My Frostmourne can't be so cute

Ricks then summoned the infantry who were still on the front of the city and ordered them to arrange a square formation on the open space in the middle of the fortress. After all, there was no work on the front of the city for these infantry to complete.Seeing his team quickly descended into the courtyard through the stairs and cabins, Ricks clenched his fists and muttered in his heart-blessed by the Holy Light, Prince Danas must have good luck and prosperity.

Chapter 178 Flesh and Blood Flying Through the City Gate

"Die, gossip!" With a roar, the two-handed sword in Danath's hand slashed fiercely at the orc pioneer who rushed into the city gate.The sharp blade cut open the orc's shoulder armor without any barriers, a green arm fell to the ground, and a nail-headed war hammer was still held in the thick claws.

The blood splattered from the orc's shoulder spilled Danath's face, but the prince marshal couldn't even erase the red liquid that blocked his sight.The infantry on the left and right sides of Danas held up their shields to protect their commander, while stabbing a one-handed sword into the belly of the orc forward who still insisted on not falling.

There was a bang, and as the leading orc forward was smashed and limp on the ground, dozens of orcs screamed and rushed into the city gate and collided with the human sword and shield infantry in the first row. together."Hold it up! Don't retreat! The glory of Stromgard is with us!" Danas encouraged his subordinates loudly, while raising the two-handed sword in his hand, cut off the head of another orc.

From the first day the orcs came to the world of Azeroth, humans have fought against these green-skinned monsters in the Cursed Lands.It is true that human warriors are on the weak side in front of these invaders. An orc warrior can fight continuously with three human warriors without losing.

But this does not mean that human beings are in a weak state in this war. In fact, if it were not for frequent accidents, first Medivh’s betrayal, and then King Ryan Wrynn’s assassination, the Stormwind army would have been in peace. Under the leadership of Duin Lothar, these green-skin monsters were defeated.

Perhaps it was because of insufficient preparation, or because of internal contradictions; in short, the Stormwind army found in the process of fighting the orcs, as long as they formed a phalanx and always maintained a tenacious and unyielding fighting spirit, in a large-scale battle, Orcs are not human opponents.

This valuable experience gained at the cost of the fall/fall of Stormwind is why Danas dared to arrange such a hand-to-hand tactic.The gates of Dun Modd Fortress were indeed wide enough, but dozens of people stood side by side so crowded that they could not move away.As long as the human phalanx in the city gate persists, the orcs can squeeze in at most dozens of fighters at a time.

Similarly, when fighting the orcs, the weapons of human soldiers are mainly swords and shields, which is also the strategic policy proposed by Anduin Lothar.In addition to being strong and physically strong, the orcs also run faster than humans, and it is difficult to defend against the human phalanx.Therefore, in addition to shielding the body of human soldiers with a half-length shield, the arc-shaped shield surface can effectively cushion the collision of the orcs' bodies, not to mention the stainless steel shield spikes on the shield surface. Effortlessly pierce the slightly soft iron armor of the orcs.

Of course, good equipment, tenacious fighting spirit and well-trained queues cannot completely eliminate the physical gap between humans and orcs.The so-called advantage is actually more like a close match-in a war with the orcs, Danas is already very satisfied with a one-to-one battle loss ratio.

"Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! With a few notched battle axes in his hand, he slashed at Danas fiercely.

The Stromgarde militia on the right hand side of Danas was quick-eyed, and suddenly pulled his prince inward, which allowed Danas to get rid of his brain cracking.However, the battle axe still scratched on his chest, and the standard plate armor was cut open, leaving a wound for the prince-marshal.

However, this Orc Vanguard still missed the opportunity to win the first rank of the Human Commander. The several Stromgarde militiamen who were angered by his prince’s injuries roared and pierced the Orc Vanguard’s body with a sharp blade. Several holes were punched in his chest and abdomen.Afterwards, these loyal fighters escorted Danas to the courtyard of the city. The gap they left was filled by their companions in the back row who had been waiting for a long time.

Danas was helped by several of his subordinates to the middle of the courtyard. With the help of two Stromgarde militias, Danas pressed his wounds, but his eyes focused on the battle at the gate of the city.It wasn't until now that he relaxed, Danas felt his body tired. His two-handed sword had been lost to the orc he was beheaded last in the accident.

At the gate of the city, following Danas down the city, the first wave of Stromgarde Thousands of Militia was only half left.From this angle of Danas, you can’t see the battle in the city gate, but he is the person who just crawled out of the meat grinder. The sight of flesh and blood and broken arms is deeply imprinted on his In my mind.

