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Chapter 62 On the Battle of Gushan (ask for a monthly ticket, please subscribe (_))

The location of the lonely mountain is very close to the northern wilderness, and it is very cold in itself.

And it was even more so last night, the biting chill froze the rushing river in front of River Valley City into solid ice overnight.

In the morning, a few humans were digging ice on the Running River to fetch water with a small cart, but a gradually sounded sound interrupted their movements.

At this time, whether it is the humans or elves stationed in River Valley City, or the dwarves returning to the Lonely Mountain Kingdom.

Everyone was startled by the approaching "rumbling" sound, and everyone looked in the direction of the sound.

Immediately afterwards, under everyone's gaze, four earth-eating worms appeared gorgeously in the south of the lonely mountain amidst the shaking of the earth.

At that moment, the movement they caused made many people despair. Fortunately, they shrank back into the ground immediately after.

With the exit of the Earth Eater, everyone heard a dull sound of horns from Raven Ridge.

In the sound of the horn, a large number of half-orcs in simple black armor came out of the tunnel in a neat square formation.

At this time on Raven Ridge, Azog was giving the army an order to attack the whole army through his own flag and the sound of dull horns.

He didn't care about the humans and elves stationed in Dale City.

Azog brought more than 5000 Uruk soldiers from Dol Guldur this time.

In his order, he let some of the troops who walked out of the tunnel attack the town of River Valley first, so as to contain humans and elves.

And the rest of Uruk, accompanied by a dozen or so trolls who walked out of the tunnel, ran straight towards the gate of the Lonely Mountain.

Azog was going to use the overwhelming numbers to break through the gate of Lonely Mountain, kill all the dwarves inside, and then go back and clean up those humans and elves stationed in River Valley City.

Allen was in the Thranduil camp at this time, discussing defense issues with elves and wizards.

After he heard the rumbling sound, he already knew what was going to happen.

With a serious face, Allen said to the surprised Thranduy and Gandalf, "The orcs are coming."

After finishing speaking, Allen rushed out of Thranduil's camp and called out to his personal guards loudly, asking them to notify everyone in the city to enter a state of war.

And he took Horimion, stepped on the elf horse at the first time, shouted "take up arms, prepare to fight", and ran towards the city wall where his soldiers were stationed.

At this time, a large number of Uruk soldiers rushed towards the direction of River Valley City from the tunnel.

They wore crude iron armor, held scimitars, and carried a shield that barely covered their left arm.

Like a black torrent, silently approaching the frozen rushing river, it was about to attack the river valley city.

Allen's infantry and archer regiment commanders, Bundak and Allen, have always obeyed Allen's orders and led their own troops to guard the city wall at all times.

The two of them fell into despair after seeing the earth-eating worm that drilled out of the mountain range.

In their lives, they have never seen such a huge thing. They dare not imagine how they should resist when such a huge creature is crushed, so as to complete the task that Alan assigned them to hold on to the city wall.

Although they won't run away because of this, their loyalty to Allen makes them willing to fight to the end.

It's just that in the face of such an enemy, they can't see any hope of victory, so they can only risk their lives to fulfill their loyalty and duty.

Fortunately, the soil devourer's own characteristics are only suitable for use as a means of transportation.

They quickly retreated back into the mountains and disappeared, replaced by bands of Uruk that swarmed out.

Seeing these barely familiar enemies, Bundak and Allen's heart immediately returned to their stomachs.

Their spirits revived, no matter how many such enemies there were, they were not afraid, as long as they could kill them, they would have a chance of winning.

Immediately, the two began to order their soldiers loudly, occupy the main position, and attack the approaching enemies.

The two hundred archers holding elf bows were the first to shoot, and their range was the longest. Standing on the high platform behind the city wall, they had already begun to strike at the enemy on the other side of the river.

In a very short period of time, they poured out 5 waves of arrow rain, accurate enough to land on the formation of Uruk soldiers, and each blow could take away dozens of Uruk's lives.

After continuous shooting, the archers took a short rest. After all, they were using elf longbows, and they needed time to relieve their tingling arms.

The [-] spearmen standing on the city wall took out their own hunting bows one after another. Their shooting range is relatively short, and the power of their bows and arrows is not as good, so they can only attack nearby enemies.

Therefore, after the enemy crossed the rushing river, they also began to shoot freely at the Uruk soldiers who walked across the river bank.

