The 3888th Chapter Three Alliance War (2)

When Little Anne was rushing back to the mainland of Lordaeron, at the front line of Tarren Mill in the middle of the Hillsbrad Hills, the main forces of the Flame Alliance were confronting the coalition forces of the Stormwind Alliance. It has been almost a year since the end of the 25th year of the Dark Portal...

Although the humans, high elves, and Wildhammer dwarves of the Eagle's Nest Mountain have been at a passive defensive disadvantage in the ground battle for this period of time... However, with the high elves' Dragonhawk knights, the Wildhammer dwarves' griffins With these absolute air superiority, the knights and the pure-blooded Firehawk troops of the Flame Kingdom were able to hold on to a stalemate, buying precious time for the adjustment of the rear countries and the recruitment of new troops!

However, when the soldiers of the Flame Alliance were about to change their guards early this morning and continued to stand in a stalemate with the enemy army below the high ground, or cursed at each other, shot cold arrows, or threw boulders, they were surprised to find that in the opponent's camp, there appeared New faces?

As the rangers approached and scouted many times, they soon confirmed that there were a large number of reinforcements in the enemy camp!

Demonic monsters with twisted horns, blue skin, tauren-like hooves, and wicked little tails! However, what made the flame alliance troops feel strange was: that kind of monster is a warrior who can use the energy of the holy light?

No... it should be said... a lot of paladins and priests?

Of course, there must be that jigsaw-like monster floating in the air that is exuding powerful holy light energy, and the golden light shines on the front lines of both the enemy and us!

It is precisely because of its appearance that the morale of the Flame Alliance, which has always been tenacious and tenacious in resistance, has finally been shaken.

Because, like a golden jigsaw puzzle, a creature that spins slightly and radiates golden holy light, that creature with the purest holy power, the other party claims to be the messenger or god representing the holy light?

Therefore, while the opponent appeases the emotions of all the fighters on both sides, they are also constantly facing the defenders, facing the Kingdom of New Lordaeron in the Flame Alliance, the high elves, and the Knights of the Silver Hand among the Wildhammer dwarves. Persuasively, I hope that those believers in the Holy Light can put down their weapons, convert to the embrace of the Holy Light, and stop doing fearless resistance, etc...

Anyway, no matter whether the opponent says that he is the God of Holy Light or not, the pure and incomparably powerful Holy Light power from the opponent will definitely not be able to fool the paladins!

Therefore, this led to the side of the Flame Alliance, at least, the fighting spirit and morale of the paladins of the Silver Hand and the fighters who believed in the Holy Light began to gradually decline... because they really couldn't muster courage and strength Go against a divine being who can represent the Holy Light!

What's worse, some paladins who are not very determined, when their beliefs are in crisis, the power of the holy light in their bodies keeps slipping? It seems that it is really as if the Holy Light has abandoned them?

As a result, greater panic began to spread on the front of the Flame Alliance...

"General! Let's withdraw!"

"Now, this battle is really impossible to fight! Look, so far, our Silver Hand Knights have basically lost their combat effectiveness...Without the Silver Hand as a powerful forward, the other troops alone, Rangers and mages, whether dwarves or high elves, cannot resist the enemy!"

"And, as you have seen, there are so many priests and paladins in their reinforcements, even more and stronger than our Silver Hands. This battle...how do you want us to fight?!"

In this large command tent in the middle of the Tarren Mill frontline barracks, the Grand Commander of the Silver Hand of the Kingdom of New Lordaeron, the Grand Crusader Saidan Dathrohan, is facing the Alliance Grandmaster who is sitting on the main seat meditating. Marshal Osmar Garithos loudly persuaded:

"Generalissimo! Before the enemy launches an attack, let's retreat quickly! That monster is too weird,

If we wait any longer... maybe all our paladins will become ordinary knights! Without the holy light, they will probably lose at least one or two ranks of strength! In that case, what are you fighting for? "

"You still don't want to count on our air force, do you? That's right! They are truly invincible against the air. They defeated the Hippogryphs and engineering planes of the Stormwind Alliance, and they didn't even dare to take the lead! But, now It is a large-scale land battle, do you want them to attack the ground at low altitude? In that case, our air force superiority will be destroyed alive! The enemy's anti-aircraft firepower, whether it is bows or muskets, has ways to counter our flying Low air units!"

