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Chapter 97 Successfully Persuading Sorin

Sorin, who opened his arms, smiled and hugged Bilbo Baggins, and then Sorin nodded to his other two friends, Alan and Gandalf.

In any case, among the three, Thorin and Bilbo Baggins had the best relationship. Besides, who made the other two guys too tall? Thorin didn't really want a hug, so he Get your friends to squat down and accommodate yourself.

He said enthusiastically: "Alan, I have to say that you are really late. You know, the ceremony will start in a few days. I have been worried that you will not be able to come."

Alan looked at the happy Sorin, thinking in his heart whether he should tell the dwarf friend who was about to become the king immediately about the Dongyi people.

Afterwards, Allen decided that it would be better to choose a tactful way, and he also said with a smile: "Sorin, you also know that there is a short distance from Wilderness Town to you, if I hadn't been here once , will probably get lost in the vast wilderness."

After Sorin heard it, he seemed to have thought of something, and there was a hint of memory in his eyes.

However, at this time, Allen changed his mind and continued: "However, I met your compatriots from the black-haired clan and the stone-footed clan on the road. Have you seen them?"

Thorin, who returned to the throne, was a little strange. I don't know why Allen suddenly mentioned his relatives in the Far East, but he still answered this question.

"Oh? Duvalin reported their arrival to me before, and I have arranged for Kili and Fili to receive them. I will formally meet them at the banquet later, what? Do you want to know them? I can Let me introduce you."

Sorin considers his human friends and wants to establish more diplomatic relations. Sorin is happy to serve Allen in such matters.

Allen shook his head, the expression on his face was a little dignified, and he said: "Actually, these compatriots of yours have brought me some bad news. As for the news, I believe you will get it soon." I know, but, before that, I want to talk to you in private, can you spare a moment, Thorin."

The closer the enthronement ceremony was, the busier Sorin was. He was not at all interested in such things like Allen. This time the ceremony held in the Lonely Mountain, everything big and small, Sorin He tried his best to do his best to leave a deep impression on the clansmen, friends and allies who participated in the ceremony.

But even so, Thorin still met Alan and the others immediately while discussing matters, and at this time, he did not intend to refuse Alan's request.

Because Sorin knew that his human friend would never do meaningless things.

Just when Sorin was about to agree, Fili walked in. This young dwarf who lost his left arm while chasing Azog no longer had the agility and immaturity that he had in Bag End, nor the face he had with him in the camp. Together with Kili, the mischievousness that scares Bilbo Baggins.

There was tenacity in his calm eyes. It had to be said that the two incidents of losing his left arm and becoming the legal heir of King Durin changed Philip's temperament a lot.

Fili, who had already approached the crowd, saluted and greeted everyone present with a serious expression on his face, gradually adopting Thorin's three-point demeanor in his actions.

Allen can be sure that in time, Fili will become a qualified dwarf king, but it is unknown whether Allen can see that day.

"Your Majesty, the envoy of the Woodland Kingdom, Legolas son of Thranduil, has arrived. Do you want to see him?"

In fact, Legolas separated from Allen after seeing the businessman in Dovinian. Since the former mayor of Long Lake Town followed Allen to Wilderness Town, Dowin, who originally stayed in Long Lake Town Nian Meijiu followed Stephen to Wilderness Town.

After Alan tasted it, he kept a large number of delicious wines in his small treasury for banquets or entertaining distinguished guests. After nearly half a year of consumption in the Woodland Kingdom, this wine produced in Dovinian The wine was almost exhausted, and now that he finally saw the merchant, Legolas immediately went over to talk about the transaction.

It has to be said that both father and son have the habit of drinking fine wine.

Now, the merchants in Dovinian had diverted to the Woodland Kingdom, and Legolas, who had negotiated everything with humans, came to the Lonely Mountain one step behind Allen.

But the elf prince received completely different treatment from Alan when he was here. Sorin waved his hand and said, "Fili, you should arrange for these elves to stay first. When the banquet starts, I'll see them again."

After Fili left, Sorin looked at Allen again and said, "Allen, just now you said you wanted to talk to me in private, it's no problem, come with me, but you don't mind if I bring the Yin and Bahrain?"

Thorin looked at Allen's expression and knew that he must have important matters to discuss with him, and Dyne and Balin are his important right-hand men, and they are also subordinates who can give him excellent advice on most things. He needs this Two dwarves stood beside him.

Every time Sorin recalled various things during the expedition, he always felt that Alan could overwhelm himself in every conversation, forcing himself to adopt his suggestions.

Although Sorin also knew that Alan was all for the success of the expedition, it didn't feel good to be at a disadvantage. Therefore, even though his friendship with Alan was already very deep, Sorin was not willing to discuss important matters with Alan alone. .

At this time, Gandalf also took a step forward and added: "If you don't mind, I want to participate too, can I?"