After a while, the archer who had rested began to pour arrows at the enemy on the other side of the river again.

This time they adjusted the frequency of shooting arrows to ensure a steady stream of shooting at the enemy before the arrows were exhausted.

And a hundred crossbowmen had already stepped onto the city wall, mixed among the spearmen, and precisely killed the enemies who were closer to the city wall.

These several long-range strikes actually contained the momentum of Uruk's attack for a while.

Azog on Raven Ridge noticed this, he was not surprised, he just yelled "break the city wall."

The dull horn sounded again from Raven Ridge.

A troll with a huge boulder on its head, full of arrows, followed Uruk's formation, ran up the ice surface of the running river, went crazy, and rushed towards the city wall with its head down.

This scene happened to be seen by Allen who stepped onto the city wall.

Allen, who was holding the rune bow tightly, always felt that this scene seemed familiar, but it didn't affect his performance.

Allen grabbed five rune arrows directly from the quiver with his right hand, and then quickly pulled the bowstring, nailing the rune arrows one by one into the exposed abdomen of the troll.

Every rune arrow can reduce the speed of the ogre, until the fifth arrow shot by Allen within ten seconds, the ogre stopped, fell to the ground, struggled a few times, lost life.

At this time, 5.6 boulders flew over from a distance and hit a small section of the city wall with precision.

Allen, who had just shot the troll to death, watched dozens of his spearmen being blown away by these boulders with tearing eyes, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Because the ogre just now attracted some of the arrows, after the spearmen fired many times, their shooting speed had already slowed down a little. It was also because of the attack of the trebuchet that caused dozens of spearmen to lose their combat effectiveness.

After a while, part of Uruk approached the city wall, and they climbed up along the broken stones of the collapsed part of the city wall.

At this moment, Elaine was slightly affected by the bombardment just now, and he has not yet reacted.

Allen discovered this, and was about to rush over with his personal guards to block the gap, so that the orcs could not easily climb up the city wall like this.

At this time, it was Fatis, who had already rushed towards the Uruk soldiers climbing up with his heavily armed soldiers holding broad shields.

Afterwards, humans and orcs collided fiercely on the city wall.

The hoplites raised their shields and pushed the half-orcs vigorously. At the same time, they waved their weapons and slashed or stabbed at Uruk in front of them from the top of the shield and through the gaps.

The crossbowmen and spearmen with hunting bows also changed their targets one after another, and started shooting at the Uruk soldiers who were about to charge up the city wall. Under the attack of a large number of arrows, a vacuum was formed.

At this time, dozens of Uruk soldiers who had rushed to the city wall became a lone army.

Soon, they were all killed under the brave fighting of everyone.

The heavy infantry raised their shields again, occupied this dangerous city wall, and resisted the enemy's attack.

Under the city wall, there were gray-black or black corpses lying there, while inside the city wall, Bud had already led the militia from Changhu Town to search for the wounded.

Those who can still move will be carried back to the temporary hospital, and those who died directly will no longer be paid attention to, and they can only be dealt with by humans or half-orcs after the war.

At this time, Allen had already set his sights on the six or seven trolls carrying trebuchets behind them, and they were already preparing to shoot the second shot.

Allen knew that if he didn't kill those guys, he would have to watch his soldiers being crushed to death by flying stones in the next battle.

At this time, a thousand-strong woodland elf paradox and five hundred elf shooters came to the urban area defended by humans.

This is Thranduil standing on the highest point of the city. After discovering Alan's pressure, he sent his own soldiers to assist humans.

The elf archers who rushed over also occupied a high platform with a good view in the city, and together with Allen's archers formed a continuous attack on the orc troops.

The Elf Contradictory Soldiers formed a golden shield wall on the city wall, cooperating with Allen's spearmen, and kept killing the Uruks who were gradually climbing up.

Afterwards, another five or six boulders flew over, but this time the enemy's aim was much worse, and only two stones hit the crowd. Even so, they caused irreparable damage to the elves and humans.

And from the river valley city, stones also began to fly out, smashing towards the orc army. The rolling stones smashed into Uruk's phalanx, grinding out black passages.

It was Bud who arranged for the militia in Changhu Town to use the two repaired trebuchets to launch a counterattack against the enemy.

With the help of the elves, humans faced much less pressure when defending the city walls.