Dathrohan gasped angrily, after fighting for so long, today was the most embarrassing day for them!

Dathrohan himself was furious and shocked at the so-called jigsaw puzzle that appeared like the incarnation of holy light suddenly appeared by the enemy! Compared with the large group of paladins and priests who came to support from the enemy, the big monster that floated in the middle of the confrontation between the two sides, but kept radiating light, was obviously more terrifying. !

Those nasty Stormwind Alliance, don't know where they got such a group of monsters. Not only did they carry out vicious tactics against their Flame Alliance bizarrely, but the effect was also exceptionally good? Now, the other party has successfully disintegrated most of the combat power of the Flame Alliance, the most powerful and proud Knights of the Silver Hand.

"Dathrohan, I told you guys a long time ago..."

"Actually, the holy light is not only a belief, but also a profound philosophy of life, a way of life that makes us positive...I believe in the holy light, but I don't blindly follow the holy light...so, in that In front of the strange jigsaw puzzle, my holy light has not been affected at all! Of course, I am also willing to teach and share my knowledge of the holy light and everything about it with the colleagues of the Silver Hand..."

"However, I'm afraid this will take a lot of time... So, Grand Marshal Garithos, it should be feasible to retreat for the time being. As long as we have time, we can regroup?"

Sighing, after returning to Lordaeron, Old Fording, who has regained the holy light and still maintains peak combat power, although he still has a high fighting spirit, does not love that jigsaw puzzle, but seeing the Knights of the Silver Hand The soldiers became weak, and after careful consideration for a while, he still reluctantly agreed with the others' decision to retreat before the enemy launched a general attack and temporarily preserve their strength.

"That's right! Withdraw, Marshal!"

"Garithers... Temporary retreat does not mean failure, we still have a chance."

"The Generalissimo..."

"Get out, Marshal! This is almost the last elite of our alliance..."

"That's right! Retreating now is a last resort, and it doesn't mean anything."

After Old Fording and Dathrohan finished speaking, Ashbringer Alexandros Mograine, General Alfred Abedis, and Tyran Fording stayed in the command tent , Bridget Abbendis, Darian Mograine and other paladins began to whisper to each other, and they all advised Grand Marshal Garithos to retreat temporarily and reorganize the defense line in the rear.

The other dwarf leaders and rangers such as Lor'themar of Quel'Thalas looked at each other awkwardly for a while, and although they didn't join in the booing, at least they agreed to retreat temporarily.

"..."

Standing up slowly after being silent, Grand Marshal Garithos of the Flame Alliance first looked around at the large number of fearful paladins in the big tent, and then he found sadly: Except for some ranger generals of the high elves, Except for the magister, the leader of the dwarf griffin knights, and a few human warrior generals, most of the people here are actually paladins and priests? !

It was only now that he was shocked to realize that more than half of his troops were paladins...

No wonder, no wonder the enemy would use that strange jigsaw puzzle to make trouble... because the enemy's move happened to hit seven inches above their Flame Alliance army! In just less than one morning, he paralyzed most of his men's combat power all at once?

At this time, Generalissimo Garithos was thinking a little sadly: Sure enough, the Holy Light is the success, and the Holy Light is the failure... At the beginning, he should not have so many paladins in the army... and he should not have been in the alliance. All over the world are promoting the Way of the Holy Light...Look now, they finally lifted a big rock and hit their own feet, right?

"Hey... Let me tell you, it's not that I don't want to retreat... but... Forget it, let's take a look at the map first!"

Garithos was about to say something, but then stopped. So, he simply pulled back the curtain on a large combat map of the Lordaeron continent hanging on the wooden wall behind him, and motioned everyone present to look at it together.

"Look here, and here, this is the front line where we are now, Tarren Mill Camp!"

