Chapter 264 The Attacking Giant Tree
Before his death, Marshal Cole, with his superior strength to ordinary soldiers, discovered the black line formed by the night elf army in the distance. After Maiwei killed all the human units on the tower and left the Brak Fortress, the soldiers on the wall also discovered the big trees that came in.
Yes, in the eyes of the human soldiers on the wall, rows of neat and uniform big trees suddenly came from the west. Of course, now they don’t know what kind of reputation these giant trees called ancient guardians will have in the future on the Eslaze continent.
But anyone knows that these attacking giant trees cannot be used to green the Brak Fortress, so the alarm sounded quickly throughout the Brak Fortress. Then, the Brak Fortress fell into chaos.
Just think about it, one-third of the army of the Kingdom of Severn is stationed in this Brak Fortress. In addition to the clear highest commander, Marshal Cole, the factions are relatively complicated. And these complex factions will naturally derive some seemingly insignificant contradictions under the suppression of Marshal Cole.
Generally speaking, Marshal Cole's direct subordinates are considered a faction; the original garrison of Fort Brack is considered a faction; the regular kingdom and army mobilized from other places is considered a faction. The largest and most chaotic faction is the private army sent by nobles from all over the country in response to the king's call.
Most of these private armies are led by the descendants of the kingdom's nobles. Because this plan to march or conquer the small countries in the west does not seem to be dangerous, and it has the glory of expanding territory; all nobles who have the conditions send their proud descendants here to gild and fight for the interests of their families in the new territory of the kingdom.
Of course, we also know that the children of nobles are generally arrogant-except for those families that have been passed down for a long time. In addition to conflicts with the regular kingdom and army, the children of nobles often have frictions of varying sizes.
This makes Fort Brack very chaotic. It was okay when Marshal Cole was there. With his prestige and the orders of Severn IX, as long as Marshal Cole issued an order, everyone in Fort Brack would obey it. However, the problem now is that Marshal Cole has been assassinated by Maiev.
More importantly, the news of Marshal Cole's assassination and the alarm of the soldiers on the city wall spread throughout the entire Brak Fortress. At this time, Brak Fortress was completely in chaos.
Marshal Cole's direct subordinates were naturally angry, and all roared to hunt down the assassins who had sneaked into Brak Fortress; the original defenders of Brak Fortress were relatively calm, choosing to hold on to the fortress and wait and see what would happen.
Other regular troops transferred from all over the kingdom did not riot for the time being under the orders of their respective leaders, and chose to wait and see what would happen like the defenders of Brak Fortress. However, because of Marshal Cole's death, a major problem was put on the table-who should be the highest commander of Brak Fortress now?
The leaders of the armies in various places had ideas. After all, this is one-third of the army of the Kingdom of Severn. If it is in your hands, to put it bluntly, it is enough to split the land and seal the borders! Moreover, the next thing to do is to conquer new lands, and as the highest commander, he will naturally get the greatest benefit.
Therefore, the kingdom, which seems to be relatively peaceful, is also undercurrent. As for the private army led by the nobles, they were originally a mob and they were in chaos when the news of Marshal Cole's assassination came and the alarm sounded.
Some of these nobles who came here for gilding were excited and shouted to the gatekeepers to open the door and rush out to fight to gain military merit; some of them let the private army they led protect themselves firmly, fearing that the assassin who assassinated Marshal Cole would also come to trouble themselves.
And a small part, under the joint attack of the two unfavorable news, was actually ready to flee from the Black Fortress to avoid possible dangers.
These seven or eight different attitudes did not last too long. Those who can lead the army are generally not fools. The soldiers guarding the city wall belong to different factions. Soon, the leaders of all sizes in the Black Fortress knew about the giant tree attacking in the distance and confirmed that it was the news of a strong enemy invading.
After that, a small number of timid nobles led their private armies to evacuate the Brack Fortress. Enemies who dare to attack the Brack Fortress must be powerful. Although they don't believe that the Brack Fortress will be captured, there will definitely be some dangers. A few nobles who think they are delicate and noble obviously don't want to have any accidents in the Brack Fortress, so they left here.
