Invincible Chapter 547
All directions came to help, and the Alsace army was in hand, full of ambition.
In this case, what he is most worried about is that the Scourge army will be broken into pieces, leading the coalition forces by the nose, and going around in circles among the dangerous mountains and rivers.
Fortunately, the natural disasters did not scatter, nor disappeared after lurking, but were caught.
Of course, Malganis and Kel'Thuzad didn't see it that way. In the eyes of these two, they had taken their time and prepared for a big battle.
Since their debut, the Scourge, who have been plotting one after another, why is it suddenly so stubborn?
Kane dare not say that it is all his own credit, but his deployment has indeed played a certain effect.
It was a series of battles dominated by battles on the hidden front.
Scourge here are cursed wizards and fel assassins, as well as death knights.
Confronting it is the special work of the shadow.
The fight between the two sides mainly revolved around the concept of 'reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance'.
The result made Mal'Ganis and Kel'Thuzad very miserable.
When Kel'Thuzad reported to his master, the Lich King, he specifically mentioned this incident. The general meaning was that the scouts were obstructed by a third-party elite using dark power and fel energy. Will be attacked and killed, so that the troops are very passive in terms of real-time intelligence control.
Kel'Thuzad also told the Lich King about his coping strategies.
It is nothing more than using scouts as bait to destroy the enemy's raid and kill team.
The result of the battle was very bad. The ambush of more than a hundred people was used by the opponent to be annihilated, but so far our side has not even got a single corpse of the opponent, let alone a prisoner.
In the end, Malganis and Kel'Thuzad could be said to forcibly terminate this secret war with each other.
If the number exceeds a hundred, they can be ambushed. If more people are added, it will become a large army. Such an ambush will inevitably leave traces. With the opponent's investigative quality, the probability of detection is extremely high.
The Scourge Army, who had suffocated the evil fire, was ready to regain a good feeling from the frontal battlefield. They took the initiative to choose the battlefield, the dense pine forest.
The dense black pine forest is the plague forest later in the original historical line.
In terms of natural features, it has many similar characteristics with the southern part of the land of ghosts in the north. For example, it is rich in pine trees and tall and straight cedars.
However, the thick black pine forest is called iron pine. Its pine needles are iron blue, and its bark is also cast iron color, which is very distinctive. So it is called Nongmo Pine Forest.
Of course, Alsace hoped to fight on the plains, after all, the coalition forces were more numerous now.
However, the Scourge couldn't come out in the jungle. Arthas, who was eager to get back the skin he lost in Caer Darrow, rejected the advisor's proposal to set fire to the forest, and directed the army to go straight in.
It was already afternoon.
The dense black pine forest was originally gloomy in tone, tall and straight, and relatively blocked the light. As a result, it didn't take long for the fight to become a night battle.
Then Arthas encountered new troubles. The Scourge played their cards out of common sense and released a new unit, the Crypt Spider.
These giant spidermen can climb on trees, spin webs, spit out webs, and use a sinister and weird attack method. The little spiders pulled by the energy black silk sprint towards the ground to cause damage, and then they are killed. Take it back, recharge quickly and then rush over.
This particular type of attack is a headache on the human side. It was already dark, and this kind of attack on the ground was very weird, and it was easy to fall for it.
Moreover, the undead also has plague animal assists, natural disaster dogs, natural disaster bats, natural disaster bears...
These natural disaster animals that have become much more ferocious without losing their wild sensitivity and adaptability to the environment are much more annoying than bone sticks.
The most disgusting thing was that the undead used the floating plague furnace to spread the plague. They were naturally not afraid, but the dense poisonous fog they spread had a considerable impact on the coalition forces.
What Alsace wanted, a hearty battle and a big victory, soon turned into a bad battle, or even a separate battle.
Alsace, who came to the front line and led troops to fight, felt that he had already killed many undead, but in his field of vision, the number of monsters had not decreased, and the surrounding atmosphere had a feeling that his side was in a quagmire, not that the army was in front of him. Open and close vertically and horizontally.