For a while, humans, elves, and Uruk fell into a stalemate on this section of the city wall.

Allen took the guards and left the city wall. He was going to solve the biggest threat to the defense forces.

And the biggest threat they faced were the six trolls with trebuchets on their backs.

Allen, who was leading the guards, jumped off the city wall and said to Fatis who was commanding the troops and defending the city wall: "Stick to the city wall, I will go back as soon as I go."

After finishing speaking, Allen rode on the elf horse, led Horimion and the others, and ran towards the gate of River Valley City.

He couldn't just watch his army die tragically under the troll catapult.

Allen is going to take the Twilight Knights across the entire battlefield and kill the two trebuchet squads directly.

Just as Alan was quickly shuttling through River Valley City with his personal guards, the dwarves in the Lonely Mountain Kingdom had already assembled at the gate of Lonely Mountain.

Ironfoot Dyne, the king of the Iron Hills, never thought about relying on the existing defenses of the Lonely Mountain for defense.

In order to defend the lonely mountain, at the moment the soil devourer appeared, he had already ordered the dwarf troops to assemble towards the gate, ready to fight the orcs to the death.

The first to come out were more than 400 goat cavalry, followed by dwarf chariots, and then [-] dwarven heavy infantry.

Finally, the dwarven ax brought by Dyne. Originally, these things were used to deal with woodland elves, but it was obvious that they were going to be used on half-orcs now.

At this time, the person standing at the front of the team was Ironfoot Dyne, and his face was full of anger. This was because he had broken up with Thorin Oakenshield before he set off again.

Dyne knew that with the more than 1000 troops he brought and the current dilapidated city defenses of the lonely mountain, it was impossible to defend against the attacks of Uruk soldiers ten times his size and a dozen trolls.

In the past, the gate of Lonely Mountain was made of steel mixed with mithril, and there was a magic bonus on it. If the gate was still there, Dyne could consider defending it.

But that gate had been destroyed when the dragon Smaug attacked the Lonely Mountain. Now, they could only rely on stones for defense. What would broken stones do?
Once the Uruk soldiers, with the help of the trolls, broke through the gate and broke through the defensive formation of the dwarves behind the gate.

Then these black dregs will pour into the Lonely Mountain Kingdom like a tide, and its huge number will inevitably divide and siege the dwarves in the Lonely Mountain.

At that time, the cavalry, chariots, and dwarven axes brought by Dyne will all become useless waste.

At that time, the dwarves who were trapped in the lonely mountain could only be killed in despair in the siege. As an excellent general, Dyne would never do such a stupid act.

As for those humans and elves, Dyne felt that they were too busy to take care of themselves at this time. As long as they could hold back more Uruk, Dyne felt that he would be thankful.

Originally, Dyne, who had arranged the army, hoped that his cousin Thorin Oakenshield would lead the Iron Hills army to a decisive battle with the orcs.

After all, Thorin Oakenshield, who took back the Lonely Mountain at this time, was revered by all the dwarves of Durin's clan.

In fact, Dyne, who came with his soldiers, was ready to enshrine Thorin Oakenshield as King of Durin.

At that time, under the leadership of the long-bearded king, the morale of the dwarf army will be extremely high. As long as it can cause a lot of damage to the enemy in the early stage of the battle, and rely on the help of humans and elves, it is not impossible to win the battle possible.

But his cousin was no longer the Thorin Oakenshield he knew, the foresighted dwarf prince in the past, now he was so short-sighted, guarding a pile of cold treasures, not knowing that his death was approaching.

Dyin, who had lost the conversation, led his troops angrily, and set up a battle to fight Uruk to the death.

At this moment, Alan led his personal guards, rushed out of the bridge like a gust of wind, hacked to death dozens of Uruk soldiers who tried to intercept them, and walked along the bank of the rushing river until He rushed straight to the two troll catapult teams.

The elf archer in his own defense zone also found a suitable position in River Valley City, using the elf longbow in his hand, under the bombardment of the troll catapult, to attack the formation of Uruk soldiers from a long distance.

Every time an arrow is like a dark cloud, the Uruks will be cut down like wheat.

This undoubtedly attracted Azog's attention, and soon there was another dull horn sound, and a large number of Uruk and trolls began to approach the area defended by the elves.

It's just that there is a long cliff in the middle. They have no choice but to increase their strength again and rush towards the city wall defended by humans.