Indeed, their choice is actually wise. However, they don't know that although they evacuated the Brack Fortress, they can only live longer than those who stayed in the Brack Fortress.
600 meters away from the fortress, those ancient guards, each of which is dozens of meters tall, stopped and took root in the ground. This temporarily relieved the defenders in the fortress.
You know, the walls of the Brack Fortress are not as tall as these magical walking giant trees. If they bully them directly, the Brack Fortress, which has not yet recovered from the chaos, may turn from a city defense battle to an encounter battle.
However, as they watched the various enemies appearing behind the giant tree, the soldiers in the Brak Fortress had a bad feeling in their hearts.
Hundreds of stone giants more than ten meters high; groups of knights wearing masks riding ferocious black panthers; a legion of monsters composed of huge dark brown bears and more golden leopards and blue giant wolves; knights flying in the sky with strange birds and huge dark purple crows. Oh my God, what kind of enemy are we facing? Is this still the Amazon mentioned in the intelligence?
The catapult in the Brak Fortress has a range of only about 500 meters, and it can't attack the enemy lined up at a distance of 600 meters. After seeing these seemingly very strong alien armies, those guys who clamored to open the gate to meet the enemy and earn military merits also shut up. So now, the huge Brak Fortress can only wait for the night elves to take the initiative to attack, and try to calm the chaos in the fortress before that.
Five hundred ancient guardians are the reason why Tyrande dared to choose to attack Brak Fortress during the day. As early as twenty days ago, relying on sufficient energy and wood, the night elves built as many as a thousand ancient guardians.
Ten days ago, half of these ancient guardians that were originally rooted in the Whispering Wind Forest rose from the ground and moved towards the Kingdom of Severn under Tyrande's command. These ancient guardians will become a siege weapon in the hands of the night elves.
In addition to siege, these ancient guardians can also be regarded as mobile walls with strong attack power. This means that in siege battles, the night elves can eliminate the enemy's advantage as the defender; and in field battles, the night elves can have the advantage of defending the city.
A certain number of ancient guardians can be said to be a mobile city with countless turrets - although the movement speed is relatively slow. Moreover, some of these ancient guardians are transformed from ancient trees and have stronger combat power than ordinary ancient guardians.
In addition to the ancient guardians who were premeditated, Tyrande led more than 10,000 night elf units. There are as many as 800 mountain giants. Even without the ancient guardians, the walls of Brak Fortress will not be an obstacle for the night elves.
Two thousand claw druids were trained in a month. However, except for the first and second batches of claw druids who can transform into earth bears, other claw druids can only transform into lightning leopards and wind wolves.
Raptor druids are more of an auxiliary unit. Although they can transform into storm crows to fight as air units, hippogryphs are enough to be the air force of the night elves, so only 1,000 units were trained.
As for the hippogryph knights, in order to form an air advantage, up to 5,000 units were trained. Compared with the elven dragons that specifically target mages, the hippogryph knights can already be called a legion.
There is also the main combat unit of the night elves. The female hunters with strong mobility and armed as heavy armor units have a total of 5,000, just like the hippogryph knights. The night elves have eight thousand archers, the most basic type of troops.
Because the lower the rank of troops, the easier it is to advance, there are many lightning archers and wind archers among these archers.
Excluding the night elves who stayed in the occupied areas and the night elves who were taken by Illidan to go deep behind enemy lines to sabotage. Now Tyrande leads eight hundred mountain giants, fifteen hundred claw druids, five hundred raptor druids, two thousand hippogryph riders, three hundred elven dragons, three thousand huntresses and five thousand archers.
In addition, Tyrande also leads one hundred bloodworms and some auxiliary units of vassal races. Both of these are to reduce the losses of the night elves in the war. It is also worth mentioning that the air units also have the purple dragon that has been advanced to level eight and mutated.
Because Illidan went deep behind enemy lines, he led units with strong mobility. A total of two thousand hippogryph riders and two thousand huntresses, as well as two hundred elven dragons to guard against human mages. The remaining archers and hippogryph riders, as well as a few mountain giants and druids remained in the occupied areas.
After the units of the vassal races arrived, Tyrande took a deep breath, began to issue orders, and officially launched the attack on Brak Fortress.