Chapter 62: Siege of Eagle's Nest Mountain
The Hinterlands This huge forest is similar to the Silvermoon Forest in southern Quel'Thalas.
It is surrounded by mountains and has a forest coverage rate of nearly 100%.
Neither the Wildhammer dwarves nor the forest trolls have much need for wood.
When the orcs entered this area full of tall trees, they felt like they had entered a treasure house.
Because they are a race that relies on nomadic herding and hunting.
During the long migration life, trees were cut down frequently to build houses.
And many of their daily necessities are made of wood.
Logging is engraved in the bones of the orcs.
Fortunately, these guys still have a battle to fight.
Otherwise, they will soon start a daily routine of massive logging.
The main city of the Wildhammer dwarves is not far from the exit of the hidden path.
Their main city was called Eagle's Nest.
The name comes from the fact that they carved a mountain peak into the appearance of a squatting griffin.
The real main part of the main city, like Ironforge, goes deep into the mountain.
If ground troops want to attack the entrance to the city, they must first pass through a hillside guarded by a large number of bunkers.
In addition to making friends with griffins, the Wildhammer dwarves also have a high level of firearms.
Although they are developing blindly behind closed doors.
The caliber of those old artillery pieces is quite amazing!
In order to deal with the elusive forest trolls, the Wildhammer dwarves equipped the bunkers with old-fashioned artillery, with calibers generally exceeding 500 millimeters.
Although the artillery with short barrels could not hit far, the shells flew two or three kilometers.
But if a shell of this caliber exploded, it could flatten at least half a football field.
Every time the forest trolls attack the main city of the Wildhammer dwarves, they will collapse under the bombardment of giant cannons and the precise strikes of the gryphon knights.
They really don't know how to deal with this kind of integrated air-ground attack.
The forest trolls in the Hinterlands Forest were suppressed and beaten by the Wildhammer dwarves on their home ground.
This is something that makes them very frustrated.
Zuljin, who was resurrected under the arrangement of Bwonsamdi, the God of Death, came to this reserve base where a large number of forest trolls lived.
As the king of forest trolls, Zul'jin's appeal is very powerful!
It only took a few days to gather a forest troll army with more than 100,000 troops.
Then he took the initiative to form an alliance with the orcs, and suggested that the desperate orcs come to the Hinterlands Forest to develop.
Neither Orgrim nor Gul'dan had any problem with this suggestion.
The main reason why the tribe was defeated so miserably was because of the bad things done by the gryphon knights of the Wildhammer dwarves.
Otherwise, the tribal army that exerts its true strength will definitely be able to easily destroy the human army.
Destroying the main city of the Wildhammer dwarves would deal a very heavy blow to those gryphon knights who get in the way!
The tribe gathered all its strength and decisively abandoned Nanhai Town, which was destined to be undefendable, leaving the resurrected corpses of the first-generation death knights to create obstacles for the coalition forces.
The undead army resurrected by the first-generation Death Knight achieved the strategic goal of delaying the coalition forces.
Moreover, the coalition's marching speed was not as fast as that of the hard-working orcs.
While the coalition forces were trudging along the road, the tribal army had already arrived at the outskirts of Eagle Nest Mountain.
Even the Griffin Knight hasn't arrived yet.
The tribal army has enough time to attack the city.
Looking at the bunkers in Eagle's Nest Mountain, Orgrim felt a little troubled.
The huge artillery in the bunker has a muzzle big enough to fit an orc peon inside.
Orgrim knew something about artillery and could vaguely guess their power.
If the ground troops launch a dense charge.
This thing can kill hundreds of people with one shot!
Thinking of the scene of cannonballs exploding in the crowd, Orgrim did not dare to let his men die.
"Send the order and let the red dragon burn those bunkers!"
After hearing the big chief's order, the herald who was responsible for liaising with the orc drivers blew the horn to summon the orc drivers to come down and explain the situation.
