Grand Arcanist of Azeroth

Chapter 61 Moving to the Hinterlands Forest

Fierce artillery fire continued to fall on the city wall, blasting the orc zombies above to pieces.

Although Nanhai Town is comparable to a small city, its walls are not very strong.

The relationship between the human kingdoms is not bad, and there will be no large-scale conflicts.

Of course, the walls of such a small city do not need to be repaired very well.

Only after a few rounds of artillery fire, a large section of the city wall cracked and collapsed.

The city wall was bombarded by artillery fire, and the undead creatures entrenched in the city were not restrained, and rushed out of the gap one after another.

The undead creatures that rushed out were very messy, with zombies and skeletons of multiple races mixed together.

The skeletons in the undead creatures were pulled up by the death knight who dug up the cemetery in South Sea Town.

The skeleton looks weak, as if it could be smashed apart with a wooden stick.

But this is only a superficial phenomenon.

Their bones have been strengthened by the power of death, and ordinary wooden sticks are definitely indestructible.

And even if they are broken up, they can be reassembled quickly.

Farmers holding hoes and other agricultural tools will definitely not be able to beat these skeletons.

Looking at the messy zombies and skeletons rushing towards them, the artillery suppressed them with artillery fire.

Cannonballs fell into the army of undead, blowing them apart.

However, undead creatures are different from living people, they are not so easy to be destroyed by artillery fire.

The dead don't care about having a few holes in their body.

As long as the legs are not blown off, they will get up quickly.

Those weak skeletons are even more exaggerated!

Their broken legs can be replaced with suitable bones.

Unless the shell explodes right next to them.

Otherwise, they will not be eliminated at all!

When the undead army approached more than 200 meters, the human musketeers began to shoot at them.

The dense bullets shot at the undead army, shooting the zombies into a sieve and knocking them to the ground.

The zombies were first devastated by artillery fire, and then washed away by bullet rain.

They tremblingly got up from the ground and continued to move towards the coalition's position.

Skeletons are much weaker than zombies, but they are much more effective against cannons and muskets!
There are many gaps above the skeleton, allowing most shrapnel and bullets to pass through.

This makes them immune to at least [-]% of attacks.

However, under the coverage of sufficient firepower, many people were killed or maimed.

No one would consider this a waste of ammunition.

It is worthwhile to try our best to destroy the undead army before they approach!
After being baptized by artillery fire and bullets, the battered and scarred undead army silently crashed into the shields of the humans and the Wildhammer dwarven heavy infantry.

The shields used by human heavy infantry are rectangular thick iron pita shields.

This kind of shield is so big and heavy that it can almost completely block the body.

The selection criteria for human heavy infantry are very strict, and they are all tall and strong men.

They can easily carry tower shields weighing forty or fifty kilograms.

Wildhammer dwarven hoplites don't have much larger shields due to their short stature.

The large round shield with a diameter of about one meter is made of fine steel as a whole.

Although it is a little smaller than the tower shield, it is much heavier than the tower shield.

And the Wildhammer dwarves have even thicker armor.

Although they are quite short in stature, they are much heavier than human heavy infantry.

The undead creatures collided with their large metal round shields, and they couldn't shake them at all!
Wildhammer dwarven heavy infantry are very powerful, and their fighting style tends to be aggressive.

They would knock down the undead creatures with their big bucklers, and then smash the undead creatures to pieces with their warhammers.

These Wildhammer dwarven heavy infantry moved forward gradually, actively hunting and killing undead creatures.

It is relatively convenient to clean up the undead who have been maimed by long-range attacks.

They were all pulled up by the death knight for a few days, and the death energy did not strengthen them much.

And they are all low-level cannon fodder such as skeletons and zombies.

Compared with the undead army with a complete range of arms in the Lich King era, they are at the level of younger brothers!

It's just a combination of heavy infantry and musketeers to handle these useless undead creatures properly.

After dealing with this primary-scale undead natural disaster, the coalition scouts searched for traces of the orc troops.

After a preliminary search, the coalition scouts found that the orc troops were heading east.

The Hillsbrad hills are divided into east and west parts by a wide river.

The traffic between the east and the west is completed by a bridge more than 200 meters long.

This is a very important transportation hub.

The coalition forces stationed hundreds of bridge guards here.

Under normal circumstances, a force of several hundred men would have been sufficient to block the bridge and hold out until reinforcements arrived.

However, the tribe made a big move at night, sending troll thieves to attack the unsuspecting bridge guards.

Troll rogues are also excellent assassins.

It is too easy for them to deal with ordinary soldiers!
The battle ended almost instantly, and no call for help was sent.

The eastern area of ​​the Hillsbrad Hills has always been a no-man's land because the griffins in the northern Hinterland Forest often visit it.

Griffin is the well-deserved overlord of the air!

They hunt cattle and sheep on the ground as easily as playing.

Therefore, no herdsmen dare to graze and settle in the eastern part of the hills.

The orcs entered this no-man's land, could it be that they wanted to seek revenge from the griffins?
Or do you want to attack Thoradin's Wall further east?

None of these speculations are very plausible.

It is meaningless to seek revenge from Griffin or attack Thoradin's Wall.

While people speculated about the movements of the orcs, the Wildhammer dwarves panicked.

They knew very well in their hearts that the hidden path leading to the Hinterlands Forest was in the rolling mountains in the north.

Feeling bad, Falstad brought the Griffon Knight back to the main city anxiously.

Under the leadership of the Wildhammer dwarven heavy infantry, the coalition army headed for the hidden path.

The continuous mountain range formed by five 6000-meter-high mountains separates the Hinterland Forest and the Hillsbrad Hills.

The terrain of this path that can pass through the mountains is very complicated.

Coupled with the shade of trees growing on the mountain, it turned it into a maze-like passage.

In the absence of professional guidance, people will be dizzy when they go in, and they can't find their way at all.

Under the leadership of the forest troll, the local snake, the orcs passed the path smoothly.

When the coalition forces came here, they saw obvious traces of the passage of the army.

Herald had no interest in the next fight.

When the orcs and forest trolls get together, their strength will be improved a lot.

But this cannot change their fate.

The Wildhammer dwarves have been in the forests of the Hinterlands for more than 200 years and have been perfectly suppressing the forest trolls.

Forest trolls can only hide in the forest, and occasionally come out to harass the Wildhammer dwarves.

Facing the Wildhammer dwarves' strongest overlord in this area, even with the help of orcs, they couldn't make an effective counterattack.

The red dragon troops who rushed to the main city of the Wildhammer dwarves did not take advantage of the griffin riders and the recently acquired anti-aircraft guns.

The griffin knights left behind are all elites, and the anti-aircraft guns can easily injure the red dragon.

In the confrontation with the Griffin Rider, the Red Dragon was even shot down.

Kurdran Wildhammer is the most powerful Gryphon Rider of the Wildhammer clan.

The red dragon was shot down by him.

However, being able to shoot down the red dragon was mainly due to his mount Scarlet.

Scarley is a circle larger than normal griffins.

Its powerful eagle claws can easily tear off dragon scales.

Under Kurdran's bold command, Scarre stared at a red dragon and attacked fiercely, tearing the red dragon to pieces.

This is the first red dragon to be independently slain by Gryphon Rider.

And it definitely won't be the last one!
The threat posed by the Griffin Knights and the anti-aircraft guns made the orc driver commanding the red dragon group dare not act presumptuously, and just wandered around the outer area.

They were waiting for the Horde's ground forces to join them before attacking from the air and the ground.

(End of this chapter)