Chapter 151: Attack on the Three Cross Roads
The clearing of the forest in the eastern part of Red Ridge Mountain went smoothly.
The whole forest is helping to deal with the orcs, whether it goes well or not is the problem!
Of course, it also requires the cooperation of the sharp scalpel of the high elf ranger.
The forest will born from the forest is, after all, just a collection of vegetation consciousness with many eyes.
Even if there are tree people in the forest to call upon, they don't have the ability to clean up powerful threats.
The guardian of the jungle who was born near the Well of Eternity was born with the ability to master powerful natural spells.
But they still tried every means to win over the night elves.
Let the large number of night elves help them protect the forest.
Night elves have good quantity and quality, which is a very important indicator!
High elves also fit this point.
The high elf ranger troops searching in the eastern forest took less than three days to eliminate all the orc deserters.
When they killed the last orc deserter, everyone heard the rustling of leaves.
It is the will of the forest that takes pleasure in manipulating the leaves to celebrate and express gratitude.
The Will of the Forest celebrates the destruction of its enemies, something rarely seen in the forests of Quel'Thalas.
After all, forest trolls don't like destroying forests.
Therefore the forest mind does not have a deep dislike for them.
As for the battle between the high elves and the forest trolls, it was just two boring races fighting.
The high elves killing the forest trolls is nothing to the will of the forest.
When there is no danger to oneself, even this kind of transcendent magical existence is happy to be a silent melon-eater.
The ranger troops who completed the clearing mission did not return along the original route.
They continued along the shore of Still Water Lake and made a half-circle to the southern area of Redridge Mountain.
The confrontation between the coalition forces and the orc defenders at Zhishui Lake Bridge has achieved very good results at this stage!
The orc garrison stationed in the southern area, faced with the tremendous pressure exerted by the coalition forces, constantly moved people from the rear to join the battle.
Orcs have great potential for warfare.
Huge armies can be mobilized at will.
However, the quality of the equipment of these reinforcements is a problem.
Even if the Blackrock clan's blacksmiths work overtime, the amount of equipment they can craft is still limited, not enough to arm millions of troops.
Being able to arm 100,000 people was accomplished under overloaded workload.
Those heavily armored orc infantry, armed to the teeth, have been consumed in the cruel meat grinder in the Dun Morogh region, and not much is left.
The huge steel base of Blackstone Mountain has also been blocked by the coalition forces, making it impossible to provide equipment to the orc army.
Therefore, most of the orc armies coming from the south were in a very primitive and backward state.
A low-quality board ax and a piece of leather armor inlaid with iron plates on the chest are already quite good equipment!
Looking at the orc army rushing to the front line on the road, Herad shook his head speechlessly.
What can such an army do?
Use your fragile flesh and blood to fight against a heavily armed cavalry force?
Or go against a steam tank made of more than 200 tons of steel?
Regardless of whether they faced steam tanks or knights, their fate was that they would turn into flesh and blood.
Quantity over quality is long gone.
The knights gathered by the alliance countries are close to 10,000.
Moreover, those knight gentlemen also brought several knight retinues who were also armed to the teeth.
That's tens of thousands of cavalry troops!
The thousands of cavalry troops in the Kingdom of Stormwind can be worn down by the orcs in a sea battle.
How can we fight against this cavalry force that has increased tenfold?
According to the plan, the ranger troops came to the forest on the east side of the road, quickly killed the orc scouts in the forest, and then set up a sniper position.
At the same time, the steam tank at the northern end of the Shisui Lake Bridge started and began to move towards the other side of the bridge.
The two steam tanks advanced hand in hand, crushing the orc infantry who tried to block them into pieces, or pushing them into the lake to feed the fish.
The fish feeding here is real fish feeding.
Because there isn’t much else here in the Kingdom of Stormwind, except that there are a lot of murlocs!
Fish-headed monsters armed with weapons can be seen everywhere in coastal areas or large lakes.