At the end of the city gate by the courtyard, the thousand-man squad that had lost half of it, and the remaining militiamen, still stood with their heads upright behind the team, waiting for the comrades in the front row to fall, and they were filling in that. The deep lane of the meat grinder.The commanders of the two thousand-man squadrons sent by Ricks to line up in the courtyard saw Danas withdrawing from the front line. At this time, they also ran in front of him and asked the prince-marshal about the next battle. How to arrange.

Danas groaned for a moment, and did not pretend to say anything like "Slightly injured but not below the line of fire".The reason why he stood in the front row before was just to vent his hatred towards the orcs and to boost morale.A warrior like him who is accustomed to using two-handed swords cannot give full play to his strength in such a battle formation.

"You are here to stand by, I will go to the city to take a look." Danas gave his order, and then, with the support of several subordinates, walked to a gondola-a facility that can take off and land vertically. In addition to broadening the channels for the transfer of troops to and below the city, another important role is to transport the wounded.

At the head of the Dun Modd Fortress, the archers still insisted on pouring arrows at the orcs crowded at the gate, but the frequency and the strength of the bow were much weaker than before.Many archers even have their fingers cut by the bowstring because they draw their bows too frequently, and they can only retreat to the back for simple treatment.

Arthas was not idle. With the help of Vereesa, he organized those archers whose fingers were cut and bleeding to line up in front of him and Mograine to receive the treatment of the Holy Light.Although Mograine was surprised that His Royal Highness Prince Arthas was able to use the Holy Light, with his character and the current situation, the Paladin didn't think much about it, just seriously healed the wounds on the hands of those archers.

Chapter 179 Little Battlefield Doctor

Of course, Mograine hoped that he could stand on the front line and harvest the lives of those green-skinned monsters.But for one thing, he was responsible and could not easily leave Prince Alsace's side; secondly, Mograine was a soldier of Lordaeron after all. He was not familiar with the combat methods of these Stromgarde militiamen, so he rashly joined their side. The formation will only make the Paladin unable to use it.

Frostmourne stood boringly behind Arthas, muttering: "Master, why are you so troublesome, how good is it to let Xiaoshuang take action and get rid of all the orcs?" Little Demon Sword complained as he approached his own. Master, let Arthas rely on his body and relax a little.

Arthas had just healed an archer whose middle finger had been cut with a deep phalanx wound, and told him that he could not continue to draw his bow and release arrows.But although the archer expressed his sincere gratitude to the neighbor who had helped him heal the wound that would have caused him to lose a finger, he continued to return to behind the wall without hesitation, biting. Ya continued to release arrows under the city wall.

Vereesa, who was in the queue, was a little distressed. Before Frostmourne, he wiped the sweat from Alsace's head and complained: "These people are also true. After a while, they hurt their hands again. They cure... they get better quickly, but you are all tired like this!"

Arthas smiled at Vereesa and said, "It's okay, I can hold on." After all, Arthas is not a real Paladin now. Although he believes in the existence of the Holy Light, he is His beliefs can only occupy a small part of his consciousness.

Compared to traditional paladins such as Mograine and Uther, who rely on holy light to pray for power to release holy arts, Alsace is more like the weird high elf paladins he found in Northrend. Holy light is used as pure energy like arcane and shadow.

Therefore, according to common sense, Arthas should be more relaxed and labor-saving than Mograine when he releases holy arts.However, seeing Mograine not far from him, calmly releasing one after another of Holy Light, without a trace of fatigue on his face, Arthas had to sigh, Mograine was indeed very impressed. Talent is simply a natural candidate for Paladin.

After thanking Vereesa, Arthas found that Frostmourne behind him began to lose his temper again.Arthas didn't look back, but caught Frostmourne's little hand on his shoulder and stroked it slowly.What Frostmourne said, Arthas also considered whether he should let Frostmourne take action to resolve this crisis.

After all, although he didn't know what was going on in the city gate, Arthas understood that it was definitely not an ideal hometown of harmony, but a flesh and blood.But Arthas had his own considerations. In addition to not wanting himself and Frostmourne to enter the view of the Burning Legion, Arthas also felt that he had no position to deprive the fighters of Stromgarde of the opportunity to fight.

Although it is cruel to pay the life price, Arthas firmly believed that if the soldiers of Stromgarde were allowed to choose, they would rather die on the battlefield than live under the protection of powerful forces.Human beings are such a creature. They yearn for peace and stability, but they do not accept false peace.

