Chapter 473 [0468] The Dark Clouds of the Freljord War
In addition to Ino and Team 11, Shyvana and Ivar were also sent to Mithril City.
Of course, these two dragons were not there to transport things. Two dragons alone could not transport much. The main reason why they were sent was to find out about the war in Freljord.
Although the dragon bird knight brought back the news that "the barbarians in the north are gathering", the specific scale and goal of the gathering were not known.
There is no way, under the breath of Anivia, it is difficult for even a dragon bird with dragon blood to fly in the Freljord for a long time, and the dragon bird knight on the dragon bird's back is even easier to be killed. Frostbite, so even with the help of the air force, the information that the Second Northern Legion in Misilver City can find is limited.
But Shyvana and Ivar are different.
As elemental dragons (Ivar is still a frost elemental dragon), they are naturally more adaptable to the Freljord environment, so they can launch a large-scale investigation centered on Mithril City to find out about the Freljord. information.
The elemental dragon can go to places that the dragonbird knight can't go, and the elemental dragon can find out information that the dragonbird knight can't find out. The gap between the elemental dragon and the dragonborn is so huge!
Although there is a high probability that Mithral City will not believe the news brought back by Shyvana and Ivar, and will still go all out to strengthen their vigilance, the gathering of Freljord barbarians can help Lux confirm that Forsbarrow What preparations need to be made for the next step.
If it is confirmed that the Freljordians are about to go south, then I am afraid that the work of digging the artificial lake will have to be suspended, and all the mages will start combat training!
In this way, after some simple discussions, Ino took the 11th group, led directly by Shyvana and Iva, and set off in the dark that night, heading straight for Mithril City.
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There is no problem with the news brought back by the Dragon Bird Knight.
To the north of Mithril City, on the Sanjigra Plain across the Dragonspine Mountains from Mithril City, there is indeed a Freljord army gathering.
Moreover, it is a large army, a huge army that is enough to make any country or force need to be extremely cautious after getting the news.
Because this army comes from Winter's Claw.
As one of the largest tribes in the Freljord, the Winter's Claw has always been known for its tolerance - whether you are a shaman, a spirit walker, an ice bloodline or a storm bloodline, only you have strong power and are willing to do it for As you fight for Winter's Claw, Sejuani welcomes you to join her.
Therefore, when Sejuani set up a flag representing the gathering here, and when the news that the Winter's Claw was to gather in the Sanjigra Plains spread throughout the Freljord Plains in Breath of Anivia At that time, all kinds of warriors took action after hearing the news.
The tribes of the Freljords have always been close-knit and loose-knit. The tightness lies in the fact that everyone in the tribe is regarded as brothers and sisters and must obey the orders of the War Mother. The looseness lies in the fact that they usually do not act in unison. Even when it comes to plundering and fighting, everyone has always fought on their own. Even Sejuani only has a few elite members following her in her daily operations.
This wonderful unity of contradictions is likely to cause chaos and internal divisions in other places, but in Freljord, the raiders of Winter's Claws who acted independently used this method to unite Winter's Claws. Claw's hunting ground expanded from the corner of Ornkar to all parts of the Freljord Plains today.
As long as Sejuani gives an order, the Winter's Claw warriors who usually loot and develop everywhere will complete the assembly in a short time, and then follow the War Mother's instructions without hesitation and rush towards any enemy, such as the terrifying Like a torrent, it drowns the opponent!
Using tactics like a pack of wolves hunting, the Winter's Claw defeated the formidable Son of Ice, drove away the cowardly Ibratar, and defeated the powerful Dolislakan, wherever the Winter's Claw's flag went , even the Northern Army of Noxus can only act cautiously and besiege the Dredge Fort. Even a few years ago, Darius, the commander of the Noxian rebels, was once killed by the Claws of Winter. captured by the plundering group!