Holding a baton, Generalissimo Garithos gestured to everyone present in a somewhat serious manner. All the defense plans for the northern continent are made by him alone, and they are currently being implemented very well!

"We are holding here now, blocking the gateway to the Alterac Mountains! If we retreat, with our current strength, Sophia Heights will definitely not be able to hold... Then, if the enemy follows us to attack If so, before the steel fortress at Alterac Pass is completed, neither the Alterac Ruins nor Steinbrad must be undefendable!"

"Even...we may not even be able to defend the Cold Wind Watch at Frozen Post..."

Speaking of this, Grand Marshal Garithos' face became even more dignified.

Originally, he had only told the kings of various kingdoms about these strategies, and the other generals kept them secret! But now, he had to explain it clearly to them! Since he, Garithos, is the Generalissimo of the Alliance, commanding hundreds of thousands of Alliance troops, he must be responsible for the entire Alliance! Therefore, what he cares about is not the gains and losses of a city or a place, or the outcome of a certain battle, but the overall situation of the entire battle!

And now, for their defense-in-depth plan, they must persist here until the steel fortress behind is built!

"And then, once the enemy successfully breaks into the Alterac Highlands, as long as the enemy's commander is not an idiot, then they can drive straight into the hinterland of our Flame Alliance - Andorhal County! When that time comes, we will There will be no danger at all! It will be very easy for the enemy to attack the King City of Lordaeron to the west, Tyr's Hand or the City of Flames to the east, or Quel'Thalas to the north!"

"At that time, our defense line of the East Camp in the town of Hammerfall in the Arathi Highlands and the defense line of the West Camp south of Amber Mill in the Silverpine Forest will become meaningless! They can divide our several kingdoms into several pieces, and then we can only fight on our own and be wiped out one by one..."

At this point in the explanation, the baton in Garithos' hand couldn't help tightening. This situation will be the worst time, and he doesn't want to see this... because, it means that their Flame Alliance will completely fail and lose all the land and everything they have now!

For the losers, the enemy will not have mercy on them!

"So, you should understand now, right?"

"Once we abandon this place, it means that we have abandoned everything! At that time, whether it is Arathi Highlands, Hillsbrad Hills, Silverpine Forest, Gilneas, or even Tirisfal Glades, etc. By the time the entire northern continent may no longer be ours..."

"Could it be... are you willing to flee northward like bereaved dogs, to the City of Flame or Quel'Thalas, guarding the elf gate? Think about it, Quel'Thalas is so dilapidated now , There must be no success in recovering much productivity in a few years, how can we feed so many people in our alliance?"

After the explanation, Garithos finally turned his head again, stared at everyone present with piercing eyes, and said with a firm expression:

"So, we absolutely cannot retreat now! Although our country is still very large,... after losing South Sea Town and the Sardo Bridge, we actually don't have much retreat..."

"Now, I hope you go down and tell the soldiers of the Silver Hand: If there is no Holy Light, then let them fight like ordinary soldiers, and don't be blinded by your beliefs! There is no Holy Light , you still have swords, strength, tenacious will and unyielding spirit!"

"I want you to always remember what you are fighting for! You are not only fighting for yourself, but also for our common homeland and our flame alliance!"

Throwing aside the baton and directly pulling out the long sword at his waist, Garithos stared sharply at the paladin generals in the tent.

He used to be a cavalryman himself, and he had never been favored by the Holy Light, but hasn't he still fought for so many years? Therefore, this time, Garithos plans to go to the front line in person to encourage those idiots who have lost their fighting power because of their beliefs!

He wants those idiots to take a good look at him, Garithers, and at the other soldiers of the alliance. Many of them have never used the holy light, so they can still go into battle to kill the enemy?

The situation is bad now. Although Garithos also knows that this place may not be able to hold for a long time, but...he still hopes that the troops can delay here for a while and build a second line of defense for the rear troops, especially Otto Buy enough time for the defense line at Lank Pass!

"Great, Generalissimo!!!"

When Garithos was about to continue to teach these bastards who wanted to escape because of the wavering of the Holy Light, suddenly, a messenger officer who had not been notified rushed in from outside the tent.