Arthas can withstand the invasion of the orcs and prevent the Scourge from raging, but what about the Burning Legion... Sooner or later, there will be invaders that are too powerful to resist Frostmourne to appear on Azeroth, although some Cruel and selfish, but Arthas still hoped that humans could grow before that-even if this growth was obtained at the cost of blood.

At this moment, there was a commotion on the far wall. Arthas looked at it nervously, thinking that an orc warrior had climbed the wall.After seeing that Danas and others came to the wall through the gondola, Alsace did not relax at all, but was hung up instead.

Danas, who was able to command the battle just now, was somewhat unable to support his body.Blood was constantly pouring out of the wound caused by the orc battle axe. Several militiamen supporting Danath were panicked. Under the guidance of the surrounding archers, they supported their prince marshal to Al Sass and Mograine ran towards him.

Arthas hurriedly greeted him, and released two consecutive holy light arts on Danath's wound, which stopped the trend of blood overflowing.As the wound gradually healed into a terrible scar, Danas gradually recovered his strength. Apart from his pale face, he could not see that he was a person who had just been pulled back from the edge of death.

Haha laughed twice, Danas left the support of his subordinates, moved his shoulders, a little envious, and some respectfully said to Alsace: "Prince Alsace, are you a priest?" Maybe it's because of Allah. The people on Xigao are naturally martial and combative, so although Stromgarde can provide high-quality troops here, it is extremely lacking in professions like priests and mages.

Arthas shook his head-now there is no time to explain the difference between the priest and the paladin to the prince marshal of Stromgarde. Arthas asked nervously, "Prince Danas, what's the matter? "Danas's face became serious, and he motioned to Arthas and him to take a look at the wall.

Arthas had been busy treating those archers and had no time to pay attention to the situation under the city wall.At Danas' invitation, Arthas was finally able to break free from the endless treatment and take a look at the situation outside the fortress.Slightly poking his head out from behind the wall, Arthas looked out of the fortress.

Thousands of orc warriors in plate armor have gathered under the walls of Dun Modr fortress.They either raised their weapons high and roared towards the city, or blocked their heads with their weapons and arms, so as not to be hit by arrows shot down from the city walls.Although Ricks' archers struggled to shoot the bows and arrows in the quiver down the city, most of the bows and arrows were shot on the orc's armor, and landed on the ground, except for some high-point shots.

Because the city gate was too narrow, the orcs could not rush into Dun Modr fortress at once.At the gate of the city, there have even been cases of cannibalism in order to grab the position.Arthas retracted his head and asked, "Prince Danas, are you going to consume these orcs like this?"

Arthas did not know the battle loss ratio between the human warriors and the orc pioneers in the city gate, but he knew that if there was not enough leisure to clean the corpses of the dead orcs and human warriors after a period of time, humans wanted to maintain the integrity of the phalanx. , You must retreat back and re-array.At that time, without the obstacles of the city gate, what else can resist the long drive of these thousands of orcs?

Chapter 180 Steel Gate

Danas took a deep look at Alsace, and felt that the prince of the neighboring country really could not be treated as a child.When Danas first went to the battlefield, he was just a boy with no hair on his mouth, not much bigger than Alsace now.

But Danas did not act as brave as he was just in the city gate in the fight against the bandits.Not only did he never fight with the enemy, but when he was cleaning the battlefield after the war, he was scared to vomit by the dead bodies everywhere. For this, Uncle Thoras didn’t have to fight until he became the commander of the militia. It's a joke.

Being able to come to the battlefield with alien monsters at such a young age without being frightened out of his courage, Danas really admired Alsace's insight and courage.He thought for a while and said: "Just now, these lads under me can at least guarantee that even if they fall, there will be the same number of green-skinned boys lying in the city gate. But we need time now. Clear the battlefield, so now should be the time to lower the gate."

With an order from Danas, several Stromgarde militiamen struggled to pull the wrench on the head of the city to control the rise and fall of the gate.The gate of the fortress is generally made of a whole piece of thick steel plate made of stainless steel. When it is pulled up, a noose and pulley are required to lift it up. It takes a lot of effort to hang it; but considering the needs of war, the gate is lowered. You need to flip a switch and the steel gate will automatically fall.