The northern foothills of the Dragon's Back Mountains, which stretch for thousands of miles, are full of hunting grounds for Winter's Claws. Sejuani, who has united all the fighting forces, can easily mobilize a terrifying army.
If it weren't for the fact that the Dragonspine Mountains were too dangerous and the fortresses in Demacia and Noxus in the north were too strong, Sejuani and her warriors must let the warm-blooded people in the south know what the Winter General is. to!
Outside the temporary camp, Sejuani rode the Juvask boar she named Steelmane, waiting patiently for her loyal warriors under a high banner.
From a rational standpoint, issuing a call-out in the winter is not a good choice.
However, even though Udyr, who had returned from Ionia and was very influential in the tribe, had been opposed, Sejuani still chose to gather warriors at this time.
She acted so insistently not because she was rebellious and unwilling to listen to her sworn father's words, but because Sejuani received news from Freyna, and Mother Scar found a loophole in the Avarosans' defense system!
After confirming the accuracy of the news, Sejuani couldn't wait to meet her old friend Ashe.
The horn sounded, and the wind and snow stopped for a while.
Sejuani saw two teams coming from different directions and then gathered together - just like when she was a child, when Avarosa and Winter's Claw were still small tribes. At that time, every summer, when they went to the Ornkal Rock for pilgrimage, the teams of Avarosa and Winter's Claw would gather together like this.
That was when Sejuani first met Ashe.
After meeting a new peer, Sejuani, who had already "beat all the opponents in the world", stood up excitedly in a very "Freljord" way to challenge Ashe - she heard from her grandmother that Ashe's mother, Glenna, had defeated her mother, Kokia.
The two girls with unlimited potential were unable to hold True Ice weapons at the time, and fought with wooden swords, but the result was evenly matched.
Sejuani, who failed to win, not only envied Ashe for "your mother is strong", but also had a rare recognition of her. Although she couldn't explain why, Sejuani always thought that being with Ashe was very comfortable and at ease. Since then, a wish of "letting Ashe join the Winter Claw" has quietly taken root in Sejuani's heart.
Happiness always comes suddenly. When she was sixteen years old, Sejuani met Ashe here, and then, from Ashe's mouth, she heard a bad news: Glenna was betrayed and the Avarosa tribe was gone.
While comforting Ashe, Sejuani took her back to her tribe, guaranteed her to join, and made a vow of companionship with her. Sejuani thought that she would realize her ideal at that time, but she never expected that the two would part ways because of a group of strangers.
Even to this day, Sejuani still cannot understand Ashe's stupid choice. In her opinion, when winter comes and food is scarce, it is completely natural to destroy the tribe that shares the hunting ground with her and let more warriors of the Winter Claw survive. Although the other party has a covenant with her, it was signed by the Frost Guard priests and should be torn up.
As a result, when the blazing flames burned, Ashe stood up stupidly and wanted to save those weak and stupid people...
Yes, the strong should do things that are not feasible, but at the same time, the weak and stupid people are not worth saving.
That time, Sejuani softened her heart and finally let Ashe go, allowing those weak people who should have died in the flames to become her furnace households and let them leave Kuchar.
Since then, Sejuani has completely hardened her heart. After awakening her ice bloodline and picking up the True Ice weapon, she defeated her mother, Kokia, in a duel and became the new generation of Warm Mother of the Winter Claw. She completely expelled the Frost Guard priests who were meddling in the tribe, absorbed all the available power, and began her journey of conquest.
What she didn't expect was that Ashe led those weak guys all the way away from the most competitive hunting grounds and ran to the West Freljord subcontinent, and actually pulled up a brand new Avarosa.
Unlike the respectable Glenna, Ashe violated the ancient traditions of the Freljord people and began to build cities, accept merchants and travelers, and even trade with warm-blooded people!
Such blasphemous behavior made Sejuani completely give up on this former friend. She no longer hoped that Ashe would change her mind. She only hoped to lead the Winter Claw to flatten everything in Avarosa and tell Ashe with facts that in the Freljord, toughness is the way to survive and plunder is the basis of prosperity!