"Marshal! Good, good news! Our Queen, she is back! She, she just beat that jigsaw puzzle monster away!!!"

Seeing a tent of senior generals staring at him dissatisfied, the herald swallowed and finally explained the situation out loud.

"Your Majesty the Queen? Is it Her Majesty Queen Cirvanas?"

"It's a nonsense! How dare she come to the front line here? Didn't I ask her to urge those fire elemental architects and dwarves to build that steel defense line at the Alterac Pass?!"

Hearing the herald's words, Grand Marshal Garithos of the Flame Alliance didn't care about his identity, and directly reprimanded the Queen of Quel'Thalas.

You know, the defense line of Alterac Pass is very important! When you really can't hold on here, you will definitely retreat and rely on the favorable terrain of the Alterac Mountains to continue to block the enemy and continue to stalemate the battle!

In fact, now, Garithers is ready to completely abandon Hillsbrad Hills and Arathi Highlands. At that time, they only need to hold the two lines of defense of Amber Mill and Alterac Mountains in Silverpine Forest. This can greatly shrink their defensive strength, so that the power balance between the two sides will not be too disparate!

And this battle, whether it can last for a long time, or even directly develop into a major stage of strategic confrontation, depends on whether Queen Cirvanas's defense line construction work in the rear is done well or whether it can be on time. Finish!

His Majesty Cirvanas also knew about this matter.

But now? The other party didn't stay behind to carry out engineering projects, but violated her own strategic plan and ran to the front line to fight at will. What kind of trouble is she trying to do? She is a former ranger general, she may not be very strong, right?

Anyway, as far as Garithos knew, the high elf queen was definitely not as strong as the large number of paladins and warriors in their current tent! In terms of ability to fight alone, like Dathrohan, Fording and Mograine, they can at least be on par with her, or even slightly better?

Of course, the premise is that if Her Majesty the Queen doesn't fly a kite...

"No...it's not Queen Cirvanas, but...it's Her Majesty the Flame Queen! That's right, it's Her Majesty Queen Anne, she, she's back again!"

"Besides, just before the battle, she...she directly knocked that jigsaw puzzle away with a lot of fireballs! She also snatched a shiny piece of holy light!"

Think about that Her Majesty Queen Anne who was suddenly teleported out before, and then, I don’t know what she said to that jigsaw puzzle monster. Then, the observers who were at the outpost at that time only saw that Her Majesty the Queen who was furious, Hitting the head and covering the face is a series of at least hundreds of thousands of fireballs blasting towards the enemy!

He still vividly remembers that scene...

Countless flames directly submerged the golden so-called God of Holy Light, turning it into a large ball of deflagrating fire... Soon after, they heard the piercing sound of glass breaking?

Then, they only saw a large piece of golden fragments falling from the flames, and the so-called Tangram, the God of Holy Light, quickly retreated from the flames in such a state of embarrassment. The devil-like creatures from the other side rushed to the opponent's camp in a hurry! And if they read it correctly, the 'God of Holy Light' seems to be missing a lower thigh?

After seeing this, he had participated in the war to wipe out the Scourge Legion. He knew Her Majesty the Queen, so he got on his fast horse immediately and ran back to the camp to report the news!

"Really? She's back? Besides, she beat that jigsaw puzzle monster away? Great, this is really great!!"

"Hahaha! As long as someone can restrain that jigsaw puzzle, our Flame Alliance will be saved!"

Garithos, who had been feeling desperate for a while, was the first to laugh loudly after hearing the news, without waiting for anyone else to react!

Although, the Flame Queen, who has been missing for several years, is often unreliable in doing things, very casual, often causing chaos, and even less able to command battles... But no matter how many shortcomings she has, her strength is obvious to all of! This alone is enough to ensure that this front will not be lost!

At least, it won't be thrown away before the steel fortress in the rear is built?

"..."

"Huh? Are you all hiding here?"

"Hi! That... Hello everyone? By the way, do you have any paladins who like this good thing? Look, isn't it beautiful?!"