Although the structure of the dwarf fortress is similar to that of a human castle, the dwarves are obviously more powerful than humans, so the militias of Stromgarde did not manage to flip the switch smoothly. In the end, there were still a few archers, and With the help of Muradin, who had recovered a little, he succeeded in knocking down the erected wrench.

With the sound of the iron chain dragging quickly, a loud bang came from the city gate cave.Arthas knew that it was the sound of the steel gate falling into the groove of the city gate, completely sealing the fortress.Looking out of the fortress from the top of the city, the orcs were obviously not sure what happened. Arthas didn't know if any orcs happened to be crushed into flesh by the falling steel gate, but those who originally gathered at the gate of the city The orc pioneers are now retreating in a panic.

After bidding farewell to these abominable invaders, most of the archers on the city's head dropped their long bows and slumped on the ground.Danas watched the group of orcs flee away, shook his head, turned and walked towards the stairs.Arthas followed Danas and went down to the head of the city. Along the way, he could hear the dying roar of the orcs from the city gate.

After Darnas and Arthas rushed to the city, the last group of orcs locked in the city had been killed by the militia of Stromgarde.Danas appeared at the right time, and the somewhat confused Stromgarde fighters quickly found the backbone. Under Danas’ command, they included the two thousand-man teams that had been on standby in the fortress courtyard for a while. , The soldiers in Dun Modr fortress quickly turned into porters, cleaning up the corpses of the orcs...and the remains of their own companions.

Although the soldiers moved very quickly, the atmosphere in the fortress was very dull.The friendship between Paoze is extremely deep, and every comrade-in-arms is a close friend of the soldier who can entrust his back.Today, the first group of thousands of people who followed Danas down to the city gate to build a defense line, nearly 70% of the members lost, almost all of them lost the most of their lives in the battle of less than half an hour. Good friends-and still a few.

Muradin followed Alsace and came to the courtyard, watching the soldiers of Stromgarde, placing the bodies of the human soldiers who died in the battle on the open space, and at the same time piled the corpses of the orcs together, waiting Incinerate.Muradin whispered: "During the defense of Ironforge, 4,762 brave soldiers will never see their families. These green-skinned boys, one day, we will use warhammers. Shatter their brains."

Danas nodded, agreed with Muradin's words, and said: "These lads who died in battle, everyone is good. Their names will be inscribed on the monument at Stromgarde. As long as humans The kingdom will exist for one day, and they will never be forgotten."

"Prince Danas, what should I do next?" Alsace was a little depressed. He felt that part of the reason for these people's deaths was his.Although Arthas insisted on being unwilling to let Frostmourne deal with the orcs out of higher-level considerations, self-blame and guilt filled the prince’s heart-although these people were not Lordaeron’s subjects, they Each of them will never be able to see their relatives in their hometown again.In the homeland where they have to fight and defend, there are parents and parents who are waiting for their sons to return, wives who are waiting for their husbands to come home for dinner, and children who are waiting for their fathers to bring them up. But now...

"The next thing... depends on the actions of the orcs. If they continue to attack, after clearing the gate hole, we will continue the tactical arrangement. In the barracks on the other side of the bridge, there is nothing else, supplies and troops. , On the contrary. "Danas is determined to consume as much orc army as possible with this almost life-for-life method.

"Or else..." Arthas said he wanted to say something and stopped. Although he couldn't see these bloody human warriors continue to casualties, but... Arthas' heart was full of entanglements-in the original flow of time, he suffered from not having a strong Power came to prevent the Scourge from invading his country and people; now, with a big killer like Frostmourne in his hand, Arthas threw a rat trap and did not dare to use it wantonly.

"Prince Danas! Prince Danas! You need to look at this, there is something outside the city!" Ricks shouted from the city. Danas ignored what Alsace was saying but stopped, and took a picture. He patted the little prince on the shoulder and quickly rushed to the stairs-the role of the holy light was much stronger than ordinary healing. Without much effort, Danas had already recovered.

Arthas and Muradin were one step behind, and both seemed to be a little worried, and slowly went up the stairs together.Arthas returned to the top of the city and saw that both Vereesa and Mograine looked at him with complicated faces, and couldn't help asking: "What's the matter? What happened?"

Mograine shrugged and said, "His Royal Highness, Prince Arthas, you'd better come and see by yourself." After hearing this, Arthas walked two steps quickly, came to the wall of Dun Modd fortress, and looked down. , Immediately stunned-a strong orc with a naked torso, seeming to be showing off his green muscles, carrying a huge battle axe on his shoulders, slowly walked over to the fortress.