Chapter 150 Clearing the Eastern Forest 2
The Kingdom of Stormwind built many towers and other fortifications in order to contain the gnolls in the eastern forest of Redridge Mountain.
They even spent huge sums of money to build a large granite castle.
However, the fortifications lined up along the shores of Zhisui Lake were still able to deal with the inhospitable jackals in the forest.
When they encountered the Horde army from Draenor, they were easily captured.
This is not because of the poor quality of the fortifications.
In fact, as degraded Titan creations, human beings still have very good architectural standards!
However, in the face of the green craze that bulldozed all obstacles and burned buildings wantonly, ordinary defensive buildings did not work.
Even the more advanced Titan-forged dwarves could not be stopped by the fortresses they built.
The orc garrison stationed in the forest is currently stationed in the damaged towers and castles.
The coalition's air forces mainly attack the mountainous areas in the north.
They haven't bombed the eastern forests yet.
However, with Herad personally taking action, the fortifications had no defensive effect.
All it takes is a small earthquake to reduce strong defenses to rubble.
The power of the spell caster is so incredible!
This is why the Magic Kingdom of Dalaran only has a population of tens of thousands, but it can maintain a transcendent status among the seven human kingdoms.
Among the pitiful population of tens of thousands, there are not even a thousand real mages.
But if there is a conventional war, there is no need to mobilize too many mages to participate in the war.
As long as dozens of mages participate in the war, the outcome of the war can be easily changed.
Therefore, no human kingdom dares to go against the magical kingdom of Dalaran.
The wily King Terenas of the Kingdom of Lordaeron only quietly did some poaching.
After all, this is not a game, and we will try to achieve a balance between professions.
Only the caster can effectively counter the caster.
In the face of the mage's devastating magical power, any struggle of ordinary people is meaningless!
The largest granite castle by Lake Zhisui, the ranger troops surrounded the castle on three sides.
Those bloody orc infantry picked up battle axes and roared out of the castle, and were then shot in the head by large-caliber sniper rifles or beaten into a pile of rotten flesh.
Realizing that taking the initiative to fight would lead to death, some of the orc infantry learned the lesson.
They hide in every corner of the castle, ready to wait for the enemy to come in before launching a sneak attack.
The enemy's long-range firepower is too strong, so street fighting is also a reasonable choice.
The terrain inside the castle is narrow, so the success rate of a sneak attack will be high.
Then they noticed that the ground began to shake slightly.
Even a low-intensity earthquake seemed serious inside the castle.
On the ceiling overhead, stone powder kept falling down, and it seemed like it was about to collapse.
The orc infantry, who were afraid of being buried alive, ran towards the gate one after another.
Although running out would mean death, it was still better than being buried alive.
Herad controlled the scale of the earthquake below level five, and these orc infantry came out obediently to die.
The orc infantry rushing out of the gate made the rangers feel like they were shooting prisoners.
Only some smart people jumping out of the window can bring some changes to the rangers' boring target practice.
Of course, the end result is the same.
Nothing more than relocking and pulling the trigger.
When no more orc infantry appeared, Herad stopped the earthquake spell.
From beginning to end, he had no intention of destroying the castle.
After all, it’s not easy for the Storm Kingdom, which is waiting to be revitalized.
Even if the mason's labor cost is not very expensive, it can't be repaired even if it costs tens of thousands of gold coins.
If you can keep a complete castle, it would be better to protect it as much as possible.
The ranger troops cleared all the way along the shores of Shisui Lake and quickly cleared all the fortifications.
Those orc deserters all have some brains.
They will not escape into the conspicuous lakeside castle when the front line is defeated.
Only by finding a hiding place deep in the forest can you ensure your own safety.
Caves or small hidden valleys are ideal refuges for them.
However, these places are often occupied by jackals.
To get an ideal shelter, you need to get rid of the gnolls first.
Jackals are very strong, and their combat prowess is even greater than that of humans. But they are at a very backward stage and do not have decent production capabilities. They can only make rough leather armor, sticks and other equipment.
If there is decent equipment, it must have been obtained by robbing humans!
The orc deserters were beaten by the coalition forces and fled like wild dogs.
It gives the impression that he is easy to bully.
However, since the orcs occupied Blackstone Mountain, this natural blacksmith shop.
Their equipment quality has been greatly improved.
Even the poorest orc infantry still has a decent set of equipment.
Even when they were escaping, they did not abandon their armor.
This gives them a huge advantage.
It can't defeat the coalition forces with powerful air forces, but it will be no problem to defeat these backward natives.
How can a gnoll wearing tattered leather armor fight an orc deserter wearing iron armor?
Often a dozen orc deserters gather together to attack a gnoll camp with a population of more than 200.
A wooden stick wrapped in tattered iron sheets will definitely not be able to break through the iron armor.
The gnolls, who had a numerical advantage, were still scattered by the orc deserters.
The gap between a barbaric and backward race and an even more barbaric and backward race is so huge!
Of course, this does not change the final fate of the orc deserters.
Forests with lush vegetation can make ordinary armies unable to do anything.
But the army that came to hunt them was no ordinary army.
High elves have little interest in natural magic.
However, this does not mean that high elves do not know natural magic.
In fact, the botanists of the high elves have conducted extensive research on natural magic.
Some of the high elf rangers who often move in the forest also choose to master some natural spells.
Of course, they just use vegetation as a medium to communicate with the will of the forest and obtain the simple information they want to know.
Compared with the druid who always enlightens the tree people, or activates the vegetation to strangle the enemy, this little trick is not on the table.
However, the effect of this small method is fatal to the orc deserters!
The rangers soon learned useful information about them.
The forest will born from this forest is very unhappy with these foreign green-skinned humanoids.
Those damn green guys cut down tens of thousands of trees in the forest.
The will of the forest is very enthusiastic to guide the rangers and ensure that they can get to where they want to go.
Seeing the leaves of grass and trees swaying in the windless direction, pointing out the way forward for everyone, Herard was very impressed by the effect of natural magic.
No wonder the rangers form a team to hunt forest trolls, and the hunting efficiency is so high!
There are professionals in the team who are good at communicating with the will of the forest, so why not just find one!
Under the guidance of the will of the forest, the first group of orc deserters were quickly found.
The number of those guys was small, not enough for the Ranger troops to fill their teeth.
But orc deserters are very harmful. If you can kill them, you can't let them go.
Alleria assigned a ranger team to eliminate them.
In the forest clearing more than two hundred meters ahead, the jackals had set up a bunch of tattered tents.
A dozen orc deserters occupied the place, dealing with the mess left by the gnolls.
The jackal's tent was set up casually.
They made a shelf out of thick branches and covered it with simply sewn tattered leather.
Without any more processing, a tent is ready.
For guys like gnolls who bring their own wolf fur coats, it doesn't matter that the tent has air leakage from all sides.
The orc deserters cannot be so casual.
They pieced together the tattered animal skins, and then planned to cut down a few more trees to make supports to build a large and strong tent.
Before they could realize their vision, the rangers had already reached the edge of the glade.
They moved quietly, cleverly hiding themselves with the help of trees.
The orc deserters who were selecting tattered animal skins were completely unaware of the approaching crisis.
When the rangers were ready and launched the first wave of attacks, they realized that the enemy had already arrived.
But they never figured out until their death where the enemy was attacking them and how many there were.
Behind the big trees, above the tree crowns, and inside the bushes, the enemy's elusive figures were everywhere.
(End of chapter)