Bilbo Baggins didn't know what to talk about, but curious, he also nodded frantically, expressing that he also wanted to participate.

Thorin looked at Alan. After all, Alan had initiated the meeting. Whether Dyne, Balin, Gandalf, and Bilbo should be allowed to participate required Alan's consent.

Originally, Allen wanted to talk to Sorin alone about forming an alliance with the elves. Since there was no guarantee that Sorin would agree, Allen felt that he and Sorin would inevitably have to argue. Confidence.

It's just that if there are other people around, Alan doesn't plan to do this, because it can easily backfire. Now Sorin is no longer that down-and-out dwarf prince, he has become the king of Durin's family.

Whether as a friend or as an ally, Allen must maintain his majesty in front of Thorin's subordinates, otherwise the friendship between the two will be easily damaged.

Now, the number of people participating in this negotiation has increased, and Allen can only negotiate with Sorin in another way.

Helplessly, he nodded and said, "No problem."

Sorin, who received the answer, told his ministers: "The matter of the ceremony should be done as we discussed just now. We will talk about other issues after the banquet is over."

With the departure of many dwarves, Alan and his party also came to Sorin's reception room, and sat down on both sides of the stone table. Alan didn't wait for Sorin to speak, and said directly with a serious face: "Sorin, the war is coming again!" It's time to start."

The dwarves who were originally smiling were stunned by Alan's words. They knew that Alan would not joke about such things, and the expressions on their faces gradually became serious.
Thorin, who has always trusted Alan, did not say any refutation or doubts, but looked at each other with the two dwarves around him, and then motioned Alan to continue.

"Please wait for me a moment, everyone."

Speaking of which, Allen picked up the pen and paper on the table, and based on the memory in his mind, he simply drew Rovanian and a part of the map of Mordor and Gondor. At the same time, he carefully mapped the locations of various forces marked out.

On the way to the Lonely Mountain, Allen made a lot of speculations about Sauron's next actions. He was going to explain his thoughts in detail to the three dwarves present to let them understand that the current situation is very serious. dangerous.

Then Allen will take advantage of the pressure brought by Sauron's attack to facilitate the tripartite covenant between humans, elves, and dwarves.

Since it was proposed by Allen, everyone naturally maintained a certain amount of patience. After waiting for a while, Allen stood up and took a picture of the map in the center of the table. Surprised.

It's not that the dwarves haven't seen a map, but it's the first time they've seen a planar map that can cover the entire Rovanian plus half of the southern region, and can mark the positions of various forces so clearly.

In the past, most of the dwarves used the landmark scenery in the environment, as well as the stars, sun, and moon in the sky, and calculated the time spent on the road to carry out long-term travel. The same goes for Gandalf the Traveling.

At this time, the gray-robed wizard was constantly using the memory in his mind to verify the markings on the map on the stone table. Finally, he was surprised to find that there was nothing wrong with the map drawn by Allen.

However, Allen didn't care what everyone present thought. He just wanted to use this simple map to explain Sauron's intentions more clearly.

Allen pointed to the east of the Red Water River on the map with a quill, and said: "Everyone, according to the information provided by the black-haired dwarf, there are already Dongyi tribes stationed here, and their number is increasing day by day. It is conservatively estimated There will be no less than 1 people, look at their positions, they are very close to the Iron Hills at this time, and they may cross the Red Water River at any time and enter the northern region of Rovanian, threatening us."

As Allen spoke, he drew a line on the map, and the arrow of that line faintly pointed to the lonely mountain, the kingdom of the forest elves, and the dense forest road leading to Wilderness Town, and then he continued.

"My friends, I don't know if you know anything about the Dongyi people, but I can provide some information. They mainly live in the Rune area, which is very close to Mordor. I believe everyone can understand what this means. Their arrival this time is definitely related to our defeat of Azog in the Lonely Mountain."

Just the news at the beginning caused the three Durin dwarves present to start whispering.

During the Third Era, the dwarves of Durin’s clan had very little contact with the Dongyi people, because at that time, the two large-scale invasions from the Dongyi people mostly occurred in the southern area of ​​the Runliu River, which was closer to the Ganges. Duo, not near the Misty Mountains or the Gray Mountains.

For example, the first large-scale invasion from the Chariot People was in the third era in more than 1800 years. At that time, most of the Durin dwarves were still mining in Kazadum.

But during the Second Era, the dwarves of the Durin family and the northern humans living in the Anduin Valley jointly fought against these barbarians and the invasion of Orcs, and in that war, the people living in Kazadum The forest dwarves suffered heavy losses.

It can be said that the hatred between the Durin dwarves and the Dongyi people has lasted for thousands of years. Maybe those Dongyi people no longer remember these things, but the dwarves still remember, because holding grudges is a fine tradition of their clan.