Accustomed to trading, accustomed to relying on the furnace household for production, the result can only be that they become more and more timid, and eventually become harmless snow rabbits and become food for ice wolves!
However, what Sejuani did not expect was that the weak Avarosans actually relied on the city walls and projectile weapons to cause considerable trouble to the looters under her command.
What made her even more incomprehensible was that the Avarosans seemed to always be able to guess her movements. Every time she assembled a large army and wanted to take down the city of Avarosa with all her strength, the other side would always withdraw before the siege, and take away all the supplies in the city, and even burn those that could not be taken away in advance.
The result was that Sejuani wanted to lead troops to Luoyang several times and explained the pros and cons, but Ashe would always avoid fighting and fortify the walls and clear the fields.
Since she couldn't give up the hunting grounds on the Freljord Plains, Sejuani couldn't spend a long time fighting Ashe in the West Freljord Subcontinent. After several failed westward expeditions, Sejuani didn't have a good way to deal with Avarosa. At most, she sent a small group of looters to cause some trouble to the Avarosans.
But this time, the situation was different.
According to the news sent back by Scar Mother, they picked up a special warm-blooded person from the south during their routine looting of Avarosa.
This warm-blooded person found the way that the Avarosans had always used to avoid the sweep of their own army - it turned out that Ashe tamed the polar snow sculptures and used the aerial vision to find out the truth of each of their actions, so that they could defend the city when encountering a small group of enemies and clear the fields when encountering a large group of troops.
What a cunning method!
Maybe this is also the method she learned from the warm-blooded people in the south?
Humph, this little trick may work for a while, but how can it stop the Winter Claw forever?
It was precisely because of this information that Sejuani summoned all the raids in the cold winter season at all costs. She wanted to take this opportunity to directly break through all the defenses of Avarosa and take over Frost Harbor directly!
According to Ashe's habit, she will definitely hoard a lot of supplies in Frost Harbor. Sejuani must let her understand this time that no matter how much supplies the weak hoard, they are only for the strong.
Unknowingly, the snow began to fall again.
In order to boost morale, Sejuani ordered all the spirits stored in Winter's Claw to be taken out, allowing the warriors to drink before they officially set off!
More and more soldiers gathered, and the atmosphere in the camp gradually became warmer.
The drunken warriors began to dislike each other. Although the same tribe could not fight with each other because of drinking, this did not prevent them from wrestling with each other, and even punched at each other, beating those who were unhappy with them.
In addition to the conflicts caused by drunken "What are you looking at" and "Where are you looking at", many battles also have obvious performance meanings-many young warriors take the initiative to challenge those who have been famous for a long time. After winning, he will look at Sejuani immediately.
They are showing their strength, hoping to become Sejuani's guests and become her blood alliance.
However, it is a pity that these warriors' wishes are probably doomed to fail.
Sejuani needs a blood pact and doesn't mind uniting the warriors of the tribe through a blood pact.
But at least this winter, she does not plan to accept the blood alliance - she does not want to get pregnant, especially not at this time. The conquest of Avarosa will be a long battle, and she does not want to change herself due to pregnancy and childbirth. Got to be weak.
So, facing the powerful warriors bursting with hormones, she just shook her head, looked away, and looked up at the sky.
Then, Sejuani unexpectedly spotted a looming figure high in the sky.
It looked like a bird, but bigger than any bird Sejuani had ever seen!
Thinking of the news that Fleina had brought to her, Sejuani narrowed her eyes immediately.
"Warriors of Winter's Claw!" she turned her head and shouted, "Take out your throwing axes and bows - look at the sky, there are the eyes of the Avarosans! Now, prove your bravery Time is up!"