"The plague poisonous fog and the night, the undead are well prepared, and our advantages cannot be brought into play. We should fight against such clumsy ones, wait for the daytime, and actively look for them to start fighting.
More than one person suggested this to Alsace. Alsace also felt reasonable. So he ordered the allied forces to withdraw from the Mosong Forest in an orderly manner, and rested in the hilly area east of the forest.
Not long after, news came that the Silver Hand and Stormpike had encountered a landslide caused by the undead side. However, the dwarves are very slippery when playing with explosives, and they often do it when they open mountains and explode rocks, so the loss is not great.
Since the undead have cut off this road, they will be blocked in this area east of the Jufeng Mountain Range.
The Silver Hand and Stormpike had already left the cave and rushed over.
In order to prevent fraud, Thunder Spear also blew up a long section of the passage, and now it is really blocked, at least it is impossible to dig through it in a short time.
However, just as the Silver Hand and Stormpike detoured to meet up, the undead, who had never known what it meant to be tired, began to attack Stratholme.
This time the information was transmitted relatively quickly, and Stratholme's side was indeed serious.
Alsace felt that his country was riddled with holes, and there were problems everywhere.
Support it! Alsace chose the Falcon Vanguard to complete the mission. Specifically, he walked through the side entrance of Stratholme. In addition to killing the undead, he also had to protect this passage and evacuate the people from here when necessary.
The Silver Eagle Army defended outside, mainly to prevent the undead from wading in and attacking the side door.
The terrain of Stratholme is also very dangerous. The green water lake with a roughly elongated east-west front is like a natural barrier, and then there is a huge bridge connecting the north and south shores.
The giant bridge is no better than the stone bridge of Caer Dallon. There are not more than a dozen carts of explosives here, so it is impossible to blow it up.
After the side door was properly arranged, Alsace, with the puppet army as the main force, pushed westward along the Green Water Lake. If the undead didn't know how to advance or retreat and still insisted on attacking Stratholme, then let's fight in the open space near the south of the bridge.
As a result, the undead occupied and retreated, and withdrew, but the city of Stratholme was in flames.
Arthas enters Stratholme with his guards.
Puppets are not suitable for going in, they cannot deal with too complicated situations, such as distinguishing curse believers from ordinary people. And they are not suitable for indoor and street fighting.
But Alsace still has a puppet squad, which is the smallest unit. A basic elf commander commands and controls 30 puppets. This is the squad.
Cirvanas reminded Arthas that the undead might take the opportunity to escape from the southeast of the dense black pine forest along the Blackwood Lake.
Arthas said that would be great, they happened to meet the Silver Hand and Stormpike, and we got word that the army just pushed through and filled the lake with them.
Sylvanas nodded. She also believed that with Silver Hand's fighting qualities, she wouldn't pass by the undead army without noticing it.
Alsace led his men into Stratholme, and the city was full of screaming and howling, all kinds of chaos.
Stratholme has the characteristics of a fortress. Once the gates in each district are closed, the districts can be isolated. Unless there is a siege engine, you have to take the city key to open it.
Because of this, the city is the kind of city that can retreat steadily and is difficult to attack.
But now it seems that this isolation ability is convenient for the Scourge, because the tunnels are dug everywhere, but the isolation gates are closed, and the person holding the city key cannot find it, and the refugees cannot escape.
Arthas soon realized that this was almost another Kaer Darrowon. Such an unfavorable situation can only be created if the person in a key position betrays or is quickly subdued.
Many refugees in the city were still asking for help, and then as soon as the necromancer appeared and used an activation spell, the refugees turned into ghouls on the spot.
Alsace managed to get a few refugees with better information. After inquiring, he found out that the city lord said that the plague was spreading on the King's Road, so he invited a herbalist to prepare medicines to prevent the plague and distributed them to everyone.
Alsace was speechless, and said in his heart: "The lord, Carlos Rivendell, very good!"