At this time, Allen and his personal guards were already running wildly, approaching the first troll troop carrying catapults.

Some of the twilight knights drew the rune bows in their hands while running wildly, and poured rune arrows at the trolls, shooting them down one after another.

The other twilight knights were holding Noldor rune bows and kept shooting and killing the Uruk soldiers who were separated from the formation and were about to approach them.

Among the half-orc troops who were scattered and surrounded, they forcibly shot a path sparsely populated by enemies.

However, the number of arrows in their quiver is rapidly decreasing.

And Alan charged at the front of the team with Horimion and a few Twilight Knights.

Allen was holding a huge sword in his hand at this time, and he kept waving the weapon, slashing and killing the Uruk soldiers who blocked them.

Create a shooting environment for the twilight knights with bows behind them.

And the first troll catapult squad that was about to launch stone bombs fell down unsteadily under the attack of densely packed rune arrows. In the phalanx, causing a large amount of chaos.

And the remaining troll trebuchet squads were still shooting at River Valley City from a further distance.

Between Alan's team and them, there was a phalanx of Uruk soldiers.

But Allen didn't hesitate, he raised the giant sword in his hand, led the Twilight Knights, and charged towards the gap between the Uruk phalanx.

At the moment Allen launched his charge, a rain of arrows flew from River Valley City, accurately covering the phalanx blocking Allen.

Under the blow of the arrow rain, the formation became sparse in an instant. Allen led his personal guards, hacked to death the Uruk soldiers who were blocking their way during the charge, and moved towards another troll trebuchet squad. Run away.

This was a wave of support from Thranduil, who was always watching the battlefield, to Allen. The stones thrown by the trolls also took away the lives of many woodland elves. Allen rushed over with the trebuchet.

At this time, the half-orc phalanx was about to rush to the gate of Gushan.

Dyne looked at the Uruk soldiers in front of him, and shouted, "Dwarven Axe!"

Ten rounds of crossbow arrows with a diameter of more than ten meters, like a big umbrella, flew towards the distant Uruk formation amidst the buzzing sound.

The moment these crossbow arrows hit the ground, they sent flesh and blood flying across the formation of Uruk soldiers, killing hundreds of them at once.

Then, there was another roar from Ironfoot Dyne.

"My sons in Dulin, the Chinese army is dispatched."

"A battle to the death never retreats."

More than 800 dwarven hoplites lined up into a neat three-layer shield formation amidst roars.

The first and second are dwarves holding tower shields and long swords. They are responsible for resisting the enemy's push and killing the enemy at close range. If the teammate in front dies, the dwarves in the back row need to step up immediately. .

The third is the dwarves with long spears. They will use the long spears in their hands to continuously cause terrible damage to the enemy.

These heavy infantry formed a shield wall with a length of 300 meters in front of the gate of Gushan, almost blocking half of the space in front of the gate of Gushan.

Seeing the dwarves posing for a decisive battle, Azog on Raven Ridge became excited. The behavior of the dwarves undoubtedly reduced his trouble in attacking the city wall.

Azog, who was watching the battlefield closely all the time, directly issued the order of "all-out combat".

The Uruks, who were originally jogging, started roaring and charging towards the dwarves after receiving the order.

A series of black figures quickly approached the dwarf's shield wall, as if a black stream of water smashed into a silver horizontal stone, and exploded with a bang.

Facing the charge of the Uruk soldiers, the dwarf standing in the front row stabilized his figure, relying on the strength of his whole body, firmly withstood the shield, and at the same time, using the short sword in his hand, shot through the gap in the shield. In the middle, he attacked the Uruk soldiers in front of him.

The dwarves in the third row kept stretching out the three-meter-long spears in their hands and pulled them back. With skillful movements, they stabbed to death a large number of Uruk who were approaching the shield wall in a short time.

The blood spattered by the Uruk soldiers when they died had already stained the silver shields of the dwarf infantry into black.

But the killing speed of the dwarven hoplites was far behind the pace of Uruk soldiers' support.

Thousands of Uruk rushed up continuously, bravely withstood the dwarf's shield wall,
Relying on the crude armor on their bodies, they used the scimitars in their hands to search for the gaps in the shield wall, and fought with the dwarves behind the shields holding short swords.