When the Winter's Claw warriors who had designs on Sejuani heard this, they immediately shouted and picked up a variety of throwing weapons. Some bows and arrows, some swung zip ropes, and some took off. Axes were aimed at the bird in the sky.
The next moment, the bird, which had been hit by several arrows, had an ax hanging on its body, and was almost entangled in a noose, struggled crookedly for a few times, quickly changed its direction, and fled in embarrassment toward the south.
Although they failed to shoot it down, the Winter Claw warriors who saw this scene still cheered and laughed.
Amid laughter, more teams arrived at the assembly area, more bonfires were lit, and the entire Winter's Claw tribe seemed like a hand clenched into a fist, accumulating all its war power.
This time, Sejuani plans to hit hard!
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Three days later, when Ino arrived in Mithril City, she saw signs of unprecedented nervousness.
Not only the regular army of the Second Northern Army, but even the militia, all the young men in Mithril City were mobilized!
Even though the snowflakes were flying, all kinds of city defense equipment were still placed on the city wall. Not only that, crossbows and stone bullets were also stacked on the city wall and placed in an area ready for use, completely showing a war-ready posture.
Many wooden watchtowers were temporarily erected on the city wall. The soldiers on them were looking far into the distance, tense and nervous. It seemed that the next moment enemies would attack and there would be a terrifying battle!
It is not that Ino, who grew up in Mithral City, has never encountered the Freljords' southward raids, but in the past, even when a small group of barbarians came to the city, Mithril City never seemed so nervous!
On the broad city wall, patrolling soldiers were patrolling one after another. When Ino and the 11th group of mages came to the outside of the city, dozens of fully armed warriors instantly appeared behind the crenellations.
It’s completely the standard for level one alert!
What is going on?
Just when Ino was confused, a person on the city wall recognized her.
"Ino, is that you?"
Ino blinked, and after a moment he finally recognized the identity of the person who spoke, and nodded decisively.
"That's right, brother, it's me - I came under the order of Count Laxana to deliver a batch of grain."
The soldiers on the city wall seemed to relax a little. After a while, the city gate finally opened. Ino's brother came down with a team of shield guards to receive Ino's identity certificate.
After giving out his identity certificate and waiting for follow-up inspection and notification, Ino asked his brother somewhat strangely why Mithril City was so prepared.
Then, she heard shocking news.
"There is a high probability that the barbarians of the Freljord will go south... Just this morning, the Dragon Bird Knight who took advantage of the wind and snow a few days ago to enter the Freljord for reconnaissance came back." Ino's brother He whispered, "He was hit by an arrow in his left shoulder, and the dragon bird was seriously injured. He died not long after landing. This was the first time that the Freljord barbarians attacked the dragon bird knight. Next, I'm afraid there will be a bloody battle in Mithril City."
After hearing the news, Ino finally opened his eyes in shock.
"Furthermore, this matter probably involves more than just Mithril City." Her brother added, "Forsbarrow's side should also be more careful. You must remind Count Laxana - according to the Dragon Bird Knight's Risk of Death The news I brought back is that this time there are more than a hundred bonfires at the gathering place of Freljord’s barbarians!”
"Are all the barbarians in Freljord crazy?" Ino shook his head and asked, "Or do they have some special weapons and dare to go south to attack the northern defense line?"
"I don't know about that." Her brother shook his head. "The General will probably meet you later. You can ask him about the specific situation. It concerns the northern defense line. This information must be provided to all the lords and the Northern Territory." The territory is shared by all legions.”
Kalya’s Little Classroom·Blood Pact:
The leaders of the Freljord tribes are all women, known as war mothers, and their spouses are called blood allies.
In Freljord, a war mother can have multiple blood alliances, and most of the tribe's children know their mother and father.
PS. This month’s update is 13k/200k. For FLAG, forget about women’s clothing. A 200-pound fat woman’s clothing is disgusting. I can’t bring my book friends to the master, so I’ll just make up for the free extras as much as I owe. How about this?