Chapter 428: The Danger of Lordaeron (Medium)
The Prince of Alsace was right, and only by doing so could he save most of the people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Info is so resolute and decisive at such a young age, which is definitely a rare quality.
Arthas was also wrong, because in doing so, he would be leaving behind his own people, even if only a small part. In this era of sacrifice and courage, and full of chivalry, the vast majority of brave enough kings will choose to send generals, or even personally lead the army to carry out a counter-charge, to win precious life for the people who have not yet entered the city.
Princess Kalia covered her mouth and nose with her hands in astonishment, and looked at Arthas in disbelief, as if she had known Arthas for the first day, rather than being a good brother and sister who had been in love for thirteen years.
"Sister, Father has taken almost all the generals and mages!He hasn't even left me any city-level champion knights!" Arthas grumbled a little annoyed.
Yes, no brave general can lead a herd of pigs to victory.
The pressure on the Western Front was too great, and in the western Silverpine Forest, the onslaught of Grom Hell's Roar was undoubtedly the best feint. King Terenus was forced to take out almost every professional soldier in Lordaeron except for the royal guards.
The soldiers defending the city now, except for a small number of archers, many of them were only farmers who fiddled with pitchforks a month ago, and they couldn't even tie their armor well.
"Sister, you stay here. With that, leaving a stunned Karia, Arthas strode down the tower, followed by Mereuf.
"Send a small team of Wang family guards to stand by, and if the east gate is broken, immediately take my sister to the west and go to my father. ”
"Your Highness, what about you?"
"As long as the men of the Minethil family are not dead, no one will be able to take Lordaeron City from our hands and take her from us. Arthas's words were like nails, and his voice was sonorous: "Order, let all the generals on standby lead their troops to the east gate." ”
Dressed as fast as he could, a slightly larger suit of fine armor - a gift from his father, King Terenus, when he was twelve years old, the precocious young Arthas looked imposing, but nothing more. His body was not yet fully grown, and he could not hold the war hammer he most wanted to use, so he could only grit his teeth and pick up a large double-edged broadsword.
When he rode his horse to the east gate, surrounded by the guards, he was shocked to find that the gate was still not closed. A large number of people who had arrived from the towns and villages around Lordaeron had not yet entered the city, because they were reluctant to give up their life's possessions, and when there was a rumbling footstep behind them, they became even more chaotic, desperately trying to squeeze their belongings into the narrow gate hole.
Arthas grabbed the breastplate of the city gate officer: "I gave the order to close the city gate immediately! Why don't you close the gate? Do you want to kill all the 300,000 citizens of Lordaeron?"
The gatekeeper argued loudly, "But they are all our neighbors and friends, and I know many of them, Sister Mary, the wandering merchant Annon who always runs to the Silver Pine Forest......
"Here they are!" exclaimed Mereuf.
Following the captain's finger, Arthas looked east.
Contrary to the view from the balcony of the tower, from this angle, you can see a small forest a kilometer away, and then the lake beyond.
At this moment, the fastest group of orcs had already rushed out of the grove.
The speed of the orc charge was quite fast, and although it was not as fast as the fastest steed, it was not much different from the full speed of the pack horse.
Arthas snatched the telescope from one of the generals beside him, and immediately he saw a scene that surprised him immensely.
These green-skinned brutes are the same size as the strongest of the humans, with explosive muscles and huge beast-like heads.
But he couldn't see any large siege engines, except for some heavy logs that he had thought were giant war hammers, and some long ladders that looked incredibly crude but were incredibly long. To Arthas's astonishment, the height of these ladders matched the height of the walls of Lordaeron!
Other than that, all that broke into the horizon were giant hammers, axes, and blunt swords that humans could wield at most, and he was sure they definitely had hooks and ropes.
unimaginably savage, but with great wisdom.
"Ahhhhh The more panicked they were, the more they crowded the city gates. The drawbridge of the moat was crowded with people and animals pulling carts. A horse-drawn carriage overturned on a suspension bridge made Alsace's eyes pop out even more.
A terrifying image broke into his mind and the rest of the defenders.
In less than ten minutes, those brutal green-skinned beasts will step over the corpses of these stupid fools who are trying to squeeze into the city, and follow the gates that have been opened by these guys to the city of Lordaeron, turning the entire city into a sea of fire and pushing 300,000 citizens into hell.
"Shoot the arrows!" Arthas shouted like a devil.
"But those are our brothers and sisters!" cried the gatekeeper, who looked like he was about to cry.
The next moment, his voice stopped abruptly. He never imagined that he would be cut off by the most respected prince of Arthas, with a sword.
At least hundreds of people witnessed the scene, and everyone opened their mouths wide in shock.
"Bastards, for the safety of 300,000 citizens, I command you in the name of Alsace Minecil to fire your arrows, or all of you will die with these mobs below!"
The thunderous shouting finally woke up the stunned archers, who began to release arrows with tears in their eyes, gritted their teeth!
The citizens of Lordaeron, who were panicking into the city, let out even louder cries, and they could not have dreamed of the scene of their own country's soldiers firing arrows at them. Almost instantly, there was not a single living creature on the entire drawbridge. The people near the moat by the drawbridge screamed and fled in a crawling manner, trying to avoid the land of death.
"Whoever dares to come near the drawbridge will be killed!" Arthas cried out in tears, "Take Molef, take everything on the drawbridge and push it down the river, and then raise the drawbridge as fast as you can." ”
Mereuf did so, and they dragged every frightened citizen in the gate hole into the city, pushing most of the corpses and debris into the river, but an overturned carriage crushed the drawbridge. This is a carriage carrying grain, and the two horses have died, but the dead horse corpses and the ones that are too well tied and too strong, and weigh at least two tons of grain, are not at all human beings can solve it.
In the past, it took most of the day to toss every time this situation occurred, but now it takes less than ten minutes to solve it, which is simply a wild talk. (To be continued.) )