Take the city! There's meat for everyone! ”

Tagosh, who had been lifted on a stretcher by several sturdy ogres, sat comfortably on his bone "throne", and an ogre guard helped him carry a heavy bone-crusher hammer, and this heavily armed, sturdy and savage two-headed ogre leader shouted some strange words from time to time, and those who followed him, the messy ogres often erupted into a noisy cheer when they heard the leader's shouts.

As an ogre leader, Tagosh was a little more "smart" than the other stupid ogres, and he himself had seen the "big scenes", so he was very calm compared to his compatriots who seemed excited about the imminent battle.

This ogre is no ordinary man...

Tagosh had never revealed his past to anyone else, but he was one of the first ogre slave warriors to follow the Orcs into Azeroth, and he had seen the fall of the mighty Stormwind City under the fierce attacks of the Orcs, and the terrifying scenes of the Humans crushing the Orc Formation in the Burning Plains.

Compared with those big battles where hundreds of thousands of people fought at every turn, the battle in front of him was just a "joke" in his opinion.

Tagosh was an ogre with a story, and for a time after the defeat of the Horde, Tagosh wandered the Giant Mallet in the Burning Plains, where he also commanded a tribe of ogres, colluded with the Blackstone Orcs, and lived by digging ore from the peaks of the Giant Mallet, and he lived very happily and freely, and Tagosh even wished that life would go on forever.

But unfortunately, the arrival of the Darkblade Undead ruined everything for Tagosh, and when he saw the all-engulfing black tide rolling towards the Blackstone Tower, Tagosh realized that no one could resist these terrible undead, so he left everything he had and fled in the middle of the night.

He went to the Valley of Thorns, bought a goblin ticket with the money he carried, and then wandered all the way to Kalimdor, and spent a few months unifying the ogre tribes in the Barrens, and then encountered the major event of the orc migration, Tagosh, who had been a slave, did not have a good impression of the orcs, but he knew that the united orcs were very powerful, so he ran to the dust swamp with his loyal subordinates.

Then he took his clan to fight with the local Stonehammer Ogre, and became the leader of the Stonehammer Ogre again.

This ogre really has a story... But now he no longer has the careful thinking of being a slave, Tagosh has a strong army, a tribe of more than 6,000 ogres, in the dust swamp is already a very large force, a few months ago, he also led his clan to drive the terrifying totem minotaur of the Fern Wall Village out of the dust swamp, Tagosh thought this swamp was his territory, but the arrival of humans shattered Tagosh's dream of becoming king and hegemon.

So now, he wants to teach this group of humans who don't know whether they are alive or dead, just like driving out the minotaurs, and driving them out of his own land! He wants to destroy the kingdom of mankind, and the dust swamp will always belong to the Stonehammer Ogre!

"Roar! Drive out the humans! This land belongs to the stone mallet! ”

Thinking of this, Tagosh's two heads let out a roar at the same time, causing the ogres behind him to roar together, they were already very close to the new Rapids, and Tagosh could even see the city's unrepaired walls, which made him feel that he was in control.

The clever Tagosh has used the centaurs as bait to attract a part of the human army, and the rest are far from being the match of more than 6,000 ogres!

"Wow"

The griffin knight landed quickly beside the heavily armed King Garin, and he quickly reported:

"The ogres in the depths of the swamp have poured out of their nests, Your Majesty, according to their footsteps, they set out at night, those centaur raids are not accidental, these barbarians are united..."

"Ahh

Garin angrily kicked the stone at his feet, and he looked back at the scout and asked:

"How many of them are there?"

The scout swallowed, a flash of fear flashing in his eyes:

"At least 6,000 people! Your Majesty, our city can't stop so many ogres..."

"We have to block it! Soldier! ”

King Garin didn't have much of a fearful expression, after the demonic invasion and the war of the Grim Blade Necromancy, there was hardly anything in the world that could make King Garin afraid, he looked back at the soldiers behind him, and he shouted:

"Soldiers of Stormgard! We've been defeated by the undead, driven to this wild land, and now... Even the miscellaneous ogres want to bully us... Can you bear this breath? ”

"Huh"

The king drew his sword sharply, and his voice became furious:

"I can't take it anymore! I'm going to skin these damn ogres and cramp them! The new Riptide Fort is here! It's right behind us... No one wants to destroy our last home! ”

"Come with me! We... Kill those ogres who don't know whether to live or die! ”