The combat effectiveness of fishmen is directly related to their height.
These little monsters, which are generally about one meter tall, definitely don't have much fighting power.
One orc infantry can defeat more than ten or twenty murlocs.
But when they are in the water, a hundred orc infantry are no match. The orc infantry who fell from the bridge could only flutter a few times on the water and would soon be pulled down by the fishmen and drowned.
The orc infantry who fell into the water met the fishmen, and that was free food delivered to their doorsteps.
The fighting ability of the fishmen is not bad, and it goes far beyond pulling people under the water and drowning them.
When Zhisui Lake was controlled by humans, there were no smaller fishing boats on the lake.
Because small fishing boats can be easily overturned by fishmen.
Then they are ready for snacks.
The fishing boat must be big, the bigger the better.
This is the conclusion that the fishermen of the Storm Kingdom have come to with their lives.
Murlocs are very greedy little monsters and cannot be given any chance to attack.
Seeing the steam tank pushing the bridge all the way, no more food fell. The fishmen in the lake who had not grabbed the food left cursing.
Although they were dissatisfied, they did not dare to go ashore to attack the green-skinned monsters.
If you really do that, it's no different than sending yourself to death.
After the steam tank broke through the fortifications made of logs, it fired a shot at the incoming green wave.
Countless projectiles were ejected from the short and thick barrel, shooting the overcoming orc infantry into sieves.
Using a tank gun as an oversized shotgun is something only a dwarf can do!
Although it looks a bit weird, the results are quite good.
The almost unarmored orc infantry had no resistance at all when encountering shotgun shells.
If each steam tank is equipped with hundreds of shotgun shells, this battle will have nothing to do with other troops!
However, there are not many of these special shells, so they are only used at the beginning to suppress the wild offensive of the orc infantry.
The steam tanks that passed the Zhishui Lake Bridge one after another used prepared shotgun shells as their first shots, knocking out the orc infantry that rushed up.
The orc warlord who directed the battle was so angry that his eyes almost popped out when he saw that the troops he sent were being beaten continuously.
It retreated from the northern pass to the other side of the Great Lake, and mobilized a large number of troops from the rear to support it.
Even if the defense has shrunk like this, it still cannot stop the enemy's terrifying offensive.
If we continue to retreat, we will almost retreat to the southern pass!
Before the orc warlord could think too much, dense gunshots suddenly came from the forest near the southern pass.
The orc army that had just passed the pass to support the front line fell in large numbers.
Many of the orc infantry wore linen clothes or tattered jackets made of wild animal skins.
Even if a few are equipped with leather armor or leather armor inlaid with iron plates, they can only be counted as unarmored units.
Those crappy things are not bulletproof.
Many bullets passed through the first orc infantry, and then through the second and even the third.
By the time the orc army reacted, many of them had already fallen.
The forest where the rangers set up sniper positions was more than a kilometer away from the pass.
Even with a powerful torsion catapult, it is difficult to throw stones over the pass.
Even if the torque catapults are really mobilized, it will be difficult to enter the effective range to attack the opponent.
The orc army suffered heavy casualties when passing through the pass, and was unable to go to support the front line.
Even though they were in terrible condition, Herad still didn't let them go.
The southern pass of Redridge Mountain is very wide and is a huge three-way intersection.
If you want to completely control the road traffic at the three-way intersection, you need to build three city walls.
In order to save money, the Kingdom of Stormwind only built a tower at the intersection of the three forks.
After the orcs captured the tower, they built low walls on both sides of the tower to strengthen their control.
The rag made of logs and gravel, although its sturdiness was hard to tell, it still had some resistance.
Feeling that the tower and the two walls were in the way, Herad decided to use an earthquake spell to destroy them.
A small-scale earthquake with an intensity exceeding level 9 is extremely powerful!
People only saw the ground crack for a moment, swallowing the city walls and towers in an instant, and then quickly closing again.
Everything within that range just disappeared!
(End of chapter)