"Demigods! It... Why did it just run away? ”

Night Sentinel General Santis, who is taking over from Deer Helm at the front line to command the coalition forces. After Hazuki saw the demigods break away from the army and rush into the temple of Qila alone, the elven general immediately sensed that something was wrong.

The general was not stupid, and when she saw the howls of Agamagan before she rushed into the temple, she immediately turned her head to look at the druid behind her, and asked in a loud voice:

"What do the demigods mean by a few howls before leaving? What does it want to tell us? ”

"There's danger there! It's something that mortals can't resist..."

Standing behind Santis was not the withering druid, but the orthodox druid stationed in the Cenarion Fortress, and this female druid, who did not look very old, also sensed the change of things, and she couldn't help but touch the oak pendant on her chest, and said to the general:

"The demigods told us to get out of here, and when we retreat to the walls, it will deal with the threat..."

"Mortals can't resist it..."

General Hazuki's eyes became cautious, before attacking the ruins of Qila, she had faintly heard rumors about the power behind the insects in the upper echelons of the coalition army, which was spread by those strange spider demons, and now it seems that the spider demons' claims are not groundless.

Pure Qila worms can't make a demigod like Agamagan feel threatened, that is, there is really a dark force behind its pulling worms.

At the thought of this, General Hazuki immediately made a decision.

"The whole army is fortified! Heralds, let the Sentinels hold their way back... Let's quit! ”

Although it was a little difficult to accept to abandon the position that had already been taken, the demigod's advice was not to be taken lightly, but just a few minutes after the herald rushed out of the position, the tide of battle had changed.

The Zermen Legion, which had just been crushed by Agamagan in one fell swoop, had regrouped, lacking the suppression of the demigods, and the Bugmen's iconic charge once again began to hit the front of the platform position like a tide, and although the artillery of the Seventh Legion continued to fire, the simple explosion seemed to be unable to stop the bugs' counterattack.

There are too many of them...

"What's going on!"

The sound of the deerhelm came from above, and when Santis looked up, he saw a storm raven skimming through the air over the bodies of the two winged insects, its sharp claws slicing open the winged insects' heads like knives, grabbing their twisted bodies and plunging into the earth.

In the middle of the wind and sand, the tall body of the deer helmet stood on the sand, the great druid could see the change of situation at a glance, in front of him, the front of the boar people were fighting back in the fierce insect killing, but those heavy armor boar man warriors wielded their blades to smash a bug, and in an instant more bugs would be thrown to the ground.

Rushing too fast, the thousands of boar people who are disconnected from the rear are like reefs falling into the middle of the tide, and they may be drowned by the rolling and furious sea of insects at any time, and no one will save them... Because they are hopeless.

On both sides of the position, the heavy weapons in the hands of the minotaurs continued to fire, coupled with the crazy spraying of flamethrowers carried by the orcs, and the continuous suppressive fire of the artillery in the position.

But Rao is so, the rapid change of this battle situation is still extremely frightening, it stands to reason that even if the bugs want to fight back, their movements cannot be so fast, unless... Unless all this is an illusion, the previous smooth progress, the vulnerability of the bugs before, all of this is an illusion.

Thinking of this, a cold sweat suddenly oozed from Shantis's back, she raised her head and looked around the position, this is a large platform at the top, the road leading to the rear has to pass through steps with a drop of nearly 30 meters, and a large sandy area decorated with water sources... Wait, sand?

Santis and Deer Helmet glanced at each other, the figure of the Deer Helmet changed rapidly, and in an instant, a black, mighty wooden armor cheetah rushed out, and it only took a few seconds to cross the position of the large platform, he stood on the edge of the steps of the position, and looked back, in the large sand that had been empty before, there had appeared... Some obsidian, weird things appeared.

General Hazuki also quickly rushed to the edge of the position, and when he saw the obsidian statues all over the sand, the constantly stirring digging insects below, and the soldiers and insects lined up under the command of the high-ranking insects, ready to attack the frontline positions of the coalition forces from the rear, the elven general's body suddenly shook twice.