Under such a fearless impact, at first some dwarves could not resist the pushing of the Uruk soldiers, and retreated little by little.

At the same time, some dwarves died under the scimitars that Uruk soldiers handed out with their lives.

For a while, the dwarven shield wall in the middle showed signs of being unable to hold on.

Moreover, at this time, a large number of Uruk soldiers were already preparing to surround the dwarves' shield walls from both sides.

At this moment, the sound of "buzzing" sounded again in the air, and it was another wave of dwarven axes.

These ten crossbow arrows hit the Uruk formation with precision again, interrupting the rhythm of Uruk's attack. The number of enemies that were not increasing in a short period of time eased the pressure on the dwarf shield wall .

And Ironfoot Dyne divided the dwarven goat cavalry into two parts, and he himself led a part along the hillside on the east side of the gate of the Lonely Mountain, drew a semicircle, and bypassed the dwarven shield wall.

Afterwards, he shouted "Sons of Durin" and waved the warhammer in his hand. Amidst the response of "Fearless", he plunged into the half-orc army that had been smashed by the dwarf's axe.

The other part is along the west side of the dwarf shield wall, also shouting "Fearless", rushing towards the orc troops.

They kept charging forward along both sides of the Uruk soldiers' formation, like a white wave breaking away the black sand pile, and still rushing towards the inside of the sand pile.

For a moment, thousands of Uruks were knocked to the ground by the bighorn goats, and afterward, countless goat hooves trampled on them.

Those who fell on the ground and still moved would be killed by the dwarf cavalry who followed with their weapons.

At the same time, there were also a large number of dwarven cavalry, who were torn down or thrown off goats by the fearless Uruk soldiers. The unlucky dwarves would immediately be killed by countless scimitars and spears.

The lucky dwarf got up quickly, waved the weapon in his hand, and made the final struggle with the Uruk soldiers who surrounded him.

With the help of the dwarven goat cavalry, the shield wall of the heavy dwarf infantry quickly eliminated the enemies in front of them, and began to move forward. Near the River Valley Bridge.

Suddenly, the hoarse horns of the orcs sounded again in the direction of Raven Ridge.

The dozen or so trolls who had been mixed in the formation of Uruk, walking unhurriedly, took action after hearing the order.

Holding iron-tipped clubs, they moved forward, their huge bodies pushing away the Uruk soldiers in front of them.

They even cleverly avoided the path of the dwarf cavalry's charge, and rushed towards the dwarven shield wall along the center of the Uruk soldier phalanx.

At this time, the five chariots of the dwarves were rushing towards the troll one after another along the bank of the rushing river on the west side of the lonely mountain.

No Uruk could stop the charge of the dwarven chariots, which galloped across the battlefield.

The dwarf in charge of the ballista on the vehicle aimed at the trolls who were approaching the dwarf shield wall, and kept turning the trigger. Soon, several charging trolls died under their crossbow arrows.

But the trolls who survived their attack were about to charge up to the dwarven shield wall.

At this time, the dwarves in the back row of the dwarf shield wall suddenly shot out the spear in their hands. The fast-flying spear penetrated the bodies of several trolls in an instant, nailing them to the formation of Uruk. among.

In the end, there were still three trolls that resisted the dwarves' attack. After they approached the shield wall, they smashed and smashed the shield wall that the dwarves were proud of with just one powerful swing.

Then, relying on their huge bodies and terrifying brute force, the trolls forced their way into the formation of the dwarves, swung their arms and weapons, knocked the surrounding dwarves into the air, and widened the gap in the shield wall. They too fell to the spears and crossbows of the dwarves.

But the task of the trolls has been completed, and behind them are densely packed Uruk soldiers.

They cut off the shield wall of the dwarves along the gap opened by the trolls. For a moment, the seven hundred dwarves were divided into four parts, surrounded by Uruk soldiers, fighting each other.

At this time, Sorin Oakenshield standing on the wall of the lonely mountain was staring blankly at the battlefield in front of him.

All the dwarves in the expedition looked at him with longing eyes. They wanted to go out and fight, instead of watching their compatriots fighting desperately on this city wall, while they were kept out of the matter.

And Thorin Oakenshield, in such eyes, returned to Thror's main hall, that is, the place covered with gold, and fell into a deep struggle there. His honor, his reason, his His sense of responsibility, and his family's dragon disease, desperately resisted.

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