What followed was to witness all kinds of tragedies.
The cursed wizards and necromancers on the side of the Scourge army, for those who have taken the so-called anti-epidemic medicine, an activation technique will immediately transform the opponent into a lion-like ghoul with sharp claws and claws. The people can't even resist effectively. Can't get organized.
Alsace can fully understand that situation. Just imagine, relatives, familiar neighbors, and comrades-in-arms all have the possibility of turning into ghouls at any time, rushing up from the side or from behind. How can this battle be fought? ? Who else can be trusted.
"Damn it, really damn it!" Alsace became angrier as he thought about it. Eyes are bloodshot.
In fact, this is the drawback of the feudal system and centralized power. Once the lord is controlled or betrayed, it will immediately fall apart.
So like Kane himself, whenever possible, he will choose to sit in the rear. Kane Sun's avatar is also in this way.
He knew very well that his team, because of his too much power, would immediately fall apart in the event of an accident, so when he gradually became powerful, he stopped doing things like probing the grass.
Alsace, on the other hand, upholds the traditional idea that a leader should take the lead and charge forward, but because he is young, he is too emotional.
Naturally, Malganis would not give up the opportunity, so he appeared in a cheap way, pretended to come to Northrend to find me, even sucked blood and tore two beauties with his hands on the spot, and then released a swarm of rotten bees, attracting With a hellfire, Arthas was smashed into a disgraced face, and then flashed.
It was a miserable night for the people of Stratholme. Things didn't get any better until the paladins of the Silver Knights rushed in and detoxified the people
And Arthas also asked the elves to command the puppets to smash open the barrier regardless of the cost, breaking the death row-like closure one after another.
At daybreak, Alsace refused to rest, and went to continue the war with the Scourge.
Uther said to save people first. Arsa said not to grind those guys into ashes, God knows what trouble they will cause, at least to wipe out their large forces.
Alsace also said that the puppet army would not be able to save people, so they pressed up and pushed them to the west of the thick black pine forest. Loka Town is their hiding place.
As a result, there are no undead in the thick black pine forest, and there are none in the west, and there are no undead in Luoka Town, but I have seen slaughterhouses, crypts, psychic towers and other undead buildings up close.
Arthas was crazy. When the Silver Hand and Stormpike arrived last night, they didn't encounter the army of the undead army. Later, they specially arranged enough scouts to prevent them from slipping through.
But now, the main force of the natural disaster has just disappeared. Is there any reason for this?
It has to be said that at this time, people still lack understanding of the Scourge.
Otherwise, if you see a Crypt Demon, which is simply an undead Azjol-Nerub spider-man, you will know that the opponent has a very powerful earthwork construction ability.
These spidermen are not only good at building various buildings, they are also top-notch in digging holes. Northrend is almost being dug into the Underdark by these guys.
The main force of the natural disaster disappeared, and in the end, Kane contacted his own Falcon Vanguard Army through a secret channel, and suggested a thorough investigation on the pretext, and only then "coincidentally" found a major clue.
It turned out that the problem was still in the mine in Loka Town.
This mine has been used for many years, and the interior has been dug like a labyrinth, and it is connected to the natural cave-sky system. It will take a few days to go through all the veins.
The Crypt Demons took advantage of it further. There are not only complicated passages below, but also a very large dungeon.
After the natural disaster fought against the coalition's Nongmo Pine Forest, it retreated here to rest. It was another force that attacked Stratholme in the middle of the night, and it had not participated in the battle of the thick black pine forest before. Besides, Stratholme has been eroded into a sieve, and the siege is just a show.
After the main force of natural disasters finished resting, they went south from Suzhuo Ruier River, and then stormed Andorhal during the day.
Originally, the surprise attack effect was very good, but with the help of the cave system, the gameplay of returning to the state of ingenious strategies again was relatively successful. Andorhal's defense was not empty, but it could not withstand the onslaught of the undead army.
However, the Knights Templar arrived at a critical moment.