At this time, before everyone was ready to go out to meet the Flame Queen and the adorable Lord of the Flame Alliance, the other party opened the cloth door of the tent first and walked in.

Then, after casually greeting everyone, without waiting for any reaction from the other party, she triumphantly raised the golden shard that was almost half the size of a door panel and so long! There is an astonishing holy light energy in it, which seems to be stronger than the Ashbringer in Mograine's hand?

Moreover, it exudes a strong golden light, directly illuminating the Chinese military tent that was originally dim due to the large number of people as if it were under the sun at noon.

"This is... Her Majesty Queen Anne, have you really defeated the God of Holy Light?"

Seeing the fragment exuding intense holy light energy in the little girl's hand, Dathrohan thought for a while, and felt that it was indeed the lower 'thigh' of that jigsaw puzzle monster? Then, he was very surprised, which made him a little confused, such a powerful existence can be defeated?

He remembered that the information conveyed by the other party's soothing waves of holy light energy seemed to mean that it represented the messenger of the holy light or the gods...

"God of Holy Light? Are you talking about this guy?"

Annie was stunned for a moment, she didn't remember what kind of "God of Holy Light" she had fought... What is "God of Holy Light"? Can it be eaten?

(…)

(Master...they should be asking about the thing in your hand! They seem to regard that big light bulb as a god of holy light...

——Tibbers pouted, and explained this sentence to his little master with disdain. It's only these ignorant guys who regard the thing outside as a god, and Tibbers doesn't even dare to call it a god, just that guy outside? If you come out and flash your eyes again, you can't kill 'it' with a single slap! )

"Ha! You mean this thing?"

Hearing Tibbers' explanation, Annie smiled coquettishly and raised the big fragment in her hand. Just now, after she met the other party, she wanted to cut a small piece from the other party's body for research, but that stingy guy actually Dare to reject him?

So, Annie's anger started from the bottom of her heart, and her evil turned to her guts. She didn't stop doing anything, and directly taught her how to be a low-key monster with a series of explosive pyrotechnics!

Annie thinks that the other party dared to come out and wander casually with such sparkling eyes and successfully attracted her attention, and he dared to be stingy and reluctant to let her cut a piece to play with. Isn't this intentional to get a severe beating? ? So, Little Annie satisfied the other party generously, gave the guy a severe beating, and directly cut off the biggest piece of the other party's leg!

"Let me tell you, that guy, it's not a 'God of Light', it's just the same as the fire element, water element, wind element and earth element you've seen, composed of pure light power It’s just a creature of holy light, it’s not a god of holy light!”

"Also, if you want to see the real God of Holy Light, I just met one not long ago, and I will bring her to meet you some other day! I think you will like her!"

After blinking and looking at the group of paladins, Anne suddenly heard a funny thing. I once promised someone to find some converts for her, but now, isn't there a lot of ready-made ones? Then, there is no need to bother to find others, it is decided to be them!

"Holy light creature... so it is like this, no wonder, I always feel weird!"

"Ashamed... I really regard it as a god..."

"so far so good……"

"I am that guy, am I not a god? You still don't believe it!"

"Asshole! Next time, I can't spare it!"

"..."

At this time, as soon as Annie's words fell, Old Fording, Mograine, Dathrohan and the others began to whisper to each other. If they had known this was the case, they would not have to coax that weird guy, and they would be ashamed for nothing. .

But this message, they have to send someone to convey it to the troops as soon as possible. If possible, I hope that those paladins will regain their confidence and regain the power of the Holy Light.

"By the way, this fragment is not very interesting. Does anyone want it? Can it be used to make weapons?"

After researching, Annie was not very interested in the large piece of the jigsaw puzzle in her hand, and threw it on the large square table in the middle of the tent. After all, she was an arcane mage herself, something that paladins would like, and it was of no use to her at all!

"..."

After a short while of silence, a large group of people reached out and rushed up, one by one grabbed a place, and began to pull vigorously.