"Sure enough, it's a... Pitfall! ”

And further afield, the elven rangers who were ordered to guard the retreat route of the front line, these poor elven ladies, had already fallen into the encirclement of insects hidden underground.

The only good thing is that before leaving, the coalition forces asked them to equip them with a lot of mobile thermal weapons, which can make the sentries on their backs hold on to the sea of insects for a while longer.

But if there were no reinforcements to meet their retreat, the vanguard army that had already penetrated into the ruins... I'm afraid it's going to be more auspicious.

"Immediately get the Rangers to move closer to the big platform position!"

Deer Helmet glanced at the coalition air knights in the sky who were fighting with the winged insect army, he gritted his teeth and said, "Let the air knights also withdraw, reserve their strength, and prepare to break through the insect blockade..."

He looked back at Santis, and he whispered:

"Ask for help from the fortress, send a reserve army to open the encirclement for you to retreat, and now that the Zerg are also deploying troops, you must rush out as quickly as possible!"

"What about you?"

Santis asked subconsciously, Deerhelm shook his head, he didn't say anything, but the light in his eyes meant that he wouldn't leave with the army.

General Hazuki was not a person who knew what was important, and she immediately took out the communication stone, but before she could give the order, the noise coming from the opposite side of the communication stone hit the worst conjecture in her heart.

"I'm Alsace... We're holding on to Cenarion Fortress! A brigade of Zerg has launched an attack on the fortress... Just now! ”

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"Boom"

Between the yellow sands beneath the fortress of Cenarion, hundreds of bugs rush out of the holes dug by the huge red burgers every second, and it's hard not to think of the crabs that rush from the sea into the beach to lay their eggs during the monsoon season... There are so many that you want to close your eyes.

The heavy fire on the walls kept firing, suppressing the siege from the sky and the ground at the same time, but it had little effect, mainly because the attack came so suddenly that even the most experienced sentinels failed to detect the insects' movements in advance.

The wingworms that roared through the sky made a screeching sound, grabbing the hapless Heavy or Sentinel Marksman into the air like a swooping bomber, grabbing the hapless Heavy or Sentinel Marksman into the air, tearing them apart, or throwing them straight from the sky and falling to pieces.

Of course, in comparison, the number of bugs besieging the fortress is not very large, at least less than the number of bugs in the depths of the ruins of Qila, which launched the "Great Encirclement" at this time, and the idea of the bugs is obviously very simple and vicious, they are not in a hurry to eliminate the 100,000 reserves in the fortress, they just want to prevent them from going to the front line to rescue.

And after the insects in the ruins devoured the 150,000 troops on the front line, with the combined efforts of the two parties, the Cenarion Fortress, which had stood in the great desert for thousands of years, would naturally be easily destroyed.

The calculation of bugs is clear to everyone with few strategic minds, but the problem is that just this relatively "small" number of troops really trapped the army in the fortress, because there are some special varieties of bugs that come to surround it...

Tunnel bugs, or digging bugs, are a widely distributed insect creature in Azeroth, generally speaking, these guys are very peaceful, and will not actively hunt other creatures when they are not disturbed, but the digging worms in its pulling bugs are different, they have more solid carapace than their counterparts elsewhere, and there are sharp blade-like limbs on both sides of the body, and the fine razor-like teeth are opened, like a monster in a science fiction story.

And the most terrible thing is the size of these Qila pit worms... Each one is nearly 30 meters long, and the diameter of the snake-like body is as wide as an adult, and the largest of these digging insects, the monster with a bright red shell, just exposes the upper body outside the desert, which is already more than 20 meters, and its body hovers above the desert, and can even rely on brute force to roll up a large sandstorm, which can be called flying sand and rocks for a while.

And every time, in front of the cruel guy out of the ground, wantonly devouring those soldiers who can't dodge, people can immediately think of the legend about the earthly python circulating in some remote areas.

This bug is called Oro, and it is said to be the pet of the ancient gods... Of course, the reserve legion, which was completely surrounded by the tunnel worms here, didn't know its name, but everyone could see that this terrifying beast was really difficult to deal with.

