Chapter 61: Move to the Hinterlands Forest.
Fierce artillery fire continued to fall on the city wall, blowing the orc zombies above into pieces.
Although Nanhai Town is comparable to a small city, its city walls are not very strong.
The relationship between the human kingdoms is pretty good and there will be no large-scale conflicts.
Of course, the walls of a small city like this don't need to be repaired very well.
After only enduring a few rounds of artillery fire, a large section of the city wall cracked and collapsed.
The city wall was blown down by artillery fire, and the undead creatures entrenched in the city were unable to restrain themselves and poured out of the gap one after another.
The undead creatures that rushed out were very chaotic, with zombies and skeletons of multiple races mixed together.
The skeletons in the undead creatures were pulled up by the Death Knight from the graveyard in Nanhai Town.
The skeleton looks so weak, as if it could be smashed to pieces with a stick.
But this is only superficial.
Their bones have been strengthened by the power of death, and ordinary wooden sticks will definitely not be able to break them apart.
And even if they are broken up, they can be quickly reorganized.
A farmer holding a hoe or other agricultural tools would definitely not be able to defeat these skeletons.
Looking at the chaotic rush of zombies and skeletons, the artillerymen suppressed them with artillery fire.
Cannonballs fell into the undead army one after another, blowing them apart.
However, undead creatures are different from living people in that they are not easily destroyed by artillery fire.
A dead man doesn't care how many holes he has in his body.
As long as their legs aren't blown off, they'll get back up in no time.
Those weak skeletons are even more exaggerated!
If their legs are broken, they can replace them with suitable bones.
Unless a shell explodes right next to them.
Otherwise, they cannot be eliminated at all!
When the undead army approached more than two hundred meters, the human musketeers began to shoot at them.
The dense bullets were fired at the undead army, shooting the zombies into sieves and knocking them to the ground.
The zombies first experienced the devastation of artillery fire, and then were washed away by the rain of bullets.
They stood up from the ground tremblingly and continued to move towards the coalition's position.
Although skeletons are much weaker than zombies, they are more effective against artillery and muskets!
There are a lot of gaps on the frame, allowing most shrapnel and bullets to pass through.
This makes them immune to at least 80% of attacks.
However, with sufficient firepower coverage, many people were killed and maimed.
No one would consider this a waste of ammunition.
Being able to do your best to destroy the undead army before it approaches them is all worth it!
After being baptized by artillery fire and hail of bullets, the battered and scarred undead army silently collided with the shields of the human and Wildhammer dwarf heavy infantry.
The shield used by human heavy infantry is a rectangular thick iron tower shield.
This shield is so large and heavy that it can almost completely block the body.
The selection criteria for human heavy infantry are very strict, and they are all tall and strong men.
They can easily carry a tower shield weighing forty or fifty kilograms.
Wildhammer dwarf heavy infantry are short in stature, so their shields are not much larger.
The large round shield, about one meter in diameter, is entirely made of fine steel.
Although it is smaller than the tower shield, it is much heavier than the tower shield.
And the armor of the Wildhammer dwarves is thicker.
Although they are much shorter, their weight is much heavier than human heavy infantry.
The undead creatures collided with their large metal bucklers, unable to shake them at all!
The Wildhammer dwarf heavy infantry are very powerful and their fighting style favors active attack.
They would knock the undead creatures down with their large bucklers, and then smash the undead creatures to pieces with their war hammers.
These Wildhammer dwarf heavy infantry gradually moved forward in front, actively hunting undead creatures.
It is relatively easy to clean up the undead that were crippled by long-range attacks.
They had just been pulled up by the death knight for a few days, and the death energy had not strengthened them much.
And they are all low-level cannon fodder like skeletons and zombies.
Compared with the undead army with complete arms in the Lich King era, they are the younger brother among younger brothers!
Just the combination of heavy infantry and musketeers can handle these useless undead creatures. After dealing with this primary-scale undead natural disaster, coalition scouts searched everywhere for traces of orc troops.
After a preliminary search, the coalition scouts discovered that the orc troops were heading east.
Hillsbrad is divided into east and west parts by a wide river.
The traffic between the east and west is completed by a bridge more than 200 meters long.
This is a very important transportation hub.
The coalition forces stationed hundreds of bridge-guarding troops here.
Under normal circumstances, a few hundred troops would have been enough to blockade the bridge and hold out until reinforcements arrived.
However, the Horde mobilized in large numbers at night, sending troll rogues to attack the unsuspecting bridge defenders.
Troll thieves are also excellent assassins.
It is so easy for them to deal with ordinary soldiers!
The battle ended almost instantly, without any message for help being sent.
The eastern area of Hillsbrad Hills has always been a no-man's land because griffons from the northern Hinterland forests often visit it.
The gryphon is the undisputed master of the air!
They hunt cattle and sheep on the ground as easily as they play.
Therefore, no herders dare to graze and settle in the eastern part of the hills.
When the orcs entered this no-man's land, did they want to take revenge on the gryphon?
Or do you want to attack Thoradin's Wall further east?
None of these guesses make sense.
Whether seeking revenge from the gryphon or attacking Thoradin's Wall, it is meaningless.
While people speculated on the orcs' movements, the Wildhammer dwarves panicked.
They knew very well that the secret path leading to the Hinterlands forest was in the mountains in the north.
Falstad, who felt bad, returned to the main city with the Griffin Knight in a hurry.
The coalition forces, led by the Wildhammer dwarf heavy infantry, headed for the hidden path.
A chain of mountains formed by mountains five to six thousand meters high separates the Hinterlands Forest from the Hillsbrad Hills.
This path can pass through a group of mountains, and the terrain itself is very complex.
In addition, the trees growing on the mountain cover it, turning it into a maze-like passage.
Without professional guidance, people will get confused and cannot find their way.
Under the leadership of the forest troll, a local snake, the orcs successfully passed this path.
When the coalition forces came here, they saw obvious traces of the passage of the army.
Herard showed no interest in the ensuing battle.
When the orcs and forest trolls come together, their strength will increase a lot.
But this cannot change their fate.
The Wildhammer dwarves have been in the Hinterlands forests for more than two hundred years and have been perfectly suppressing the forest trolls.
The forest trolls can only hide in the forest and occasionally come out to harass the Wildhammer dwarves.
Facing the Wildhammer dwarves, the strongest overlord in the region, they could not make an effective counterattack even with the help of the orcs.
The red dragon troops, who arrived at the main city of the Wildhammer dwarves first, did not take any advantage against the gryphon knights who stayed behind and the recently acquired anti-aircraft guns.
The gryphon knights left behind are all elite, and the anti-aircraft cannons can easily injure the red dragon.
In the confrontation between the red dragon and the gryphon knight, one was even shot down.
Kurdran Wildhammer is the most powerful gryphon knight of the Wildhammer clan.
The red dragon was shot down by him.
However, being able to shoot down the red dragon was mainly due to the contribution of his mount Skyre.
Scarree is slightly larger than a normal gryphon.
Its powerful talons can easily tear off dragon scales.
Under Kurdran's bold command, Skare stared at a red dragon and attacked fiercely, tearing the red dragon to pieces.
This is the first red dragon to be killed independently by a griffin knight.
And it definitely won’t be the last one!
The threats posed by the gryphon knights and anti-aircraft guns made the orc drivers who commanded the red dragons dare not act recklessly and just wandered around the outer area.
They wait for the Horde's ground forces to come and join them, then launch an attack from the air and on the ground.
(End of chapter)