Chapter 1221 Another Battle of Lonely Mountain

At this time, everyone put down their guard, Elrond said with a smile: "Their cavalry is naturally faster than ours, especially Rohan, I have seen their speed, and there may be nothing to escape on the grasslands. past their blades."

"It's different now," said Thranduil. "I've heard that Rohan was forced to be helpless in the steppe."

Elrond was at a loss for words.

Not long after, the team of human cavalry appeared at the top of the mountain, the setting sun outlined their silhouettes, and the figures on horses were like gods of war, overlooking them!

After Luya asked Thranduil, she immediately rode to communicate with the cavalry.

Not long after, Luya came back on horseback, and the cavalry began to charge down the hillside. For a while, there was a rumbling sound, and the ground trembled.

Because of the backlight, the light on the hillside is dark and it is difficult to see clearly, only the top of the slope illuminated by the light can be seen clearly, but it can also be seen how large the team is - the cavalry on the top of the hill immediately rushed down New cavalrymen were added from behind, and they continued to rush down the hillside, advancing one after another, almost endlessly, making the cavalry even more powerful!

"Boom..."

The sound of hooves was continuous, and the earth trembled.

A large amount of smoke and dust gradually rose from the hillside, rising into the sky, and it was very conspicuous by the light of the setting sun.

"They're almost all out," Elrond murmured, looking ahead.

"Aren't we?" Galadriel said.

When Luya returned to the camp of the Woodland Kingdom, Thranduil said lightly: "The combined army of Middle-earth is the most complete army, look, we have the best cavalry, the best archers and the best troops, and the best craftsmen."

But in the face of his apparent contempt for the dwarves' joke, Galadriel and Elrond just responded politely and didn't answer any further.

The rumbling continued for a long time, until the ground calmed down and their eyes were full of cavalry.

Except for the high mountain in the west, it is almost all the terrain of the great wasteland. This is so, these cavalry are still densely covered with their sight. At first glance, the wasteland under the setting sun is full of light reflected from cavalry armor and weapons, connected together, but it is neat and solemn, only the neighing of horses.

This scene is so spectacular!

Perhaps in any previous war in Middle-earth, even the former Númenor Empire, they could not see so many cavalry!

Vangel, the king of Rohan, stepped out of the cavalry in plate armor. He was accompanied by the prince of Gondor, Dol Amros, who wore heavier armor. The two came to the three elven rulers. In front of each other, greet each other.

"Lady Galadriel, Lord Elrond, and King Thranduil, the weather is fine today."

"King Vangel, Prince Dol Amros, tell me how many you have brought!" Thranduil said, staring at the army that stretched out almost endlessly across the wasteland.

"I brought almost all the young men who can fight in Rohan, and only a small number of people who protect the various regions of Rohan, about fifty thousand." King Fanzel said calmly, "If this time I can help the king under the mountain To solve this crisis, the gold in his lonely mountain will really be worth half of mine!"

"Lord Thranduil, I have brought six hundred swan knights and two thousand Gondor knights to go ahead by order of the regent, and a small number of cavalry will accompany the infantry," said the prince.

"More than fifty thousand people!" Thranduil looked solemn.

So many people have exceeded the number of all the arms behind him combined. Sure enough, humans are the masters of this era?

Thinking of this, he shook his head and said, "You don't need to be with us, the giant worms are faster than Rohan's horses, and now they are probably attacking the Lonely Mountain, you can speed up and rush ahead of us to help. Dwarves, and we won't get to the Miraculous Steppe until tomorrow at least."

"No problem, Rohan's cavalry won't be afraid if they charge hard!" said Fanzel.

In contrast, Prince Dol Amros is more polite. He nodded with a slight smile, fully showing the cultivation of a nobleman, and said, "The Swan Knight will not humiliate the glory of Gondor. Dear lords, see you in the lonely mountain. ."

Following the two horns, the cavalry that had just arrived immediately shouted and turned around, and soon disappeared in front.

The roar of the hoofs drifted away.

Thranduil shook his head again.