The disgusting monster's crimson eyes shone with a vicious light, its massive body moving beneath the sand, and every raid was silent, and in such a terrifying raid, several layers of positions outside the fortress fell at breakneck speed.

"Lead them to the minefield!"

His Majesty Arthas, on his horse, led a cavalry, escorting the soldiers into the fortress, shouting, with loyal guards, constantly attracting the attention of the tunnel worms, and soon, behind this cavalry, there were several digging worms that were constantly twisting and advancing.

The goblins provided enough mines in their armaments, and it is said that this thing is modeled after the weapons of the Black Iron Zone, but neither the Empire, nor the orcs nor the elves have a tradition of using this slightly vicious weapon, and of course, they have no experience in using mines, so they have tried to place a number of mines in the sand north of the fortress as a defensive testing ground.

Now, this proving ground comes in handy.

"Paladin, Holy Shield Tactics!"

Arthas shouted, and at the moment before a dozen knights rushed into the minefield, between the surges of holy light, a weak but steel-like light curtain enveloped these knights and horses in it, and at the moment they rushed into the minefield, more than a dozen mines were triggered, but the explosive gunpowder failed to tear the holy shield of these high-ranking knights, on the contrary, the dozen pit worms that followed the knights into the minefield fell into bad luck.

After Arthas led the paladins through the minefield, they looked back and saw that on the sands of the minefield, the corpses of more than a dozen huge pit worms had been blown up, and the entire sand had been stained green.

"Landmines are useful!"

Arthas grabbed the Communication Stone and defended Liam, who was commanding the army in the fortress. Greymane shouted:

"Liam, take out all the mines in the storage room and throw them into the place where these sandworms are active!"

"Your Majesty! Be careful! ”

One of the knights felt the tremors at the bottom, and he pushed Arthas out of his horse, and the next moment, the giant red tunnel worm Oro roared out from under the sand, the flying quicksand and the riotous air, the scene was like a savage dragon rushing out from under the quicksand.

The five knights who couldn't dodge, even men and horses, were swallowed by the sandworm's open saw-bladed fangs, and they couldn't even leave their last words.

"Bastard! Death! ”

Arthas's eyes turned red as he leapt from the sand, the unremarkable sword he was carrying behind his back was drawn, and the next moment, a golden ray of sunlight seemed to rise from the desert, and in the scorching light that almost melted the gravel, the earth-shattering screams of Oro and the shaking of the earth were like the scenes of mythical war.

"Phew"

A few minutes later, Arthas was dragged out of the gravel by the knights who rushed to the rescue, the brave paladin king was covered in corrosive blood and his armor was filled with sand, and he kept spitting and spewing the sand out of his mouth.

"It's a shame to let it run!"

As he spoke, the young king looked with some sadness at the bones and emblems of the loyal knights on the sand, and he looked at the innocent sword in his hand, and Arthas couldn't help but sigh:

"If I had a true holy sword in my hand... If pale justice is not crippled... Alas..."

His own family knows his own affairs, and although Arthas has defeated many opponents in Kalimdor and the Northern Frontier with the holy sword in his hand, Pale Justice, there is no one who knows his holy sword better than him, the sword bearer.

This holy sword is incomplete, although when necessary, this sword can burst out with a super strong holy light impact in an instant, even a death lord like Dai Lin can't resist it, but the problem is that this holy sword is made of the fragments of the Bright Dawn fused with a huge amount of holy silver, pure gold, it is inherently flawed, and this extremely lethal holy light impact needs to be charged.

Can only be used less than 3 times a day... And each use takes hours to recharge.

In other words, the scene where Alsace forced Dai Lin back with a single sword that night looked majestic, but in fact it was a fraudulent tactic, and if Dai Lin had to take Mercatok's life that night, Arthas and Gianna would probably not be able to resist it together.

To be honest, aside from the factor of luck, Arthas prefers to believe that the truth about Dai Lin's departure that night may be more due to Gianna standing next to him.

But now is not the time to think about that.

"Liam, the defense of the fortress is handed over to you, and the reserve army will be assembled and set off immediately..."

"I'll command them!"