After talking with Bahrain and Dyne, Sorin carefully looked at the map drawn by Allen. If Allen did not make a mistake, the place where the Dongyi people were stationed was indeed very close to the Iron Hills. If the Iron Hills launched an attack, Thorin's tribe living in the Iron Hills would be very dangerous.

Because at this time, most of the soldiers brought by Dyne stayed in the Lonely Mountain, and the dwarves of the Iron Hills were still moving towards the Lonely Mountain. Cavalry attack.

This situation made Sorin very anxious, and now he was more anxious than Allen to attack those barbarians.

Thorin has 1000 elite dwarf fighters in his hands, most of them are veterans who survived the battle a year ago. The Durin Dwarves who came.

If he works harder, Sorin can still gather 500 young dwarf warriors, but their combat effectiveness is far inferior to those of the veterans. This army of [-] people is already all the troops that Sorin can gather for the time being. , this is because most of the dwarves are natural fighters, and with a set of equipment, they can have good combat effectiveness.

It's just that Sorin also understands that it is impossible to defeat the tens of thousands of Dongyi people relying solely on the dwarf warriors in the lonely mountain. At this moment, the dwarves need the support of their allies.

Sorin stood up, and said to Allen with some urgency: "Allen, what do you think? I think we should gather troops and drive these barbarians back to their hometown."

Allen nodded, knowing that his words had already made Thorin feel a sense of crisis, but in order to complete his idea, he needed to add another fire.

"Sorin, we definitely want to do this, but not now. As far as I know, the Dongyi people are very powerful in combat. Although their development is not as good as that of Gondor and Rohan, they still have iron weapons and equipment. The combat power is far greater than that of the orcs, with more than [-] people, relying on the two of us alone, it is impossible to confront them head-on."

Allen's words are not wrong. According to the current strength of Wilderness Town and the armed forces of River Valley City, no matter how aggressive the army is, it is already the limit to be able to pull out an army of more than 2000 people. Human soldiers plus the dwarves of Lonely Mountain Soldiers, facing the Dongyi people who can be fought by everyone, they can't win at all.

And Gandalf, who was smoking a pipe weed, took Alan's words and said, "Yes, I knew about these Dongyi people in Minas Tirith in Gondor. They used to live in the southern plains of the River Run. The Rovanian kingdom was destroyed in their hands. Not only that, the powerful Gondor kingdom was also defeated in their hands, and even a king died in that war, trying to defeat them , you need other powers."

Gandalf obviously understood Alan's intentions, and he quietly assisted Alan in his words.

"Other powers?"

Sorin stood up and stared at the map in Allen's hand, and then realized who Gandalf was referring to.

"You mean the elves living in the Black Forest? Are they willing to help us? After all, there has never been a conflict between the Dongyi people and the elves."

After Sorin experienced the Battle of the Lonely Mountain and the trip to Lothlórien, his impression of the elves changed a lot, including King Thranduil of the Woodlands. After all, Celeborn, the lord of Lothlórien, It is the king of the Sindar elves, and there is a lot of meaning in it.

Therefore, now he is not as repulsive of forming an alliance with the elves as before. Now Thorin is more worried that Thranduil will not take the risk of letting his people go out of the Black Forest to fight the Dongyi people.

done! !
Alan had already heard what he meant from Sorin's words, and immediately said: "How do you know if you don't try? Although the elves and the Dongyi people have never clashed, there are countless differences between the elves and Mordor." Thousand years of hatred, I think we can draw up a covenant now, and then go to the Kingdom of the Woodlands to talk to Thranduil about it, Thorin, what do you think?"

At this time, Sorin was thinking about whether he could bring the tribesmen of the Iron Hills to the Lonely Mountain safely with the help of the woodland elves, but he didn't have much association with Alan's words. He nodded subconsciously and said : "You can try it."

After finishing speaking, Sorin immediately realized that this kind of behavior meant that he was actively begging the elves to form an alliance?It's just that he has just responded in front of his subordinates and friends, and if he repents immediately, he feels that it will be even more embarrassing.

Sorin, who was a little awkward in his heart, looked at the serious faces of Alan and Gandalf, and always felt that the scene was vaguely familiar, and then he looked at Dyne and Balin beside him.

The two dwarves didn't say much, Balin saw something, but this dwarf with a relatively soft personality hoped that Thorin could continue the covenant with the elves of the Black Forest a hundred years ago, while Dyne was worried about his own Will my hometown be taken over by the Dongyi people?

So the two dwarves didn't give Sorin any hints just now, which made Sorin think secretly: "Could it be that I'm thinking too much?"

It's just that Suo Lin didn't want to think about it, and Alan's next action quickly attracted his attention.

At this time, Allen pointed the quill in the direction of Mordor, and drew two more lines.

(End of this chapter)