King Fanzel's military talent is really uncomplimentable, and this is not a war they are familiar with. No matter how many light cavalry there are, they will definitely not be able to smash the camp of giant insects. Fortunately, he saw several battle-hardened marshals and generals in the Rohan camp, and hoped that Fan Zel would listen to their advice, seize the opportunity to send troops, and not blindly order a charge.

However, there seem to be several divine envoys in the Rohan cavalry camp. I wonder if he is wrong.

And the Swan Knights of Rohan are of course the heavy cavalry well-known throughout Middle-earth, but they are all composed of nobles.

Might as well have Ithilien Ranger as a striker.

I don't know how many people will die in this battle!

"Let's go too. There has been no news from Lonely Mountain. I'm worried that their situation is very bad, so we'd better speed up our pace." Thranduil said.

"Listen to you, Lord Thranduil." Elrond lowered his head and said, obviously not daring to despise him because of his blood. On the contrary, in terms of status, he and Lady Galadriel They are just acting lords, equivalent to the regent of Gondor, and Thranduil is the real king.

Of course, they all treat each other equally.

They marched until very late at night, and they ordered the army to camp and repair, and then asked the leaders of each army to stand up and discuss countermeasures together, mainly to determine the leadership position.

The next day it was just dawn, and they set off again.

It was afternoon when he arrived at Lookout Point, and Thranduil rode on a bighorned deer and looked out over the Lonely Mountain and the Dale City, where a terrible war was going on, and the gigantic worms gathered far beyond his imagination.

And at a glance, you can see that dwarves and humans are in a disadvantageous state.

He roughly estimated that there are at least 6,000 giant insects there, and they have gathered various arms and are conducting a war in an organized and orderly manner—

This is what he is most afraid of!

I saw that most of the giant insects were hoarding on the grasslands and did not directly participate in the battle. The sunlight illuminated their carapaces into different colors. The defensive circle composed of marching giant ants defends every direction around, and fighting against Lonely Mountain Dwarf and River Valley City are only a few acid flesh worms and sneak attackers, flying mantis and steel armor giant insects, and some killer insects in two directions. Then it slowly shifted to the back of the battlefield, and converged into a torrent that circled to the side of the Lonely Mountain.

There is also a huge figure like a hill in the middle!

"They want to hollow out Lonely Mountain from the side...? They want to outflank and solve River Valley City first!"

"Speed ​​up, we're going to fight!"

The elf-dominated army immediately advanced towards the Lonely Mountain. At the same time, Thranduil released a messenger bird, ready to inform Thorin about the intentions of the giant insects. Birds can fly across the battlefield.

Thranduil galloped along the edge of the cliff on a bighorned deer, keeping an eye on the battlefield.

Gushan still focuses on defense. The wind and the continuous crossbow continue to shoot down arrows, and even open arrow holes in the gate of Gushan to shoot flat at the army of giant insects on the grassland, while the trebuchet is aimed at the giant steel-armored insects in front. constantly firing iron bullets;

However, under the cover of other giant insects, the acid flesh worm kept spraying acid, corroding the city wall of Lonely Mountain, or splashing and killing the dwarf archers behind and above the city wall, and destroying the weapons of war.

The dwarves had to send shield soldiers to go out from the side door constantly to fight the giant insects.

The sneak attackers and the flying mantis also kept attacking.

The former is fine, the dwarf soldiers can often kill a few, but the latter will only be killed if they are hit by the wind and the continuous crossbow, which will cause them huge losses for a while.

River Valley City also relies on the war equipment made by dwarves to defend with difficulty, but they do not have the dangerous terrain like Lonely Mountain, nor are they built directly inside the mountain like Lonely Mountain, so they are much harder to defend than dwarves. , people are killed every moment, and it seems that it will not last long.

"The Gondorians are helping them defend against the enemy." Lady Galadriel's voice came from her ear.

Thranduil turned his head and saw that Lady Galadriel was riding her horse at the forefront of the army, hundreds of meters away from him, but she was looking at this direction.

Then he moved his gaze slightly, and saw the edge of the grassland near the River Valley City, and there were many corpses of war horses and knights lying on a slope, and he immediately understood.