These bigwigs with good vision, of course know the benefits of this thing! Just relying on the surging power of the holy light that it exudes, once it is really forged into a weapon, it will at least be similar to or stronger than the holy light artifact like Mograine's Ashbringer. Cavaliers, how could they let go of such a good thing that came to their door?

"Mograine! You already have Ashbringer, what are you grabbing?!"

Alfred Abbendis glared fiercely at the other party. This guy who eats from the bowl dares to stare at the old stuff in the pot. He is not satisfied with the Ashbringer, so he even came to snatch the holy Light shards? Shameless?

"I... I'll prepare a weapon for my eldest son, can't I?"

Mograine thought for a while, and reluctantly came up with an excuse.

"Come on! Didn't your son elope with your goddaughter? Who do you give it to when you take it?"

I don't know who said such a sentence suddenly, and then Alexandros Mograine let go of his hand subconsciously, and was quickly pushed aside.

"By the way! Your name is Mograine, right? Sally and Renault asked me to tell you that they are not coming back. Uncle Coulson said that those two are going to have a baby on Earth!"

Although she didn't quite understand it, since this Mograine was here, Annie still helped to convey this sentence honestly.

"Those two beasts! I'm so mad! How dare they...how dare?!"

Hearing such a thunderbolt from the blue sky, old Mograine couldn't help but bearded and cursed loudly, scaring his youngest son and others away from him.

"..."

"Your Excellency, Grand Marshal Garithos, you are a warrior, what are you trying to do?!"

At this time, there were only three people left competing for the shards of the Holy Light, namely Old Fording, General Alfred Abedis, and Generalissimo Garithos! As for the others, they have long been forcibly squeezed away by these kind-hearted old guys!

Then, Old Fording set his sights on one of his competitors, Marshal Garithers.

"Uh...sorry, I saw you were so anxious about it, so you subconsciously grabbed it too, I forgot about it..."

That's right, this seems to be something used by paladins. It seems a bit too much for him, a warrior, to grab this thing, so he let go of it embarrassingly.

"Don't look at me like that! I am a paladin, my daughter is also a paladin, and the world of Azeroth is so dangerous, can't I prepare a good weapon for my Bridget? As an elder , shouldn't you be humble?"

When Old Fording looked at him, before the other party could speak, General Alfred Abedis smiled at Old Fording and said.

"..."

"I also want to build a two-handed sword for my son Tyran..."

Thin-skinned people, let alone going to the battlefield, even the curse of the enemy may kill them! And old Fording, a veteran paladin who has experienced many battles, who has never wavered even when the God of Holy Light appeared in front of him, how could he be persuaded to leave by the other party in a few words?

"..."

Therefore, the last two people did not let anyone else, and began to forcibly circulate the holy light on their bodies, hoping to use their strength to pull each other away! However, seeing that both sides are blushing and have thick necks, it seems that there is no winner in a short time?

"Oh, you guys are so annoying!"

As soon as she reached out her hand, Annie cut the shard of holy light into two smoothly, causing the two of them to stagger and take a few steps back, each holding a piece.

"snort!"

"snort!"

The two old paladins glanced at each other, and after looking at the fragments in their hands, they gave each other a cold snort at the same time, then turned and walked aside.

Originally, this was a piece that could be forged into a two-handed broadsword, but now, after being divided into two halves, it can only be forged into a one-handed broadsword... One-handed, it seems a bit uncomfortable... Perhaps, Can it really only be given as a gift to the younger generation? After all, they were all punishment knights, not defensive knights with a shield in one hand and a long sword in the other.

"If you want, next time you come across that jigsaw puzzle, I'll make some for you! It's just... it only has two long legs, and I don't know if it can grow out?"

Seeing that the two were arguing over a piece of debris, Annie gave them both an annoyed look. If you want, there is such a big jigsaw puzzle outside, and when it comes out again, she will catch it back and cut its feet to play with, so that everyone can have a share! Of course, the premise is that the opponent's feet can grow back, otherwise, they can only smash the split.

After all, there are not many fragments on the body of a jigsaw puzzle...

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PS: Originally, this chapter should have only four or five thousand words...