Chapter 1881 Defense of Northrend (Part 1)

"A large number of earth elemental creatures were discovered!"

"The enemy airdrops earth elemental biological troops in a manner similar to artillery bombardment!"

"The number is two thousand, three thousand...five thousand...it is impossible to count. It is roughly estimated that the number has exceeded 10,000."

"A request for help came from Longmian Temple!"

As the two largest bases controlled by the Alliance in Northrend, Utgard Castle and Dauntless Fortress, each assumes different functions.

The Dauntless Fortress, located on the edge of the Borean Tundra in the southwest of Northrend, is both an offshore fortress very close to the shore and a deep-water port close to the sea. Because of its open coastline, this is the Alliance's largest import and export trade port in the North. By building breakwaters from the sea, it will become the seat of the Alliance's North Sea Fleet.

A surface fleet composed of 181 destroyers, 40 cruisers, and 12 battleships, plus 44 flying battleships deployed in Zhiyuan County on the northern shore of the Fearless Fortress, formed a strong mixed fleet.

Utgard Castle, located in the center of Howling Fjord in the southeast of Northrend, was transformed into an air base that can be connected via the Dagger Sheath Bay waterway and is also surrounded by mountains.

On weekdays, there is only a medium-sized air fleet stationed here, and the number of ships never exceeds one hundred. But since the Alliance occupied Northrend, this place has been built on a scale that can accommodate the Alliance's two standard main air fleets.

At the throne meeting at that time, the alliance leaders did not understand.

From a common sense point of view, there are no so-called enemies in Northrend. The two guardians of the world's most fortress - Wyrmrest Temple and Ulduar are both here. The Scourge, which was once the only enemy, has been wiped out, and even the current Lich King is one of his own.

Even if Duke only requires that the several air bases built around Utgard Castle only have berths and do not need to be equipped with too many supporting facilities, this still puzzles the alliance bosses.

After all, just leveling the land, paving roads, reserving fuel spaces, setting up warning areas, sentry towers and other things still cost money, manpower and material resources.

Of course, Du Mooke had already possessed the aura of a magic stick before he became a demigod. In addition, he had repeatedly proven his foresight, which made his reputation as a peeper of destiny more and more famous. No one really objected.

After all, even the cost of building the base was advanced by the Marcus family and will be deducted from the alliance's dues in the future.

Put Duke's words aside, if the base cannot be used, then the alliance does not need to repay this debt, even if it is a gift from the Marcus family.

But everyone knows that Mr. Du never does business at a loss...

With the arrival of the new Maelstrom, Utgard Castle and Dauntless Fortress have become the front line of the battlefield!

In the Fearless Fortress, all kinds of alarms rang out, and the latest magical surveillance mirrors kept outlining the outlines of the enemy.

"Thousands of earth elemental creatures have been found on the bottom of the sea!" the monitor shouted.

"Don't worry about it, that's the job of Vashj's underwater troops." Muradin Bronzebeard was very calm: "Unless Vashj sends for help, block the news over there."

"clear!"

Immediately, new information came: "Three clones of Neltharion were found, plus a group of twilight dragons - 800 adult dragons, 3,000 young dragons, and the number is still increasing. The distance is 32,000 meters!"

Muradin tugged on his well-groomed beard: "There are no dragons to protect us this time!" Muradin turned his head and faced the two magic mirrors: "Brian, my good brother, what do you think of us? Is it time to get that thing out?”

Brian smiled and nodded: "Second brother, without the help of Dragon Sleeping Temple this time, if someone's Griffin team is wasted wantonly, he will go crazy."

Kurdran, who was in the mirror next to him, said with a straight face: "I only have five thousand griffins, and if we put them together, it's ten to one. If you want to kill all the Wildhammer dwarves, just say so!"

Muradin shrugged: "Then use it. Duke is not here anyway, we have the final say."

"Everyone listen to the order and use 'tungsten core armor-piercing bullets' instead!" The order was quickly passed down from level to level.

Whether it was the fleet, the gun emplacements of the Fearless Fortress, or the Naxxramas Flying Fortress not far to the west of the Fearless Fortress, all the gunners were busy.

Even though both types of shells are nearby, it's still a lot of trouble to exchange them.

When the twilight dragons entered the defense line composed of two fortresses within 10,000 meters, thousands of artillery roared almost simultaneously.

Thousands of cannonballs, because of the faint holy light contained within them, appeared as ripples of golden thread as they streaked across the sky.

The trajectory of the cannonball was like a fireball passing through the sky at high speed. The long tail flames they dragged out were intertwined with each other. The ends quickly disappeared and the front kept stretching. One bunch after another, one layer after another, as beautiful as the fireworks set off at the Winter Veil Festival.

Before the war started, every twilight dragon was told that human artillery was useless. At most, the unlucky guy who got hit by multiple cannonballs would die, and nothing else would happen except for a little pain.

But when a massive amount of cannonballs poured down on the bodies of the Twilight Dragons like raindrops, it immediately caused an effect beyond both sides' imagination -

The cannonball, which was considered to be just a more powerful toy, obviously had almost the same appearance as before, but it seemed to have been injected with a completely different mysterious power. With a higher level of mystery, it crushed the dragon clan rampant in Azeroth. Twenty-five thousand A defense that has not been effectively cracked for more than a thousand years.

The tungsten core armor-piercing bullet easily pierced the dragon's scales and skin. After entering the muscle tissue, it seemed to be alive and completely alive. The shattered shrapnel was tumbling piece by piece, and the purple dragon scales, dragon skin and even muscles were set off by the explosion.

Although unless it hits the dragon's head, even if it hits the chest, there will be no fatal result, but the shells are too numerous and dense.

Continuous explosions formed a doomsday-like scene in the sky.

There were splashes of purple debris everywhere, and the dirty flesh formed a rain-like scene.

Even the Alliance non-commissioned officers observing the results of the battle were almost stunned by the scene before them.

The explosion caused by the terrifying salvo turned the entire space with a diameter of three kilometers into a dead airspace. Originally, in order to avoid collision, the distance between the twilight dragons was somewhat spread out. Now it was even more scattered. After a round of artillery salvo, a sieve-like flying formation was exposed in front of the alliance army.

"The three-headed Neltharion clones are still alive, and the number of twilight dragons has been reduced to 29%!" The monitor immediately summarized the monitoring results.

Kurdran curled his lips: "The Wildhammer dwarves can take care of those little dragons."

"Come on, it's not to the point where you have to sacrifice." Brian complained.

The weakening role of mid-level monsters such as griffins, hippogryphs, and dragon eagles on the battlefield is also due to the changes of the times in a sense.

Taking the Twilight Dragon as an opponent, this is too strong for the Griffin. Basically, griffons can only form a team to deal with the young dragon level. If you go up to that level, you may not be able to succeed even if you sacrifice your life.