It seems that the cavalry of Gondor and Rohan rushed here in advance, and found that the city of Riverdale was in danger, so they separated a force from the mountain over there to charge down to support the city of Riverdale, and hit the giant ant head-on. formed defense layer.

The result was obvious - how could a human cavalry smash through those huge, carapace monsters?

However, they should still have achieved some victory, at least tore a hole, connected the river valley city and relieved the crisis before the river valley city, otherwise their remnants would not be able to appear on the city wall of the river valley city now to defend against the enemy.

Gradually, they approached the Lonely Mountain.

At this time, the sound of the battlefield was even more clearly transmitted to their ears, the sound of arrows breaking through the air, the roar of giant insects, the horns and shouts of the dwarves, and the muffled sound of the iron bullets of the trebuchet hitting the ground...

Not to mention the Hobbits who have never fought, even some adventurers who have never been on the battlefield feel chills in their hearts.

The giant ants had already discovered them. When the mixed army stopped, the marching giant ants from other places were immediately dispatched to strengthen the defense in this direction! And some of the acid meat worms that attacked Lonely Mountain were also drawn and lined up behind the marching giant ants to wait for orders!

Thranduil was even more dignified when he saw this.

The original monsters really turned into an army!

"It seems that the wisdom of these monsters is not worse than ours." Elrond also murmured, with a heavy heart.

How to fight this?

Most of them were infantry and archers, with very few cavalry. It is very difficult for an archer to shoot through the carapace of a giant insect at such a distance, he has understood it. The impact of the infantry was too poor, and even the cavalry of Gondor could not break through the defensive layer formed by those monsters. How did they cross this threshold? If you attack rashly, you can only be torn apart by those monsters, or corroded by acid!

"No, they're just that commander equal to our wisdom." Thranduil's face was cold, "We need a cavalry to distract the outermost giant insects, or make it weak, and then our archers and infantry good performance."

"What do you want to do?" Elrond asked.

Thranduil looked back with a look of disgust on his face, but still shouted: "Cavalry!"

Among the three elves, only the Woodland Kingdom has established a decent cavalry force with the help of the horses supported by Rohan.

Soon, he ordered: "Fenlon, Luya, and Mr. Baggins from Shire, yes, Morrow's divine power will protect you. I want you to lead a cavalry team there, and let those giant insects think We will lead the troops to attack from that position, pay attention, protect the soldiers, don't cause too many casualties, come back alive!"

"no problem!"

"Yes!"

"Then..." Thranduil looked at the sky, "The archer shoots down the flies for me!"

"Yes!"

A round of arrows flew straight into the sky, and a large area was emptied in the blink of an eye, and the falling arrows also caused a certain disturbance among the giant insects.

"Suddenly..."

"Blow the horn and tell them we're here!"

"Woo!! Woo!!..."

The four gods immediately led the elf cavalry of the woodland kingdom to run forward on horseback, while the rest of the army stayed where they were and did not show their heads. Then let all the giant insect detectives that were launched into the sky fall one by one.

After a while, the horn of Lonely Mountain was also blown!

There were also many horns of Rohan and Gondor coming from the back of the mountains around the Lonely Mountain, but I don't know which direction they came from, which caused it to sound a bit messy!

Thranduil took a deep breath and slowly drew the sword from his waist while riding on the big horned deer, but turned to look at Lady Galadriel.

At the same time, all the woodland elves also drew out their weapons neatly with his movements, and the archers also drew their bows to catch their arrows, ready to go.

This neat and consistent movement surprised the human adventurers and rangers, and the horses rioted a little, but they also shouted and pulled out their weapons, took a deep breath to encourage themselves, and the weapons they used were a bit varied—

Or a great sword, or a knight's lance, or a spear, or a battle axe or a great hammer, or even a dagger and a crossbow...

Galadriel closed his eyes, opened them again, nodded to Thranduil, and said, "You have successfully deceived the commander of the giant insect, Lord Thranduil, let's look at our position now. The giant worm defense circle in China is the weakest, and the giant ants in other areas are filling up here, which is our best chance to attack."

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