The orc driver and the red dragon group have been waiting here for a long time. After receiving the order to destroy the bunker, the orc driver commanded the red dragon to launch a surprise attack without hesitation.
The griffon knights wanted to stop these swooping red dragons.
However, these mindless red dragons have no regard for their own safety and are determined to destroy the bunker.
The griffin knights who tried to stop them could only watch as these guys dived forcefully and sprayed dragon fire that had been brewing for a long time at the bunker.
The blazing dragonfire poured into the interior of the bunker, burning the Wildhammer dwarf artillery to a crisp and igniting the ammunition depot storing cannonballs and gunpowder.
The violent explosion caused by the ammunition depot actually blew the bunker up to the sky!
Before the red dragon could leave, it was swallowed up by a huge fireball that rose two to three hundred meters high.
Being burned by flames for a short period of time has no effect on the red dragon.
However, the shock wave generated by the explosion of the ammunition depot is very powerful!
The red dragons that had just been swallowed by the flames were violently thrown away by the shock wave in the blink of an eye, and then fell to the ground in embarrassment.
Since they were flying at an ultra-low altitude, the rough-skinned and fleshy red dragons would not be seriously injured if they were hit by this.
Although the Griffin Knights took the opportunity to attack fiercely, the probability of killing them was still low.
The vitality of the parallel imported red dragon is also very powerful!
When they recover, they can fly into the sky again and join other red dragons.
For these heavy tank-level aerial overlords, the gryphon knights who take the dexterity and magic attack route really have a headache.
These parallel red dragons have the property of being immune to magic.
Magical attacks have no effect on them.
Although the thrusting thunder can hurt them, the damage caused is only flesh wounds.
Unless a large number of gryphon knights surround them, they cannot be killed successfully.
Only a particularly strong griffon like Skyre can pose a fatal threat to the parallel red dragon.
But this particularly strong variant of the griffon is very rare.
There is no other one in the entire Hinterlands forest.
In the end, the red dragons that destroyed the bunker all flew smoothly.
The anti-aircraft guns placed flat on the top of the mountain tried to shoot down the red dragon that entered the shooting range.
However, several red dragons fled at full speed and soon flew out of the effective range of the anti-aircraft guns.
The Wildhammer dwarves were not ideally positioned to place their anti-aircraft guns.
Now it's too late for them to regret!
The hillside bunker was destroyed by the red dragon, allowing the Horde's ground forces to launch a massive attack.
Orcs who drink demon blood are green, and forest trolls are also green.
The two green armies merged to form a destructive green frenzy, launching a fierce attack on the gate of Eagle's Nest Mountain.
All dwarves have big hearts.
The gate to the main city of the Wildhammer dwarves also did not close in advance because of the enemy's attack.
Wait until they feel the power of the green craze and want to close the door again.
How can those two heavy rock doors, which are more than ten meters high, be closed easily?
Orgrim's air-to-ground assault tactics were successful.
The Wildhammer dwarves didn't have much time to react before they were dragged into brutal ground melee combat.
The orc warriors who were in close combat with the enemy finally showed their true strength.
That violent and bloodthirsty roar, the hideous and ugly green face, like an evil ghost running out of hell!
The rough-shaped ax of the orc warrior struck the large buckler with great force.
The Wildhammer dwarf heavy infantry, which looked like iron cans, were also a little unstable after being chopped by them.
However, the armor of the orc warriors is not very sophisticated.
The armor of the troll warriors is even more rudimentary.
The weapons of the Wildhammer dwarf heavy infantry are blessed with fire attacks by the shaman, which can effectively kill troll warriors.
Fire damage is also useful against Orc Warriors.
The spellcasters on both sides competed in strength, and the Wildhammer dwarves, who had a large number of shamans, had an absolute advantage!
Even if the tribe has more troops, the tribe will still suffer the overall disadvantage.
(End of chapter)